September  3,  1903. 
JOURNAT,  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
209 
ESTABLISHED  1832. 
No  connection  icith  any  other  firm  of  a  similar  name. 
Successors  to  the  late  BARON  VAN  PALLANDT. 
SPLENDLD 
HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS, 
AND  ALL  OTHER 
DUTCH,  CAPE  AND  EXOTIC 
BULBS  &  PLANTS 
Our  Descriptire  CATALOGUE  of  the  above,  containing 
Full  Cultural  Directions  and  particulars  as  to 
Free  Delivery,  will  be  sent  post  free  on  application 
to  our  Offices  at  Overveen,  Haarlem,  Holland,  or 
to  our  General  Agents— 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3,  CROSS  LANE,  LONDON,  E.C. 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS. 
All  the  Leading  Varieties  from  the 
open  ground  and  in  pots. 
Priced  Descrifttive  Circular  Post  Free. 
DICKSONS  faeries  CHESTER 
RIVERS’ 
FRUIT  TREES, 
ROSES,  VINES, 
FIGS,  ORANGES, 
AND 
Orchard  =  House  Trees. 
▲  IiABGB  AND  SELECT  STOCK 
ALWAYS  ON  VIEW. 
ILLUSTRATED  &  DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOQUE, 
Post  Free,  3d. 
THOMAS  RIVERS  &  SON. 
SAWBRIDGEWORTH,  HERTS. 
KABLOW  STATION,  G.E.R. 
^UBBUNS-v, 
■  CARNATIONS  &  VIOLAS 
Our  New  List  of  the  above  is  now  ready.  It 
contains  the  choicest  varieties  in  every  class. 
GRATIS  AND  POST  FREE. 
CLIBRANS 
BULB  CATALOGUE 
Describes  the  choicest  and  best  of  all  clasccs 
of  Bulba;  illustrated. 
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CLIBRANS 
STRAWBERRY  LIST 
Enumerates  and  describes  the  newest, 
choicest,  and  best  varieties. 
GRATIS  AND  POST  FREE. 
ALTRINCHAM  &  MANCHESTER 
1,300,000 
BULBS. 
White,  and  Blue 
7  ,0  per  1000. 
5.  r  per  1000. 
.-»•  5/*  per  100. 
...  S/#  per  100. 
,u  7  0  per  1000. , 
Od.  eAch..^ 
..  3,«eAcli.. 
Spanish  Iris,  Ycil< 
Crocus,  nil  Colors.T. 
Sir  Watkin  Narcissus 
Horsefeldii  ..  ...  ^ 
Trumpet  Narcissus  . .  ... 
Glory  of  Leiden  Narcissus 
Madam  de  Graaff  . 
Sweet  Scented  Pheasant  Eye 
Narcissus  ...  ....  S/«  &  7'CperlOOO. 
Mixed  Narcissi  ...  .  5  «  per  lOOO 
Double  Daffodils  5  #  &  10, e  per  looo. 
Tulips,  Mixed  (choice)  2  •  per  100, 
Single  Lent  Lilies  3  0  iht  looo. 
Snowdrops  5  «  &  7  0  i>cr  looo. 
Strawberry  Plants  trper  lOO. 
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xross&Son  I  Nurseries.  WisbecL 
The  Royal  Nurseries,  Maidstone,  Kent. 
GEORGE  BUNYARD  &  CO.,  Ltd., 
Are  now  Booking  Orders  for  early  delivery  of  the 
very  best 
“r  “  STRAWBERRIES 
In  pots  for  forcing,  or  as  runners  for  open  culture 
true  to  name. 
They  offer  the  Largest  Stock  and  the  Best  Plants  in 
the  Trade. 
REVISED  CATALOGUE,  including  the  New 
Perpetual  Bearing  Kinds,  now  ready,  free. 
DUT^H  FuLBS 
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SEE  OUR  SPECIAL  CATALOGUE  OF  BULBS. 
Containing  List  of  all  the  Best  Varieties  of  HYACINTH.S, 
TULIPS,  CROCUS,  LILIUMS,  DAFFODILS,  SNOW¬ 
DROPS,  IRIS,  PjEONIES,  &c.,  free  on  application.  Please 
compare  our  prices  before  sending  your  orders  abroad. 
WATKINS  &  SIMPSON, 
Seed  and  Bulu  Merchants, 
12,  TAVISTOCK  ST.,  COYENT  GARDEN,  LONDON,  W.C. 
Jfrtti[nal  ij|  §ortii|ultoi[C. 
THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER  3.  1903. 
Quid  pro  Quo.  - 
^  KINGS  are  not  always  what  they 
^  seem,  and  it  is  tacitly  admitted 
that  in  the  gardening  world 
they  are  not  quite  as  they 
should  be.  Evidence  of  it  is 
not  wanting,  inasmuch  as  that 
occasional  letters  crop  up  in  our 
gardening  papers  anent  wages,  lodgings 
hours,  and  holidays,  all  of  which  may 
be  summed  up  as  the  gardener’s  quid  pro  quo, 
for  that  is  really  what  the  quartette  conjointly 
amounts  to. 
That  there  are  grievances  in  this  direction 
few  will  deny,  emphasised  the  more  that  now 
and  again  some  happy  examples  of  this  q_uid 
pro  quo  are  told  in  Gath,  bringi^  into  more 
forcible  contrast  a  great. deal  that  is  seen  and 
felt,  but  mentioned  only  with  bated  breath 
from  over  the  garden  wall.  The  force  of  good 
example  is  not  under-estimated,  and  all  honour 
to  the  few  who  in  spontaneously  adopting  the 
live  and  let  live  principle  acknowledge  that 
the  gardener  is  a  man  worthy  of  his  hire. 
This  is  good  so  far  as  it  goes,  but  it  neither 
goes  far  enough  nor  fast  enough  to  reach  and 
keep  up  with  this  age  of  push  and  progress  ; 
and  it  wants  pushing.  The  thing,  however,  is 
too  big,  too  weighty,  ever  to  advance  save  by 
infinitesimal  degrees  under  individual  effort  or 
isolated  example,  and  until  the  whole  gar¬ 
dening  fraternity  agree  upon'concerted  action 
will,  practically,  “get  no  forrader.” 
Union  is  strength.  In  a  great  combine  lies 
the  crux  of  the  question,  and  that,  as  a 
remedy,  presents  itself  to  most  minds  in  the 
form  of  a  scarecrow,  so  enwrapped  in  the 
miserable  rags  and  tatters  of  hardship  and 
failure  which  trades’  unions  have  left  in  their 
track  as  to  frighten  the  peaceable  gardener 
from  even  its  contemplation.  So  gardeners 
think  of  it  and  shrink  from  it  in  the  vague 
hope — that  hope  which  springs  eternal  in  the 
Readers  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Qardoning 
Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,"  M 
12,  Mltra  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
addreas. 
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