Marcu 12, 1887.] 
GARDENERS? 
NOTABLE 
VEGETABLES 
E ا‎ | 
All 5 per Cent. 
ГА д а op, Discount 
Free. vid 
Cash. 
c New C auli Howe Toti Thumb. 
Xtremely I" d frames and forcing purposes. 
6d. per Packet. 
"WEBBS KIN VER MAMMOTH. 
Broad | 
ad | Has prod: Produced po: pods 17i {мер long, containing 
Bean per Pint. 
Мана. ВВ MATCHLESS. 
nequalled for g eneral use and exhibition 
Sprouts | ed Г; n A exhibition 
WEBBS’ MAY Q 
c new variet 
Broc oli ior Pig у, Pein go gt Es = size and 
Cabbage mo. Чага. to be the tue variety in 
е: 64. and 1 r Packet. 
à; WEBBS' MAMMOTH SUA 
6d. “isp, risp, and n lent nutty fiz 
| Solid, ет T! аа eo nutty Ned. 
WEBBS зш ВЕ 
Cucumber er |^ 5a fine, free-bearing Variety | of Барса 
һаре ‚ 6d. per Packet, 
.— WEBBS WORDSLEY 
oe 
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| ог anther ue winter cultivation. 
5. per acket. 
6d. and 
WEBBS' BEAU 
UTY OF WORI LEY. 
Melon | The flesh i is gree Ds 
~ favour. 1s. 6d. per Packet. 
n; à sure setter, delicious 
6d. per Packet, ` 
v 
i P È Pa e. use and exhibition. 
i SENSATION 
| Large and handsome 8s 
"pd » EID grand 
? WORDSLEY ° WONDER. 
jas canes lue | 
produc Neid. reer ; very 
i CHANCELLOR. 
ai 
od DA m «тор Arp г. unsurpassed excel- 
белке |6 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
КШ XR s 
$ Wl WILLIAMS 
PRIZE FLOWER SEEDS, 
e Finest in Cultivation, 
ARIA 
(extra choice, mixed). 
Per Хуне, d ls, 6d. “a 25. 6d. 
of colou 
WILLIAMS’ 
PRIZE COCKSCOMB. 
Per Packet, 2s. 6d. 
WILLIAMS’ 
GIG. UM, 
mixed, poe vases p varieties. 
r Packet, 2s. 6d. 
ноба 
mixed. 
Per Packet, s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
For varieties of Cyclamen in 
separate colours, see Illustrated 
Seed Catalogue. 
WILLIAMS’ 
This produces immense flowers 
of the most анон and varied 
colours, both of the erect and 
drooping varieties 
WILLIAMS" 
PANSY, Show Varieties. 
FINEST MIXED. 
Per Packct, 1s. and 2s. 6d, 
PAN x hay Be анне 
Рег Packet, i an най s. 6d. 
Seed Saved from Prize hand 
WILLIAMS’ 
POLYANTHUS, 
r Packet, 1s. 
VERY SUPERIOR STRAIN. 
Has taken numerous 
First Prizes. 
WILLIAMS" 
М mixed packets, bem: 
six varieties 
т Packet, 1з. 6d. a s, 6d. 
p superb strain e, ded the 
test for 30 years, and E 
take e Ist prizes wherever exhibitec 
new Primulas and mai 
rains of oon see Illustrated 
Seed Catal 
т UE For 
KEF Illus Seed CATALOG 
1887, Gratis ріг ai t free o on n. applicatio n. 
CHRONICLE. 
A superb of very dwarf 
branching habit. n. ls Mat consti- 
uti m containing a great variety 
945 
As a Supplement to the 
“ GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE” ` 
Jor next week, March 19, 
will be published an Ink-Photograph 
of an 
AVENUE OF PALMS (OREODOXA), 
BOTANIC GARDEN, CEYLON. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1887. 
THE “BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.” 
S already stated in this journal (n.s., xxvi., 
l 
hundredth year of its unin A 5, existence, 
having long outlived the numerous rivals and 
imitators which its successful career gave rise to 
from time to time. Indeed, it is doubtful whether 
it is not the only illustrated serial ever published 
that has enjoyed a century of unbroken vitality ; 
and its history is the history of flower gardening 
in the open and under glass, from its infancy to 
the achievements f the io da A 
subtropical plants for the delights they afford the 
eye has developed from a few small beginnings 
by wealthy amateurs and botanic gardens to an 
almost incredible extent, both as to what 
accomplished and the number of ms en- 
gaged in producing a luxury which is essentially 
the marvellous creations of the gardener's skill 
are not represented therein, the wild parents 
from which he has obtained such results are so in 
most instances, and remain as silent witnesses of 
what may be effected by education, if it may be 
so termed, and freedom from the struggle и 
existence which plants are ever exposed to un 
natural conditions. Moreover, the serials leni 
have been more specially devoted to the illustra- 
tion of florists' flowers may be reg as the 
legitimate offspring of the Botanical Magica: 
in the double sense of the priority of the latter, 
reason of its being a refuge for the 
usually less showy progenitors of the florists’ 
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