March 9, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
431 
THE BEST WHITE CELERY. 
SUTTON’S 
WHITE GEM CELERY, 
Unquestionably the best Dwarf White Celery, and 
the earliest in cultivation. Sticks unusually close 
and firm, and edible almost to the leaf. It is sweet, 
crisp, and possesses a fine nutty flavour. 
Per packet, Is. 6d., post free. 
‘Your White Gera Celery is the best I have ever grown, 
solid, crisp, sweet, and nut-like in flavour.” Mr. Thos. Jury, 
Gardener to the Rev. C. J. Robinson. 
THE BEST RED CELERY . 
SUTTON’S 
SULHAM PRIZE CELERY. 
Of medium growth, with large heart, solid, crisp, 
juicy, and of fine Walnut flavour. Has gained 
numerous prizes. 
Per packet, Is. 6d., post free. 
‘ With reference to the question as to which is the "best 
Celery for general cultivation, I must say that according to 
my experience, the balance is in favour of Sulham Prize. I 
have grown this variety during the past ten or twelve years, 
and I have come to the conclusion that for table and also for 
exhibition it is by far the best of the varieties I have grown.” 
E. Burden, The Gardens, Wake Green House, Moseley, 
“ Gardeners' Magazine April 7th, 1SS8. 
GENUINE ONLY FROMSUTTOM SSONS,READING 
Orders value 20s. carriage free. 
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 be maintained by it alone after the first 
crop is ready. 
2s. Gd. per Pint packet; Is. 6d. per J-Pint packet. 
SHARPE’S TRIUMPH. 
A very fine Dwarf Blue Wrinkled Marrow, fine 
flavoured and heavy cropper. Sixty-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. 
63s. 
No. 2. 
42s. 
No. 3 
30s. 
No. 4. 
21 s. 
No. 5. No. 6. 
15s. 10s. 6d. 
SHARPE’S ILLUSTRATED and DESCRIPTIVE 
CA TALOCUE for 1889 post free, on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE & Co., 
Seed Farmers and Merchants, 
SLEAFORD. 
The BEST in the WORLD. 
“CHANCELLOR.” 
For the Main Crop ; height 3 ft. 
3s. per quart. 
From Mr. E. TATE, Gardener to Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart. :— 
“Your New Pea, ‘ Chancellor,’has been fine with me this 
season ; it is a distinct variety, of good flavour, very prolific, 
and conveniently dwarf; each pod is well filled with large¬ 
sized peas.’ 
“I0RDSLEY WONDER.” 
The Earliest Blue Wrinkled Marrow ; height 21 ft. 
3s. 6d. per quart. 
From Mr. J. BEST, Gardener to His Grace the Duke of 
Hamilton :— 
“I was very pleased with the ‘ Wordsley Wonder’ Pea. I 
must say that it is a grand Pea, a very prolific bearer, and of 
excellent flavour.” 
WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, 
Post Free, Is. 
Abridged Edition Gratis and Post Free. 
b| b 1 pT*Tfl S J \ 
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SEEDS, 
Vegetable, Flower and Farm, 
CAREFULLY SELECTED, 
AND FROM WHICH MAY BE EXPECTED 
THE BEST RESULTS 
EVER YET ATTAINED. 
ILLUSTRATED LIST, 
Containing Copious, Interesting, and Reliable Infor¬ 
mation, Free. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Seed Merchants and Nurserymen, 
WORCESTER. 
THE CHAMPIONESS. 
All who have visited our great floral exhibitions in the South 
of England will remember Miss Hassard’s splendid table decora¬ 
tion, and who invariably carries off the first prize. That lady 
considers it only just that it should be generally known the 
flowers are supplied by us. For all the best flowers and seeds 
send for our Catalogues. 
GRAND NEW YELLOW CARNATIONS. 
GERMANIA, 2s. 6d. each; 27s. dozen (First Class Certificate 
R.H.S.); and GOLDEN STAR OF HILDERSHEIM, Is. 6 li. 
each; 15s. dozen. Both these are splendid. 
H. CANMELL & SOUS , 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
CHOICE VEGETABLES 
ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
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TESTED SEEDS 
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PACKING. CARRIAGE. 
Containing Vegetable Seeds Only, 
Price, 2/6, 5/-, 7/6, 9/-, 17/6 
Containing Flower Seeds Only, 
Price, 2/6, 5/-, 10/6, 15/-, 
21/-, 31/6, 42/-, @3/-. 
Containing Vegetable & Flower Seeds, 
Price, 10/6,14/-, 22/6,30/-. 
Sent to any address in Great Britain 
on receipt of Cash. 
FULL LIS T OF CONTENTS GRATIS & PCS T FREE. 
Royal Seedsmen by Sealed Appointment, 
SI, HIGH HCLBORN, LONDON. 
fPIT Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, 1 fyl .; three months 
Is. 8d. ; six months, 3s. 3d ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, 8s. S d. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, March 11th.—Annual Meeting of the Nursery and Seed 
Trade Association at 5.30 p.m. Sale of Lilium auratum 
Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Tuesday, March 12th —Royal Horticultural Society : Meeting of 
Fruit and Floral Committees at 11 a.m. Sale of Major 
Lendy’s collection of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
(2 days). 
Thursday, March 14th.—Sample Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Friday, March 15th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 441. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
TaTHE Rev. F. D. Horner and his Pet 
Flower. —The champion grower of show 
Auriculas looks forward with hope to a great 
future for his pet flower. Mr. Horner has a 
better right, perhaps, than any other grower of 
this delightful florists’ flower to he judicial, 
even as he has the right to he optimistic. We 
have no grower ivlio excels Mr. Homer ; we 
have few, if any, who are his equals. When 
this genial Yorkshire parson comes south with 
his gems, as doubtless he will again in a few 
weeks, the connoiseurs will cluster round his 
plants, aucl inhale, as it were, their perfect 
forms and excellence of cultivation as though 
breathing the rich odour of Roses and Violets. 
Why it should he, that from so cold and 
cheerless a region as North Yorkshire, always 
come the very best of all the show Auriculas, 
which bedeck the tables of the Southern Section 
of the National Auricula Society, would be a 
mystery were it not for the fact that Mr. 
Horner is a florist by birth. He inherits a 
name immortal in florists’ lore, and probably 
has in his life already far transcended in the 
production of Auriculas all that his illustrious 
father accomplished. To Mr. Horner there is 
no room, in relation to Auriculas, for the 
wooden doctrine of finality. His motto is 
“Excelsior,” and in evidence of his progress 
