March 14,1896. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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CHOICE SEEDS. 
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CHELSEA 
COLLECTIONS 
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FLOWER SEEDS 
TO SUIT ALL REQUIREMENTS, 
At 5/-, 10/6, 15/-, 21/-, 31/6, and 42/- each, 
post free. 
These Collections comprise the most showy and 
best varieties, carefully selected to ensure a con¬ 
stant succession of the most brilliant-coloured 
and attractive flowers. 
Full Particulars Post Free on Application. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, 
CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W. 
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POTATO 
For Quality & Productiveness are 
Royal Windsor Lapstone, 
as used for supplying the lioyal Table 
for over 40 years, 
Dicksons Chester Favorite, 
an excellent New Maincrop Jloiuid Variety. 
Each per Peck (14 lbs.) 3/- 
Per Bushel (56 lbs.) 10/6. 
Special Prices for Large Quantities. 
For Testimonials & further particulars 
see our Illustrated Garden Seed Catalogue, 
No. 446. Post Free on application. 
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DiCKSONSi Chester. 
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IF YOU WANT 
FRUIT TREES 
That will bear regularly, purchase Apples worked upon our 
Paradise Stock. We have 70,000 to select from, and shall be 
pleased to show them to visitors. 
TRAXIMED TRESS A SPSCIAI.XTV. 
Catalogue Free on Application. 
J. R. PEARSON & SONS, 
CHILWELL NURSERIES, NOTTS. 
ESTABLISHED 1782. 
Prudential Assurance Company 
LIMITED. ^ 
Chief Office! HOLBORN BARS, LORDOR. 
Summary of the Report presented at the Forty-sixth 
Annual Meeting, held on 7th March, 1895. 
• branch.—T he number of Policies 
assuring the sum of 
*0,282,120, and producing a New Annual Premium 
Income of £339,957. 
received during the year were 
increase of £223,586 over the 
year loSid. 
The Claims of the year amounted to £ 518 , 131 . 
The number of Deaths was 3,584, and 198 Endow'- 
ment Assurances matured. 
The number of Policies in force at the end of the 
year was 375,545. 
industrial branch.—T he Premiums received 
^4.244,224, being an increase of 
claims of the year amounted to £1,548,377. The 
number of Deaths was 168,689, and 1,304 Endowment 
Assurances matured. 
Policies granted during the year 
Policyholders of five years’ standing, who 
discontinue their payments was 66,478, the 
number in force being 398,078. The number of Free 
Pohoies which became Claims during the year was 
The total number of Policies in force at the end of 
nearll'L' duration is 
®cven and a half years. 
abo^^n Company, in both branches, as 
fniZrT Balanc- Sheet, are £21,213,805, being an 
S f2,674,940 over those of 189.3. A supple- 
nriLv in detail the various investments is 
published with this Report. 
submitted to Messrs. 
ftpuendl^^^Tf^’ Griffiths & Co., whose certificate is 
appended to the acoouuts. 
THOS. C. DEWEY, ] 
WILLIAM HUGHES, J Managers. 
W. J. LANCASTER, Secretary. 
The full Jtepert can be obtained upon application to the Secretary 
Ko. 768.-YOU XXX., Third Skrus. 
XT' YOXJ 
REALLY ROOD 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. 
Eafh packet contains nearly 200 feeds. Perfection, 8d. ; Ham 
Green Favourite, 3d. : Hackwood Park Prolific, 8d.; Challenger, 
3d. ; Roseleigh Gem, a grand new large smooth selection, Sd. ; 
Golden Perfection, the b^et 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, Rolliss'n’s 
Selected Telegraph, Epicurean, and Covent Garden Favourite, 
fid. 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 f o much cut bloom at so small a cost, or so little 
troub'e. To get best results SOW AT ONCE, as directions 
sent with each Collection. 
SPECXAI. VERV CHEAP OFFSR. 
8 Really Good Varieties—Queen of England, white: Blanche 
Ferry, pink and white; Princess Beatrice, pale pink; Apple 
B oBfom, apple blossom tint; Orange Prince, orange pit k ; 
Splendour, rich deep rose ; Cardinal, bright cardinal ; Coun¬ 
tess of Radnor,pale heliotrope, 25 seeds of each. 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 p ile rose; Firefly, bright glowing crimson; 
Monarch, large bronzy purple, 26 seeds of each, Is. fid. 
The Two Collections, 2s. fid. - Postage 2d. each Collecfon 
extra; or the two bd. extra. 
Extra Choice Mixture, 8d. per 100 seeds; postage Id. extra. 
ALL OTHER SEEDS EeOALLY MODERATE. 
FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Please mention this Paper. 
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1895. 
AVENUE PLANTING. 
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R everence begotten of dignity and associa¬ 
tions with the past is the feeling which 
prevails when viewing a noble avenue forming 
the approach to some “stately home.” Probably 
not any form of planting is able to convey so 
much of calm repose to the critical eye as this ; 
and possibly not any is more open to criticism 
nor more deserving of deliberation should it fall 
to one’s lot to arrange similar work. 
Planting an avenue on the larger scale does 
not allow of a margin for errors, whether of 
space, position, or variety. The designer of 
such needs a clearness of vision and of sufficient 
power to see far into futurity ; for of all work 
that which is tested by time is the most severely 
tried. There is a greater danger in our day— 
although so frequently admonished as to the 
need of looking ahead—of being too near¬ 
sighted to see into the remote future, for there 
are many things now crowding into our lives to 
obstruct the distant view. Ail the necessary 
rules for our guidance in planting an avenue are 
to be found in perfect examples of their kind, 
yet not so those errors which it is desirous to 
know in order to avoid ; for the more serious has 
been the defect the more certain has been the 
doom. Trees unsuited to the locality have 
succumbed, or injudicious arrangeiAcnt at plant¬ 
ing has been a growing evil until sv.ept away 
by necessity. Better so than remain the silent 
witness of error. 
In the first place it is essential that the trees 
should consist of one variety only. Alternate 
planting of distinct varieties results in archi¬ 
tectural incongruity. Formality where employed 
should be in its best form. The selection of a 
variety to which the locality is pre-eminently 
adapted must not be overlooked. It is the 
key to success. In observing the trees of the 
neighbourhood they will tell their own tale of 
what to plant and what to avoid. Should taste 
or fancy prompt the introduction of kinds 
practically new to the locality, due weight 
should be given to the consideration that the 
work must then be more or less experimental. 
In the more prominent, or important positions 
this phase of planting will seldom allow of its 
taking the form of an experiment. 
No. 2424 .—VoL. XOII., Old Series. 
