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Mr. G. Jemmi.son, Fort Gratiot, Michigan, U.S. America, Attgu3l25lh, 1885. 
I am pleased to inform you the fourteen Pelargoniums i received last year all done well and have 
given great satisfaction. 
Mrs. Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Dulham, Mass., U.S. America, September iZrd, 1885. 
Your excellent promptness in replying to a stranger’s order enabled me to plant to-day such of the 
seeds as I desired for next year's show. In the early spring I hope to send a large order. 
Mr. A. CoCKBURN, gardener, Cottbridge Hall, Murrayfield, Edinburgh, April \Uh, 1886. 
Dear Sirs — Please accept stamps enclosed for your Catalogue I got some time ago. I may say that 
it is my employer’s wish that I Mould send it to you ; he says it is a first-rate book and gave it to the 
apprentices to read. 
Henry T. Stiles, Esq., M.D., Spalding, April \ith, 1886. 
The plants from you I unpacked this morning, and were the best I ever saw turned out of a Nursery 
in my life. Please send the account and I will pay it by return of post. 
G. Muiriiead, Esq., Paxton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Ap^~il 6tk, 1885. 
Last year I had the pleasure of visiting Swanley, and seeing your large collections of flowers, 
including the houses of Single and Double Pelargoniums, Begonias, &c. I got from you during my 
visit some plants of the best winter-flowering Single Pelargoniuips, including also a mo.st beautiful 
white variety called Queen of the Belgians. These winter-flowering Pelargoniums I grew during the 
summer in a house constructed on your plan, and treated them expressly for winter blooming, keeping 
all flowers ofl until October. The result was most satisfactory, for during the whole of the past winter 
the plants have been covered with immense trusses of flowers of the most brilliant colours. I likewise 
E rocured at Swanley a small plant of your Giant Heliotrope, it done well with mo here, and grew to 
e a large plant, and produced the large.st, finest, and most fragrant flowers that I ever saw on any 
Heliotrope. It was the admiration of all my gardening friends when they visited my greenhouse ; I 
recommended them all to ]>ay Swanley a visit on the first opportunity which they may have, adding 
that I was sure they would see oven larger Heliotropes there than mine. 1 have to thaiik you for your 
kindness in sending to me a copy of your Catalogue for 1885, which is certainly a most wonderful 
production. The hints contained in it on the eultivation of many of our favourite flowers are most 
valuable, and are of great use to amateurs like myself, for they are the result of such extensive 
experience as very few men have of gaining. / 
Rev. F. Meade Kino, Stoke Courcy Vicarage, Bridgewater, March 2lst, 1885. 
The Primula plants you sent me last summer have proved a grand success. They were well grown 
plants, and the flowers have been charming ; I shall come again. 
, Edermine Rectory, Enniscorthy, Mar/ 4th, 1885. 
Mrs. Thompson received the plants on Saturday, for which she is much obliged ; they are very good 
in every way, and are quite fresn and strong. 
Mr. A. C. Martin, Moorliouse, Westerham, Kent, May Sth, 1885. 
The Dahlias ai-rived quite safely this morning, in excellent condition, looking as fresh as though 
they were only just packed. Thanking you for the excellent way in which you have executed 
my order. 
Thomas Johnson, Gardener, Cedars, Gravelly Hill, Birmingham, May Sth, 1885. 
I took first prize with the Dahlias I had from you last year, and lilcewise with Zonal Pelegoniums, 
cut bloom. 
Dr. W. H. Browne, The Laurels, Aldbrough, Hull, May 20th, 1885. 
Enclosed you will find amount due for your Floral Catalogue. It reached me last week, and having 
spent some houi-s in looking it over, I cannot hel[) but express my admiration for the way it has been 
brought out. It is truly a Floral Guide, pure and simple, and should be in the hands of everyone 
“ who loves a garden and loves a greenhouse too," as Cowper writes. 
J. Macparlane, Esq., Oxford, May 14th, 1886. 
Please aceept best thanks for the splendid lot of plants received to-day (all in good order), and also 
for your liberal treatment of my order. 
Cuskinny, Queenstown, May 22nd, 1885. 
Mrs. French begs to let Mr. Cannell know that she received the plants in excellent order, and that 
she is much pleased with them. 
Miss Baines, Fern Cottage, Palmer’s Green, Southgate, N., May 2Zth, 1885. 
Dear Sir — Pray accept my best thanks foryimr kindness in sending me such a lot of beautiful plants. 
They came in splendid condition, thanks to the excellent packing, there was not so much as a pot 
cracked nor a leaf bruised. 
H. S. Smith, Esq., 66, John Street, Barnsbury Park, June 2nd, 1885. 
I received your hamper last evening, I am very pleased with the contents, the plants ai-e in splendid 
condition, and the packing does you great credit. 
Mr. James Best, The Gardens, Easton Park, Wickham Market, Suffolk. 
I am pleased to say the plants arrived quite safe, entirely to my satisfaction. 
