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BARR & SUGDEN'y COMPENDIUM 



Per pkt. 



s. d, 



Sagden's Aldersliott, a long liandsomc fruit, fine for exhibitors, may be grown 3 feet 1 0 



Venetian, a quick grower, an abundant cropper, fruit small, and in clusters, flavour excellent ... 1 0 



Victory of England, very fine variety 1 q 



White Bohemian, silvery white, very distinct, and of delicate flavour 1 6 



Yorkshire Hero, a dark green, white spine, very prolific, fruit 20 to 24 inches 1 o 



OUIi OWN St-LECTION, 



12 best varieties of the above Cucumbers 9 o 



6 „ „ >, a 0 



Also the following sorts, Ciich variety 6d. i)er packet : — 



Cheltenham Surprise Defiance Lorraine I Rifleman 



Conqueror of the West DjTham Park Prize Lynch's Star of the West ' Sir Colin Campbell 



Constantiue's Incom- Essex Hero Minster Abbey Surprise, wliite spine 



parable General Canrobert Pike's Defiance j Telegraph 



lUDGE OE HARDY CUCUMBERS. 



Donald Beaton, a very hardy fine Long Eidge variety, 18 to 20 inches long ; deep olive-green 



colour, iine bloom; 0 6 



Henderson's Al, a very superior black spine variety, hardy, of robust growth 1 0 



Mandarin, a very superior variety from China, fruit short, smooth, and thick 1 0 



Stockwood's Selectea Long Ridge, a very productive black spine, fruit 12 to 18 inches 0 4 



Wood's Selected Long Ridge, a prolific black spine variety, with long handsome fruit 0 4 



Youell's Norfolk Hero, considered to be tiie best Ilidgc Cucumber in cultivation 1 o 



Long prickly 0 3 



Girkins f jr pickling 0 3 



EGG PLANT (AUBERGINE). 



I'c'l'kt- Per pkt. 



«• s. d. 



Scarlet Fruited, very handsome variety .. 0 4 Purple Fruited 0 3 



New Striped, weighing from 1 lb. to 4 lbs. 0 4 'Violet „ 0 3 



New Golden Fruited, very handsome .... 0 0 'White „ 0 3 



MELON. 



Beechwood, green flesh, rind dark green, beautifully laced, very superior 1 0 



Bromham Hall, green flesh, finely laced, very superior 1 o 



Bailey's, srecn flesh ; a very excellent variety 1 o 



Barr's Golden Monarch (new), riml bright yellow, flesh creamy pink, melting and luscious; 

 befure the fruit is cut the aroma is delicious. This splendid melon vvas received from 

 Adelaide, Australia, where, out of doors, it attains the enormous weight of 10 Itjs. 

 At tlic Crystal Palace -Mr. Cuthill, of Camberwell, exhibited a fruit weighing 6 Its. 



I wc'i;;lit. AVe have the stock for distrilmtion, in 1/G and 2/6 packets. 



Empress Eugenie, flesh brilliant scarlet, rich and melting, lemon-colom-cd rind, netted 1 0 



Golden Perfection (Syn. Bousie or Veitch), fine green flesh, sulphur rind, moderately netted, 



oval-shaped, handsome variety 1 0 



General Ilavelock, green flesh, good shape, medium size 1 0 



Orion, green flesh, finely netted 1 0 



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



Stuart's Prince Imperial, splendid laced scarlet flesh, veiy sugary and melting 1 0 



i i> Oaribaldi (new), red flesh, melting, flavour superior, beautifully laced 1 6 



„ Prince Louis of Hesse, melting scarlet flesh, of exquisite flavour, splendidly laced. . . 10 

 „ Princess Alice, rind pale buff, beautifully laced, and so thin that the colour of the 



flesh (a beautiful rosy pink) is seen through it. The flavour is delicious 1 0 



I „ Princess Alexandra, red flesh, a large delicious variety, with a shining sulphur rind . . 10 



„ Queen Victoria, flesh deep red, melting and delicious 1 0 



Queen of Beauty, green flesh, magnificently laced, improved variety of Excelsior 1 0 



Princess Alexandra, green flesh, Avith a delicate pine-apple flavour 1 0 



Rock, large Prcscott variety 0 6 



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



Queen Ann's Pocket, pretty miniatm-e variety 1 0 



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



Sir John FalstaflP, green flesh, small oval fruit 1 0 



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



Tom Tit (golden drop), a beautiful miniature melon, not larger than an egg plum 1 0 



Turner's Scarlet Gem, scarlet flesh, finely netted, small fruit 1 0 



Trentham Hall, a first-class green flesh variety 1 0 



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



Achapesnorrischer, hardy Ridge Melon. Of this ]\Ielon there are two varieties, one of them 

 large and coarse, the other a good medium size, and excellent, tliis latter we off'er seed 



of for the first time 1 0 



We have many other varieties besides the above. 



OTJK 0"WN SELECTION. 



8 varieties of the best Melons .... G 6 | 5 varieties of the best Melons .... 3 6 



