October  29,  1896. 
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VEITOH’S 
GS2S  BULBS 
FOR  BEDDING. 
VEITCH’S  HYACINTHS. 
MIXED  OR  IN  SEPARATE  COLOURS. 
VEITCH’S  TULIPS. 
MIXED  OR  IN  NAMED  VARIETIES 
VEITCH’S  DAFFODILS. 
ALL  THE  BEST  KINDS. 
VEITCH’S  CROCUS. 
FOR  BEDS  OR  BORDERS. 
Bulbs  Carriage  Free  when  amounting  to  10s. 
and  upwards  in  value. 
For  details,  see  CATALOGUE,  forwarded  Post  Free 
on  application. 
JAMES  VEITCH  &  SONS, 
ROYAL  EXOTIC  NURSERY, 
CHELSEA,  LONDON,  S.W. 
FRUIT  TREES  SPEC^LITY. 
BEST  NEW  FRUITS. 
THE 
DE3SERT  APPLE  LORD  Hindlip. 
COOKING  APPLE  Byford  Wondkr. 
■  DESSERT  PEaR  OONPERENCk. 
PLUM . MONARCir 
STRAWBERRY..  Royal  SOVEREIGN. 
Raspberry  ..  victoria 
CURRANT  ..  ..  Fay’s  Prolific. 
DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE,  one  of  (he  most  complete  issued, 
free,  &d.  Ordinary  List  free. 
JOHN  'W^A.TKLINS, 
Pomina  Farm  Nurseries,  WITHINGTON,  HEHEFOBD. 
Also  many  other  new 
varieties  of  great 
mirit,  and  all  the 
best  of  the  new  or 
old  varieties  either 
for  market  or  own 
consumption. 
I  CARAWAY  &  CO. 
(  SPECIAL  OFFER,  ‘^CASH  WITH  ORDER.” 
(  ST-A.KrDA.R.r>  AI»F»i:.ES. 
‘  £1  lOs.  per  100.  Ail  leading  and  best  kinds,  our  selection. 
1  12  assorted  Standard  Apple,  Cherry,  Pear,  and  Plum,  18s. 
12  assorted  Pyramid  Trees,  Apple,  Pear,  and  Plum,  20s. 
f  12  assorted  Trained  Trees  for  walls. 
Apple,  Cherry,  Nectarine,  Peach,  Pear,  and  Plum,  all  best  trees 
and  good  varieties,  40s.  per  doz. 
GOOSEBERRIES,  all  named,  28  6d.  per  doz. ;  18s.  per  100. 
;  CURRANTS,  assorted  B  ack,  Red,  and  White,  23.  6d.  per  doz. ; 
I8s.  per  100. 
RASPBERRIES,  Is.  6d.  per  doz. ;  ICs.  per  100. 
ROSES. 
Roses,  best  named  Hybrid  Perpetuals,  our  selection,  35s.  per  100 ; 
*  20.S  per  50.  12,  packed  and  paid  per  Parcel  Post,  for  7s.  6d. 
12  Tea  Roses,  paokeu  and  paid  per  Parcel  Post,  for  10s.  6d. 
Tea  Roses,  in  pots,  including  Marechal  Niel,  Gloire  de  Dijon, 
Niphetos,  and  other  varieties,  12s.  and  218.  per  doz. 
VINES,  strong  planted  cane,  4s.  each. 
ASSOBfBD  EVERGREENS,  good  plants,  4s.  to  18s.  per  doz. 
ASSORTED  FLOWERING  PLANTS,  43.  to  9s.  per  doz. 
ASSORTED  STANDARD  TREES -e.p.,  Thorns,  Limes,  Moun¬ 
tain  Ash,  Planes,  &c.,  IBs.  per  doz. 
CX^IIVEBERS. 
Ampelopsis  Veitchi,  the  beat  for  covering  walls,  requires  no 
nailing.  Is.  each. 
Clematis  Jackraani,  and  other  sorts,  ISs.  per  doz. ;  our  selection. 
Is.  6d.  each. 
Ivies,  in  sorts,  9d.,  Is.,  and  Is.  6d. 
I\knk\klk\i  O  nn  DurCham  Down  Nurseries, 
uAKAWAY  «  uU.,  CLIFTON,  Bristol. 
ALLINGTON  PIPPIN, 
The  finest  New  Dessert  Apple  sent  out  for  30  years. 
Maidens,  5s.;  Two  Years,  7s.  6d.  each ;  larger  to  213.  each. 
GEORGE  BUNYARD  &  GO.,  MAIDSTONE. 
DISTRIBUTED  XNT  NTOVBIMLBER. 
London  Fern  Nurseries, 
LOUGHBOROUGH  JUNCTION,  LONDON,  S.W. 
5000  Oases  op  Plants  sent  off  last  yeah  to  the  Tbadb 
Nurserymen  and  Florists  send  for  WHOLESALE  List. 
SPECIAL  LIST  FOR  AMATEURS.  J.  E.  SMITH. 
GARDEN  &  OLD-FASHIONED  ROSES. 
25  strong  plants  for  22/6.  Distinct  varieties  such  as  have  been 
exhibited  in  such  fine  form  during  the  past  season,  including 
Bardou  Job,  Janet’s  Pride,  Copper  Austrian,  Gustave  Regis, 
Single  Yellow  Austrian,  Pepita,  Laurette  Messimy,  Crimson 
Rambler,  York  and  Lancaster,  Persian  Yellow,  Rose  de  Meaux, 
(Ssc.,  &c.,  forming  a  very  charming  collection  of  the  best  old- 
fashioned  and  garden  Roses.  New  Rose  List  post  free. 
OEO.  COOXiZKTG  &.  S O Iff S,  Y’/ie  BATH 
THURSDAY.  OCTOBER  29.  1896. 
WINTER-FLOWERING  CARNATIONS. 
BEGONIAS 
Of  the  newest  and  most  superb  type,  including  many  rare 
varieties.  Double  and  Single,  for  Conservatory  or  Bedding. 
See  B.  R.  Davis’s  Descriptive  Oatalogub,  Free,  a  Hand¬ 
some  COLOURED  PLATE  of  Six  Double  Varieties,  with  a  Oopy 
of  Treatise  on  Cultivation,  free  for  Is. 
B.  R.  DAVIS,  NURS^IES,  YEOVIL,  SOMERSET. 
‘T.  LORD’S  CATALOGUE  NOW  READY, 
Oontainiug  all  the  best  Bizarres,  Flakes,  Picotecs,  Selfs,  Fancies 
acd  Yellow  Grounds.  Winner  of  the  leading  prizes  at  the 
National  Carnation  Exhibition  (Northern  Section)  for  fourteen 
consecutive  years  (1883  to  1896  inclusive).  Good  strong  plants, 
his  selection,  6s.  and  9s.  per  dozen,  free  for  cash.  Seeds  from 
the  above,  Is.  and  2s.  6d.  per  packet. 
T.  X.ORX>,  TBORZST,  TOBIVIORBEN. 
ROSES, 
For  CATALOGUES  APPLY 
BENJAIVIJN  R.  CANT, 
Rose  Grower,  COLCHESTER. 
CARNATIONS  of  all  descriptions  have  now 
regained,  to  a  great  extent,  their  old  popu* 
larity.  Each  year  we  find  some  serioui  attempt 
in  their  culture  is  made  in  a  greater  number  of 
gardens,  and  when  once  the  cultural  details  are 
mastered,  both  gardeners  and  their  employers 
find  they  can  scarcely  have  too  many  of  them. 
Throughout  the  spring  and  summer  months  their 
fiowers  are  always  welcomed,  and  in  autumn  and 
winter  few  are  more  highly  prized  for  making 
sprays  and  buttonholes  than  well-grown  flowers 
of  the  so-called  tree  varieties. 
Many  sterling  sorts  have  during  recent  years 
been  added  to  this  section,  and  fortunately  the 
new  arrivals  have  the  valuable  qualities  of  winter 
flowering  in  a  more  marked  degree  than  some 
of  the  older  ones.  Any  variety  that  is  not 
naturally  floriferous  is  but  little  use  for  winter 
work,  no  matter  how  beautiful  their  blooms 
may  be,  and  they  ought,  perhaps  for  the  sake 
of  accuracy,  to  be  designated  “spring-flowering 
ones.”  Of  course  a  great  deal  depends  upon 
the  culture  the  plants  receive,  for  unless  the 
cuttings  are  inserted  early,  and  the  plants  grown 
under  the  best  conditions,  the  most  reliable 
varieties  are  not  satisfactory  till  early  spring  ; 
but  given  sturdy  vigorous  plants,  which  when 
they  are  housed  have  abundance  of  buds,  a  con¬ 
tinuous  supply  of  blooms  is  assured  by  the  aid 
of  good  management.  A  mistake  often  made 
with  plants  grown  in  the  open  air  during  the 
summer  months  is  to  coddle  them  too  much 
when  placed  under  glass  in  the  autumn.  Carna¬ 
tions  have  perhaps  suffered  more  than  other 
plants  from  such  mistaken  notions  of  giving 
assiduous  cultural  attention. 
Daring  the  present  month  it  is  scarcely  pos¬ 
sible  to  give  Carnation  houses  too  much  air 
provided  actual  frost  is  kept  out,  and  in  wet, 
cold  weather  it  is  far  better  to  maintain  a 
buoyant  atmosphere  by  keeping  a  little  heat 
constantly  in  the  hot- water  pipes  than  to  reduce 
the  ventilation  with  the  object  of  keeping  up 
a  given  temperature,  and  throughout  the  winter 
the  ventilators  ought  not  to  be  entirely  closed 
except  during  very  severe  frosts.  This  kind 
of  treatment,  however,  necessitates  damping 
between  the  plants  and  also  the  floors  of  the 
No.  863.— VoL.  XXXIII.,  Third  Series. 
No.  2609. -VOL.  XOV.,  OLD  SERIES. 
