AprU 18, 1896. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
' 327 
STRAWBERRIES. 
Special low 
quotations for 
quantities for 
market grow¬ 
ing. In small pots for fruiting first year. Open-air runners 
very cheap. All the leading varieties, new or old. 
FRUIT TREES 
OP ALL KINDS. SEND FOR LIST. 
Pomona Farm Nurseries, 
WITHINGTON, HETIEFOIID. 
, LOOK! LOOK! 
100,000 HARBV PXiiiN'TS must he cleared, 
viz :—Achillea tnonj^olica, Armeria bracteata rubra, Anlhericum 
liliistrum, Campanxila graudlF, Centaurea montana alba, Del- 
phinintn graudifloruni ia var, Dianthua deltoides, Doronicum 
: Harper Crewe, Geum coccineum, Hemerocallls flava, Helentain 
1 uumilum, Hotentilia in var., Phlox in var., Saxifraga ounc^a, 
j Trollins europaius, Thalictrum adiantifolinm ; six tor Is. 6d • 
twelve, 2s. Gd.; lOo, 15s., free. 
LOGAN & CO., CHAD VALLEY, BIRMINGHAM. 
ECKFORD’S SWEET PEAS 
(68 Varieties), The greatest triumph in the fioral world 
of to-day. “Lovely colours,” “exquisite shades,” “delightful 
fragrance,” immense size. Don’t miss the new giant white 
“Blanche Burp 6 e,” sealed packets. Is., post free. 
“ ECKFORD’S CULINARY PEAS” are undoubtedly 
the finest quality in the market. 
Send for Descriptive Catalogue and Cu'tural Notes, free from 
HENRY ECRFORB, WEIVI, SHROPSHIRE. 
FERNS SPECIALITY. 
IVe have an Immense stock of all kinds of Ferns, Stove, Green¬ 
house, Filmy, Hardy Exotic, and British, including many very 
beautilul varieties, rarely seen but which ought to be more 
generally grown. Catalogue free on application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
FIRN NVRSERJE3, SALE, near MANCHESTER. 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
AND 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 
FORBES’ NEW CATALOGUE for 1895 is enlarged to about 150 
pages,and very materially improved, embracing everything-new 
ana old—worth cultivating in the way of FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
and HARDY PLANTS, with accurate de.-criptions and prices. 
Copious notes as to their origin, how and where best to grow, a 
full index of the common orpopu'ar names of HARDY BORDER 
PLANTS, and a vast mass of other valuable information that 
cannot be had elsewhere, which renders this the BEST, MOST 
RELIABLE, and COMPLETE CATALOGUE ever issued on this 
popular class of plants. Free on Application. 
JOHN FORBES, Nurseryman, 
HAWICK, SCOTLAND. 
JACK FROST 
Has caused many losses that can be made good in an easy and 
cheap manner by purchasing the following Bulbs and Plants, 
which I can stiongly recommend as being first class : — 
BEGONIAS, SINGLE, 
20,000 Grand Bulbs, Mixed Colours, finest ever offered at the 
price. 3s. per dozen. 
PELARGONIUMS, show & decorative. 
Fine Plants in Best Kinds, 6 s„ 9s., and 12s. per dozen. 
ZONAL PELARGONIUMS, 
Best Kinds only. 6 for 2s. 6 d., 12 for 4s. 
IVY-LEAF PELARGONIUMS. 
A very Choice Lot. 6 for 2s. 6 d., 12 for 4s. 
DOUBLE PETUNIAS, 
Extra fine New Kinds. 6 for 3s. 6 d., 12 for 63 . 
Send for Catalogue, Free. 
HITHER GREEN, LEWISHAM. 
No. 773.—VOL. XXX., TfiiRD Series. 
DANIELS BROS. 
TOWN CLOSE NURSERIES, 
NORWICH. 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIAS 
(Carriage Free). 
We have much pteasure in offering fine Flowering Tubers from 
our grana strains as below 
DOUBLE-FLOWERED, p.^doz. 
Choice named varieties, including some magnificent 
flowers . 35s., 403. & 50s 
Extra Choice varieties for Exhibition,carefully selected, 
a grand mi.xture .. .. .. .. .. 24s. & SOs. 
For Pot Culture, splendid varieties of the most beau¬ 
tiful form and colours. .. 123. & IS.s. 
Mixed Doubles for Bedding, a capital variety of good 
double flowers. Per 100, 40s. Gs. 
SINGLE-FLOWERED. 
Extra Choice Exhibition varieties, immense blooms of 
the most beautiful colours and perfect form .. 183 . 
For Greenhouse and Cou-ervatory, a very choice mix¬ 
ture of carefully selected flowers .. .. !‘s. & 12 s. 
For Pot culture, beautiful selected varieties. Per 100,40s. 6 s. 
Choice mixed Seedlings, all silected and approved 
flowers, splendid for bedding. Per 100, 253. .. 33 . Gd, 
From Mr. R. G. Milne, Gardener to the Earl of Minto, Aug. 2 . 
“I am glad to say the BEGONIAS have done splendidly; 
they are by far the best strain we have. They were greatly 
admired by all that saw them.” 
From Sir R. Dick OUNVNGnAM, Bart., Cheltenham, Oct. 6 th’ 
“ On my return home, after a long absence, I am much 
pleased to find the bed of nearly four hundred BEGONIAS 
still fall of flowers. The double ones in the bouse are a show 
for colour, size and beauty of shape.” 
CMEALSM«? 
WQRLD-WIDE KEHOWN’ STf\lKlNG flOVELTIES 
CATALOGUE POST FREEi^ 
f/. CJualx^orn^A 
THE NEW STRAWBERRY , 
The most Prolific and Finest Strawberry grown. Solid Fruit. 
Good Flavour. High Perfume. 
Awarded First-class Ce?-tificates Royal Horticullwal Society and 
Royal Botanic Society, 1895. 8ee 0 rdeners’ Chronicle, Mairh 2; 
Journal of Horticulture, March 14 ; and The Carden. March 16. 
Good Rooted Runners, £3 100; Established in 3-in. pots, £5 100. 
Plants ready early in August. Orders in rotation; stock limited. 
Terms - Cash with Order. 
J. R. STEVENS, Clayton Nursery, HASSOCKS. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
FOR EXHIBITORS. 
Thousands of sturdy plants in 3-inch pots just ready for 
moving. Struck cool in siniile pots. The plants may be 
depended upon for best results, which can neser be done with 
those struck in heat. 
CATALOGUE FREE ON APPLICATION. 
J. R. PEARSON & SONS, 
CHILWELL NURSERIES, NOTTS. 
ROSES! ROSES! 
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST IN THE WORLD. 
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE. 
All have been kept moved back, and will plant now with safety. 
24 Choice .Sianriards, 21s.; 26 Half-Standards 21s. ; 12 Standard-i, 
12t 01.: 12 Halt-Standards, lOs. Gd ; 50 choice dwarfs. 21s.; 12 
choice Climbing, 68 ; 12 best Hvbrid Pernetuals, dwarfs, 78.; 
6 lovely yellow noses, 4-^. 61.; 6 Gloire de Dijons, 4s.; 6 choice 
Mots Roses. 3s. 6d.; 0 old Cahoage Hoses, 3s. 6U.; 6 o'd-fashioned 
hoses, 8s. 61.; 6 pink Month y Roses, 2 .64.; 6 qu.ck-growing 
Climbing Roses. 2.S 61.; 12 Sweet Briars, 3s. My selection, cash 
with oraer. Thousands of Testimonials. 
CATALOGUES FREE. 
TAMSS WAXiTERS, Rose Grower, RXCTRR 
PREPARING FOR OLD AGE. 
-K>*- 
“ AHD age pensions,” and how to provide 
W them, is what may be termed a popular 
problem of the day. A puzzling problem, too, 
to many, for not a few are laudably engaged in 
its solution, but yet little real progress is made. 
Nor is it likely to be made until the great mass 
f the people rely less on what others may do 
for them and more on their own endeavours, in 
conjunction with some great organisation yet to 
to be devised, based perhaps on small, or not 
too heavily felt, deductions from wages after 
the manner of the new scheme of the London 
County Council, which has just come into 
operation. It is entitled a “ Superannuation and 
Provident Fund,” and some 700 men of various 
grades employed in the parks and open spaces 
became participators in it ; indeed it is a 
condition of their employment that they do so 
except in the case of any of them being already 
entitled to pensions under arrangements made 
prior to the parks coming under the control of 
the Council, or who can prove to its satisfaction 
that they have otherwise insured themselves 
to meet the adverse contingencies of life to 
an extent that will secure to themselves sub¬ 
stantially the same benefits as they would be 
entitled to as contributing members of the newly 
established fund. This is not a mere pension 
fund, but may be something a good deal better, 
as under the pension system a man may struggle 
on under physical infirmity to the requisite age 
for retiring, “enjoy” bis pension for a few 
months or a year, then die, leaving, it may be, a 
widow penniless on the world. 
The arrangement now completed under Par¬ 
liamentary powers consists in every member 
having 3i, deducted from every lOs. of salary 
or wages, or part of lOi. Thus, a man earning 
between 20s. and 30i. a week will leave Od. 
behind ; between 30s. and 40s. will leave 9d.; 
a man having £2 and less than £2 10s. a 
weA, Is. ; and so on. Whatever the sum 
may be the County Council adds an equal 
amount ; for instance, if a man’s deductions 
amount to £2 12s. a year, the sum of £5 4s. will 
be invested for him, and he will be entitled to 
3 per cent, interest on it and all amounts 
similarly contributed and added from year to 
No. 2129.—TOL. XCIL, OLD SERIES. 
