104 BARR & SUGDEN'S SPRING SEED CATALOGUE, 



per pKt. 



General Havelnck. green flesh, <rood shape, medinm size 1 0 



IWodel of Perfection, j^reen flesh, beautifully laced, medium size 1 0 



Orion, tn-een flesh, finely netted 1 o 



Pastiqne Water, black, red, and brown seeded, each per pkt , 0 6 



Prince Imperial, "a mafiniflcent scarlet flesh, very sugary and melting, externally 



could not lio distinfruished from the Beechwood; a veiy remarkable variety" 2 6 



Princess Alice, "an extjuisite variety, characteristics unique; may be distinguished 

 among a thousand; form nearly round, rind transparent pale buff, beautifully laced, and 

 so thin that tlic colour of the flesh (a beautiful rosy pink,) is seen through it ; the flavour 

 is delicious, and the flesh very thick, melting, and somewhat resembling Turner's Gem, 

 but not so close in texture: reccived-.^^ first/class certificate, twenty other varieties 



being shown against it" . . ih*i^ML4Uat^^ JO. /^X*^hu. A^ 2 6 



Queen Victoria, " flesh deep red, meltU(p and delicious, possessing all the excellent 

 qualities of a first class Broniham Hall, ''and externally resembling that variety ; was 



awarded a first class ccitiflcate" 2 6 



Queen of Beauty, green flesh, magnificent'.y laced, an improved variety of Carter's 



Excelsior 1 0 



Prince of Orange, superb scarlet flesh, rind green and laced 1 0 



Small Persian, green flesh, a fine small transparent variety 1 0 



„ Queen Ann's Pocket, pretty miniature variety 1 0 



„ „ „ „ striped, as above, but beautifully striped 1 0 



Sir Charles Napier, red flesh, rind spotted and deeply quartered 1 0 



Sir John Falstafi', green flesh, small oval fniit 1 0 



Tomato, red flesh, inciting, dark green rind, large fruit 1 0 



Turner's Scarlet G-em, scarlet flesh, finely netted, small fruit 1 0 



Victor Emmanuel green flesh, exquisitely laced ] 0 



Wonder, fine red flesh, beautifully laced 1 0 



Winter, large yellow, green flesh, pale yellow rind, keep for months after being cut 1 0 



NASTURTIUM. 



The seed, if gathered when (piite young and pickled in the usual way, forms an excellent substi- 

 tute for capers. lu shrubbery borders or trained against trellis-work the plant is highly ornamental. 



jier put. per oz. per pkt. per oz. 



Dark crimson, clean seed 0 3..0 G I Mixed, clean seed 0 3..0 6 



Spotted ditto 0 3..0 Gj Dwarf ditto 0 3..0 6 



TO]\IATO, OR LOVE APPLE. 



Selection anij Prepakation op the Ground. — There are few localities in which these can 

 be grown to perfection, unless they are planted against a south wall, or in some very warm and well 

 sheltered corner ; yet in the southern counties good crops are obtained from plantations made in an 

 open quarter of the garden. The soil should be deep and rich, and if the plants are jilanted between 

 fruit trees under slicker of a south wall, a space of about two feet square should be prepared for each 

 plant, by removing a portion of the soil, digging and loosening the ground as deeply as can be done 

 without injuring the roots of the trees, and mixing it with fresh soil and rotten manure. 



Sowing the Seed and Preparing the Plants. — Sow the seed in pots filled with rich light 

 soil early in March, and place in a cucumber pit or near the glass, in any house where a gentle heat 

 is kept uj). In places where the fruit ripens freely, sowing may be deferred till the middle or end of 

 the month. When the plants are about two inches high, place them in five-inch pots, putting two 

 pl.ants in each, and rei)l.ice them in heat. The plants must be well attended to with water, and kept 

 near the glass, so as to promote strong stocky growth, and as soon as they have filled the pots with 

 roots, shilt tlicm into others two inches larger, using rich soil. Remove the plants in May to a frame 

 where tlu y can be kept close at first, gradually exposuig them to the air so as to prepare them for 

 planting out by the end of the month. 



Planting and after Management. — When the plants are well prepared for exposure, and 

 the danger of frost is past, plant them out and attend to them w ith water until the roots get hold of 

 the fresh soil, aiul unless they have been well hardened, screen them at first from the full force of the 

 sun by evergreen branches, or any other convenient nu'thod. If to l)c grown in the open ground, 

 plant in rows two feet six inches apart, k;iviiig about the same distance between the plants, and 

 su])port each with a strong stake. Plants on tin wall should be kcjit nicely trained, not laying in the 

 shoots too thickly, and .stopjiiiig liiose that arc left as snon as they show a few bunches of flowers, .so 

 as to throw the energies of the ])linit into tlic fruit. The plants in tlic ojicii ground will reiiuire the 

 same care in keeping them clear of useless wood, and stoi)ping the shoots above the flowers. Keep 

 the surface of the ground free and open, and do not allow the plants to sufl'er from want of water, 

 yet water only when necessary to prevent their su.staining a check. In wet cold autumns the fruit 

 .seldom, ripens before frcst occurs, but if a jwrtion of the shoot is cut off along with the full grown 

 fruit, and susitended in a dry warm house, it will ripen tolerably well. 



per pkt. 



T^arge Red Italian 0 3 



Early Red 0 3 



Tomato de Laye, new upright variety 0 6 



