January 10, 1891. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
291 
The Best of the Season. 
WEBBS’ 
RELIABLE 
NOVELTIES 
For Descriptions and Fall Particulars see 
WEBBS’ 
SPRING OATAL0GUE. 
Beautifully illustrated with five coloured plates and 
hundreds of engravings, post free, Is., which may be 
deducted off subsequent orders. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. ihe Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
1891 SEASON 1891 
I have much pleasure in announcing that my complete 
Catalogue of VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS is now being 
distributed to customers, and may be had post free and gratis 
upon application. _ 
YSSEfASlB SEESt, 
To this department I purpose devoting, as much care as I 
have done in the past to Flower Seeds. Every variety I am 
offering is of most reliable worth, and from the very finest 
stocks procurable. 
FIQ'l BR ilEDS, 
These have for many years received special attention at 
Tottenham. This portion of my New Catalogue will be found 
specially interesting, for not only does it include everything 
usually offered and worthy of cultivation, but it includes also 
many NEW and RARE varieties, and which will be found in 
this Catalogue only. This remark applies particularly to Seeds 
of Hardy Perennials. 
THOMAS S. WARE, 
Hale Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
Mention this paper in applying for Catalogue. 
SEEDS 
THE BEST PROCURABLE. 
LISTS Free on Application, 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Seed Merchants, 
WORCESTER, 
CHOICE NOVELTIES 
Of Froved Excellence. 
STREPTOCARPUS, 
NEW HYBRIDS. 
Beautiful Greenhouse Plants, remarkable for their abun¬ 
dance of bloom, which are produced for about four months in 
the summer and early autumn. The flowers, which are very 
graceful in form, are trumpet shaped and of rich, strikiug, 
and varied colours. 
Per packet, 2s. 6d. 
VEITGH’S NEW IASTER, 
EMPRESS, CRIMSON & WHITE 
These two magnificent varieties of a new type of Aster, 
introduced by 11 s, have given unbounded satisfaction, and 
elicited admiration from all who saw them, their size, sub¬ 
stance, and beauty far surpassing all other sorts. 
Crimson, per packet, Is. 6d. 
White, per packet, Is. 6d. 
CARNATION, MARGUERITE. 
Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society, 1890. 
A new race of Clove-scented Double Carnations, flowering 
the fiist year, of various bright rich colours. Sow in Feb¬ 
ruary or March for flowering in August and September. 
Highly decorative and excellent for cutting. 
Per packet, Is. 6d. 
Yeitch's Seed Catalogue 
For 1891 
Mas now been posted to all their Customers. Anyone 
not having received the same, a duplicate copy will 
immediately he forwarded post free on application. 
JAMES VEITGH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, CHELSEA, S.W. 
IF YOU WANT 
REALLY GOOD SEEDS, 
APPLY TO 
Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Of the firm of Sydenham Brothers, Wholesale Jewellers, 
THE GREAT AMATEUR BULB IMPORTER. 
ALL SHOULD READ MY 
UNIQUE SEED LIST 
Before purchasing this year's supply of Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds, sent Post Free on application. The List has 
been carefully revised, and contains Novel and Unique 
ideas which cannot fail to be of interest to all Amateurs. It is 
not a long list, containing every vegetable and flower seed to be 
found in most catalogues, but a select list that has been made 
up from the advice of the largest and best trade and amateur 
growers in the country. The term '’packet" being very mis¬ 
leading, I have, where possible, given the measure, weight, or 
about number of seeds in each packet, so that my friends can 
compare them with what they buy elsewhere. My Stock of 
Seeds will be of the latest growth and choicest strains, for I have 
paid extra prices in nearly all cases to have extra selected seeds 
of very choice strains. The prices, considering the quality, 
will be found the cheapest in the country ; and the packets, as 
a rule, will contain many more seeds than are usually put in the 
same priced packets. 
MY ORIGINAL GUARANTEE. 
(Such as never offered by the Trade). 
ALL BULBS which fail under fair and proper treatment 
"WILL BE REPLACED AT HALF PRICE. ALL 
SEEDS from which a fair proportion fail to germinate under fair 
and proper treatment WILL E 51 REPLACED FREE. 
TERMS STRICTLY CASH with order from unknown 
correspondents ; references given if required. 
All Flower Seeds sent post free; all general seed orders over 
ICs. carriage paid ; orders over £3, 5 per cent, discount; orders 
over £5, 10 per cent, discount. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
SUTTON’S 
r> o Y r 7 T? 
gloxinias. 
A Superb strain, producing flowers with unusual 
freedom, brilliant, varied, and rich in colour. 
“The noble show of Gloxinias of Messrs. Sutton & Sons, 
of Reading, must be noted. If it were a question cf 
beiuty only, no Orchid surpasses these superb plants as 
Messrs. Sutton have developed them. They are perfect 
in form, and splendid in colour.’’ — St. James’s Gazette, 
May 29th, 1S90. 
Price of seed, 5/- and 2/S per pkt., post free. 
SUTTON’S 
PRIZE 
BEGONIAS. 
Saved from the richest and most varied flowers 
grown in our immense collection. 
“ The Begonia seed turned out splendidly. The colours 
were from the purest white to the darkest crimson, with 
twenty flowers (5 ins. across) on a plant, and more on 
some of them. The strain is perfection.”—Mr. J. 
WILLIAMS, Gardener to Colonel Mansell. 
Price of seed, 5/- and 2/6 per pkt., pest free. 
See article on “Gloxinias and Begonias at 
Reading’’ in GARDENING WORLD, Dec. 27,1890. 
utton’s Seeds 
GENUINE ONIY FROM SUTTON S SONS,READING. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, January 12th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris's 
Rooms. 
Tuesday, January 13th.—Royal Horticultural Society: 
Meeting of Committees at 12 o'clock. 
Wednesday, January 14th.—Sale of Lily Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, January 15th.—Gardeners' Royal Benevolent 
Institution ; Annual Meeting at Simpson's at 3 p.m. 
Friday, January Kith.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p, 302, 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 th, 1891. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
Seedsmen’s Orders. —The severe weather has 
given such a cheek to garden work both, 
in private and nursery establishments, that 
ample opportunity has been afforded to make 
out seed lists, and get them attended to. It is 
too much the rule on the part of those need- 
in o seeds to leave the ordering of these 
necessities until the spring is near, and when 
seedsmen are tried to the utmost to fulfil 
their requirements. A number of orders sent 
in during hard weather would be gladly. 
hailed, because giving needful work at a 
slack time, and relieving work at a busy 
period. 
Nurserymen have had to endure fully a 
month or longer of idleness, as work out in 
the ground was out of the question, and trans¬ 
planting of trees and .shrubs equally impossible. 
