March 2, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD- 
415 
The BEST PEAS 
SHARPE’S QUEEN. 
A grand Blue Marrow, height 2 ft. ; pods large, 
deep green, with large, green, deliciously flavoured 
peas. It is so continuous a cropper that a constant 
supply may he maintained by it alone after the first 
crop is ready. 
2s. 6d. per Pint packet ; Is. 6d. per J-Pint packet. 
SHARPE’S TRIUMPH. 
A very fine Dwarf Blue Wrinkled Marrow, fine 
flavoured and heavy cropper. Sixtv-nine pods, with 
nine to eleven peas in each, gathered from one plant. 
Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. 
2s. per Quart packet ; Is. per Pint packet. 
SHARPE’S SIR F. A. MILBANK. 
A magnificent large Blue Wrinkled Marrow. Peas 
extra large and deep green. Very hardy. Height 
5 feet. 
2s. per Quart packet; Is. per Pint packet. 
COLLECTIONS OF SEEDS IN BOXES, 
Arranged to produce a continuous supply of 
VEGETABLES ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No. 6. 
63s. 42s. 30s. 21s. 15s. 10s. 6d. 
SSARPE'S 1LLUSTRA TED and DESCRIPTIVE 
CATALOGUE for 1889 post free on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE & Go., 
Seed Farmers and Merchants, 
SLEAFORD. 
WE ARE SELLING 
White Spanish Onion - - 4d. per oz. 
Day's Early Sunrise Peas - 6d. per quart. 
Telegraph Peas.Is. per quart. 
Veitch’s Perfection Peas - Is. per quart. 
EFORE ordering your supply, send for our magnificently 
Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners, containing valu¬ 
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Garden, with many beautifully coloured and other illustrations, 
with all the Novelties of the Season. Price Is. post free, or 
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PEAS I PEAS!! PEAS!!! 
POTATOES! POTATOES!! 
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and see for yourselves. 
D ANIELS BROS. UwtJ HO RW ICH. 
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27s. 6 cl. Virginian Creepers, 12 strong transplanted plants, in 
S distinct varieties, including A. Veitehii (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. 9d.—J. GALVIN’S NURSERIES, Roscommon. 
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CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY. 
From the Rev. W. T. BARKER, Silkstone Vicarage.— 
“ The Guinea Box of Vegetable Seeds was more than suffi¬ 
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an acre of kitchen garden. The Can ots and Turnips were 
particularly good, but the chief advantage was in the 
judgment shown, selection of seeds, and their proportion 
to each other.” 
WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, 
Beautifully illustrated; post free. Is., gratis to customers. 
ABRIDGED EDITION gratis and post free. 
THE EARLIEST PEAS. 
WHEELER’S GIANT WONDER BEANS 
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. 
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CARRIAGE PAID. 
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Descriptive Catalogue with cultural directions by E. Molyneux 
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best Descriptive Catalogue. Price 6 d. Free to customers. 
Awarded Three Medals aud Twenty First Class Certificates. 
I never Exhibit for Prizes in competition with Gardeners or 
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TO PRIZE EXHIBITORS. 
Carters’ "FIRST PRIZE” Collection of 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
Of STERLING MERIT. 
With Directions for sowing, and neatly-printed tickets for placing 
upon the produce on the exhibition table. Contains — 
1 pkt. Holbom Masterpiece 
Bean 
1 pkt. Stratagem Pea 
1 pkt. Telephone Pea 
1 pkt. Defiance Cauliflower 
1 pkt. Ex-Early Giant Cauli¬ 
flower 
1 pkt. Crimson Ball Beet 
1 pkt. Perfection Beet 
1 pkt. Golden Globe Onion 
1 pkt. Tennis Ball Onion 
1 pkt. Leviathan Broad Bean 
1 pkt. Summer Favourite 
Carrot 
1 pkt. Scarlet Perfection 
Carrot 
1 pkt. Jersey Lily Turnip 
1 pkt. Perfection Tomato 
1 pkt. Giant White Cos 
Lettuce 
Sent to any address in Great Britain on receipt 
of remittance for 8s. 6d. 
CARTERS 
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Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
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Is. Sd. ; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. Sd. per 
annum. 
Nest Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, Marcli 4th.—Sale of Lily and other Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, March 5th.—Sale of Orchids from Barvins Park at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. (2 days). 
Thursday, March 7th.—Sale of Lily Bulbs, Palm Seeds, &c. at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, March Sth.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Reoms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 425. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man." —Bacon. 
SATURDAY , MARCH 2, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
TI)octoking Seeds.— In another column we 
Or report an important prosecution at the 
Southwark Police Court for dyeing Clover 
Seeds, and do so with much regret, because 
we had hoped that the detestable practice of 
dyeing or doctoring seeds by means of sulphur 
fumes had been stopped by the Seeds Adul¬ 
teration Act of 1869. Those who remember 
the circumstances which led to the passing 
of that Act, will remember also that not¬ 
withstanding the disgraceful disclosures that 
were made of the wholesale doctoring of 
certain kinds of seeds then carried on, there 
were many persons who regarded the Act as 
being uncalled for. That the practice should 
have broken out again, however, conclusively 
proves the wisdom of its promoters, and the 
only thing to deplore in the present case is the 
inadequate nature of the penalty imposed, 
which to be effective in checking such frauds 
should have been of the heaviest, rather than 
of the lightest character. 
No fraud will be killed so long as it is 
profitable. All sorts of cheating, smuggling, 
and other evils exist only so long as the 
profits exceed the penalties, and these latter 
should in all cases of absolutely proved wrong¬ 
doing be made of a crushing nature. In 
this particular line of seed doctoring there 
is no middle course—there is no excuse. It 
is impossible to dabble with bad seeds in 
the direction referred to without intending to 
defraud. No dressing of any kind will make 
had seeds into good, whilst good seeds will 
only suffer in the process, therefore, excuses 
sometimes admitted in ordinary frauds are 
absolutely untenable in this case. The mere 
alteration or addition of names to things 
which may be really good, is of little 
