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March  25, 180?.  JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED  BEGONIA. 
This  splendid  strain  of  Tuberous-rooted  Begonia  is  unequalled 
for  the  size  of  its  blooms  and  their  variety  and  richness  of 
colour,  saved  from  the  newest  and  most  beautiful  kinds. 
1/6  &  2/6  per  Packet,  post  free. 
See  Webbs'  Spring  Catalogue,  post  free,  Is. 
WEBBS',  WORDSLEY,  STOURBRIDCE. 
TO  INSURE 
SUCCESSIONAL  CROPS 
OF  THE 
BEST  PEAS 
sow 
SUTTON’S 
COLLECTIONS  OF  PEAS. 
6  QUARTS  OF  PEAS,  0  fine  sorts,  our 
selection,  9/6. 
12  PINTS  OF  PEAS,  12  fine  sorts,  our 
selection,  10/-. 
6  PINTS  OF  PEAS,  6  fine  sorts,  our 
selection,  5/-. 
4  PINTS  OF  PEAS,  4  fine  sorts,  our 
selection,  3/0. 
SUTTON'SSEEDS 
GENUINE  ONLY  FROM  SUTTON  &  SONS, READING. 
INVICTA 
GRASS  SEEDS 
FOR 
Garden  Lawns,  Tennis  Lawns, 
Croquet  Grounds.  Bowling  Greens, 
For  Shaded  Places. 
Entirely  Supersedes  Turf,  which  is  always 
full  of  vile  weeds. 
Old,  worn  out,  and  mossy  pieces  of  Grass 
can  be  renovated  at  little  expense  if  the 
following  directions  are  attended  to. 
Lightly  scratch  the  surface  with  a  rake,  to  make  a  bed 
for  the  Seed,  which  sprinkle  over  the  ground  at  the  rate 
of  1  lb.  (costs  Is.  3d.)  to  every  500  square  feet,  and  the 
contents  of  a  3s.  box  of  Carter’s  Lawn  Manure  (No.  1  pre¬ 
scription)  ;  cover  the  whole  with  a  barrowful  of  good 
clean  loamy  soil.  Brush  it  over  the  ground,  then 
thoroughly  well  roll  down.  Choose  a  dry  day  for  the 
work,  and  where  the  Grass  is  very  thin  do  not  stint  the 
Seed.  If  there  is  no  rain  within  a  few  days  after  sowing, 
and  dry  winds  prevail,  a  good  watering  is  desirable.  Do 
not  cut  too  closely  at  the  first  two  mowings. 
Estimates  for  Quantities  on  application. 
CARTERS’  PAMPHLET 
ON  THE  MANAGEMENT  OF  LAWNS, 
Fb.ee,  bob  One  Stamp. 
New  and  Improved  Flowers 
CARTERS  HOLBORN 
PRIZE  PRIMULA. 
We  commenced  growing  and  saving  our  own  seeds  of  this 
popular  winter-flowering  plant  forty  years  ago,  and  have  since 
carefully  selected  and  improved  our  strain,  that  we  unhesi¬ 
tatingly  pronounce  it  the  finest  in  cultivation  ;  and  as  we  try 
all  others  each  season  for  comparison,  our  statement  is  authori¬ 
tative.  We  were  the  originators  of  the  Blue  Primula,  which 
resulted  in  some  cross-breeding  experiments  we  were  making  to 
this  end  ;  and  were  awarded  a  First-class  Certificate  by  the 
Royal  Horticultural  Society,  in  1*82,  for  the  first  Blue  Primula 
ever  offered.  Our  collection  also  comprises  the  following 
beautiful  colours Scarlet,  Carmine,  Magenta,  Ruby,  Ver¬ 
milion,  and  White,  all  of  which  originated  at  our  Nurseries,  and 
are  the  most  approved  types  at  present  attainable. 
Each  separate,  in  sealed  packets.  Price  !s.  6d., 
3s.  6d.,  and  5s.,  post  free. 
All  Colours,  Mixed,  in  sealed  packets.  Price  2s.  6d. 
3s.  td,,  and  5s.,  post  free. 
CARTERS’  BRILLIANT 
PRIZE  CINERARIA. 
Our  House  has  long  been  famed  for  this  beautiful  flower,  and 
our  strain  is  unequalled  for  profusion  of  bloom,  size  of  flower, 
and  general  habit.  We  grow  all  our  own  seeds,  and  test  other 
strains  each  season.  A  magnificent  group  exhibited  at  the 
Royal  Botanic  Society’s  Show,  in  the  spring  of  1896,  easily 
gained  the  First  Prize. 
In  sealed  packets,  2s.  6d.,  3s.  6d.,  and  5s.  each,  post  free. 
CARTERS’  VICTORIA 
PRIZE  CALCEOLARIA. 
Our  fine  strain  is  well  known  at  all  the  leading  Horticultural 
Exhibitions,  where  magnificent  specimens  haye  securel  First 
Honours  on  nearly  every  occasion. 
In  sealed  packets,  2s.  bd,  3s.  6d.,  and  5s.  each,  post  free. 
ILLUSTRATED  CATALOGUE,  Post  Free. 
THE  QUEEN’S  SEEDSMEN, 
237,  238,  &  97,  HIGH  HOLBORN, 
LONDON,  W.C. 
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THURSDAY,  MARCH  25,  189T. 
AN  OLD  WALL. 
“  BEAT  ruins  make  way  for  greater  glories.” 
IT  This  is  the  case  with  cur  old  wall.  Pro¬ 
bably  not  upon  the  lines  laid  down  by  that 
gifted  man  Seneca,  whose  high  philosophical 
teaching  made  apparently  so  little  impression 
upon  his  pupil  Nero.  Apparently  ?  Who  can 
say  how  ran  the  imperial  fiddler’s  thoughts  when 
Rome  was  burning,  and  whether  his  tutor's 
moral  had  not  applied  the  torch  to  the  City  of 
the  Seven  Hills  ?  No  one  can  look  upon  our 
wall  without  being  carried  to  the  past  —  to 
Elizabethan  times  at  least,  for  does  not  report 
say  that  the  Virgin  Queen  slept  in  the  old 
mansion  near  at  hand  ?  It  does ;  and  we  like 
to  believe  it  ;  to  believe,  too,  that  great  Eliza¬ 
beth  passed  under  the  arch  in  the  old  wall  with 
gallant  Raleigh  or  courtly  Leicester  and  all  her 
gorgeous  train.  Unfortunately  the  huge  Wistaria, 
now  showing  the  tints  of  hundreds  of  tresses 
adorning  the  head  of  the  arch,  is  not  contempo¬ 
raneous  with  that  event. 
Unquestionably  our  old  wall  is  a  relic  of  Tudor 
times,  although  we  are  unable  to  trace  the  quaint 
conceit  which  placed  it  between  the  garden  proper 
and  the  mansion,  belonging  neither  to  the  one  nor 
the  other,  yet  having  some  relation  to  both.  Over 
the  arch  we  have  set  the  Fleur  de  Lys — the  Flag 
Irises,  and  they  have  flourished  amazingly.  To 
do  so  we  had  to  make  some  cavities — or  rather, 
to  assist  the  hand  of  Time  by  dislodging  a  few 
more  of  the  rich  red  bricks.  Our  wall  is  of 
bricks  —  for  there  were  brickmakers  in  those 
days,  and  builders  too,  and  whatever  the  labourers 
.were  paid  they  were  worthy  of  their  hire,  for 
they  went  down  to  the  solid  on  which  to  set 
their  foundations,  and  our  old  wall  still  stands 
as  aplomb  as  the  day  it  wa*  built. 
“  Wants  repairing,  it  do,”  says  our  handy  man, 
“  and  all  they  weeds  and  rubbage  cleared  off  the 
top  ;  a  letting  in  the  wet,  they  be,”  and  with  this 
parting  shot  he  slinks  away,  for  there  is  danger 
in  our  eye,  insanity  he  possibly  thinks.  Perhaps 
we  are  a  little  more  fearful  of  our  head  gardener, 
who  has  long  cast  a  covetous  eye  over  the  length 
and  breadth  of  its  south-west  aspect.  Could  we 
be  prevailed  upon  to  give  this  up  to  him  we 
might,  I  know,  have  undisturbed  possession  of 
the  other  side  on  which  the  “  stiff  nor-easter 57 
NO.  2530.— Yol.  XOVL,  Old  Series, 
No.  874.— Vol  XXXIV,  Tiubd  Series. 
