January 23, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
323 
WEBBS 
VEGETABLE 
NOVELTIES 
(Now offered for the first time). 
PEA: WEBBS' ASTRONOMER. 
A handsome main crop variety. The pods are 
closely filled with peas of the finest quality. 
2/6 per Pint, post free. 
TOMATO: WEBBS’ VICEROY. 
Of large size and beautiful shape. Indispen¬ 
sable for exhibition or general use. 
1/6 and 2/6 per Packet, post free. 
ENDIVE: WEBBS’ EMERALD GEM. 
Of strong constitution, and suitable for winter 
use. Very crisp and tender. 
1/- per Packet, post free. 
CELERY: WEBBS' GIANT WHITE. 
Valuable for exhibition and table use. 
Exceedingly crisp and sweet in flavour. 
1/- per Packet, post free. 
See Webbs' Spring Catalogue, post free, is. 
WEBBS'. Wordsley, STOURBRIDGE. 
B egonias, young's prize 
STRAIN SEEDS, 6d. and is. per packet to colour or 
mixed. Double Mixed is. and is. 6d. packet. Bulbs Mixed, 
grand strains, 25 for 3s. 6d. free. A. W. YOUNG & Co., The 
N urseries, Steven age. 
BEGONIASA 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, 5s. 6d.; 6 ditto, 3s. 
Tubers, named singles, from 18s. to 50s. per doz. ; choicest 
seedlings, 3s. to 30s. per doz.; bedding, choicest, 3s. to gs. 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 & SONS, growers a &c. 
FOREST HILL, LONDON, SB. 
H® SEEDS 
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GOOD THUS 35 GARDEN. 
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Full Cultural Directions for Everything. 
GARTERS HOLBORN EXHIBITION 
DRUSSELS SPROUTS. 
A very fine strain, for size, solidity, and productivenets ; 
it is preferred in Covent Garden Market to all others. 
In Sealed Packets, pi ice 1/6 each ; 2/6 per oz. post-free 
CARTERS LEVIATHAN BROAD BEAN. 
The longest-podded Broad Bean grown ; fine for exhibi¬ 
tion, and one of the best tor cooking-purposes. 
In Sealed Packets, price 1/9 per pint; 3 /- per quart, 
post-free. 
CARTERS RED ELEPHANT CARROT. 
A veritable giant, both in length and rotundity. Speci¬ 
mens exhibited at our establishment measured feet in 
length. 
In Sealed Packets, price 1/6 each post-free. 
CARTERS EXTRA EARLY AUTUMN 
GIANT CAULIFLOWER. 
This magnificent variety is more dwarf, considerably 
earlier, and altogether better than the old form. 
In Sealed Packets, price 2 /- each, post-free. 
CARTERS SOLID IVORY CELERY. 
Still maintains its position as one of the best white 
Celeries in cultivation. A customer writes : “ It was the 
only Celery we found good at the break-up of the intense 
fr ° St In Sealed Packets, price 1/6 each, post-free. 
CARTERS MODEL CUCUMBER. 
Many so-called new Cucumbers are brought forward 
every season, but little is heard of them afterwards. This 
fine variety still maintains its position as the handsomest 
in cultivation. 
In Sealed Packets, price 2/6 and 3/6 each, post-free. 
CARTERS HOLEORN MODEL LEEK. 
Grand both for exhibition or table. A Welsh customer 
saj s : “ They are the best we ever had." 
In Sealed Packets, price a/- each, post-lree. 
CARTERS RECORD ONION. 
The largest Onion grown. A customer writes • “ I 
cleared the whole roost in the Onion-competition with 
1 Record.’ 
In Sealed Packets, price 2 /- each, post-free. 
THE CARTER SPINACH. 
Mr. A. Pettigrew, Head Gardener to the Earl of Bute, 
writes; “The best Spinach in cultivation; quite distinct 
from all others.” Award of Merit, R.H.S. trials, 1895. 
In Sealed Pits, price 2/6 per pint; 6d.per oz. post-free. 
CARTERS OUTDOOR TOMATO. 
The very best for open-air cultivation we know of. 
Should be grown by everybody. 
In Sealed Packets, price 2/6 each post-free. 
PRICE SIXPENCE, Post Free, 
(by Parcel Post—it is so large). 
700 COPIES APPLIED FOR EVERY WEEK, AND 
EVERYONE DELIGHTED. 
Illustrated CATALOGUE gratis and post free- 
“ Your Catalogue to hand with many thanks. It is a beauti¬ 
ful work, and a great help to amateurs.”—A.S., Tottenham. 
“ I have to thank you for sending me your excellent Cata¬ 
logue, which is a model of what is wanted for the instruction of 
floral amateurs.”—Dr. S., Chirnside. 
Apply Early, and please mention this Paper . » 
BOBBIE Sc CO., 
Seed Growers & Florists to the Queen, ROTHESAY. 
THE,QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, 
237,238 & 97, HIGH HOLBORN, 
LONDON, W.C, 
A SPLENDID PEA 
FOR EARLY USE, 
SUTTON’S, 
MAY QUEEN. 
This Yariety was Included in the 
GOLD MEDAL EXHIBIT 
Of SUTTON’S PEAS and TOMATOS, 
WHICH WAS, 
BY COMMAND OF 
HER MAJESTY the QUEER, 
Sent from the 1896 Royal Horticultural Society’s 
TEMPLE SHOW 
TO 
WINDSOR CASTLE. 
•' Your May Queen Pea 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 
Tomlinson, Gardener to D. Sykes. Esq. 
Price 2/6 per Quart. 
SUTTON’S SEEDS 
GENUINE ONLY FROM SUTTON & SONS,READING. 
" Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
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Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 rd, 1897. 
^he Victorian Era Fund. —The Gar- 
^ deners’ Royal Benevolent Institution, 
instituted in 1838, may be said to exhibit 
a vigorous youth, rather than a green old 
age, seeing that it is not only healthy and 
prosperous, but every now and then under¬ 
goes a fresh development in one direction 
or another for the benefit of its pensioners. 
The facts are well-established that the gar¬ 
dener’s task is an arduous one ; that to be 
in accordance with the times, he has to 
devote a large amount of time in his early 
days, in order to qualify himself for any 
responsible position in the profession ; that 
he more often than otherwise spends years 
in waiting for the position of a head gar¬ 
dener, or even a foreman in a large estab¬ 
lishment ; and that, after all, the emoluments 
attached to such positions are, in the 
majority of cases, altogether inadequate to 
meet his most carefully managed and neces¬ 
sary expenses, and at the same time allow 
him to make provisions for the proverbial 
rainy day, in whatever shape it may come. 
Under the conditions, by far too many gar¬ 
deners are unable to provide against old 
age, to say nothing of the numerous 
