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September  4,  1902. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
213 
BARRS'.'",::;  DAFFODILS 
GOLD 
MEDAL 
Have  received  Twelve  Highest  Awards,  1902,  including 
GrOL 
Descriptive  Catalogue  of  all  the  finest  sorts  in  cultivation 
free. 
BARRS’  TULIPS 
Have  received  FIVE  GOLD  MEDALS  from  the  Royal 
National  Tulip  Society:  SILYER  CUPS  at  the  (Treat 
Temple  Flower  Shows,  1900  and  ltd,  and  GOLD  MEDAL 
190?. 
Descriptive  Catalogue  of  the  finest  kinds  for  pot  culture 
and  for  forcing,  and  for  beds  and  borders  outdoors,  free. 
BARRS’  HYACINTHS. 
THE  FINEST  SELECTED  BULBS  for  the  green 
house,  sitting  room,  or  exhibition,  and  specially  selected 
varieties  for  bedding. 
Descriptive  Catalogue  Free. 
BARR  &  SONS, 
11, 12,  &  13,  King  Street,  Covent  Garden 
■ONDOST. 
CARNATIONS. 
THE  POPULAR  FLOWER. 
The  undernoted  are  two  exceptionally  tine  new  vat  it  ties, 
suitable  either  for  pots  or  outside. 
SIR  R.  WALDIE -GRIFFITH. — A  striking 
m  velty  of  a  perfectly  unique  shade  of  colour,  being  a 
rich  orange-scarlet,  with  a  sheen  of  amber ;  Glove- 
scented.  Several  Certificates.’  Per  dozen,  40/-. 
DUCHESS  OF  ROXBURGHE  — Primrose 
ground,  striped  with  a  lovely  shade  of  terra-cotta  and 
heliotrope.  Several  Certificates.  Per  dozen,  18/-. 
MALMAISONS,  and  many  other  varieties. 
Full  Descriptive  Priced  Catalogue  Free  on  applice.tion. 
LAING  &  MATHER, 
KELSO,  SCOTLAND. 
GOLD  MEDAL  COLLECTION  I 
Four  Gold  Medals  and  Four  First  Prizes  in  1901. 
THE  BEST  COLLECTION.  SEE  OUR  CATALOGUE. 
B.  R.  DAVIS  &  SONS, 
Veovil  Nurseries,  YEOVIL,  SOMERSET. 
DUTCH  BULBS 
FRENCH  BULBS !  and  ENGLISH  BULBS ! 
SEE  OUR  SPECIAL  CATALOGUE  OF. BULBS 
Containing  List  of  all  the  Bpst  Vatieties  of  HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS,  CROCUS,  LILIUMS,  DAFFODILS,  SNOW¬ 
DROPS,  IRIS,  PyEONIES,  &c.,  free  on  application.  Please 
compare  our  prices  before  sending  your  orders  abroad. 
WATKINS  &  SIMPSON, 
Seed  and  Bulb  Merchants, 
12,  TAVISTOCK  ST.,  COYENT  GARDEN,  LONDCN,  W.C. 
No.  1158.— Yol.  XLV.,  Third  Series 
NOW  READY. 
SEND  FOR  COPIES. 
CLIBRANS 
BULB  LIST. 
The  Choicest  HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS. 
NARCISSUS,  &c. 
CLIBRANS 
CARNATION  LIST 
The  Choicest  CARNATIONS, 
PINKS, 
PANSIES, 
VIOLAS,  &c, 
COPIES  GRATIS  AND  POST  FREE. 
ALTRINCHAM  &  MANCHESTER 
SCHIZANTHUS  WISETONENSIS/™ 
HUGH  LOW  &  CO. 
ARE  NOW  BOOKING  ORDERS  FOR  THIS  CHARMING  NOVELTY. 
In  Packets,  1/6  and  2/6  each. 
Bush  Hill  Park  Nursery,  Middlesex. 
EXTENSIVE  COLLECTIONS  OF 
HYACINTHS,  TULIPS, 
NARCISSI,  LILIES, 
SNOWDROPS, 
CROCUSES,  ^  ^ 
SCILLAS, 
&c. 
All 
best  qualities 
and  at  most 
moderate  rates. 
Delivered  Free  by  Rail 
or  Parcel  Post. 
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Descriptive  Catalogue  No.  563 
post  free  on  application. 
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Bulb 
Growers 
Chester. 
CROTONS,  beautifully  coloured,  in  finest 
varieties,  in  48’s,  18/-  and  21/-  per  dozen.  KENTIA 
PALMS,  in  4S’s,  good,  2/- ;  21/-  per  dozen. 
J.  LION,  Nurseryman,  Stanmore,  Middlesex. 
WANTED  to  Purchase,  200,000  MOLE  SKINS 
—Address,  C.  DROBIG.  Manufacturing  Furrier, 
9,  Argyle  Street,  Regent  Street,  London,  W. 
TARPAULIN. — I  have  a  great  quantity  of  large 
pieces  of  Tarpaulin,  some  new,  but  all  of  the  best 
Navy  Canvas,  purchased  from  Government,  useful  for  covers 
for  carts,  waggons,  and  machinery,  at  25/-  per  cwt. ;  lot 
suitable  for  covers  for  buildings,  at  12/-  per  cwt. ;  cash 
returned  if  not  approved  of. — H.  J.  GASSON,  Government 
Contractor,  Rye. 
PURE  WOOD  CHARCOAL,  Specially  Prepared 
for  Horticultural  use.  Extract  from  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture  :  “  Charcoal  is  invaluable  as  a  manurial  agent ; 
each  little  piece  is  a  pantry  full  of  the  good  things  of  this 
life.  There  is  no  cultivated  plant  which  is  not  benefited  by 
having  Charcoal  applied  to  the  soil  in  which  it  is  rooted.” 
Apply  for  Pamphlet  and  prices  to  the  Manufacturers — 
HIRST,  BROOKE  &  HIRST,  Ltd.  Leeds. 
Jmtptl  of  V)urtiL*uItm[P. 
THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER  4,  1902. 
Rural  Pursuits. 
ND  the  Lord  God  planted  a  gar¬ 
den  eastward  in  Eden,  and 
there  He  put  the  man  whom  He 
had  formed.  The  above  pas¬ 
sage  from  Holy  Writ  carries 
our  minds  backward  for  almost 
6000  years  to  the  first  record  of  a 
garden — a  garden  in  which  the  inmates 
had  no  need  to  toil  in  order  to  reap  an 
abundant  harvest.  Then  came  the  Fall ;  and 
henceforth  it  was  decreed  that  “  thorns  and 
thistles  should  spring  up,”  and  that  man 
should  “eat  bread  by  the  sweat  of  his  brow.” 
In  those  far-away  days,  which  may  be  termed 
the  “babyhood”  of  the  earth,  rural  pursuits 
formed  for  a  time  the  only  occupation  of  the 
sons  of  men  ;  and  it  would  be  difficult  to 
conceive  more  congenial  employment  when 
individual  wants  were  few,  and  competition 
scarcely  in  existence. 
After  a  time  cities  sprang  up,  and  division 
of  labour  must  to  some  extent  have  been, 
practised  ;  and  from  that  time  till  now  there 
seems  to  have  been  a  gradually  increasing 
tendency  for  the  population  to  build  and  live 
in  towns,  rather  than  to  distribute  themselves 
more  evenly  over  the  surface  of  the  earth. 
Science  and  art,  as  applied  to  manufactures, 
claimed  more  and  more  attention  as  time 
passed  on,  until  at  length,  among  highly 
civilised  communities,  the  ancient  arts  of 
gardening  and  farming,  if  not  neglected 
entirely,’ seem  to  have  progressed  much  more 
slowly  than  occupations  of  infinitely  more 
recent  origin.  That  there  is  room  for  vast 
improvements  in  our  methods  of  conducting 
many  rural  pursuits  cannot,  I  think,  be 
denied;  and  now  that  the  “emptiness”  of 
city  life  seems  to  become  so  apparent 
to  town  dwellers  in  the  second  and  third 
generation,  “the  awakening,”  which  has 
already  begun,  may  become  so  strong  a 
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. 
