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AGRICULTURAL SEEDS. 
BARR & SUGDBN’S MIXED GRASSES FOR PERMANENT PASTURE. 
The mixture is made expressly to suit the particular soil for which it may be required — heavy, medium, or 
light. The quantity we usually supply is 2 bush, light and 12 lbs. heavy seeds per acre, at 28/ to 32/ if* acre. 
Suitable Grasses for Park Lawns, 18/ b' Bush. Bromus Schreederi, New Australian Forage Grass, 1/^lb. 
Present Prices of the following : but which may vary as the season advances : — 
ITJB.'Sl'P— White-fleshed Varieties (3 to ilbs. per acre), 
d. 
Green Round per lb. 0 10 
Lincolnshire Red Globe „ 10 
Pomeranian White Globe „ 1 0 
Red Tankard per lb. 
Early Six-weeks Stone or Stubble „ 
Grey Stone, true 
s. d. 
1 0 
1 0 
0 10 
TURNIP — Yellow-fleshed Varieties. (3 to 4 lbs. per acre). 
Yellow Tankard per lb. 1 0 
Green-top Scotch or Aberdeen „ 10 
Purple-top do. do 10 
Dale’s Hybrid per lb. 
Chivas’s Orange Jelly ., 
Waite’s Eclipse 
SWEDISH TURNIP (3 to 4 lbs. per acre). 
Skirving’s Liverpool per lb. 0 10 
Laing’s Purple-top „ 1 0 
Marshall’s Improved „ 10 
East Lothian Purple-top „ 1 0 
Skirving’s King of the Swedes „ 0 10 
Carter’s London Swede per lb. 
Green-top Swede „ 
Sutton’s Champion „ 
Improved Bronze-top, flue „ 
River’s Stubble 
MANGOLD WURZEL (4 to 6 lbs. to the acre). 
Elvetham Long Red per lb. 1 0 
Long Red „ 1 0 
Elvetham Long Yellow, fine stock „ 1 0 
Improved Orange OVal-shaped „ 10 
Large White Belgian per lb. 1 6 
Large Yellow Belgian „ 19 
Long Red „ 2 0 
CARROT (6 to 8 lbs. to the acre). 
Carter’s Champion Orange Globe per lb. 
Globe Red „ 
Globe Yellow, improved „ 
Improved Red Oval-shaped „ 
Improved Red Altringham, true per lb. 
New Intermediate, excellent for 
shallow soils „ 
2 0 
2 0 
Large Drumhead per lb. 
Robinson’s Champion Prize Ox 
Flat Dutch 
Thousand-head 
CABBAGE {if transplanted, 1 lb. per acre). 
2 6 St. John’s Early Drumhead per lb. 4 0 
3 6 London Market „ 4 0 
“ 2 6 Selected Enfield Market „ 4 0 
„ 2 6 Cottager’s Kale for Sheep „ 3 6 
KOHL RABI (if transplanted, lib. per acre). 
Large Purple, per lb., 3 0 | Large Green, per lb., 3 0 | Imperial Green, very select stock, per lb., 3 6 
PARSNIP (6 lbs. per acre). — Large CatOo per lb. 1 9 | Large Jersey, imported, per lb. 3 6 
PARSLEY. — Plain, for Sheep per lb. 1 0 
AGRICULTURAL MUSTARD gallons to the acre), 2s. 6d. per gallon; id. per lb. 
BEET (6 /As. per acre).— White Silesian Sugar.. .per lb. 1 0 | New Large Crimson per lb. 2 6 
SUNFLOWER.— Dwarf, 3 ft. ; Tall, 5 ft. j sow March, April, and May... 5s. per lb., 6d. per oz. 
FURZE (12 lbs. per acre).— English per lb. 1 6 | French per lb. 1 6 
BROOM, l.s. per lb. CHICORY (4 lbs. per acre), 3s. per lb. 
RAPE (6 to 8 lbs. per acre), id. per lb. SANFOIN (4 bushels per acre), market price. 
BLUNDELL’S CATTLE MELONS AND CATTLE MARKOWS. 
Forty tons per acre were annually grown by Mr. Blundell of this highly-nutritive cattle food. It is 
impossible to over-estimate the value of these for Autumn feeding. Sow in drills in May. 
100 Seeds of Cattle Melons or Marrows 2 6 
i) lb., sufficient for J acre ditto 5 0 
LUCERNE 16 lbs. per acre. Is. per lb. 
i lb., sufficient for i acre Melons or Marrows 9 0 
1 lb. ., 1 „ ditto 16 0 
BUCKWHEAT ...1 bushel per acre, 8/6 per bushel. 
THE GLADIOLI VAEIETIES OF GANDAVENSIS. 
In the whole range of Flora’s kingdom no plant is capable of so much Captation, and may be used 
for so many and such varied purposes as the Gladioli. If in autumn there is a scarcity of colour in the 
conservatory, the Gladioli varieties of Gandavensis will supply the want in_ endless variation of shade, by^ 
lifting them out of the borders ( 07 ’, lokat would be still more elegant^ cutting the spikes with a portion of 
the foliage just as they begin to colour.^ placing three in a fower-pot^ and keeping the soil wet. So treated^ 
the flowers will expand^ and their dioarf appearance will he more %n harmony than the 2 )lanis would be in 
their integrity. A little moss laid on the suij'ace of the pot will complete this arrangement). If vases and 
jardinets have to be furnished with cut flowers, the spikes of the Gladioli associate well with any other 
plant, and produce an effect which no other flower can do to the same extent. If flower-beds have to 
be extemporised for a festive occasion, Gladioli will meet the want : the spikes have simply to be cut off 
with a portion of the foliage, placed in bottles of water, and these buried in the soil ; so treated they will 
maintain a display for weeks. Where colour in quantity is wanted, such as scarlet, Brenclileyensis and 
Bowiensis furnish this in perfection ; if a rose colour is required, Fanny Rouget will meet the want; 
when the effect desired is a velvety carmine, Louis Van Houtte will supply it ; if it is purple, Osiris will 
do your behest ; a white, Tmperatrice, or, if you prefer, the Prince Imperial. Nemesis, Penelope, Mars, 
Goliath, Gil Bias, and John Bull — even Lord Granville — will contribute their services on moderate terms. 
Now-a-days it is thought but a trifle to pay two or three guineas for a Tricolor Geranium — at best 
but a passing pleasure : the investment has scarcely been made when it is announced that a fresh 
candidate is in the market, the description pointing out its superiority to the one just purchased ; two or 
three guineas are again expended, and this is repeated several times a year. And should an accident 
occur that the labels get displaced, the resemblance is frequently so great that even those most learned 
in such matters could only replace them as a peradventure. Now, suppose one of those grand novelties 
were allowed to pass by, and 500 or 1000«Gladioli purchased instead (which can be done almost at the 
price of one of those plants), the flower-garden and borders could thus be furnished, and in addition a 
reserve piece of ground might be prepared by trenching and manuring, and Gladioli planted thickly in 
groups of three or more to be lifted or cut as required. In the borders never less than six to twelve 
roots should be planted in a group ; in the centre of which, if the plants require support, a stake can be 
placed, and the whole group fastened to it so that the support is not seen. 
We have spoken only of a few of the cheap GladloU ; but beyond these there is a field of beauty 
in which the lover of flowers may revel, ad infinitum; and these flowers are represented by names heroic, 
