December  19,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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BULBS  FOB  BEDDING,  k 
Wntm  Cut  bush  &  Son's 
STOCK  IS  IN  SPLENDID  CONDITION. 
CATALOGUES  with  full  particulars  free  on  application. 
HIGHGATE  NURSERIES,  LONDON,  N. 
20  ACRES  of  ROSES 
THE  BEST  AND  CHEAPEST  IN  THE  WORLD. 
CARRIAGE  PAID.  Catalogues  Free. 
OA  CHOICE  Standard  Roses,  25/-;  20  Choice  Half- 
Standard  Roses,  22/6;  12  Choice  Standard  Teas.  18/-; 
50  Choice  Dwarf  Hybrid  Perpetuals,  21/-;  12  Choice  Teas 
ana  Noisettes,  8/-;  12  Choice  Climbing,  6/-;  12  Best  Hybrid 
Perpetuals,  6/- ;  6  Gloire  de  Dijon,  4,6;  6  Fairy  Roses,  4/-; 
6  Moss  Roses,  3/-;  6  Pink  Monthly  Roses,  3/-;  12  Sweet 
Briars,  3/-. 
“Roses,  and  How  to  Grow  Them,”  4d. 
All  for  Cash  with  Order.  Thousands  of  Testimonials. 
JAMES  WALTERS, 
GROWER,  EXETER. 
CLEAN  HEALTHY  PLANTS  AT  LOW  PRICES 
Always  worth  a  visit  of  inspection.  Kindly  send  for  Cata'ogue. 
NEW  LIST  NOW  READY. 
CYPHBH, 
Exotic  Nurseries,  CHELTENHAM. 
WILLIAM  BARRON  &  SON 
Landscape  Gardeners  and  Nurserymen, 
ELVASTON  NURSERIES,  BORROWASH,  DERBY, 
Invite  intending  planters  to  inspect  their  unrivalled 
STOCK  of  ORNAMENTAL  Si  FOREST  TREES, 
RHODODENDRONS.  ROSES  &  FRUIT  TREES. 
Send  for  Catalogues  and  List  of  Public  and  Private  Works 
carried  out  by  them. 
SEAKALE. 
Extra-extra  strong  for  forcing  ..  21/-  per  100 
Extra  strong  for  forcing  ..  14/-  to  18/-  per  100 
Strong  planting  ..  ..  7/6  to  10/6  per  100 
LILYWHITE,  extra  strong  for  forcing, 
18/-  to  25/-  per  100 
LILY-WHITE,  strong  planting. 
10/-  to  12/6  per  100 
ASPARAGUS. 
Extra  strong  for  forcing  . .  12/6  to  20/-  per  100 
DICKSONS  Nurseries  CHESTER 
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NORMAN  DAVIS’S 
Selected  List  of  all  the  finest  Novelties  for  1902, 
Culled  from  all  the  Leading  Raisers ,  with  reliable 
descriptions.  Post  Free. 
THE  CHRYSANTHEMUM  NURSERIES, 
FRAMFIELD,  UCKFIEL0,  SUSSEX. 
DICKSONS  (Chester)  CATALOGUE 
No. 
557, 
-  1902, 
Of  SELECT  VEGETABLE  AND  FLOWER  SEEDS,  SEED 
POTATOES,  GARDEN  TOOLS,  and  SUNDRIES 
Is  NOW  READY,  and  can  be  had  post  free  on  application. 
Royal  Seed  Warehouse,  CHESTER. 
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Wm.  CUTBUSH  &  SON’S 
Stock  of  TREES,  SHRUBS,  ROSES,  FRUIT 
TREES,  &c.,  is  in  a  grand  condition  and  worthy 
of  the  attention  of  intending  planters. 
CATALOGUES  post  free  on  application. 
Highgate  Nurseries,  London,  N. 
AND  BARNET.  Herts. 
|  FOR  PLEASURE  AND  PROFiT 
Nothin?  so  profitable  and 
easy  to  grow. 
8o  /cu'  of  Saleable  Trees. 
CIS 
THE  BEST  I  RGCUHABLE. 
Lists  Free. 
HUNDREDS  ofTNOUSANDS. 
Bushes  in  variety.  Packing  and 
i  Carriage  bee  for  Cash  with  order, 
b/-  per  rioz.,  i,  (>/-  per  ICO. 
4  U  other  Aicse'y  S  tock 
carri  pe  Ju>  a  ard. 
SOSESinPOTS  Prcm  ! 5/-  a  doz. 
I“l  Ornamental  Trees,  01  Acrec, 
A  Superb  Collection  of 
Herbaceous  Plants, 
Four  Acres  of  Class. 
Clrn  atis  ECX CClfrom  15  -doz. 
A  -  ,s  inpie  Plants  are  sold  at 
slight Iv  increased  f  rices. 
CL&LTAL  CATAtCClE 
L  ( N  early  V  0  page**.' o'  >'urs<  rv  S  oex, 
arfiatirnlly  produced  containing 
aome  hundreds  of  illustrations, 
and  full  of  valunb)'*  information, 
freo  on  receipt  of  ^  .  for  postage. 
Ploase  mention  this  Paper. 
I  RICHARD  SMITH  &C°.  WORCESTER 
ASPARAGUS  FOR  FORCING. 
Five  year  old  roots  . .  . .  . .  12/6  per  100. 
Six  year  old,  extra  fine,  selected  ..  20/-  per  100. 
Cash  with  order  from  new  customers. 
My  Asparagus  always  makes  top  prices  at  Covent  Garden, 
and  the  Forcing  Roots  I  send  out  always  give  the  greatest 
satisfaction.  —  J.  J.  CLARK,  Market  Gardener, 
Goldstone  Farm,  Hove,  Brighton. 
JOHN  IATERER  &  SONS, 
AMERICAN  NURSERY,  Ltl'’ 
BAGSHOT,  SURREY. 
Beg  to  call  attention  to  their  magnificent  stock  Of 
HARDY  RHODODENDRONS,  AZALEAS, 
CONIFERS, 
EVERGREENS,  DECIDUOUS  TREES,  Ac. 
W  Intending  Planters  would  do  well  to 
Inspect  the  Nurseries. 
CATALOGUES  ON  APPLICATION 
Journal  of  Ijiidbittliui; 
THURSDAY,  DECEMBER  19,  1901. 
Irish  Bulb  Culture. 
enormous  quantities,  and 
the  high  values  of  choice  bulbs 
that  may  be  grown  on  an  acre 
of  good  and  suitable  land  is 
astonishing,  and  somewhat  of 
revelation  to  those  not  well 
versed  in  intensive  land  culture. 
Thus  an  imperial  acre  holds  250,906 
roots  or  bulbs  at  5in.  apart.  In  order 
to  facilitate  the  working,  &c.,  paths  or  alleys 
are,  of  course,  necessary,  as  well  as  the  bulbs, 
and  so  we  will  say  200,000  bulbs  go  to  the  acre. 
It  is  a  common — or,  rather,  let  us  say  an 
abundant — flower  root  that  is  not  worth  a 
penny,  but  many  of  the  choicest  kinds,  as 
grown  at  Rush,  are  worth  from  Is.  to  a 
much  as  £5  a  root,  and  if  you  want  to  grow 
some  of  the  finest  of  Mr.  Engleheart’s  new 
seedling  Daffodils  much  more  must  be  paid. 
You  can  have,  for  example,  a  bulb  of  the 
variety  called  Albatross,  with  its  wiDg-spread 
petals  of  snowy  whiteness,  for  £4 ;  and  Golden 
Bell,  a  giant  trumpet  Daffodil,  for  a  guinea. 
Monarch,  another  fine  sort,  is  priced  at  twelve 
guineas  :  as  is  also  the  rare  and  beauti 
Eucharis  Lily-like  flower  called  Maggie  May 
Una,  an  ivory  white  (without  the  lion),  may 
be  had  at  two  guineas,  and  a  root  of  the  big 
and  beautiful  Weardale  Perfection  is  worth 
nine  guineas.  Then,  even  if  you  purchase  a 
these,  you  are,  so  to  speak,  only  in  the  second 
row,  for  there  are  Narcissi,  both  rich  and 
rare,  such  as  Ellen  Willmott,  Peter  Barr, 
Robert  Berkeley,  Earl  Russell,  Countess 
Russell,  Lady  Margaret  Boscawen,  and  many 
others  that  at  present  no  money  can  buy,  so 
proud  of  them  are  their  raisers  or  owners. 
It  is  startling  to  think  what  an  acre,  or 
even  a  pole  or  perch,  of  such  kinds  as  Maggie 
May,  Ellen  Willmott,  or  Peter  Barr  would  be 
worth  to  a  successful  cultivator.  “Ah,  sure,” 
said  a  man  of  the  sea  to  me  one  day  at  Rush, 
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, 
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