September  6,  1900 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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FIVE  GRAND  DAFFODILS 
Snitable  for  Flower  Beds  and  Borders,  for 
Pot  Culture,  to  grow  for  Cut  Bloom,  or  to 
naturalize  in  Grass,  Woodlands,  &o. 
EMPEROR. — Perianth  deep  primrose,  trumpet  rich  full 
yellow ;  very  large  flower.  Strong  flowering  Bulbs, 
per  1000,  140/- ;  per  100,  15/- ;  per  doz.,  2/-.  Extra  largo 
_  .  per  1000,  190/- ;  per  100,  21/- ;  per  doz  ,  3/-. 
CONSPICUUS. — A  flower  of  great  beauty  and 
refinement,  having  broad  rich  yellow  petals  and  a  .short 
cup  with  a  deep  margin  of  orange-scarlet ;  profuse 
bloomer  and  strong  grower.  Strong  flowering  Bulbs, 
per  1000,  90/- ;  per  100,  10/6  ;  per  doz,  1/6.  Extra  strong 
_T  ®®J®cted  Bulbs,  1000,  120/- ;  per  100,  13/6  ;  per  doz.,  1/9. 
SIR  _WATKIN.  —  Perianth  rich  sulphur,  cup  yellow, 
slightly  tinged  with  orange  ;  very  large  flower.  Strong 
flowering  bulbs,  per  1000,  120/-;  per  100,  13/- :  per  doz., 
1/9.  Extra  strong  selected  Bulbs,  per  1000,  160/- ;  per 
100,  17/6  ;  per  doz,  2/6. 
P.  R.  BARR. — A  handsome  golden-yellow  trumpet  Daffodil 
of  stiff,  sturdy  habit,  very  free  blooming  and  of  refined 
elegant  form.  Strong  flowering  Bulbs,  per  1000,  110/- ;  I 
per  100,  12/6;  per  doz.,  1/9.  Extra  strong  selected 
P®*"  ;  pel’  100.  17/6  ;  per  doz.,  2/6.  I 
®^COLOR  GRANDIS, — Petals  snowy  white,  large  and 
broad,  trumpet  large  and  full  yellow  ;  late  flowering,  j 
Strong  flowering  Bulbs,  per  1000,  120/- ;  per  100,  13/- ;  | 
per  doz.,  1/9.  Extra  strong  selected  Bulbs,  per  1000,  * 
190/- ;  per  100,  21/- ;  per  doz.,  3/-.  I 
BARR’S  DAFFODIL  CATALOGUE  (Free)  contains 
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bultivation,  including  the  Latest  Novelties  of  1900. 
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ROMAN  HYACINTHS,  If  and  upwards,  12/6  per  100 
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•  READING-  (Name  Paper.) 
Nectarines  in  the  Open. 
Y  that  apparently  vague  title  is 
meant  the  growing  and  ripening  of 
Nectarines  in  the  open  air  without 
the  aid  of  walls.  If  this  can  be 
done,  as  probably  it  can  he,  over 
a  large  extent  of  country  in  the 
majority  of  seasons,  then  a  great  and 
^  ^  important  step  in  advance  will  have  to  be 
registered  in  the  popularity  and  widely 
extended  culture  of  this  choice,  beautiful,  and 
delicious  hardy  fruit. 
Should  it  happily  come  to  piss  that  Nectarines  of 
the  first  size,  colour,  and  quality  can  be  grown  on 
espalier,  bush,  and  standard  trees,  in  the  same 
manner  as  Plums,  and  with  the  same  degree  of 
certainty  as  most  of  the  varieties  of  these  familiar 
fruits,  what  will  be  the  result  ?  Clearly  that 
where  one  owner  of  a  garden  that  is  favoured  with 
a  “  south  wall  ”  can  grow  his  own  Nectarines,  a 
hundred  at  least  other  owners  of  gardens,  who 
have  no  such  walls,  can  have  a  supply  of  rich, 
sprightly,  and  luscious  fruits. 
A  proposition  of  that  kind,  if  it  bad  been  made 
twenty  years  ago,  would  have  been  regarded  as  of  the 
nature  of  a  wild  drtam.  At  that  period  there  were 
not  wanting  gardeners  who  were  fully  impressed 
with  the  idea  that  the  seasons  had  changed  so 
much  that  Peaches  and  Nectarines  could  no  longer 
be  grown  in  the  time-honoured  method  against 
open  walls,  but  only  under  glass,  and  with  the  aid 
of  artificial  heat.  In  positions  where  these  fruits 
failed,  where  they  h.ad  in  the  old  times  succeeded, 
the  failures  were  not  the  effect  of  changed^spasons, 
hut  of  changed  methods.  Moreover,  this  can  be 
said  without  any  general  reflection  on  the 
capacities  of  gardeners — a  fact  that  is  sometimes 
forgotten.  It  is  the  result  mainly  of  the  enormously 
greater  demands  in  various  other  ways — largely 
decorative — that  in  the  course  of  time  becdOie 
common  in  connection  with  gardens,  and  in  which, 
in  nineteen  c  ses  out  of  twenty,  no  extra  labour 
was  allowed,  but  more  often  restricted.  Under 
such  circumstances  something  had  perforce  to  be 
During  FIFTY-TWO  YEARS  the  "  JOURNAL  OF 
HORTICULTURE"  has  been  written  by  Gardeners  for 
Gardeners,  and  in  its  principles,  its  practice,  and  its 
price  it  still  remains  the  same.  One  alteration  is  per¬ 
haps,  however,  necessary.  Onr  modern  methods  of 
production  have  rendered  the  price  old-fashioned, 
and  hence  in  order  to  meet  the  wishes  of  the 
present  generation  of  Gardeners  the  “  JOURNAL 
OF  HORTICULTURE"  will  hereafter  be  sold  for 
TWOPENCE  instea^l  of  Threepence. 
•No.  1064. — VoL  XLI.,  Third  Series. 
