August 3, 
1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
767 
“RELIABLE SEEDS” 
FOR 
Summer and Autumn Sowing. 
DANIELS BROS. 
B EG to draw attention of their customers to their 
Choice Stocks of VEGETABLE SEEDS for 
Present Sowing, all of which have been selected with 
great care and discrimination. 
CABBAGE- 
Daniels’ Defiance Giant Early 
Marrow, the largest and best 
variety in cultivation... 
Ellam's Early Dwarf, very fine 
early kind 
Enfield Market, improved stock 
Tkt. 
s. d. 
0 C 
ONIONS 
Daniels’ Golden Rocca, grand 
new variety for exhibition ... 0 G 
Daniels’ Giant Rocca, large and 
fine; our true stock ... ... .— 
White Spanish .. 3s. 6 d. per lb. — 
White Lisbon .. .‘Zs. 9d. ,, — 
Daniels’ White Elephant Tripoli 0 6 
Oz. 
s. d 
1 G 
0 10 
1 0 
1 G 
DANIELS BROS., 
16,18, * 24, Eicliose St, SORWICH. 
SUTTON’S 
Roman Hyacinths 
NOW READY FOR 
IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. 
LAINC’S BEGONIAS. 
AWARDED FOUR GOLD MEDALS. 
A GREAT 
SPECIALTY. 
A GREAT 
SPECIALTY. 
NOW IN FULL BLOOM, 
Unequalled as a floral display. Visitors are 
cordially invited; free admission. Frequent 
trains from the City and "West End to Catford 
Bridge and Forest Hill Stations. 
Descriptive Catalogue post free. 
m 
BULBS 
EVERY BULB WARRANTED. 
ROB ERT^S Y DENHAM, 
NEW TENBY ST„ BIRMINGHAM, 
JOHN LAING & SONS, 
NURSERIES, FOREST HILL, LONDON, Sh 
SEEDS FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
-- Per oz. Per lb. 
CABBAG E. s. d. s. d. 
Barnes’ Norwich Market, the earliest. 10 7 6 
Barnes’ “ Great Eastern,” the largest.10 7 6 
ONION. 
Barnes’ Giant Rocca, the mildest . 0 9 6 0 
Barnes’ White Mammoth, the best white, 
6d. per pkt. 16 12 0 
THE EES® OXTAPITy ONEE, POSV TREE. 
Price Lists Gratis to all Applicants. 
m A B C! G 6 Years Managing Assistant 
■ Sim SAAAMA'1^9 with Daniels Bros.), 
THE “GREAT EASTERN" SEED STORES, 
9, EXCHANGE STREET, NORWICH. 
EADERS OF THE GARDENING 
WORLD who experience any difficulty in obtaining the 
paper at Railway Bookstalls, or through local agents, are 
respectfully requested to communicate with the Publisher, 
17, Catherine Street, Strand, W.C. 
The celebrated importer of Bulbs, will send his revised 
Pamphlet, “How I Came to Grow Bulbs,” and the 
cheapest Price List for reliable Bulbs ever issued, 
free on application. 
I can guarantee my best Bulbs to be the finest that come from 
Holland” and will undertake to replace, at half price next year, 
any which, with fair treatment, do not flower satisfactorily ; 
or any bulbs that are not perfectly satisfactory when received 
may be returned and the money refunded, as my great aim is to 
send out nothing but the best at moderate prices. 
White Roman Hyacinths, 2s. doz., 15s. 100; or 
a very grand sample, 2s. 6d. doz., 19s. 100. 
Ereesia refracta alba, the coming Flower of the Day, 
planted, in August, will bloom at Christmas, Is. doz } 
7s. 6d. 100 ; extra selected Bulbs, Is. 6d. doz , 11s. 100. 
I MAKE A SPECIALITY OF HYACINTHS. 
One dozen, first size and named, for pots or glasses, 4s. 
A splendid dozen, unnamed, for pots, 3s., for water, 3s. 6d. 
Capital second-size Hyacinths, quite equal to what are often 
sold as first size, 2s. 3d. doz., or 16s. 100. 
A choice collection of all the best Hyacinths for Exhibition 
purposes from 3d. to 8d. each. 
Splendid Bedding Hyacinths, Blue, 9s. ; Red, 13s. ; white, 
16s. • or mixed, all colours, 11s. per 100. 
Tulips will be dearer and scarcer this year, owing to the 
great increasei demand, but haying made very advantageous 
purchases, my prices will be but little above those of last year. 
I shall have a very select collection of Narcissi at reduced 
prices, and I shall have a grand lot of Scilla sibirica, Chionodoxa 
Lucilise, Snowdrops, Crocuses, Winter Aconites, Ixias, English 
and Spanish Iris, Ranunculus, Lilium Harrisi, &c., &c. 
A full list ready shortly, and sent post free on application. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW JEN BY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
THE ORCHID FLOWER HOLDER 
(patented). 
A useful invention for Orchid Growers and Floral Decorators. 
Price, per dozen , 3s. 9 d., post paid. 
TO BE HAD OF 
ALFRED OUTRAM, 
7, MOORE PARK ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, S.W. 
(gf Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, l§d .; three months, 
Is. S d. ; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, Ss. S d. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, August 5th.—Liverpool Horticultural Association 
Show. Mansfield Horticultural Society's Exhibition. 
Friday, August 9th.—Sale of Established and Impoited 
Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p.778. 
1 Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
¥ he Chiswick Vegetable Conference.— 
We are very desirous that our readers 
should bear in mind the coming Vegetable 
Conference which the Royal Horticultural 
Society purposes holding at Chiswick on the 
24th, 25th, and 26th of September next. 
Various flowers may have their particular sets 
of admirers, but vegetables are for humanity 
and know no denomination or sect horti 
culturally. For that reason it does seem 
natural that the conference referred to 
should receive at the hands of all vegetable 
growers, hearty welcome and assistance. The 
committee which has been charged with the 
arrangements, is not oblivious of the great help 
which the gardeners of the kingdom can 
render, and very cordially invites that help in 
a practical way. 
The schedules should ere now have been in 
the hands of the public, and it is not the fault 
of the committee if they are not, hut the Council 
exercises financial control, and sits heavily upon 
the arrangements. Still we can hardly doubt 
iut that ere this is read, the full programme of 
the proceedings of the conference will be in our 
readers’ hands. That there will be no difficulty 
in connection with the literary portion of the 
conference there can he no doubt; the papers 
are designated, the writers and readers have 
accepted, and so far all is plain sailing. The 
chief thing is to procure the exhibits, and it 
need hardly be said that for these the promoters 
look most hopefully to the gardeners, as they 
are not only the best cultivators, hut have at 
their disposal appliances for the production of 
samples, which are not universal. 
To them, therefore, the committee appeals 
warmly for help, to render the exhibition part 
of the conference a great success. We are 
having a remarkably fine vegetable season, 
samples, therefore, should be both plentiful and 
ood everywhere, and we hope to see them 
abundantly at Chiswick. 
Gardeners’ Gathering. —But whilst the 
Conference Committee looks hopefully to 
the gardeners for samples of their garden 
products, that body has not overlooked the 
provision of some sort of attraction in another 
direction. We learn that when the schedules 
are issued, it will be found that the Council of 
the Royal Horticultural Society has practically 
sanctioned the publication of an announcement 
that on one of the evenings of the conference a 
great gathering 
of gardeners for social and 
festive purposes will be held in London, which 
it is desired should he rendered so attractive and 
sociable, that gardeners generally should find 
special pleasure in taking part in it. 
Gardeners have few opportunities to meet 
collectively in large numbers. Even the annual 
feasts of the Benevolent and Orphan Funds 
afford small opportunities for gardeners to come 
together, especially those from the provinces. 
The Vegetable Conference will fall at a time of 
year when work is getting light, and calls upon 
urgent. 
The conference 
why gardeners 
O 
gardeners’ time less 
will also present good reasons 
from the country should come to London, hut 
the proposed social gathering, which will 
doubtless assume a festive aspect, will be an 
additional attraction. We want gardeners to 
realise that it is specially their festival, and that 
it is organised in their honour. We hope to 
find that the popular chairman of the con¬ 
ference, Mr. Harry J. Veitch, will he the 
chairman of the festival, and that it will he 
conducted on the most sociable and pleasant 
lines. 
Dinners, as a rule, are too heavy and stereo¬ 
typed ; we must, therefore, have a gathering less 
stiff and formal. We should like to see a 
hearty personal welcome given to every comer, 
plenty of opportunity for intercourse, a good 
dinner at moderate cost, plenty of bright music 
and songs ; few toasts and short pertinent 
speeches, and altogether a jolly gathering, minus 
a visit to Vine Street. Such will he, we trust, 
under efficient management, the outcome of 
the promised gardeners’ gathering. 
(Carnations. —In his admirable address upon 
® the Carnation and Picotee at the Drill 
Hall on the 23rd ult., Mr. Shirley Hibherd 
advanced the proposal that these plants pre¬ 
ferred a calcareous or dry soil. That may have 
been the experience of some growers, hut there 
is abundant evidence that they like a stiff loam. 
Wo. have seen thousands of plants half deluged 
