September  8,  1898. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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BARR’S  SELECTED  BULBS 
FOR  EARLY  FORCING. 
HYACINTHS,  Swarf,  White  Roman,  per  100, 
12/6  and  16/6;  per  doz.,  1/9  and  2/3. 
POLYANTHUS  NARCISSUS,  Paper  White, 
Early  Snowflake,  per  100,  8/6;  per  doz.,  1/6. 
POLYANTHUS  NARCISSUS,  Rouble  Roman 
per  106,  6/6;  per  doz.,  1/3. 
DAFFODILS. 
PRINCEPS, — Perianth  sulphur  white,  trumpet 
yellow,  per  1000,  30/- ;  per  100,  3/6. 
GOLDEN'  SPUR. — Large  full  yellow  perianth  and 
trumpet,  per  100,  21/- ;  per  doz.,  3/-. 
HORSPIELDI, — White  perianth,  large  yellow 
trumpet,  per  100,  17/6 ;  per  ‘doz  ,  2/6. 
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Daffodils  in  cultivation,  and  the  latest  Novelties  for 
1898.  Free  on  application. 
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TOMATO  CULTURE. 
F  the  cultivation  of  the  Tomato  had  improved 
at  the  same  ratio  that  its  consumption  has 
increased  during  the  last  twenty  years,  we  should 
indeed  be  good  growers  at  the  present  day.  But  it 
has  not ;  and  well  as  this  important  crop  is  grown 
in  many  places,  there  are  many  others  where  it  is 
a  disgrace  to  otherwise  well-managed  gardens.  If 
a  gardener  regularly  cropped  his  Peach  trees  under 
glass  at  about  half  what  the  latter  are  capable 
of,  he  would  probably  not  suit  the  majority  of 
employers.  In  most  cases  these«are  cropped  far  too 
heavily.  But  look,  on  the  other  hand,  at  Tomatoes, 
a  crop  that  comes  out  annually,  that  nothing  in 
the  way  of  overcropping  can  harm,  and  what  do 
we  find  ? 
Some  may  feel  inclined  to  disagree  with  me 
when  I  sajr  that  in  the  majority  of  private  gardens 
the  Tomato  produces  about  half  what  it  may  do  if 
properly  treated  ;  but  I  am  convinced  that  it  is  so, 
and  I  have  not  come  to  that  conclusion  without 
seeing  what  is  done  in  many  of  the  best  gardens 
in  the  kingdom,  and  noting  the  difference  between 
first-rate  culture,  and  the  culture  of  the  mediocre 
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COTTAGE  GARDENING  ;  being  an  Essay  to 
which  the  Royal  Horticultural  Society  awarded  Mr. 
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PURE  WOOD  CHARCOAL,  Specially  Prepared 
for  Horticultural  use.  Extract  from  the  Journal  of 
Horticulture :  “  Charcoal  is  invaluable  as  a  mammal  agent ; 
each  little  piece  is  a  pantry  full  of  the  good  things  of  this 
life.  There  is  no  cultivated  plant  which  is  not  benefited  by 
having  Charcoal  applied  to  the  soil  in  which  it  is  rooted.” 
Apply  for  Pamphlet  and  Prices  to  the  Manufacturers— 
HIRST,  BROOKE  &  HIRST,  Ltd.,  Leeds. 
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kind  that  so  largely  obtains. 
Yet  the  Tomato  is  one  of  the  easiest  of  all  crops 
to  grow,  if  only  a  little  common  sense  and  observa 
tion  is  brought  to  bear  upon  it.  It  is  not  that  we 
as  gardeners  are  ignorant  of  what  is  required  by 
the  plant.  Its  culture  has  been  too  often  described 
and  its  peculiarities  noted  for  this  to  be  the  case : 
but  Tomatoes  do  fairly  well  with  so  little  care  and 
attention,  and  give  a  fair  crop  under  such  adverse 
circumstances,  that  we  are  all  apt  to  let  its  culture 
slide— to  cultivate  the  rare  and  expensive  Orchid, 
the  showy  Lily,  or  what  not  with  great  assiduity, 
but  Tomatoes — well, “any body  can  grow  Tomatoes,” 
and  little  care  is  bestowed  upon  them. 
The  market  grower  who  has  to  make  his  living 
out  of  them  would  soon  go  wrong  if  he  practised 
such  methods  as  are  every  day  to  be  seen  in 
gardens  of  some  pretension,  and  one  of  the  worst 
of  all  errors  is  perhaps  the  treatment  of  the  plants 
up  to  tho  time  of  planting  out.  What  at  first 
appears  the  easiest  way  is  not  so  in  reality,  and  care 
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