June  9, 1901. 
journaTj  of  horticulture  and  cottage  gardener. 
485 
f  NEW  ROSES. 
i  Win.  Paul  &  Son’s 
ri 
NEW  ROSES  FOR  1904. 
COUNTESS  CAIRNS 
EARL  OF  WARWICK  (H. 
(H.T. )  1  Plants  in  Pols,  now 
'  '  j  ready, 
(H.T.)(  7  6  each. 
) 
I  The  .set  of  four 
S  vari< 
arieties,  one  plant 
of  each,  for 
28— 
IRENE  (H.T.) 
iRS.  ALFRED  BYASS 
(Decorative  Tea'. 
Also  a  Large  Collection  of  New  British,  Con¬ 
tinental,  and  American  New  Roses  of  1903  and 
1904,  21/-  to  42/-  per  dozen.  For  names  and 
<lescriptions  see  Descriptive  Catalogue,  post  free 
on  application. 
ROSES  IN  POTS 
(General  Collection). 
Many  thousands  of  Dwarf  and  Climbing  Roses 
are  always  kept  in  stock  for  planting  during  the 
summer  months  and  for  general  pot  culture. 
These  can  be  supplied 
In  5-inch  pots,  1  0/6  to  1 8/-  per  dozen, 
75/-  to  £6  per  100. 
In  8-inch  pots,  30/-  to  42/-  per  dozen, 
£12  to  dEI  5  per  100. 
Sole  Postal  Addness— 
WM.  PAUL  &  SON, 
Waltham  Cross^  Herts, 
By  Special 
Appointment 
Isis' 
■te  Hayward'S,, 
“EUREKA” 
WEED  KILLER, 
WEED  O 
FUMIGATORS, 
^  INSECTICIDE. 
Ask  your  Dealer.  Write  for  List. 
^TOMLINSON  &  HAYWARD,  Ltd.,  LINCOLN. 
SeCHIDS-ORCHIDS 
QUANTITY  IMMENSE. 
to  His  Majesty  Inspection  of  our  Range  of  Houses 
The  King.  Is  cordially  invited  by 
HUCH  LOW  &  CO., 
BVY  THE  BEST  BULBS 
The  World  can  produce  from 
W.  MAUGER  &  SONS, 
Snookdale  Nurseries,  GUERNSEY,  ENGLAND 
Our  Specialities  are— ANEMONES,  DAFFODILS,  IXIAS, 
FREESIAS,  TULIPS,  &c.  Lists  on  application. 
FERNS  SPECIALITY 
"'e  have  an  unrivalled  Collection  of  Stove,  Greenhouse, 
Filmy,  Hardy  Exotic,  and  British  Ferns. 
Catalogue  of  about  1,U00  kinds  free  on  application. 
Illustrated  Catalogue  containing  170  illustrations  2/-. 
J.  &  W.  BIRKENHEAD,  F.R.H.S., 
Fern  Nurseries,  SALE,  near  Manchester. 
Bedding  PlantZ^ 
Extensive  &  excellent  stock  of  strong^ 
well-ripened  Plants  of  all  leading:  varie¬ 
ties,  ready  for  immediate  planting:. 
PRICES  VERY  MODERATE. 
Dicksons 
Catalogue  Post  Free. 
Nurseries 
ies  Chester 
HARDY  WATER  LILIES. 
and  other  AQUATIC  PLANTS. 
T  ARGE  STOCK  of  all  the  Newest  or  Rarest  Varieties, 
delivered  by  Parcel  Post  duiing  all  the  Spring  and 
Sunom  r.  I, owest  prices. 
B.  LATOUR  MARLIAC,  NURSERYMAN, 
TEMPLE-SUR-LOT  (LOT  &  GARONNE),  PRANCE. 
C-.talogue  free  on  application. 
TN  VIEW  OF  COMING  SEASON, 
JL  f ommunications  invited  from  neighbourhoods  in 
which  MUSHROOMS  grow  freely. — Address,  “.J.,”  Box 
930,  Smiths’  Advertising  Agency,  100,  ileet  Street, 
London,  E.C. 
rpo  CLEAR  STOCK.— DAHLIAS,  CACTUS 
T  and  POMS,  named,  strong,  from  pot<,  with  soil,  2/- 
duz  ;  GERANIUMS,  named,  from  pots,  Zonals,  Ivjs  and 
Col.,  1/9  doz,  free. — T.  SUTCLIFFE,  F.R.H.S.,  Burscough 
Bridge.  Lancs. 
Begonias  a  speciality.— Large,  erect- 
flowering  Singles,  for  bedding,  2/6,  3/-  dozen ;  18/-. 
20/-  100.  Doubles  same  price  for  cash.  List  free. — JOHN 
WELLS,  Begonia  Nursery,  Ryarsh,  Mailing,  Kent. 
PRIMULAS!  PRIMULAS!  PRIMULAS! 
34th  Year  of  Distribution. 
Williams’s  and  all  the  best  strains  of  sinensis  fimbriata, 
also  obconica  grandiflora,  grandiflora  alba  and  stellata. 
CINERARIA,  finest  strain  and  stellata,  1/6  per  dozen,  10/- 
100.  Double  White  Primula.s,  6d.  each.  Carriage  and 
Package  Free  for  Cash  with  Order. 
.JOHN  STEVENS,  The  Nurseries,  COVENTRY. 
BLACKMORE  &  LANGDON’S  BEGONIAS. 
Awarded  6  Gold  Medals,  1903.  List  Free.  Seed, 
double,  2/6  and  6/-  per  packet;  single,  1/-,  2/6  and  6/-.— 
Twerton  Hill  Nursery,  Bath. 
GWILLIM’S  begonias.  Splendid  Strain, 
Growing  Plants,  mixed,  6  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.  GWILLIM,  Begonia  Specialist,  New  Eltham,  Kent. 
1  SPRING  SOWN  PLANTS 
JL  \_y  vy  $  vy  .Eidler’s  Early  Eclipse  Cabbage, 
3/-  per  1000  ;  Drumhead  Savoy,  3/- ;  Sutton’s  Giant  Drum¬ 
head  Cabbage,  3'-;  Dalkeith  Brussels,  3/-;  Johnson’s 
Exhibition  Brussels,  3/-;  Early  Eclipse  Cauliflower,  4'-; 
Ear'.y  Erfurt,  4/6;  V.A.G.  Cauliflower,  3/6.  1000  of  the 
above  sorts,  mixed,  packed  and  carriage  paid  on  receipt 
of  6/-  Postal  Order. 
W.  HORNE  &  SONS,  Cliffe,  Rochester,  Kent. 
Begonias. — Testimonials,  repeat  orders,  and 
recommendations  prove  our  strain  to  be  the  best  up 
to  date  in  existence.  Tubers  and  Flants.  See  the  “Best 
Catalogue,”  free.  —  B.  R.  DAVIS  &  SONS,  Yeovil 
Nurseries,  Yeovil,  Somerset. 
DEFA'  the  birds.— rotless,  tanned 
NETTING,  as  supplied  by  us  to  the  Royal  Gardens, 
lOSyds.  by  1yd.  wide,  4/-.  Any  length  and  width  supplied. 
K.  B.  hawthorn  and  CO.,  I.ondon  Works,  READING. 
Notice. — Don’t  stake  your  Carnations  till 
you  have  seen  the  PATENT  IMPROVED  COIL 
S  LAKE.  No  tying  required  ;  stakes  last  a  lifetime.  The 
greatest  boon  ever  offered  to  growers.  Only  wants  seeing. 
7/6  per  100  ;  sample  dozen,  1/-.  Carriage  Paid.  Cash  with 
order. — A  PORTER.  Stone  House.  Maidstone 
PROTECT  YOUR  FRUIT.— TANNED 
GARDEN  NETTING,  25  by  8  yards,  50  by  4  yards, 
100  by  2  yards,  8/-  each.  Prompt  delivery.  Only  best 
quality  supplied.— L.  WREN  &  SONS,  Net  Merchants, 
139.  High  Street,  Lowestoft. _ 
PURE  WOOD  CHARCOAL,  Specially  prepared 
for  Horticultural  use.  Extract  from  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture:  “Charcoal  is  invaluableas  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.,  I.eeds. 
Jfluniiiil  (if 
THURSDAY,  JUNE  9,  1904. 
The  Temple  Show. 
E  SPITE  the  very  unpropitious 
weather,  the  great  annual  show 
of  the  Royal  Horticultural 
Society  at  the  Temple  Gardens 
was  a  distinct  success  so  far  as 
its  materials  and,  it  may  be  said, 
their  mode  [of  display,  were  con¬ 
cerned  ;  SO  great  a  success,  indeed,  that 
the  ordinary  visitor  must  have  felt  a 
sense  of  surfeit  of  beauty  as  mass  after 
mass  of  brilliant  flowers  presented  themselves  in 
seemingly  endless  succession.  We  do  not  pro¬ 
pose  here  to  deal  with  the  exliibits  at  all  in 
detail,  since  this  is  done  elsewhere  in  our 
columns,  our  idea  lieing  rather  to  call  attention 
to  the  wondrous  amount  of  underlying  labour 
and  skill  which  has  produced  such  marvellous 
results,  of  which,  of  course,  we  mainly  behold 
the  choicest  at  such  a  gathering. 
In  the  first  place,  naturally,  we  must  recognise 
the  fact  that  the  great  facilities  of  transit  which 
have  opened  up  the  whole  world  to  floral 
research,  and  at  the  same  time  enabled  the 
resulting  discoveries  to  be  safely  transported  for 
cultivation,  constitute  a  very  vital  factor. 
Beyond  this,  however,  we  have  in  these  later 
days  to  reckon  with  the  labour  of  the  hybridiser, 
who  cunningly  manages  to  combine  the  charms 
of  such  imports,  to  say  nothing  of  those  of 
indigenous  flowers,  by  skilful  alliances,  and  then 
by  subsequent  careful  selection,  to  improve  the 
types  to  such  an  extent  that  no  one  unacquainted 
with  the  actual  facts  would  credit  the  original 
parentage.  The  merely  selective  cultivator  who 
confines  himself  to  the  improvement  of  single 
species  also  works  wonders ;  and  it  is  to  the 
joint  efforts  of  these  two  classes  that  we  owe  the 
bulk  of  onr  floral  wealth,  though  we  must  not  by 
any  means  ignore  the  many  equally  beautiful 
flowers  which  Nature  has  fashioned,  so  to  speak, 
unaided,  of  which  most  of  the  Lilies  may  he 
cited  as  types.  Bearing  these  facts  in  mind,  it 
may  be  interesting  to  take  just  a  few  typical 
groups  and  recall  their  origin. 
We  will  start  with  the  gorgeous  array  of 
Readers  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
Intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  tfficially  to  “XHE  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
No.  1250.— VoL.  XLVIll.,  Third  Series 
