February 12, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WOR^LD. 
373 
Liberal in Quantity. 
Excellent in Quality. 
WEBBS’ 21s. BOX contains 
qts. Peas, for succers- 
ion. 
pints Beans, Bread, 
pint Beans, Dwarf, 
pint Beans, Runner, 
i pkt. Beet, 
i pkt. Borecole, 
pkts. Broccoli, suc¬ 
cession. 
pkt. B r u s s e I s 
Sprouts, best, 
pkts. Cabbage, for suc¬ 
cession. 
ozs. Carrot, for suc¬ 
cession. 
pkt. Cauliflower, 
pkts. Celery, best, 
pkt. Corn Salad, 
pkt. Couve Tron- 
chuda. 
us* t 0 '***- 
2 pkts. Cucumber, 
i pkt. Endive, best. 
3 pkts. Herbs, 
i pkt. Leek. 
3 pkts. Lettuce, 
i pkt. Melon. 
4 ozs. Mustard. 
4 ozs. Onion, best, 
i pkt. Parsley, 
i oz. Parsnip. 
3 ozs. Radish. 
4 ozs. Spinach, 
i pkt. Salsafy. 
i pkt. Savoy, best, 
t pkt. Scorzonera. 
i pkt. Tomato, choice. 
3 ozs. Turnips, best, 
i pkt. Veg. Marrow. 
Other Boxes at 5/-, 7/6, 12/6, 15/-, 
31/6, 42/-, 63/-, 105/- each. 
ALL CARRIAGE FREE. 
See Webbs' Spring Catalogue, post free, is. 
WEBBS, Wordsley, Stourbridge. 
BARR’S dMK PEAS. 
LIGHTNING, the best first early 
iound seeded Pea; pods well filled with good-sized peas 
of fine flavour; free cropper. Per quart, is. qd. 
PRIDE OF THE MARKET* a 
fine second early, round-seeded Pea; a great cropper, 
covered with large well-filled pods of deep green peas. 
Per quart, 2s. 
TELEGRAPH, a fine second early 
round-seeded Pea; immense cropper, pods long, bread, 
and abundant; peas large and fine-flavoured. Per 
quart, is. 6d. 
GRADUS, the best early Marrowfat ; 
pods large and handsome; peas of rich flavour. Per 
quart, 3s. fid. 
TELEPHONE, a grand exhibition 
Marrowfat, bearing in great abundance long, hand¬ 
some, broad pods well-filled with large peas of delicate 
flavour. Per quart, is. 6d. 
DUKE OF ALBANY, a fine 
maincrop Marrowfat ; large, handsome, and of rich, 
delicate flavour; a grand exhibition Pea, Per quart, 
2s. 6d. 
NE PLUS ULTRA, selected stock, 
a grand late Pea, unsurpassed for flavour, pods large 
and abundantly produced, an extra fine stock. Per 
quart, is. gd. 
BARR’S SEED GUIDE contains 
a Select List of the best Vegetable Seeds and most 
beautiful Flower Seeds. It is full of practical 
Hints, and will be found of great value to Gardeners, 
Amateurs and Exhibitors. Sent free on application. 
BARR and SONS, 
12 ft 13 KING ST., COYENT GARDEN, LONDON. 
Fidlers’ Seeds 
GAINED IN 1896 
-IN OPEN COMPETITION, NEARLY 
1,000 FIRST PRIZES. 
If you want to 
Win Prizes, be first in the market, 
and have the Best Selection of 
Vegetables and Flowers. 
BUY FIDLERS’ SEEDS 
Only One Quality 
THE BEST. 
And Prices Lower than other Houses in the 
Trade. 
Fidlers’ give value in Seeds, not in Paper. 
FULL DESCRIPTIVE LIST 
Free to all upon application to 
FIDLER & SONS, c r RS , 
READING. 
(Over 150 Pages. Nearly 150 Illustrations.) 
of Florists' Flowers and Hardy Border Plants 
is got up regardless of trouble or expense, with the result that 
it is by unanimous consent pronounced the most comprehen¬ 
sive, most accurate, most reliable, most complete and best 
extant. 
It gives full and accurate descriptions of everything in the 
way of Florists' Flowers, also colour, height, time of 
flowering, and price of ail the best Hardy Border Plants, 
together with their English or Common Names, and a mass of 
other Valuable Information that cannot be had else¬ 
where. 
It is in fact a veritable reference-book, invaluable to all 
growers of these plants, and should be in the hands of all 
intending purchasers. Free on application. 
JOHN FORBES, 
ESTABLISHED 1870. 
Nurseryman, Hawick, Scotland. 
" Gardening Is the purest of hnman pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 12 th, 1898. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, February i>th.—Smoking Concert at Anderton's 
Hotel, Fleet Street, E.C., on behalf of the N.C.S.-reserve 
fund. 
Tuesday, February 15th.—Sale of American shrubs and hardy 
plants by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Wednesday, February iSth.—Sale of Lilies, Palms, and Roses, 
etc., by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Thursday, February 17th.— Sale of Roses, Fruit Trees and 
hardy plants by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Friday, February 18th.—Sale of Impeded and Established 
Orchids by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris. 
Annual general meeting of subscribers to the Royal 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund at AndertonV Hoiel at 2 p.m. 
f HOICE HARDY AND OTHER FLOWERS AT 
Poolf-we. —Enthusiastic plant lovers 
about London and the south coast of Eng¬ 
land, often speak in glowing terms of what 
they are able to accomplish with choice 
flowers whose hardiness is largely deter¬ 
mined by the favourable character of the 
climate of the locality in which they are 
planted. We are also apt to forget that 
the influence of the Gulf stream and deep 
water generally influences climate in a re¬ 
markable degree all along the west coast of 
Britain to the extreme north of Scotland, 
as well as some distance down the eastern 
coasts, of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and 
some other counties. Mr. O. H. Mac¬ 
kenzie of Inverewe, Poolewe, is an enthusi¬ 
astic plant lower, who finds the climate at 
the mouth of the River Ewe. and at the 
south end of Loch Ewe on the west coast 
of Ross-shire particularly favourable to the 
gratification of his taste in the cultivation 
cf choice and interesting flowers. He 
supplied an account of his doings to the 
Scotsman last month, and an Inverness 
correspondent calls our attention to this 
communication in the Northern Chronicle. Mr. 
Mackenzie’s most striking success in 1896 
was the flowering of Lilium giganteum and 
Michauxia campanuloides. The former 
was a good 9 ft. high and carried seventeen 
blooms, which beats the record at Kew so 
far as he has been able to ascertain by in¬ 
quiry. We figured two plants flowered by 
a correspondent near Aberdeen in our issue 
for the 6tli November, 1897, p. 153. These 
plants were 9 ft. 9 in. and 9 ft. respec¬ 
tively, and carried 23 and 21 blooms. 
What is more the plants were raised from 
seeds and developed to the flowering stage. 
Mr. Mackenzie has bloomed two species 
of Watsonia including W. marginata. He 
also travels and has been collecting some of 
the wild plants of Corsica, including a 
lemon-coloured Orchis which has flowered 
regularly with him ever since. Pan¬ 
cratium illyricum from the same island took 
some years to recover, but flowered in 1896 
and even better last year. In its native 
home it grows on the seashore almost with¬ 
in reach of the waves as well as in the clefts 
of limestone rocks, thousands of feet above 
the level of the Mediterranean. He would 
like to know whether this species has ever 
before been bloomed in the north. What 
gave him peculiar satisfaction was an effec¬ 
tive combination consisting of a large mass 
of a white variety of Iris Kaempferi beneath 
which was a mixed mass of Tigridia aurea 
and T. lilacina grandiflora, with the brilliant 
blue Commelina coelestis—a striking mix¬ 
ture indeed. Another combination consisted 
of Michauxia, surrounded by varieties of 
Platycodon grandiflorum (Japanese balloon 
plants) and Swainsonia galegifolia alba in 
mixture. A collection of Mariposa Lilies 
(Calochorti) obtained from the south gave 
him unbounded pleasure and satisfaction 
last year, and were the envy and admira¬ 
tion of all who saw them. He had a narrow 
border on a sunny terrace, filled with the 
best soil he could procure, and in this the 
bulbs were planted in November 1896. 
They began to bloom on the 25th June last 
year, and he does not think they could have 
done better in their native Californian 
forests. There were seven varieties and 
the owner thinks that nothing more fascin¬ 
ating and artistic for vases could be grown 
in a British garden. They last a long time 
in water. Butterfly Tulips is an epithet he 
applies to them, and has not only increased 
his collection of them, but added a whole 
collection of Brodiaeas to which he lost his 
heart at the Temple Show last year. The 
rarest and most recent introductions of 
Erythronium have also been added to his 
collection, as well as Montbretias, Crinums, 
bearded Irises, Trilliums, and similarly 
choice subjects. Amongst Tulips, Tulipa 
Kaufmanni and T. Greigi are favourites. 
Ixias grow like weeds, and a bed of them 
last year came next in importance to the 
Mariposa Lilies. They were so brilliant 
on sunny days as to dazzle the eyes, and 
were almost as good as ever he has seen 
them in Italian gardens. The only fault 
applicable to Ixias at this place is that they 
refuse to go to rest in the autumn, but com¬ 
mence throwing up their leaves in October, 
to get punished by black frosts in spring. 
Left to their own resources they, neverthe¬ 
less, do well. Further to the south Lilium 
auratum does splendidly at Torridon, as 
well as Alstroemeria psittacina, with which 
he was very much taken, but they do not 
give satisfaction with him. Lilium Marta- 
gon album, L. testaceum and L. washing- 
