il>. Cai\T\ell & G^uitle. 
GARDENERS’ MOTTO. 
‘ Work oil, hope on, ami he ye sure. 
Self-help is noble schoolinj; : 
Yon do your best ami leave the rest 
To God Almighty’s ruling.” 
A few Important words to all our 
Friends and Customers. 
E are delighted to say that we possess the most seleet ami extensive collection of 
FLOlil^TS’ FLOWEllS in Europe, an end it has always been oiir ambition to 
attain. Commanding as we do as tine a site for a nursery as could possibly be obtained, 
with air Ihoronghly free from all the im])uritics of town .smoke, we arc enabled to 
give onr cnstomers the bcnelit of vigorous, healthy, well-grown country plants, the 
importance of which cannot well be over estimated, especially if it he a desideratum 
to produce show flowers, or to attain perfection in their growth; whilst to those 
whose greenhouses are in a more confined atmosphere than that of Swanley, the greater 
robustness of the country-grown plant enables it to battle more successfully than its weaker 
neighbour with the town smoke. The •“ Home of F’lowers” is admitted to contain, at all 
seasons of the year, the finest amt most complete display of flowers to be found (Orchids excepted), 
and it is one of the sights of London, to which all arc welcome. 
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The proximity of the rail to the nur.sery — the London, Chatham, and Dover Eailwav Co. having 
tlieir station in a corner of onr grounds — is worthy of attention, ns this line being in immediate 
connection with all the others out of London, enables us to ensure rapid transit to all parts. 
We ourselves arc passionately fond of flowers, and we find the greatest possible gratification in 
their growth; we thus make it a hobbj', and no pains or ex])ense are spared to have nothing 
Imt the very best strains in cultivation, the result being an almost unique collection of 
plants, ami the largest stock in the trade. Our greatest ]>ride is in the excellence of our flowers 
(for which we were awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Horticultural and Royal 
Botanical Society of the City of Brussels and Ghent), and in distributing to the most 
remote corners of the earth the wonderful im])rovements effected by culture upon the raw material 
of nature. 
As many as a hundred boxes by ]iost leave Swanley some days, and strange and doubtful as it may 
a])pear. upwards of 400.000 labels are used yearly'. The whole machinery of our nursery is con- 
structed to carry on a laree and rapid trade of the best and most serviceable flowers in cultivation, at 
the very lowest possible, prices consistent with quality, and we beg that everv lover of flowers will 
them, and we promise that he shall not depart without seeing something interesting. 
Although every care will be taken in the packing and sending of plants, seeds, &c., risk 
of every de.scription must be borne by the purchaser immediately they are delivered 
to the Kailway Clompany. 
Every article is charged at the very lowest price, therefore no credit can be given. Our object 
is to give the rcndv-niouev buyers the advantages' they are really entitled to. It may happen that 
prices lower than ours may sometimes he (|uotcd. This invariably means false economy in a variety 
of ways — good things must be looked after by good men, who must be fairly paid, and good strains 
arc only procured by unceasing laliour and care. 
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