IttgUst  19,  I8g7» 
JOUUNAL  or  mnnCULTURB  and  cottagb  gardener. 
161 
BARRS 
SELECTED 
BULBS 
For  Early  Forcing. 
HYACINTHS-Dwarf  White  Roman 
Per  100,  10/6  and  15/-  ;  per  doz.,  1/6  and  2/3. 
POLYANTHUS  NARCISSUS- 
Paper  White  Early  Snowflake.  Per  100, 
8/6  ;  per  dcz  ,  1/6. 
POLYANTHUS  NARCISSUS- 
Donhle  Roman.  Per  100,  6/6  ;  per  doz.,  1/3. 
BARR’S  DAFFODILS 
For  EARLY  FORCING. 
PRINCEPS. — Perian^^b  sulphur  white,  trumpet 
yellow.  Per  1000,  30/-  ;  per  100,  3/6. 
GOLDEN  SPUR. — Larpe  full  yellow  perianth 
and  trumpet.  Per  100,  21/-  ;  per  doz  ,  3/-. 
HORSEFIELDII. — White  perianth,  la'ge  yellow 
trumpet.  Per  100, 15/- ;  per  doz.,  2/3. 
For  other  “forcing”  Daffodils,  see  BARR’S 
Daffodil  Catalogue,  free  on  application. 
BARR  SONS, 
12  &  13,  King  St.,  Covent  Garden,  London. 
ESTABIilSHED  1832. 
No  connection  with  any  other  Firm  of  the 
same  name. 
CATALOGUE  for  1897 
—  OP  — 
DUTCH, 
CAPE,  t  EXOTIC 
BULBS 
(With  OULTUKAL  DIEEOTIOITS), 
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. 
No.  895.— Von.  XXXV.,  Taian  Series. 
THE  JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  can  be  obtained 
from  the  Office ,  171,  Fleet  Street,  London,  post  free 
for  a  Quarter,  3*.  9d.  Editorial  communications 
must  be  addressed  to  8,  Rose  Hill  Road,  Wandsworth 
SHREWSBURY. 
Quite  a  sufficient  heading  is  that  one  word 
to  direct  the  minds  of  readers  of  current 
garden  literature  to  an  event  which  cannot  be 
otherwise  than  historic.  During  the  latter  part 
of  1896  a  strong  desire  was  manifested  by  horti¬ 
culturists  that  something  should  be  done  by 
them  as  a  body  to  commemorate  in  a  fitting 
manner  the  greatest  consummation  of  its  kind  that 
is  to  be  found  in  the  annals  of  any  country — 
the  occupancy  of  the  Throne  for  sixty  years  by 
our  good  and  gracious  Queen. 
Varied  were  the  projects  advanced  in  which 
the  sentiments  of  horticulturists  might  be  em¬ 
bodied  and  exemplified,  but  however  excellent 
in  themselves,  the  majority  of  them  were 
thought,  after  serious  consideration,  to  be  lack¬ 
ing  in  the  element  of  practicability.  True,  and 
happily,  those  connected  with  our  charitable 
institutions  did  not  come  within  that  category, 
but  were  splendidly  successful.  There  was, 
however,  beyond  them  a  desire  for  something  of 
a  spectacular  character,  as  represented  by  a  great 
display  of  the  products  of  British  gardens. 
An  exhibition,  adequate  in  magnitude  and 
diversity,  could  not  be  provided  with  anything 
approaching  a  guarantee  of  success  in  London 
after  the  22Qd  of  June,  and  it  was  fortunately 
not  attempted.  The  Royal  Horticultural  Society 
had  had  its  splendid,  and  in  many  respects 
unequalled,  Show  in  the  Temple  Gardens.  That 
great  annual  exhibition  could  not  be  postponed, 
and,  as  we  said  at  the  time,  whatever  the 
R.H.S.  might  do  in  providing  a  second  exhibi- 
bition,  it  could  not,  in  our  opinion,  be  made  to 
assume  a  national  character,  or  be  in  any 
adequate  sense  representative  of  British  horti¬ 
culture  in  its  broadest  aspects. 
The  Council  of  the  Society  marked  the  great 
event  of  the  year  in  a  different  and  much  more 
permanent  manner  by  instituting,  with  the  full 
sanction  of  her  Majesty,  the  “  Victoria  Medal 
of  Honour,”  of  which  it  may  he  presumed  there 
will  always  be  sixty  possessors  so  long  as  the 
Society  exists.  In  the  first  distribution  the  most 
distinguished  scientific  men,  as  well  as  genefous 
No.  2661.— VOL.  XOVU.,  OLD  SESIHS. 
