April 16, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
513 
Seeds for Amateurs. 
CARTERS’ 
BOXES OF TESTED 
SEEDS, 
FOR SMALL GARDENS. 
Garters’ 2/6 Box ot Vegetable Seeds 
contains 13 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Carters’ 5/'- Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 22 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Carters’ 7/6 Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 30 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Carters’ 9/- Box of Vegetable Seeds 
contains 35 Varieties, and is sent post free on 
receipt of remittance. 
Other Boxes, 10/6, 14/-, 17/6, & 21/-. 
Full List of Contents Post Free. 
Seedsmen by Roy at. Warrants to THE QUEEN and 
THE PRINCE OF WALES. 
237 a 238, HIGH WLBORN, LONDON. 
WILLIAMS’ 
WORLD-RENO WEED 
PRIMULA 
GOLD MEDAL STRAIN 
Is the best in cultivation 
Per Packet, 
1 / 6 , 2 / 6 , 3 / 6 , and 5 /-. 
ILLUSTRATED 
SEED 
CATALOGUE, 
GRATIS and POST FREE. 
B, S. WILLIAMS & CON, 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
UPPER HOLLOWAY. LONDON, N. 
LAWNS 
AND 
TENNIS GROUNDS. 
WEBBS’ 
PRIZE 
MIXTURES 
Either with or without Clovers, rapidly produce 
the most beautiful and enduring turf for Garden 
Lawns, Bowling Greens, Tennis and Cricket 
Grounds, &c. Awarded the Gold Medal at the Liver¬ 
pool Exhibition, 1886, and Prize Medal at Paris 
Exhibition, 1878, 6-c. 
First Quality, 1/3 per lb., 24/- per bsh. 
Second do. 1/0 „ 20/- „ 
From THOMAS YATES, Esq., Padgate. 
“ Webbs' Lawn Grass Seeds rapidly produced a most 
splendid Lawn, and its luxuriant appearance is admired by 
every one that sees it. I am so much pleased with its fine 
texture and compact growth that I purpose extending it 
next year.” 
From THOS. KIDNER, Esq , Montserrat Road. 
“ The Lawn Grass Seed you sent for a rood of ground has 
dene remarkably well. It was sown on the 14th June, and 
mown for the first time on the 18th July. I hope to be able to 
use it for Croquet before the season ends.” 
W E BBS’jWORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
For Index to Contents see page 522. 
“ Gardening is the purest or human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, April 19.—National Auricula Society's Show at 
the Drill Hall, Westminster. 
Wednesday, April 20.—Sale of Greenhouse Plants, &c., at 
FORBES 
Protheroe & Mori is’ Rooms. 
Friday, April 22. —Sale of Orchids, at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
Catalogue for 1892 
Is the largest, best, and most comprehensive ever 
issued on 
Florists’ Flowers & Herbaceous Plants. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY , APRIL 16 th, 1892. 
It contains full and accurate descriptions of all the 
best Antirrhinums, Begonias, Carnations, Dahlias, 
Delphiniums, Fuchsias, Paeonies, Pansies, Violas, 
Pelargoniums. Pentstemons, Petunias, Phloxes, 
Pinks, Potentillas, Primulas, Pyrethrums, Verbenas, 
Herbaceous Plants, &c., &c. Also of iny true and 
reliable strain of 
which, by the force of their merit, are now justly 
celebrated all the world over. In 5 distinct sorts : 
Crimson, Purple, Scarlet, White, and Wall-flower¬ 
leaved White. 
Each sort 1/-, 2/6, & 5/- per packet. 
It is anindispensable REFERENCE BOOK on all sections 
of Florists' Flowers, and should be carefully perused by all 
buyers of Flowers. Free on application. 
JOHN FORBES, 
J^aFseryman, 
HAWICK, SCOTLAND. 
Whe Fruit Tree Bloom.— If anticipa- 
tion runs high just now with respect 
to the season’s fruit crop, it seems to be 
fully justified by the present appearance of 
the trees, for they are literally laden with 
bloom buds and very soon will be as liter¬ 
ally masses of bloom. Were there no 
bloom buds we should know at once the 
worst for the season. It is indeed a sad¬ 
dening sight for any grower who looks 
abroad at this season of the year and notes 
that the trees are barren of promise. . It is 
true the worst is known soon, but it is a 
painful worst and none the less so because 
so long apparent. • 
Whilst this year it would seem as if with 
such promise of bloom nothing could rob 
us of a fruit crop, nothing can hardly rob 
us of a glorious bloom, and that is some¬ 
thing. Still we may not be too sure that a 
full bloom means all that it indicates, as we 
have found in some preceding years when 
the luxuriant blossom has largely fallen and 
left the trees barren. We hope, indeed look 
for better things now for the trees are in the 
best of health, and so far the season has 
left little to be found fault with. Generally 
ornamental trees promise to bloom freely, 
indeed the almost universally grown Al¬ 
mond has this season been almost gorgeous 
in its profuseness of flowers, and the 
hardy Pyrus japonica, the Forsythias, 
Ribes, and other early blooming shrubs are 
singularly beautiful. 
The recent warm fine weather did 
wonders not only in expanding tree and 
shrub bloom but also in permitting it to 
display all its beauties in the richest hues 
and purest of tints. So far the season has 
had a good beginning, may it have as good 
an ending. Last year gave us a heavy 
fruit crop in spite of a miserable, cold, wet 
summer. We shall not be surprised to 
find a very fruitful and a very fine season 
allied in the present year of grace. 
J|ardy Primroses. —It is at once amusing 
and odd that the National Auricula 
Society’s show in London, when hardy 
coloured Primroses are usually seen in pots 
and pans in such beautiful and varied form, 
should fall upon what is now politically 
known as Primrose Day. Comparatively 
few of the devotees of the common or wild 
Primrose have we fear little knowledge of 
the beautiful and varied section that are 
equally hardy and which bloom at the 
same time in gardens so luxuriantly. 
There is sometimes a disposition to jum¬ 
ble up Primroses with Polyanthuses and 
call them all by the former title. This is 
rather exasperating,because those who un¬ 
derstand them have full knowledge that 
they are distinctly disimilar. The Prim¬ 
rose doubtlessly because its flowers are 
produced singly on stems always blooms a 
few weeks in advance of the Polyanthus, 
the flowers of which, as its name implies, 
are borne in clusters on single stems and 
naturally take longer to develop or open. 
The wild Primrose as a rule has no Poly- 
anth congener other than the Cowslip, but 
these are so dissimilar that no one will con¬ 
found them. With the various and beauti¬ 
fully coloured garden strains there is much 
similarity in the flowers, both as regards 
size and colour, hence the frequent misap¬ 
prehension as to identity'. Both are so 
beautiful as to merit universal cultivation. 
The varieties seen just now on barrows in 
the streets and in shops are poor apologies 
for the Teal thing as seen in the best 
strains. 
It will be a long time probably ere these 
fine forms become widely known, but. they' 
have only to be seen to be fullyappreciated. 
We shall hope to see some fine examples of 
these flowers again this season. .Happily 
they seed freely', are very' easily raised, and 
will grow well in any ordinary garden soil 
which is fairly deep and cool. Seed should 
be sown at once to give strong plants for 
next spring blooming. 
tterns and Begonias. —\\ e regret to 
note that of the several prizes offered 
in classes in the schedule of the hern and 
Begonia Exhibition and Conference to take 
place at Chiswick on the 23rd and 24th of 
August next, none should be open to com¬ 
petition by' members of the trade. Doubt¬ 
less it is assumed that the trade are certain 
to exhibit. That may be so, but the trade 
all the same has to live and pay expenses, 
whilst amateurs, to whom all the classes 
only are open, are not so dependent. 
