February 14,1895 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
129 
WEBBS’ 
NOVELTIES 
OF STERLING MERIT. 
[Now Offered for the First Time.) 
Webbs’ New Broccoli, 
SNOWDRIFT 
Pirm white heads of good size and quality, and 
well protected. 
Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per Packet, post free. 
Webbs’ New Brussels Sprouts, 
PRIZETAKER 
For exhibition purposes, or for cnlinary use, 
this new variety is unexcelled. 
Is. per Packet, post free. 
Webbs’ New Onion, 
MASTERPIECE 
A handsome new variety, of globular shape, 
growing to a large size, and a good keeper. 
Is. 6d. per Packet, post free. 
Webbs’ New Pea, 
ENTERPRISE 
Its dark green pods are produced abundantly, 
and contain from eight to nine large Peas of 
the finest quality when cooked. Height 2^ to 
3 feet. 
5s. per Pint, post free. 
Webbs’ New Potato, 
GOLD-FINDER 
A most handsome, round, white-skinned, main 
crop variety, very productive, and of un¬ 
surpassed quality when cooked. 
6s. per Peck of 14 lbs.; 21s. per Bushel 
of 56 lbs. 
Webbs’ New Potato, 
PROGRESS 
This new main crop kidney Potato is exceed¬ 
ingly prolific, and most valuable for either 
table or exhibition use. 
6s. per Peck ;of 14 lbs.; 21s. per Bushel 
of 56 lbs. 
WEBBS’ SPEING CATALOGUE, 
Post Free, is. 
ABRIDGED EDITION, Gratis and Post Free. 
PA t if i* . tJ 
FOR PRESENT SOWING, 
AND 
BULBS AND PLANTS, 
FOR SPRING PLANTING. 
COLLECTIONS of VEGETABLE and 
FLOWER SEEDS, 
Made up of the most popular Varieties, and to suit 
all requirements, from 2s. and upwards. 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the above, with 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS, will be sent post free on appli¬ 
cation to our Offices at OVERVEEN, near HAARLEM 
HOLLAND, or to our General Agents— 
Messrs. MERTENS & CO., 
3, CROSS LANE, LONDON, E.C. 
IF YOU 'W'-A.3>JT 
REALLY GOOD SEEDS 
At MODERATE PRICES, apply to 
MR. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Tenby Street, North, BIRMINGHAM. 
No Nurseryman will serve you better in Quality, 
Quantity, or Price. 
THE SIX BEST TOMATOES 
In cultivation, often sold under other names to get fancy prices. 
Each packet contains nearly 200 seeds. Perfection, 3d.: Ham 
Green Favourite, 3d.: Hackwood Park Prolific, 3d.; Challenger, 
3d.; Eoseieigh Gem, a grand new large smooth selection, Sd.; 
Golden Perfection, the best yellow, 3d. Collection, is. 8d., post 
free; singly. Id. each extra for postage. 
THE FOUR BEST CUCUMBERS. 
Each packet contains 10 seeds, Lockie’s Perfection, Eolliss^n’s 
Selected Telegraph, Epicurean, and Covent Garden Favourite, 
6d. each ; or the Collection, 2s., post free ; singly. Id. extra for 
postage. 
SWEET PEAS-A SPECIALITY. 
ECKFORD’S and other choice varieties at a third 
or a fourth usual prices. 
Nothing gives eo much ent bloom at so small a cost, or so little 
troub’e. To get best results SOW AT ONCE, as directions 
sent with each Collection. 
SPECZAX. VERV CHEAP OFFZR. 
8 Really Good Varieties—Queen of England, white: Blanche 
Ferry, pink and white; Princess Beatrice, pale pink; Apple 
B OBEom, apple blossom tint; Orange Prince, orange piik ; 
Splendour, rich deep rose ; Cardinal, bright cardinal ; Coun¬ 
tess of Radnor, pale heliotrope, 25 seeds of eacb. Is 8d. 
7 Extra Choice and Newer Varieties— Emily Henderson, 
fine large white ; Venus, pale lemon flushed with pink; Mrs. 
Gladstone delicate pink; Her Majesty, soft rosy pink ; Lady 
Penzance, bright pale rose ; Firefly, bright glowing crimson; 
Monarch, large bronzy purple, 25 seeds of each. Is. 6d. 
The Two Collections, 2s. 6d.- Postage 2d. each Collection 
extra; or the two 8d. extra. 
Extra Choice Mixture, 8d. per 100 seeds; postage Id. extra. 
ALL OTHER SEEDS EQUALLY MODERATE. 
FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Flease menlion this Paper 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1895. 
THE FROST AND THE FUTURE. 
-KX- 
A t the moment of writing frost is king anS 
rules with unwonted severity. Zero ! zero! 
zero! is what we have seen recorded day by day, 
varied by indications of still greater intensity 
of few or many degrees below zero, according to 
the locality, the position of thermometers, and 
their individual peculiarities. Yet making fuU 
allowances for the disturbing influences of the 
nature suggested, and which preclude the returne 
in the majority of cases being regarded as 
strictly accurate, the frost of February, 189^ 
will still rank among the most severe that have 
been experienced for several years. Coming 
after an autumn of abnormal mildness, in which 
vegetation did not seem able to go to rest, the 
extreme cold has, perhaps, been felt the more 
keenly. Its area has also been wide, whilst its 
continuance, depart when it may, has been long 
enough to satisfy most persons except skaters 
and coal dealers. If rime and fog may be 
regarded as the precursors of a change we may 
hope to have seen the beginning of the end, for 
we have had the blackness of night in LondoE 
(on the 9th inst.), whilst in the suburbs every 
twig and spray was laden with chaste crystals.' 
For the full effects of the arctic severity to 
be appreciated we must wait, though its incon¬ 
veniences are only too apparent. In towns the 
freezing of water in supply pipes and gas in the 
mains cause discomfort to thousands, yet it is 
still more saddening to feel that thousands more 
have been to a serious extent deprived of 
warmth and food, and some even of life.' It 
is on such occasions as these, when work is 
practically at a standstill, that the evil is seen 
in all its magnitude of the crowding of our 
working-class population in cities and towns* 
but how to avert this is a problem jet un¬ 
solved, and a serious problem, as we shall 
probably see in the not far distant future. 
To return to the frost, though in London it 
has been less severe than in the midlands and 
the north, thermometers have registered 28' 
of frost, and in the suburbs the cold has fallen 
to zero. The Thames has been covered with ice 
floes, slabs piled on slabs stopping traffic and 
presenting a veritable arctic scene. Seagulls 
have come in thousands in search of food, and 
No. 2420.—VOL. XCII., Olu Series. 
No. 7C>4.—VoL. XXX., Third S'^Hirs. 
