• March 16, 1901. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
451 
H. J. JONES 
Can strongly recommend the Plants and Seeds 
offered below; they are all of best quality and good 
value for money. All sent free for cash. 
ASTERS (Michaelmas Daisies).—I have a fine 
collection of these lovely flowers. Six fine kinds, 
3s.; 12 for 5s. 6d. 
AZALEA INDICA. —Good plants, best varie¬ 
ties, just coming into flower. 2s. each, 21s. per 
dozen. A few fine standards. 5s. each. 
BEGONIAS, TUBEROUS.— Choice singles, 
mixed colours. Six for is. gd., 12 for 3s., 50 for 
ios., 100 for 20s. Six separate colours, 2s. 6d.; 12 
for 4s. 6dt Six finest named varieties, 10s.; 12 for 
18s. 
BEGONIAS, TUBEROUS.— Choice doubles, 
alb colours mixed. Six for 3s. 6d , 12 for 5s. Six 
separate colours, 5s. 6d , 72 for 10s. Six finest 
named,: 12s ; 12 for 20s. 
CALADIUMS in splendid variety 6s., 9s. and 
12s. per doz. 
CAL LA ELLIOTTIANA, the yellow Arum 
Lilv. Nice youDg plants, 2s. 6d. each ; 6 for 12s. 
CAMPANULA MAYI.— The quickest growing 
and prettiest of all Campanulas, is. and is. 6d. 
each 
CAMPANULA ISOPHYLLA ALBA. —The 
best white 6d. each, 3 for is. 
CAN NAS. —All the choicest. Six for 4s. 6d ,12 
for 8s., 24 for 15s. 
CARNATIONS. —H J. Jones’ unequalled set 
of 23 new border kinds for 1901, complete for £3 3s. 
Six fine named border kinds, 3s.; 12 for 5s. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. —Twelve finest new 
Japanese kinds for igor, including Dora Herx- 
heimer, Earl of Arran, Lily Mountford, Master 
Seymour, Mrs. G. Mileham and Mrs. J. C. Neville 
for £3. Illustrations of these can be seen in my 
" Portfolio,” post free for 8 stamps. Six choice 
Japanese of 1900 for 6s., 12 for ros. Six finest new 
incurved varieties of 1900, 6s.; 12 for ios. Six 
finest single kinds, 3s. ; 12 for 5s. Six finest early- 
flowering kinds, 3s.; 12 for 5s. 
FUCHSIAS. —Six choicest named singles, 2s.; 
12 for 3s. 6d. Six choicest named doubles, 2s. ; 12 
for 3s. 6d. 
GLOXINIAS. —Six choicest named kinds, 
5s. 6d.; 12 for ios. Six very choice, all colours 
mixed, 3s. ; 12 for 5s. 
HELIOTROPIUMS. —Six choice named kinds, 
25.; 12 for 3s. 6d. 
PELARGONIUMS. —Show, regal and decora¬ 
tive. Six very choice named kinds, 3s. 6d.; 12 for 
6s. 6d. 
ZONALS- —Six very fine single kinds, 2s. gd.; 
12 for 5s. Six very fine double kinds, 2s. gd. ; 12 
for 5s. 
DOUBLE IVYLEAF.— Six choicest named 
kinds, including Mrs. J. G. Day, nearly the colour 
of Jacoby, 3s. 6d.; 12 for 5s. 6d. 
H. J. JONES 9 
RELIABLE SEEDS. 
ASTER SINENSIS (Chinese Marguerite) —An 
elegant plant, about 15 in. high, with large flowers, 
having a single row of delicate mauve ray florets 
with ayel'ow disc; invaluable for pots or bedding. 
6d., is. and is. 6d. per packet. 
STOCK WHITE QUEEN (Intermediate) — 
A superb variety, flowers large, double and snow- 
white 6d., is. and 2s. 6d. per packet. 
PENTSTEMON (Large - flowered Hybrida), 
saved from a unique collection. 6 d. and is. per 
p 3 okst 
TOMATO “ THE CROPPER ” (H. J. Jones). 
—The best for market growers, as well as for private 
gardens; 18 lb. to 20 lb. can easily be grown on a 
plant Medium size, perfect shape, delicious flavour, 
intense deep red colour. 6d., is. and is. 6d. per 
packet. 
TOMATO “THE CHAMPION” (H. J 
Jones).—This is rather larger than the “ Cropper,” 
perfect in shape and delicious in flavour. It is also 
a first-class cropper of a deep red colour. F.C.C. 
6d.. is. and is. 6d per packet 
ONIONS AILSA CRAIG AND NE PLUS 
ULTRA.— Specially selected stock, which I guar¬ 
antee to be the finest it is possible to buy. 6d., is. 
and is. 6d. per packet. 
H. J. JONES’ SELECTED CHAMPION 
SCARLET RUNNER BEAN.— Specially se¬ 
lected stock. 8d. per pint. 
“RYECROFT” GOLD MEDAL SWEET 
PEAS. —I have all the best varieties of these 
charming flowers, which I am offering in collections 
as follows;—50 choicest named kinds, 8s. 6d.; 24 
choicest named kinds, 3s. 6d. ; 18 choicest named 
kinds, 2 S. 6d.; 12 choicest named kinds, is. 6d.; 
8 choicest named kinds, is. 3d. 
Catalogues free. H. J. Jones’ ” Chrysanthemum 
Guide ” (105th thousand) ; best book on culture, 
post free, 7 stamps, bound in cloth, is. 2d. 
RYECROFT NURSERY , 
Hither Green, Lewisham. 
THE BEST 
NEW POTATOES 
EMPIRE. 
W Now offered for the first time. 
A new and desirable main crop variety of our own 
raising. The tubers are flaitish-round in shape, white, 
of good average size, and of most excellent cooking quali¬ 
ties. It is a hervy oropper, and a first-class keeper. 
6/- per peck of 14 lbs. 
TELEGRAPH. 
This is one of the most valuable acquisitions in early 
Potatos. The tubers are kidney-shaped, with pale pink 
skin, of good size and shape, and unsurpassed for their 
cooking qualities. 
51 - per peck of 14 lbs.; 17/- per bushel of 56 lbs. 
WEBBS’ Spring Catalogue, Post Free, Is, 
Abridged Edition. Gratis and post free. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
'Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man ”— Bacon. 
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NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
WrDNESDAY. March 20th.—Torquay District Gardeners' 
Association's Spring Show. 
Thurs' ay, March 2rst —Lirnean Society Committees' Meet¬ 
ing ; Royal Botanical Society's Meeting. 
Popular Flowers, Ancient and Modern. 
— Many of the flowers which delight 
us to day, delighted our ancestors more 
than three centuries ago according to 
written or printed testimony. The story to 
which we allude was first set forth in the 
German tongue “ by that learned D. Rem- 
bert Dodoens, physician to the Emperor, 
and was first translated out of French into 
English by Henry Lyte Esquyer,” and 
printed “at London by my Gerard Dewes, 
dwelling in Pawles Churchyarde, at the sign 
of the Swanne,” 1578. He gives a chapter 
on Gillofers (Gillyflowers), enumerating a 
number of species then classed under this 
category and illustrating five of them, all 
of which we can readily recognise in spite 
of the curious names given to them, and 
the strange or ancient English in which 
they are described. The first figure is a 
double Carnation which might pass muster 
for the Old Clove; the second is the single 
Gillofer or Pink (Dianthus plumarius) ; the 
third is Armerius flos primus or Sweet 
Williams (D. Armerius); the fourth is 
Amerius flos tertius (Silene Armeria); and 
the fourth is Vetonica sylvestris, Wilde 
Williams, or Cockow Gillofers (Lychnis 
Flos-cuculi). The modern botanical names 
are added by us. The first two are clearly 
the Carnation and Pink respectively. The 
third then enjoyed the name of Sweet 
Williams, and in those days was classed 
amongst garden flowers. It must have 
been common about Cambridge in those 
days, and we know that it existed there till 
quite recently at least, for we have 
specimens gathered there in 1886. As a 
garden flower it is now neglected, and 
remains in its primitive unimproved form. 
The fourth (Silene Armeria) is still cherished 
in gardens, but is no more improved than 
it was in 1578. The Wilde Williams or 
Cuckoo Flower still grows in our marshes 
and wet meadows, where children (old and 
young) still gather them in their season. A 
double form of it has recently been raised 
to the dignity of a garden border flower, 
but its so-called botanical name is too 
lengthy for quotation here. The plant we 
know as the Sweet William to-day is 
evidently recorded by Dodoens as another 
kind of Armeriorum, the flowers of which 
he describes as small, in a duster on the 
top of the stalk, in colour, “ redde and 
white, and speckled or sprinckled with 
small spots.” The Carnations, Pinks, and 
Sweet Williams he described as being “ set 
and planted in the gardens of this countrie.” 
The Wild Williams grew in meadows and 
moist grassy places. “ The other kind of 
Armerius groweth in Germanie, in certain 
rough, hillie places that stand open against 
theSunne.” The Sweet William (Dianthus 
barbatus) of to-day did come to us originally 
from Germany. Of the five members of the 
Pink family figured in 1578, four of them 
take rank as garden flowers yet, several of 
them being of course greatly improved since 
those far off times. 
In those days the poets could not sing of 
the iron-brown Wallflowers for they were 
yellow, and so described in several European 
languages, with an abundance of synomyms 
so that the ancients were no better than the 
moderns in this respect. The two most 
popular species of Stock in modern gardens 
were by no means new to cultivation then. 
The East Lothian Stock was then known 
as the Great Castell, or Stock Gillofer ; 
and the Ten-week Stock as the Small 
Castell or Stock Gillofer. Both were also 
known as Garnesie Violets or White Violets 
in several languages, the latter name being 
given on account of the white and soft 
woolly leaves. Both species are accurately 
described, and were then famed for their 
fragrant or pleasant smell like Hattes-ease 
(Pansy) or Wallflowers, and their diversity 
of colours — white, ayshe, carnation, stamell 
or scarlet, redde, and violet. According to 
the figures, the flowers of Wallflower and 
Stocks were small, but by all accounts lack¬ 
ing neither in colour nor smell. In those 
days they had the “great wild Daysie ” 
(Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum) and the 
“small garden Daysie” (Beilis minor 
hortensis,orasweshould say Beilisperennis 
flore pleno). Even then the flowers varied 
greatly in colour and werp so double that 
one could see little or none at all of the 
yellow centre. Evidently they possessed 
the Hen-and-Chicken Daisy judging from 
this record : “ There growe also sometimes 
about the compasse of the sayde littell 
Ac utes, many more as it were small floures 
