December 29, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
271 
SUTTON 
SEED 
POTATO 
SUTTON’S NONSUCH. 
New Potato 
for 1889 . 
per 7 lbs. 3/6 
per 14 lbs. 6/- 
A heavy-cropping mid-season 
Potato of first-class quality. Ex¬ 
ceedingly free from disease. 
“A heavy crop of large handsome 
tubers of excellent quality. From 4 lbs. 
planted the produce was 160 lbs. A very 
handsome white round Potato, quite free 
from disease. Cooking quality and 
flavour excellent.”—Mr. R. LYE, The 
Gardens, Sydmonton Court. 
SUTTON’S MATCHLESS, 
New Potato 
for 1889. 
per 7 lbs. 3/6 
per 14 lbs, 6/- 
A splendid Potato, very free from 
disease; comes in about mid-season, 
but is suitable also for keeping for 
winter use. 
“ Heavy crop of large handsome tubers, 
124 lbs. from 3 lbs. seed. First rate for 
table, cooking dry and floury, and most 
excellent in flavour. The best I have 
tried this season out of 50 leading va¬ 
rieties.”—Mr. IV. POPE, The Gardens, 
Highclere Castle. 
SUTTON’S WHITE KIDNEY. 
New Potat o 
of 1888. 
per 14 lbs. 4/- 
per l cwt. 14/- 
This has proved to be an exceed¬ 
ingly valuable Potato. It comes in 
at the same time as the Ashleaf 
section, is an enormous cropper, ol 
the finest quality when cooked, and 
withstands disease remarkably well. 
“ Very handsome, free from disease, of 
the best quality, and quite an acquisition. ” 
—Mr. C. ILOTT, Wokefield Park Gardens. 
Sutton's DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF SEED POTATOES 
Post Free on application. 
BEFORE ORDERING SEEDS 
WRITE FOR 
CHARLES SHARPE & Co.’S 
Descriptive Catalogue 
FOR 1889, 
POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
CHARLES SHARPE & Go., 
Seed Growers and Merchants, 
SLEAFORD. 
l l no non gare)e ^ t pots, h h 
I5IUU5UUU diam., in stock, ready for in 
m. 
ready for im¬ 
mediate delivery; carriage and breakage free on £10 orders; 
half carriage on £5. Acknowledged by the trade to be the best 
pots manufactured. Largest Stock and Largest Manufacturers 
in the United Kingdom. RICHARD SAN KEY & SON, Buhvell 
Potteries, Nottingham. 
/BARTERS’ VADE MECUM FOR 1889 
Vj is Now Ready, and bas been posted to Messrs. 
CARTERS’ customers. Price ONE SHILLING (post free) 
to unknown correspondents. It contains seven elegant 
Coloured Illustrations, and will be found a most thorough book 
of reference by all who desire to cultivate successfully the 
choicest Vegetables and the prettiest Flowers. 
JAMES CARTER & Co., The Queen's Seedsmen by Royal 
Warrant, 237 & 23S, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 
ANSIES.—100 stout transplanted plants 
from open ground, in 8 named varieties, free, 2s. 6d. ; 100 
Flowering Shrubs, in 100 very choice varieties, stout transplanted 
plants from open ground, 1 to 4 feet, free, carefully packed, 
27s. Qd. Virginian Creepers, 12 strong transplanted plants, in 
8 distinct varieties, including A. Veitchii (small-leaved), A. 
sempervirens (evergreen), A variegata (charming pink and white 
variegation), free, 3s. 9 d. China Roses (the true perpetuals), 10 
strong plants, on own roots, in 10 distinct varieties, free, 
2s. 9 d. —J. GALVIN’S NURSERIES, Roscommon. 
O LD-FASHIONED HEDGES. — English 
Yews, bushy, and with a profusion of fibrous roots, 1J to 
2 ft., 6s. per dcz., 35s. per 100 ; 2 to 2£ ft., Ss. per doz., 50s. per 
100; 2J to 3 ft., 9s. per doz., 60s. per 100 ; 3 to 3} ft., 12s. per 
doz., 84s. per 100. Prices of larger sizes and other Evergreens 
suitable for Hedges (e.g., Tree Box, Holly, Laurel, Privet, 
Cypress, Juniper, Thuja, &c.) on application. — RICHARD 
SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
TENSEN’S GUANOS are the most perfect 
fjr Fertilisers. Promote and sustain all growths. Do not 
exhaust, but enrich the soil. Analyses guaranteed. Six Prize 
Medals awarded in 1888.—J. JENSEN & Co. (Lmtd). 109, 
Fenchurch Street, London. 
non CLEMATIS IN POTS, of ah 
5 A/ vy vy the finest double and single varieties (some 
of the flowers of which become 10 inches across, and are of every 
shade, from pure white to the darkest purple), for climbing and 
bedding, from 12s. to 24s. per dozen, strong plants. Beauty of 
Worcester, a magnificent purple, excellent for bedding, recently 
sent out by us ; reduced price, 2s. 6o!. each. Descriptive List on 
application.—RICHARD SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed 
Merchants, Worcester. 
/CLEARANCE SALE OF SPRING- 
vD FLOWERING BULBS.—Hyacinths, Daffodils (Narcissi), 
Tulips, Crocus, Snowdrops, Winter Aconites, Chionndoxa, Scillas, 
Spanish Irises, Early-flowering Gladioli, Alliums, Star of Bethle¬ 
hem, Alstroemerias, &e.. Ac , all in splendid condition, at reduced 
prices. List free on application to BARR & SON, 12 & 13, 
King Street, Covent Garden. 
T ILIUM AURATUM, THE GOLDEN- 
JL_J RAYED LILY OF JAPAN, can now be purchased in 
cases containing 50 fine Bulbs, just as received from the Japanese 
Bulb Farms, unopened and unexamined, at 25s. per case, sent 
free to any Railway Station in England and Wales on receipt of 
Postal Order for 23s. 9 d. ; cases containing 100 fine Bulbs, price 
40s. Fine and sound Bulbs, per dozen, 4s., 6s., 9s., 12s. and 18s. 
Mammoth Bulbs, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. each. All sent packing and 
carriage free.—CARTERS’, Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 
237 and 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Tuesday, Jan. 1st, 1SS9.—Sale of Nursery Stock by Sample at 
Protheroe & Murris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Jan. 2nd.—Sale of Lilium auratum Bulbs, Green¬ 
house Plants, &c., at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Thursday, Jan. 3rd.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday', Jan. 4th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 282. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY , DECEMBER 29, 1888. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
The New Year.— We offer to our readers 
a very hearty greeting on the threshold of 
the new year. It is true that one year 
Our new year opens in the very midst, as 
it were, of Nature’s night. It is not a 
cheerful time for its advent, and very buoyant 
indeed must be the hopes in man, who can 
find in the early days of black, dull, cheerless 
January much that is of promise for the 
better time that is yet remote. To he con¬ 
sistent, our new year should begin with the 
first of March rather than with January, for 
just then Nature is awakening from her 
period of repose, and there is a change 
imminent for the better if it has not really 
begun. With March comes the spring time, 
and the spring is our real opening of the 
new year. Upon the nature of that spring 
time also depends much of the successes and 
failures of the entire year, for if the spring 
be ungenerous, the year must prove an un¬ 
generous one too. As it is, we must wait 
patiently for a couple of months, perhaps 
cold saddening months, ere we may fully 
rejoice in the real advent of the new year, 
and with the rest of the world will now 
offer in all heartiness the compliments of the 
season to all our friends. 
What will it Produce.—H ow problem¬ 
atical indeed are the fulfilments of hopes, 
and yet how sanguine maybe our anticipations! 
We have had a couple of rather ungenerous 
years in those just passed away, the one so 
hot and dry, leaving the soil parched and 
thirsty, and the crops thin and sparse ; the 
other its predecessor’s antithesis, so wet, 
cold and wretched Avas it for much of its 
best time. If in some respects the cold and 
wet promoted growth, and perhaps produce, 
in other Avays they proved A r ery harmful, none 
the less, therefore, both the past years have 
left behind saddening remembrances. But 
just for that reason some feel justified in 
hoping for good things from the nerv year. 
Tavo years of identical character rarely come 
together, and as Ave have had the extremes 
of drought and of moisture, so may Ave hoav 
with propriety look for that pleasant inter¬ 
mediate form of season which seems, when 
granted, to give us all Ave need. 
It is rare that Avarmth promotes disaster 
to crops in Great Britain, but Avet and cold 
invariably do so. If Ave get warmth with 
a fair proportion of moisture, then Ave fall 
upon a model season ; and just such an one 
do Ave look for in that AAdiich is uoav opening. 
Our fruit trees present all those appearances 
of fertility, Avhich lead to the expectation of 
an abundant fruit crop. We can go so far 
as to aver that if the fruit is not forthcoming 
it will not he the fault of the trees, for they 
are fully equipped for their work, and if the 
spring helps, will do it well. As to other 
crops, Ave find on the Avhole that they are, 
perhaps, as dependent upon ample and 
properly applied labour as upon seasons ; but 
it should be the aim of the gardener to give 
that labour the best direction, and thus 
Nature is helped in the performance of her 
beneficent Avork. Without being over sanguine, 
Ave do look forward to the neAV year Avitli 
exceeding hope that it may proA r e for all 
engaged in gardening a period of abundance 
and prosperity. 
FRUIT TREES. 
SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES. 
apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, 
NECTARINES, APRICOTS, and other FRUIT TREES, as 
Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Bushes, Cordon, and Trained 
Trees in great variety. 
VINES, excellent Canes, 3s. 6d., 5s,, 7s. 6d., and 10s. 6d. 
Orchard House Trees in pots, PEACHES, APRICOTS, NEC¬ 
TARINES, &c., from 5s. FIGS from 3s. 6 d. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, containing a sketch of the various 
forms of Trees, with Directions for Cultivation, Soil, Drainage, 
Manure, Pruning, Lifting, Cropping, Treatment under Glass ; 
also their Synonyms. Quality, Size, Form, Skin, Colour, Flesh, 
Flavour, Use, Growth, Duration, Season. Price, &c., free bv 
post. * J 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
WORCESTER. 
passes into another as night glides into day, 
and Avithout unnatural evolution or startling 
conAmlsion. Nature hardly knoAvs of years 
neAV or old, but she knows of recurring 
seasons, and her years are rather those Avhich 
begin Avitli reneAved life, energy and beauty, 
and end Avith restful decay for the usual 
period. Throughout the Avinter Nature seems 
to exist only—hardly to live. Her days, 
indeed, are years—the summer, the time of 
labour and activity ; the Avinter, the night of 
sleep and repose. Not that Nature ever 
absolutely sleeps, for even Avhen apparently 
the most restful, she is active and AA T orking, 
but it is labour unseen, and therefore little 
appreciated. 
A Year of Conferences. — Whether our 
fruit-groAving friends purpose making any stir 
in regard to fruit culture during the coming 
year or not, at least it is evident that avb 
shall have the conference ball kept pretty 
Avell rolling in other directions. We haA r e 
already alluded to the Chrysanthemum Con¬ 
ference of the ensuing month, the Rose 
Conference of next July at ChisAvick, the 
proposed Vegetable Conference of the ensuing 
autumn at the same place, and uoav Ave hear 
of a Chrysanthemum Centenary Conference 
to be held also at Chiswick in November- 
pretty good evidence of horticultural activity 
We also reported recently that the Nations 
