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February  28,  189?. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE 
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BARR’S 
SEED  GUIDE 
For 
Barr  a  Seed  Guide  is  full  of  practical  hints,  and  is  invaluable 
to  Gardeners,  Amateurs,  and  Exhibitors. 
FREE  TO  INTENDING  PURCHASERS. 
VEGETABLE  SEEDS. 
BARR’S  ILLUSTRATED  SEED  GUIDE 
contains  a  Select  List  of  the  Best  Vegetable 
Seeds  for  securing  a  supply  of  Vegetables 
“  the  year  round.” 
FLOWER  SEEDS. 
BARR’S  ILLUSTRATED  SEED  GUIDE 
contains  a  Choioe  List  of  the  best  Seeds 
for  the  Flower  Garden  and  Greenhouse. 
ALL  SEEDS  CARRIAGE  PAID  ON  RECEIPT  OF  REMITTANCE. 
We  guarantee  all  our  Seeds  to  be  of  the  finest 
selected  strains ,  and  of  highest  growing  quality. 
BARR  Sc  SONS 
12  &  13,  King  Street,  Coyent  Garden,  LONDON. 
&  Son  s 
CHOIOE 
VEGETABLE  &  FLOWER 
A  F  E  W  MORE 
New  and  Improved  Vegetables. 
GARTERS’  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. 
CARTERS’  LEVIATHAN  BROAD  BEAN. 
The  longest-podded  Broad  Bean  grown ;  fine  for  exhibition, 
and  one  of  the  beat  for  cooking  purposes.  We  have  seen 
pods  21  inches  long. 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  Is.  9d.  per  pint ;  8  a.  per  quart, 
post  free. 
GARTERS’  RED  ELEPHANT  CARROT. 
A  veritable  giant,  both  in  length  and  rotundity.  Speci¬ 
mens  exhibited  at  oar  establishment  measured  2J  feet 
in  length. 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  1/6  each,  post  free. 
GARTERS’  EXTRA  EARLY  AUTUMN 
GIANT  CAULIFLOWER. 
This  magnificent  variety  is  more  dwarf,  considerably  earlier, 
and  altogether  better  than  the  old  form.  Grown  in  large 
quantities  for  Oovent  Garden  Market. 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  2s.  eaoh,  post  free. 
CARTERS'  SOLID  IVORY  CELERY. 
Still  maintains  its  position  as  one  of  the  beat  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  eaoh,  post  tree. 
GARTERS'  MODEL  CUCUMBER. 
Many  so-oalled  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 
shape,  the  best  in  flavour,  and  the  finest  in  cultivation. 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  2/6  and  3/6  eaoh,  post  tree. 
CARTERS'  RECORD  ONION. 
FOR  PRESENT  SOWING, 
AND 
BULBS  AND  PLANTS 
FOR  SPRING  PLANTING. 
COLLECTIONS  OF  VEGETABLE 
AND  FLOWER  SEEDS, 
Made  up  of  the  most  popular  Varieties,  and  to  suit 
all  requirements,  from  2a.  and  upwards. 
DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE  of  the  above,  with 
CULTURAL  DIRECTIONS,  will  be  sent  post  free 
on  application  to  our  Offioes  at  OVERVEEN,  near 
HAARLEM,  HOLLAND,  or  to  our  General  Agents, 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3  CROSS  LANE  LONDON,  E.C. 
No.  870.— You.  XXXIV.,  Third  Series. 
The  largest  Onion  grown.  customer  writes  !— “  I  cleared1 
the  whole  rooet  in  the  Onion  competition  with  ‘  Reoord.’  ” 
We  have  seen  a  speoimen  bulb  that  weighed  lb. 
In  Sealed  Packets,  price  2/-  eaoh,  post  free. 
THE  CARTER  SPINACH. 
Mr.  A.  PETTIGREW,  Head  Gardener  to  the  Earl  of  Bute, 
writes : — “  The  best  Spinaoh  in  cultivation ;  quite  distinct 
from  all  othtw.”  Award  of  Merit,  R.H.8.  trials,  1896. 
In  Bealad  Packets,  prloe  2/6  per  pint ;  6dL  per  oz., 
post  free. 
Illustrated  CATALOGUE,  Gratis  and  Post  Free. 
237,  238,  &  97,  HIGH  HOLBORIf,, 
LONDON,  W.C. 
GARDENER. 
Jmipal  of 
THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY  25,  1897. 
TREE  PRUNING, 
TO  the  lover  of  trees,  or  rather  with  those 
whose  love  begets  that  sympathy  which  sur¬ 
passes  mere  enjoyment,  the  fostering  hand  will 
never  withhold  the  little  attentions  they  require, 
nor  will  the  critical  eye  fail  to  note  those  unhappy 
examples  so  frequently  met  with,  proving,  as 
they  do,  that  “  Poverty  and  Neglect  sharpen  the 
scythe  of  Time.”  Surely  no  more  pleasing 
duty  calls  for  an  adequate  Bhare  of  the 
gardener’s  attention  than  that  embraced  by  our 
subject.  From  observation,  extending  over  many 
years,  over  a  considerable  area  of  the  United 
Kingdom,  with  many  peeps  into  private  placesj 
one  is  tempted  to  speak  strongly  upon  a  subject 
that  is  felt  deeply.  With  all  our  vaunted  pro¬ 
gress  in  gardening  in  its  broadest  sense,  are 
gardeners  as  a  class  taking  unto  themselves  the 
full  responsibility  of  this  matter,  or  even 
feeling  its  weight  ?  Neither  the  one  nor  the 
other  I  believe,  and  if  not,  why  not  ? 
On  the  one  hand,  we  seldom  find  our  expe¬ 
rienced  workers  expatiating  upon  the  matter 
beyond  a  passing  notice  of  the  subject  in  their 
descriptive  notes,  and  so  far  as  our  budding 
gardeners  are  concerned,  even  this  is  yet  con¬ 
spicuous  by  its  absence  from  their  own  special 
“  domain  ”  in  these  pages.  Promising  as  those 
pages — “The  Young  Gardeners'  Domain5' — are 
of  a  bright  future,  this  is  not  promising  ;  I  am 
inclined  to  say  it  looks  bad,  inasmuch  as  it  is  very 
undesirable  that  our  young  men,  whose  inclina¬ 
tions,  judging  by  their  writings,  are  warped  to 
the  glass  houses  or  the  flower  beds,  should 
develop  a  one-sided  tendency.  It  would  be  a 
matter  for  regret,  to  me  at  least,  if  these 
remarks  were  regarded  as  a  disagreeable  potion, 
being  simply  compounded  as  a  stimulant,  which 
we  should  like  to  see  operative  with  them.  Not 
yet,  perhaps,  in  a  practical  sense,  but  in  something 
shown  by  their  pens  of  an  awakening  interest 
in  a  subject  which  cannot  but  elevate  their 
thoughts  and  widen  their  ideas,  though  still 
legitimately  confined  within  the  boundaries  of 
their  vocation. 
We  need  not  trench  on  “An  Old  Boy’s” 
ground,  from  which  will  doubtless  spring  many 
hints  to  that  end,  but  it  is  not  too  much  to  ask 
our  young  gardeners  to  diverge  from  the  glass- 
No.  2926.— -You  XOVI,  Old  Series, 
