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oonseoative  years  (1883  to  1896  inclnsive).  Good  strong  plants, 
bis  selection,  68.  and  93.  per  dozen,  free  for  cash.  Se^s  from 
the  above,  Is.  and  2s.  6d.  per  packet. 
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£7  10s.  per  100.  Ail  leading  and  best  kinds,  our  selection. 
12  assorted  Standard  Apple,  Cherry,  Pear,  and  Plum,  18s. 
12  assorted  Pyramid  Trees,  Apple,  Pear,  and  Plum,  20s. 
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,  2s.  6d.  per  doz. ;  18b.  per  100. 
CURRANTS,  assorted  Black,  Bed,  and  White,  2s.  6d  per  doz, ; 
183.  per  too. 
RASPBERRIES,  Is.  6d.  per  doz. ;  10s.  per  100. 
Buses,  best  named  Hybrid  Perpetuals,  our  selection,  358.  per  100; 
SOs.  per  SO.  12,  packed  and  paid  per  Parcel  Post,  for  7s.  6d. 
12  Tea  Roses,  packed  and  paid  p«  Parcel  Post,  for  10s.  6d. 
Tea  Boses,  in  pots,  inoludiug  Mardohal  Niel,  Qloire  de  Dijon, 
Niphetos,  and  other  varieties,  128.  and  21s.  per  doz, 
VINKS,  strong  planted  cane.  is.  each. 
ASSOR  I'ED  EVERGREENS,  good  plants,  4b.  to  183.  per  doz. 
ASSORTED  FLOWERING  PLANTS,  43.  to  98.  per  doz. 
ASSORTED  STANDARD  TREES- «.p.,  Thoms,  Limos,  Moun¬ 
tain  Ash,  Planes,  Ac.,  18s.  per  doz. 
cr.ii^sx:x2,s. 
Ampelopsis  Veitchi,  the  best  for  covering  walls,  reqiJires  no 
nailing,  Is.  each. 
Clematis  Jackmani,  and  other  sorts,  16s.  per  doz. ;  oar  sdeotion, 
Is,  6d.  each. 
Ivies,  iu  sorts,  9d.,  Is.,  and  la.  6d. 
nADAUlAV  P  Pn  Durdham  Down  Nurttri.et, 
UAnAWAT.  &  uU.,  clifton,  Bristol 
THURSDAY,  NOVEMBER  19,  1896. 
OUR  QUEEN’S  LONG  REIGN. 
IN  view  of  an  event  to  which  we  are  all  looking 
forward  with  pleasurable  anticipations,  horti- 
cnltorists  are  already,  and  indeed  have  been  for 
some  time,  hoping  that  some  means  will  be 
formulated  by  which  they  can  as  a  body,  in  some 
representative  way,  share  in  the  rejoicings  by 
which  the  year  1897  will  be  memorable  as  that  in 
which  the  revered  monarch  of  these  realms 
accomplishes  the  longest  reign  recorded  in  the 
annals  of  the  Empire.  Mention  has  been  made 
of  the  subject  in  many  letters  which  we  have 
received,  but  in  only  three  do  we  find  definite 
proposals — one  is  the  establishment,  on  a  business 
basis,  of  a  horticultural  hall  of  a  national 
character,  iu  conjunction  with  music  and  the  fine 
arts.  Another  it  that  the  Royal  Horticultural 
Society  should  make  the  Temple  Show  a  com¬ 
memorative  exhibition  in  honour  of  the  great 
event.  A  third  proposition  is  that  the  chief 
society  thould  celebrate  the  occasion  in  associa¬ 
tion  with  some  great  provincial  exhibition  in 
which  the  art  and  industry  of  horticalture  shall 
be  fully  represented  in  its  various  aspects. 
As  to  the  hall  or  “Home,”  we  ahould  be 
delighted  to  see  it.  That  it  is  urgently  needed 
is  beyond  doubt ;  but  that  it  can  be  provided 
in  time  for  the  rejoicings  is  impossible.  We  will 
say  no  more  about  that  project  at  present  than 
this — namely,  that  when  horticultural  associa¬ 
tions  acted  alone  in  the  chief  cities  of  the 
horticultural  kingdom  of  Belgium,  and  musical 
associations  did  likewise,  neither  prospered  ;  but 
when  they  joined  forces,  halls  of  harmony  were 
erected  large  enough  for  accommodating  even 
such  great  horticultural  exhibitions  as  the  quin¬ 
quennials  at  Ghent. 
As  to  the  Temple  Show  proposition,  much  as 
we  should  like  to  see  a  grand  national  exhibition, 
broadly  representative  of  horticulture,  in  London, 
we  are  obliged  to  say  that  this,  if  producible, 
conld  not  possibly  be  celebratory  of  the  historic 
object  in  question  at  the  end  of  May  or  the 
early  days  of  June — the  only  time,  we  believe, 
when  the  Temple  Gardens  are  available  for  any 
public  purpose.  If  this  is  so  the  point  is  settled, 
beoanse  any  rejoicings  before  the  date  of  the 
anspicioDs  event  would  be  distasteful  to  Her 
Majesty,  who  has  clearly  made  known  her  desire 
No.  866.— VOli.  XXXIIL,  Thikd  SBaiBa. 
