February 4, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
355 
Hiss 
NEW PRINCESS ASTER. 
A splendid new variety, of pyramidal habit, producing a 
dense mass of richly-coloured and finely-formed flowers. 
Mixed colours .per packet Is. Gel. 
Eight distinct colours (separate) ... 3s. Qd. 
POST FREE. 
From W. MONTGOMERY, Esq., Kirkintilloch. 
“I have grown your Asters for a good many years alongside 
some from, other noted. Houses , and cm 'proud to tell you that 
1 Webbs’ Asters' are the Asters of the day. 
see WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, 
Post free, Is. ; gratis to Customers. Abridged 
Edition, gratis and post free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen 
and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
CANNELL’S 
BOUND CATALOGUES. 
T HE demaDd for our Cloth-covered Catalogues has 
exhausted our usual number, and we beg to inti¬ 
mate that another supply will be ready and sent on as 
quickly as possible, and we hope that all requiring 
such will send in their orders at once. 
CANNELL & SONS, SWANLEY, KENT. 
M.. J. G. Blackman, Hatlierly Cottage, near Cheltenham, 
January 27th, 1SS8. 
. ‘J M thank you to send me on four copies of yours the b 
of all Catalogues for the garden.” 
?T L ? EN '’ Esq ’ ® xford Road, Reading, January 2Sth, 1SS! 
Catalogue to hand, for which I return you my best than 
rue plates are splendid—so natural—quite different from ■ 
daubs we get from other firms.” 
Dr. Mead, Mortimer House, Bishops Lydeard, Taunton, 
u January 25th, 18SS. 
‘Thanks for ‘Floral Guide,’ a book where infinite vari 
never stales, and which has occupied me for hours during 
past year. Debit me with it. Send me one every year. Canne 
truide is the cheapest and most interesting shillino-’s-wo 
extant. 
.. Jf rs - Sale, 29, Defoe Road, Tooting, January 28th 1SSS 
«„>i Tha i nk ? f or Catalo S ue - Will thank you to send another 
enclosed address ; Is. Set. enclosed.? 
Catalogue Received. -Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons’ “ Cr 
plete Illustrated Floral Guide for 1888," consisting of over 
pages, sent us by carrier, is a marvel, even amidst wonders fr 
America. Horticulture is a power in the realm, or such o-uii 
could not exist.— Lloyd’s Newspaper. ’ ° 
QAkMWmisZ; m S@Ni, 
THE HOME OF FLOWER:-, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
SUTTON’S 
N E W 
POTATOES. 
NEY/ EARLY POTATO FOR 1888. 
SUTTON’S EARLY WHITE KIDNEY. 
“ A flrst-rate garden Potato.”—Mr. IV. WILDSMITH, Heck- 
field Gardens. 
‘ 1 A giand Potato. Great cropper, very few small tubers, 
most excellent flavour.”—Mr. J. RUST, Bridge Castle Gardens. 
Per 14 lbs., 7s. 6d. 
NEW~SECOND-EARLY POTATO FOR 18887 
SUTTON’S EARLY MARKET. 
“ Crop enormous, tubers of good shape and weighty, entirely 
free from disease. Cooks dry and floury, flavour excellent."— 
Mr. 5V. POPE, The Gardens, Highclere Castle. 
Per 14 lbs., 5s. ; per 56 lb3., 17s 6d. 
NEW MAIN CROP POTATO. 
SUTTON’S BEST OF ALL. 
0 Sent out in 1SS7 as “ SUTTON'S TWENTY-ONE.'') 
“I had a trial of this variety in 1SS5 ; it then proved the 
heaviest cropper of many varieties planted. This year it has 
given a very good crop of large tubers, much over an average. 
Very handsome, quite free from disease, and of excellent quality 
when cooked.”—Mr. C. ILOTT, The Gardens, Wokefield Park. 
Per 14 lbs., 5s. ; per 58 lbs , 17s. 6d. 
NEW MAIN CROP POTATO. 
SUTTON’S SATISFACTION. 
0 Sent out in 18S7 as “SUTTON'S THIRTY-SIX.") 
“ I took one First and two Second Prizes with your “Thirty- 
six” Potato. It was greatly admired, some of the tubers 
weighing 13 ounces; handsome in shape, and a beautiful 
cooking Potato.”—Mr. JAMES THOMAS, Little Haven. 
Per 14 lbs., 5s. ; per 56 lbs., 17s. 6d. 
NEW MAIN CROP "POTATO. 
SUTTON’S MASTERPIECE. 
(Sent out in 1887 as “SUTTON'S FORTY-FOUR.") 
“ Very pretty tubers. Cooking quality, Al. A rc-ally first- 
class Potato.”—Mr. C. HOWE, the Gardens, Benham Park. 
Per 14 lbs., 5s. ; per 56 lbs., 17s. 6d. 
A Collection of Seven of Sutton's New Potatoes, Early 
White Kidney, Early Market, Best of All, Satisfaction, 
Masterpiece, Seedling, & Abundance, 7 lb. of each, 15/- 
SUTTON & SONS, 
THE QUEEN'S 
SEEDSMEN, 
Reading. 
A 92 PACE 
CATALOGUE, 
EMBELLISHED WITH 
Ttebes tCUCUMB ER. 
CAETEStS 5 
MODEL 
Takes all the Leading Prizes. 
— Vide Awards. 
Price, in sealed packets, 2/6, 
& 3/6 per pkt., post free. 
Royal Seedsmen by Sealed 
Warrants. 
m HIGH HOLBORN, 
LONDON. 
QEEDS. — RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Worcester, beg to draw' attention to the Low Prices of in¬ 
dividual articles (Peas especially), and the liberality of the 
Collections at Fixed Prices, as set forth in their Illustrated 
SEED LIST, which will he sent free on application. All Seeds, 
&c., are of the best poss ible quality. _ _ 
T ry roses from a cold climate.— 
Unequalled for Hardiness, Strength, and Fibrous Roots. 
75 First Prizes awarded this season at leading Shows in England 
and Scotland.. Send for Catalogue to JAMES COCKER & SONS, 
Rose Grower s, &c., Aberdeen. ____ 
IH PRIZES.—Exhibitors should 
o& ts send for T. Laxton’s List of upwards of 100 Novel¬ 
ties and Specialities in Vegetables and Flowers, the best only, 
selected for quality and exhibition ; with particulars of Prizes. 
T. LAXTON, Seed Grower, Bedford.__ 
YD ARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS, 
YdT SPRING BULBS, &c.—C. G. VAN TUBERGEN, June., 
Haarlem, Holland. Wholesale Catalogue now ready, and may 
be had free on application to Messrs. R. SILBERRAD & SON, 
25, Savage Gardens, Crutched Friars, London, E.C._ 
R oyal horticultural society, 
SOUTH KENSINGTON, S.W. 
The Annual General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society will be held in the East Crush Room, Royal Albert Hall 
(Entrance, N.E. Orchard House, Exhibition Road), on Tuesday, 
February 14th, to receive the Report of the Council and of the 
Auditors; for the Election of Council and Officers; for the 
Removal from the Society of certain Fellows, under the pro¬ 
visions of “ Bye-Law 22” ; for the Election of new Fellow's, and 
other business. Chair to be taken at 3 p.m. 
N.B.—As this is an important meeting, Fellow's are earnestly 
requested to attend. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, February 7th. — Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. Sale of Conifers, 
Roses, &e. at the City Auction Rooms, 3S &S9, Gracechureh 
Street, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, February Stli.—Sale of Plants from Ghent, Roses, 
&c., at Stevens’ Rooms. Sale of Lilium auratum Bulbs, 
Plants, &c., at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Thuksday, February 9th.—Sale of Established and Imported 
Orchids at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, February 10th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, February 11th.—Sale of Plants bom Ghent, Roses, 
&c., at Stevens’ Rooms. Sale of Plants, Roses, Lilies, &c., 
at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
109 ENGRAVINGS, 
Many of which, like the Flowers they illustrate, are 
original, consisting exclusively of 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
I have much pleasure in announcing that my 
new CATALOGUE OF FLOWER SEEDS is now 
ready, and has been posted to all customers, who 
will doubtless welcome it as a valuable catalogue 
for reference, and to whom, I am sure, it will 
prove specially instructive and attractive. Con¬ 
sidering that its pages are devoted to Flower Seeds 
only, it is, perhaps, not too much to claim that 
it is the largest catalogue of these ever published, 
and includes in its varied columns very many 
species and varieties which can he procured from 
Tottenham only; and, while desirous to introduce a 
large amount of stuff not generally known, I have, as 
is my wont, had due and proper regard to the fact that, 
as a rule, buyers do not care for specialities unless they 
are distinct and effective. All the novelties and 
varieties appearing in this catalogue claim such a 
distinction. __ 
Copies may be had, gratis and post free, 
upon application. 
THOMAS S. WARE, 
HALE FARM NURSERIES, 
TOT TENHAM, LON DON. 
Kindly mention this Paper when writing for Catalogue. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1888. 
Moisture Prospects. —Although we are hid¬ 
den to take no thought for the morrow, the 
exigencies of civilised life compel us to take 
serious thought not only for that morrow but 
even for many morrows, as is illustrated in the 
fact that although we have just entered upon 
the assumed moist month of February, yet 
men’s minds are in grave doubt whether this 
month will justify its ancient reputation. 
Should February resemble the month which 
has just passed away in its almost remarkable 
lack of rainfall, we shall have only windy March 
and tearful, but far from weeping, April to 
slip away ere being again face to face with 
the summer season. 
A year ago, when none could have foreseen 
the remarkable drought which characterised 
the succeeding summer—indeed, we may almost 
|. say the whole year—even then some ahkiety 
was manifested as to our natural water supply. 
