January 5, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
287 
HURST & SON’S 
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fegetable and flower feeds 
FOR SEASON 1889. 
TO THE T IE£. _A_ 30 E. 
THE DUCHESS PEA (or The Abbott). 
Tli© only Pea awarded a First Class Certificate this season. 
A SECOND early Wrinkled Pea, earlier, and a heavier cropper than Duke of Albany, with very 
large, straight, and well-filled pods. These qualities make it invaluable for exhibition or 
for table use. 
In Sealed Pints, Is. 6d. each; in Sealed Quarts, 2s. 6d. each. 
TOMATO, YORKSHIRE WONDER. 
U NEQUALLED for productiveness or quality. The Vine hears at every joint a bunch of 
large, handsome, bright red, smooth, oval fruit, which are very solid and of excellent 
flavour. The best English variety yet sent out. 
In Sealed Packets, Is. 6d. each. 
THE SHIRLEY POPPY. 
M ANY years of patient selection on the part 
of one of the most distinguished horticul¬ 
turists of the day has resulted in perfecting 
this strain of Poppy, than which nothing more 
beautiful has been offered as a novelty for some 
years. The range of colour is so varied that 
scarcely two will be found alike; many of the 
flowers are most delicately edged, shaded and 
striped, and being generally single, or semi¬ 
double, will be found very valuable for table 
and general decoration. 
Pen Packet, Is. 
XiOiSJ2L* 
ROYAL PURPLE. 
(Certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society, 
May 26th, 1885.) 
I N colour this fine Lobelia is quite different from any other 
variety, being a very rich shade of violet-purple, without 
any trace of blue, as in all other varieties, thus showing off 
very strikingly its large and clear white eye. The habit is 
semi-compact, not so dwarf as the pumila varieties, but not at 
all straggling. 
Per Packet, Is. 6d. 
TO BE HAD OF ALL RETAIL SEEDSMEN. 
For Complete List of Novelties, &c., and Prices to tlie Trade, 
see our Wholesale Catalogues, ■which will he forwarded on 
application. 
SEED WAREHOUSE=— 
152, HOUNDSDITCH, LONDON. 
WEBBS' 
CATALOCUE 
FOR 1889. 
Beautifully illustrated with four coloured plates and numerous 
engravings, and containing complete Cultural Instructions, 
and an Original Article, entitled, “A Model Garden." 
Now Ready. Post Free, Is. Gratis to 
Customers. 
THE QUEEN'S SEEDSMEN, 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE, 
[ The most 
practical 
I Catalogue. 
The hand¬ 
somest 
Catalogue. 
O ld-fashioned hedges. — English 
Yews, bushy, and with a profusion of fibrous roots, 1J to 
2 ft., 6 s. per doz., 35s. per 100 ; 2 to 2J 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.y., Tree Box, Holly, Laurel, Privet, 
Cypress, Juniper, Thuja, &c.) on application. — RICHARD 
SMITH & Co., Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
1 1 00 non GARDEN POTS, 3| in. 
JL ? JL w V/ 5 VA Va V/ diam., in stock, 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 SANKEY & SON, Bulwell 
Potteries, Nottingham. 
/HARTERS’ VADE MECUM FOR 1889 
is Now Ready, and has been posted to Messrs. 
CARTERS’ customers. Price ONE SHILLING (post free) 
to unknown correspondents. It contains seven elegant 
Coloured illustrations, and will he 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. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Jan. 7th.—National Chrysanthemum Society: Meeting 
of General Committee at 7 p.m. 
Wednesday, JaD. 9th. — National Chrysanthemum Society’s 
Mid-Winter Show at the Royal Aquarium. Conference of 
Chrysanthemum growers at 5 p.m. Sale of Bulbs, Plants, 
&c., at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, Jan. 10th.—Sale of Lily and other Bulbs at Stevens 
Rooms. 
Friday, Jan. ilth.—Sale of unflowered Odontoglossums, &c.,at 
Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. . 
Saturday, Jan. 12th.—Sale of Bulbs, Plants, &c., at Protheroe 
& Morris's Rooms. 
SSF Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the oflice to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, 1 \d.; three months, 
Is. 8d. ; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6 s. 6 d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8 s. 8 d. per 
annum. 
For Index to Contents&Advertisements, see p. 298, 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1889. 
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CURRENT TOPICS. 
'WTscotot Eversley. — In another column 
" we record the death of this fine old 
English gentleman and kindly patron of gar¬ 
dening. But for the fact that he was such, 
and that his name must always be indissolubly 
connected with one of the best and most 
attractive gardens in the kingdom, we should 
hardly have given Lord Eversley such pro¬ 
minent mention. But in spite of the demo¬ 
cratic tendencies of the age, we are far from 
being forgetful of the fact, that gardening in 
this country—that is the gardening which is 
