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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
February 20. 
ground that can be named. Eight or ten pounds per I 
annum are often paid as manual labour. But what is the 
result ? That four or live crops may be got from the same j 
piece of ground in one year; each crop making its ap- j 
pearance in due season, and the ground being strong and 
hearty, after all. These market-gardens have already been 
noticed in “Household Words ” and we will therefore now 
keep to herbs .—(Household Words.) 
(To be continued.) 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
%* We request that no one will write to the departmental writers of 
Tub Cottage Gardener. It gives them unjustifiable trouble and 
expense. All communications should be addressed “ To the Editor of \ 
The Cottage Gardener, 2, Amen Corner , Paternoster Row , London.” 
Heracleum giganteum (Pink). —You will find full particulars in 
our lfilst number, page 76 . It is one of the easiest of plants to 
cultivate. Sow the seed in April; transplant the seedlings when two 
inches high, injuring the root as little as possible, to where they are to 
remain. A deep, rich, moist soil, such as the margin of a ditch or pond, 
suits them well. 
Poultry (A New Subscriber). —You keep five Shanghaes and five 
Dorkings in a yard twenty-six feet by five feet, and wonder they do not 
thrive, nor lay! The only poultry which would exist—we do not say 
thrive—in such a prison, are the Cochins, nor would they escape being 
killed by being egg-bound and paralysed, unless well supplied with 
green food, and no animal food. Whoever advised you to give them 
“raw sprats ” (!) is totally ignorant of poultry-feeding. 
Fancy Fowls Eggs. — S-, and many other correspondent, so fre¬ 
quently write to enquire where they can purchase Tea Fowls, Golden 
Pheasants, and other ornamental fowls eggs, that any one having them 
to sell would find it answer their wishes if they advertised in our 
columns. 
Pollard (T. S., Liverpool). —This, and “Middlings,” “Sharps,” 
and “ Random,” are the bran of wheat in various degrees of fineness. 
Profitable Poultry (R. Gough). —In answer to your query, we 
cannot do better than refer you to the remarks of a correspondent in to¬ 
day’s paper. If we wished to combine a profitable supply of eggs, with 
a good supply of chicken, we should keep Cochin-China pullets and a 
Dorking cock. 
Mimosa (F. E. C.). —Your specimen is of Acacia lophanta , some¬ 
times called A. elegans. It is a native of New Holland. 
London : Printed by Hugh Barclay, Winchester High-street, in 
the Parish of Saint Mary Kalendar; and Published by William 
Somerville Orr, of Church Hill, Walthamstow, in the County of 
Essex, at the Office, No. 2, Amen Corner, in the Parish ot Christ, 
Church, City of London.—February 20, 1855. 
&tUm-ti£ementg. 
ESTABLISHED ABOUT HALF A CENTURY. 
BASS and BROWN’S New Seed List is now ready, and contains 
everything which may be desired of the choicest new and other Vegetable 
Seeds. 
Having given much attention for a considerable nnmber of years to 
testing, by comparison, the various sorts of vegetables introduced, 
devoting s large portion of our land to such purpose, we are enabled to 
offer our seeds with confidence. 
The collections annually supplied from our establishment have been 
highly approved, and the following are strongly recommended. 
ASSORTED COLLECTIONS OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
No 1. Collection for a large garden, containing twenty quarts £ s. d. 
of Peas, and all other vegetables for one year’s supply 3 0 0 
No 2. Collection in smaller proportions .. .. .. ..200 
No 3. Collection ditto .. .. .. .. .. 15 0 
No 4. Collection of good kinds for a small garden .. .. 0 15 0 
A FEW NEW VARIETIES OF PEAS. 
Epps’ Lord Raglan, or Improved Mammoth, produces eight 
to ten Peas in a pod, and allowed to be the finest in 
cultivation. per quart 0 5 0 
Epps’ Monarch, new, tall Marrow, largest size Pea in cultiva¬ 
tion. . .. . .. per quart 0 5 0 
Fairbeard’s Nonpariel, a delicious, new, w'rinkled Marrow of 
great produce and fine pods, coming in before the 
Champion of England. per quart 0 2 6 
Mein’s Paradise, a most valuable early, very large Marrow Pea; 
pod large, long, and well-filled ; fine-flavour. This 
Pea, though very large, comes in immediately after 
the Warwick. .. .. per quart 0 2 6 
Hair’s New Defiance, a fine variety of wrinkled Marrow; pro¬ 
ductive . per quart 0 1 9 
Sangster’s New Number One; Daniel O’Rourke; Hair’s Dwarf 
Mammoth; Early Emperor, or Fairbeard’s Conqueror: Burbidge’s 
Eclipse; Champion of England; and other finest sorts. See Catalogue. 
The lists of Flower Seeds will be found, as usual, very select, including, 
also, Imported German Seeds, just imported, in splendid assortment. 
Goods Carriage-free (not under 20s.) to all the London Termini, and 
all stations on the London and Norwich Colchester line. 
Seed and Horticultural Establishment, Sudbury, Suffolk. 
UNEQUALLED NEW MELON, 
GOLDEN DROP GREEN FLESH. 
EDWARD TILEY having- purchased the whole 
of Messrs. Wood and Son’s stock of Seeds of the above-named Melon, 
can with confidence recommend it to all growers of that splendid fruit. 
It has been thoroughly proved by an eminent Melon grower, and declared 
by all who have seen and tasted it to be one of the finest-flavoured 
Melons yet grown. It is a very beautiful colour when ripe, skin very 
thin, flesh firm and solid, and of a most superior melting and delicious 
flavour. Free setter and prolific bearer. It possesses a great advantage 
over others in its exceedingly handsome appearance when placed upon 
a table or on the stall of a fruit salesmen, and for exhibition this Melon 
will be the favourite. 
THE KING, Superb Scarlet Flesh Melon.—This is a variety very 
much wanted, and which has for some time past been neglected, but is 
now becoming in great request; sqph being the case, Edward Tiley 
has just procured a stock of this most superb Hybrid Scarlet Flesh 
Melon, which he can recommend with as great confidence as those 
before sent out by him, and which have all given the greatest satisfaction 
to the public. 
Each of the above varieties may be had in packets containing six seeds, 
Is (id per packet. 
The following fine varieties of Melons can be highly recommended, 
and arc all warranted true:— 
The Queen .. 
Is 
Bcechwood 
1 8 
Bromham Hall 
Is 
Windsor Prize 
Is 
Incomparable 
1 8 
Emperor 
Fleming’s Hybrid Persian .. 
IS 
Golden Ball 
Is 
Is 
Golden Perfection .. 
Is 
Blackall’s Green Flesh 
Is 
Bowood 
Is 
Bailey’s ditto 
Is 
Victory of Bath 
Is 
Snow’s Hybrid 
Is 
Camerton Court 
Is 
Gordon Castle 
Is 
Chichester Prize 
Is 
A packet of the Golden 
Droj 
and one of the King Melon, and 
one 
packet of any other variety mentioned will be forwarded, post free, on 
receipt of 3s fid in cash, or penny postage stamps. 
EDWARD TILEY, Nurseryman, Seedsman, and Florist, 14, Abbey 
Church Yard, Bath, Somerset. 
NEW SEEDLING POTATO-TEE CHAMPION 
KIDNEY.—This Potato bears a great resemblance to that fine old 
Potato, the Ash-leaf Kidney; it possesses the following good qualities 
over the Ash-leaf. If planted at the same time it will be ten days earlier, 
all the sets always vegetate well, and do not die off in the ground as the 
Ash-leaf does; 2 pecks of seed will produce a greater weight of Potatoes 
than 3 pecks of the Ash-leaf. It is quite equal to that in flavour, and is 
eatable during the whole winter. Sets that have had the shoots broken 
off five cr six times during the spring will vegetate again as if it had 
been the first shoot. About twenty Gentlemen and Gardeners who had 
seed to plant last season have assured me that they never before grew 
any Potato to equal it, and should continue to grow it as a first early 
Potato. Numerous orders have been already received from persons who 
saw it growing during the last summer. It has been grown and 
thoroughly proved for the last four years, and found to be less liable 
to disease than any other Potato that has been grown. Out of twenty- 
five sacks grown this season there was not a single diseased Potato 
among them. 
Sold in quantities of not less than 1 peck; these will be sent, Hamper 
and Package free, at 5s 6d per peck, or 4 pecks for £l, hamper free. A 
remittance in cash must accompany all orders, or small amounts in 
penny postage-stamps. Purchasers would do well to name the nearest 
Railway Station to their residence. 
EDWARD TILEY, Nurseryman, Seedsman, and Florist, 14, Abbey 
Church Yard, Bath, Somerset. 
GLASS for CONSERVATORIES.-Thos. Millington 
requests attention to the present PRICES of SHEET GLASS, packed 
in 100 feet Boxes, Good Quality, about 15 oz. to the foot, Boxes Is extra, 
but allowed for when returned. 
Inches. 
100 feet. 
Inches. 100 ft. 
Inches 
100 ft. 
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by 14, at 19s. 
Large Sheets for cutting up in Cases, at 2$d and 3d per foot. 
T. M. lias supplied large quantities to Mr. Rivers for Orchard 
Houses, &c. 
HARTLEY’S IMPROVED ROUGH PLATE GLASS, Sheet, and 
Rough Plate, Tiles, Milk Pans, Bee and Propagating Glasses, Wasp 
Traps, Cucumber Tubes, Preserve Jars with and without covers. 
Plate, Sheet , Crown , and Ornamental Window Glass; Crystal 
Glass Shades for Ornaments. 
87, BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHOUT, LONDON. 
(Same side as Eastern Counties’ Railway.) 
GLAZING WITH OR WITHOUT PUTTY- 
E. DENCH, Patent Hot House Works, King’s Road, Chelsea. 
Printed Price Lists supplied on application. 
