September  0,  1897. 
JOURNAL  OR  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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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  doz  ,  1/6. 
POLYANTHUS  NAECISSUS- 
Double  Roman.  Per  100,  6/6  ;  per  doz.,  1/3. 
BARR’S  DAFFODILS 
For  EARLY  FORCING. 
PRINOEPS. — Perianth  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. 
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DECOKATIVE  WORK. 
The  question  of  decorating,  under  some  of  its 
diverse  forms,  is  one  that  is  always  with  us. 
At  all  seasons  of  the  year  one  or  other  phase  of 
this  work  enters  into  the  lives  and  duty  of  most 
gardeners.  Church  festivals  and  public  functions 
provide  the  chief  examples  on  the  one  hand;  on 
the  other,  and  nearer  home,  all  sorts  and  conditions 
of  decorating,  from  that  pertaining  to  the  gay  and 
festive  scenes  of  social  gatherings  to  the  solemn 
and  Sid  last  duties  paid  to  poor  humanity.  It 
has  become  an  established  custom  to  use  the 
iimocent  forms  which  the  kindly  Mother  Mature 
bestows  on  man,  who  finds  that  “  For  his  gayer 
hours  she  has  a  voice  of  gladness,  and  a  smile  and 
eloquence  of  beauty;”  and  that  “She  glides  into 
his  darker  musings  with  a  mild  and  gentle  sympathy 
that  steals  away  their  sharpness  ere  he  is  aware.” 
So  much  has  been  said  from  time  to  time  upon 
the  diffenuit  forms  of  our  subject  by  those  eminently 
capable  of  treating  of  it ;  so  much  has  been  seen  by 
most  of  us  in  the  shape  of  work  which,  whether 
jKirticipated  in  or  not,  must  to  the  ob.-ervaut  mind 
have  its  correlative  edvicatioual  value,  that  at  first 
sight  the  subject  may  be  viewed  as  one  upon  which 
nothing  remains  to  he  said  or  to  be  shown  worthy 
of  occupying  further  space.  This  conclusion,  hypo¬ 
thetically  arrived  at,  would  veto  the  suVject  as  being 
exhausted,  which,  T  venture  to  think,  is  as  far  from 
being  the  case  as  is  any  other  of  the  great  branches 
which  spring  from  the  ever-spreading  tree  of  know¬ 
ledge  we  fain  would  climb. 
In  a  life’s  experience  one  has  seen  many  examples 
of  this  kind  of  work,  which  may  he  termed  good, 
bad,  and  indifferent,  and  in  the  same  comparative 
degree  we  may  see  them  still.  Such  being  the 
case,  as  well  as  the  subject  in  its  comprehensive 
form  being  of  more  or  less  importance  to  most 
gardeners,  it  is  purposed  here  to  make  a  general 
review,  as  well  as  to  propound  some  simple  rules 
to  form  collectively  outlines  for  beginners.  As  this, 
probably,  will  carry  us  beyond  the  limits  of  oue 
paper  the  brief  explanatory  introduction  appears 
necessary. 
Those  errors  which  are  noticeable  in  one  phase  of 
our  subject  generally  apply  to  all.  These  are  over¬ 
elaboration;  incongruity  from  the  employment  of 
No.  2654.— VOL.  XOVIL,  OLD  SERIES. 
NO.  898.— VoL.  XXXV.,  Third  Series. 
