December  5,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
503 
Pauls’  Royal  Nurseries, 
WALTHAM  CROSS,  HERTS. 
ALL  PERSONS  ABOUT  TO  PLANT 
FRUIT  TREES 
IN  LARGE  OR  SMALL  QUANTITIES, 
Are  invited  to  inspect  the  Stock  at  the  above  Nurseries, 
comprising  clean  and  healthy  well-advanced  trees  of 
APPLES,  PEARS,  PLUMS,  CHERRIES, 
In  Standard,  Pyramid,  Bush,  Espalier,  and 
Wall-trained  Forms, 
Also  NECTARINES,  PEACHES  and  APRICOTS,  trained 
for  Walls  (Standards  and  Dwarfs);  GOOSEBERRY  and 
CURRANT  BUSHES;  RASPBERRY  CANES;  STRAW¬ 
BERRY  PLANTS,  and  other  OUTDOOR  FRUITS,  FIGS  and 
GRAPES  are  largely  grown  in  Pots  for  Indoor  Culture. 
“  Hogy  Memorial"  Medal  was  Awarded  to 
Wm.  Paul  &  Son’s  Exhibit  of  Fruits ,  Sept.  10, 1901. 
Prices  strictly  moderate,  and  will  be  much  reduced  for 
large  quantities.  Pbiced  Descriptive  Catalogue  post  free 
on  application.  The  Nurseries  are  12  miles  from  London; 
the  South  Entrance  is  four  minutes’  walk  from  Waltham 
Cross  Station;  and  the  West  Entrance  three  minutes’  walk 
liom  Theobald’s  Grove  Station,  Great  Eastern  Railway. 
POSTAL  ADDRESS— 
Wm.  PAUL  &  SON, 
WALTHAM  CROSS,  HERTS. 
FORBES’  ™ewd  BEGONIA 
“CALEDONIA” 
(A  Pure  White  Variety  of  11 Gloire  de  Lorraine"). 
PRICE  I  ^  an<*  eac^1, 
( 24/-,  36/-,  and  50/-  per  doz. 
For  all  particulars  regarding  this  surpassingly  GRAND 
STERLING  NOVELTY,  apply  to— 
JOHN  FORBES,  Nurseryman,  HAWICK,  SCOTLAND. 
RIVERS’ 
FRUIT  TREES, 
Roses,  Vines, 
FIGS,  ORANGES, 
AND 
Orchard-House  Trees. 
A  LARGE  AND  SELECT  STOCK 
ALWAYS  ON  VIEW. 
ILLUSTRATED  AND  DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE , 
Post  Free,  34. 
THOMAS  RIVERS  k  SON, 
SAWBRIDGEWORTH,  HERTS. 
JHARLOW  STATION.  G.E.R. 
No.  1119. — Vol.  XLI1I.,  Third  Series. 
2,000,000  Forest  Trees 
AT  HALF  PRICE. 
SCOTCH  FIR  (Plants  1  to  1A  feet)  -  16/-  1000 
SCOTCH  FIR  (Plants  1£  to  2  feet)  .  20/-  1000 
SPRUCE  FIR  (Plants  1  to  1£  feet)  -  14/-  1000 
SPRUCE  FIR  (Plants  1£  to  2  feet)  -  20/-  1000 
LARCH  FIR  (Plants  1  to  1£  feet)  -  15/6  1000 
LARCH  FIR  (Plants  1£  to  2  feet)  -  18/6  1000 
All  are  beautiful  plants,  with  splendid  roots,  and  being  grown 
in  the  Highlands  of  Scotland  are  the  Haediest  in  Britain, 
and  are  sure  to  succeed  even  in  cold  and  bleak  situations. 
NOTE.— Our  Nurseriesjare  the  Largest  in  Scotland. 
CATALOGUES  FREE. 
Contractor 
to  the 
British 
Government 
WISEMAN, 
Contractor 
to  the 
Belgian 
Government 
ELGIN,  Scotland. 
FOR  PLEASURE  AND  PROFIT 
Nothing  so  profitable  and 
easy  to  grow. 
8o  Acres  of  Saleable  Trees. 
THE  BEST  PROCURABLE. 
.  Lists  Free. 
HUNDREDS  of  THOUSANDS. 
Bushes  in  variety.  Packing  and 
Carriage  free  for  Cash  with  order. 
8/-  per  doz.,  GO/-  per  ICO. 
All  other  Nursery  Stock 
carriage  forward. 
inPOTS  From  15/- a  doz. 
Ornamental  Trees.  91  Acres,  § 
A  Superb  Collection  of  5 
Herbaceous  Plants,  t 
Four  Acres  of  Class, 
Clematis  80,CC0)from  15  -doz. 
A  B. — Single  Plants  are  sold  at 
slightly  increased  prices. 
CLNERAL  CATAL0CUE 
Nearly  190  pages)  of  Nursery  S' oci, 
artistically  produced,  containing 
aome  hundreds  of  illustrations, 
and  full  of  valuabl-  information, 
freo  on  receipt  of  f  j.  for  postage. 
Please  mention  this  Paper. 
RICHARD~SMITH  &C°  WORCESTER 
VINES!  VINES! 
STRONG  CANES  NOW  READY. 
Fruiting  Canes  10/6  and  12/6  each. 
Planting  „  5/-  and  7/6  „ 
ALL  VARIETIES,  SPLENDID  STOCK 
B.  S.  WILLIAMS  &  SON, 
Victoria  &  Paradise  Nurseries,  Upper  Holloway,  London,  N. 
JOHN  WATERER  &  SONS, 
AMERICAN  NURSERY, 
BAGSHOT,  SURREY. 
Ltd., 
Beg  to  call  attention  to  their  magnificent  _stock  of 
HARDY  RHODODENDRONS,  AZALEAS, 
CONIFERS, 
EVERGREENS,  DECIDUOUS  TREES,  Ac. 
Intending  Planters  would  do  well  to 
Inspect  the  Nurseries. 
CATALOGUES  ON  APPLICATION. 
THURSDAY,  DECEMBER  5,  1901. 
Size  in  Fruits  and  Vegetables. 
HERE  is  a  wonderful  fascination 
U about  a  big  Apple  or  a  mighty 
Onion.  The  grower  feels  it  to 
begin  with,  and  when  the 
massive  Peasgood’s  Nonesuch, 
or  the  bulb  of  Ailsa  Craig  that 
turns  the  scale  at  over  2  lbs., 
appear  on  the  exhibition  board,  they 
never  fail  to  attract  the  admiration 
of  the  crowd.  And  in  these  days  size  is  a 
great  consideration  on  the  show  table.  At 
the  Crystal  Palace  a  few  weeks  ago  big 
Apples  were  in  the  majority,  and  the  people 
who  feasted  their  eyes  on  them  did  so  with 
the  feeling  that  they  were  grown  expressly 
to  be  looked  at  and  not  for  consumption. 
In  a  way  this  is  as  it  should  be.  Garden 
produce  of  all  kinds  is  exhibited  as  being 
illustrative  of  the  grower’s  skill,  and  the 
fruit  or  vegetable  possessing  possibilities  as 
to  size  always  enjoys  an  increased  popularity 
on  this  account.  Fruits  and  vegetables  are 
grown  for  exhibition  for  the  purpose  of 
showing  what  can  be  done  with  them  ;  but 
in  the  ordinary  workaday  world  is  the  giant 
Apple  or  the  missive  Onion  regarded  as 
highly  as  specimens  of  average  proportions  1 
Perhaps  the  man  who  grows  for  sale  can 
answer  this  question  better  than  anybody, 
because  he  has  to  cater  for  the  million,  who 
only  buy  in  small  quantities,  with  a  desire  to 
make  the  most  of  their  purchases.  It  is  all 
very  well  to  grow  big  Apples,  but  when  the 
average  housewife  orders  a  pound  and  gets 
one  specimen,  she  generally  draws  out  of  the 
bargain,  and  makes  her  purchase  from  another 
stock  of  medium-sized  examples  of  which  she 
gets  a  number  to  make  up  the  desired  weight. 
But,  on  the  other  hand,  I  am  no  advocate  of 
the  small  scrubby  fruits,  with  neither  pre¬ 
tensions  to  size  nor  quality,  that  do  so  much 
to  flood  the  markets,  and  the  wise  purchaser 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR  ”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
