March 23, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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The Finest Cucumber for 
Exhibition and General Use. 
SUTTON’S 
IMPROVED 
TELEGRAPH. 
Undoubtedly the finest type of Telegraph Cucumber 
in cultivation, quick in growth, of handsome shape, 
very small neck, and unusually prolific. Valuable 
for Exhibition, and we know of no Cucumber more 
suitable for general use. 
“Cocumber for Exhibition. —Sutton's Improved Tele- 
raph is a first-rate variety, and has good credentials as an 
exhibition Cucumber.—GEORGE POTTS, JUN .”—Gardening 
World, January 2Sth, 1888. 
Mr. J. HOWARD, Gardener to T. G. Robinson, Esq. 
“Tour Improved Telegraph Cucumber is the best I have 
ever grown. I cut 33S from the first week in May till the last 
week in November. They were from IS ins. to 24 ins. long, 
and I cut the lot from five plants." 
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Monday, March 25th.—Sale of Lily Bulbs at Protlieroe & Morris’s 
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Tuesday, March 26th.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
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Wednesday, March 27th.—Sale of Lily Bulds, &c., at Protheroe 
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For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 473. 
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Bonum, having the unexcelled qualities of both. Beady 
to lift same time as the White Elephant. An immense 
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Price, per Peck, 3s. 6d.; per Bushel, 12s. 6d. 
Price per ton on application. 
THE DANIELS WON THE SILVER CUT. 
From Mr. W. Brockwell, Chatham, February 13th. 
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of winning with your Seed Potatos, also winning the SILVER 
CUP with your DANIELS POTATO, and I don’t know, in all 
my experience, that I ever grew a better kind. They are an 
excellent cropper and a good keeper, and I can’t put them out 
of their place for cooking purposes.” 
From the Gardeners' Chronicle, September 1st. 
“THE DANIELS POTATO.—A few weeks ago you kindly 
made mention of a Potato called DANIELS, and how well the 
variety looked when growing, giving great promise. We had a 
small local exhibition here the other week, and I was tempted 
to dig up my DANIELS. They exceeded my expectations. I 
staged two dishes, and was awarded two Piizes, in a strong 
competition with different varieties in both classes. A friend of 
mine was present when I took up two roots to be weighed, on 
one of which we found twenty-one Potatos, and twenty on the 
other. On weighing the best root it was found to turn the scale 
at 6 lb., all good, sound tubers, clean and free from scab. After 
exhibiting at Keighley they were put to the test of being cooked 
for the table, and they were found to be all that could be 
desired.— F. G. Epworth.” 
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SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1889. 
4 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
(MIr. Baker’s Lecture on Saxifrages. —A 
**» very rapid speaker, and a very able but 
exceedingly technical demonstrator, is Mr. J. 
G. Baker, of Kew. As we listened to bis 
remarkably comprehensive and almost exhaus¬ 
tive address on Saxifrages at the Drill Hall 
on the 11th, we could hardly help realising 
that we were listening to a sort of human 
cauldron, which, under the influence of the 
fire that burned so fiercely beneath, fairly 
boiled and bubbled over, with such rapidity 
and such deep intensity did the words full 
of information flow forth. Able and even 
eloquent as was the lecture, however, it still 
seemed to us as if it were more fitted for the 
ears of botanists purely, than for a mixed 
gathering, the bulk of which was composed of 
horticulturists. We do not wish that the 
Royal Horticultural Society should stoop so 
low as to present a course of lectures or papers 
fitted to illustrate horticulture made easy, 
but none the less that they should be rather 
horticultural than botanical. 
Of course, with a man of the profound 
botanical knowledge possessed by Mr. Baker, 
