June 29, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
789 
LAXTON'S 
STRAWBERRIES. 
TWO GRAND NEW & DISTINCT VARIETIES FOR 1895. 
Both First-class Certificates Royal Horticultural Society. 
MONARCH. 
To follow Rea SovEREIGN. Brilliant soariet 
colour, flavour very rich, enormous size, 
and pale cropper, Compact habit. 
LEADER. 
Handsome main crop, rich crimson colour, of 
the largest 5 fruit weighing 2 ozs.—true 
Pine-like flav 
Both equally as indispensable as ROYAL SOVEREIGN to all Grower's. 
Price, open ground, £3 per 100, 12s. per dozen; 
in pots, £4 per 100, 15s. per dozen. 
These Varieties can on`y be obtained Direct from us, 
Also ROYAL SOVEREICN, price 20s. per 100; in pots, 27s. 6d. per 100. 
And every other variety worth growing. 
Lists oN APPLICATION. 
LAXTON BROTHERS, BEDFORD. 
WM, PAUL & SON'S 
SYLPH (Tea), white, white, e with violet and 
peach, a beautiful Prin of colours; large, high- 
centred, with deep, stiff petals, vigorous, and constitution 
hardy, very free-blooming, 7s. 6d. each. 
ae ip oe 8 changing to 
ite, large and cupped form, —4 =r and 
— egant, — hells — cree na a very e 
and eee Ts. 6d. each. 
e Rose, 
VARIETIES. 
MRS. PIERPONT NT MORGAN (Tea), 
PINK SOUPERT (Potyantha), 
d. and 5s, each. 
PRINCESS BONNIE (Tea), 
8s. 6d. and 5s. each. 
THE NEW CONTINENTAL ROSES FOR 1895. 
A selection of the best varieties, including FIAMETTA 
NABONNAUD — as a white Papa Gontier), 3s. 6d. 
5 3? 
NEW ROSES OF 1894. 
CLIO (H.P.), fiesh colour, shaded rosy pink; 
flowers large and h: e, exc 3 Mig ng an 
free b'oomi — A grand Rose. 38. 6d. a 
DUKE OF YORK BK (China), » gaite ey rosy hae 
ged and tipped ; exceedingly pretty and distinct. 
3s. Ed. an 
LORNA Door (Bourbon), bee 
ogee omens large, Asplendid Autumnal bloomer 
LORD 5 HYBRID SWEET BRIARS. 
58. each; the set of nine varieties, 42s. 
OTHER METER sen OS CONTINENTAL ROSES of 1894. 
best sorts, 20. to 3s. 6d. each. 
Full D rari icati 
Also a large ral collecti f ROSES i ots for t-door 
. or spenen ato o to 30s. 2 for * 210 
per 100; larger plants, 42s. per dozen and npwardá, 
PAULS’ NURSERIES, 
WALTHAM CROSS, HERTS. 
STRAWBERRIES, 
All the leading varieties, cd or old, in small 
porsier 8 first year. Ope Air plants, very 
222 a. N low ee. * quantities for 
Market 
FRUIT TR TREES 
OF ALL SORTS. SEND FOR LISTS. 
OHN WATKINS, 
POMONA FARM NURSERIES, WITHINGTON, HEREFORD. 
F E R N 8 SPECIALITY. 
Our Collection = unrivalled, Over 1400 species and varieties 
of Stove, Greenhouse, Filmy, Hardy Exotic, and British Ferns. 
For prices of — an — speci ially cheap collections in beau- 
tiful variety, see our Catalogue, free on application, 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F. R. H. S., 
FERN NURSERIES, SALE. near MANCHESTER, 
“KENT, THE CARDEN OF ENGLAND.” 
GEORGE BUNYARD & 00. 
Beg to ask Buyers to consult their 1895 
| STRAWBERRY = ST 
Before Ordering their Supplies. Now Rea 
F toh for e in 
little Runners. 
SEND ORDERS AND ENQUIRIES DIRECT TO— 
THE OLD NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE. 
THE YOKOHAMA NURSERY CO. 
Nos. 21—35, 
NANKAMURA, 
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, 
The Exporters of 
LILY BULBS; 
OYÓAS. STEMS, DRIED CYCAS LEAVES, 
Dried Eulalia Panicles, Bleached Lufa, 
SEEDS, TREES, & SHRUBS, &c,, produced in Japan. 
Wholesale CATALOGUES sent on application, 
Nore. r representative will be in London in 
uly "96, to take Orders of the Customers, 
FERNS! —FERNS!! 
A 1228 ‘quantity in S inoh pots, ia aa ay Pita 
"o lineata, Adiantum fulyum and pubes- 
„ per 1 
ak — 
Good bushy stuff in 48’s,—Pteris — nobilis, 
and tremula; also 8 at 4s, 6d. per doze: 
The above prices ar with Order at. Paching 
free, All orders 3 gde pa P ee ted executed, 
B. PRIMROSE, 
NURSERIES, ST. JOHN'S PARK, BLACKHEATH, 8. E. 
THELESS 
THE 
Gardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895. 
COTTAGE GARDENING. 
HE Vice-President of the Committee of 
Council on Education has added another to 
already formidable list of subjects enumerated 
n the Education It is entitled“ Cottage 
i In rural schools, at least, where it 
is possible to give practical demonstration on 
the soil itself, such instruction should rank 
in importance even with ‘three Rs.” 
n an honest living on 
the land, and become an intelligent, observant, 
and skilful workman, is as essential to his well- 
being and prosperity as the rudiments of letters, 
and far more so than three-fourths of the “class 
and special” subjects nationa | in the Code. 
R ure found a place in the 
schedule some years nat but little, I fear, has 
come of it. The range was too eye and in- 
definite, and no evidence was given as to prac- 
tical a plication of the theories tclight Cottage 
gardening is a more comprehensive and signifi- 
cant term, suggestive of a limited area, thorough 
cultivation, and more varied scope. Agriculture, 
o the ordinary farm labourer, means only toil- 
some and uninteresting labour, big fields, brown 
or green, or yellow, over which he stalked wearily 
n a boy, in his heavy hobnailed boots, and 
with clappers to scare the crows; and when 
a man along the furrow after the jingling 
teamsters. There was no kindly voice to cheer 
and encourage him; the land to him was simply 
a great, rough, tedious road, leading eventually 
to the workhouse. What a boon it would be to 
him to have a plot of ground near his cottage, 
with a fence round it, a ate! Here he 
could grow a little fruit and a few flowers. 
Then let him be taught how to oultivate it 
thoroughly, to graft fruit trees, and bud Roses, 
and raise plants from layers, cuttings, and seeds 
and so > put within his reach the means of helping 
himse 
If cottage gardening were 1 e it 
would do this; it would add interest and i 
portance to his ordinary labour, eee jak 
bis master, instead o ing the ocoupa- 
tion of his scanty leisure in the en would 
discover that his servant was better worth his 
weekly wages; but he cannot learn t of 
sec a garden by hearing a lecturer talk 
—he must ses it done, and help to do it. 
For vie past, at great cost, an attempt 
has been made by the Science and Art 
Department of South Kensington to teach 
agriculture, Little has come of it, as might 
have been e » instruction wa 
conveyed through lectures and text-books, 
and the students, for the most part, were 
