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FOR AMATEUR CULTIVATORS, COLLECTORS, AND EXHIBITORS OF PLANTS, FLOWERS 



FOR GENTLEMEN'S GARDENERS, FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN, AND SEEDSMEN : 



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No. 2,355 



SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1898. 



DOUBLE CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 



PRICE SIXPENCE. 



BARR'S ANNUAL CASH CLEARANCE 

 SALE of SPRING - FLOWERING BULBS : 

 HYACINTHS, TULIPS, DAFFODILS, NARCISSI, 

 CROCUSES, IRISES, &c, all in best quality, and at 



B reatly reduced prices. 



CLEARANCE LISTS on application. 

 Barr and Sons, 12 and 13 King St., Ccvent Garden, London. 



BARR'S DAFFODILS. — Annual Cash 

 Clearance Sale of Surplus Stock. Special Collections. 

 3 each of 25 Choice Daffodils for pots or borders ... 14s. od. 

 3 each of 15 Choice Daffodils for pots or bDrders ... • 8 6 

 18 each of 20 fine Daffodils for borders or naturalising 15 o 

 All tine strong Flowering Bulbs. Send for Descriptive List. 

 Barr and Sons, 12 and 13, King St., Covent Garden, London. 



WEEKS and CO. (Limited), HORTI- 



• CULTURAL BUILDERS to Her Majesty, H.R.H. 

 the Prince of Wales, H.M. Government, Admiralty Dept., 

 War Dept., Royal Hort. Soc, Roval Botanic Soc., Parks and 

 Public Buildings. Patentees of the Duplex Upright Tubular 

 Boilers. 48, Fernshaw Road ; 124, King's Road, Chelsea, S.W. 

 Telegraph— Hortulanus, London. Telephone No. 8,728. 



W RICHARDSON and CO., Horticultural 

 • Builders and Heating Engineers, Darlington. 

 VINERIES, GREENHOUSES, CONSERVATORIES. 



AND HOTHOUSES, 

 Together with HEATING APPARATUS, &c. 



Best work guaranteed. 

 Artistic New Catalogues Free. 



P| EATING 



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free. Attwood's Impd. Expan. Joints. Over a million 

 sold. Boilers, Valves, Pipes. Medals, 1865, 1881, 1803. Write 

 to inventor. J. Attwood, Stourbridge. 



OENRY HOPE, 55, Lionel Street, Birming- 



* 1 ham.— Conservatories, Hothouses, and Hot-water 

 Apparatus ; plans and estimates on application. Send for Cata- 

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'THE THAMES BANK IRON COMPANY, 



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M^^_ Choice Decorative Palms. 

 ORLE and Co. offer splendid plants of 

 Kentias, Latanias, Coryphas, Seaforthias, Arecas, &c, 

 n 40 sue pots at 18s. to 24s. per dozen ; larger in 32's at 30s. 

 I*r do/en. Samples in six varieties sent to any address for 12s. 

 onservatories, 152, Finchley Road, N.W. 



ty 

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QARNATIONS —Strong, well-rooted 



tit t t #» layers of the following varieties :— 

 PINK MALMAISONS ... 2s. 3d. per do/en. 



l;{ r OlREDE NANCY "Sift 

 WCOTEE-J. B. BRYANT ... 2s od. 



QWARF ROSES.- Strong, well - grown 



plants, in variety at 5s. per dozen. 



PHRYSANTHEMUM CUTTINGS, in best 



V* varieties, from 3s. per 100 C6d. per dozen). 

 ... Send for our Price List. 



y P acke(J and delivered free for cash with order, 

 and F. W. Lill*y, Ltd., St. Peters, Guernsey. 



your 



SPARAGUS for forcing.— Splendid 



MJ. old roots, 7s. 6d. per 100. Write at once to secure 



IES — GOOSEBERRIES. — Rushwick J 'ro- 



Gooseberry 



RASPBERRY CANES, " Victoria.' -The fruit * these is 

 *mf large and very abundant. 



Jos. Cock, Rushwick, Worcester. 



[ROBBIE'S CATALOGUE AND COM- 



fETlTORS' GUIDE, 32nd Annual Edition, 200 ItM 

 PaiSf r? y l,,ustr ated. Ready Christmas. Copies sent by 

 f rlT ° St for Six pence (an Abridged Edition can be had 



&0**|* and Co., Seed Growers and Florists, Rothesay. 



By Royal Appointment to Her Majesty. 



QEE S EARLY CABBAGE PLANTS, &c. ; 



per 



100 



6s 



early and late kinds, at 6s. per 1 

 PirHm<T *»f fJ\ . lettuce, best 



... ,. - - _ -. *t 



Pickling at 7s 



large Cos, especially scarce, at xos. 

 '.ooo, on rail f or cash, or any of above at 2s. per 

 ? f • icore, by Parcels Post or Rail, package and 



•» I and 



year* XL V AISO V"icks, for hedging, two, mrec, 

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6d, 



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KENT, THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND. 

 —GEORGE BUNYARD and Co.. Merchant Nursery, 

 men, Pomologists, &c, beg to say the following CATALOGUES 

 are now ready : Illustrated Fruit Catalogue, for 6 stamps ; 

 others post free, viz., Rose Catalogue, Price List of Fruit Trees, 

 General Nursery Catalogue, Strawberry List (cultural), Market 

 Growers' Fruit List.— The Royal Nurseries, Maidstone. 



SACRED LILIES, for growing in basins 

 ^ with sand, stones, and water, 3, is. 3d. ; 6, 2s. 3d. Yellow 

 Turk's Cap Lily, exhibition bulbs, 6, is. yd. Lily of the Valley 

 crowns, 25, is. ; 100, 3s. ; Spiraea Japor ica, selected, 6, is. od.; 

 Compacta, 6, 2s. ; JPalmata, pink, 6, 2s. ; Gladiolus, The Bride, 

 2S. 100.^ All choice quality. List free. W. H. Hudson, 

 F.R.H.S., 199, High Road, Kilburn. 



HUDSON'S LILIUM AURATUM. 

 Splendid Bulbs just received, 6, 3s. 6d. ; 12, 6s. ; L. 

 Rubellurn, new, 3, 2s. 6d. ; Ltl. Longiflorum Giganteum, 6, 3s.; 

 12, 5s. ; Lil. Album Kraetzeri, 6, 3s. 6d. ; 12, 6s. ; Krameri, pink, 

 6, 3s. ; 12,5s. All freshly imported.— Hudson's Lily Depot, 

 Kilburn, London. 



UTTON'S AMATEUR'S GUIDE IN 



JHtORTI CULTURE FOR .899 IS NOW READY. 



SUTTON'S AMATEUR'S GUIDE IN 

 HORTICULTURE for 1899 « 'he most complete Seed 

 Catalogue issued. 



UTTON'S AMATEUR'S GUIDE IN 



HORTICULTURE for 1899 is profusely illustrated with 

 355 illustrations, principally photographic. 



>RICE is Post Free. 



from 



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THE 



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ROSES! ROSES !! -Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 Teas, &c. Best plants ever offered. Extra strong, well- 

 rooted, and true to name. Hybrid Perpetuals, 6s. per doz. ; 

 Teas, &c, 9s. per doz. Price per 100 or 1,000 on application. 

 Carriage paid to nearest railway station for cash with order. 

 Catalogues free. 



Henry Norton, 



Rose Grower, Louth, Lincolnshire. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND DAHLIAS. 

 — Latest novelties, moderate prices. List free.* 

 Devon Chrysanthemum Nursery, Teignmouth. 



NEW WHITE BLACKBERRY 11 ICE- 

 BERG," and many other rare hardy plants frotl 

 various parts -of the world, just to hand from their native wilds, 

 my r ew list, free on application. 

 Perrv's Hardy Plant Farm, Winchmore Hill, 



London, N. 



PALMS from Stores, Cocos Weddelliana. 

 Grand stuff. 20s. per 100, ids. 6d. 50, 6s. 25. Seaforthia 

 Elegans, 3s. doz. ; Phoenix Reclinata, 2s. 6d. ; Phoenix Cycadi- 

 folia, 3s. per doz.— J. A. Brucb, The Nurseries, Edge Lane, 

 Chor It on -cum -Hardy, Manchester. 



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OWEN'S* ROYAL CHRYSANTHE- 

 MUMS.— Send for New and Descriptive Catalogue of 

 all the leading varieties in commerce. Finest "up-to-date 

 collection in the kingdom. Patronised by her Majesty. 



R. Owen, Maidenhead. 



EEDS FOR SPRING SOWING 



The be t pr curable at the lowest prices. 



Catalogues Free. t t 

 Containing a select list of the best varieties. 



W. Johnson and Son, Bulb ard Seed Growers, 



Smallbrook Street, Birmingham 



NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT 

 PEONIES. Kelway's lovely Peonies, sweetly 

 scented, land in the most delicate tints 1 the Fashionable 

 Flower, and the } noblest of hardy herbaceous perennial 

 plants. 



The Royal Horticulturists, Langport, Somerset* 



KELWAY AND SON, THE PREMIER 

 HOUSE for Paeonies, Delphiniums, GailJardias, Pyre- 

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 and Silver Medals. Catalogue ( M Kelway's Manual of Horticul- 

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Kblwav and Son, langport, Somerset. 



LAXTON S BUSH FRUITS, STRAW- 

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 in all shapes, true to name. Catalogue gratis. 



Laxtom Bros., Bedford. 



FERNS! — In 24 in. pots, 25 sorts, 128. 100; 

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 (irevilleas, Cyperus, Aralias, Sclaginella, and S«>lanum*. in 48a, 

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 Ix>ndnn Kerr Nnr^rriet, Loughborough Junction, London, S.W, 



pHOICE NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



\J 750 vars., including finest novelties of 1808, at very 

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J. W. Colr, Midlacd Road Nursery, Peterborough. 



WELLS' CHRYSANTHEMUM CATA^ 

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HOLLIES, common English, well grown, 

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 Also Urge stock of AUCUBAS, large I^URBLS 



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