SPECIALITIES IN VEGETABLE SEEDS 
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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. 
BEET, FRISBY’S EXCELSIOR (new). — A distinct and excellent variety, flesh very dark, 
sweet, juicy, and of first-class flavour ; it produces a dark shining foliage, which renders it a useful 
plant for flower garden decoration. Is. 6d. per packet. 
CUCUMBER, CLIMAX. — A handsome white-spined variety, of hardy constitution, from 18 
to 20 inches in length. A thoroughly practical gardener, in whose hands Mr. W. B. placed seeds ot 
this variety for trial, writes thus respecting it : — “I cannot speak too highly of your Cucumber. I 
have cut 258 lbs. weight of Cucumbers from the two-light pit. I give tlie weight that you may 
judge of its great fruitfulness ; they are now in full bearing.” As a reliable variety for market, this 
cannot be too strongly recommended. Is. 6d. per packet. 
CUCUMBER, EXCELSIOR.— Also a white-spined variety, of excellent quality from 20 to 22 
inches in length, very handsome, and a fine exhibition variety being very symmetrical in habit, with 
scarcely any neck, while the flavour and general qualifications are unsurpassed by any previously 
introduced variety. Is. 6d. per packet. 
From Mr. G. Johnston, gardener to the Right Hon. the Earl of Strathmore, Glamis Castle, N.B. — 
“Your Cucumber, Excelsior, is a splendid sort in everyway, a very free bearer and excellent in 
flavour.” 
From Mr. E. Morgan, gardener to the Yen. Archdeacon Davis, Crickhowell. — “The Cucumber, 
Excelsior, is the most free-bearing variety I have grown, I have proved it equally qiroductive on the 
trellis and frame, in my opinion it surpasses all other white-spined Cucumbers in fruitfulness and 
quality.” 
MELON, “DICKSON’S EXftUISITE.” — One of the deepe.st fleshed Melons, the seed 
occupying the smallest possible space. The flesh is a beautiful green, moderately firm, yet exceed- 
ingly juicy, and ripening well back to the rind, the flavour being remark.ably line. Awarded a First 
Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society, November 6tli, 1877. Is. 6d. per packet. 
PEA, Dr. MACLEAN (TURNER’S). — A blue wrinkled Marrow, coming in after Advancer and 
before Premier, height 3 to 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. Qd, per quart. 
PEA, FILLBASKET (LAXTON’S). — A large, handsome, and prolific Pea, which received First 
Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society ; it is very fine in appearance, and may bo 
described as a dwarfer and vastly improved Supreme. 3 feet in height, and ripening about the 
same time as that variety. Is. 6d. per quart. 
PEA, STANDARD.— A blue wrinkled Pea, described by the Royal Horticultural Society as having 
long curved pods, containing from nine to eleven peas of large size and excellent quality in eacli, 
and as being a very handsome and prolific Pea. 2s. 6cf. per pint. 
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 Horti- 
cultural Society. 2s. 6d. per quart. 
