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BARRS’."  DAFFODILS 
GOLD 
MEDAL 
Have  received  Twelve  Highest  Awards,  1902,  including 
TWO  GrOX.0  ME13ALS 
Descriptive  Catalogue  of  all  the  finest  sorts  in  cultivation 
free. 
BARRS’  =r,  TULIPS 
Have  received  FIYE  GOLD  MEDALS  from  the  Royal 
National  Tulip  Society;  SILVER  CUPS  at  the  Great 
Temple  Flower  Shows,  1900  and  1901,  and  GOLD  MEDAL 
1902. 
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 
LOSTDOIV. 
CARNATIONS,  PICOTEES, 
and  PINKS. 
CATALOGUE  of  all  the  Best  for  Exhibition  or 
Border,  post  free. 
Carnations,  5/-.  6/-,  and  7/6  per  dozen  ;  Laced  Pinks,  3/6 
per  dozen,  mv  selection  ;  Carnation  Seed,  1/6  and  2/6  per 
packet;  Choice  Alpine  Auricula  Seed,  1/6  and  2/6  per 
packet.  All  free  for  Cash. 
T.  LORD,  Carnation  Grower,  TODMORDEN 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS. 
All  the  Leading  Varieties  from  the 
open  ground  and  in  pots. 
Priced  Descriptive  .Circular  Post  Free. 
DICKSONS  Nurseries  CHESTER 
500,000  BULBS. 
Sir  Watkln  ...''Tr.'TT^.'  .  5  -  &  7/6  100 
Horsefeldil  .  5  -  &  6/-  100 
%  Double  Daffodils  .  5  -  &  10  -  1000 
\SJngie  Lent  Lilies  .  3  6  1000. 
\ Trumpet  Narcissus  .  7  6  1000 
'.Qlory  of  Leiden,  extra  choice  flower  1  -  each 
King*  Edward  VII  (new)  1  -  each 
Sweet  Scented  Pheasant  Eye 
V,  5  -  &  7  6  1000 
Snowdrops  ..  5  *  &  7  6  1000 
Mixed  Narcissus  5  -  1000 
Strawberry  Plants  1  -  100. 
SIND  FOR  LISTS  BEFORE  ORDERING  ELSEWHERE. 
ESTABLISHED  1832. 
No  connection  with  any  other  firm  of  a  similar  name 
Successors  to  the  late  BARON  VAN  PALLANDT. 
CELEBRATED 
HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS. 
AND  ALL  0TI1ER 
DUTCH,  CAPE,  AND  EXOTIC 
BULBS  &  PLANTS 
Our  Descriptive  CATALOGUE  of  file  above,  containing 
Full  Cultural  Directions  and  particulars  as  to 
Free  Delivery,  will  te  sent  post  free  on  application 
to  our  Offices  at  Oveuvken,  IIaaklem,  Holland, 
or  to  our  General  Agents — 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3,  CROSS  LANE,  LONDON,  E.C. 
NEW 
SGHIZANTHUS  WISETONENSIS, 
HUGH  LOW  &  CO. 
ARE  NOW  BOOKING  OKDFRS  FOR  Tills  CHARMING  NOVELTY. 
Iii  Packets,  1/6  and  2/6  each. 
Bush  Hill  Park  Nursery,  Middlesex. 
Cross  &  Son, Da,,od" 
Nurseries. 
Wisbech. 
DUTCH  BULBS 
FRENCH  BULBS !  and  ENGLISH  BULBS ! 
SEE  OUR  SPECIAL  CATALOGUE  OF  BULBS 
Containing  List  of  all  the  Best  Vaiieties  of  HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS,  CROCUS.  LTL1UMS,  DAFFODILS,  SNOW¬ 
DROPS,  IRIS,  PALONIES,&c.,free  on  application.  Please 
compare  our  prices  before  sending  your  orders  abroad. 
WATKINS  &  SIMPSON, 
Seed  and  Bulb  Merchants, 
12,  TAVISTOCK  ST.,  COYENT  GARDEN,  LONDON,  W.C 
JaurLii<tl  of  Jjortqutture. 
THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER  25,  1902, 
Some  Shattered  Idols. 
— 
jOT  only  from  a  horticultural 
standpoint,  but  an  agricultural, 
commercial,  and  domestic  one, 
there  has  been  many,  and,  in 
some  instances,  grievous  shat¬ 
tering  of  the  idols  set  up  in  the 
minds  of  thousands,  nay,  millions 
of  British  minds  this  year,  that  to 
which  particular  and  special  thoughts 
are  turned  being  the  Coronation  collapse  on 
the  great  and  memorable  day  of  June  last. 
Though  in  the  great  commercial  world  every 
unit  suffered  a  proportionate  loss,  that 
affecting  horticulture  was  an  immeasurable 
one,  for  vast  preparations  were  made  by  the 
forced  advance  on  the  one  hand,  and  the 
retarded  effort  on  the  other,  all  culminating 
in  wholesale  loss,  because  so  much  of  the 
gardeners’  produce  is  of  perishable  nature, 
and  so  entirely  opposed  to  other  wares  that 
may  he  stored  for  future  contingencies.  The 
great  flower  and  fruit  emporiums  around 
London,  and  many  hundreds  scattered  over 
the  whole  kingdom,  were  all  bent  on  providing 
for  the  great  Coronation  festival,  and  all  had 
hopes  of  reaping  a  reward  for  labour  pro¬ 
portionate  to  the  investment  indulged  in  ; 
but  to  what  extent  was  the  shattering  of  the 
idols  and  the  hopes  of  individuals  is  known? 
probably,  best  only  to  the  unit  severally  of 
the  great  mass  of  providers. 
These  thoughts,  though  of  the  now  remote 
past,  st  ill  run  concurrent  with  those  of  the 
present  time,  for  if  the  Coronation  collapse 
was  the  only  failing  of  the  season  it  might 
sooner  have  been  forgotten.  Such,  however, 
is  not  the  case,  for  as  the  weeks  and  months 
have  come  and  gone,  dating  from  the  early  days 
of  the  year,  there  has  been  a  much  greater 
preponderance  of  ills  than  triumphs.  The 
market  and  flower  show  speak  eloquently  in 
this  language  of  disappointment.  In  every 
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  “  THEf  EDITOR,  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  othi* 
address. 
No.  1161. — Yol.  XLV..  Third  Slides; 
