February"2,1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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equal to it in excellence of workmanship are Sutton’s 
Early Marrowfat, Sutton’s Perfect Gem, Sutton’s 
Dwarf Mammoth Marrowfat, Sutton’s Eureka, 
Sutton’s Invincible Marrowfat, Sutton’s Peerless 
Marrowfat, Sutton’s Magnum Bonum Marrowfat, 
Sutton’s Exhibition Marrowfat, and others. The 
last-named half-dozen are notable for their great 
size, each pod being perfectly filled and containing 
from eight to ten seeds. The exactness of the 
photographs make the pods appear as if showing the 
bloom with which they were covered. The shape 
of the pods can also be determined, whether round, 
broad and flat, or tumid. Such indications should 
assist a gardener in determining what kinds are most 
suitable for exhibition, independently of description. 
Of course, side, back and front views of many of the 
kinds are given, so that one can gather at a glance 
the chief characteristics of any particular variety 
with the aid of such an album. 
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STOKING. 
I read with interest the remarks made by "An Old 
Stoker" on p. 345 of a recent issue of the Gardening 
World, and quite agree with him when he declares 
that stoking is one of the dirtiest and most disagree¬ 
able operations the gardener has to perform. It is 
also very true that a great deal of trouble is caused 
and a naturally unpleasant task made still more 
unlovable through neglect of the common laws of 
cleanliness. Still, a great deal might be done in the 
way oi improvement by the selection of suitable 
fuel. True it is that there are some boilers in which 
anything may be burnt, but this is not the case in 
all instances. Cinders, for instance, constitute a 
great part of the fuel used in the stoke-holes in many 
establishments, and anyone who has had to keep up 
a fire with them knows what an unpleasant task it 
often is from the great amount of clinkers they 
make, a fact not to be wondered at when we consider 
the large quantities of rubbish that cinders usually 
contain. 
Where abundant supplies of coke are obtainable, 
it is of course much easier to keep up the requisite 
heat. In my opinion, however, coke is by no means 
the best fuel; the palm in this respect must be given 
to "Anthracite” coal. I have tried both, and 
should, as the result of this experience, unhesitatingly 
record my vote in favour of the latter, both for 
cleanliness and heatiog power. I have been supplied 
with Anthracite for some years past by Mr. William 
H. Essery, of Swansea, from whom I obtain it 
broken up ready for use, the waste and trouble of 
breaking thus being saved, a consideration where 
large quantities are consumed. Being, as it is, 
entirely without smoke, the flues of the boilers in 
which it is burnt do not get choked up so readily, 
and the unpleasant sulphurous fumes so common to 
coke ara conspicuous by their absence. A fire 
banked up at night with "Anthracite” may be 
depended upon to maintain the heat much better 
through the night than when coke is used. The 
saving in labour alone which may be effected by its 
use is a great point in its favour apart from the 
saving of worry to the gardener, an individual who, 
as a rule, is particularly tried in this respect at all 
seasons of the year, but at none more particularly 
than when the prevalence of severe frosts renders it 
a matter of difficulty to keep the thermometers in 
the houses up to the required standard .—An Old 
Gardener. 
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VACCINIUM MYRSINITES. 
The cultivation of hard wooded plants is not now 
pursued with so much zeal and enthusiasm as was 
the case some thirty or forty years ago. Like many 
other things they have gone out of fashion, for a 
while at least. In places where a few Ericas, 
Epacrises, Aotas, etc., are grown, dwarf, sturdy 
plants of compact habit are needed to form a 
suitable edging when they are staged in the show 
house. Among the subjects suitable for such a 
purpose mention should be made of Vaccinium 
Myrsinites. The branches are sub-pendant in habit, 
and the plant is of a dwarf character, usually 
ranging from 1 ft. to 18 in. in height. The flowers 
are pink or pinkish-white in colour, and borne upon 
short racemes. Like the rest of the Vacciniums, the 
soil in which it is grown should largely consist of 
peat. V. Myrsinites was described in the Botanical 
Magazine under the name of V. nitidum decumbens 
and is synonymous also with the V. Sprengelli of 
gardens. 
AN ALBUM OF PEAS. 
Illustrations of Peas when simply accomplished by 
the hand of the artist, aided by his imagination, may 
mislead for a time, although his triumph may be 
but short-lived. That good and true representations 
may be and are produced by the artist we have not 
the slightest doubt; but when photography takes 
the work in hand we get the object true to nature. 
example of the photographic plates in question, but 
because gardeners everywhere are now recognising 
the value of the variety for early work. It is a 
first early wrinkled Pea derived from a cross 
between American Wonder and Early Paragon. The 
satisfaction it has already given is a sure guarantee 
that it will be more and more largely grown. The 
pods are twice the size of those of American Wonder 
Pea : Sutton’s May Queen. 
We had occasion recently to refer to some excellent 
figures of Peas, one or two of which were rather 
faint or obscure owing to their being printed on thin 
paper; but the Messrs. Sutton’s "Album of Garden 
Peas," now before us, with an additional number of 
full page plates representing bunches of pods as 
grown naturally, leaves nothing to be desired on the 
score of printing or paper. By the courtesy of 
Messrs. Sutton & Sons we are enabled to reproduce 
the illustration of the early variety May Queen, 
which we selected not because it was the best 
and as early, while the figure shows the nnmber of 
seeds produced under good cultivation—the second 
requisite to success after a good Pea to work upon 
has been originated. 
There are several other plates to which we desire 
to make special reference on account of the great 
perfection which characterises them, and the 
triumph of art in aid of the gardener. That repre¬ 
senting the Pea Sutton’s Bountiful is particularly 
fine, and the seeds look as if ready to fall out of an 
open pod, so clear are they. Ot almost or quite 
