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ESTABLISHED  1832. 
Mo  connection  with  any  other  Arm  of  a  similar  name 
Successors  to  the  late  BARON  VAN  PALLANDT. 
CELEBRATED 
—  FOR  — 
Early  Forcing. 
ROMAN  HYACINTHS, 
ROMAN  NARCISSUS, 
PAPER-WHITE  NARCISSUS 
&c.,  &c. 
m  - 
The  above  are  now  ready  for  delivery,  and  for  full 
descriptive  details  of  the  same  and  other  BULBS 
for  forcing,  see  our  CATALOGUE  for  1902, 
which  will  be  sent  free  on  application  to  our  Offices 
at  OVERVEEN,  HAARLEM,  HOLLAND,  or  to 
our  General  Agents — 
Messrs.  MERTENS  &  CO., 
3,  CROSS  LANE,  LONDON,  E.C. 
HARDY  WATER  LILIES 
AND  OTHER  AQUATIC  PLANTS. 
Great  Speciality.  —  New  and  Old  beautiful  varieties 
delivered  by  Parcel  Post  during  the  Spring  and  the 
Summer,  which  are  the  best  seasons  for  planting  them. 
B.  LATOUR  MARLIAC,  Nurseryman , 
TEMPLE  -  SUR  -  LOT  (Lot-et-Garonne),  FRANCE 
Lowest  Prices.  Catalogue  free  on  application. 
GOLD  MEDAL  COLLECTION  I 
Four  Gold  Medals  and  Four  First  Prizes  in  1901. 
THE  BEST  COLLECTION.  SEE  OUR  CATALOGUE. 
B.  R.  DAVIS  &  SONS , 
Yeovil  Nurseries,  YEOYIL,  SOMERSET. 
£20  Cash  Prizes 
THE  FINEST  CABBAGE  IN  THE  WORLD. 
DANIELS’  DEFIANCE. 
VERY  fine,  short-legged,  compact,  mid-early  variety, 
growing  to  the  weight  of  10  lb.  or  12  lb.  each ; 
exceedingly  tender  and  of  the  most  delicate  marrow  flavour. 
A  errand  Cabbage  alike  for  the  market  or  private  grower. 
We  offer  £20  in  cash  prizes  for  two  heads  of  this  variety 
grown  from  Seeds  sown  this  season.  All  purchasers  of  not  i 
less  than  one  ounce  of  Seed  will  be  eligible  to  compete.  1 
Competitors’  vouchers,  conditions,  and  full  cultural  direc- 
tious  sent  with  seed.  Our  own  specially  selected  stock, 
per  oz.  Is.  6d. ;  per  packet  6d.,  post  free. 
Catalogue  of  the  best  Cabbage,  Onion,  and  other  Seeds 
for  present  sowing,  choice  Strawberry  Plants,  Bulbs  for 
early  forcing,  &c.,  post  free  on  receipt  of  post  card. 
DANIELS  BROS.li0 
BY  ROYAL  WARRANT  Kl 
TO  H.M.THE  KING  I  lV/IvVw 
FOR  PRESENT  SOWING. 
CLIBRANS 
TESTED  SEEDS. 
PER  PKT. 
CLIBRANS  SUPERB  AQUILEGIA  ..  6d. 
CLIBRANS  PRIZE  CALCEOLARIA  1/6  &  2/6 
CLIBRANS  CANTERBURY  BELLS  ..  6d. 
CLIBRANS  Choicest  CINERARIAS  1/6  &  2/6 
CLIBRANS  LOYELY  DELPHINIUMS  6d. 
CLIBRANS  SELECTED  DIGITALIS  ..  6d. 
CLIBRANS  Superb  Double  HOLLYHOCK 
1/-  &  2/6 
CLIBRANS  SELECTED  MYOSOTIS  ..  6d. 
CLIBRANS  LOYELY  PANSIES  ..  ..  1/- 
CLIBRANS  Choicest  PENTSTEMONS  6d.  &  1/- 
CLIBRANS  GRAND  POLYANTHUS  ..  1/- 
CLIBRANS  EAST  LOTHIAN  STOCKS  1/- 
CLIBRANS  SWEET  WILLIAM  ..  ..  6d. 
CLIBRANS  CHOICE  WALLFLOWER 
Mixed,  or  in  distinct  colours  and  vars.  6d.  &  1/- 
CLIBRANS  SEED  LIST  contains  all  particulars 
relative  to  Vegetable  and  Flower  Seeds,  Manures. 
Insecticides,  Sundries,  &c  ,  post  free  on  application 
ALTRINCHAM  &  MANCHESTER 
M/DDLEHURST’S 
Reliable  Early  Flowering  Bulbs 
EARLY  ROMAN  HYACINTHS, 
Extra  selected  Bulbs,  averaging  6  inches  in  circumference. 
EARLY  TRUMPET  DAFFODILS. 
For  Christmas  Blooming. 
EARLY  CHRISTMAS  DOUBLE  DAFFODILS. 
May  be  had  easily  in  bloom  by  Christmas. 
FREEZIA  REFRACTA  ALBA. 
Immense  Bulbs.  Samples  free  on  application. 
SOW  NOW. 
MIDDLEHURST’S  SELECTED  STRAIN  OF 
CALCEOLARIAS. 
See  page  87. 
Illustrated  and  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  Bulbs  ready 
early  in  August,  post  free  on  application. 
MANCHESTER  STREET,  LIVERPOOL. 
CABBAGE  SEEDS. 
The  best  and  hardiest  variety  is— 
Dicksons  Perfection,  cd.  Pkt.,  i/c  oz. 
Also  highly  recommended — 
DICKSONS  NONSUCH,  4d.  per  pkt.,  1/-  per  oz. 
ELLAM’S  EARLY  SPRING,  4d.  per  pkt.,  lOd.  oz. 
MEIN’S  No.  1,  3d.  per  pkt.,  9d.  per  oz. 
|  WHEELER’S  IMPERIAL,  3d.  per  pkt.,  9d.  per  oz. 
MYATT’S  EARLY  OFFENHAM,  3d.  pkt.,  9d.  oz. 
PRICED  CATALOGUE  post  free  of  all  other  Seeds 
for  present  and  later  sowing. 
DICKSONS  GROWERS,  CHESTER 
EWING’S  MILDEW  COMPOSITION.— The 
original,  certain,  and  safe  remedy  ;  in  bottles,  1/6  and 
3/-  per  gallon,  12/  Sold  by  all  Seedsmen. 
CORRY  <fc  CO.  (Limited),  London,  E.C. 
Jfiut[mtl  nf  ||artic«IturLP. 
THURSDAY,  JULY  21,  1902. 
The  Onion. 
HE  Onion — the  bulb  of  pungent 
^  odour  and  an  unmistakeable 
flavour — is  perhaps  one  of  the 
most  important  vegetable  crops 
there  are.  Next  to  his  Potatoes, 
the  humble  allotment  holder  will 
give  his  closest  attention  to,  and 
keep  his  keenest  watch  on,  the  Onion 
bed,  and  wherever  the  working  man, 
who  is  an  amateur  horticulturist,  has  a  piece 
of  ground  to  call  his  own  on  which  he  can 
grow  vegetables,  it  may  safely  be  asserted 
that  that  man’s  family  shall  not  want  for 
Onions,  both  for  eating  in  a  raw  state  and 
eke  for  flavouring  other  dishes. 
A  vegetable  of  antiquity  it  is — no  modern 
upstart  of  a  bulb,  but  one  that  was  valued 
and  appreciated  in  classic  times.  Recent  dis¬ 
coveries  among  the  pyramids  have  established 
the  fact  that  it  was  well  known  to  the  ancient 
Egyptians  four  thousand  years  ago,  and  in 
history  we  may  read  how,  when  the  Greek 
and  Persian  armies  faced  each  other  ready  to 
do  battle,  while  the  luxurious  Persians  feasted 
on  the  richest  viands  and  drank  the  choicest 
wines,  the  more  hardy  Greeks  made  their 
simple  meal  of  bread  and  Onions,  washed 
down  with  pure  water,  and  admirers  of  the 
tunicated  bulb  with  a  series  of  concentric 
coats  of  fleshy  tissue  completely  surrounding 
the  central  axis,  or  growing  point  (as  the 
botanists  describe  it),  have  gone  so  far  as  to 
say  that  their  favourite  vegetable  had  not  a 
little  to  do  with  the  subsequent  victory  of  the 
Greeks.  And  if  it  was  considered  indis¬ 
pensable  twenty-two  centuries  ago,  it  is  no 
less  lightly  regarded  by  many  people  now, 
though  in  these  days  it  generally  finds  itself 
in  more  pretentious  company  than  that  of 
bread  and  water. 
It  might  seem  that  Onions  and  sentiment 
have  little  in  common.  The  poet  Keats  has 
told  us  of  Isabella  weeping  over  her  pot  of 
READERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  aDd  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR  ”  at 
12,  Mitre  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  an  to  no  other 
address. 
No.  1152  — Vol.  XLV.,  Third  Series. 
