February 21, 1895. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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VEITCH’S 
GENUINE SEEDS. 
THE BEST TOIVTATO, 
FROGMORE SELECTED 
First Class Certificate, M.H.S, April 24, 1894. 
Exceedingly prolific, of mediuin size, very uniform and 
smooth in outline, firm and solid, the best Tomato of the 
season, either for early forcing or outdoor cultivation. 
Per Packet, 2/6. 
THE BEST JVIEIL.01\r, 
HERO OF ISLEWORTH. 
Award of Merit, Royal Mart. Soe , Aog. 8, 18'.'3. 
A green-fleshed Seedling of exceptional merit, free setter, 
and superior quality. Per Packet, 2/6. 
THE BEST GUCCJIVKBEH, 
VEITCH’S PERFECTION 
A distinct and superior variety of robust constitution. 
Strongly recommended for either spring or summer work. 
Per Packet, 2/6 
THE BEST OlSriOKT, 
VEITCH’S MAIN CROP. 
This is a most desirable and perfect strain for exhibition or 
table use, and though generally grown for a main crop, is also 
an excellent keeper. Per Ounce, 1/6. 
For full descriptions of tke above, and many 
other CHOICE NOVELTIES & SPECIALITIES, 
see SEED CATALOGUE for 1895, forwarded post 
free on application. 
JAMES VEITCH k SOfyS, 
EOYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 
CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W. 
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ENT—THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND. 
I F YOU CANNOT BUY FRUIT TREES 
TRUE TO NAME, 
Write to GEORGE BUNYARD & 00. 
I F YOU WANT CHOICE NEW SORTS 
that Local Firms cannot supply, 
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F or healthy & vigorous fruit 
TREES by the Dozen, Hundred, or Thousand, Pot 
Peaches, Nectarines, Short-jointed Vine.«, Figs, &c., 
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T he largest stock in the WORLD 
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bristling with fruit buds-saving years in time. The only 
Nursery where the Amateurs’ Standard Apples can be bought 
to fruit first year, 2/6 and 3/6 each. 
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G ardeners are reminded that Fruit 
Trees from these Nurseries succeed grandly in all soils. 
(See Testimonials.) All lovers ol Horticulture should come and 
see this unique Stock. 
G eorge bunyard & co., 
PRACTIOAL POMOLOGISTS, 
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Established 1796. 
nRAPE VINES.—Well ripened, short-jointed 
vl canes of all the popular kinds, established in pots, extra 
strong for fruiting this year In pots, 68. to 108 . 66 . each; for 
Pj.snting, 28. 6d. to 6s. each ; extra strong, 63. to lOs. 6d.— 
>VM. Paul & SON, Waltham Cross, Herts. 
No. 765.—VOL. XXX., Third Series, 
The New MELON 
SUTTO 
Royal Favourite. 
We have the honour of offering a New Melon of singular 
beauty, originated by 
Mr. OWEN THOMAS, of the Royal Gardens, Windsor, 
Who has placed the entire stock in our hands. 
The fruits of this Melon are perfectly spherical and 
elegantly netted. The flesh is white, exceedingly deep, with 
a full and exquisite flavour. The plant is robust in consti¬ 
tution, sets freely, and is very productive. 
Price of Seedj 3s. 6d. per Packet^ Post Free. 
GENUINE ONLY DIRECT FROM — 
SUTTON & SONS, 
IF YOXT "W-A-riffT 
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 TOIVIATOES 
In cultivation, often sold under other names to get fancy prces. 
Earh packet contains nearly 200 seeds. Perfection, 3d.; Ham 
Grien Favourite, 8d.: Hackwood Park Prolific, Sd.; Challenger, 
3d. ; Roseleigh Gem, a grand new large smooth selection, 3d.; 
Golden Perfection, the best yellow, 8d. Collection, Is. 8d., post 
free ; singly. Id. each extra for postage. 
THE FOUR BEST CUCUMBERS. 
Each packet contains 10 seeds, Lockie’s Perfection, Rollissr 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 fo much cut bloom at so small a cost, or so little 
trouh'e. To get best results SOW AT ONCE, as directions 
sent with each Collection. 
SPZCIAI. VERV CHEAP OFPfR. 
8 Really Good Varieties— Queen of England, white; Blanche 
Ferry, pink and white; Princess Beatrice, pale pink; Apple 
B osFom, apple blossom tint; Orange Prince, orange piik; 
Splendour, rich deep rose ; Cardinal, bright cardinal ; Coun¬ 
tess o Radnor, pale heliotrope, 25 seeds of each, 1 s 3d. 
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, 23 . 6d.-Postage 2d. each Collection 
extra ; or the two 8d. extra. 
Extra Choice mixture, 8d. per 100 seeds; postage Id. extra. 
ALL OTHER SEEDS EQOAILY MODERATE. 
FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Please mention this Paper ' 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1895. 
MAKING VINE BORDERS AND 
PLANTING VINES. 
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T he soil or compost for new or renovating old 
Vine borders is best prepared and held in 
readiness some time prior to use, so that the 
work may be performed expeditiously when the 
weather is suitable and the material is in good 
working order. Some Grape-growers, however, 
prefer the material fresh, as it then contains a 
much larger amount of raw nitrogenous matter, 
which by slow decomposition gradually becomes 
available as food for the Vines. It then con¬ 
tains the live roots and herbage, and may or may 
not be alive with visible or microscopic organisms. 
The turf of most pastures contain the accumu¬ 
lated remains of preceding years’ vegetation and 
dead lowly animals, which implies a store of 
plant food in the best possible form for another 
or different plant—to wit, fruit trees. Vines, and 
potted plants. It also contains the living repre¬ 
sentatives of the animals and low vegetables that 
feed on such herbage as compose the sward, 
which we are pleased to term parasites. These 
range in size from eelworms and mites that 
require a microscope for their detection in the 
egg, larva, pupa or adult stage, up to that of 
various grubs and insects that are visible to the 
naked eye. Beetles are amongst the latter, and 
to this family some of the most malignant Vine 
pests belong, such as those of the genus 
Otiorhynchus. 
It is not, however, the present intention te 
allude particularly to any special form of vege¬ 
table or animal organisms which have been 
detected in old pasture turf, or to draw any 
distinction between the so-called useful and 
injurious bodies found therein. Nevertheless, it 
may be stated that the microscopic forms alone 
are enough to make anyone wonder how vege¬ 
table life is able to exist when so many mouths 
are ready to devour it, and on which they depend 
for existence. Indeed, it would be inexplicable,, 
but from the circumstance that the micro¬ 
scope reveals other bodies which feed on the 
malignant micro-organisms, and maintain z 
balance in favour of vegetation, also of them¬ 
selves, for no living creature concerns itself about 
sentiment, but is bent on nothing but its owe 
existence—feeding, growing, and reproducing. 
All bodies, visible or microscopic, like nothing 
No. 2121 .—T®L. XCII., OLD StlUES. 
