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Self-lielp is noble schooling ; 
'^■ou do your best, and leave the rest 
To God Almighty’s ruling.” 
A FEW IMPOHTAHT WOHDS 
TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS. 
are delighted to say that we iiossess the finest and most extensive collection o! 
A' l'’L011IS'rS’ FLOWERS in Europe, and have ample scope and every facility for rapid 
inland and foreign transit, and probably command the best site for a nmsery in England, 
' thoi'oughly free from all impurities of London and town atmosphere, together with 
passenger and goods station situate at the corner of our grounds ; and as this line, the 
L. C. k 1). R., is in conjunction with all others, the advantages in sending goods can 
hardly be over-estimated in business ; this, toother with thoroughly vigorous, healthy, 
well-grown countiy plants, the iinjiortanoe to purchasers can hardly be dwelt U]>on too 
much where perfection of growth requires to be attained, partioularly for amateurs who are obliged to 
have their greenhouses in confined neighbourhoods. Our Nursery adjoins the Swanlcy Junction 
Station on the L. 0. (i D R. Main Line, and is overlooked by travellers on the Sevenoaks and Maid- 
stone Branch, being fortunately c#ntiguous to a very important junction ; there are frequent trains to 
and from either Victoria, Ludgate Hill, and auy of the Metropolitan (Undergiound) Railway Stations. 
When alighting at Farringdon or Victoria, it will only be neces.saiy to change trains and carried direct 
close to the Nursery ; and the same from Charing Cross, Waterloo, Cannon Street, London Bridge, 
Spa Road, New Cross, St. John’s, Lewisham, and by stepping from one train into the other, at 
Beckenham, in a few minutes would reach the grounds. Tue ride may be simply summed up in the 
one word “delightful,” ,as the train passes through some of the most productive Hop and Fruit 
Gardens, &c. , in Kent ; in proof of the latter, one gentleman alone sends upwards of seventy tons of 
Strawberries to London in one sciison. It is also on the high road leading through the Grays, direct to 
Slaidstone, fifteen miles from London, and one of the most lovely country rides out of town. 
Every one of the many who have called at Swanley will confirm that never before in the course of 
flower growing has there ever been such stock, pains, and energy displayed, and, above all, such a 
determined desire to have nothing but the very best strains in cultivation ; no e.xpeu.se is spared ; 
neither is this what is termed the usual puff to get up a sale for the year, for it must be distinctly 
understood we are passionately fond of the best flowers, and always were, and grow them really as 
much for our own gratification as for sale. Symmetry in outline always appears before our eyes, and 
no victorious warrior felt more elated and prouder than ourselves when awarded the Boyal Horti- 
culturaJ Society’s Gold Medal for the e.xcellence of our flowers, and sending forth to the most 
remote parts of the earth the beauties of Nature, and the wonderful impi-ovements wrought in them 
by the hands of man. 
As many as a hundred boxes by post leave Swanley some days, and sti'ange and doubtful as it may 
appear, upwards of 300,000 labels rvero used last year, 'riio whole machinery of our Nursery is con- 
structed to carry on a large 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 every lover of flowers will 
them, and we promise that they shall not depart without seeing something interesting, and probably 
ji surprise. 
Every article is charged at the very lowest price consi.stent with quality, therefore no credit carr bo 
given. Our object is to give the ready-money buyers the arlvantages they are really entitled to ; for 
long credit, advertising, and travellers, which are exceedingly expensive, are really paid for indirectly 
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