January 12, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
303 
NEW 
GLOXINIAS. 
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“ Messrs. Sutton & Sons' splendid strain of Gloxinias 
was admirably represented at South Kensington on 
Tuesday by a collection of plants sent up by the 
Reading firm, than which, judged by their splendid 
cultivation, the remarkable size and substance of the 
blooms, or their varied and brilliant colours, it is 
hard to say that anything finer can be desired.”— 
Gardening World. 
“Much attention has of late years been paid to 
Gloxinias by Messrs Sutton & Sons, and as the result 
of their labours they have obtained a strain of which 
it would be difficult to speak too highly. In Messrs. 
Sutton’s strain we have large leaves which recurve 
and hide the pot, and the strain has been brought to 
so high a degree of perfection that every seedling can 
be depended upon to produce flowers more or less 
good.”— Gardeners' Magazine. 
SUTTON’S SPOTTED HYBRID GLOXINIA. 
Per Packet, 5s., post free. 
“ I am very pleased with your Spotted Gloxinias. The 
colours and size of flowers and habit of plants are all that can 
be desired. Hardly two blooms are alike.”—Mr. T. Stevens, 
Gardener to W. Donne, Esq. 
SUTTON’S SNOWFLAKE GLOXINIA. 
First Class Certificate, Bath Floral Fete, 1888. 
A pure white Gloxinia, with large well-formed flowers and 
leaves of good habit. We have been years in developing this 
strain, and are confident it will become a favourite. 
Per Packet, 5s., post free. 
SUTTON’S SCARLET GLOXINIA. 
Flowers brilliant scarlet, with pure white throat. 
Per Packet, 5s., post free. 
CENUIHE ONLY FROM SUTTON&S0NS, READING. 
Orders Value 20s. Carriage Free. 
VEITCHS 
CHOICE NOVELTIES 
OF 
PROVED EXCELLENCE. 
p!a} VEITCH’S autocrat. 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society. 
A grand new main crop, green wrinkled marrow variety. It 
grows about 4 ft. in height, and bears an abundance of very 
large handsome pods closely filled with peas of delicious flavour. 
Per Pint, 2s. 6d. 
TOM E ATO 1 HAM GREEN FAVOURITE. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural 
Society, 1881, and the variety held in highest esteem for profit 
at Chiswick, 188S. The handsomest and heaviest-cropping 
Tomato. Quality and flavour unsurpassed. 
Per Packet, 2s. 6d. 
CELERY } VEITCH’S SUPERB WHITE. 
The most perfect type of White Celery for table use, being a 
pure white counterpart of the well-known Major Clarke’s 
Solid Red. 
Per Packet, Is. 6d. 
CABBAGE IVEITCHS EARLIEST OF ALL 
The earliest and best summer variety, of dwarf sturdy growth, 
with medium-sized, good-shaped, firm and compact hearts. 
Per Packet, Is. 
SI VEITCH’S MAIN CROP. 
The handsomest and heaviest-cropping variety for exhi¬ 
bition or general use. The bulb is smooth, clean-skinned, and 
of a beautiful pale straw colour. 
Per Packet, Is. 
VEGETABLE i STACHYS TUBERIFERA. 
First Class Certificate , Royal Horticultural Society. 
A new tuberous-rooted delicious vegetable, requiring only 
the most ordinary cultivation. 
Per 100 Tubers, Is. 6d. 
For full descriptions of the above and other Choice 
Novelties, see SEED CATALOGUE for 1889, for¬ 
warded post free on application. 
JAMES VEITGH & SONS, 
ROYAL EXOTIC HURSERY, CHELSEA, S.I. 
B.S. WILLIAMS’ 
SPECIALITIES 
IN 
FLOWER SEEDS 
FOR 
1889 . 
Sold only in Sealed Packets bearing my Trade Mark. 
AGERATUM “ADA BOWMAN” 
(NEW). 
This new variety, which was raised at Hylands Park, is 
without doubt the finest Ageratum grown for bedding purposes. 
It blooms in masses from the time of planting out until it is cut 
down by the frost, and requires no pegging down, as it is only 
ins. high ; the trusses measure from 6 ins. to 7 ins. across. 
It is of a very effective and telling delicate blue colour. 
Most valuable when propagated in pots in the autumn for 
early winter flowering. Its freedom in blooming is so pro¬ 
nounced that each pot is quite a ball of flower, and continues 
so to the middle of January. 
Per Packet . Is. 6d. 
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM 
GIGANTEUM “AURORA.” 
This magnificent variety is of very compact habit, with beau¬ 
tiful rosy pink coloured flowers, deepening to a fine carmine at 
the base. It is a tint of colour which is very marked and con¬ 
spicuous, and will make a welcome addition to these popular 
plants. 
Per Packet ... 2s. 6d. and 5s. 
FRANCOA APPENDICULATA. 
A splendid herbaceous perennial, which will be found ex¬ 
ceedingly useful for conservatory decoration ; it produces long 
branching spikes of pale rosy purple flowers, which are larger 
and more compact than F ramosa, and the flowers are closer 
set on the spike. Invaluable for cutting purposes. 
Per Packet . Is. 6d. 
GLOXINIA “ GOUVILLE 
STRAIN.” 
I have much pleasure in being able to offer, through the 
kindness of the Comte de Germiny, seeds of this splendid strain, 
which has the reputation of being the finest on the Continent. 
It invariably takes First Prizes wherever exhibited. The 
flowers are of immense size and substance, of very brilliant and 
varied colour, beautifully tigered and spotted, aud contain a 
fair proportion of self colours. 
Per Packet . 2s. 6d. 
Primula sinensis fimbriata “lagenta Queen.” 
(NEW). 
This new variety is of very compact habit of growth, very 
vigorous and robust; the leaves are of a dark green colour. The 
blooms are very large, measuring upwards of 2£ ins. in diameter; 
they are of a very good substance, and a bright magenta colour, 
with a small bright lemon eye. It is quite a new colour in 
Primulas, and its distinctness is very pronounced. 
Per Packet ... 2s. 6d. and 5s. 
Stock, Intermediate, Williams' “Crimson Gem.” 
(NEW). 
This variety, on account of its charming and decided colour, 
is an acquisition of considerable merit, as it is a great advance 
in richness and brilliancy of colour upon any known kind of 
Stock. It will be found very serviceable for spring bedding, 
window-boxes, or pots, where it will produce a wonderfully fine 
and pleasing effect. It is of a dwarf compact habit; the central 
spike and lateral branches produce a great profusion of very rich 
crimson blooms of very large size. 
Per Packet ... Is. and 2s. 6d. 
ILLUSTRATED SEED CATALOGUE for 1889 
is now ready, and will be forwarded gratis and post 
free to all applicants. 
UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON.N] 
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The BEST in the WORLD 
Webbs’ “Jubilee” Tomato. 
From, Mr. CRAWFORD, The Gardens, Coddingtan Hall. 
“I exhibited a dish of Tomatoes— Webbs’ ‘Jubilee’—at 
Grantham last August, and secured first place against various 
other varieties. The following day I showed the same dish at 
Leicester, in competition with twelve others of different sorts, 
aud was again victorious. It was the handsomest and most 
even dish of Tomatoes I had ever seen exhibited. Its cropping 
qualities and flavour are as good as its outward appearance, 
and it is altogether a most profitable and handsome variety. 
Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per packet, post free. 
Webb’s “Sensation” Tomato. 
From, G. B. ALDRIDGE, Esq, Bronavista. 
“ Your Tomato ‘ Sensation ’ is the best I have ever grown. 
I have tried the best sorts that I could obtain for the last 
twenty years, but this is certainly the most prolific, bearing 
the finest and best-flavoured fruit." 
Is. 6d. and 2s. Cd. per packet, post free. 
Webbs' Beautifully Illustrated Spring Catalogue, Is. 
BY ROYAL APPOINTMENTS. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
T ILIUM AURATUM, THE GOLDEX- 
I 1 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. fid. and 3s. 6d. each. All sent packing and 
carriage free.—CARTERS', Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Warrants, 
237 and 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
(gp Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, ljd.; three months, 
Is. 8d.; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6 d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. 8 d. per 
annum. 
Next Week's Engagements. 
Monday, Jan. 14th.—National Chrysanthemum Society: Meeting 
of General Committee. 
Tuesday, Jan. 15th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting of 
Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. Sale of Plants by 
Sample at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, Jan 16th.—Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion : Annual Meeting at 3 p.m. Dinner at 6 p.m. at 
“Simpson’s.” Sale of Plants, Bulbs, &c., at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, Jan. ISth.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, Jan. 19th.—Sale of Plants, Bulbs, &e. at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 314. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
7sThe Old and the New. —The traditional 
Christmas still exists, and is not after all 
so largely a product of imagination. The only 
difference between the traditional and the 
real is found in an interval of twelve days. 
The new Christmas is often as not—perhaps 
far more largely often—a time of soft balmy 
weather, or, as was the last Christmas, one 
of autumnal downpour of rain. It is, as a 
rule, the antithesis of tradition, and more 
generally reminds us of October or April. 
But the fault does not lie with the weather 
after all. Humanity, for reasons of its own, 
more than a century since brought Christmas 
fully twelve days forward, and twelve days in 
the early part of the winter signifies much. 
