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“  the  year  round.” 
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contains  a  Choice  List  of  the  best  Seeds 
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COLLECTIONS  OF  VEGETABLE 
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Made  up  of  the  most  popular  Varieties,  and  to  suit 
all  requirements,  from  2s.  and  upwards. 
DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE  of  the  above,  with 
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No.  866.— Yon.  XXXIV.,  Thibd  Series. 
A  FEW  MORE 
GOOD  THINGS  for  THE  GARDEN 
CARTERS’  HOLBORN  EXHIBITION 
BRUSSELS  SPROUTS. 
A  very  fine  strain,  for  size,  solidity,  and  productiveness; 
it  is  preferred  in  Oovent  Garden  Market  to  all  others. 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  1/6  each  ;  1/6  per  oz.,  post  free. 
CARTERS’LEVIATHAN  BROAD  BEAN 
The  longest-podded  Broad  Bean  grown  ;  fine  for  exhibition, 
and  one  of  the  best  for  cooking  purposes. 
In  Sealed  Pkts.,  price  1/9  per  Pint ;  3/-  per  Quart,  post  free. 
CARTERS’  RED  ELEPHANT  CARROT 
A  veritable  giant,  both  in  length  and  rotundity.  Specimens 
exhibited  at  our  establishment  measured  2J  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/-  eaoh,  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  frost.” 
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  HOLBORN  MODEL  LEEK 
Grand  both  for  exhibition  or  table.  A  Welsh  customer 
says  :  “  They  are  the  best  we  ever  had.’* 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  2/-  each,  post  free. 
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.3.  trials,  1896. 
In  Sealed  Pkts.,  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. 
Illustrated  CATALOGUE,  Gratis  and  Post  Free. 
THE  QUEEN’S  SEEDSMEN, 
237,  238,  &  97,  HIGH  HOLBORN, 
LONDON,  W.C. 
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THURSDAY,  JANUARY  28,  1897. 
TREE  PLANTING. 
The  Duty  op  One  Generation  to  Another 
THERE  ia  some  little  danger  in  our  day, 
perhaps,  under  the  pressing  exigencies  of 
the  present  with  the  ardent  desire  for  imme¬ 
diate  effect  or  quick  results,  to  overlook  in  at 
least  one  phase  of  our  work  a  duty  to  the 
future  generation.  Truly  it  may  not  be  bo  to 
an  alarming  extent,  but  Bufficiently  so,  I  think, 
to  make  the  matter  worthy  of  consideration. 
Under  the  shallow  reasoning  advanced  by  a 
politician  that  oosterity  having  done  nothing 
for  us  therefoij  possesses  no  claims  upon  our 
attention,  the  matter  might  be  summarily  dis¬ 
missed  ;  but  being  as  we  are  the  posterity  of  a 
past  generation,  and  tacitly  acknowledging  the 
debt  which  in  the  enjoyment  of  its  well-planned 
work  is  incurred  by  us,  the  responsibility  is  not 
thus  to  be  comfortably  disposed  of. 
Gardeners  of  to-day  are  not  as  a  rule,  I  fear, 
bo  well  skilled  in  arboriculture  as  its  importance 
deserves  and  demands,  and  when  considering  the 
manifold  things  that  modern  society  requires  at 
their  hands,  it  is  not  a  matter  for  surprise  that  it 
is  so.  We  admit,  of  course,  that  in  the  spacious 
surroundings  of  “  the  stately  homes  ’  short¬ 
comings  in  this  respect  are  few  and  far  between  ; 
yet  even  here  sufficient  evidence  may  be  found 
to  point  a  moral,  for  in  some  of  them  at  least 
crippled  resources,  whilst  not  shutting  from  view 
the  duty  to  futurity,  cause  it  to  be  carried  out 
in  a  hurried  or  perfunctory  manner.  Such  work, 
too,  is  often  entrusted  to  a  man — a  capable 
general  manager  may  be — having  charge  of  all 
in  the  demesne  outside  the  garden  proper,  but 
one  whose  knowledge  of  our  subject  may  be  very 
limited,  and  who  relegates  the  duty  of  planting 
to  a  few  labourers,  who  know  as  little  and  care 
less.  Anyway,  such  is  my  experience  from  obser¬ 
vation. 
One  demesne,  whose  owner  was  as  anxious  to 
do  for  his  descendants  as  much  as  his  ancestors 
had  done  for  him,  provides  an  illustration  to  this 
point  of  the  text.  Here  amongst  the  “tall 
ancestral  trees  ”  some  superb  Cedars  of  Lebanon 
were  a  feature,  and  it  was  this  worthy  proprietor’s 
express  desire  that  his  farm  bailiff,  who  super¬ 
intended  the  keeping  of  the  demesne,  should 
No.  2.— Vol.  XQYL,  Old  Series. 
