February  2?,  1896.1 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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VEITCH’S 
CHINESE 
PRIMULAS. 
VEITCH’S  SUPERB  FRINGED  RED  ,.)-d  -d 
VEITOH’S  SUPERB  FRINGED  WHITE  J  rer  ^ac*et’  */° 
VEITCH’S  SUPERB  FRINGED  MIXED  Packet,  1/6  &  2/6 
VEITOH’S  CHELSEA.  BLUE 
VEITOH’S  CHELSEA.  CRIMSON 
VEITCH'S  CHELSEA  SCARLET 
VEITOH’S  CHELSEA  ROSE 
VEITOH’S  GIGANTIC  RED 
VEITOH’S  GIGANTIC  ROSE 
VEITOH’S  GIGANTIC  WHITE 
THE  QUEEN  AND  HYBRIDS 
VEITCH’S  SNOWFLAKE 
VEITCH’S  DOUBLE  RED,  SCARLET, 
ROSE,  WHITE,  and  MIXED 
VEITOH’S  SPECIAL  MIXTURE  OF 
THE  ABOVE  (Double  or  Single) 
Per  Packet,  2/6 
Per  Packet,  3/6 
|  Per  Packet,  2/6 
..  Per  Packet,  3/6 
..  Per  Packet,  3/6 
..  Per  Packet,  2/6 
T  1 
’  |  Per  Packet,  3/6 
F )  Per  Packet, 
.  j  3/6  and  5/- 
WHAT  THE  PRESS  OP  LAST  WEEK 
SAYS  ABOUT  THEM— 
“Amidst  sucb  excellence  it  is  difficult  to  particularise,  but 
of  the  blooms  before  us  we  should  say  Chelsea  Scarlet,  Ohelsea 
Rose,  Ohelsea  Blue,  Gigantic  Red  and  White,  with  the  firm’s 
Double  Red  and  Rose  were  of  the  choicest,  though  all  the 
others  are  sufficiently  good  to  include  in  every  collection.” — 
Journal  of  Horticulture,  February  20th,  1896. 
“  The  charm  and  variety  of  the  Primulas  sent  to  us  by 
Messrs.  Veitch  it  would  be  exceedingly  difficult  to  over¬ 
praise.”—  Gardening  World,  February  22nd,  1896. 
“A  box  of  flowers  of  Chinese  Primulas  reached  us  a  few 
days  ago  from  the  Messrs.  Veitch,  and  contained  numbers  of 
finely  selected  and  improved  forms  and  colours.”—  Gardeners’ 
Magazine,  February  22nd,  1896. 
JAMES  VEITCH  &  SONS, 
Royal  Exotic  Nursery ,  CHELSEA. 
(lOilliains’ 
WORLD-EENOWNED  STRAINS 
OF 
Flower  seeds 
POST  FREE.  per  packet 
ASTERS  (splendid  assortment) 
BALSAM,  WILLIAMS’  SUPERB  ..  ..  1/6  &  2/6 
BEGONIA  (extra  choice) . 1/6  &  2/6 
CARNATIONS  (extra  choice) .  1/6 
COCKSCOMB,  WILLIAMS’  PRIZE  STRAIN  2/6 
CALCEOLARIA,  WILLIAMS’  SUPERB  ..  1/6  &  2  6 
CINERARIAS,  WILLIAMS’  SUPERB  ..  1/6  &  2/6 
CINERARIA  ALBA  .  2/6 
CYCLAMEN  GIGANTEUM  (mixed)  ..  ..  2/6 
GLOXINIA,  WILLIAMS’  SUPERB  ERECT  2/6 
PANSY  (show  varieties) . 1/6  &  2/6 
PETUNIA,  WILLIAMS’  SUPERB  STRIPED  1/6 
PICOTEE  (extra  choice  mixed) .  1/6 
PINK,  SUPERB  (mixed) .  1/6 
POLYANTHUS,  GOLD  LACED .  y. 
PRIMULA,  WILLIAMS’  SUPERB  ..  ..  1/6  &  2/6 
PRIMULA,  WILLIAMS’  (mixture  of  6  vars.)  1/6  &  2/6 
PRIMULA,  DOUBLE  (mixed) .  2/6 
STOCKS  (splendid  assortment) 
VERBENA  (choice  mixed)  .  l/g 
ZINNIA  ELEGANS,  DOUBLE .  1/6 
COLLECTIONS  OF  HARDY  ANNUALS 
1/6,  3/-,  5/-,  7/6  &  10/6 
COLLECTIONS  OF  HALF-HARDY  ANNUALS 
_ _  3/-,  6/-  &  10/6 
w  illusteated  seed  catalogue, 
comprising  everything  necessary  and  requisite  for  the 
Garden,  Gratis  and  Post  Free  on  appl  cation. 
B.  S.  WILLIAMS  &  SON, 
UPPER  HOLLOWAY,  LONDON,  N. 
No.  818.— Vol.  XXXIL,  Third  Sbribs. 
THE 
GREAT 
DISEASE-RESISTING 
POTATO 
THE  SOTTON 
FLOURBALL. 
NEW  MAIN-CROP 
VARIETY. 
Twenty-six  years  ago  we  introduced  our  Ked- 
skin  Flourball,  the  pioneer  of  “  disease-resisting  ” 
varieties,  and  its  reputation  as  a  heavy  cropper, 
practically  free  from  disease,  is  still  maintained. 
We  now  offer  a  new  red  round  Potato,  which, 
after  severe  trials,  has  proved  to  be  twice  as 
productive  as  Red-skin,  and  possesses  the  advan¬ 
tages  of  excellent  form  and  superior  table  quality 
in  early  autumn,  even  after  a  very  wet  summer. 
Most  important  of  all,  however,  is  the  fact  that 
in  1894,  a  season  nearly  the  worst  on  record  for 
disease,  The  Sutton  Flourball  came  through 
the  ordeal  unscathed,  while  Beauty  of  Hebron 
growing  by  its  side  was  more  than  half  diseased. 
Mr.  JOHN  KEELEY,  The  Cardens, 
Parsonage  Manor,  reports : — 
“  Mrs.  Hill  had  14  lbs.  of  THE  SUTTON  FLOURBALL 
POTATO  which  I  planted  on  March  4th,  1895,  and  lifted 
140  lbs.  of  splendid  tubers.  I  have  sent  you  a  sample  of  the 
crop,  but  I  have  had  tubers  half  as  large  again  as  I  am 
sending.  Out  of  the  140  lbs.  I  bad  not  one  bad  Potato, 
and  only  two  gallons  small.  The  garden  they  were  grown 
in  lies  low,  in  fact  adjoining  a  water  meadow,  which  is 
naturally  low  and  cold.  I  am  sure  it  needs  only  to  be  more 
widely  known  to  ensure  a  great  future  for  THE  SUTTON 
FLOURBALL.  Of  the  many  different  varieties  I  have 
grown,  none  excels  it  as  a  cropper  and  table  Potato.” 
PRICE :  Per  14  lbs.,  4s.;  per  £-cwt„  14s. 
Special  Quotations  for  Large  Quantities. 
GENUINE  ONLY  DIRECT  FROM— 
SUTTON  &,  SONS, 
THE  ROYAL  SEEDSMEN, 
Jomiffitl  of  |§ortttttItui[0. 
THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY  27,  1896. 
WAGES  AND  WANTS. 
ONE  view  only  of  this  question  I  shall  endeavour 
to  express  some  thoughts  upon,  and  in  the 
expression  venture  to  hope  that  it  may  not,  will 
not  necessarily  be  taken  as  a  one-sided  view. 
Probably  there  is  no  reason  why  diffidence  should 
prevent  any  phase  of  the  subject  being  discussed, 
provided  that  it  is  approached  in  a  temperate  and 
comprehensive  spirit.  There  is  much  to  be  said 
on  both  sides  of  this  contract  between  master  and 
man  ;  and  granted  that  all  could  be  said  that  is 
to  be  said  by  all  concerned,  it  may  well  be  asked 
what  good  can  result  even  in  the  most  exhaustive 
discussion  of  things  which  are  controlled  by  uncon¬ 
trollable  influences  ? — of  matters  which  are  ruled 
by  the  economic  laws  of  supply  and  demand, 
which  in  itself  is  power  sufficient  to  neutralise  all 
the  arguments  we  may  endeavour  to  clinch  by 
facts  and  figures.  From  this  interpretation  the 
answer  may  be  promptly  given  “  useless.” 
Lest  it  be  inferred  from  the  above  remarks  and 
from  the  fact,  which  may  here  be  stated,  of  the 
writer  being  a  gardener  that  the  attention  of 
wage  earners  is  only  claimed  for  the  airing  of  a 
grievance,  I  may  at  once  say  decisively,  No  ! 
Such  is  not  the  case.  The  sole  object  is  to  show 
a  view  screened  to  some  extent  by  the  prevailing 
conditions  of  life,  to  the  end  that  advantage  may 
be  taken  or  due  acknowledgement  given  to 
matters  as  they  are  and  not  as  they  seem.  With 
a  feeling  daily  fed  by  the  rampant  spirit  of  unrest 
stalking  over  three  parts  of  our  planet,  that  we 
know  not  the  day  nor  the  hour  when  its  malignant 
influence  may  change  all  for  the  worse,  it  is  wise, 
ere  too  late,  to  compare  the  actual  present  with  a 
possible  future. 
This  supply  and  demand,  moreover,  in  its 
unsatisfactory  ratio  but  too  apparent,  may  not 
ie  so  potent  a  factor  in  the  wages  question 
as  a  superficial  view  thus  places  it — that  is,  so 
:!ar  as  it  affects  private  gardens  in  the  British 
’isles.  We  notice  the  preponderance  of  supply 
over  demand  in  the  matter  of  men,  but  we 
seldom,  if  ever,  see  that  this  results  in  the 
contract  being  reduced  to  such  a  low  figure,  that 
;he  cheapest  man,  so  far  as  wages  is  concerned, 
obtains  the  place. 
It  would,  if  possible,  be  of  practical  value  for 
our  purpose  to  compare  the  present  rates  of  pay 
NO.  2474.— VOL.  XOIV.,  OLD  SERIES. 
