November 3, 1900. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
147 
SALES BY AUCTION. 
Great Sales every day (Saturdays excepted). 
M essrs, protheroe & morris 
will sell by AUCTION at their Central Sale Rooms, 
67 and 68, Cheapside, London, E.C., EVERY DAY (Satur¬ 
days excepted), HYACINTHS, TULIPS, CROCUS, NAR¬ 
CISSUS, and other BULBS direct from Holland, lotted to 
suit large and small buyers; 5,000 lots sold weekly. 
Commissions executed for those unable to attend the 
Auctions. Lots packed and forwarded to all parts. 
Catalogues sent on application. Aucticn Rooms and Estate 
Offices, 67 and 68, Cheapside, London, E.C. 
St. Olave's Union. 
T HE GUARDIANS OF THIS UNION 
are desirous of receiving Tenders for the laying-out of 
the grounds of their new Buildings at Ladywell, S.E., accord¬ 
ing to a plan prepared by the Guardians’ Architects. 
Persons desirous of Tendering may obtain printed forms of 
Tender (which can only be received), containing full particu¬ 
lars and conditions, at the offices of Messrs. Newman & New¬ 
man, of 31, Tooley Street, S.E., between the hours of 11 a.m. 
and 2 p.m. daily (Sundays excepted), fiom November 5th to 
November 7th, igoo, by depositing a sum of £2 (cheques will 
not be accepted) which will be returned to persons sending in a 
bona-fide Tender in the manner and at the time specified. 
The person whose Tender is accepted will be required to 
enter into a contract, and, if required, to give approved security 
in a Guarantee Association, to be approved by the Guardians, 
for the due performance of their contract. 
The contractors will have to undertake to pay all workmen 
employed by them in the performance of the contract, such 
rates and wages, and to observe such hours of labour as at the 
date thereof were recognised as fair by the several trades 
unions of the district where the work is to be done, and such 
conditions will form part of the contract. 
Sealed tenders endorsed “ Tender for Laying-out of Grounds, 
Ladywell,” must be delivered to me personally at my office 
not later than 6 p.m. on November 15th, 1900, and the Tenders 
will be opened and considered at 7 p.m., at the meeting of the 
Guardians to be held on the same day. 
The Guardians do not bind themselves to accept the lowest 
or any Tender. 
By order, 
E. PITTS FENTON, 
Union Offices; Clerk. 
Tooley Street, S.E. 
October 18 th, 1900. 
National Chrysanthemum Society. 
AUTUMN FETE, 
ROYAL AQUARIUM, WESTMINSTER, 
Nov. 6th, 7th, 8th, 1900. 
THE GREAT VASE CLASS in St. Stephen’s Hall. 
Specimen plants and blooms of Chrysanthemums 
Groups Floral Decorations; Fruit. 
R. Sydenham's special prizes for vegetables. 
Schedules of 'Brizes on application to— 
RICHARD DEAN, Secretary 
Ealing, London W. 
M aidenhead chrysanth¬ 
emum, FRUIT & VEGETABLE SOCIETY.—The 
Third Exhibition will be held in the Town Hall, Maidenhead, 
Thursday and Friday, November 15th and 16th. Entries close 
Saturday, 10th. For Schedules apply — J. W. STONE, Esq., 
Hon. Sec., Cookham Dene. 
The 17th Annual C-hrysan hemum Show of the Hull and East 
Riding Chrysanthemum Society will be held in the Artillery 
Barracks, Hull, on Wednesday and Thursday, 
November 14th & 15th. 
Entries Close November 7th. 
Schedules free from the Hon. Secs., 
EDWARD HARLAND, Manor Street. Hull. 
JAMES DIXON, F.R.H.S., 2, County Buildings, Hull. 
B romley & district chrys¬ 
anthemum SOCIETY.—The Nineteenth Annual 
Exhibition of Chrysanthemums, Fruit and Vegetables, will be 
held on November 7th and 8th, 1900, in the Grand Hall, 
Bromley, Kent. Entries close November 3rd. Schedules and 
particulars of the Hon. Sec., W. WEEKS, 29, Widmore Road, 
Bromley. 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER yd, 1900. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, November 6th.—Truro (2 days); N.C.S. (3 days); 
Belfast (2 days). 
Wednesday, November 7th.—Bldeford; Bournemouth (2 
days); Cardiff (2 day=); Cheltenham (2 days); Doncaster 
(2 days); Ealing; Halifax (2 days); Horosey (2 days); Isle 
of Thanet (2 days); Lowestoft (2 days); Manor Park (2 
days); Newport (2 days); Sevanoaks (2 days); Waltham¬ 
stow (2 days); Melton Mowbray (2 days); Bromley and 
District (2 days). 
Thursday, November 8 th.— Bakewell (2 days); Beaminster; 
Cranbrook (2 days); Devon and Exeter (2 days); Penzance 
(2 days); Royal Jersey (2 days); Swansea (2 days); Wind¬ 
sor and E on ; Forest Gate and Stratford (3 days); St. 
Boto’plj’s, Colchester. 
Friday, November 9th.—Derby (2 days); East of Fife (2 days); 
Highbury (2 days); Leicester (2 days); Hayes (Middle¬ 
sex). 
Saturday, November ieth.— Bacup; Nottingham (2 days); 
Stockport Chrysanthemum Society. 
She Gardener’s Assistant.* — The 
second divisional volume of this stand¬ 
ard work on the art of horticulture takes up 
*The Gardener's Assistant: a Practical and Scien¬ 
tific Exposition of the Ait of Gardening in all its 
Branches. By Robert Thompson of the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick. New 
Edition, revised and entirely remodelled under the 
Direction and General Editorship of William 
Watson, Assistant Curator, Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Divisional Vol. II. Price 8s. London ; The Gres¬ 
ham Publishing Company, 25, Farringdon Avenue, 
E.C. 1900. 
the story at p. 209, just where the previous 
one left off, and carries it on to p. 416. It 
fully sustains the interest of the first volume, 
and indeed, should prove more attractive 
to the general reader than the first one, 
owing to the fact that it deals with a vast 
number of plants, hardy and otherwise, 
though it must be confessed that the former 
have the preponderance. Besides many 
new and valuable illustrations interwoven 
with the text, and which the other did not 
possess, this volume also includes six full- 
page plates and six co'oured plates, all of 
which are additional matter not included in 
the paging. The Himalayan House at 
Kew, though only a wing of the great Tem¬ 
perate House, and the largest plant house 
in the world shows the most recent of 
modern improvements in the way of large 
glass structures, admitting a maximum of 
light and therefore well adapted for plant 
culture. A view in the rock garden at Kew 
also serves to show one of the most pleasing 
features in connection with its foimation, 
namely the isolation it enjoys from its flat 
and uninteresting, as well as inappropriate 
surroundings. This has been accomplished 
by sinking it below the level of the gardens 
and planting the high banks with shrubbery 
and trees. The view shows a wealth and 
variety of trees, but of course many of 
them are in the background, and were there 
before the rock garden was planned. These 
being at a distance from the rockery proper 
or mostly so, they form an appropriate back¬ 
ground, while they do not unduly shade the 
rock plants. Had soil been dumped down 
upon the level and the rocks built up to it, 
the rockery would have been entirely out of 
keeping with the nature of the ground on 
the alluvial flats of the Thames Valley. 
The chapter on “ Garden Structures” also 
gives a view of the fine modern conserva¬ 
tory at Sefton Park, Liverpool, of which we 
gave an illustration about the time it was 
built (see Gardening World, Vol. XIII. 
p. 25). The exterior and interior views of 
Bunyard’s fruit-room also show how to 
maintain an equable temperature in a 
hardy fruitroom, while being entirely inde¬ 
pendent of walls, trees or other houses in 
order to secure shade, or a northern aspect 
—things which cannot readily be secured in 
every garden. Slight modifications of this 
plan of fruitroom are already being adopted 
in privategardens as we indicate in another 
column. Various forms of boilers and 
different methods of heating are also well 
illustrated in the same chapter. 
The subject of propagation is dealt with 
at considerable length under the headings 
now familiar to most gardeners. Some 
very useful hints will, however, be found 
under the most familiar of headings, so 
that gardeners will find the time well spent 
in perusing the chapter, while the rising 
generation of gardeners or apprentices will 
find everything new, with much food for 
reflection, and much to put into practice 
when occasion occurs. Fresh light has 
been thrown upon, and new illustrations 
accompany the subject of transplanting, 
which deals chiefly with the operation of 
moving large trees by special machinery. 
The pruning or rather the lopping of large 
trees is illustrated by some examples of 
what to avoid. The example of a young 
tree that has never been pruned shows a 
specimen of somewhat erratic growth, 
which, perhaps, may be regarded as an ex¬ 
aggeration of reality in order to emphasise 
its unshapeliness in the eye of the young 
gardener. The young tree, kept in form by 
pruning, we hope is also an exaggeration of 
what should actually be done by the culti¬ 
vator, because, if all the trees in the plea¬ 
sure grounds of an estate were so pruned, - 
the landscape would have a severely formal 
character on account of the uniformity of 
