June 27, 1895. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
557 
LAXTON’S STRAWBERRIES. 
TWO GRAND NEW DISTINCT VARIETIES for 1895. 
BOTH FIRST CLASS CERTIFICATES R.H.S. 
MONARCH, 
To follow Royal Sovereign, brilliant scarlet 
colour, flavour very rich, enormous size, 
and great cropper; compact habit. 
LEADER, 
Handsome maincrop, rich crimson colour, 
of the largest size, fruit weighing 2 oz.; 
true pine-like flavour. 
EQUALLY AS INDISPENSABLE AS ROYAL SOVEREIGN TO ALL GROWERS. 
Price—Open Ground, £3 100, 12s. doz.; in Pots, £4 100, 15s. doz. 
CAir ONIiY BS OBTAINED BISECT FBOIMC US. 
Also ROY-A-H. SO'V’ESRSIGrN, 20s. 100; in Pots, 278. 6d. 100^ 
And every other variety worth growing. Lists on Application. 
PRIMULAS! PRIMULAS! PRIMULAS! 
27th YEAR OF DISTRIBUTION, 
WILLIAMS’ SUPERB STRAIN, 1/6 per dozen; 10/- per 100. 
CINERARIAS same price ; also DOUBLE WHITE PRIMULAS, 
6d. each. Package and Carriage free for cash with order. 
JOHN STEVENS, The Nurseries, COVENTRY. 
FERNS SPEcfALITY. 
We have an immense stock of all kinds of Perns, Stove, Green¬ 
house, Pihny, Hardy Exotic, and British, including many very 
beautiful varieties, rarely seen but which ought to be more 
generally grown. Catalogue free on application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
^ERN NVRSERIES, SALE, near MANCHESTER. 
THE HERCULES.—Pm'firn Registered. 
TENANT’S FIXTURE PORTABLE SPAN-ROOF CURVILINEAR 
CONSERVATORY or GREENHOUSE 
No brickwork required. These houses are made of the best 
materials, painted four coats, and glazed with 21oz. clear sheet 
glass, a flat painted stage is fixed on each side and one end, and 
slatted path up centre. 
CASH PRICK. Carriage Paid to nearest Station in England dc Wales, 
within 100 miles of Tunbridge Wells, fixed free, £15. 
SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. 
CUCUMBER & MELON FRAMES, 
Painted three coats, and Qlazed.with 21oz. Glass. 
1 Light Frame, 4 ft. by 6 ft.£l 10 0 
2 „ „ 8 ft. by 6 ft. 2 10 0 
Violet Frame, 4 ft. by 6 ft. 17 6 
Carriage Paid on Orders amounting to 4nf. and upwards to any 
Goods Station in England and Wales, 
No. 783.—VoL. XXX., Third Series. 
Bedding Plants. 
SPECIAL CLEARANCE OFFER. ALL SPiENDID STUFF. 
ALTERNANTHBRAS, Magnifica, Aurea Nana, Yellow Gem, 
Versicolor Grandis, and Amoena Spectabilis. In pots, 2/- 
doz.; 12/6 100. In boxes, 1/3 doz.; 7/6 100. 
AGBEATUMS, best dwarf sorts, to name. In pots, 2/- doz.; 
12/6 100. In boxes 1/3 doz.; 7/6 100. 
GAZANIA, Splendens and Variegata. 2/6 doz. 
SALVIA, Patens. 3/6 doz. MUSK, Harrisoni, 2,6 dozen. 
OENTAUREA, Ragusina Oompacta, 3/- doz. 
IRESINB, Lindeni and Bridlantissima. In pots, 2/6 doz,; 15/- 
ICO. In boxes, 10/ and 12/- 100. 
TROP^OLUMS, named, from cuttings, best dwarf crimson 
and scarlet, 3/- doz.; 20/- 100. 
LOBELIAS, finest blue varieties, to name, from cuttings. In 
pots, 2/- doz.; 12/6 100. KLEINIA, Repens, 3/- doz. 
VERBENAS, best bedding sorts, to colour, 2/- doz.; 14/- 100. 
EOHBVERIaS, Sanguinea and Peacocki, 6/- doz.; Agavoides and 
Rosea, 9/-doz.; Metallica, 12/-doz. CATALOGUES FREE. 
WM. CLIBRAN & SON ^ NUUSKRIhS, ALTRINCHAM 
Also at Manchester, Llandudno Junction, &c. 
TURNER’S 
CRIMSON RAMBLER 
ROSS. 
CHARLES TURNER invites an Inspection of this 
marvellous Rose, which is now in great beauty at 
his Langley Nursery, Slough, and will be worthy 
a visit during the early part of July. 
GATHER HONEY FROM YOUR FLOWERS. 
WHY NOT COMMENCE BEE-KEEPING? 
Fruit trees to which Bees have access bear the most abundant crops 
GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS’ 
BEE-HIVES 
And APPIiIANCES. 
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE POST FREE. 
127, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, WC. 
(Corner of Southampton Street.) 
KENT, the GA RD EN of E NGLAND 
George Bunyard & Co. 
Beg to ask Buyers to consult their 
1895 STRAWBERRY LIST 
before ordering their supplies. Now Ready. 
Their PLANTS will be GRAND both for 
Forcing, in little Pots, and as Runners. 
Send Orders and Enquiries direct to 
THE OLD NURSERIES, MAIDSTONE 
THURSDAY, JCNE 27, 1895. 
THE WOBURN EXPERIMENTAL 
FRUIT FARM. 
B y the invitation of the Duke of Bedford and 
Spencer Pickering, Esq., F.R.S., a party of 
horticulturists assembled at the Woburn Experi¬ 
mental Fruit Farm in Bedfordshire, on Tuesday, 
June 18th, to inspect the work commenced there 
last year, and to inaugurate, as it were, an 
undertaking which cannot fail to yield results of 
considerable importance and interest to many 
persons concerned with the cultivation of hardy 
fruits in this country. As a project which is 
calculated to promote an industry certainly 
unworthily neglected in many districts, as a 
source of independent and reliable information 
on disputed or doubtful matters connected with 
fruit culture, and as a means of providing 
additional employment for men on the estate 
and in the county, every thoughtful person 
must appreciate the feelings which prompted the 
present Duke of Bedford to accord it his earnest 
support. It is difficult to imagine how a wealthy 
nobleman can better utilise a small portion of 
his resources than by testing for the benefit of 
his tenants and the estate generally the possible 
advantages to be derived from an extension of 
fruit culture, which, when successful in any 
degree, mast greatly increase the producing 
power and value of land, to the ultimate advan¬ 
tage both of occupier and owner. When the 
results of such an undertaking are rendered of 
still wider utility by being placed at the disposal 
of all interested, it becomes of national import¬ 
ance, and the conductors have the satisfaction of 
knowing that the work commenced with private 
means bids fair to rival some of the best 
establishments of the kind in other countries 
carried on at the expense of the State. 
To the Director, Mr, Spencer Pickering,. 
F.R.S., a gentleman of considerable scientific 
attainments, must be adjudged the credit of 
projecting the scheme, and the careful thought 
he has devoted to the matter is certain to pro¬ 
duce useful results. Already much local 
interest has been excited in a county singularly 
deficient in fruit culture, and the more enter¬ 
prising cultivators will not be slow to take 
advantage of the experience that is being bought 
for their assistance. When it is shown what 
fruits succeed in the district, many occupiers of 
No. 2439.—VOL. XCIL, OLD SEETES. 
