March 9, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
435 
IF YOU WANT 
REALLY GOOD SEEDS 
AT MODERATE PRICES apply to 
Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Tenby Street, BIRMINGHAM. 
No Nurseryman will serve you better in quality, 
quantity, or price. 
THE SIX BEST TOMATOS 
In cultivation, often sold under ether names to get fanev prices. 
Each packet contains nearly 200 seeds. Perfection, 3d.; Hain 
Green Favourite, 3d.; Hackwood Park Prolific, 3d.; Challenger, 
3d.; Roseleigh Gem, a grand new large smooth selection, 3d.; 
Golden Perfection, the best yellow. 3d. Collection, is. 8d., post 
free ; singly, id. each extra for postage. 
_ exhibition s. 
CRYSTAL PALACE 
Spring 1 Exhibition of Flowers & Plants, 
SATURDAY. MARCH 16th. 
Schedules and entry forms free by post on appli¬ 
cation to Mr. W. G Head, Superintendent Gardens 
Department, Crystal Palace, S.E. 
Entries close on Saturday, 9th March. 
B righton and sussex hortF- 
CULTURAL SOCIETY.—SPRINT. SHOW, 
26th and 27th March. 
For Schedules and full particulars apply to the Secretary, 
56, Queen's Road, Brighton. 
THE FOUR BEST CUCUMBERS. 
Each packet contains 10 seeds, Lockie's Perfection, Rollisson’s 
Selected Telegraph, Epicurean, and Covent Garden Favourite, 
6d. each ; or the collection, 2S., post free ; singly, id. extra for 
postage. 
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 AT ONCE, as 
directions sent with each collection. 
SPECIAL VERY CHEAP OFFER. 
8 Really Good Varieties— Queen of England, 
white; Blanche Ferry, pink and white; Princess 
Beatrice, pale pink; Apple Blossom, apple blossom 
tint ; Orange Prince, orange pink ; Splendour, rich 
deep rose ; Cardinal, bright cardinal ; Countess of 
Radnor, pale heliotrope, 25 seeds of each, is. 3d. 
7 Extra Choice and Newer Varieties —Emily 
Henderson,fine large white; Venus, pale lemon flushed 
with pink; Mrs. Gladstone, delicate pink; Her 
Majesty, soft rosy-pink ; Lady Penzance, bright pale 
rose; Firefly, bright glowing crimson ; Monarch, 
large bronzy-purple, 25 seeds of each, is. 6d. 
The Two Collections, 2s. 6d. —Postage 2d. each 
Collection extra ; or the two 3d. extra. 
Extra Choice Mixture, 3d. per 100 seeds; postage Id. extra. 
ALL OTHER SEEDS EQUALLY MODERATE. 
FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Please mention this Paper. 
NEW WHITE ROUND POTATO. 
JOHNSONS' BOSTON Q. Q. 
(Quantity and Quality ) 
High record vield, 223 lb., raised from 2 lb. of Seed. 
W w. JOHNSON AND SON, Seed 
. Growers and Merchants, Boston, in offering the 
above valuable variety, which was raised by them, and first sent 
out in 1893, claim for it that is unquestionably one of the finest 
Pota os of recent introduction, and reaches an ideal of perfec¬ 
tion rarely attained, and which has already placed it in the 
first ranks of popular varieties in commerce. 
Boston Q. Q. Potato was unanimously awarded a First class 
Certificate by the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, after trial at Chiswick, September, 
1892. 
it also gained a First-class Certificate at the International 
Potato Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, October, 1892 and 
it has received numerous other honours and awards. 
Many testimonials have been received from all parts of the 
kingdom, one of the latest from Messrs. J. R. Pearson & Son”, 
the well-known Nurserymen and Seedsmen, of the Chilwell 
Nurseries, Nottingham, who wrote to us under date of 
January 25th, 1895 :— 
“ Please send early as possible 2 bushels Boston 
Q. Q. Potatos. We think we can beat all your testimonials, 
for we planted 2 lb. last season, and lifted 15 stones r3 lb., 
the greater part of which were of good size.’’ 
W. W. JOHNSON and Son beg to notify that the demand 
for their new Potato- has hitherto been tar greater than they 
have been ab e to supply, and their stock is again limited. 
Retail price, per peck (of 14 lb.), 5s.; per busb. (of 56 lb.), iSs. 
For full particulars, witn description and.copy of numerous 
testimonials received, apply to— 
W. W. JOHNSON & SON, 
Seed Growers and Merchants, 
Boston, Lincolnshire. 
Shrewsbury Great Floral Fete 
AUGUST 21st and 22nd, 1895. 
The Society offers this year nearly 
£800 in Brizes. 
Special Class for Decorative ArFangementof Fruit, 
£51 IN PRIZES. 
Schedules are now ready, and may be obtained from 
the Hon. Secretaries, 
Messrs. Adnitt & Naunton, Shrewsbury. 
FLORISTS FLOWERS 
AND 
HARDY BORDER PLANTS. 
FORBES’ ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 
for 1895 is now ready, and will be posted to all intending 
Purchasers. 
The great Scotch newspaper, ‘'The Scotsman,” says— 1 '■ Of 
the Nurserymen who make a speciality of Florists'Flowers 
and Hardy Border Plants, John Forbes, of Hawick, is 
probably the most widely known. His catalogue for 1894 is a 
substantial affair of 130 pages, and when it is stated that 
the name and description of a plant rarely occupy more than 
one line, some idea may be formed of the vast number of 
varieties offered.’’ 
The new Catalogue for 1895 is enlarged to about 150 pages 
and very materially improved, embracing everything new and 
old worth cultivating in the way of Florists’ Flowers and 
Hardy Plants with accurate description and prices, copious 
notes as to their origin, how, and where best to grow, a full 
index of the common or popular names of Hardy Border 
Plants and a vast mass of other valuable information that 
cannot be had elsewhere, which renders this the best, most 
reliable, and complete catalogue ever issued on this popular 
class of plants. 
JOHN FORBES, Nurseryman, Hawick, Scotland 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
GROWERS 
Should in their own interest buy a few Plants 
from H. J. Jones, to learn the reason why. Send 
for my Spring Catalogue (free), which contains 
special selected lists of Chrysanthemums, Begonias, 
Pelargoniums, &c. 
Ryecroffc Nursery, LEWISHAM. 
NEW 
“ BROCKHAMPTON KING,” Per Packet, Is. 
Highly recommended for Early Forcing. Special Prizes will 
be given in 1895. For particulars apply— 
W. E. TIDY, 
Brockhampton Nurseries, Havant, Herts. 
TREE OR WINTER BLOOMING. 
The finest and freest flowering varieties in existence. Thoroughly perpetual bloomers. 
tf MISS MARY GODFREY,” 
Undoubtedly the largest and best white, very pure, good shape, highly perfumed, and a “ non-burster.' 
“REGINALD GODFREY.” 
Immense salmon pink blooms, very strongly perfumed. Lovely variety. 
Each 2s. 6d. Fully Described in List, post free. 
W. J. GODFREY, Ex mouth, DEV ON. 
NOW READY 
HARPE'S ILLUSTRATED 
Descriptive Catalogue 
Post Free on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE & Co., Ltd., 
Seeh fanners ant> flDercbants, SLEAFORD. 
VEITCH’S 
FINEST MIXED 
LAWN GRASS. 
Carefully prepared from the Finest Dwarf Perennial 
Grasses only. Unsurpassed for Making and 
Improving Fawns and Tennis Grounds 
Per pound, Is.; per bushel, 25s. 
VEITCH’S 
FINEST 
MIXED GRASSES 
FOR 
CRICKET GROUNDS 
Per Gallon, 2s. 9d.; per bushel, 21s. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea. 
For Index to Contents see page 428. 
“ Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greate: t 
refreshment to the spirit of man ”—Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, March nth.—United Horticultural Provident and 
Benefit Society : Annual Meeting at S p.m. 
National Chrysanthemum Society: Meeting of Generat 
Committee at 7 p.m. 
Sale of Bulbs, &c„ at Messrs. Protheroe& Morr's’ Rooms, 
Tuesday, March 12th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris' Rooms. 
Wednesday, March 13th.—Sale of Lilies at Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris’ Rooms. 
Thursday, March 14th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe 
& Morris’ Room". 
Friday, March 15th.—Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe & 
Morris' Rooms. 
tfH ijWld, 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE. 
SATURDAY , MARCH gth, 1895. 
WHE OUTLOOK TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.— 
With the departure of February most 
people have an inward consciousness that 
winter is gone. There may indeed be a 
relapse, and we may yet experience a bitter 
winter blast, or even a blizzard, especially 
in the northern part of the country, but 
all are confident that this can only be of 
short and fitful duration, To all who are 
in any way connected with the cultivation 
of the soil, it is practically the commence¬ 
ment of the new year, pregnant with hopes, 
fears and promises of crops in prospect, 
but waiting realisation. Hope always 
refers to the future, fears are always pre¬ 
sent, and promises have to be realised. 
The larger questions affecting the present 
are the depression of trade and the depre¬ 
ciation of land, and though great efforts 
are being made to resuscitate both, we are 
mainly concerned with the welfare and 
prospects of the latter. It is interesting as 
well as instructive, and affords no small 
degree of satisfaction, to note the 
various efforts in their widest scope, as 
well as in their details, that are being 
promulgated or put into action to sustain 
and restore the value of land, as well as to 
revive the various industries dependent 
upon it. In spite of all the evident depre» 
