LEEK 
Carter’s Holborn Model ( see Photograph) . 
— The best both for exhibition and 
table. The stems are remarkably 
solid, not quite so long as Carter’s 
Selected Musselburgh, of the clearest 
white colour, whilst the flavour is 
exceedingly delicate. 
Price, .25 per pkt. ; .65 per oz. 
Two hundred ninety-two First Prizes 
reported to us by customers. 
Holborn Model Leeks 
in Ireland 
Belfast Gardener's Achievement. — In a recent 
issue of the Evening Telegraph we referred to a 
Leek measuring 3 feet 6 inches in length which 
had been dug up at Bangor (Wales), and which 
was regarded as quite a monstrosity of its kind. 
We have just had delivered to us, however, two 
specimens of this indispensable domestic vege- 
table grown by Mr. A. M’Clure, gardener to 
J. J. Kirkpatrick, Esq., J. P., Kincraig, Belfast, 
which give the Welsh giant an easy beating in 
point of all-round measurement. One of the 
Leeks is exactly 4 feet and the other 3 feet 
7 inches long, and the larger one measures 
7 inches in circumference at the base. While we 
question if any one could be found gifted with a 
digestive apparatus sufficiently strong to properly 
assimilate the specimens referred to, we cannot 
but congratulate Mr. M'Clure on having 
achieved such a notable record in the depart- 
ment of agriculture. 
Carter’s Holborn Model Leek was a 
conspicuous feature in the First Prize 
and Champion Exhibit of Vegetables 
(open to the world), Shrewsbury, 
1912; this fine variety was also in- 
cluded in the Large Gold Medal 
Exhibit at the same show. 
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Carter’s Holborn Model Leek 
