The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . DANIELS MASTERPIECE. We have in former years introduced some remarlably fineencumbers, but never had more pleasure than in introducingthis one. as it is without doubt the handsomest Cucumber everraised. The fruit are slightly spioed. and of a nch emerald-green 20 to 30 inches long. For colour, quality of fleh. sym-metry of form, constitution, and proliScness. they are modelsof perfection—a grand exhibition frmt, and far surpasses mostother kinds for market purposes. For many years the fortunateraiser
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . DANIELS MASTERPIECE. We have in former years introduced some remarlably fineencumbers, but never had more pleasure than in introducingthis one. as it is without doubt the handsomest Cucumber everraised. The fruit are slightly spioed. and of a nch emerald-green 20 to 30 inches long. For colour, quality of fleh. sym-metry of form, constitution, and proliScness. they are modelsof perfection—a grand exhibition frmt, and far surpasses mostother kinds for market purposes. For many years the fortunateraiser has enjoyed the monopoly of this variety, his fruit takinga leading place in Covent Garden Market, bringing a muchlarger return than other kinds, an! it was not until this lastseason that he could be induced to part with the stock, of Y!.we have secured but a limitvJ quantity. Pel- pkt., 1/6 & 2/b. As a Supplement TO THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE Next Weekj Jauuar// 19, WILL BE Published an Ink Fhotograjilior DATURA A R B 0 R EA, GARDEN of T. II. MA UDSLEY, THE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889. CHRYSANTHEMUMFERENCE. CON- DANIELS BROS., Seed Growers, NORWICH. MIDWINTER CHRYSANTHEMUMS.* SO much has been said and written on thegeneral cultivation of the Chrysanthemumby eminent writers and grower.^ that it is notnecessary for me to refer to it. There is, how-ever, one phase of the culture of the flowerwhich has received but little attention, andwhich is, consequently, the least understood bythe majority of growers. I allude to what isnow usually known as the cultivation of mid-winter Chrysanthemums, which matter I haveadopted as the subject of this paper. A quickened and increasing interest is beingtaken in this branch of the culture of Chrysan-themums, and rightly so, considering that itenables us to have their flowers in perfection forat least two months longer than formerly, and ata time when there is a great paucity of otherflowers. By establishing the Midwinter Exhi-bition and the
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