March 21, 1891. 
THE GABDENING WORLD 
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BEST SORTS 
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WEBBS’ 
SUTTON’S 
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COLLECTION 
m POTATOES 
CONSISTING OF 
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. 10 FLORISTS. First Class Suburban 
1 Business Illness sole reason for disposing. The finest 
Shop and most important position in the Neighbourhood. 
J. W., Office of this Paper. 
FFERS WANTED for GRAND LOT of 
_ Greenhouses, Garden Frames, Hand-lights, Poultry 
Houses, Dog Kennels, &c. Above will be sold very cheap. All 
new, Painted, Glazed and Fixed if desired. Also a lot of Choice 
Seeds and Bulbs, of Lilies, &c. f very cheap. — M., S, Waterloo 
Place, Kew Green, Surrey. 
F ERNS ! FERNS ! FERNS !—Cheap trade 
offer, in 20 most saleable sorts, Stove and Greenhouse, 
Pteris, Adiantums, Polystichums, Polypodiums, Cyrtorniums, 
&c., in small GO’S, at 12s. per 100. Adiantuin euneatum, in 
2 J-in. pots, good for potting on, 16s.; selected, 20s. 100. ; good 
stuff, in 4S's , 50s. 101. Store Ferns, 0s. per 100 ; 50s. 1,000. 
Packing free, cash with order. — J. SMITH, The London Fern 
Nursery, Loughborough Junction, S.W. 
A RECA SAPID A or A. BATJ ERL A magni¬ 
ficent specimen over 10 ft. high, in a tub, for Sale. Apply 
to Mrs. G. G., Harley House, Bow, London, E. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, March 23rd.-Sale of the Ghyllbank Collection of 
Orchids by the Liverpool Horticultural Co. Sale of Lilies, 
and Perennials at Protlieroe & Morris’s Rooms, 
Tuesday, March 24th— Royal Horticultural Society: Meetin 
of Fruit and Floral Committees at Twelve o’clock. Sale of 
Orchids in Flower at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, March 25th.—Sale of Lilies, Plants, Roses, &e., at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
MATCHLESS BRUSSELS SPROUTS, 
It is very early, of robust growth, and covered the entire 
length of the stem with compact sprouts of supeiior flavour, 
which are very tender when cooked. Unequalled for general 
use and exhibition purposes. 
6d. anil Is. per packet ; Is. 6d. per oz.; post free. 
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1891 SEASON 1891 
I have ranch 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 
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 S. WARE, 
Hale Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON. 
Mention this paper in applying for Catalogue. 
MOST SUITABLE FOR 
SHADING ORCHIDS, FERNS 
L. M 
AND 
STOVE & GREENHOUSE PLANTS 
It is a strong, durable Cotton 
Netting, woven in squares 
so close as to exclude the 
direct rays of the sun, 
hut admitting the 
greatest amount 
of light attain 
able through 
shading. 
It with? 
stands the 
weather better 
than any other 
class of Shading, 
and may be benefi¬ 
cially used, on account 
of the thickness of its tex¬ 
ture, during cold weather to 
keep the frost out. The leading 
Orchid and Plant Growers in 
the country have used this material 
for some years, and speak very highly 
of it, pronouncing it to be the very best 
material for Plants they have ever used. 
Bl i nds made up and fixed complete. 
Sold in pieces, 30 yaids long by H yards wide, 
price 40s. each. Samples submitted gratis. 
B. S. &L SON, 
Vic oria& Paradise Nurseries, UPPER HOLLOWAY, LONDON,N 
Sent Carriage Free on receipt of remittance. 
Sutton’s Seeds 
GENUINE ONLY FROM SUTTON X SONS,READING. 
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 
o-rowers in the country. The term “ packet being very mis- 
feading, 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 ot 
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 pi ices, 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). 
ALL BULBS which fail under fair and proper treatment 
WILL BE REPLACED AT HALF PEICE. ALL 
SEEDS from which a fair proportion fail to germinate underfair 
and proper treatment WILL BE 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 
10s. carriage paid ; orders over £3, 5 per cent, discount; orders 
over £5, 10 per cent, discount. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
New Tenby Street, Birmingham. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the great st 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY , MARCH 21st , 1891. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
ow Fares the Roses'? —Evidence as to the 
-Y effects of the hard weather upon Rose 
trees and hushes seems to be of a rather con¬ 
flicting nature, because some find their stocks 
comparatively unharmed, whilst others have to 
deplore wholesale destruction. We can hut 
sympathise with those whose losses are con¬ 
siderable, because such loss is serious and 
not readily replaced. Naturally all plants 
well above ground have suffered most, and 
those again in low-lying situations or where the 
soil is strong and naturally moist. Further, 
all the Tea section, comprising the tenderest 
wooded of Roses, have suffered much more 
than have the hardier perpetuals, so that 
once again the perpetuals, though lacking- 
perfume, have scored a point in the matter 
of endurance. 
Even yet it is hard to tell how much or 
how little of harm may have been done. It 
is probable that so far as all autumn-budded 
dwarfs are concerned they are safe enough. 
The buds were of course well beneath the 
snow line, and should have escaped: that 
being so we may reasonably hope that there 
will ° he no lack of fine blooms exhibited 
durino- the ensuing summer. If standards 
are the worst hit and dwarfs have appreciably 
escaped, few perhaps except those whose loss 
is irremediable will repine, because standards ^ 
are at the best an abnormal and far from 
elegant method of growing Roses, are really 
going out of favour, and largely the harm 
done° them by the recent winter will help to 
give them a sort of coup do grace. Roses 
need suffer nothing in popularity because of 
a passing injury. . 
On tire whole, most Roses are fairly hardy 
and do very well some five years out of 
every six at least, so that for the sake of an 
occasional misfortune we will not decry such 
beautiful favourites. What the winter has 
killed can soon he replaced, and in a year or 
so all the losses may be not only made good 
