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January 26, 1895 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
SIX SUPERIOR VEGETABLES 
WORTH GROWING. 
BLAIR'S PROLIFIC CUCUMBER. 
A very handsome Show variety, very protific ; colour 5 
green. Mr. SPEED, Pe — 8 2 — 
Cucumber for either Winter or Summ I have te 
it this season, and like it very aes s F 2 Racket, 1/6. 
DUCHESS OF YORK MELON. 
Fruit medium-size, white fics. palour, go'den, finely netted. 
A grand exhibition variety. r Packet, 1/6. 
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR MELON. 
One of the best grow bri e low, 1 netted; 
flesh white and thick. A pri r 3 Per Pac 
ket, 1/-. 
The best Jate-cropping Pea grown ; height et. Mr 
UPJOHN, Worsley Gardens, says, I find it one ot the most 
prolific and enduring croppers I ever met wit Oe have been 
gathering from July to October 20.“ Per Quart, 
NORTHERN BEAUTY TOMATO. 
abu — 4 and continual bearer, free setter, very early, 
tense eep crimson colour, and large handsome smooth 
it. — Packet. 1/-. 
PRINGE ALBERT VICTOR TOMATO. 
arge, flesh very solid, grand flavour. colour bright 
2 — heavy cropper. Per Packet, 1/6. 
PRICED CATALOGUE 
on Application. 
DICKSON, BROWN, & TAIT, 
MANCHESTER. 
TEA ROSES 
TL Os 
DESCRIPTIVE 
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STRONG PLANTS 
In Great Variety. 
Splendid Quality. 
ALSO 
STRONG 
CLIMBING 
ROSES. 
All of the Best. 
FULLEST 
PARTICULARS 
ON 
APPLICATION. 
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DICKSONS, 
Seoe SOS OSOSSOSOSOSSSAOTOSTOHOHHOOSS 9 %%, 
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POOP SEHSSESESSTOSSSSSSSSHHOSHOSHSSEHSSSEOOOSSEES 
RHODODENDRONS ON THEIR OWN ROOTS 
The finest named hardy kinds can sate ra supplied. These 
are much to be preferred to grafted plants, which are in many 
instances most unsatisfactory to the purc 8 
ANTHONY WATERER, 
KNAP HILL NURSERY, WOKING, SURREY. 
300,000 STRONG 
RASPBERRY CANES, 
At Low Prices per 
BAUMFORTH’S SEEDLING, 
CARTER'S PROLIFIC opi 0 ee 
en IMPROVED * ” aoe oot . Od. 
very trong 
NORWICH WONDER ane, wore brane i 
Prices per 1000 on ‘Soph 
pocong I 2 s Back, Naples, and Red Dutch CURRANT 
3 re Lad and Crown Bob GOOSE- 
S, at — price. re . 
SPECIAL QUOTATIONS TO LARGE Buy 
R. H. BATH, ens Farm, Wisbech. 
WEBBS 
Beauty of Wordsley 
MELON. 
This beautiful Melon is the result o cross between 
William Tillery and deer Bassett. It is rise of the finest 
green-fleshed Me lons in cultiv ation, the Bo one 
From Mr. W. HARRISON, . to H. Chance, 
Es d., Sherborne Hou 
‘ Webbs’ Beauty of Wordsley Melon is a sie setter, and 
of e flavour- all that can be desired.“ 
6d. and 2s. 60. per ant post free. 
See elk aed SPRING CATALOGUE post {is ls. 
ridged ene te a ready Feb. 1, gratis and post-fre 
WEBBS, WORDSLEY, DSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
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FLOWER SEEDS 
FOR PRESENT SOWING, 
BULBS:PLANTS 
FOR SPRING PLANTING. 
COLLECTIONS OF VEGETABLE AND | 
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Made up of the most ular Varieties, and to suit all 
requirements, from 2s, and upwards. 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the 
above, with CULTURAL Directions, will — “ee 
post free on application to our 
OVERVEEN, near HAARLEM, HOLLAND, 
or to our General Agents, 
Messrs. MERTENS & CO, 
3, CROSS LANE LONDON E.C. 
THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1895, 
LONDON ee AND THEIR 
REATMENT. 
. 3 of possessing a few trees in 
our streets is sadly marred 
the vehicular traffic, the necessary light for the 
houses, or the due circulation of air. 
exaggeration is indulged in about the health- 
giving properties of trees, for when we consider 
that deciduous trees can only absorb carbonic 
acid and give out oxygen gases from the air 
during their period of leaf-growth, say for six 
months in the year, our comparatively few town- 
trees must be but poor sanitary agencies. 
There should be very good grounds indeed 
for their retention, either as pruned or un- 
runed trees, when they interfere with the much 
more important benefits derived from the free 
species planted. Everyone, we think, will agree 
with us, that a line of trees, say of the Oriental 
Plane, planted on each side of a street of 60 feet 
n width between the houses, with a space 
2 — tree to tree in the lines of ten yards will in 
the course of ten or fifteen years have become so 
large in the crown, as to rob the dwellings on 
of 
of air around the houses and the 
tion of moisture from the street surface an 
ront gardens. We are led to make these 
remarks by having had two flagrant cases of 
mutilation of street trees in Fulham brought 
our notice recently. The roads are 
arclay and Auriol, the 
er at Walham Green, the latter at West 
Kensington, and the trees are Oriental Planes, 
which, as is well known, attain to very large 
dimensions in this country. Thes ese trees must 
have begun some few years ago to darken the 
lower rooms of the houses, the majority of which 
are of two and three doriai in height, and have 
rooms in the basements. 
rsons who were employed by the 
tree-pruning is based, for 
branches have been most severely cut back, and 
