August 4 , 1883 .] 
THE 
GARDENERS' CHRONICLE . ... A3ir 
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CABBAGE 
FOR PRESENT SOWING 
SUTTONS’ 
MPERIAL. 
shaped, 
of mild flavour. 
Is. per ounce. 
ENFIELD MARKET, 6<£ per ounce. 
SUTTONS' IMPROVED NONPAREIL, ga*. per ounce. 
IMPROVED EARLY DWARF YORK, Sd. per ounce. 
LARGE BLOOD-RED, g d. per ounce. 
Vegetable Seeds Post-free (except Peas and Beans) ; all goods 
value 20 s. Carriage Free to any Railway Station in England or 
SUTTON & SONS, 
THE QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, READING. 
SEEDS, 
VEGETABLE, FLOWER 
FARM, 
The BEST procurable, 
at the Lowest Prices consistent with 
GENUINENESS. 
ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE LIST on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & CO., 
WORCESTER. 
DUTCH 
BULBS. 
ANT. ROOZEN & SON, 
Nurserymen, Overveen, near Haarlem, Holland, 
Have pleasure in informing their numerous friends that their 
Crop of Bulbs is unusually fine this year, and they respectfully 
request that all Orders be sent them as early as possible. Their 
full and Descriptive CATALOGUE for 1883 will be sent, post- 
free, on application to their Agents, 
Messrs. MERTENSandCO., 5, Billiter Square, London, E.C. 
AM ERICAN SEE DS. 
Postage on a Letter of Inquiry will secure 
you by return Mail our PRICES — Wholesale 
or Retail. 
SEEDS of MAIZE for Field or Garden, 
PEAS, BEANS, CUCUMBERS, 
PUMPKINS, SQUASH, CANTALOUPES, 
WATER MELONS, TOMATOS, OKRA or 
GUMBO, COTTON SEED, TOBACCO, 
OSAGE ORANGE or MACLURA, TREE 
SEEDS, AMERICAN GARDEN TOOLS, 
‘BOOKS, &c. 
All offered by the ' oldest and ever the most 
extensive Seed Farmers in America. 
Founded in 1784. 
ADDRESS 
LANDRETH & SONS, 
PHILADELPHIA. 
ROSES IN POTS, 
All the best New and Old English and Foreign 
sorts, from 18 s. to 36^. per dozen. 
These World-famed BOSES cannot fail to 
give the greatest satisfaction. 
WEBBS' EMPEROR 
CABBAGE. 
The Best Cabbage in Cultivation. 
^ 6d. and Is. per Packet, 2s. per Ounce. ^ 
Mr. J. Muir, in the “ Journal of Horti- 
culture,” of May 24, 1883, says 
“Our largest piece of Spring Cabbage 
measures 70 feet x 50 feet, and here 
we have many sorts growing. The 
best of all these at the present time is 
WEBBS* EMPEROR.” 
Per Ounce, Post-free. 
EARLY NONPAREIL CABBAGE .. 8d. 
ENFIELD MARKET do. .. 8d. 
EARLY RAINHAM do. .. 9d. 
EARLY DWARF YORK do. . . 6d. 
RED DUTCH do. 6d. pkt. is. 
ONION. Packet. Ounce. 
WEBBS’ NEW RED GLOBE TRIPOLI, 6d. Is. 
WEBBS’ WHITE ITALIAN TRIPOLI, 6d. 9d. 
LARGE FLAT RED TRIPOLI . . 6d. 9d. 
GIANT ROCCA 6d. Is. 
WHITE LISBON 6d. 
WHITE SPANISH, or READING . . 6d. 
All Garden Seeds Free by Post or Rail. 
webbITsons, 
THE QUEEN'S SEEDSMEN, 
W0RD8LEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
BULB SEASON, 1883. 
Write for PRICE LIST to THE CITY FLOWER, SEED, 
and BULB DEPOT, 162, Fcnchurch Street, and 80, St. Paul’s 
Churchyard, London, E.C. 
H yacinths. — hyacinths. — in 
harvesting our Hyacinths some time ago we were 
astonished to see the bulbs looking so grand and healthy this 
season. We really do not think we have had such a "fine crop 
the last four years. Therefore we recommend our Customers 
to order at once to secure the very best stuff. Special offers for 
SEGERS and CO , Bulb Growers, Lisse, near Haarlem, 
Holland. 
DANIELS’ 
WHITE ELEPHANT TRIPOLI. 
The largest White Onion known. Grows 2 ft. in circumference. 
Seed, with complete Cultural Directions, 
if. 6d. per packet, post-free. 
Daniels Bros. ( Importers and ), Norwich. 
FERNS A SPE CIALITY. 
EXOTIC and BRITISH PERNS 
and SELAGINELLAS, 
Suitable for STOVE and GREENHOUSE Cultivation, for 
OUTDOOR FERN] ““ ' ' ‘ ' 
number and variety. 
darters’ 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4*1883. 
THE FRUIT CROP OF 1883. 
T HE returns from all parts of the United King 
dom sent us by trustworthy reporters, to 
whom we are greatly indebted, enable our readerr, 
as it has enabled us, to get a bird’s-eye view of 
the general condition of fruit production for the 
present year. One of the most remarkable 
features of these returns is found in their singu- 
lar unanimity with respect to various fruits, for 
north and south, east and west alike, have to 
deplore on the one hand the almost total failure 
of some, and the same fruits, whilst they equally 
have to rejoice over the abundance of others. 
If we regard the intrinsic value of the various 
kinds, however, to a great fruit-consuming 
people, we shall find that the large crops of 
certain fruits far more than counterbalance 
those which have failed — as for instance, if 
Apricots are few, Peaches seem to be fairly 
abundant; and while Plums and Pears are 
scarce, the enormous crops of Apples — par ex- 
cellence , the fruit of the nation — and of bush 
fruits, and wholesome Strawberries, far more 
than outweigh the former’s shortcomings. 
Indeed, were all other fruits as thin as some 
are, yet would the splendid Apple crop, the very 
best without doubt, because so universally good, 
that we have had for ten years or more, suffice to 
mark 1883 as a red-letter year in the diaries o 
fruit growers. 
We have remarked upon the unanimity shown 
in the fruit returns, and our readers have but to 
note those sent us either from the chilly land 
beyond the Tweed, or the drippy Emerald Isle, 
to find how closely they tally with reports sent 
in even from our southern and midland districts 
where the climatic conditions are so much more 
favourable to fruit production. 
Whilst it will be generally admitted that the 
previous autumn seems to have been favourable 
to the ripening and maturation of fruit producing 
wood, the very indifferent results that have 
followed upon the fine bloom which garlanded 
Pears, Plums, and sweet Chenies, must be 
attributed to purely climatic causes, that if not 
perennial are at least far too common ; whilst 
to the absence of these adverse conditions later 
in the spring do we owe that magnificent crop 
of Apples we now rejoice in. It seems idle to 
speculate on what might have been, but there 
can be little doubt that had the early spring 
been favourable throughout we should now have 
to be commenting upon and lauding one of the 
finest fruit crops seen within the memory of 
man. However, we have this consolation, that 
just as “ he that fights and runs away may 
live to fight another day,” so shall our now too 
barren Plum, Pear, and other fruit trees live to 
bear us good crops perhaps next year, when 
Apples at least can hardly be as good as they 
now are. 
Summing up in a few words the general con- 
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