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B. and S. lest the growing quality of the Seeds before sending them out. 



SELECT LIST 0? VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



ARRANGED AND CLASSIFIED ON AN ENTIRELY NEW PRINCIPLE, AND EMBRACING ALL THE BEST VARIETIES 

 OF VEGETABLES IN CULTIVATION, ESPECIALLY SUCH AS ARE MOST APPROVED OF IN COVENT GARDEN 

 MARKET. 



CULTURAL DIRECTIONS ARE PRINTED UPON EVERY PARCEL OF SEED. 



All Vegetable Seeds which are priced in the Catalogue at "per packet" send post paid, or allow carriage at 

 settlement, however small the amount of the order : by this arrangement purchasers of small quantities are 

 enabled, without incurring the expense of carriage, to obtain from our Warehouse really superior seeds. 



CARRIAGE ALLOWED UPON ALL ORDERS FOR VEGETABLE SEEDS BY WEIGHT OR MEASURE, WHEN THE 



AMOUNT IS 2IJ. AND UPWARDS. 



Section I.— LEGUMINOUS PLANTS, dc. 



THE NOTABLE NEW PEAS OF THE SEASON. 



Amongst these are Mr. Laxton's five latest contributions, and like the Peas which already bear his name, 

 they show the impress of his indefatigable labours, his ingenuity and discrimination in the selection of his 

 subjects for hybridization : also the keen discernment which he has exhibited in culling from amongst manv 

 hundred candidates such high typical forms as William the Fir3t : this, like its German namesake, carried off 

 the laurels of 1871 against all competitors, and that in the able hands of Mr. Gilbert, the gardener at Burghley 

 Park, at the Royal Horticultural Society's great annual gathering. Griffin comes next on the list, early as Sangster's 

 No. 1, of fine flavour, and the ripe seed "green as grass," and will thereby be greatly esteemed to bottle for 

 winter use. Popular stands third on the list, and is to beat the Champion of England. Superlative comes 

 fourth, having the largest and finest pods of any pea yet raised, being twice the size of Laxton's Supreme ; and 

 in fact the Goliath of Peas. Omega is the fifth and the last. The name sounds ominously, seeing that Mr. 

 Laxton gave the name " Alpha " to his first really important introduction, and now that he has given us a dwarf 

 Xe Plus Ultra, it looks as if he thought he had attained to his "grand climacteric." 



Mr. Laxton, in sending out these peas in sealed collections, intends them for trial only. Each variety con- 

 tains from \ oz. to £ oz., and the price for the collection of five is One Guinea. 



MR. JOHN STANDISH, OF ASCOT, 



who has spent a long life in the study of hybridization, and whose successes have been greater than those of most 

 men in leaving his impress on many of our best classes of flowering plants, has now turned his attention to the 

 Pea, commencing with Xe Plus Ultra and Laxton's Supreme, thereby laying hold of the two most essential quali- 

 ties in a pea — viz., Constitution and Flavour. Following these up he promises to eliminate varieties possessing the 

 earliness of First Crop, the constitution of Supreme, the productiveness of Hundredfold, and the flavour of Xe 

 Plus Ultra. To this end he has made advances : one of his crosses, having been sown five weeks after Xe 

 Plus Ultra, was ready to gather one week before Xe Plus Ultra, and constituted one of the sixteen dishes which 

 were served up before the tasting party of horticultural friends whom Mr. Standish got together to decide upon 

 the merits of his hybrids. 



As Mr. Standish can only devote a very limited portion of time and space to this work, he has placed forty-two 

 of his hybrids in our hands for distribution, feeling sure that those who have time and take an interest in such 

 matters, will not be disappointed in the results. It must, however, be clearly understood that the character of these 

 forty-two Peas is not fixed. They will require selecting, and, therefore, we shall simply send them out under 

 Xumber, leaving it with the gardener or amateur to perfect the work which Mr. Standish has commenced, and 

 to affix names to such as are worthy of being added to our stock of Standard Peas. s ^ 



The Entire Collection of 42 varieties, 1 oz. each 12 6 



Half the number of varieties 7 o 



Quarter 4 o 



PSAS. 



The arrangement and descriptive matter, except as regards New Peas, are the results of our personal obser- 

 vations at our own Experimental Sample Grounds, and at the Chiswick Gardens of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. The comparative merits of these Xew Peas we trust the Society will fairly test this season, so that we 

 may retain what is good and distinct, discarding what is worthless or no advance on varieties now in cultivation, 

 or it may be simply the discovering of old friends with new names, and such jackdaws as these in the public interest 

 must be divested of their borrowed plumes. The descriptions attached to these Xew Peas are most voluminous, 

 the names very numerous, with the words, "Perfection," ''Unrivalled," "Unsurpassed," etc., used so very 

 profusely that one feels inclined to exclaim — " Too good news !" 



We have made a selection from the New Peas of the varieties which appear to us the most advantageous, 

 retaining only the leading points of the descriptions attached to them. All the other sorts not quoted by us can be 

 supplied if required. 



Division L— THE EARLIEST ROUND SEEDED PEAS. per qt . 



If sown from November to February, will be ready to gather in May and June. s. d. 



First Crop, syn. Ringleader, the earliest variety yet introduced, 2 ft 1 6 



Improved Sangster's No. 1, syn. Sutton's Early Champion, long-podded and productive, z\ ft o 9 



Taber's Early Perfection, syn. Dickson's First and Best, a few days later than " First Crop," 3 ft 1 o 



Daniel O'Rourke, syn. Sangster's Xo. 1, a fine early variety, 2^ ft o 8 



Beck's Gem, syn. Sutton's Tom Thumb, an excellent pea for early forcing and for small gardens, 1 ft 1 o 



Eastes' Kentish Lnvicta. This variety has fully borne out its character, and is fairly entitled to its posi- 

 tio?i as a fine Blue Pea early as Daniel OPo?irke, and fi,7ier favoured; indeed, it is a 



First Crop Pea, 2^ ft 2 o 



Blue First Crop, this pea comes to us with a Canadian degree, thus — " Comes into use with White Gem 

 (See Division I V. ) and of very similar habit, flavour, and foliage, a good bearer, pods 



large, of uniform size ," 1^ ft 2 6 



American Comet, Carter's Early, Hooper's Rival, Perkins Improved, etc is. to 1 6 



For " First Crop" Wrinkled Marrow Peas, see Division IV. 

 Division II.— SECOND EARLY ROUND SEEDED PEAS. 

 If sown from Jamiary to April, will be ready to gather in June and July. 

 Auvergne, syn. Dickson's Favourite, long well-filled pods, a good succession to the above section, 4 ft. ... o 10 



Bishop s New Long-podded Dwarf, a fine branching variety, with long, well-filled pods, i| ft 1 o 



Blue Surprise, Carter's, or Fairbeard's, fine flavoured, and a good cropper, 4 ft 1 o 



Champion of Paris, syns. Paradise and Excelsior Marrow, an excellent second early, 4 ft 1 o 



Essex Rival, syn. Ringwood Marrow, a first-rate variety and a heavy cropper, 35 ft , 1 o 



Hundredfold, an exceedingly heavy cropper, with remarkably well-filled, dark green pods, 4 ft 2 o 



