NOVELTIES AND SPECIALITIES IN VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
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Novelties & Specialities in Vegetable Seeds. 
The following choice vegetables may be relied on as possessing sterling merit. 
Any novelties not here enumerated can always be supplied at current prices. 
CUCUMBER, CLIMAX. 
Mr. william bull has great pleasure in offering this excellent Cucumber. It is a handsome 
white-spiued variety, of hardy constitution, a free grower, a most productive fruiter, and iiossesses 
(excellent flavour. A thoroughly practical gardener, in whose hands Mr. W. B. placed seeds of this 
variety for trial, writes thus respecting it: — “Your Cucumber, No. 1, is a most wonderful bearer, 
fruit from 18 to 20 inches in. length, free grower, with a strong constitution. I have cut, from a two- 
light pit, from between 20 and 30 Cucumbers at a time; it is certainly the freest bearer 1 have 
experienced.” In a later communication he writes : — “ I cannot speak too highly of your Cucumber, 
No. 1. I have cut 258 lbs. weight of Cucumbers from the two-light pit. 1 give the weight that you 
may judge of its great fruitfulue.ss ; they are now in full bearing.” As a reliable variety for market, 
this cannot be too strongly recommended. Is. 6d. per i)ackct. 
BROCCOLI, LEAMINGTON. — A remarkable fine, late, self-protecting variety, the heads being 
8 or 9 inches in diameter, globular, perfectly solid, and very pure in colour, owing to the admirable 
manner in which the leaves fold over aiid protect them. It was awarded a First Class Certificate by 
the Royal Horticultural Society, March 16th, 1873. Is. per packet. 
MELON, “DICKSON’S EXQUISITE” (new).— One of the deepest fleshed Melons, the seed 
occupying the smallest possible space. The flesh is a beautiful gi-een, moderately firm, yet exceed- 
ingly juicy, and ripening well back to the rind, the flavour being remarkably fine. Awarded a First 
Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society, November Cth, 1877. 2s. 6d. per packet. 
PEA, BEST OF ALL (MACLEAN’S), new. — A splendid wrinkled variety, considered by the 
raiser to be the best of all his introductions. Its height is from 2i to 3 feet, pods very large and well 
filled, with peas of a very sweet flavour, exceedingly productive, and of vigorous and robust habit. 
2s. per quart. 
PEA “Dr. MACLEAN ” (TURNER’S). — A blue wrinkled Marrow, coming in after Advancer and 
before Premier, height 3 to 34 feet, of vigorous growth ; its chief recommendation is its wonderful 
productiveness, producing a third more Teas on the same space of ground than any other variety, of 
first class quality and flavour. 2s. 6^. per quart. 
PEA, FILLBASKET ^LAXTON’S). — A large, handsome, and prolific Rea, which received First 
Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society ; it is very fine in appearance, and may be 
described as a dwarfer and vastly improved Hapremo. 3 feet in height, and ripening about the 
same time as that variety. 2s. 6(1. per quart. 
PEA, WILLIAM THE FIRST (LAXTON’S).--The finest early Pea known, combining flavour, 
earliness, and productiveness with appearance. It has long, handsome, and well filled deep greenish 
pods ; height, 3 feet. Has been awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
2s. per quart. 
TOMATO, GREEN GAGE.— Very prolific, bearing clusters of orange-y ello .v fruit ; it is very early, 
and quite distinct from any other variety, fid. per packet. 
