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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



755 



SPECIALTIES 



Flower Seeds 



FOR 



1889. 



Sold Only in Sealed Packets Bearing my Trade Mark. 



AGERATTTM " ADA BOWMAN " (New). 



This new variety, which wasjraisedat Hvlands Park, is with- 

 out doubt the finest Ageralum grown for balding purposes, 

 It blooms in masses from the time of planting out until it is 

 cut down by the frost, and requires no pegging down, as it 13 

 only 9£ inches high; the trusses measure from G to 7 inches 

 across. It is of a very effective and telling delicate blue colour. 



Most valuable when propagated in pots in the autumn for 

 early winter flowering. Its freedom in blooming is so pro- 

 nounced that each pot is quite a ball of flower, and continues 

 B) to the middle of January. 



Per Packet, Is. 6d. 



CYCLAMEN PERSICTJM GIGANTEUM 

 "AURORA." 



This raaguificent variety is of very compact habit, with 

 beautiful rosy-pink coloured llowers deepening to a fine car- 

 mine at the base. It is a tint of colour which is very marked 

 and conspicuous, and will make additiou to these popular 



plants. p er p ac ; x - et} 2s. 6d. and 5s. 



FRANCOA APPENDICULATA. 



A splendid herbaceous perennial, which will be found ex- 

 ceedingly useful for conservatory decoration; it produces long 

 branching spikes of pale rosy-purple Mowers, which are larger 

 and more compact than F. ramosa. and the llowers are closer 

 set on the spike. Invaluable for cutting purposes. 



Per Packet, la. 6d. 

 GLOXINIA "GOUVILLE STRAIN." 



I have much pleasure in being able to offer, through the 

 kindness of the Comte de Germiny, seeds of this spieudid 

 strain, which has the reputation of being the finest on the 

 Continent. It invariably takes First Prizes whenever ei - 

 hibited. The flowers are of immense size and substance, of 

 very brilliant and varied colour, beautifully tigered and 

 spotted, and contain a fair proportion of self colours. 



Per Packet, 2s. 6d. 



PRIMULA SINENSIS FIMRIATA 

 "MAGENTA Q.UEEN " (New). 



This new variety is cf very compact habit of growth, very 

 vigorous and robust; the leaves are of a dark green colour. 

 The bbonis are very large, measuring upwards of J% inches in 

 diameter; they are of a very good substance and a bright 

 magenta colour, with a small bright lemon eye. It is quite 

 a new colour in Primulas, and its distinctness is very pro- 

 nounced. Per Packed 2s. Qd. and 5s. 



STOCK, INTERMEDIATE, WILLIAMS' 

 "CRIMSON GEM'' (New). 



This variety, on account of its charming and decided colour, 

 is an acquisition of considerable merit, asit is a great advance 

 in richness and brilliancy of colour upon any known kind of 

 Stock. It will be found very serviceable for spring bedding, 

 window boxes or pots, where it will produce a wonderfully 

 fine and pleasing effect. It is of a dwarf compact habit ; the 

 i entrul spike ;uul lateral branches produce a great profusion of 

 very rich crimson blooms of very large size. 



Per Packet, Is. and 2s. 6d. 



Illustrated Seed Catalogue for 1889 



ady, and will be forwarded Gratis and 

 Post-free to all applicants. 



NEW CUCUMBER. 



DANIEL'S MASTERPIECE. 



We have in former years introduced some remarkably tine 

 Cncumbers, but never had more pleasure than in introducing 

 this one, as it is without doubt the handsomest Cucumber ever 

 raised. The fruit are slightly spined, and of a rich emerald- 

 green, 20 to 30 inches long. For colour, quality of fie h, sym- 

 metry of form, constitution, and prolificness, they are models 

 of perfection— a grand exhibition fruit, and far surpass most 

 other kinds for market purposes. For many years the fortunate 

 raiser has enjoyed the monopoly of this \ariety, his fruit taking 

 a leading place in Covent Garden Market, bringing a much 

 larger return than other kinds, and it was not untiL this last 

 season that he could be induced to part with the stock, of which 

 we have secured but a limited quantity. Per pkt. t 1/6 & 2/6. 



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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1888. 



ART AT CHRISTMASTIDE. 



r pHE President of the Royal Academy, Sir 

 ■*• Frederick Leighton, has lately been ex- 

 pounding his views on British art and 

 Britain's want of art, to the National Art Con- 

 gress, of which he is also the President. His 

 address is at once eloquent and comprehensive. 

 lie earnestly appeals to his countrymen to assist 

 him in placing beauty in its due place in the 

 work and pleasure of the nation. "While freely 

 admitting that the National Gallery is rising 

 steadily to a foremost place among the famous 

 galleries of the world, he complains of our general 

 incapacity to appreciate true excellence in art. 

 or to take a vivid interest in beauty for its own 

 sake. He alleges that we have no adequate 

 sense of the value of art as an element of 

 national greatness — little or no pride in the 

 achievements of English artists. Even when 

 we are not quite insensible to the charms of 

 beauty, we do not detest sufficiently what is 

 hideous and ignoble, nay, we have come 

 to bear with much that is vulgar or common- 

 place with dull, indifferent acquiescence. The 

 great want, in Sir Frederick's estimation, is the 

 love of art as art, or of beauty for its own 

 sake, and not the spasmodic or desultory pursuit 

 of either which is our general characteristic. 

 The standard of our art-education must be raised 

 until all classes become endowed with the in- 

 stinctive consciousness of what is beautiful and 

 of what is ugly ; and which will enable them to 

 choose the former and reject the latter. Sir 

 Frederick thinks that the perception of beauty and 

 the appreciation of art are dormant rather than 

 dead in our national character, and he would 

 rouse them into action by the display of objects of 

 beauty and by a thorough instruction in the 

 principles of art. 



Sir Frederick did not touch, as he might have 

 done, on beauty in the garden, or he might perhaps 



