December  26,  1901. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDEN  Ell 
575 
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 
LILY  WHITE,  extra  strong  for  forcing, 
18/-  to  25/-  per  100 
LILYWHITE,  strong  planting, 
10/-  to  12/6  per  100 
ASPARAGUS. 
Extra  strong  for  forcing  . .  12/6  to  20/-  per  100 
DICKSONS  Nurseries  CHESTER 
JOHN  iATERER  *  SONS, 
AMERICAN  NURSERY,  Ltd" 
BAGSHOT,  SURREY. 
Beg  to  call  attention  to  their  magnificent  stock  of 
HARDY  RHODODENDRONS,  AZALEAS, 
CONIFERS, 
EVERGREENS,  DECIDUOUS  TREES,  &c. 
W  Intending  Planters  would  do  well  to 
Inspect  the  Nurseries. 
CATALOGUES  ON  APPLICATION 
BULBS  FOB  BEDDING,  k 
Wm.  Cut  bush  &  Son's 
STOCK  IS  IN  SPLENDID  CONDITION. 
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Always  worth  a  visit  of  inspection.  Kindly  send  for  Catalogue. 
NEW  LIST  NOW  READY. 
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Landscape  Gardeners  and  Nurserymen, 
ELVASTON  NURSERIES,  BORROWASH,  DERBY, 
Invite  intending  planters  to  inspect  their  unrivalled 
STOCK  of  ORNAMENTAL  &  FOREST  TREES, 
RHODODENDRONS,  ROSES  &  FRUIT  TREES. 
Send  for  Catalogues  and  List  of  Public  and  Private  Works 
carried  out  by  them. 
FORBES’  aSi%?  BEGONIA 
“CALEDONIA 
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(A  Pure  White  Variety  of  “ Gloire  de  Lorraine"). 
2/6,  3/6,  and  5/-  each. 
24/-,  36/-,  and  50/-  per  doz. 
PRICE  | 
For  all  particulars  regarding  this  surpassingly  GRAND 
STERLING  NOVELTY,  apply  to— 
JOHN  FORBES,  Nurseryman,  HAWICK,  SCOTLAND. 
No.  1122.— Vol.  XLI1I.,  Third  Series. 
CLIBRANS 
TREES  AND  SHRUBS. 
'M'OTHING  enhances  the  beauty  or  effectiveness  of 
the  garden  so  much  as  a  well  selected  and 
judiciously  planted  collection  of  Trees  and  Shrubs. 
The  collections  enumerated  below  have  been  framed 
so  as  to  include  the  most  effective  (from  an  orna¬ 
mental  point  of  view)  varieties  of  Trees  and  Shrubs. 
Inspection  invited. 
PRICES  ARE  FOR  OUR  SELECTION  ONLY. 
Special  Collections  of 
DECIDUOUS  &  FLOWERING  TREES 
12  Fine  distinct  kinds  .  12/-,  larger  18/- 
50  Fine  Trees  in  25  distinct  sorts  ...  40/-,  larger  50/- 
6  Lovely  and  distinct  Weeping  Trees  9/-,  larger  15/- 
9  Lovely  and  distinct  Weeping  Trees  12/6  larger  18/6 
Special  Collections  of 
ORNAMENTAL  SHRUBS. 
6  Pretty  and  distinct  Evergreen  Shrubs,  in  6  sorts, 
4/6,  6/-,  9/-,  or  12/- 
12  Pretty  and  distinct  Evergreen  Shrubs,  in  12  sorts, 
9/-,  12/-,  18/-,  or  24/- 
50  Pretty  and  distinct  Evergreen  Shrubs,  in  25  sorts, 
42/-,  63/-,  84/-,  or  100/- 
6  Distinct  and  lovely  Deciduous  Flowering  Shrubs  in 
6  sorts  .  3/-,  6/-,  9/-,  or  12/- 
12  Distinct  and  lovely  Deciduous  Flowering  Shrubs, 
in  12  sorts  . 6/-,  9/-,  12/-,  18/-,  or  24/- 
50  Distinct  and  lovely  Deciduous  Flowering  Shrubs, 
in  25  or  50  sorts  .  21/-,  31/6,  42/-,  or  63/- 
100  Flowering  Deciduous  ShrubS)  in  25  to  50  sorts, 
42/-,  63/-,  84/-,  or  100/ 
TREES,  SHRUBS,  CONIFERS, 
ROSES  and  FRUITS, 
in  every  variety  are  fully  described  in 
OUR  TREE  AND  SHRUB  LIST, 
together  with  full  cultural  details,  sizes,  prices,  and 
other  information, 
GRATIS  AND  POST  FREE. 
ALTRINCHAM  i  MANCHESTER. 
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. 
Dicksons 
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Royal  Seed  Warehouses 
C  H EST  E R . 
Journal  4  dort^ultuiiK, 
THURSDAY,  DECEMBER  26,  1901. 
Price  2/6  ;  Post  Free,  2/7$. 
The  PINE  APPLE  MANUAL 
By  Contributors  to  the  “  Journal  of  Horticulture ." 
ILLUSTRATED  WITH  ENGRAVINGS. 
Being  a  Guide  to  the  Successful  Cultivation  of  that  Fruit 
and  to  the  Construction  and  Management  of  the  Pinery. 
fouBNAL  of  Horticulture  Office,  12,  Mitre  Court 
Chambers,  Fleet  Street,  E.C. 
Reading, 
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may  safely  be  hazarded  as  a 
a?*  proposition  needing  not  to  be 
proved  that  we  are  a  reading 
people,  the  comparatively  few 
who  do  not  read  being  the 
proverbial  exception  found  in 
£2^  cases  of  every  kind.  Gardeners 
<5?  of  the  old  school  took  to  reading,  or  at 
\  least  were  said  to  do  so,  as  to  something 
inherent  to  the  proper  carrying  out  of  their 
calling,  and  for  a  very  long  period  the 
peripatetic  reader  of  literature  in  “numbers” 
found  his  chief  supporters  in  the  garden 
bothies,  which  were  never  passed  on  his 
periodic  journeys. 
It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  stock 
works,  bought  conscientiously  by  succeeding 
batches  of  young  men,  were  not  always  so 
up-to-date  as  the  prices  charged  might  have 
led  one  to  expect.  I  have  still  some  examples 
by  me — monuments  at  once  of  the  desire  for 
mental  food  in  these  bygone  days,  and  of  the 
ignorance  of  the  purchaser  in  disbursing 
hard-won  shillings  on  effete  literature.  JBut 
it  is  fair  to  say  that  it  was  not  all  of  that 
nature,  and  some  books,  not  easy  to  buy 
to-day,  remain  to  lessen  one’s  regrets  over 
other  less  valuable  bargains.  I  am  not  sure 
but  the  very  fact  of  having  to  pay  so  much 
for  every  book  one  added  to  the  little  collec¬ 
tion  enhanced  its  value  in  one’s  eyes,  and 
made  the  reading  and  digestion  of  the 
contents  more  a  matter  of  duty  than  the 
omniferous  reader  of  to-day  ever  feels  in 
his  experience.  This  leads  me  to  the  point 
I  want  to  specially  emphasize— which  is,  that 
much  of  the  literature  current  to-day,  and 
that  most  largely  read,  is  not  only  of  no 
value  to  the  reader,  but  may  actually  be 
hurtful  to  him.  The  amount  of  perishable 
material  at  the  disposal  of  the  botheyite  less 
than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  could  hardly 
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  oth 
address. 
