it. Ciir|i]ell & Quide. 
A few Important words to all our 
Friends and Customers. 
'E are delighted to say that we possess the most select and extensive collection of 
ELOllISTS’ FLOWERS in the world. Commanding as we do as fine a 
site for a nursery as could possibly be obtained, with air thoroughly free 
from all the iminirities of town smoke, we are enabled to give our customers 
the benefit of vigorous, healthy, well-grown country plants, the importance of 
which cannot well be over estimated, especially if it be a desideratum to 
produce show flowers, or to attain perfection in their growth; whilst to those whose 
gree- houses 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 Flowers” is admitted to contain, at all seasons of the year, the 
finest and most complete display of flowers to be found, and it is one of the sights of London, to 
which all are welcome. 
The proximity of the rail to the nursery — the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Co. having 
their station in a corner of our grounds — is worthy of attention, as this line, being in immediate 
connection with all the others out of London, enables us to ensure rapid transit to all parts. 
We ourselves are passionately fond of flowers, and we find the greatest possible gratification in 
their growth ; we thus make it a hobby, and no pains or expense are spared to have nothing 
but the very best strains in cultivation, the result being certainly the most unique collection of 
plants in the world, and the largest stock in the trade. Our greatest pride is in the excellence 
of our flowers (for which wo 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 improvements effected by careful hybridising 
culture. 
As many as a hundred boxes by post leave Swanley some days, and strange and doubtful as it may 
appear, upwards of 400,000 labels are used yearly. The 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 
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them, and we promise that they shall not depart withont seeing soinethiug highly interesting. 
Althongh every care will be taken in the packing and sending of plants, seeds, &c., risk 
of every description must be borne by the purchaser immediately they are delivered 
■to the Railway Company. 
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