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THREE  GOLD  MEDALS  FOR  ROSES  IN  1898. 
WM.  PATJL  &  SOUST, 
Rose  Growers  by  Appointment  to  Her  Majesty  the  Queen  ;  Tree,  Plant,  Bulb,  and  Seed  Merchants, 
WALTHAM  CROSS,  HERTS, 
RESPECTFULLY  SOLICIT  ORDERS  FOR  THEIR  UNRIVALLED  STOCK  OF 
ROS£]S  IN  ALL  FORMS. 
STANDARDS  from  18/-  doz.  DWARFS  or  BUSHES  from  6/-  doz. 
HALF  STANDARDS  from  15/-  doz.  CLIMBERS  from  6/-  doz. 
DWARF  STANDARDS  from  10/-  doz.  ROSES  IN  POTS  from  10/6  doz. 
They  also  bear  to  call  attention  to  their  extensive  collections  of  FRUIT  TREES,  HARDY  TREES  and  SHRUBS, 
RHODODENDRONS,  HERBACEOUS  PLANTS,  CLIMBING  PLANTS,  CAMELLIAS  and  AZALEAS,  and 
BULBS,  all  in  the  best  possible  condition  for  autumn  delivery. 
PH1CED  LISTS  POST  FREE  O  APPLICATION!-,  -1^3 
NOTE. — All  Nursery  Stock  offered  by  Wm.  Paul  it  Sox  is  particularly  fine  this  season,  the  warm  dry  summer  having 
produced  exceptionally  fine  growths  on  the  cool,  moist,  loamy  soil  of  which  their  Nurseries  consist. 
IMPORTANT.— OBSERVE  CHRISTIAN  NAME  AND  ADDRESS, 
WM.  PAUL  &  SON,  WALTHAM  CROSS,  HERTS 
Extra  large  clumps 
/ 
Spiraea  Japonica. 
2/6  per  doz. 
Spiraea  Palmata.  Beautiful  pink 
variety,  3/6  per  doz. 
Lilium  Laneifolium,  r 
and  roseum,  3  6  per  dc 
Gladnlus  Brenchleyensis 
very  scarce.  9cL.  1/-  doz. 
Gladiolus,  The  Br 
2/6  per  100. 
Lilium  Auratum. 
Expected  shortly 
Will  be  very 
scarce  this 
season. 
Order 
Early 
The  Cheapest  House  for  every 
description  of  Bulbs  and  Garden 
Sundries, 
MICHAEL  RAINS  fk  Co. 
Bulb*  G  towers, 
1*,  MANSELL  ST.,  A10GATE  LONDON,  E. 
WILLIAM  BARRON  &  SON 
Landscape  Gardeners  and  Nurserymen , 
Invite  intending  Planters  to  inspect  their  unrivalled 
Stock  of 
ORNAMENTAL  &  FOREST  TREES 
Send  for  Catalogues  and  List  of  Public  and  Private 
Works  carried  out  by  them. 
ELVASTON  NURSERIES,  BORROWASH,  DERBY. 
CLEAN  HEALTHY  PLANTS  AT  LOW  PRICES. 
Ahcoys  worth  a  visit  of  inspection.  Kindly  send  for  Catalogue. 
CYPHER, 
Exotic  Nurseries,  CHELTENHAM 
PLANTiNB  SEASON 
HARDILY-GROWN 
F@restg  F>&sit3 
&  all  other 
Trees  <S& 
Evergreens, 
^@sess 
Stocks  quite  Unequalled  for 
■QUALITY,”  “VARIETY,"  &  “EXTENT." 
Priced  Catalogues  Post  Free. 
Dicksons Chester. 
JOBS  MERER  &  SOBS,  Ltd, 
AMERICAN  NURSERY, 
BAGSHOT,  SURREY, 
r  *  • 
B-g  to  call  attention  to  their  magnificent  stock  of 
HARDY  RHODODENDRONS,  AZALEAS, 
COSIFERS,  EVERGREENS,  DECIDUOUS  TREES,  to. 
Intending*  Planters  would  do  well  to  Inspect  tlie  Nurseries. 
CATALOGUES  OUT  APPLICATION 
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THE  UNIT  IN  HORTICULTURE. 
mHE  value  of  the  unit  in  gardening  is  considerable 
_L  As  a  quantity  it  ought  to  ho  evident,  though 
I  am  inclined  to  think  it  is  generally  unrecognised. 
Yet  in  our  daily  werk  the  unit  fills  a  large  place- 
Let  us  endeavour  to  .locate  it.  Everyone  cognisant 
of  the  history  of  gardening  in  England  must 
acknowledge  it  to  he  the  truth  that  the  past  fifty 
years,  culminating,  say,  in  the  last  ten  or  fifteen, 
have  seen  British  gardening  at  a  level  far  higher 
than  it  had  hitherto  reached.  The  reason  for  this 
is  not  far  to  sock.  Individual  gardeners  have  taken 
up  some  special  subject,  mastered  it,  and  scattered 
their  knowledge  far  and  wide  through  the  .agency 
of  the  Press. 
Exhibiting  has  also  been  a  most  effective  method 
of  instruction,  inasmuch  as  it  incites  emulation  and 
the  desire  to  “  go  one  better.”  This  desi:e  can  only, 
as  a  rule,  he  gratified  by  securing  varieties  possessing 
qualiiies  superior  to  the  old.  These  better  forms 
along  with  improved  methods  of  culture  are  more 
or  less  rapidly  diffused  among  the  gardening  com¬ 
munity,  and  the  unit  in  horticulture,  so  far  as 
gardeners  are  concerned,  becomes  potential.  Should 
someone  declare  that  gardeners  may  still  be  lound 
standing  on  the  old  platform  indifferent  to,  and 
unaffected  by,  this  leavening  process,  may  we  not 
with  truth  reply  that  such  declaration  in  no  wise 
affects  the  argument,  seeing  that  such  men  can 
hardly  be  denominated  units,  and  not  improbably 
are  merely  cyphers  ? 
In  cultural  matters  success  of  the  highest  order 
is  invariably  the  result  of  working  from  a  high-class 
unit.  The  finest  Grapes  are  those  which  possess 
the  largest  and  best  finished  berries,  every  one  of 
which  is  equal  in  every  respect  to  the  others.  And 
I  may  he  allowed  to  add  that  many  otherwise  good 
Grapes  have  to  take  an  inferior  place  at  exhibitions 
chiefly  because  too  many  berries  were  left  on  the 
bunches  when  thinning.  About  thirty  years  ago, 
or  perhaps  earlier,  Mr.  Henderson  exhibited  Black 
Hamburghs  at  the  Royal  Botanic  exhibitions, 
which  brought  distinction  solel}'  on  account  of  the 
enormous  and  uniformly  sized  berries  of  which 
the  otherwise  commonplace  bunches  were  composed. 
No.  2619. — Vol.  XCIX.,  Old  Series. 
