January 22, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
323 
WEBBS’ 
CHOICE 
CELERIES. 
The Best in Cultivation. 
WEBBS’ NEW GIANT WH TE. 
Valuable for exhibition or table purposes. The 
heads are very large, white, and exceedingly crisp 
and sweet in flavour. 
Is. per Packet, post free. 
WEBBS’ PINK PERFECTION. 
A new early variety. The stalks are large, thick, 
and of rich nutty flavour ; retains its freshness a 
loDg time after being dug up. 
Is per Packet, post free. 
WEBBS’ MAMMOTH RED. 
The Best Red Celery. Very large, solid, 
crisp, and possessing an excellent nutty flavour. 
Grown successfully everywhere. 
6d. and Is. per Packet, post free. 
See Webbs’ Spring Catalogue, post free, is. 
W E B eTs ’ 
Wordsley, Stourbridge. 
BEGONIAS A SPECIALITY^ 
Seed saved from prize plants. Choicest mixed, single or 
double varieties, is., 2s. 6d., and 5s. per packet; collections 
(seed) single, 12 named varieties, separate, 9s. 6d.: 6 ditto, 
3s. Tubers, named singles, from 18s. to 50s. per doz. ; choicest 
seedlings, 3s. to 30s. per doz.; bedding, choicest, 3s. to 9s. per 
doz. ; choicest named doubles, from 18s. per doz.: choicest 
seedlings, 6s. to 30s. per doz.; choicest mixed, for bedding, 9s. 
to 18s. per doz. Catalogues gratis. 
JOHN LAING AND SONS, 
Begonia Growers, 
FOREST HILL, LONDON, S.E. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
"WHICH ARE THE BEST VARIETIES '?” 
A QUESTIO N ASKED BY EVERYONE. 
PAn a 1 10 Ilf CO SEE MY CATALOGUE 
FOR ANS WER p ost free.) 
GODFREY, exmouth, Devon. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Exotic Nurseries. CHELTENHAM 
HTHE BEST and CHEAPEST in the 
A WORLD.—12 acres of Roses. 50 choice Dwarf Per- 
petuals for 21s. 24 choice Standards and Half-standards for 
2is. 12 Half Standards, 9s. 6d. Purchaser's selection, 50 
Dwarfs, unnamed, 12s. 6d. The following are my selection, 
carriage free: 6 Marechal Niels, 5s.; 12 choice Climbing, 7s.; 
12 best Hybrid Perpetuals, dwarfs, 7s.; 6 lovely Yellow 
Roses, 5s.; 6 Glcire de Dijons, 4s. 6d.; 6 beautiful Fairy Roses, 
4s.: 4 Austrian Briers, 3s,: 6 Mrs. Bosanquet, 3s. 6d.; 6 
choice Moss Roses, 4s.; 6 old Cabbage Roses, 4s.; 6 old- 
fashioned Roses, 4s.; 6 crimson Monthly Roses, 3s. 6d.; 6 pink 
Monthly Roses, 2s. 6,1.; 6 white Monthly Rosts. 3s. 6d.; 6 
quick-grou ing Climbing Roses, 2s. 6d.; 12 Sweet Briers, 3s. 
All for C a lb with Order. Thousands of Testimonials. Cata¬ 
logues free. 
JAMES WALTERS, Rose Grower, EXETER, 
Barr’s Ne Plus Ultra French Bean. 
A fine forcing variety, very early, and producing 
an abundance of fine pods Per quart, is. 6J. 
Barr's Earliest French Shorthorn Carros 
A favourite for soups, and extremely early ; the 
best variety to sow in frames. Per oz., iod. 
Barr's Pride of the Market Cucumber. 
A specially fine selection, dark green, and of 
handsome shape, a favourite in Covent Garden 
Market. Per packet, is. 6d. 
Barr’s Improved Telegraph Cucumber. 
A fine selection, handsome straight fruit of fine 
flavour, very prolific. Per packet, is. and 
is. 61. 
Barrs " Eureka ” Melon. 
A grand new scarlet-fleshed variety, fruit large 
and densely netted, flavour delicious, heavy 
cropper and early; a splendid exhibition variety. 
Per packet, is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
Barr's First of All Radish. 
Fine little, short leaved, very early Radishes, 
scarlet or white. Each, per oz., 6d. 
Barr’s Early Ruby Tomato. 
Large, solid, bright scarlet fruit, of fine form ; 
an abundant cropper, and best first early 
Tomato. Per packet, is. 
Barr’s Thick-fleshed Tomato. 
Surpasses all other varieties for depth of fruit, 
solidity of flesh, high quality, and heavy crop¬ 
ping. Per packet, is. 
Barr's Seed Guide, containing a full descriptive 
List of the best vegetables and most beautiful 
flowers, sent free on application. 
BARR and SONS, 
12 4 13 KING ST,, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. 
SEED LIST 
(Free on Application). 
FEATURES:- 
Alphabetically arranged. 
Best sorts, in heavy type, can be seen at a glance. 
Probably the most explicit practical instructions 
for cultivation ever published in any Catalogue. 
Many hints and recipes for cooking and serving 
the various vegetables. 
Directions for the storing and forcing of vegetables 
Medical qualities of many vegetables and herbs. 
Prizes of £5, £3, (two of) £2, and £1 offered for 
photographs of horticultural subjects (see page 2 of 
Catalogue). 
THE LIST, containing 93 pages and a profusion 
of illustrations, shows (a) what to grow, ( ) how 
to grow it, and (c) what to do with it when 
grown, and has been described by an Agent as one 
of the largest estates in England as a BOOK OF' 
REFERENCE. 
Another Customer, testifying as to quality writes : 
.—“ I should like to add that all the Seeds, &c., 
purchased from your establishment during the past 
14 years have been of the very best quality, and 
have given great satisfaction.” 
RD. SMITH & Co., 
Seed Merchants & Nurserymen, 
WORCESTER, 
TO THE TRADE. 
NEW VIOLET 
Mrs. J. J. ASTOR. 
We beg to draw the attention of all growers of 
Violets to this beautiful double variety now first 
introduced by us from America. Of a lovely shade of 
rosy-heliotrope,tbe fine flowers are rather darker than 
Mme. Millet, and the growth more vigorous. It is 
also a surpti-iugly free bloomer, early and very sweet 
scented. The stock being limited, we advise all 
intending purchasers for spring delivery not to delay 
sending their orders which will be executed in rota¬ 
tion. Over twenty-five other varieties in stock. 
Send for Trade List to¬ 
rn MANAGERS, HOOD GARDENS, TOTNES. 
SUTTON S 
PEAS 
For Early Work. 
SUTTONS MAY Q.IEEN. 
Per quart 2/6 
‘ Your May Queen is the earliest and finest- 
flavoured Pea I have ever grown. Side by side 
with William I. and American Wonder, May 
Queen was a fortnight in advance. I picked them 
in the third week of May.’—Mr. George Tomlin¬ 
son, Gardener to D. Sykes, Esq 
SUTTON’S A1. 
Per quart 3/- 
‘ Your A1 is the best and earliest Pea I have 
grown, coming in one week before William I.’— 
Mr. F F. Whitehead, Gardener to }. H. Fisher, 
Esq. 
SUTTON’S EXCELSIOR. 
Per quart 3/- 
• For forcing, border and early growiog, your 
Excelsior Pea is superb. It bears pods in pairs 
at every joint, well filled and of handsome shape.’— 
Mr. Albert Prior, Gardener to P. Francis, Esq. 
Sutton’s Seeds! 
GENUINE ONLY FROM SUTTON & SONS,READING. / 
11 Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
retreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
Cfo $pat|tli}t|ti|5 Ip*# 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22nd , 1898. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, January 25th.—Sale of Lilies by Messre. Protheroe 
and Morris. 
Wednesday, January 26th.—Sale of Japanese Lilies, by 
Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Thursday, January 27th.—Sale of Hardy Plants by Messrs. 
Protheroe and Morris. 
Friday, January 28th.—Sale of Impoited and Established 
Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris 
r TATO EXPERIMENTS IN IRELAND.- It IS 
not surprising that the celebration of 
the tercenterary of the introduction of the 
Potato at Dublin on the 9th and 10th 
December 1896, should have given some 
fresh impetus to the cultivation of the 
noble tuber in the Sister Isle. Mr. William 
Hosford, of Cork, has been giving an 
account of his experiments, with varieties 
largely picked up at the tercentenary exhi¬ 
bition, in the Irish Farming World. In 
speaking of the Potato crop of 1897 in Ire¬ 
land, he considers it the lightest and most 
indifferent in quality they have had for 
many years past. Potatos planted on well 
prepared dry land previous to the 25th 
March gave a fair average ; plantations from 
that time till the middle of April on low 
lying land gave half a crop ; while grass 
land, turned up into lazy beds about the end 
