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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



German, Statholder, Large Asiatic. Best 

 for succession, Walcheren. (Sow in Feb., 

 May, June, July, and August.) 



Celery. — Cole's Defiance Red, Hood's 

 Imperial Red, Cole's Crystal White's, In- 

 comparable Dwarf White, 



Cucumber. — For Winter, Improved 

 Sion House, Master's Prolific. Frame, 

 Carter's Champion, Conqueror of the West, 

 Cuthill's Black Spine, Improved Man- 

 chester Prize, Lord Kenyon's Favourite, 

 Telegraph. Out-door, Stockwcod Ridge, 

 Long Prickly. 



Cbess. — Australian, American, Curled. 



Endive. — Green Curled, Imperial Bata- 

 vian. Hardiest, Fraser's Improved Broad- 

 leaved. 



Leek. — Musselburgh, Ay ton Castle. 



Lettuce. — Cabbage for summer use, 

 Malta, Marseilles, Neapolitan, Victoria. 

 Winter, Brown Dutch, Hammersmith. 

 Cos, Florence, London White, Paris White. 

 Best for summer sowing, Black-seeded 

 Bath Cos. 



Melon. — Golden Perfection, Meredith's 

 Hybrid Cashmere, Mounsden's Moreton 

 Hall, Ward's New Netted Scarlet Flesh. 



Onion. — Early, Danver's Yellow. 

 Main crop, Reading, White Globe. Long 

 keeping, James's, Deptford, Strasburg, 

 Brown Globe. For autumn solving, White 

 Lisbon, Tripoli, Welsh (the last is only fit 

 to pull for salads in spring). For pickling, 

 Paris Silver Skin. 



Parsnip. — Student, Jersey Marrow. 



Parsley. — For summer, Veitch's Se- 

 lected Curled, Dunnett's Garnishing. For 

 winter, Hardy Winter Matchless. 



Radish. — For forcing, Wood's Early 

 Frame, Scarlet Olive-shaped. Main crop, 

 Beck's Superb Short-top, Red Turnip, 

 White Turnip. For autumn solving, Black 

 Spanish, White Olive-shaped. For winter 

 use, Chinese Rose-colour. 



Rhubarb.— Early, Mitchell's Royal 

 Albert, Dancer's Early Scarlet. For suc- 

 cession, preserving, etc., Baldry's Scarlet 

 Defiance, Myatt's Victoria, Large Green 

 Giant. 



Savoy. — Farly, Dwarf Ulm. Main 

 crop, Dwarf Green Curled, Bloemendaal. 

 For market, Drumhead. 



Spinach. — Summer, Round, Perpetual. 

 Winter, Prickly. 



Tomato.— Early, Powell's Dwarf. 

 Main crop, Large Red and Large Yellow, 

 De Lave. 



Turnip. — Early, Sutton's Early Short- 

 top, Early White Dutch, Beck's Improved 

 Golden Stone. Second crop and succession, 

 Mousetail White Globe, New Long Hanover, 

 Red-top Mousetail, Red American Stone. 

 For autumn solving, Orange Jelly, Green- 

 top Six- weeks, Jersey Navet. 



Potatoes. — For forcing, Carter's Cham- 

 pion, Early Hands worth. For frames and 

 warm borders, Sutton's Early Racehorse, 

 Hudson's Nonsuch, Golden Globe. Second 

 early, Rivers's Royal Ashleaf, Early 

 Walnut-leaf, Daintree's Early, Early Ox- 

 ford, Dalmahoy. Main crop and keeping, 

 Prince of Wales Kidney, Fluke, Webb's 

 Imperial, Wellington, Mona's Pride, Pink- 

 eyed Fluke. For market, Fortyfold, Red 

 Regent, Skerry Blue. For cattle food, 

 Chardon. 



THE GARDEN GUIDE FOR FEBRUARY. 



Kitchen Garden. — Dig and manure 

 every plot of vacant ground, removing all 

 remains of worthless cabbage-stumps and 

 other rubbish, so as to get seed-beds ready 

 in good time, as every kind of crop grows 

 tetter in ground prepared some time before 

 sowing or planting. Potatoes are better 

 for planting if already moderately sprouted 

 in full daylight, and if the sprouts are 

 short and purple they will not break ; if, 

 however, they are weak, lay the tubers on 

 their sides, and when the earth is thrown 

 into the trench there will be no harm done. 

 If not ready to plant, put the seed in full 

 daylight in baskets to encourage sprouting. 

 Rhubarb may be forwarded by covering 

 the stools with boxes, casks, seakale pots, 

 etc., without fermenting material ; but the 



latter will pay for its cost in an earlier 

 supply and the benefit of the crop by fork- 

 ing it in when the heat is spent. Choose 

 fine dry weather for sowing seeds. In 

 open quarters sow peas, beans, parsnips, 

 Drumhead savoy, red cabbage, parsley. 

 Sow on warm sheltered borders cos lettuce, 

 horn carrot, onions, Early York, Shilling's 

 Queen, and other early cabbages. Sow in 

 boxes, and forward with moderate heat 

 lettuces, tomatoes, caulijloivers, IValcheren 

 broccoli, celery, capsicums. 



Flower Garden. — Do not be in haste 

 to fork over the borders that are stocked 

 with hardy heibaceous plants, unless their 

 places are marked. Such things as peonies, 

 campanulas, etc., etc., are destroyed whole- 

 sale every season by the ruthless manner 



