March 13, 1897. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
435 
WEBBS’ 21s. BOX 
OF 
VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Arranged, to produce a Constant Supply of the Best 
Vegetables all the year round. 
CONTAINS : 
Peas, for succession. 6 qrts. 
Beans, Broad, best. 4 pints. 
BeaDS, Dwarf, J pint. 
Beans, Runners, 1 pint. 
Beet, the best, 1 packet. 
Borecole, best, 1 packet 
Broccoli, a packets. 
Brussels Sprouts. 1 packet. 
Cabbage, 3 packets. 
Carrot, for succession, 2 oz. 
Cauliflower, 1 packet. 
Celery, selected, 2 packet. 
Corn Salad, 1 packet. 
Couve Tronchudas, t pkt. 
Cress, Jt. and 1 packet. 
Cucumber, 2 packets. 
Endive, best, 1 packet. 
Herbs, 3 packets. 
Leek, r packet. 
Lettuce, 3 packets. 
Melon, t packet. 
Mustard, 4 ounces. 
Onion, best, 4 ounces. 
Parsley, best, 1 packet. 
Parsnip, best, 1 ounce. 
Radish, 3 ounces. 
Salsafy, 1 packet. 
Savoy, best, 1, packet. 
Scorzonera, 1 packet. 
Spinach, 4 ounces. 
Tomato, 1 packet. 
Turnip, best sorts, 3 oz. 
Vegeta’ le Marrow, 1 pkt. 
Other Boxes, at 5/-, 7/6, 12/6, 15/-, 31/6, 42/- 
63/-, and 105/- each. 
ALL CARRIAGE FREE. 
SEE WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, POST FREE is. 
WEBB & SONS, Wordsley, Stourbridge. 
ORCHIDS. 
Clean Healthy Plants at Low Prices. 
Always worth a visit of inspection. Kindly send for Catalogue. 
Exotic Eurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
DANIELS’ 
Lilium Auratum. 
The beautiful golden-rayed Lily of Japan. Magnificent for 
pots in the greenhouse, or for growing in the open garden. 
Deliciously scented; quite hardy. Planted now will bloom 
splendidly during the summer and autumn. Fine roots, 8 to 9 
ins. circumference, per doz., 4/6; 6 for 2/6; or 25 for 8/6. 
Extra fine roots, 10 to 11 ins. circumference, per doz., 7/6; 6 
for 4/-; or 25 for 14/-. Grand selected roots, n to 12 ins. cir¬ 
cumference, per doz., 12/-; 6 ior 6/6 ; or 25 for 21/-. 
All Post or Carriage Free for Cash with Order. 
DANIELS BROS., Town Close Nurseries, Norwich. 
C ARNATIONS.—SeeFORBES’ NEW 
CATALOGUE, r897, over J40 pages, for the best 
Malmaison. Tree, Boi der and Show Carnations and Picotees, 
including ti e oft-certificated “ Buccleuch Clove ” and “ Yule- 
tide. 1 Free on application.—JOHN FORBES. Nurseryman, 
Hawick, Scotland. 
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 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 it, SONS, 
FOREST HILL. LONDON, S.E. 
B.S WILLIAMS’ 
PRIMULA SINENSIS FIM- 
BRIATA, mixed packets, con¬ 
taining six varieties. 
Per packet, is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
This superb strain has stood the test 
for thirty years, and never fails to 
take 1st Prizes wherever exhibited. 
For new Primulas and superb strain 
of Primulas, see Illustrated Seed 
Catalogue. 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
Upper Holloway, London,N. 
NEW and DELICIOUS 
MARROWFAT 
PEAS. 
Mill 
— 
W 
1 
A POD OF CARTER’S EARLY 
morn. Copyright J.C.& Co. 
A s introducers of the 
famous Stratagem, 
Telephone, Daisy, and 
Telegraph Peas, we 
invite a trial of the 
following New Vari¬ 
eties, all of which 
represent the most 
advanced types in the 
different sections for 
Garden Use. 
GARTERS’ 
SPRINGTIDE. 
A first early wrinkled 
Pea, as earlv as the 
smaller-podded round- 
seeded varieties, with 
the delicious flavour of 
the Marrowfat. Height, 
2^ feet. 
In Sealed Packets, 2/6 
per pint ; 4 /- per quart, 
post free. 
GARTERS’ 
EARLY MORN. 
Another fine Marrow¬ 
fat, with very long 
pods, a good colour and 
well filled, almost as 
early as our Springtide. 
Height, 2.\ feet. Stock 
very limited. 
In Sealed Packets, 2/6 
per half-pint, post free. 
CARTERS’ 
ST. OSYTH 
GEM. 
A crcss between Chel¬ 
sea Gem and Strata¬ 
gem, combining the best 
points of both these 
excellent kinds. Very 
early. Height, feet. 
In Sealed Packets, 3/6 
per half-pint, post free. 
CARTERS’ SEEDLING. 
A New Maincrop Marrow, the result of crossing 
and interbreeding from the three popular varieties, 
Stratagem, Queen, and Autocrat. Its pods are 
amongst the largest we have ever seen, and we have 
counted as many as 13 Peas in a pod. Height, 3 feet. 
In Sealed Packets, 3/6 per half-pint, post free. 
Illustrated CATALOGUE gratis and post free. 
THE QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, 
237,2384 97, HIGH H0LB0RN, 
LONDON, W.C. 
Quite Modern. 
3 Gold Medals 
Awarded to my Collects n of Tuberous Begonias in 189^, 
including one from the R.H.S. The Begonias I am offering 
are equal to these that obtained the above award, and are 
positively the best value for money ever offered. They are 
up-to-date in qual tv and price. Cash returned if not satisfac¬ 
tory. All in dry tubers, free for Cash with Order. Single 
Begonias for Beddi >g. —Very fine, all colour?, mixed, 12, 
3/-,100, 21/-; second size tubers. 12, 2/ \ 100, 15/-. Very fine in 
8 dis inct colours, 12, 4/6, ioo, 28/-; secon \ size tub-rs, 12, 
3/-, 100, 21/-. Single Begon as for Exhibition and Con¬ 
servatories. — Very fine, in shades of Bronze, Coffee, Orange, 
Buff, Fawn, Terra Cotta, etc., 6, 4/6, 12, 8/-; second size tubers, 
6,3/6,12,6/-. Very fine in 12 distinct colours, 6, <3/6, 12,8/-. 
Extra fine in 12 colours, 6, 7/-, iz. 12/-. Very finest in 12 colours 
equal to named kinds, 6, 10/-, 12 18/-; 12 grani named kinds, 
24/-. Mixed Double Begonias for Bedding. — I have a very 
fine lot carefully selected, 12, 6/-, 50, 25/-, :oo, 42/-. Semi¬ 
double for bedding, these are very pretty and free flowering, 
12, 3/-, 50, 10/-, 100. 16/-. Doublp: Begon as for Exhibition 
and Conservatories. —These I can offer in the following 
colours: Blush, Pink, Red, Rose, White, Yellow, Crimson, 
Salmon, Scarlet, and Orange Salmon, erect sturdy habit and 
Camelia-shaped flower. Very good ■ elected, 1/- each, 6, 5/6, 
12,10/-. Fine selecied, 1/6 each, 6, 8/-, r2, 15/-. Very finest 
selected, equal to named kinds, 2/6 each, 6, 14/-, 12, 2 */-. 
GOLD MEDAL BEGONIA SEED. 
I can recommend this with every confidence as the finest 
Begonia Seed ever offered, being saved from specially selected 
varieties, with sturdy habit, round flowers of good substance, 
and size. I guarantee this to be the same quality that I sow 
for inyself, and the packets are made up in liberal quantity 
for money. 
Single .per pkt., 1 /-, r/6, and 2/6. 
Double .per pkt., 1/6 and 2/6. 
H. J. JONES, Ryecroft Nursery, LEWISHAM. 
B,S, WILLIAMS’ 
Prize Strain of 
CINERARIA 
(pxtra choice mixed), 
Per Packet, is. 6 1 . and 2s. 6d. 
A sunberb str-iin of very dwarf 
branching habit and strong con¬ 
stitution, containing a grea* variety 
ot colours. 
Victoria & Paradise Nurseries, 
Upper Holloway, London, N. 
■ Gardening Is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."—B acon. 
Edited by J. FRASER F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 13 th, 1897. 
^Terrific Gale and Destruction of 
^ Glasshouses.— When the wind soughs 
in Piccadilly we may take it for granted that 
it blows hard in exposed places, but par¬ 
ticularly at sea and round our wave-lashed 
shores. About midnight on the 2nd inst. 
a severe gale suddenly burst over London 
and the south and west of England. The 
gale continued all night, and culminated in 
a fierce hurricane between seven and eight 
o’clock on the morning of Wednesday the 
3rd inst. It seems to have done the greatest 
amount of damage in Devonshire, and 
besides the destruction of the roofs ot houses 
and chimneys, many a tree and avenue of 
them on Exe-side came to grief. 
From a horticultural point of view the 
city of Exeter has suffered the greatest 
amount of damage. The nurseries of the 
Exeter Nursery Company (formerly Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince & Co.) Alphington Road, 
suffered to the extent of £ 2,000. Several 
of the glass houses were smashed and two 
of them utterly wrecked. The greatest 
amount of damage was suffered by the 
Camellia house which, a correspondent in¬ 
forms us, was regarded as one of the best 
of its kind in the world. The house was 
over 70 years old, 200 ft. in length, 24 ft. in 
width and 20 ft. in height, and cost £\,ooo 
to construct. Though put up 70 years ago 
it was restored to the extent at least of a 
new roof at a cost of ^600 or thereabout, by 
the late Dr. Woodman about 20 years ago. 
