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The Nobility and Gentry that desire to reduce their gardening account should favour us with 

 one trial order, and compare Quality, Quantity and Cost of Delivery. 



WE HAVE THE LARGEST SUPPLY OF 



SOILS, MANURES, BAMBOO CANES, &c. 



and every other Garden Requisite, 



including many novelties not to be obtained elsewhere, being the oldest-established firm in London. 

 Medals and Certificates awarded by the R.H.S. and Botanical Society, London. Many complimentary 

 letters testifying to satisfaction of goods from all parts of the country. Splendid Brown Fibrous Peat, 

 5/-; Selected Orchid, 9-; Sphagnum Moss, 6 6; Pure Leaf Mould, Coarse Sand, Yellow Fibrous Loam 

 and Peatmould, each 3/- per sack ; C.N. Fibre, 2/6 per sack, 10 for 22/6 ; Bone Meal. 10/- ; Basic Slag or 

 Kainit, 6/- per cwt. All other Manures. Bamboo Canes, 4 ft., 1/6, 2/-, and 4/- per 100; Carnation 

 Canes, 1/3 per 100; best new Archangel Mats, 18/- ; Heavy Petersburg, 12/- per dozen. Special price 

 quoted for large or small quantities by road, boat or rail. 

 Price List post free. Established 1876. 



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COLOUR CHART. 



Hardly a gardener or florist exists who has not at times longed for a 

 Colour Chart — that is to say, for a standard of reference whereby he could 

 himself name, or recognise, or convey to a friend at a distance, the exact shade 

 of colour of a flower he desired to procure or had seen advertised, or wished to 

 commend to a friend. 



The Council of the Society have long felt the need of such a Colour Chart, 

 but the expense of producing it has hitherto deterred them from issuing it. 



Not long since an admirable chart, containing more than 1,450 shades of 

 colour between white and black, was published at the instance of the French 

 Chrysanthemum Society, the price being £1. Is. net, and by this it is now 

 possible to exactly recognise or describe to a friend or purchaser at a distance 

 the precise colour of any possible flower. You may have met with an Azalea, 

 for instance, which greatly strikes your fancy ; you take out your chart and 

 match its shade, and describe it to your friend or your nurseryman as 

 'Colour: Apricot, p. 53, shade 3," and he turns to his chart and sees in a 

 moment exactly what it is you want or describe. Or a nurseryman, having 

 raised a new variety, can by simply quoting 'Colour Chart, p. — , shade — 

 exactly represent to his customers the colour-beauty of his new introduction. 



This Chart will, of course, be found vastly useful for many other purposes ; 

 for example, a lady wishing to match a certain shade has only to refer her 

 dressmaker to such and such a colour on p. — , shade — , and it can be infallibly 

 matched. An artist wishing to describe the colour of the sky on a certain 

 sundown, can do so exactly by reference to the chart. 



The Council recognising both the excellence and the usefulness of this 

 chart, the idea at once occurred, could it not be adopted as an International 

 Standard, so that all lovers of flowers all over the world could accurately and 

 exactly describe to one another the colour and shade of any particular flower 

 they refer to ? There seemed no other difficulty than the somewhat prohibitive 

 cost of £1. Is. net, but by undertaking to be responsible for a very large 

 number, the Society is now able to offer to its Fellows this excellent Chart 

 containing every possible shade of colour between black and white at the> 

 reduced cost of 14s. 6d., 



Or post free for 15s. from the 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, VINCENT SQUARE, LONDON, S.W. 



R.H.S. Advertisement Office : — VINCENT SQUARE, WESTMINSTER, S.W. 



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