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THE GARDENING WORLD 
May 19, 1888. 
CONTRACTORS TO HER MAJESTY’S WAR DEPARTMENT. 
THE THAMES BANK IRON COMPANY, 
UPPER 
THE NEW HORIZONTAL 
TUBULAR BOILER. 
This Boiler is made in several sizes from 
6 ft. 6 ins. long, and is fitted with Water 
Bars, as shewn in annexed illustration. 
The Furnace Door being hung upon the 
front of Boiler, is complete in itself, thus 
ensuring the acme of simplicity in fixing. 
GROUND STREET, LONDON 
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Have the Largest and most Complete Stock in the Trade. 
Hot-Water and Hot-Air Apparatus Erected Complete, 
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Illustrated CATALOGUE, price Is. Price List on application Free. 
, S.E. 
CAST-IRON SADDLE BOILER 
WITH WATEB-WAY END, 
And every other Boiler of known 
Merit kept in Stock. 
HOT-WATER PIPES, COMCTIOHS, 
and all CASTINGS for Horticultural 
Purposes. 
WOOD & SON’S 
Horticultural Specialities, Orchid Peat, ^Manures 
WERE AWARDED 
CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 
IN 1S87-. 
W. W. & S.'s ORCHID PEAT-Special “Al” 
Quality—is used and recommended by all the leading 
Orchid Growers. Prices: Prepared ready for use, 9s. 6 d. 
per sack; ditto, turves, 7s. 6 cl ; ditto, per yard, 25s. 
W. W. & S.’s Celebrated Yellow Fibrous LOAM, 
Splendid Sample now on offer. Per sack, 3s. ; per ton, 16s. 
W. W. & S.’s VINE MANURE, ‘LE FRUITIER.” 
Prices: per ton, £17 10s. ; 10 cwt., £9 ; 5 cwt., £4 10s.; 
1 cwt., 19s. ; 56 lb.. Us. ; 28 lb., 6 s. ; 7 lb., 2s. 6(7. 
Condensed Farm-yard Manure, 7s. 6 d. per sack. 
Fertilising- Moss, bags, Is. and 2 s. 64 ; per bush., 7s. (id. 
Composts, special for Exhibitors of Chrysanthemums, 
Ferns, Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Lawns, Vines, Fruit, &c. 
Potato Manure, “ Success," for Exhibitors, 14 lb., 4s. ; 
cwt., 17s. 6 d. 
Liquid Manure Powder, the ‘‘Perfect Stimulant” for 
Pot-plants. Boses, Flower-beds, Strawberries, Vines, &c., 
per 7 lb., 3s. ; 14 lb., 5s.; £ cwt., 12s.; cwt., 21s. 
WOOD GREEN, LONDON, N. 
COCOA-NUT FIBRE REFUSE 
AT REDUCED PRICES. 
A -BUSHEL BAG, Is.; 10 bags, 9s.; 15 bags, 
fit 13s.; 20 bags, 17s.; 30 bags, 25s. Bags included. Truck 
load, free to rail, 25s. — T. BICH, Cocoa Fibre Works, 12, 
Bedman’s Boad, Mile End, London, E. 
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A Practical Farmers’Journal. 
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and published in Scotland, is read by almost every Scotch 
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Fries 34.5 by Fast, 244. 
Fast Fre© for Oa@ Teas. 14 s. 
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Sold by Seedsmen and Chemists, Is. 6 d., 2s. 6 d., & 4s. 6 d; 
\ gallon 7s. 6 d., 1 gallon 12s6d., or less in larger quantities. 
A Treatise on FIR TREE OIL as an INSECTICIDE, 
its application to Plants and Animals, sent Post free 
Glass Houses. HUGHES’ 
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Convenient, Inexpensive—Easily applied—Lasts all the 
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Wholesale: Hooper & Co.; Corby, Soper, Fowler & Co.; 
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The “Loughborough” 
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These celebrated Boilers have been still further improved for this season 
and are the most economical, cheapest, and easiest to manage of any boiler 
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Will burn over twelve hours without attention, the best fuel being coke and 
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Prices, Carriage Paid.— No. i,£2 12 s., No. 2, £4, No. 3, £5 10^ 
Also made in three larger sizes, heating from 50 to 1,000 feet of pipe. Dis¬ 
count allowed for cash with order. Perfect success guaranteed where our 
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CAUTION.— Beware of imitztions, 'which have had little or no practical 
test, professing to heat a larger amount of piping for about the same cost 
and avoid disappointment and loss. 
A Gold Medal (the highest award) has been awarded to us this 
year in open competition for general excellence in Horticultural 
Buildings by the Society of Architects. 
MESSENGER & Co„ LOUGHBOROUGH. 
CHEAP HORTICULTURAL GLASS. 
Packages and packing free, and delivered to any London Station 
100 squares of glass, quality guaranteed:— 
15 oz. 21 oz. 
13£ by 8 J for 10s. 0(7.. for 14s. 0 d, 
12 by 9 for 10s. 0 d.. for 14s. 0(7. 
12 by 10 for 11s. 04..for 15s. 6 d. 
14 by 10 for 13s. 04.. for 19s. 0 d. 
14 by 12 for 17s. 64.. for 24s. 0 d. 
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18 by 12 for 21s. 0d. .for 31s. Od. 
20 by 12 for 24s. Od. .for 35s. Od. 
Best linseed oil Putty, Id. per lb. Paints ready mixed for use, 
in tins of 1 lb. to 14 lbs., at 5d. per lb. Special quotations given 
for large quantities. 
Or 300 squares 15-oz. 8 by 
6 , or 250 squares 8 £ by 6 |, or 
220 squares by 65 , or 170 
squares 9 by 7j, or 150 squares 
10 by 8 for 10s. Glass ent to 
any size at the above propor¬ 
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Wholesale Lead and Glass Warehouse. 
14, Moor Lane, Cripplegate, LONDON, E.0. 
Gf f IliB’i 
MILLTRACK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Too well known to require descrip¬ 
tion. Price 6s. per bushel; Is. extra 
per bushel for package ; or 6d. per cake, 
free by Parcel Post, Is. None genuine 
unless in sealed packages, and printed 
cultural directions enclosed, with our 
signature attached. 
Wm. CUTBUSH & SON, 
NURSERYMEN it SEED MERCHANTS, 
EIQHGA'FEJ SfVSSBSSBS, 
LONDON, N. 
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22x16 
24x16 
20xlS 
22 x IS 
24x IS 
21-oz. Foreign of the above sizes, in 100 and 200 feet boxes, 
3ds and 4ths qualities, always kept in stock. 
A large stock of similar current sizes of 15-OZ. glass in 
2 oo Test boxes 
Propagating and Cucumber Glasses, and all Miscellaneous 
Glass Articles, can be obtained from 
GEORGE FARMILOE & SONS, 
GLASS, LEAD, OIL and COLOUB MEBCHAXTS, 
34, St. John Street, West Smitfifield, London, E.C. 
Stock List and Prices on application. 
SEVERAL THOUSAND PLANTS of the best and 
newest varieties. 
Send for Descriptive Catalogue with Cultural Instruc¬ 
tions, Post Free. 
Twelve first-class varieties, by name, post free for 3s. 
Eighteen varieties, post free for 4s. 
Choice Fancy Pansies, by name, 3s. per dozen, 
post free. 
W. DEAN, 
MILL LANE NURSERY, 
MADE WITH BOILING WATER. 
EPPS’S 
GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. 
COCOA 
MADE WITH BOILING MILK. 
Printed for the Proprietors by H. M. Pollett & Co., Fann Street, Aldersgate Street, E.C., and Published by Brian Wynne, at the Office, 17 Catherine Street, Co vent Garden, “ ^[^of S^^ul s, 
County of Middlesex, Saturday, May 19th, 1888-Agents for Scotland : Messrs. J. Menzies& Co., Edinburgh and Glasgow. Agents for Ireland: Messrs. Charles Eason & Son, Dublin and Belfast. 
