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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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The Best of the Season. 
WEBBW 
RELIABLE 
NOVELTIES 
For Descriptions and Full Particulars see 
WEBBS’ 
SPRING CATALOGUE. 
Beautifully illustrated with five coloured plates and 
hundreds of engravings, post free, Is., which may he 
deducted off subsequent orders. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen and 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
“ LOUIS BCEHMER,” 3s. Gd. each. Offered cheaper than by 
any other firm. 
“MRS. ALPHEU3 HARDY” IMPROVED, Is. 6 d. each. 
See our new Catalogue for “Special Prizes” offered for these 
two varieties, now ready, free on application. Most complete 
collection of Best Varieties known. Cheapest in the trade. 
PITCHER &MANDA, The United States Nurseries, 
HEXTABLE, SWANLEY, KENT- 
EXONIAN PEA, 
A FIRST-EARLY WRINKLED MARROW, of finest 
flavour, and very productive. The NOVELTY of 
the SEASON. 
ROBSRT TWITCH & SQH, 
QUEEN’S SEEDSMEN, iS E E R , 
And of the principal seodsmen throughout the Kingdom. 
2s. Gd. per pkt. (f pint). Trade price on application. 
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 
SE’E-SS. 
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. 
BOWSS SS-E-DS. 
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, hut 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, 
TOT TENHAM, LON DON. 
Mention this paper in apply ing for Catalogue. 
SEEDS. 
THE BEST PROCURABLE. 
LISTS Free on Application. 
RICHARD Sim & Co., 
Seed Merchants, 
WORCESTER. 
CHOICE NOVELTIES 
Of Proved Excellence. 
VETO'S NEW MELON, 
SION HOUSE. 
THE FINEST OF THE SEASON. 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society, 1890. 
A superb new and distinct scarlet-fleshed Melon, producing 
handsome, highly coloured, and beautifully netted fruit. The 
flesh is very solid, thick, rich, and melting, of exquisite 
flavour and delicate aroma. 
Pen packet, 3s. 6d. 
VEITCH’S NEW TOMATO, 
HAM GREEN FAVOURITE. 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society. 
Maintains its high reputation as the handsomest and 
heaviest cropping Tomato. Quality and flavour unsurpassed, 
and is the variety held in highest esteem/or profit at Chiswick. 
Per packet, Is. 6d. 
VEITCH’S CHELSEA GEM 
J? IS 
First Class Certificate Royal Horticultural Society. 
The earliest dwarf wrinkled variety, and a much larger 
cropper than any other dwarf sort. Of splendid table quality. 
Particularly suitable for forcing and for very early use. 
Per packet, 3s. 6d. 
For full descriptions of the above and other Choice 
Seeds , see CATALOGUE for 1891, forwarded post 
free on application. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, 
CKSLSEA, LONDON, S.W. 
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 aDd 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 BE FvEPLACED FREE. 
TERMS:—STRICTLY CASH with order from unknown 
correspondents ; references given if required. 
All Flower Seeds sent post free; all general seed orders over 
lCs. carriage paid ; orders over £3, 5 per cent, discount; orders 
over £5, 10 per cent, discount. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street } Birmingham . 
TheLIVERPOOLHORTICULTURALCo. 
(JOHN; COWAN), limited, 
OFFER AS FOLLOWS:— 
finsnr l/IUICO A fine stock, consisting of all ilia 
LsfirtrL VlIrStQii leading kinds, both in Fruiting and 
Planting Canes. 
"FEA A fme stoc D consisting of the best 
8 EbUwEOi varieties. The plants are clean, 
healthy, and vigorous. 
FERNS. A great variety, and at low prices. 
STOVE and GREENHOUSE PLANTS m great 
variety, and all clean and healthy. 
ALL AT MOST REASONABLE PRICES. 
Catalogues free, on application to the Company. 
THE VINEYARD cmcl NURSERIES, 
__ SARST01T, near LIVERPOOL._ 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
12 NEW JAPANESE EARLY-FLOWERING Varieties, 
the Finest Set ever Offered, 1 cutting each, 6s.; 
2 each, 10s. 
Ask for quotation of any variety wanted. CATALOGUE free. 
H. J. JONES,KyecroftNursery,Lewisliam, 
Three SILVER MEDALS Awarded during the past Season. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, January 19th.—Special Sale of Bulbs and Lilies at 
Protlieroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Wednesday, January 21st.—Sale of Lilies at Protlieroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, January 23rd.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protlieroe 
& Morris's Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 318. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
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SATURDAY JANUARY 17th, 1891. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
ady Professional Gardeners. — A dis¬ 
tinctly amusing, as it certainly is an 
harmless idea, is that of Mrs. Richmond, of 
Clare House, Tiverton, who proposes to estab¬ 
lish a school' for the training of ladies as 
gardeners. We have yet to learn that there 
is in practical gardening very much which 
women can do better than men, whilst so far 
as all experience goes we are equally sure that 
there is much which men for many reasons 
can undertake far better than women can. 
Doubtless our lady enthusiasts, who see in 
practical gardening a fair field for the display 
of women’s worth, have crude notions of what 
gardening really is, and regard it as a sort of 
beer and skittles existence, where all is 
sweetness, and light and beauty devoid of all 
roughness, hardship, or difficulty. A year’s 
course as a student in any garden, performing 
the same work as men, except “ trenching 
and digging,” would soon undeceive any 
woman, and convince her that in embarking 
in a gardening career she had sadly mistaken 
her vocation. 
Possibly some of these enthusiasts believe 
that gardening consists only of gathering fruits 
and flowers, dressing vases, making up bou¬ 
quets, and arranging conservatories, &c. That 
they can have any idea of what it is in reality 
we beg leave to doubt, hut if they have, is it 
not kind of these fair ones to wish to abstract 
from gardening all its most pleasing features, 
and leave all the rough work—the labour, 
anxiety, worry, and exposure—to the sterner 
sexi Of that division we cannot, of course, 
approve. If women will have the sweets of 
horticulture, they must also do the trenching 
and digging, the watering and the mowing, the 
firing and the making up of liot-beds and 
Mushroom-beds—all Cherry Blossom and Attar 
of Roses this !—in fact, take on everything 
