March 14, 1891. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
441 
WEBBS? 
SHOW PANSY. 
Per packet, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d., post free. 
From Mr. CLARK, gardener to tlie Marquis of Ripon.— 
“ Webbs' Show Pansy is a very fine strain, producing beautiful 
flowers in great variety." 
WEEKS’ 
BOXES OF FLORAL GEMS, 
Containing Choice Assortments of Seeds of Beautiful Flowers 
FOR THE GARDENS OF LADIES & AMATEURS. 
2/6,5/-, 7/6,10/6,15/-, & 21/- each. Post free. 
"Webbs’ Spring 1 Catalogue, post free, Is. 
Abridged Edition, gratis and post free. 
1891 SEASON 1891 
I have much pleasure in announcing that my complete 
Catalogue of VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS is now being 
distributed to customers, ana may be had post free and gratis 
upon applieatim _ 
SEEDS. 
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. __ 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
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 8. WARE, 
Hale Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
Mention this paper in applying for Catalogue. 
IN LI BERAL. COLLEC TIONS 
OR AT F AIR PRICES FR OM LIST 
catalogue freest- 
BEN. SODDY. SEEDSMANS, 
243, WALWORTHR° LONDON 
NEW 
POTATOES 
For 1891. 
THE GENTLEMAN. 
THE AMATEUR. 
THE COTTAGER. 
Awarded Certificates of Merit for Beauty, Heavy 
Cropping, and Table Quality, Great Vegetable Con¬ 
ference, Royal Horticultural Society. 
Each, per 14 lbs., 5s. ; per 7 lbs., 3s. 
These three splendid new varieties are confidently recom¬ 
mended for their superb table quality and extraordinary heavy 
cropping. They were selected as the best from fifty-six 
varieties raised from teed of Covent Garden. Perfection x with 
Reading Russet ; they partake of the good qualities of the 
parents, but are more r obust and very much more productive. 
In our trial grounds last season, and also under ordinary field 
culture, they yielded exceptionally heavy crops of good-sized 
tubers, and proved desirable acquisitions. 
For full description of the above and other Choice 
Novelties , see SEED CATALOGUE for 1391, for¬ 
warded gratis and 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. If any doubt the quality of my seeds 
because of the low prices, they will do well to give me a portion 
of their order, and test them for themselves against any 
others. ' 
MY ORIGINAL GUARANTEE. 
(Such as never offered by the Trade). 
A-XjX. BULBS which fail under fair and proper treatment 
WILL BE REPLACED AT HALF PRICE. ALL 
SEEDS from which a fair proportion fail togerminate under fair 
and proper treatment WILL BE REPLACED FREE. 
TERMSr STRICTLY CASH with order from unknown 
correspondents ; references given if required. 
All Flower Seeds sent post free; all general seed orders over 
10s. carriage paid ; orders over £3, 5 per cent, discount; orders 
over £5, 10 per cent, discount. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
riMIE COMMITTEE of the GARDENERS’ 
1 ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION invite appii- 
cations for the vacant post of SECRETARY, from Gentlemen 
who will be able to devote the whole of their time to the 
interests of the Institution. 
Applications must be made by letter only, giving full par¬ 
ticulars of Antecedents, Age, and Salary required, addressed to 
“THE COMMITTEE," 
__ 50, Parliam ent Street, S. W. 
'VTARC1SSUS POETIGUS (Pheasant Eye 
4* White Lily). Several thousand bulbs to be lifted, 9s. 
per ljCCO, 5s. per 500, 3s. per 250 (less order not executed), 
cash.— REN WI CK, Cardross, N B. 
F ERNS ! FERNS ! FERNS !—Cheap trade 
offer, in 20 most saleable sorts, Stove and Greenhouse, 
Pteris, Adiantums, Polystichums, Polypodiums, Cyrtorniums, 
&e., in small 60’s, at 12s. per 100. Adiantum cuneatum, in 
2 £-in. pots, good for potting on, 16s. ; selected, 20s. 100. ; good 
stuff, in 48’s., 50s. 101 Store Ferns, Cs. per 100 ; 50s. 1,000. 
Packing free, cash with order.—J. SMITH, The London Fern 
Nursery, Loughborough Junction, S.W. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, March 16th.—Sale of Carnations and Hardy Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Tuesday, March 17th.—Flower Show in the Manchester Town 
Hall. Sale of the Rawdon Hill Orchids at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, March ISth.—Royal Botanic Society's Spring Show. 
Bath Bulb Show (2 days). Preston and Fulwood Horticul¬ 
tural Society’s Spring Show (2 days). Sale of Lilies, Plants 
and Roses at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. Sale of Plants, 
Roses, Shrubs, &c., at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Friday, March 20th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Saturday, March 21st.—Crystal Palace Sirring Show. Sale of 
Plants, Rosts, &c., at Stevens’ Rooms. 
For Index to Contents, see p. 450. 
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man." —Bacon. 
SATURDAY , MARCH lfth, 1891. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
(Harden Appliances.— The display of subjects 
of a horticultural kind, other than vege¬ 
table, now on view at the Crystal Palace, and 
of which we gave a resume, last week, affords 
conclusive evidence of the interest which all 
that is horticultural excites outside of the 
region of the cultivator. Practically, it would 
seem as if the art of the cultivator was hut a 
nominal one as compared with the importance 
which attaches to the development of all 
descriptions of horticultural accessories. After 
all, whether we may agree to this suggestion or 
not, we could do little without appliances. We 
need greenhouses of every kind, frames, pits, 
hand-lights, tools, pots, soils, manures, water 
pots, rollers, mowers, fumigators, and the pro¬ 
verbial hundred-and-one things which in these 
days of scientific as well as of mechanical 
gardening seem to he absolutely needful for 
horticulture. 
Our progenitors managed somehow with 
fewer wants, but then their gardening was 
very crude, and hears indifferent comparison to 
what gardening is to-day. Really it seemed as 
we looked over the numerous articles displayed 
at the Crystal Palace, as if we had lived some¬ 
what in ignorance, and did but then realise 
how numerous and pressing our wants were. 
Our buildings are of the crudest sort, our 
heating power of the least satisfactory, our 
manures only of the coarsest and least effective, 
and our pots only fit to he broken into crocks 
wherewith to furnish drainage for the newer 
and improved pottery so very abundantly fur¬ 
nished and attractive in appearance. As to 
insecticides and similar compounds, there comes 
over us a horrid desire to destroy thrips ancf 
aphis wholesale rather than to endure their 
tormenting, presence for one hour longer, there¬ 
fore every new and improved agent for their 
destruction is purchased and utilised. Really, 
all who visit the Palace will agree in thinking 
that the show there, is, so far as gardeners’ 
wants are concerned, a valuable object lesson. 
