April  12,  1900. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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All  gent  Carriage  Paid  on  receipt  of  remittance. 
BARR’S 
GRASS  SEEDS 
For  Lauins, Tennis  Cour^sX  Cricket- Grounds. 
The  following  mixtures  are  composed  of  PURE 
GRASS  SEEDS  only,  which  have  been  thoroughly 
cleaned  and  carefully  mixed.  They  cannot  fail  to 
give  the  greatest  satisfaction. 
Tlie  seed  is  sold  by  weight,  which  is  the  only  correct  method  of 
estimating  quantity  needed  for  a  given  space. 
BARR’S  NEW  MIXTURE  OF  DWARF  GRASSES, 
for  producing  an  Extra  Fine  Smooth  Lawn.— 
A  special  mixture  of  the  finest-leaved  and  dwarfest- 
growing  perennial  Grasses,  producing  an  extra  fine 
VELVETY  Ti'KF,  and  Saving  labour  in  not  requiring 
frequent  mowing.  Per  lb.,  -2/-;  per  101b.,  19/-;  per  201b. 
and  upwards  at  the  rate  of  1/8  per  lb. 
BARR’S  “STANDARD”  GRASS  SEEDS,  for  Garden 
Lawns,  Golf  Links,  Cricket  Grounds,  &c.— This 
mixture  is  composed  of  the  fine  leaved,  dwarf  growing 
Grasses,  together  with  a  moderate  quantity  of  fine 
rye-grass,  all  the  seeds  being  highly  cleaned  and  of  pure 
and  genuine  quality.  Per  lb.,'l/6  ;  per  101b.,  13/6  ;  per 
201b.  and  upwards,  at  the  rate  of  1/3  per  lb. 
BARR’S  “THAMES  EMBANKMENT”  GRASS 
SEEDS  for  Parks,  &c. — A  special  mixture,  which  has 
been  found  very  successful  in  many  public  and  private 
parks  and  squares  around  London  and  throughout  the 
country.  Per  lb.,  1/3;  per  101b.,  11/6;  per  201b.,  20/-. 
'.For  fuller  particulars  and  hints  on  the  management  of  Lawns, 
see  BARR’S  LAWN  GRASS  CIRCULAR. 
free  on  application. 
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Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street,  London. 
The  Call  of  Dnty. 
ANY  gardeners  there  are  who  regard 
the  month  of  April  as  the  com¬ 
mencement  of  a  new  year — at  any 
rate  to  them  it  is  the  threshold 
of  an  era  of  unexampled  activity 
of  mind  as  well  as  of  body.  Garden 
plans  are  sometimes  sketched  out 
with  April  and  March  as  the  beginning  and 
tbo  pndinxr  and  Tirovided  such  plans  are 
skilfully  made  no  better  coigns  of  vantage  could 
be  chosen.  Though  the  gardener’s  life  is  essentially 
a  busy  one,  the  easiest  period,  broadly  speaking, 
is  in  the  depth  of  winter,  and  even  as  all  Nature 
springs  into  life  beneath  the  gentle  touch  of  spring, 
so  must  the  practiser  of  the  oldest  art  come  forth 
into  renewed  life  ready  for  the  incessant  calls  that 
will  be  made  upon  his  energies  during  the  coming 
days. 
It  is  the  call  of  dnty.  And  every  gardener 
responds.  We  bear  much  of  the  call  of  duty  in 
the  navy  and  the  armj',  and  we  nad  of  the 
enthusiastic  response  to  the  country’s  call ;  but 
in  our  home  life  duty  calls  just  as  sternly  and  as 
persistently,  and  few  are  the  laggards.  Certain  it 
is  that  with  gardeners  the  man  who  is  slow  to 
toe  the  line  is  the  one  who  fails — he  misses  the 
seed-time  and  he  misses  the  harvest.  No  one 
who  wields  a  pen  needs  to  urge  the  gardener  to  do 
his  duty  to  the  garden  in  his  charge,  and  it  is 
pleasant  to  know  that  such  is  the  case.  There  are 
the  black  sheep  of  the  craft  no  doubt,  but  they 
are  not  numerous,  and  perhaps  they  answer  a 
useful  purpose  in  showing  the  devotion  of  others 
to  their  chosen  avocation. 
There  is,  however,  a  call  of  duty  to  which  the 
gardener  does  not  lend  such  a  ready  ear,  and  it 
is  to  incite  them  to  this  that  the  present  words 
are  written.  The  particular  duty  to  which  reference 
is  made  is  that  which  endeavours  to  make  some 
preparation  for  the  days  when  the  hand  trembles 
and  the  eye  becomes  dim  with  the  mist  of  years. 
This  period  must  come  to  us  all,  and  it  behoves 
us  to  make  due  provision.  True  some  of  us  must 
pass  away  ere  yet  the  hand  of  time  has  put  a  line 
t’-  )No.  2689.— VOL.  CII.,  Old  Series, 
