February 22, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
395 
CARRIAGE FREE. \ BOXES OF 
GARDEN SEEDS. 
Liberal in Quantity. Excellent in Quality. 
Arranged to produce a Constant Supply of the Best 
Vegetables all the year round. 
WEBBS’ BOX, 
Containing 19 varieties 
Vegetable Seeds, 
5/- 
WEBBS’ BOX, 
Containing 42 vars. of 
Vegetable Seeds, 
12/6 
WEBBS’ BOX, 
Containing 47 vars. of 
Vegetable Seeds, 
15/- 
UfCDDC’ DIW Containing 61 vars. of fl-f / 
VvCDDO DUA, Vegetable Seeds, L\l m 
Acknowledged to be the best value ever offered. 
Other Boxes at 2s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 31s. 6d. 
63s, and 105s. each. 
, 42s., 
All Carriage Free, 
5 per cent, discount for cash. 
CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY 
From Mr. E. MORGAN, Wynnstay, 
“I have had Webbs’ Collection of Vegetable Seeds 
for several years past, and I am glad to say that they 
have produced excellent crops running on all the year 
round. Peas, a continuous supply, of splendid quality; 
Lettuce simply grand ; and Onions very suitable for 
spring and autumn use.” 
WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE. 
Beautifully Illustrated, post ree, is., gratis to customers. 
WEBB & SOBS, 10RDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
IF YOU WANT 
REALLY GOOD SEEDS 
AT MODERATE Pi? ICES, 
APPLY TO 
Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
No Nurseryman will serve you better in Quality , Quantity,or Price 
SWEET PEAS 
A SPECIALITY. 
ECKFORD’S and other choice varieties at a third 
or a fourth usual prices. 
Nothing gives so much cut bloom at so small a cost or so 
little trouble. To get best results SOW IN JANUARY and 
FEBRUARY, as directions sent with each Collection. 
SPECIAL VERY C*EAP O FER. 
Collection No. 1.—10 Really Good Varieties. 
30 Seeds of each variety, in separate packets, Is. 3d. 
Collection No. 2.—10 Very Choice Varieties. 
30 Seeds of each Variety, in separate packets, Is. 6d. 
For names and colours, see Gatdtni"e Illustrated. 
Special Price for the Two Collections, 2s. 6d., Post Free 
THE FOUR BEST CUCUMBERS 
Each Packet contains io Seeds. 
Lockie’s Perfection, Rollison’s Selected Telegraph, Covent 
Garden Favourite, and Tender and True, 6d. each ; postage 
id each extra; or the Collection, 2s., post free. 
THE FIVE BEST TOMATOS 
In cultivation, often sold under other names to get fancy 
prices. Each packet contains nearly 200 Seeds. Perfection, 
3d.; Ham Green Favourite, 3d.; Roseleigh Gem, 3d., a grand 
new selection, large smooth; Challenger, 3d.; Golden Perfec¬ 
tion, 3d.; Collection, is. 3d., post free. If ordered separately, 
postage id. each extra. 
Last year I sold about 5,000 packets of each, and they gave 
universal satisfaction, one grower getting over 2,000 lbs. weight 
of Tomatos from two threepenny packets. 
MR. ROBERT SYDENHAM’S LISTS 
Are acknowledged by all to be the Best, Cheapest, and most 
Reliable ever published. They contain only the Best 
VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, & BULBS WORTH GROWING 
Being the selections of the Largest Seed Growers, Market 
Gardeners, and the most celebrated Professional Gardeners 
and Amateurs in the kingdom. They also contain very useful 
cultural instructions. 
Mr. SYDENHAM’S Bulbs and Seeds were represented and 
gained First Piizes at London, Birmingham, Preston, New- 
castle-on-Tyne, Shrewsbury, Edinburgh, &c.,&c.,in 1802, 1804, 
1894,1895. FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Please mention this Paper. 
THE 
GREAT 
Disease • Resisting 
POTATO. 
THE SUTTON 
FLOURBALL. 
A 
New Maincrop 
Variety. 
Twenty six years ago we introduced 
our Red-skin Flourball, the pioneer of 
“ disease - resisting ” varieties, and its 
reputation as a heavy cropper, practically 
free from disease, is still maintained. 
We now offer a new red round Potato, 
which, after severe trials, has proved to 
be twice as productive as Red-skin, and 
possesses the advantages of excellent form 
and superior table quality in early 
autumn, even after a very wet summer. 
Most important of all, however, is the 
fact that in 1894, a season nearly the 
worst on record for disease, The Sutton 
Flourball came through the ordeal un¬ 
scathed, while Beauty of Hebron, grow¬ 
ing by its side was more than half 
diseased. 
Mr. John Keeley, The Gardens, Parsonage 
Manor, reports:— 
“Mrs. Hill had 14 lbs. r.f The Sutton 
Flourball Potato which I planted on the 
4th of March, 1895, and lifted 140 lbs. of 
splendid tubers. I have sent you a sample of 
the crop, but I have had tuters half as large 
again as I am sending. Out of the 140 lbs. I 
had not one bad Potato and only two gallons 
small. The garden they were grown in lies 
low, in fact adjoining a water meadow, which is 
naturally low and cold. I am sure it needs only 
to be more widely known to ensure a great 
future for The Sutton Flourball. Of the 
many different varieties I have grown none 
excels it as a cropper and table Potato." 
PRICE 
Per 14 lbs., 4/-; Per •§• cwt., 14/-. 
Special Quotations for Large Quantities. 
Genuine only Direct From 
SUTTON & SONS , Seedsmen, READING. 
DHLOXES, PENTSTEMONS, 
X. ANTIRRHINUMS, &c. For the BEST and most 
complete COLLECTIONS extant of these deservedly popular 
high-class flowers, obtain FORBES’ NEW Illustrated Descrip- 
tive Priced CATALOGUE FOR 1896 , 146 pages, free on 
ap plication.—JOHN FORBES , Hawick, Scotland. 
SEEDS. SEEDS. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
Kentish Own Grown Perfect Golden Seeds, the 
most popular in the world. 
Address for Catalogues, 
SEED GROWERS, SWANLEY. 
NOW READY . 
The Chrysanthemum Album, 
Containing 36 Illustrations of NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS, from 
Photographs. The whole of the Horticultural Press and a 
large number of the best growers in the United Kingdom 
recognise the value of this work and have written strongly in 
its favour. An invaluable aid to select new varieties, and a 
pleasing volume for the drawing room table. All should 
have a copy. Post free, 2/6. 
H. J. JONES, Ryecroft Nursery, Lewisham, S E. 
; LINCOLN SEEDS. 
] Grown in the driest climate in England. 
; EXTRA PEAS SELECTED. 
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Perfect Germination- Catalogue Free. 
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For Index to Contents see page 405. 
11 Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the 3plrlt of man."— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, FEB. 22nd, 1896. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, February 24th.—Sales of Azaleas,Roses, Liliums, etc., 
by Messrs.Protheroe & Morris. Annual meeting of the 
National Chrysanthemum Society at Anderton’s Hotel, 
Fleet Street, London. 
Tuesday, February 25th.—Sale of imported and established 
Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, February 26th.—Sales of Liliums, Palms, 
Ferns, etc., by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, February 27th.—Annual General Mpeting of the 
Kew Guild at the Gymnasium, Kew. Sale of greenhouse 
plants by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, February 28th.—Sales 0 f Orchids, by Messrs. 
Protheroe & Morris. 
Remarkable Ayrshire Trees.— A book 
on this subject has recently been com¬ 
piled by Mr. Geo. Paxton, who presented a 
copy of it to the library of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh. We *say compiled 
reservedly, for the greater portion of the 
information given has been the outsome of 
Mr. Paxton’s individual researches in the 
county of Ayrshire, the fatherland of Burns, 
the Scottish national bard. The book in 
question is made up of photographs and 
measurements of the finest trees in the 
county. Mr. Paxton commenced in the 
neighbourhood of Kilmarnock, and had no 
intention of doing the work so thoroughly 
until uiged on by the encouragement of the 
Rev. Mr. Landsborough. The result is, as 
far as we know, the first instance of a book 
of the kind dealing with a whole county. 
It would not only be interesting, but of 
considerable service to the country at large, 
were other enthusiastic admirers of trees to 
undertake the various other counties in 
Britain, and make a similar record of the 
largest trees occurring in them. Such 
records would form useful guides to the tree 
planter when the production of timber might 
