August 4, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
771 
10R PRESENT SOWING. 
Price, post free. 
CABBAGE— 
per oz. 
5. d. 
per pkt. 
d. s. d. 
CARTERS’ EARLY HEARTWELL .... 
i 
6 
6 & 1 0 
Acknowledged to be the finest Early 
Cabbage in cultivation. 
CARTERS’MAMMOTH BEEF-HEART.. 
i 
6 
6 & 1 0 
The Best Main-crop Garden Cabbage in 
cultivation. 
LETTUCE— 
CARTERS’ GIANT WHITE COS. 
2 
6 
6 & 1 0 
DUNNETT’S GIANT WINTER COS .... 
2 
6 
6 & 1 0 
CARTERS’ LONGSTANDER. 
ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
1 
6 
0 6 
onion- 
giant ROCCA . 1 6 
GIANT WHITE TRIPOLI. 1 0 
GIANT MADEIRA . 0 9 
Johnson’s Wonderful, is another; the Seville 
Longpod and its allies make a third ; and 
the fourth is found in the Windsor, with its 
short, broad pods. The Dwarf Pan is now 
grown but little in the south of England for 
table purposes, but much more in the north, 
Beck’s Dwarf Green Gem having taken its 
place. It is a delicious Bean, very dwarf in 
growth, and an excellent cropper. The seed 
supply is generally scarce, and it commands 
a good price; even in a wet season like the 
present it rarely exceeds a foot and a half in 
height. It is a very useful Bean for small 
gardens. 
237 
Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 
f & 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
R 
OYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Patron : Her Majesty The Queen. 
President: Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. 
Offices : 111, Victoria Street, S.W. 
N OTICE ! The next meeting of the Fruit 
and Floral Committees will be held in the Drill Hall of 
the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers, Janies Street, S.W., on 
Tuesday, August 14th, when the special subjects invited for 
exhibition will be Hardy Fruits, Phloxes, Pentstemons, 
&c., &c. 
Exhibition of the National Carnation and Picotee Society. 
Open to Fellows at 12 o’clock, and to the public at 1 p.in. 
For particulars respecting the election of Fellows apply to the 
Secretary, 111, Victoria Street, S.W. 
National Co-operative Flower Show, Crystal 
Palace, August 18th, 1888. 
AND MEDALS in Prizes for 
ofc tJ vJ L/ Flowers, Fruit, Vegetables, and Honey, open 
to members of Co-operative Societies throughout the Kingdom ; 
also for Skill of Workmen in all Trades for Amateur Work 
and Entomological and other specimens. 
Schedules of Prizes on application to 
WM. BROOMHALL, Secretary. 
1, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C. 
Caine Horticultural Society. 
T HE 24th ANNUAL EXHIBITION will 
be held in Bowood Park on Tuesday, the 21st inst., when 
prizes to the value of £170 will be offered. Amongst others are 
the following, open to all England 12 vars. Stove and Green¬ 
house Plants, £15, £10, £5 ; 9 Ornamental Foliage Plants, £10, 
£5, £2 10s. ; S Exotic Ferns, £4, £2 10s., £1 10s.; 36 Roses (cut 
flowers), Cup or £5., 50s., 30s. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, August 6th.—Flower Shows at Liverpool, South¬ 
ampton, Hebden Bridge, Grasmoor, Mansfield, and St. Neots. 
Wednesday, August Sth.— Flower Show of the Society of York 
Florists. Special Sale of Orchids in flower, &c., at Stevens’ 
Rooms. 
Friday, August 10th. — Royal Botanic Society's Annual 
Meeting. Sale of Imported and Established Orchids at 
Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
FOR INDEX TO CONTENTS, SEE P. 782. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1888. 
Broad Beans. —A judge at a country show, 
who claimed to be an authority on vegetable 
culture, once created a sensation by disquali¬ 
fying all the Longpod Beans shown in a class 
for Broad Beans. Longpod and Windsor 
Beans had been shown together for years, but 
this horticultural Daniel upset all previous 
arrangements by saying he would give prizes 
to Windsor Beans alone, as they were the 
true Broad Beans, and yet both are Broad 
Beans. The group of Broad Beans includes 
several types, of which the Dwarf Fan or 
Cluster, and its counterpart, Beck’s Dwarf 
Green Gem, the latter being a sport from the 
former, is one of them; the ordinary 
common Longpod and its improved type, 
The Seville Longpod is of dwarfer growth 
than the common and improved types of 
Longpod, and is remarkable for its long, 
well-filled pods; it lias become the exhibition 
Longpod par excellence. The pods, when the 
plants are well grown, are long, broad, and 
well filled; hut to have this Bean in the 
best form for exhibition purposes, it should 
he grown from imported seed. When grown 
from seed saved in this country it takes on 
a taller growth, and the pods do not come 
so fine and handsome. Aquadulce is not 
distinct from the Seville Longpod, but it 
may be regarded as the latter in the highest 
stage of development; when had at its best 
form it is a very fine exhibition Bean. This 
variety has been seized upon by enterprising 
seedsmen, and now hears several aliases, which 
is probably only what one might expect; one 
called John Harrison appears to he this type, 
hut this shows a tendency to revert to a 
smaller form when grown from home-saved 
seeds. 
The Mazagan—the Early Mazagan as it is 
not unfrequently called, and recommended as 
a first-early Bean by those who ought to 
know better—is not an early Bean, though 
styled so in seed lists. Its culture as a 
garden variety has narrowed considerably of 
late, but it is still a favourite in Scotland, 
and the more northerly and late parts of 
our own kingdom ; it is later in coming into 
use than the Early and Seville Longpods. 
The common Longpod has now been so much 
improved upon by means of selection, that it 
is scarcely worth a notice only as the fore¬ 
runner of a type. Johnson’s Wonderful, the 
Dutch and Goliath Longpods, are all good 
types; the Goliath Longpod has large, long, 
well-filled pods, is a robust grower and taller 
than the Seville. The Dutch Longpod is a 
good type; it is a strong grower, coming 
in with the Goliath, and is regarded as a 
good hardy Bean. Sutton’s Prolific Longpod 
is very similar, and should be noted as a 
free hearer, while producing very fine pods 
for the exhibition table. An enterprising 
country seedsman has given us a novelty in 
the way of a yellow-podded Longpod Bean ; 
it is the ordinary Longpod in this form, and 
is no doubt of continental origin, as yellow- 
podded Beans of all kinds are found across 
the Channel. It does not appear to be very 
true to character, and the pods, when yellow, 
are smaller than the green ones. 
Lastly comes the Windsor type. Well, 
we want yet a very fine type of this Bean. 
It is all very well to give illustrations of 
pods of Windsor Beans having five and six 
large seeds in a pod, but we should like to 
see them realised. Humanity will have to 
march a considerable distance yet onwards 
in the way of its progression, before such a 
type is secured. Our finest type of the 
Windsor Bean, the Halington Windsor, rarely 
exceeds three seeds in a pod. We want one 
with five or six. However much it may seem 
to some who fancy that the Longpod Beans are 
driving the Windsor type out of cultivation, 
it is quite certain that in many parts of the 
country the Windsor Beans are in great 
demand. Any improvements must be looked 
for in the way of persistent and determined 
selection; it is the work of time, but it can 
he made to succeed by persistent sticking 
to it. One of the most promising in this 
way that we have seen of late is a selection 
from the Seville Longpod, hut another season 
or two’s growth is necessary to give it 
definiteness of character. 
The Bean Weevil will frequently attack 
Broad Beans during the time of harvesting, 
and pierce them through and through, disfigur¬ 
ing the seeds and affecting their value. The 
ravages of the weevil were very marked during 
the hot, dry summer of 1887, and samples 
of Beans were returned to more than one of 
the wholesale seedsmen in London, on the 
supposition that they would not grow. When 
recently at Messrs. Hurst & Sons new seed 
grounds at Springfield, Chelmsford, our atten¬ 
tion was called to two lines of strong growing 
Windsor Beans; one line of 100 plants had 
been grown from the very worst sample of 
weevil-pierced Beans that could be found, the 
other 100 from seeds without a sign of being 
touched by the weevil. Not a seed of the 
200 failed to grow, and not the slightest 
difference could be seen in their robustness 
and vigour of growth. Those, then, who have 
Beans so affected may take heart and not fear 
any loss of germinating power. Even the 
piercing of the embryo plant does not appear 
to rob it of its active power of existence. 
It grows, and that too, luxuriantly. 
-- 
Cymbidium, a New Perfume. —A Bond Street per¬ 
fumer offers a new scent under the name of Cymbidium. 
It is said to have a very sweet Orchidy odour, and 
Orchid enthusiasts and connoisseurs in perfumes may 
take to it. 
Caine Horticultural Society. —The twenty-fourth 
annual exhibition of this society, which devotes its 
energies mainly to the improvement of the cottage 
gardening of the district, will he held in Bowood Park, 
on August 21st. 
Clematis Jaekmanni alba. —At the last meeting of 
the Floral Committee Mr. Charles Noble, of Bagshot, 
showed some flowers of his C. Jaekmanni alba. The 
ordinary Clematis Jaekmanni produces its purple 
flowers in late summer on the young wood of the year. 
The white variety, however, produces flowers in the 
spring on the old wood of the preceding year, and 
which are more or less irregular in character, and again 
flowers on the herbaceous shoots later in the summer, 
thus showing in one and the same plant the char¬ 
acteristics of two distinct sections of the genus, and 
affording evidence of the hybrid origin of the plant in 
question. 
The Plymouth Strawberry.—Dr. Masters at the 
last meeting of the Scientific Committee showed ripe 
fruits of this curious monstrosity, grown from plants 
presented to him by Mr. G. F. Wilson. It is an Alpine 
Strawberry, in which all the parts of the flower are 
more or less represented by leaves. The plant was 
mentioned by old botanical writers, but afterwards 
disappeared, or was so completely overlooked that its 
very existence was assumed to be a mytli. Of late 
years, however, the plant had reappeared in several 
gardens, and the correctness of the old writers has been 
vindicated. 
Royal Horticultural Society’s National Apple and 
Pear Conference, Chiswick. — A meeting of the 
Executive Committee was held at Chiswick on Tuesday 
last—Col. Beddonie in the chair—when it was resolved, 
in order to avoid clashing with the hardy fruit show at 
the Crystal Palace, to hold the proposed conference 
from the 16th to the 20th October instead of on the 
dates previously announced. A form of circular was 
agreed to, an exhibition of fruits being invited in 
certain specified classes, and arrangements will be made 
for the reading of papers and discussion thereon. 
Intending contributors of papers are requested to com¬ 
municate with the secretary, Mr. A. F. Barron, at an 
early date. 
Gardeners' Orphan Fund. —At the usual monthly 
meeting of the committee, held on the 27th. ult., Mr. 
Barron made the gratifying statement that although 
no collection or direct appeal for funds was made at the 
recent dinner at the Cannon Street Hotel, the receipts 
covered the expenses, and left a balance of a few pounds 
in favour of the fund. The committee unanimously 
accorded votes of thanks to all who had assisted in 
promoting the success of the gathering. The chairman 
