May  5, 1904. 
JOURNAI,  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER, 
377 
m^NEW  ISSUE 
GOLt>j  MEDAL. 
DAHLIAS 
NOVELTIES  FOR  1901. 
Our  Extra  Special  Collection  of  1 2  Choice  Cactus 
Varieties,  Post  Free,  4  6. 
Decorative,  Poiiiiones,  Single,  .‘■inglj  Cactus,  S!  ow, 
F  nc} ,  anil  Dwarf  Bsclileis. 
The  best  in  each  section,  all  strong  plants  true  to  name. 
BEGONIAS 
GOLD  MEDAL. 
SINGLE,  Mixed,  2/6  1  er  doz.,  18/-  100;  Separate 
Co'.our',  4/-  per  doz.,  2i/- 10 
Double,  Mixed,  3/6  per  doz  ,  25/-  100  ;  Separate 
Co'ours,  6/-  per  doz.,  35/-  100. 
NICE  PLANTS  ESTABLISHED  IN  POTS. 
FOR  SUMMER 
PLANTING. 
Large  quantities,  all  recent  inlrodiKt'ons,  well- 
lardened  p  ants  in  Sin.  po  s,  SPECIAL  VALUE. — 
6  Dwarfs,  H.'l'.  and  T.,  5/  .  6  Climbers,  various,  5/-. 
NEW  WATER  LILIES, 
CANNAS,  and  BEDDING  PLANTS. 
CATALOGUE  free  by  post.  Call  nr  write  fur  it. 
Nurseries : 
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London  Show  Rooms ; 
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THOMAS  S.  WARE  1902) 
Price  2/8  ;  Poet  Free  2/71. 
The  pine  apple  manual 
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R03ES  IN  P0T$ 
For  Forcing  and  General  Pot  Culture, 
For  Filling  up  Gaps  in  Rose  Beds,  and 
For  Making  Naw  Plantations  of  Roses, 
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desire  to  call  attention 
to  their  magnificent 
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ill  good  condition  for  planting  out  during  the 
Spring  and  Summer  months. 
DWARF  PLANTS,  in  6in.  (4S-sizedl  pots,  10/6  to  18,  - 
per  doz. ;  £3  1 5/-  to  £6  per  100. 
,,  ,,  (  xtia  strong,  in  Sin.  (24-sized)  pots, 
30/-  to  42/-  per  doz. ;  £12  to  £15 
per  ICO. 
CLIMBING  KINDS,  in  f.in.  (IS-s'ze.l)  pots,  2  to  4ft. 
shoots,  10/6  to  18/-  per  doz.; 
£3  15/-  to  £6  per  100. 
,,  ,,  <  xtra  strong,  in  Sin.  (M-sized)  pot.s, 
4  to  10ft,  sheotj,  30/-  to  60/-  per 
tbz. ;  £l2to£20  perl00. .  ^  - 
,,  ,,  n  w  kinds,  Dorothy  Perkins, Wal- 
■  ti-cm  Rambler,  and  others,  24  - 
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CLIBRANS 
PLANT  LIST  ™  1904 
IjiVEEY  lover  of  plant.?  or  flowers  should 
A  possess  a  copy.  It  contains  a  complete, 
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THE  CHOICEST,  NEWEST,  AND  BEST 
^  Stove  and  Greenhouse  Plants 
^  Herbaceous  and  Alpine  Plants 
^  Aquatic,  Bog,  and  Marsh  Plants 
^  Dahlias  and  Bedding  Plants 
^  Roses,  Ferns,  Climbers,  &c., 
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FULL  CULTURAL  DIRECTIONS. 
The  whole  extending  to  144  pages,  with  a 
full  Index. 
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ELDORADO  POTATO 
20/-  per  lb. 
must  not  count  your  chickens  before  they 
\  are  hatched,  but  you  may  count  your  eggs,  and 
if  you  get  these  from  a  good  source  and  give  them 
fair  treatment  you  will  get  your  share  of  chicks. 
Therefore,  if  you  want  ELDORADO  POTATO  at 
20/-  (or  less)  per  lb.,  buy  a  plant  from  H.  J.  J.,  who 
guarantees  it  direct  from  Massey’s  stock,  and  abso¬ 
lutely  true.  Treat  the  plant  well,  and  you  will  get 
from'  2  to  Gibs,  of  Potatoes  which  will  be  \vorth  next 
autumn  ,£3  per  lb. 
Good  Plants,  £2  2/-,  sent  free  for  cash  witli  order 
only,  or  6  Plants  for  £10  10/«. 
H.  J.  JONES,  Ryecrolt  Nursery,  LEWISHAM 
Gi  WILLIM’S  BEGONIAS,  Splendid  Strain, 
r  Growing  Plants,  mixed,  0  colours.  Singles  2/6  doz. ; 
Doubles.  4/-  doz.  In  pots,  carriage  forward  ;  not  in  pots, 
post  free.  List  of  higher-priced  varieties,  free. 
A  Li.  GVVILLIM,  Begonia  Specialist,  New  Eliham.  Kent. 
rTSTrvm  dalkeith  and  johnson 
OvA,V/V/vJ  EXUIBITIUN  BRUSSELS  PLANTS, 
autumn  sown,  3/-  lOtO.  _ 
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Begonias.— Testimonials,  repeat  orders,  and 
recommendations  prove  our  stiain  to  be  the  be^t  up 
to  Alate  in  existence.  Tubers  and  Plants.  See  the  “  Best 
Catalogue,”  free.  —  B.  R.  DAVIS  &  SONS,  I  eovil 
Nur  eries,  Yeovil,  Somerset. 
?RUiT  FARMING  FOR  PROFIT.  By 
PAULS’  ROYAL  NURSERIES, 
Waltham  Cross,  Herts. 
No.  124*. -VoL.  XLVIII.,  Third  Seuik?. 
Geobge  Bunyaud,  V.M.H..  E.R.H.S.  A  Practical 
Treatise,  invaluable  to  Fruit  Growers  Containing  chapters 
on  all  the  most  profitable  fruits.  Price  2/9,  post  free.— 
Office  ;  IV.  Mitre  Court  Chambers.  Fleet  street,  e.c. 
Begonias  a  speciality.— Large,  erect- 
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piice  for  caslu  -List  free.-J.  WELLS,  Begonia  Nursery, 
Ryarsh,  Mailing,  Kent. 
PURE  WOOD  CHARCOAL,  Specially  prepared 
for  Horticultural  use.  Extract  from  the  Journal  of 
UorUeuUure;  “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  rooter. 
Apply  for  Pamphlet  and  prices  to  the  Manufacturers — 
HIRST,  BROOKE  &  HIRST.  Ltd.,  I.eeds. 
Joiiijiml  itf 
THURSDAY,  MAY  5,  1904. 
Leaves. 
O  the  popular  mind  the  aspect  of  a 
full  foliaged  tree  suggests  the 
idea  that  it  is  the  function  of 
the  ramifying  fabric  of  trunk, 
branches,  and  twigs  to  produce  the 
leaves  which  bedeck  them ;  whereas 
in.  point  of  fact,  it  is  the  latter 
■which  are  the  builders  both  of  them¬ 
selves  and  the  woody  portions  which  hear 
them,  plus  the  unseen  labyrinth  of  far 
spreading  roots  which  lie  beneath  the  soil,  and 
often  rival  in  extent  the  aerial  branches  above  it. 
It  is  quite  true  that  roots  and  leaves  together 
are  essential  to  the  building  process,  and  that 
their  growth  and  extension  are  correlated ;  but  the 
roots  are  merely  providers  of  more  or  less  raw 
material  for  the  actual  builders  the  leaves- 
which,  drawing  upon  the  supply  of  water,  and  the 
simple  salts  dissolved  in  it,  fashion,  with  the  aid 
of  the  carbonic  acid  gas  absorbed  from  the  air  ajid 
the  all-essential  vital  influence  of  the  sunbeam, 
both  their  own  fabric  and  that  of  all  the  rest  of  the 
tree,  plus  the  chemical  constituents  which  it 
may  contain,  and  the  flowers  and.  fruits  which 
are  its  ultimate  aim  to  perfect. 
A  tree  in  point  of  fact  is  less  an  individual  than 
a  gigantic  communityq  the  leaf  being  the  indi¬ 
vidual  proper ;  a  little  on  the  lines  of  the  coral 
polyp,  in  so  far  that  during  its  existence  it 
adds  its  mite  to  a  more  permanent  growth 
which  long  survives  it. 
We  have  been  careful  to  say  "a  little  on  the 
lines,”  because  there  are  material  differences  in 
other  directions.  The  coral  polyp  simply  builds 
up  its  quota  of  the  edifice  in  situ,  while  the  leaf 
when  its  own  structure  is  complete,  fashions 
through  its  chlorophyll,  and  the  action  of  the 
sunbeam  thereupon,  a  contribution  of  sap  to  the 
general  fund  as  it  were,  and  with  this  prepared 
material  a  myriad  busy  cells  beneath  the  bark  of 
trunk  and  branch,  build  up  the  annual  ring  of 
wood  and  so  strengthen  the  fabric  more  and 
more  as  its  branches  extend  abroad  and  exercise 
a  greater  strain. 
In  vegetation  below  the  rank  of  trees,  i.e.  devoid 
of  obvious  trunks  and  branches,  we  have 
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