Marcu 30, 1895.] 
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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
389 
WEBBS 
NEW DOUBLE 
PRIMULAS. 
The Finest Riven in Cultivation. 
WEBBS' NEW DOUBLE WHITE. 
2s. 6d. and 5s. per packet, post-free. 
WEBBS NEW DOUBLE SALMON. 
2s, 6d. and 5s, per packet, post-free. 
WEBBS NEW DOUBLE RED. 
2s, 6d. and 5s, per ara post-free. 
Where cut flowers are in demand, either 
for . decoration or for button holes, these 
value 
—— last, tby are also of great service for 
conservatory decoration, 
See WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, post-free, 1s. 
BBS, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
EVERYTHING For THe GARDEN 
on THE ESTATE: 
NURSERIES} 
over 450 Acres. E 
FOREST TREES, !- .. warre ror 
FRUIT TREES, ! LISTS — 
ROSES, & . POST FREE. 
SEEDS, : 
BULBS, } 
IMPLEMENTS. } 
DICKSONS, CHESTER. 
LILIUM AURATUM! 
Flower well. Will give complete satisfaction 
er doz, Per 100. 
FINE BULBS, up to 9 inches .. WIL 5 18.0 
8 above will bear 4 te 6 flowers each 
BULBS, 9 to 10 35 30 0 
ee * ate 8 usually 
y TEE 25 7 Wi 78. 6d. 
EXTRA SIZE BULB Sy á 40 0 
H T Poss LE COND © 
Posr alf- — at — 3 1 iter at one 3 
AGE, 9d. per dozen, 6d. per half- dozen, and 1s. = 50 
or 100 EXTRA, 
Bice ia VALUE, — CASES. of 150 ASSORTED LILIES | 
for 21s., worth 428. 
W, H. HUDSON, r.n PERES E LARSEN d 
LILY LIST fr 
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SPECIAL OFFER for GENUINE PLUMP FRESH BULBS, | 25 —— 
VEITCH’S 
CHOICE 
Flower Seeds 
POST-FREE, 
VEITCH'S ears CALCEOLARIA. 
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eryf 
nd substa ance 
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Per Packet, 28. 6d. 
VEITCH'S CHOIDE, CYCLAMEN. 
J. VEITCH & Soxs were aw a Special Certifica ate 
Royal H l f 
the R y 
ob their Cyclamen. Per Packet, aii 6d. 
VEITCH’S SUPERB CINERARIA. 
An 1 1 embracing 2 brightest and mos 
beautiful flow Per Packet, 2 
VEITCH'S SUPERB PANSY. 
The finest strain in existenci vourite flowers 
Speck AG Pregl 
P 
E VEITCH’S COLLECTIONS of FLOWER SEEDS, 
8 — quality or liberality, at 58., 108. 6d., 
58., 21s., = each, containing the most showy 
and useful va — — oe 
JAMES VEITCH @ SONS 
OYAL EXOTIC NURSER 
CHELSEA, LONDON, 8. w. 
md HARPES WHOLESALE LIST 
FARM SEEDS 
Has been Postao to all Customers, and 
will be se pp 
eninge SHARPE & CO. 
(LIMITED). 
_ SLEAFORD. 
BIDDLES & oO. 
THE PENNY PACKET SEED COMPANY, 
47a and 48, Forest Road, Loughborough, 
LEICESTERSHIRE. 
VARIETIES. OF VEGETABLE and Me * 
SUPPLIED IN PACKETS at ONE PENNY EA 
. PENNY Faint SYSTEM has been — the 
Public for more than ENTY YEARS no we still have no 
competitors in our part Wala line of busine: 
BECAUSE 
we give full value for money, and do not expat our Customers 
pay for extravagant working expense 
OUR 
17 Fi the Trade who off 
ele oN eae pe ALENE ire Seats i Pn quantities to suit the 
Aid Ae Holders: 
BECAUS 
SE, 
by — 1 large packets, a . is made by the Vendor on the 
waste of the Purchaser. 
hc: nr Tee TRE: ” 
has been ou! and it not failed us. We, therefore, 
recommend * e Gardening 1 to give our Seeds and Plants 
a trial, and so UCCESS. 
re aya gt On APPLICATION, 
BIDDLES & CO. 
The Penny Packet Seed Co., 
LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE. 
PAGKETS are ECON NOMICAL, 2 
THE 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895, 
TEN DAYS IN LILYLAND. 
GAIN the lengthening day is with us, and 
— at Covent Garden weekly. 
e assured, at least 500 varieties,“ a hos 
en — t got together by that — 
siastic collector, Peter Barr, of King Street, 
Covent Garden. 
portion of the British Isles deserves 
the title of “ Lilyland,” it is the group of isles 
portions of St. Mary’s and Tresco, in the Scilly 
Isles, the Lilies,” as the natives call them, are 
grown by millions, 
Long before spring has greened the — * e 
the keen March winds 
lopes 
light of the Daffodils, 
scene on the wharves of St. 
Penzance. It is searcely a quarter 
since an enterprising Soillonian sent his first box 
of blooms as an experiment to Covent Garden 
Market; Asja now in the “height of the season— 
say, Eas some tons arrive weekly. 
A trip 3 ee ee to High Town, St. se a 
is most enjoyable in fair weather. T 
of the Isles, 
of the magnificent cliff scenery from Penzance 
to the Land’s End. In the course of a few 
minutes we are opposite to quaint old artist- 
haunted Newlyn, with its colony of hardy, blue- 
Mousehole, with its curious 
cave, and the littie harbour of fishing craft ; the 
beautiful Lamorna Cove, the stupendous cliffs of 
Tol-ped-n-Penwith and Porthgwarra are passed, 
and the dark storm-beaten pro eee of the 
lips.” There urei P pwar 
— of the le varying in size from St. 
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