February 19, 1887. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
387 
Iby royal, warrants 
Seedsmen to fo ® ^ Seedsmen to 
H.M. H.R.H. 
the QUEEX. PRINCE OF WALES. 
PTOB &ARDE1T 
SEEDS 
OR RAIL I 
EVIDENCE OF QUALITY, 
From the Rev. Wm. S. Barker, Silkstone Vicarage. 
“The Guinea Box of Vegetable Seeds was more 
than sufficient to give me a good round of crops for 
rather over half an acre of kitchen garden. The chief 
advantage was in the judgment shown in selections 
of Seeds and their proportions to each other. 
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For medium-sized Gardens .. 12s. 6d-, 15s., & 21s. ,, 
For large Gardens. 31s- 6d., 42s-, & 63s. ,, 
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SUTTON’S 
SEED POTATOES. 
A leading article in the “ Gardeners’ Magazine,” 
February 10, 1SS3, contained the following remark : — 
“ Messrs. Sutton & Sons have a vantage-ground of 
their own, for they have sent out a series of varieties 
that have become renowned as ‘ disease-resisters ’ ; 
and although it is slow work to produce and prove 
Potatoes for this purpose, they have by steady appli¬ 
cation, and most exemplary patience, secured sorts 
peculiarly adapted for field culture, and to take the 
market afterwards. As a matter of fact, Messrs. 
Sutton & Sons stand alone as the distributors of 
original and high-class varieties.” 
iSutton’s Own Introductions 
In 1886 and 1887. 
f New Potato, 1886. 
Per.14 lbs. SUTTON’S ABUNDANCE. 
“ My gardener is very solicitous that I 
should write and tell you the result of 
your Seed Potatoes ; and also, I may add, 
that as usual all your seeds have yielded 
well and true to name and description ; 
p or Kf* ihc 6 lbs. Sutton’s Seedling yielded 120 lbs. 
•TGI -LUo. a u g 00( i sound tubers; 6 lbs. Sutton’s 
M i Abundance produced ITS lbs., all good 
/ ** sound tubers.’ - —Mrs. Harvey, Purland 
Chase, Ross. 
New Potato, 1086. 
Per 14 lbs. 
4/- 
Per 56 lbs. 
14 /- 
SUTTON’S SEEDLING. 
“Sutton's Seedling Potato has turned 
out splendid. When cooked they are like 
halls of flour. It seems quite a disease- 
resisting Potato. Grown here, it and 
Magnum Bonum are the only varieties 
free from disease. If I were asked, ‘ What 
are the two best main-crop Potatoes ? ’ X 
should say, without hesitation, Sutton's 
Seedling and Magnum Bonum. ’—Mr. W. 
Mackie, Gardener to Mrs. Ruddle, The 
Mythe. 
New Potato, 18 87. 
SUTTON’S 
Per 14 lbs. 
5/- 
TWENTY-ONE. 
“A wonderful cropper, very even, 
scarcely any small ones. The 3 lhs. of 
seed were cut to single eyes, and the 
produce was SJ bushels. Tubers fit for 
exhibition were found on nearly every 
root. Most excellent flavour, very much 
like the good old Regent in its best days, 
many years ago.” — Mr. C. Ross, The 
Gardens, Welford Park. 
New Potato, 1887. 
SUTTON'S THIRTY-SIX. 
Per 14 lbs. 
5 h 
“ This I consider the best of the three 
new varieties, a heavy cropper, and, in 
fact, the best white round Potato 1 have 
grown. It cooks well, and is, in fact, the 
beau ideal of a Potato for a gentleman’s 
table."—Mr. G. Ellott, The Gardens, 
Braywick Lodge. 
New Potato, ISS?. 
SUTTON’S FORTY-FOUR. 
“ This handsome Potato is quite dis¬ 
tinct ; by far the best round I ever grew. 
Crop more than an average of uniform 
tubers. Last year’s trial proved it to he 
a first-rate variety; this is more than 
cofirmed by this year’s crop. Quite free 
from disease. The best quality of any 
Potato I have grown tills year. It has no 
bad point whatever, hut is perfection."— 
Mr. C. Ilott, Gardener to Major G. H. 
Allfrey, Wokefield Park. 
A collection of the foregoing Five New Potatoes 
C lbs. of each 9/ - 
For full Particulars of 
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Vegetables, Potatoes & Flowers, 
SEE 
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Thg Largest and Most Complete Seed 
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Beautifully illustrated. Price, Is. ; post free ; gratis 
to customers. 
Royal Berks Seed Establishment, Reading. 
The Liverpool Horticultural Association 
Exhibitions for 1887. 
T HE SPRING SHOW of Hyacinths, Tulips, 
Azaleas, Forced Hardy Plants, &c., will he held in St. 
George's Hall, on Wednesday, March 16th. 
Grand Exhibition in Sefton Park, on Saturday and Monday, 
July 30th and August 1st. 
The Great Chrysanthemum and Fruit Show, on Tuesday and 
Wednesday, November 22nd and 23rd. 
Liberal and special prizes are offered. 
Schedules now ready, and may he had from the Secretary, 
EDWARD BRIDGE, 3, Cedar Terrace, Huyton, Liverpool. 
JDRESTOX AND FULWOOD HORTI- 
JL CULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Ninth Great Spring Flower 
Show and Floral Fete will he held in the New Public Hall, 
Preston, on Thursday and Friday, the 17th and 18tli of Marcli 
next. Schedules of prizes and other information from the 
Secretary, Mr. JOHN ATHERTON, Fern Bank, Cadley, 
Preston. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Feb. 21st.—Clearance Sale at the Hertford Nursery by 
Protlieroe & Morris—Trade Sale of Lily Bulbs at Stevens 
Rooms. 
Tuesday, Feb. 22nd.—Special Sale of Orchids in Flower at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms.—Sale of Roses, Shrubs, &c. at 
the City Auction Rooms. 
Wednesday, Feb. 23rd. —Sales of Hardy Plants, Bulbs, &c. at 
Stevens’ and Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday-, Feb. 24th. — Sale of Orchids, Bulbs, &c. at Stevens' 
Rooms. 
Friday, Feb. 25th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, Feb. 26th.—Sales of Hardy Plants, Bulbs, &e. at 
Stevens' and Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs' Garden. 391 
Apples, late-keeping. 394 
Arachnanthe Cathearti_ 395 
Bouvardias . 394 
Oestrum elegans. 394 
Chinese Primroses. 3SS 
Chestnuts, the, Gunners- 
bury . 3S9 
Coal dues, the. 387 
Cymbidium giganteum.... 395 
Ferns, hardy . 394 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 394 
Gardeners’ Orphanage_ 392 
Heating and Ventilating .. 3S8 
Horticultural Societies.... 396 
PAGE 
Iris fimbriata . 394 
Manures in Orchid culture 392 
Mushrooms. 394 
Orchids at Studley House 395 
Orchids, odours of. 390 
Pears, late-keeping . 389 
Phalsenopsis Stuartiana .. 395 
Propagating house, the .. 390 
Resurrection Plant . 392 
Scottish Notes . 391 
Spinach. 394 
Sternbergia lutea . 394 
Yeitcli’s Manual of Orchid¬ 
aceous Plants. 392 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1887. 
The Coal Dues. —Although the question of 
the continuance of the Coal Dues over the 
Metropolitan area after 1889 does not seem to 
excite appreciable interest, it is evident that 
legislation respecting them will take place this 
year, and their continuance be assured, unless 
public sentiment be aroused concerning them. 
Perhaps the cause for this comparative apathy 
is found in the insidious nature of the Coal 
Tax, which because it is not apparent, is, 
therefore, not felt in the same rvay that a 
direct impost is; but when it is stated that 
the duty paid on coal consumed in the Metro¬ 
politan area annually amounts to some £420,000, 
or rapidly approaching to half a million of 
money, it is evident that coal consumers have 
to pay in this way a tax which would he 
stoutly objected to if more clearly brought 
home to them. The question, happily, is a 
purely non-political one. The most eminent 
financiers of the great political parties have 
pronounced against the continuance of the tax, 
and the present Government has declared its 
intention to adhere to the late Chancellor of the 
Exchequer’s declaration, which stoutly opposes 
the continuance of the tax, unless some strong 
expression in favour of that continuance is 
made by the inhabitants of the area generally. 
How, in these days of glasshouses, heating 
power is an indispensable element in gardening, 
and that heating power is obtained exclusively 
