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SPECIALITIES IN VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
CELERY, NORTHUMBERLAND CHAMPION. 
Very large white variety, crisp and fine flavoured ; awarded a First Class Certificate by the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society. Price 1«. per packet. 
CUCUMBER, GLORY OF HANTS. 
A first-rate black-spined variety, for either house or frame-work, and thoroughly reliable, whether 
for table or exhibition purposes. It is a good bearer, with a strong constitution, a free setter, and 
fine in flavour. Price. Is. Get. per packet. 
CUCUMBER, INVINCIBLE (HAMILTON’S). 
Without exception, the finest white-spined variety in cultivation. A remarkable fruit was for- 
warded to the editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle , who referred to it as follows : — “ Your specimen of 
Hamilton's Invincible is certainly the largest we have seen or of which we have read. It measures 
38 inches in length, 10 ~ inches in circumference, and weighs 12£ pounds. It is short necked, 
straight, and altogether handsome in form. ,, Price Is. 6d. par packet, 
CUCUMBER, TELEGRAPH (TRUE). 
A handsome white-spined Cucumber ; a very free bearer, producing fruit from 20 to 26 inches 
long, thin skinned, and of excellent flavour. Price Is. 6d. per packet. 
ENDIVE, DIGSWELL PRIZE. 
A green curled variety, very much superior to the old Green Curled. Wherever this valuable 
Endive has been grown, it has given the greatest satisfaction. It is invaluable for its hardihood and 
good hearting qualities. It is advised that plants for out-door winter use bo dibblod out in a light 
border early in September, the crowns an inoh below the surface, with light earth pressed to them. 
Price 1«. per packet. 
LETTUCE, LEYDEN WHITE DUTCH CABBAGE. 
Tho finest Cabbage Lettuoe in cultivation ; it is very hardy, and produces largo close heads of 
excellent flavour. Price Is. per packet. 
LETTUCE, TOM THUMB CABBAGE. 
For sweetness, crispness, and general usefulness, one of the best, if not tho best Lettuce grown ; 
during the excessive drought of last summer, this was the only variety that did not show symptoms 
of seeding. It is small, solid, and compact. Price Is. per packet. 
LETTUCE, VICTORIA WHITE COS (DIMINICK’S). 
The largest and best folding Lettuce ever offered ; will keep longer than any other without run- 
ning to seed, will grow nearly double the size, folds in as it grows, and is exceedingly crisp and of 
good flavour. Should bo planted eighteen inches apart each way. Price Is. per packet. 
MELON, ECLIPSE (BAILEY’S). 
In offering this most valuable new Melon, Mr. William Bull places it pre-eminently before all 
other green-fleshed varieties, for its extraordinary good qualities. Fruit medium-sized, round, and 
handsome ; flesh pale green, rich, luscious, and melting ; skin remarkably thin, so thin that every 
portion of the flesh may be eaten. A iree-setting variety, and for exhibition purposes unrivalled. 
It was awarded a First Prize, in competition with many other very fine varieties, at the Great Sum- 
mer Exhibition of tho Royal Horticultural Society, June 2nd to 5th, 1868, and pronounced by the 
adjudicators to be “ remarkably fine.” Price 25. Qd. and 5 s. per packet. 
