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JULY 25, 1874.] 
GARDENERS. CHRONICLE. 
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~ WHEELERS’ 
CHOICE SEEDS 
For PRESENT SOWING. 
WHEELERS’ COCOA-NUT CABBAGE, 
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WHEELERS’ COCOA-NUT CABBAGE. 
Wheelers’ Cocoa-Nut is a new and very early variety, 
perfectly distinct, of most excellent flavour. It should 
be planted 18 inches apart ; will yield an early and con- 
tinuous supply. This Cabbage is a decided novelty and 
a great acquisition. 
Per ounce, 15. 
Packets, 6d. each, post free. 
“ I consider the Cocoa-Nut Cabbage the best I have ever 
grown.”—A. W. HARPER, Westhall Hill, Burford, Oxon. 
“ I grew the Cocoa-Nut Cabbage last year, and admire them 
very much.” —ROBERT MANGHAM, School House, Kingsbarn. 
“ Ihave some of your Cocoa-Nut Cabbage growing in my 
i len now from seed sown last March. They are such fine 
 ones,—it is a pleasure to look at them.” — GEORGE Evans, 
_ Abergwilly. 
“I have given some of the Cabbages (Cocoa-Nut) to m 
friends, and they all say they are the best they have seen.”—J. 
Brat Ley, Briggs. 
“Tn my experience Wheelers’ Cocoa-Nut Cabbage is far 
to any other in cultivation.” —JAMES Harris, Sunning- 
“ Will you be so good as to send me a packet of your Cocoa- 
Nut Cabbage ; I find your Lettuces so good that I never grow 
` any other, and I hope the Cabbage will prove equally good.”— 
A. Puittirs, Windsor Cottage. 
WHEELERS’ TOM THUMB LETTUCE, 
A small compact Lettuce, of fine flavour and of excellent 
quality ; a capital variety for winter and early spring. 
Large packet, 1s.; small packet, 6d., post Sree. 
“I am going to try how your Tom Thumb Lettuce will 
stand the winter. As a summer Lettuce it is invaluable, and not 
aaar by any in cultivation.” —CHAS. BRETTINC- 
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a Please forward me two packets of your most excellent Tom 
Thumb Lettuce, the best Lettuce ever introduced into this 
 country.”—C, THURNALL, Whittlesford, near Cambridge. 
“í Your Tom Thumb Lettuce is the most tender and delicious 
— ttuces, —W. M. ‘Tuomas, Fanfield, Bedale, Yorkshire. 
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FINEST ONIONS in the WORLD. 
PRIZE ONION SEED, 
for Present Sowing. 
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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 
1874. 
WINDOW GARDENING. 
MONG Window Plants some of the prettiest 
are climbers, mostly annuals, or plants 
treated as such; for Tropzeolums, Maurandyas, 
Cobzeas, and others, grown inside a window, 
protected by outside shutters from winter-nights’ 
radiation as well as from contact with hoar- 
frost on the panes, will flower even more freely, 
if they run about less, the second and third 
We often see 
in greenhouses and conservatories. 
ithout saying a word against the more 
usual window climbers, such as Convolvulus 
waterings of tepid water. It now forms an 
h keleton bower, proudly displaying 
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pointed out as a curiosity, 
translucent leaves are very effective seen from 
within ; which is an encouragement to repeat 
the plan next year, if spared to do so—because 
window gardeners may be regarded as philan- 
thropists, or genera benefactors, who give 
‘quite as much leasure to passing 
public as they do to themselves. 
culture, like their virtue, is often obliged 
to be its own reward; because plants will 
turn their faces to the light, that is, to out- 
owe their beauty. 
content himself with the sight of the wrong side 
of the parti-coloured tapestry, unless he steals 
out now and then when nobody sees him 
confess to having done myself) to enjoy the 
excellence of his own little 
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therefore recommend the Cucumber for trial ; but 
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readily and gracefully—for instance, the Little 
Prescott, Boule de Siam, Queen Ann’s Pocket 
Melon, &c.—and as summer is hoped for once 
a-year we may as well take advantage of it. 
it to creep in the prison of a frame, is, when in 
clined plane of low-thatched roofs. 
people’s gardeners, having the opportunity, 
sometimes use their glass-covered structures to 
grow choice and new varieties, by training the 
stems along rafters and letting the fruit hang 
f Grapes, as has been 
large in France), by making them grow up pea- 
sticks instead of trailing along the ground, 
1874, I find 
duce more fruit planted out at sufficient dis- 
tances in beds in the open ground in a warm 
and sheltered situation, and fastened to stakes 
against a wall. It is always worth tryingasa 
speculation, because wall space 1s mostly occu- 
pied by plants which retain permanent posses- 
sion of their places. Apropos to Tomatos, the 
small, smooth, round-fruited variety (the Cherry 
s an attractive window plant, 
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giving them all the sunshine you can, with only _ 
moderate waterings. 
s a window-climber the white Cucumber 
would mingle pleasingly with the green varieties ; 
but the whole family contains not a few species 
which admit of being similarly utilised. There 
deserves the patronage of indoor gardeners. — 
M. Naudin has published a Monograph of the _ 
Cucurbitacea, which may be profitably consulted 
amateurs inclined to go into that branch of © 
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