February  2,  1899, 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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FINEST  SELECTED  STRAINS 
OF  TESTED  GR0WTH«9 
BARR’S  SEED  GUIDE  FDR  1899 
IS  NOTAT 
And  will  be  Forivarded  Free  on  Application. 
BARR’S  SEED  GUIDE  contains  a  Select  List  of  the 
best  Vegetable  Seeds  and  most  beautiful  Flower  Seeds.  It 
is  full  of  Practical  Hints,  and  will  be  found  invaluable 
to  Gardeners,  Amateurs,  and  Exhibitors.  Sent  free  ON 
-APPLICATION. 
BARR’S  21/-  COLLECTION  OF  VEGETABLE 
SEEDS  contains  a  liberal  assortment  of  the  following 
useful  vegetables  :  Beans  (Broad  and  French  Beans),  Beet, 
Borecole,  Broccoli,  Brus.sels  Sprouts,  Cabbage,  Capsicum, 
Carrot,  Cauliflower,  Celery,  Colewort,  Corn  Salad, 
Cucumber,  Cress,  Endive,  Herbs,  Leek,  Lettuce,  Melon, 
-Mustard,  Onions,  Parsley,  Parsnips,  Peas,  Radish,  Salsify, 
Savoy  Cabbage,  Scorzonera,  Spinach,  Tomato,  Turnip,  and 
Vegetable  Marrow. 
Other  Collections  of  Barr’s  Vegetable  Seeds,  5/6,  7^6, 
12/6,  42/-,  63/- and  105/-.  Thege  Collections  sent  carriage  paid 
on  receipt  of  remittance.  Full  particulars  on  application. 
BARR’S  CHOICE  FLOWER  SEEDS.— Our  Catalogue 
contains  a  Select  List  of  all  the  mo.st  beautiful  Annuals  and 
Perennials.  Special  Collections  for  all  purposes,  and  many 
Sterling  Novelties. 
All  Seeds  sent  Carriage  Paid  on  receipt  of  remittance. 
BARR  St,  SONS, 
12  &  13  King  Street,  Covent  Garden,  London. 
Nurseries  :  LONG  DITTON,  SURREY 
(Surbiton  Station,  S.W.  Railway). 
&  Son  s 
GUINEA  COLLECTION 
OF 
VEGETABLE  SEEDS 
16  Pints  Peas  (including 
Al,  Marrowfat,  and 
Late  Queen) 
6  Pints  Broad  Beans 
2  Pints  Dwarf  French 
Beans 
1  Pint  Scarlet  Runner 
1  Packet  Asparagus 
2  Pkts.  Beet 
2  ,,  Borecole 
3  ,,  Broccoli 
2  Brussels  Sprouts 
3  ,,  Cabbage 
1  ,,  Capsicum 
4  ozs.  Carrot 
2  Pkts.  Cauliflower 
2  ,,  Celery 
1  ,,  Couve  Tronchuda 
4  ozs.  Cress 
3  Pkts.  Cucumber 
2  )i  Egg  Plant 
Pkts.  Endive 
,,  Gourds 
,,  Kohl  Rabi 
2  ,,  Leek 
3  ,,  Cabbage  Lettuce 
2  ,,  Cos  Lettuce 
2  ,,  Melon 
6  ozs.  Mustard 
4  ,,  Onion 
!  2  Pkts.  Parsley 
2  ozs.  Parsnip 
4  ,,  Radish 
1  Packet  Salsafy 
2  Pkts.  Savoy  Cabbage 
2  ,,  Scorzonera 
6  ozs.  Spinach 
6  Pkts.  Herbs 
2  ,,  Tomato 
4  ozs.  Turnip 
1  Packet  Vegetable  Mar¬ 
row 
For  other  Oollectious  from  10/-  to  100/-  see  our  Seed  List. 
CONTAINS— 
2 
1 
Orders  for  1'egetable  Seeds  of  20/-  and  upwards  sent 
Carriage  Paid. 
Orders  for  Flower  Seeds  of  3/-  and  upwards  free  by  Post. 
LIST  will  be  sent  post  free  on  application  to  their 
Offices  at  OVERVEEN,  nr.  HAARLEM,  HOLLAND, 
or  to  their  General  Agents, 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3,  CROSS  IiANE,  XONSON,  E.C. 
No.  971.— VoL.  XXXVIII.,  Third  Series. 
NOVELTIES 
RAISED  AT 
WINDSOR  AND  OSBORNE. 
It  is  Messrs.  CARTERS’  privilege  to 
ofTep  the  following  new  and  choice 
productions  tothe  notice  of  gardeners 
and  private  cultivators. 
BRITISH  QUEEN  MELON. 
Raised  and  named  by  Mr.  Owen  Thomas,  Supt.  of 
the  Royal  Gardens,  Windsor.  Awarded  the  First- 
Class  Certificate  R.H.S.  Pronounced  by  the  Com¬ 
mittee  to  be  not  only  the  very  best  wliite-flesh 
melon  ever  submitted,  but  tlie  richest  flavoured  of 
any  colour.  Awarded  the  Gold  Medal  of  the  Royal 
Caledonian  Society  in  association  with  other  fruit 
exliibited  by  H.M.  The  Queen. 
In  sealed  packets,  price  2/6  and  3  6  each,  post  free. 
ROYAL  OSBORNE  CUCUMBER. 
A  valuable  cross  between  the  Rochford  and  an  im¬ 
proved  type  of  Telegraph,  raised  and  named  by  Mr. 
George  Nobbs,  Head  (lardener  to  H.M.  the  Queen 
at  Csboi’ne.  In  our  opinion  it  is  one  of  the  best  all 
the  year  round  varieties  introduced  in  recent  years. 
In  sealed  packets,  price  2/6  &  3/6  each,  post  free. 
ILLVSTBATED  CATALOGUES,  POST  FP.EE. 
WE  HOLD  THE  ENTIRE  STOCK  OF  SEEDS 
OF  THESE  TWO  NOVELTIES. 
CARTERS, 
Ubc  Cluccn’s  IBccbsmcn. 
Only  Address — 
237,  238  &  97,  HIGH  HOLBORN,  LONDON. 
The  32nd  Edition  is  Now  Re'ady. 
200  PaGE.S.  150  ILLUSTRATIONS. 
PRICE  SZXPEM-CE,  POST  FREE. 
(By  Parcel  Post — it  is  so  large). 
EVEHY  AMATEUR  SHOULD  POSSESS  A  COPY. 
An  Abridged  Edition  of  our  Catalogue  can  be 
HAD  Free  on  Application. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
Our  Stock  is  perfectly  clean.  We  never  had 
Rust  or  Disease  in  our  Collection.  Cuttings 
from  1/10  per  dozen. 
SWEET  PEAS. 
All  Standard  Named  varieties  are  offered 
per  i-oz.  Packet.  From  3(i.  Per  Packet. 
SEED  POTATOES. 
These  are  quoted  in  small  lots,  and  Carriage 
Free  to  destination. 
DOBBIE  &  Co., 
SEED  GROWERS  AND  FLORISTS  TO  THE  QUEEN, 
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THURSDAY,  FEBP,UARY  2,  1899. 
THE  JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  can  he  obtained 
from  the  Office,  12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  St  , 
London,  post  free  for  a  Quarter,  3/9.  Editorial 
communications  must  be  addressed  to  8,  Roeie 
Hill  Rd.,  Wandsworth,  S.W, 
RAISING  AND  GROWING  MELONS. 
PhOBABLY  no  fruit  is  more  generally  mis¬ 
managed  than  Melons.  Of  course  I  am  fully 
aware  that  there  are  exceptions,  and  that  many 
handsome  crops  are  produced  by  growers  who 
thoroughly  understand  the  details  of  culture  re¬ 
quisite  to  attain  sue, cess.  Those  persons  who  attend 
summer  exhibitions  are  well  aware  of  the  number 
of  inferior  Melons  met  with  as  far  as  flavour  is 
concerned.  From  a  dozen  fruit  of  both  green  and 
scarlet  seldom  can  more  than  three  of  really  fine 
flavour  be  found.  When  this  happens  during  the 
months  of  July,  August,  and  September,  it  is  safe 
to  suggest  that  the  cultural  conditions  under  which 
all  were  produced  could  not  have  been  of  the 
best. 
The  awarding  of  prizes  to  Melons  solely  by  their 
appearance,  with  perhaps  the  sense  of  smell  thrown 
in,  has  been  advocated,  but  it,  in  my  opinion, 
would  be  a  grave  error.  Melons  with  a  rough  skin 
are  frequently  the  most  luscious,  and  vice  versa. 
As  a  rule  scarlet  flesh  varieties  are  inferior  in 
flavour  to  those  with  green  flesh,  and  very  seldom 
are  white  flesh  Melons  first  prize  winners.  Scarlet 
Gem  held  its  own  as  the  finest  flavoured  Melon  in 
that  section  for  at  least  twenty  years,  and  never 
was  there  a  more  rugged,  rough  looking  fruit. 
This  variety  has  perhaps  taken  more  prizes  than 
any  other,  not  even  excepting  Hero  of  Lockinge, 
which  has  been  a  standard  variety  in  the  green 
flesh  section  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  justice  to  many  gardeners,  however,  it  must 
be  said  that  the  convenience  for  Melon  culture  is 
not  nearly  so  good  in  some  gardens  as  it  should  be, 
and  growers  who  are  handicapped  by  ill-adapted 
structures  have  some  excuse  if  inferior  samples  are 
produced.  A  properly  heated  low-roofed  house  is 
undoubtedly  the  best,  and  span-roofed  structures, 
about  10  feet  to  12  feet  wide,  are  perhaps  better 
than  an  ordinary  lean-to  house,  because  more  space 
is  provided  for  a  greater  variety,  and  two  crops  can 
be  accommodated  at  the  same  time,  while  light 
and  air  are  at  command  in  greater  amounts  if 
required. 
Where  only  one  house  can  be  used  for  /Melons/  ^ 
No.  2627.— VOL.  C.,  Old  Series. 
