March-7, 1896. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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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/- 
lllCDDO’ DOV Containing 61 vars. of n-t / 
VlCDDo QUA, Vegetable Seeds, £1/ 
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, WOBDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
KERR'S SCOTCH SEED P0TAT08 
Ever give the utmost satisfaction, as testified by the 
many flattering reports from both old and new custo¬ 
mers. Every Gardener and Amateur should give his 
New Potato “ CIGARETTE ” a trial. 
Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Potatos 
free. 
W. KERR, Potato Grower, &c, Dumfries. 
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NOVELTIES FOR 1896. 
Potato, Major Neve. 
A fine new white round variety. 
A heavy cropper and of splendid cooking quality 
F.C.C. Royal Hort. Soc. 
Price, per 7lb., 2/-; 14 lb., 3 6 ; 561b., 12/6 
Potato, Early Queen. 
A grand early dwarf-growiDg Kidney, tubers 
pinkish-white, enormously productive and of 
first-class cooking quality. 
Price, per 7 lb., 2/6 ; 14 lb , 4/6; 56 lb., t6/-. 
Onion, Allan’s Reliance. 
Magnificent variety, of large size, splendid form, 
and a first-rate keeper, the highest and best type 
of a White Spanish Onion. Per Packet, 1/6 & 2/6 
DANIELS’ NEW G0DET1AS. 
Marchioness of Salisbury. 
A charming new variety, growing only one foot 
high. Flowers large, crimson, edged with 
delicate rose. Award of Merit, R.H S., July 
gth, 1895. Per Packet, 2/6. 
Carminea Aurea (Crimson & Gold.) 
Flowers crimson, edged with pale yellow or gold, 
colour very distinct and beautiful. 
Per Packet, 2/6. 
For the best list of Choice Kitchen Garden and 
Flower Seeds, Seed Potatos, Roses, Fruit Trees, 
Clematises, Begonias, Filies, Gladioli, Hardy 
Flowering Plants, and the best novelties of the 
season, see our beautifully-illustrated Guide for 
Amateur Gardeners, 140 pages, with three fine 
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D4SIEL BROS., JTiuSSSZ,. NORWICH. 
THE 
GREAT 
Disease - Resisting 
POTATO. 
THE SUTTON 
FLOURBALL 
A 
New Maincrop 
Variety. 
“Mrs. Hill had 14 lbs. of 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 tubers 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 lo w 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."— Mr. 
John Keeley, The Gardens, Parsonage 
Manor. 
“ As a result of planting 4J lbs. of Flour- 
balls I have lifted and weighed over 190 lbs , 
very few small ones, not one diseased. The 
quality is all that can be desired—splendid."— 
J. Holt Cox, Esq., New Brompton. 
" The Sutton Flourball is a good market¬ 
able Potato; nothing could be better, the 
cooking quality and flavour being of the very 
best. From 14 lbs. of seed planted I dug 2J cwt., 
and not a single blighted tuber was found 
in the crop ”—Mr. C. Carpenter, Bucldand. 
PRICE 
Per 14 lbs., 4/-; Per i ewt., 14/-. 
Special Quotations for Large Quantities. 
Genuine only Direct From 
SUTTON & SONS j Seedsmen, READING. 
DHLOXES,' P'E NTSTEMONS, 
i 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 
application.—JOHN FORBES, Hawick, Scotland. 
H. CANNELL & SONS, 
Kentish Own Grown Perfect Golden Seeds, the 
most popular in the world. 
Address for Catalogues, 
SEED GROWERS, SWANLEY. 
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" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man "— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, MAR. 7th, 1896. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, March gth.—Annual Meeting of the United Horti¬ 
cultural Provident and Benefit Society. 
Sale of Azaleas and other stove and greenhouse plants, by 
Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, March ioth.—Royal Horticultural Society: Meeting 
of Committees at 12 o'clock. 
Sales of Orchids and hardy plants, etc., by Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris. 
Wednesday, March nth.—Sale of Lilies, Roses, Palm seeds, 
by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, March 13th.—Spring Flower Show at the Manchester 
Town Hali (2 days). 
Salts of hardy perennials, Dahlias, Roses, &c., and Orchids, 
by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris. 
£fi^ 0 DERN ASPECTS OF POTATO CULTURE.- 
Everyone will admit that this is a 
many-sided question, and, simple as Potato 
culture at first sight may seem, it appears 
more and more complicated as the various 
details are considered. Apart from garden 
cultivation, we are confronted with the fact 
that the average yield of tubers per acre is 
larger in Britain than in any other European 
country, yet we do not grow a sufficient 
quantity to meet the requirements for 
human food. We may discount this fact 
to some extent by the quantities that are 
sent abroad, particularly to America and 
the colonies. Much of this is used no 
doubt for seed purposes ; arid of that we 
may well be proud, as evidence of the 
energy of the British cultivators and raisers 
of new sorts with special qualifications to 
recommend them. Immense quantities of 
Potatos are grown in France and Germany 
for the production of starch and alcohol, 
much of which find their way here. Surely 
there is some lack of enterprise on this 
score, otherwise the industry should be 
made to pay in this country. Good land is 
certainly plentiful enough for the purpose. 
In spite of thelow prices often obtainable 
for good Potatos, one of the leading 
problems agitating both the cultivator and 
all concerned, is the quantity of tubers it is 
