157 
August  24,  1899. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
ESTABLISHED  1832. 
No  connection  with  any  other  Firm  of  a  similar  Name 
CATALOGUE  for  1899 
—  OF  — 
DUTCH, 
CAPE,  AND  EXOTIC 
BULBS 
(With  CULTURAL  DIRECTIONS) 
Is  NOW  READY,  and  will  be  sent  Post  Free  on 
application  to  themselves  direct  at  OVERVEEN, 
near  HAARLEM,  HOLLAND,  or  to  their  General 
Agents— 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3,  CROSS  LANE,  LONDON,  E.C. 
LAINGS’ 
FRUIT  TREES,  ROSES,  VINES,  FIGS,  SEAKALE, 
ORCHARD  HOOSE  TREES.  FORCING  PLANTS, 
&  c.,  &c., 
Are  specially  clean  and  healthy  this  season, 
AN  EARLY  INSPECTION  INVITED. 
RAILWAY  STATION.  Catford  or  Catford  Bridge. 
Nat.  Telephone  (Private)  60,  SYDENHAM. 
CATALOGUE  POST  FREE. 
JOHN  LAING  &,  SONS 
Forest  Hill  and  Catford  Nurseries , 
LONDON,  S.E. 
BULBS!  BULBS!!  BULBS!!! 
EARLY  WHITE  ROMAN  HYACINTHS 
We  beg  to  announce  the  arrival  of  our  first 
consignment  in  exceptionally  fine  condition. 
To  Secure  the  Selected  Bulbs  order  Early. 
1st  Selection,  extra  large  .  13/-.  100 
2nd  ,,  very  fine  .  12/-  ,, 
3rd  ,,  good  bulbs  .  10/-  ,, 
The  Early  White  Single  Roman  Hyacinth  is  the 
most  valuable  for  a  supply  of  white  bloom  for  Christmas 
decoration,  and  we  make  a  Speciality  of  selecting  all 
our  Bulbs. 
CARNATIONS,  PINKS, 
PANSIES,  VIOLAS. 
Our  New  List  is  now  out  and  contains  all  the  leading  kinds 
worthy  of  cultivation. 
Full  Descriptive  Priced  CATALOGUE  on  application. 
WM.  CLIBRAN  &  SON 
Seed  and  Bulb  Merchants, 
10,  MARKET  STREET,  MANCHESTER. 
No.  1000.— Vol.  XXXIX.,  Third  Series. 
asm, 
LAXTON’S  ^ 
.  STRAWBERRIES  v 
*'  Can  be  del'.vere  1  at  once.  wfl 
Very  fine  plants  in  pets  or  op 2  l 
ground  runners.  X®j 
:Bv  far  the  hugest  >b  cl;  and  best  plants,®  '** 
nyMjk  ‘  to  offer.  Catalogue  Gratis. 
life,  LAXTON  BROS.,  BEDFORD.  Iff 
fe  The  New  Strawberry  Manual,  anj 
exhaustive  work,  post  free  1/3 
HARDY  FRUITS 
A  Practice  1  Treatise  on  the  Planting  and  Management 
of  Orchards,  Selection  of  Varieties,  Pruning  of  Trees, 
Marketing  of  Emit,  Manuring,  &c.  Also  a  few  notes  on 
Insect  Pests  and  their  Remedies,  by 
A.  H.  PEARSON,  Chilwell  Nurseries,  NOTTS. 
Price  7d.,  post  free. 
DICKSONS  QX 
M£T  BULBS 
Hyacinths,  Tulips,  Crocuses, 
Daffodils,  Irises,  &c.. 
For  Indoor  &  Outdoor  Culture. 
Illustrated  Descriptive  Catalogue  Ko.  506 
post  free  on  application. 
Dicksows 
Bulb  Growers  &.  Importers, 
C  M ESTER. 
By  Special 
Appointment 
to  H.R.H.  the 
Prince  of  Wales. 
ORCHIDS. — ORCHIDS. 
QUANTITY  IMMENSE. 
Inspection  of  our  New  Range  of  Houses 
IS  CORDIALLY  INVITED  BY 
UIIPU  I  nil/  ffa  jf'ft  BUSH  HILL  PARK 
nUUn  LUW  MIDDLESEX. 
H.  J.  JONES 
FOR 
BEST  BULBS 
AT 
FAIR  PRICES 
TRY  THEM 
LISTS  FREE 
RYECROFT  NURSERY,  LEWISHAM. 
Greenhouses  from  £3  5/-;  vineries, 
Conservatories,  Frames,  Summer  Houses,  &c. 
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.) 
THURSDAY,  AUGUST  21,  1899. 
THE  JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  can  be  obtained 
from,  the  Office ,  12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  8t  , 
London,  post  free  for  a  Quarter,  3/9.  Editoi  ial 
communications  must  be  addrossod  to  8,  Rose 
Hill  Rd.,  Wandsworth,  S.W. 
THE  PASSING  SUMMER., 
NOW  that  gardens  are  full  of  the  gaiety  of  the 
Dahlia  and  the  hundred  and  one  half-hardy 
flowers  with  which  the  gardener  can  fill  his  beds 
and  borders  with  blazingYolours,  the  lesser  bright¬ 
ness  of  the  hardy  plants  seems  eclipsed.  It  is  softer 
— dare  one  say — less  meretricious,  and  less  alluring? 
The  best  season  is  over,  and  we  begin  to  see  the 
soft,  soothiDg  colours  of  the  Starworts  appear — 
true  harbingers  of  the  quiet  season.  Yet  there  is 
brightness  enough  if  we  provide  ourselves  with  the- 
best  flowers  of  the  time. 
The  great  annual  Sunflowers  are  less  often  seen 
now  that  the  ultra ‘‘aesthetic”  cycle  has  run  its 
course.  Fine  as  they  are,  their  sisters  of  perennial 
habit  have  their  beauties  as  well,  and  have  merits 
of  their  own.  Now  is  their  time  of  glory ;  now 
the  day  when  they  give  their  varied  blooms  to 
fill  the  gardens  with  gold.  Very  beautiful  are 
such  single-flowered  Sunflowers  as  Helianthus 
decapetalus,  H.  multiflorus  or  Helianthus  rigidus — 
better  known  still  as  Harpalium  rigidunr.  The  dry 
weather  has  checked  the  opening  of  H.  Miss 
Mellish,  but  the  rain  now  falling,  and  welcome  to 
all  save  the  harvester  and  the  holiday  maker,  will 
soon  bring  it  into  flower.  The  new  Sunflower,, 
raised  at  Rothesay,  and  named  Daniel  Dewar,  in 
honour  of  one  of  our  best  informed  hardy  plants- 
men,  is  here,  but  will  not,  one  fears,  bloom  this 
year.  Then  there  are  the  double  forms,  such  as 
H.  multiflorus  plenus,  H.  Globe  d’Or,  and  a  few 
others,  which  always  please.  Fine,  too,  in  its  own 
way,  though  somewhat  tall  for  my  taste,  is  the 
double  Rudbeckia  laciniata  Golden  Gloiv.  Though 
not  a  Sunflower,  it  is,  to  those  unacquainted  with 
flowers,  sufficiently  like  one  to  bo  so  called  by' 
them.  In  strong  rich  soil  it  assumes  almost 
gigantic  proportions  in  height,  and  its  flowers  are  . 
finer  than  in  our  light  dry  garden. 
From  this  unique  Rudbeckia  we  pass  naturally 
to  the  others,  which  form  part  of  the  treasure  of 
the  time.  Less  novel  than  Golden  Glow,  yet 
perhaps  even  more  liked,  are  the  purple-flowered 
Rudbeckias  known  as  R.  laciniata  and  R.  purpurea. 
With  their  high  cone-like  centres,  and  loDg, 
No.  2656.— Vol.  CL,  Old  Series. 
