February 11, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
371 
WEBB & SONS 
THE QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE, 
WEBBS’ 
WORDSLEY 
WONDER 
PEA, 
3s. BEB, QUART. 
Mr. W. IGGULDEN says— 
“ It is the best novelty in the 
way of Peas.” 
Mr. R. GILBERT says— 
* c It is calculated to suit the 
million.” 
Mr. W. INGRAM says— 
11 The 1 IVordsley Wonder ’ is 
altogether a very good Pea.’ 
The “Gardeners’ Chronicle” 
says — 
“ Of great productiveness and 
good constitution.” 
WEBBS’SPRING 
CATALOGUE, 
Post free Is. Abridged 
Edition gratis and post free. 
All Seeds Delivered Free. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
QTROXG ROOTS, 4s per 100. Plants in 
IO small pots, 16s. per 100 : ditto in large pots, 25s. per 100. 
Descriptive LIST free.—RICHARD SMITH & Co. Nurserymen 
and Seed Merchants, Worcester. 
Write for Dr. Voelcker’s Report, Pamphlet, Testimonials, and 
Instructions how to apply 
JENSEN’S 
Every grain fertilises because the Guano is perfectly pure. It is 
a most economical Manure, 1 part to 100 parts of soil being ample 
for any plant. 
FISH-POTASH 
FISH-POTASH contains Ammonia, Phosphates, and Potash in 
large proportions, which are the principal elements of fertili¬ 
sation. 
GUANO. 
PRICES 2-lb. Tin, Is. ; 7 lbs., 2s. ; 14 lbs., 4s.; 
28 lbs., 6s. 6d. ; 56 lbs., 10s. 6d.; 1 cwt., 16s. ; 
2 cwt., 80s. ; Bags free. Special Terms for 
large quantities. 
CHEAPEST AND BEST. ANALYSIS GUARANTEED. 
J, JENSEN & CO., Limited, 
109, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C. 
FRUIT TREES, 
SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES. 
Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, 
and other Fruit Trees, as Standards, Dwarfs, Pyramids, Bushes, 
Cordon, and Trained Trees in great variety. 
VINES, excellent canes, 3s. 6d. to 7s. 0 d. ORCHARD-HOUSE 
TREES in POTS, Peaches, Apricots, Nectarines, &c., from 5s. 
Figs from 3.s. 6 d. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST, containing a sketch of the various 
forms of Trees, with Directions for Cultivation, Soil, Drainage, 
Manure, Pruning, Lifting, Cropping, Treatment under Glass ; 
also their Synonyms, Quality, Size, Form, Skin, Colour, Flesh, 
I Flavour, Use, Growth, Duration, Season. Price, &e., free by post. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
VOIOEITIS, 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
HARDY PERENNIALS, 
FLORISTS’ FLOWERS, Etc. 
I have very much pleasure in announcing that my new 
CATALOGUES of the above and other Plants are now 
ready, and are being issued to my regular Customers, 
and may be had gratuitously and post free upon appli¬ 
cation. 
HARDY PERENNIALS. 
The present season’s edition of this Catalogue has 
been prepared with an unusual amount of care, and 
contains almost every known Hardy Perennial of really 
sterling worth, either as a plant adapted specially for 
cutting, or as a decorative subject in pots, iu the 
borders, or in beds, and must certainly be admitted to 
be the most complete Catalogue of Perennials ever 
published. It is embellished with a number of 
thoroughly well - executed Engravings, representing 
many of the specially meritorious and new Plants. 
Several of the Engravings have been expressly prepared 
for the work in question. It also contains very complete 
collections of 
THE 
BEST MELON. 
(SCARLET-FLESH.) 
CARTERS’ 
BLENHEIM 
ORANGE. 
Takes all the Leading Prizes. 
— Vide Awards. 
Price, in sealed packets, 1/6, 
2/6 & 3j6 per pkt., post free. 
Royal Seedsmen by Sealed 
Warrants. 
M HIGH HOLBORN, 
LONDON, W.C. 
S eeds. — richard smith & Co, 
Worcester, beg to draw attention to the Low Prices of in¬ 
dividual articles (Peas especially), and the liberality of the 
Collections at Fixed Prices, as set forth in their Illustrated 
SEED LIST, which will be sent free on application. All Seeds, 
&c., are of the test possible quality. 
G arden and flower seeds, 
SPRING BULBS, &c.—C. G. VAN TUBERGEN, Junk., 
Haarlem, Holland. Wholesale Catalogue now ready, and may 
he had free on application to Messrs. R. SILBERRAD & SON, 
25, Savage Gardens, Crutched Friars, London, E.C. 
HARDY ORCHIDS, AQUATIC & BOG PLANTS, 
CAILLARDSAS, SUNFLOWERS, POPPIES, 
IRIS, LILIES, BAMBOOS, 
F/EOilES (TREE a HERBACEOUS). 
These are offered in the varied Catalogues, and go to 
constitute one of the most complete collections of 
these really interesting and practically indispensable 
Flowering Plants ever offered. I was awarded, last 
season, several First Class Certificates for new varieties. 
HARDY FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
EA-KALE ROOTS—Fine, strong, two-year- 
old, for forcing or planting, 12s. per 100; for larger 
quantities special price given.—FREDK. MATYEAR, Cross¬ 
lanes Farm, Woking, Surrey. _ 
POfx IA PRIZES.—Exhibitors Mould 
& (J send for T. Laxton’s List of upwards of 100 Novel¬ 
ties and Specialities in Vegetables and Flowers, the best only, 
selected for quality and exhibition ; with particulars of Prizes. 
T. LAXTON, Seed Grower, Bedford. 
Bones! Bones!I Bones!11 
/CRUSHED BOXES in all sizes for Vine 
\A borders, lawns, potting, grass lands, &c. ; also Bone 
Meal for poultry feeding, Garden Guano, Dissolved Bones, and 
Special Manures for all purposes. For prices, apply to 
HARRISON, BARBER & Co. (Limited), Garratt Lane, 
Wandsworth, Surrey. 
This catalogue is one of the most complete and correct 
of its kind, containing every variety of real merit, 
including Carnations, Picotees, Delphiniums, 
Pansies, Pyrethrums, Phloxes, Pentstemons, 
and several other families. Twelve pages of Novel¬ 
ties belonging to the families enumerated are also 
included. The catalogue is thoroughly complete, well 
illustrated, and contains abundant cultural notes. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
My colletion of this family is one of the most complete 
in Europe. Every variety which is really worthy of 
cultivation is included—many varieties are offered in 
some catalogues which are really valueless, they will 
not be found in the catalogue referred to. It extends 
to twenty pages of really first-class sorts, all fully and 
correctly described, and is accompanied by a well- 
executed litho of a new late-flowering golden yellow 
variety, named CrOVemor Of &uernsey which I have 
much pleasure in offering this season for the first time, 
and which I am sure is destined to become the most 
popular of late-flowering varieties for cutting or for 
decorations. 
HARDY CLIMBERS 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, February 13th.—National Chrysanthemum Society: 
Meeting of General Committee at 7 p.m. Clearance Sale of 
Nursery Stock at Todman’s Nursery, Eltkam, by Protheroe 
& Morris. 
Tuesday, February 14th.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meet¬ 
ing of Fruit and Floral Committee at 11 a.m.; Annual 
General Meeting of Fellows at 3 p.m. Birmingham Gar¬ 
deners’ Improvement Society: Mr. Guthrie on “Alpine 
Plants.” Sale of Roses, Plants, &e., at the City Auction 
Rooms, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, February 15th.—Sale of Roses, Fruit Trees. &c., at 
Stevens’ Rooms. Sale of Japanese Lilies at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, February 16tli.—Special Sale of Orchids in Flower, 
at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, February 17th.—Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, February lStli.—Sale of Roses, Fruit Trees, &c., at 
Stevens’ Rooms. Sale of Plants, Roses, &c., at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Are grown at Tottenham upon a most extensive scale. 
My annual sales of this section now reach prodigious 
proportions. Large quantities of Ampelopsis, Jasmines, 
Clematis, "Wistaria, &e., are grown. 
HARDY FERNS. 
My collection of these has recently been very consider¬ 
ably extended, and now can fairly claim to be a com¬ 
plete and representative one of Hardy British and 
American Ferns, and is a catalogue well deserving 
the attention of all who are interested in this useful 
class of plants. 
HARDY PRIMULAS. 
I hold a very extensive collection of these, which 
includes every variety claiming any real usefulness, 
amongst which are many beautiful Indian and other 
forms. 
Copies of any of the above Catalogues may be had upon 
application. 
THOMAS S. WARE, 
HALE FARM NURSERIES , 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1888. 
The Royal Horticultural Society. —Our 
readers will probably have observed, appended 
to the notice which appeared in our adver¬ 
tising columns last week, of the annual general 
meeting of the Fellows of the society to he 
held on Tuesday next, the unusual postscript 
“this is an important meeting.” Xot only is 
the meeting one of unusual importance, because 
its action may be productive either of new 
life to the society or of its early destruction, 
but it may also he the last similar meeting held 
at South Kensington ; and thus, apart from 
all other considerations, would have some 
historical interest. We are not sure, having- 
regard to the evil influences which South 
Kensington has from the first shed upon the 
fortunes of the society, whether this latter 
consideration is not after all the most impor¬ 
tant, because it is obvious, whatever may be 
the opinions of some whom we respect, that 
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