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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
ftHRYSAHTHEMUMS! 
BEST  RESULTS 
Are  obtained  by  starting  with  healthy ,  country 
grown  Plants  and  Cuttings. 
To  prove  that  GODFREY’S  STOCK  IS  SECOND 
TO  NONE  it  is  only  necessary  to  point  to  the  fact  that  he 
has  been  Awarded  in  one  reason  more  Certificates  by 
the  National  Chrysanthemum  and  Royal  Horticultural 
Societies  for  Exhibition  Japs  than  all  other  trade 
growers  combined.  Every  bloom  so  certificated  was 
grown  in  the  Exmouth  Nurseries  and  had  not  been  “put 
to  be  grown,”  as  many  frequently  are  by  trade  growers. 
Further  comments  are  needless 
CATALOGUE. 
GODFREY’S  DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE  should 
be  in  the  hands  of  all — amateur  or  expert.  It  contains 
more  practical,  reliable,  and  interesting  matter  than 
any  other  published.  Post  Free. 
W.  J.  GODFREY, 
EXMOUTH,  DEVON. 
To  Nurserymen,  Builders,  Local  Bodies,  Vestries, 
AND  OTHERS  WHO  INTEND 
PLANTING  TREES  AND  SHRUBS  THIS  SEASON. 
ROBERT  NEAR,  F.R.H.S., 
THE  NU  USE  HIES, 
319,  TRINITY  ROAD,  WANDSWORTH,  S.W., 
Begs  to  offer  an  extensive  Stock  of  FOREST  and 
ORNAMENTAL  TREKS,  SHRUBS,  ROSES,  GRAPE 
VINES,  FRUIT  TREES,  CLIMBING  PLANTS,  Ac., 
which,  being  grown  in  the  neighbourhood  of  London,  are 
especially  suitable  for  Town  Planting.  DESCRIPTIVE 
CATALOGUE  FREE. 
ORCHIDS!  ORCHIDS!  ORCHIDS! 
Cyp.  Spicerianum,  in  bud  ..  ..  2/6  3/6  5/6 
,,  Charlesworthii . 2/-  3/-  5/- 
Cattleya  Labiata,  in  sheath  ..  ..  3/6  5/6  7/6 
Vanda  Ccerulea,  in  spike .  9d.  per  leaf 
,,  Kimballiana  . . 2/-  3/-  5/- 
,,  Amesiana  . . 2/-  3/-  5/- 
Lilium,  Napalense,  and  Wallichianum  1/6  2/6  3/6 
J.  W.  MOORE,  Ltd.,  Orchid  importers,  Rawdon,  nr.  Leeds. 
Ninth  Edition.  Price  1/-;  Post  Free,  1/2. 
Chrysanthemums  and  their  Culture 
ILLUSTRATED. 
A  Practical  Treatise  on  Propagating,  Growing,  and 
Exhibiting,  from  the  Cutting  to  the  Silver  Cup. 
BY  EDWIN  MOLYNEUX. 
Office  :  12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street,  E.C. 
NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  PLANT. 
G.  W.  PIPER  begs  to  offer  Roses  in  really  good  and  well- 
ripened  plants.  All  of  the  very  best  varieties,  and  mainly 
upon  the  seedling  Briar  stock.  Having  many  thousands, 
and  growing  all  varieties  of  merit,  lie  is  confident  of 
giving  entire  satisfaction,  and  respectfully  solicits  orders, 
for  which  sped  1  quotations  will  be  given. 
Roses  are  a  speciality,  and  the  plants  cannot  be 
surpassed  for  quality. 
Full  descriptive  Catalogue  free  upon  application. 
G,  W.  PIPER,  nuEserie?,  DCKFIELD,  SDSSEX. 
For  Market  and  Private  Growers. 
Ornamental  Trees,  Shrubs,  &c. 
DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUES  POST  FREE. 
CHEAL&CONS 
a  w  Crawley,  U  Sussex. 
LONDON  FERN  NURSERIES, 
Loughborough  Junction,  London,  S.W.— Ferns,  large 
and  small,  in  variety ;  Aralias,  Grevilleas,  Cyperus,  Ficus, 
Ericas,  Palms,  Dracaenas,  Aspidistras,  Hydrangeas,  Pelar¬ 
goniums,  Fuchsias,  Marguerites,  Crotons,  &c.  Trade, 
send  for  Wholesale  List.  Special  List  for  Amateurs,  send 
for  one. — J.  E.  SMITH. 
DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE- 
Roses,  Fru't  Trees,  Rhododendrons,  Conifers, 
Deciduous  and  Evergreen  Trees  and  Shrubs, 
Forest  Trees,  Climbers,  &c.,  &c., 
ON  APPLICATION. 
150  Acres  devoted  to  Nursery  Stock. 
H.  LANE  &  SON,  Nurseries,  Berkhamstead,  Herts. 
COTTAGE  GARDENING  }  being  an  Essay  to 
which  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society  awarded  Mr. 
W.  Egerton  Hubbard’s  Prize,  February  16th,  1870.  By 
E.  W.  Badger.  Third  Edition.  Price  3d. ;  post  free,  3id.— 
Journal  of  Horticulture  Office,  12,  Mitre  Court 
Chambers,  Fleet  Street,  E.C. 
Greenhouses  from  £3  5/-;  vineries, 
Conservatories,  Frames,  Summer  Houses,  <fcc. 
Illustrated  List  Free.  Makers  to  H.M.  the  Queen  and 
H.R.H.  the  Prince  of  Wales. 
POTTER,  HAWTHORN  &  CO.,  London  Works, 
READING.  (Name  Paper.) 
JOHN  WATERER  &  SONS,  Ltd., 
AMERICAN  NURSERY, 
BAGSHOT,  SURBlbY, 
Beg  to  call  attention  to  their  magnificent  stock  of 
HARDY  RHODODENDRONS,  AZALEAS, 
CONIFERS,  EVERGREENS,  DECIDOOUS  TREES,  fe 
§•"*  Intending*  Planters  would  do  well  to  Inspect  the  Nurseries. 
CATALOGUES  ON  APPLICATION. 
Joui[iml  of  horticulture. 
THURSDAY,  DECEMBER  1,  1898. 
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GARDEN  MANURES. 
OF  course  these  differ  nothing  from  manures  used 
in  fields,  but  I  employ  the  term  because  it  iff 
similar  to  that  used  by  Mr.  A.  D.  Hall,  the  able 
principal  of  the  Wye  Agricultural  College,  in 
connection  with  his  recent  lecture  on  these  plant 
foods  in  gardens  at  the  Drill  Hall  at  Westminster. 
It  is  rather  humiliating  to  us  as  a  practical  nation 
to  find  that  even  yet  there  should  be,  as  strongly 
advocated  by  Mr.  Hall,  great  need  for  practical 
simultaneous  and  widely  spread  experiments  or 
trials  with  all  descriptions  of  artificial  manures 
on  crops  of  all  descriptions  grown  in  gardens. 
The  suggestion  that  such  experiments  should 
be  conducted  by  gardeners  is  hardly  feasible,  for 
the  simple  reason  that  gardeners  have  no  time  to 
devote  to  them  systematically.  Then  garden  soil 
is  usually  well  furnished  with  humus,  and  to  secure 
real  tests  of  these  manures  they  need  to  be 
employed  on  soils  that  are  relatively  poor,  as  it  is 
only  in  that  way  they  can  be  made  to  show  their 
real  properties  as  plant  foods.  Possibly  we  may 
be  told  that  what  is  advised  is,  after  all,  but  a 
reproduction  of  the  Rothamstead  experiments;  but 
these  have  the  demerit,  if  it  be  such,  of  being 
limited  to  one  place  only,  and  to  one  set  of  observers. 
Could  a  dozen  or  twenty  stations  be  found  in  very 
wide  districts,  and  on  soils  diversely  constituted, 
then  in  the  hands  of  patient  and  exact  observers 
some  results  of  a  very  tangible  nature  might  be 
produced. 
The  past  season’s  experience  has  shown  that 
any  series  of  experiments,  to  have  practical  value, 
would  have  to  extend  over  at  least  seven  years, 
as  only  in  such  a  range  of  years  could  we  expect 
to  have  dry  hot  seasons,  cold  wet  ones,  and  those 
of  an  intermediate  nature,  when  everything  is  so 
satisfactory  meteorologically.  But  even  were  all 
this  arranged  for  and  carried  out,  it  would  be 
absolutely  essential  that  the  final  returns  should  be 
sifted  and  summarised  by  some  very  capable  person, 
who,  whilst  a  scientist,  should  all  the  same  have 
an  absolutely  open  mind  in  relation  to  the  merits 
or  otherwise  of  artificial  manures. 
The  past  season,  because  so  dry,  saw  dressings- 
No.  2618.— VOL.  XCIX.,  Old  Series. 
No.  962.— VOL.  XXXVII.,  Third  Series. 
