February 10, 1894. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
367 
ENSURE A CONSTANT SUPPLY 
OF THE BEST VEGETABLES 
All the year round by ordering 
CONTENTS: 
Six quarts Peas, for succession, 4 pints Beans (Broad), 
I pint Beans (French Runner), J pint Beans (French Dwarf), 
I pkt. Beet, i pkt. Borecole or Kale, 3 pkts. Broccoli, i pkt. 
Brussels Sprouts, 3 pkts. Cabbage, 2 oz. Carrot, i pkt. Cauli¬ 
flower, 2 pkts. Celery, 1 pkt. Corn Salad, i pkt. Couve 
Tronchuda, 3 oz. and i pkt. Cress, 2 pkts. Cucumber, i pkt. 
Endive, 3 pkts. Herbs, i pkt. Leek, 3 pkts. Lettuce, i pkt. 
Melon, 4 oz. Mustard, 3 oz. Onion, i pkt. Parsley, i oz. 
Parsnip', 3 oz. Radish, 4 oz. Spinach, i pkt. Salsafy, i pkt. 
Savoy, I pkt. Scorzonera, i pkt. Tomato, 3 oz. Turnip, i pkt. 
Vegetable Marrow. 
Other Boxes at 2/6, 5/-, 7/6,12/6, 15/-, 42/-, 
63/-, and 105/- each. Carriage Free. Five per 
cent, discount for Gash. 
From JAS. BLACKHAM, Esq., The Mount, Fillongley, 
“ Please send me a box of Garden Seeds. My Gardener 
takes one each year; he says Webbs’ Garden Seeds are 
always ot uniform quality, and during the last ten years he 
has sown them lor me his crops have never failed.” 
See Webbs’ Spring Catalogue, post free 1/. 
Abridged Edition Gratis and post free, 
WEBBS', WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
Choice Vegetable Seeds. 
CARRIAGE FREE. 
OUR 12/6 COLLECTION 
Of Choice Vegetable Seeds contains the following 
liberal assortment, all guaranteed of finest stocks and 
best growing quality. Packing and Carriage Free 
to any address in the British Isles on receipt of 
Cheque or P.O.O. 
SEVEN PINTS PEAS for succession, and 
I pint Broad Beans. i 
I pint French Beans. 2 
I pint Runner Beans. 1 
I pkt. Beet, dark red. 3 
1 pkt. Borecole, curled. , i 
r pkt. Brussels Sprouts. ; 2 
2 pkts. Broccoli,earlyaudlate. ; 
2 pkts. Cabbage, best sorts. , i 
I pkt. Savoy, dwarf Drum- i 
head. 
ij oz. Carrot, Intermediate, 2 
&c. 
r pkt. Cauliflower, Giant. 2 
1 pkt. Celery, best sorts. 2 
4 ozs. Cress, plain. i 
2 pkts. Cucumber, frame and 3 
ridge. 2 
I pkt. Endive, moss curled. 
I pkt. Gourd 01 Pumpkin. 
pkt. Leek, Ayton Castle, 
pkts. Lettuce, Cos and 
Cabbage. 
ozs. Mustard, white, 
pkt. Melon, choice, 
ozs. Onion,WhiteSpanish, 
&c. 
pkt. Parsley, fine curled, 
oz. Parsnip, hollow- 
crowned. 
ozs. Radish, long and 
turnip, 
ozs. Spinach, 
ozs. Turnip, Snowball,&c. 
pkt. Vegetable Marrow, 
pkts. Herbs, Sweetand Pot. 
pkts. Tomato, Scarlet Per¬ 
fection, &c. 
OTHER COLLECTIONS OF 
CHOICE KITCHEN GARDEN SEEDS, 
All the best kinds for succession to ensure 
A YEAR’S SUPPLY OF VEGETABLES. 
63 /-, 42 /-, 31 / 6 , 21 /-, 7 / 6 , 5 /-, & 2 / 9 . Carriage Free. 
“I could scarcely believe myself when I saw the splendid 
Collection you sent me for the amount charged (12s. 6 d.). 
Why, where is your profit ? 47 packets, say 2d. per packet. I 
have known the time when I should have readily paid £2 2$. 
for such an assortment, and thought I had got ofi' cheaply."— 
Mr. T. HALE, Claydon. 
DANIELS BROS., 
Seed Growers and Nurserymen, 
FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. 
FRUIT 
ROSES 
Nothing so profitable and easy 
to grove. 
80 Acres in Stock. 
Hundreds of 
Thousands. 
Bushes in variety. Packing and Carriage Free for cash 
with order, 8s. per dozen, 60s. per 100. All other Nursery 
Stock carriage forward. 
ROSES IN POTS FROM 15s. doz. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, 81 ACRES. 
4 ACRES OF GLASS. 
CLEMATIS ( 80 , 000 ) FROM 15 s. DOZEN. 
N.B.—Single Plants are sold at slightly increased Prices. 
SEEDS 
The best procurable. 
LISTS FREE. 
CATALOGUE 
GENERAL 
(over 140 pages) of Nursery Stock, artistically produced, 
containing some hundreds of illustrations, and full of 
containing 
valuable information sent FREE. 
RD. SMITH & CO,, 
WORCESTER. 
Catalogues post free on application to 
THOMAS S. WARE, 
HALE FARM NURSERIES, 
Tottenham, London, 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
JJILMIBS CYI>H[ER, 
Exotic Nurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
The Novelty of the Season. 
VEITCH’S 
CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN, 
6 to 7 FEET HIGH. 
{Raised by Mr. WARD, Longford Castle Gardens). 
Wonderfully prolific, tender, fine in the grain, and 
delicate in flavour. Comes in three weeks before 
Scarlet Runners, and continues bearing till 
September. Fine for Forcing. 
ROBERT VEITCH & SON, 
QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, EXETER, 
AND 
James Veitch & Sons^ Chelsea. 
For Index to Contents see page 378. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, February r3th.—Royal Horticultural Society: 
Meeting of Committees at 12 o’clock, 
Sale of Lily Bulbs and other roots at Protheroe & Morris’ 
Rooms. 
■Wednesday, February 14th,—Sale of Lily Bulbs, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Thursday, February 15th.—Sale of hardy plants, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Friday, February i6th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’ Rooms. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY loth, 1894. 
Whe Royal Botanic Society.— It cannot 
be doubted but that the recent applica¬ 
tion of the Royal Botanic Society to Her 
Majesty’s Treasury for an annual grant in 
aid of its funds, is one that should be con¬ 
sidered in the House of Commons. It is, 
indeed, a serious matter that a grant from 
Imperial sources should be given to a 
private body, ostensibly for scientific 
purposes, but really to be enabled to possess 
as a special preserve a fine area of one of 
the National Parks of London, and that for 
the benefit or enjoyment of a select circle 
of Fellows, who cannot, or will not if they 
can help it, pay for the luxury. 
The plea that the garden has been found 
serviceable to medicine has little strength 
in face of the fact that the Government 
Botanic Garden at Kew fully supplies all 
the needs of science, and is at the same 
time no select or close preserve, but open 
to the public freely, and is as much for 
their enjoyment as for the benefit of 
botanical or medical science. Were the 
Royal Botanic Gardens in the Regent’s 
Park taken over by the Government and 
converted into a metropolitan, and, of 
course, public botanic garden, no one 
would perhaps complain, although it may 
well be asked whether with Kew so near, 
a botanic garden in the centre of London 
is really needed. Better still, no doubt, 
it would be to take over the control of the 
botanic gardens, maintain them much as 
they are, exclude from them all games or 
revelry, and make them a beautiful place 
of resort where decorative gardening of the 
