January 23, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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THE BEST 
CUCUMBER 
GROWN. 
Ww MODEL. 
FOR SIZE. 
FOR FLAVOUR. 
FOR EXHIBITION. 
A Customer writes:— 
I cut 900 fruit from four plants. 
Price in Sealed Packets, 
2/6 and 3/6 each, post free. 
Seedsmen by Royal V/arrants to H.M. the Queen, 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
m 238, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. 
NOW READY. 
A R I> E 9 S 
ILLUSTRATED 
DESCRIPTIVE 
CATALOGUE 
For 1892.—Post free on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE & CO., 
Seed Farmers & Merchants, §LE AFORD. 
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Select VEGETABLE, 
Choice FLOWER, 
The best qualities at 
Moderate Prices. 
Delivered Free The 
by Rail or Best 
Parcels jgkN SEED 
Post. FOTATOS, 
Garden Tools, 
Sundries, &c., &c. 
Illustrated 
Descriptive Catalogue, No. 103 
POST FREE ON APPLICATION, 
NEW ENGLISH CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
Fop 1S92. 
Mrs. ROBINSON KING, 6 f.c.c.’s, New Golden Yellowsport 
from G. Empress. The WHOLE of the CERTIFICATED 
STOCK in my POSSESSION (see notice). PRELUDE or 
striped Alfred Lyne, Noel Pragnell or striped Empress. Excel¬ 
sior, Jap., rose cerise, f.c.c. F. W. Flight, Jap., crimson car¬ 
mine, 2 f.c.c.’s. G. C. Schwabe, J., carmine rose, 3 f.c.c.’s. Mrs. 
Nisbet, J., purple amaranth, f.c.c. Peter Blair, J., yellow and 
crimson, f.c.c. William Tunnington, J., chestnut red, com. 
Atlantic, J., white and rose; Budget, J., red and yellow; Charles 
Bonstedt, J., lilac rose ; J. Blenkinsop, J., crimson ; J. P. Ken¬ 
dall, J., amaranth ; Majestic, J., carmine rose ; Masterpiece, J., 
ruby red: Mrs. Carr-Gomm, J, white; Mrs. C. Russell, J., 
buft; Mrs. Gladstone, J., cream; Mrs. H. F. Spaulding, J., 
black; Richard Nisbet, J , red and yellow; Standard, J., rose 
magenta : Umpire. J., lilac rose; Miss Lillian Cope, J., or white 
Etoile de Lyon. 
Descriptions and prices, see Catalogue (free). Orders booked 
and executed in rotation during February and March. 
ROBERT OWEN, Floral Nursery, Maidenhead. 
For PLEASURE and PROFIT. 
F H !1 i TP Nothing so Profitable and 
■ H 1 § I 1 Easy to Grow. 
I Si U I 1 S 74 ACRES IN STOCK. 
See CATALOGUE for Simple Instructions, and kinds of Tree 
to suit all Soils. 
Hundreds of 
Thousands. 
ROSES. 
BUSHES. 
8s. par dozen, 60s. per 100. 
Packing and Carriage Free for 
Cash with Order. 
ROSES in Pots, from 15s. per dozen. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, 01 ACRES. 
4 ACRES of GLASS. 
CLEMATIS ( 80 , 000 ), from 15s. per dozen. 
N.B.—Single Plants are sold at slightly increased prices. 
SEEDS k BULBS ! ¥EGE “ b AVm i : 05!ER 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, FREE. 
RICHARDSNIITH&CO.,WORCESTER. 
GENUINE 
JAMES VEITCH. SONS 
Desire to direct attention to the following 
GttSlCI YEBETABLES 
FOR PRESENT SOWING : 
CAULIFLOWER, 
Veitch’s Extra Early Forcing. 
First-class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society. 
Of dwarf compact 'habit, beautifully close and 
white, small medium-sized heads. 
Per Packet, 2s. 6d. 
" The best forcing Cauliflower is Veitch's Extra 
Early Forcing, It is not large, but it is very close 
and white, and turns in quickly .”—The Garden. 
/N ZL O DAT PARISIAN 
\J n \J A J FORCING. 
Earlier than the old French Forcing, Shape, 
nearly round, of a bright red colour, with very 
small top ; forces well. 
Per Oz., Is. 6d. 
CUCUMBER, pX'IS. 
“ Telegraph is a good variety, but Veitch's Per¬ 
fection is an improvement on it, and I can strongly 
recommend it to those who want a really good 
Cucumber.—J. Sheppard.” — Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Per Packet, 2s. 6d. 
L 'O m m ? ¥ VEITCH'S 
U i A Eli, GOLDEN QUEEN. 
Unrivalled for Early Forcing and Early Sum¬ 
mer Use. 
Per Packet, Is. 6d. 
R n n I Q U EXTRA EARLY 
ft JJ A D n, FORCING SCARLET. 
Of quick growth, coming into use before any 
other sort; fine for Forcing. 
Per Oz., 8d. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, CHELSEA, S.W. 
Ho J e JONES 
Begs to draw attention to the great bargains he is now 
offering in 
BEGOMIAS, 
Absolutely the best value for money ever offered. 
TRY THEM. 
If you are not satisfied cash returned. 
Single Begonias for Bedding. 
These have been selected with great care, and may be relied 
upon to give a grand display. 
Per doz. Per ioo. 
Very choice, all colours, mixed . 3s. 20s. 
Very good to colour. 3s. 20s. 
Very choice, selected to colour . 4s. 26s. 
Single Begonias for Pot Culture. 
All the varieties offered under this heading are quite up to 
exhibition standard, and remarkable value lor money. 
12 finest selected, mixed colours, 4s. 6 finest selected fawn, 
bronze, terra-cotta, butf, apricot, and dark orange, 4s. 6d.; a 
unique collection. 12 fine selected, in 12 distinct colours, 6s. 
12 very fine selected, in 12 distinct colours, 9s. 12, my very 
best selected, equal to the finest named varieties usually offered 
at 5s. each, in 12 lovely colours, 12s. 
Double Begonias for Pots or Bedding. 
6 fine selected seedlings, 6s. 6d.; 12 for 12s. 6 extra fine 
selected, suitable for exhibition, 13s.; 12 for 24s. Unbloomed 
doubles, 60 per cent, of these will be fine double flowers, 6 for 
2s. 6d., 12 for 4s. Begonia seed, single, is. and 2s. per packet; 
double, is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. packet. All Free for Cash with Order. 
Ryecroft Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham. 
GARDEN. 
BULBS, ROSES, &c. 
F OR whatever is wanted, mentioned or 
not in these columns, please to write immediately to 
H. CANNELL & SONS, whose Seed and Nursery Stock 
is very complete and extensive, and where nearly everything 
for the garden is grown and supplied in large quantities in the 
finest possible condition, at the lowest prices, consistent with 
correctness and superior character. Never has there been such 
a complete Autumn Catalogue issued of everything required for 
the garden as the one we are now sending post free. Neither 
has there ever been such a splendid stock of best varieties ot 
the many families of plants necessary to keep the garden in 
the highest state of perfection as we are now soliciting orders 
for. Our climate, soil, and facilities give us and purchasers 
many advantages, and we ask all to send for a Catalogue. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
SWANLEY, KENT. 
New Chrysanthemums. 
/BARTERS’ LIST OF THE BEST 
V_> SORTS for 1892 Now Ready, gratis and post free 
on application to the QUEEN'S SEEDSMEN, 237 & 2^8 High 
Holborn, London, W.C. ■* 8 
TO ANTHRACITE CONSUMERS. 
T HERE appears no probability of further 
reduction in price of really Best Anthracite, but the 
reverse—Lower quotations mean inferior quality of 
Best, ’ This is self-evident, because it will not realise the 
price of tiiat known in the Market as “Best” The 
Anthracite I supply can be guaranteed to do 20 per cent, 
(about 4 - per ton) more work than cheaper kinds, and to be 
three times superior to Gas Coke. It is also weighed by Rail- 
T?i > 2 pa Jl y ’ P na-Dde references and testimonials.— 
WILLIAM H. ESSERY, Anthracite Colleries Office, 
Swansea. 
For Index to Contents see page 329. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, January 25.—Sale of Border Flowers at Protheroe 
& Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, January 27.—-Sale ofAzaleas ,etc., at Protheroe 
& Morris' Rooms. 
Thursday, January 28. —Sale of Lily Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris' Rooms. 
Friday, January 29.—Sale of Orchids atProtheroe & Morris' 
Rooms. 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 yd, 1892. 
f ARDENERS versus Cooks. —We seem in 
some degree in danger of seeing revived 
another, and perhaps less humorous ver¬ 
sion of the famous comic law r - suit of 
“ Daniel versus Dishclout.” Not that the 
Daniel in question was a gardener ; he was 
indeed a groom, or something of that sort, 
whilst Dishclout was not even a cook, but 
a sort of kitchen helper only. Now we see 
the parties to the new controversy some¬ 
what more elevated, as it is a case of 
gardener, or chief of the outer domain, 
against the cook, or chief of the inner, or 
kitchen regions. 
W e have a well-known, and able gardener, 
Mr. Iggulden, publicly charging cooks 
with wastefulness of good vegetables, in 
■wilfully spoiling them, and in generally- 
presenting vegetables on their employers’ 
tables in an improper condition. The 
charge is a grave one, for it seriously 
affects the reputation of the cocks, whilst 
it presents an equally grave case so far as 
gardeners and employers or consumers of 
garden products are concerned. We should 
like to hear the cooks reply to this charge ; 
indeed it was well suggested, at the close of 
