August 24, 1889. 
THE GAKDENING WORLD- 
815 
WEBBS’ 
EARLY FORGING 
F LOWER R OOTS 
ROMAN HYACINTHS— 
Early White, selected roots .2s. per doz. 
Ditto .15s. per 100. 
FINEST NAMED HYACINTHS .. 6s. to 12s. per doz. 
POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS— 
Double Roman .3d. each, Is. 6 d. per doz. 
Paper White.3d. each, Is. 6 d. per doz. 
EARLY TULIPS— 
Due Van Thol, single, scarlet and yellow, 9 d. per doz., 5s. 100. 
Ditto double ditto 8 d. per doz., 3s. 6<i. 100. 
WEBBS’ BULB CATALOGUE. 
Beautifully Illustrated, and containing complete 
cultural instructions. 
Now ready, Gratis and Post Free. 
Seedsmen by Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen 
and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
M1LLTRAGK MUSHROOM SPAWN. 
Too well known to require descrip¬ 
tion. Price 6s. per bushel; Is. extra 
per bushel for package; or 6d. per cake, 
free by Parcel Post, Is. None genuine 
unless in sealed packages, and printed 
cultural directions enclosed, with our 
signature attached. 
Wm. CUTBUSH & SON, 
NURSERYMEN 4 SEED MERCHANTS, 
NTTTASSKIEa, 
LONDON N. 
SEEDS FOR PRESENT SOWING. 
_ • Per oz. Per lb. 
C A B B A G EE - 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, 
6 d. per pkt. 16 12 0 
gESS omtlTr QSSE.1T. POST FRRE, 
Price Lists Gratis to all Applicants. 
J Vr. ^3 A VvYC! (16 Tears Managing Assistant 
. J&S. with Daniels Bros.), 
THE “GREAT EASTERN” SEED STORES, 
9, EXCHANGE STREET, NORWICH. 
G reenhouses.— Span-roof complete, 
with Ventilators, Irons for opening, half-glass door, 
Staging, all glass, &c., &c. Made in sections so that they can 
he erected by any handy man in a few hours. 7 by 5 ft., 56s. • 
9 by 6 ft., £4 ; 12 by S ft., £6 ; 15 by 10 ft., £8 8s. ; 20 by 10 ft., 
£11 10s.; 25 by 10 ft., £17. Any size or shape made. Strong 
Garden Lights, painted and glazed. 3 by 4 ft., 6s. 6d. ; 6 by 4 ft., 
9s. each, packed and put on rail. For illustrations of above and 
prices of Lean-to’s, J-Spans, Conservatories, Cucumber Frames, 
Summer-houses, Poultry-houses, Saslibars, and Glass, send for 
List, post free. Good, sound, well-seasoned materials only used. 
Estimates for every description of horticultural building. 
Plans, &c., free. 
W. COOPER, 101, Shandy Street, Mile End Road, London, E. 
The New 
P LANT COLLAR. 
No more Pot-hound 
Plants. Beale’s New Imper¬ 
ishable Terra Cotta Metal Ex¬ 
panding Plant Collar for ex¬ 
tending the Rooting Space in 
Flower Pots without Re-pot¬ 
ting. This Collar is invaluable 
for Tomato Plants in pots, 
Pot Vines and Fruiting Trees, 
Roses, &c., and also for large 
pot-hound Stove Plants, 
Palms, Chrysanthemums, and 
all other plants that require 
surface feeding. It fits any 
size and shape of pots. All 
sizes, from 6 to 12 ins., kept 
in stock ; any other sizes cut 
to order, per instructions. 
For 6-in. pots, 4s. 6 d. per do 2 .; 
8-in.,5s.perdoz.; 10-in., 5s. 6 d. 
Carriage paid.—Sole Manu- 
Southgate, London, N. 
ROSES in POTS. 
All the best New and Old English and Foreign sorts, 
from 18s. to 36s. per dozen. 
Descriptive List free on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Nurserymen and Seed Merchants, 
WORCESTER. 
EVERY HUES WARRANTED. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY ST„ BIRMINGHAM, 
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 he 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. 64. doz., 19s. 100. 
Freesia 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 dozeD, 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 increase! demand, hut having 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 
Luciliie, Snowdrops, Crocuses, Winter Aconites, Ixias, English 
and Spanish Iris, Ranunculus, Lilium Harrisi, &c., &e. 
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 TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
S unflowers, double perennial, 
TWO VARIETIES.—The numerous customers throughout 
the British Isles that had from Cork the “Double Quilled 
form ” now in flower should at once state through the press the 
gross imposition that has been practised on them by me in 
sending them “ as new " a plant that was so exceedingly common 
in England. A note from Chester, Kew, York, Glasnevin, Lang- 
port, and Tottenham, through the press, should certainly stamp 
me as an impostor, and it will have the effect of frustrating the 
further sale of such a worthless plant. A box of magnificent 
blooms, post free for six stamps, will he in further condemnation 
of WM. BAYLOR HARTLAND, Seedsman, Cork. 
Terms of Subscription. —Post free from the office to any 
part of the United Kingdom, one copy, ljd.; three months, 
Is. 8 d. ; six months, 3s. 3d. ; twelve months, 6s. 6d. Foreign 
Subscription to all counties in the Postal Union, Ss. Sd. per 
annum. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, August 26th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris's, 
and Stevens’ Rooms. 
Tuesday, August 27th.—Royal Horticultural Society : Meeting 
of Committee at the Drill Hall. 
Wednesday, August 28th.—Bulb Sale at Stevens’ Rooms. 
Thursday, August 29th —Ludlow Flower Show. Bulb Sale at 
Protheroe A Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, August 30th.—Sandy Flower Show. Sale of Orchids in 
Flower at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, August 31st.—Bulb Sale at Stevens' Rooms. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
SSThe Vegetable Conference at Chiswick.— 
At length the revised schedule of the 
committee having charge of the arrangements 
for this conference lias been put into circulation, 
and as our readers will note in our advertising 
columns, copies may be had at once on ap¬ 
plication to Mr. Barron. Being most anxious 
to see this conference a real success, we 
strongly urge our readers to obtain them at 
once, and then set to work and see how far 
it will he possible as well as convenient for 
them to take part in the conference by sending 
or, better still, bringing up their best products 
to Chiswick for exhibition. We are having 
a good vegetable season, and good samples of 
the main season or autumn vegetables should 
be abundant. 
The proposal to hold a big gardeners’ dinner 
and reception in connection with the con¬ 
ference has also been cordially adopted, both 
by the Council of the Royal Horticultural 
Society and the committee, and a sub-com¬ 
mittee lias been appointed to carry it out. 
Mr. H. J. Veitch will preside, and the dinner 
will lie held at the Cannon Street Hotel on 
the first evening of the conference. The 
price of the dinner ticket will be 5s., con¬ 
sequently, a large gathering may be expected, 
and it will be well for all proposing to 
attend to make an early application for 
tickets, as the space available is not unlimited. 
Every gardener attending will not only 
meet with a hearty welcome from his fellows, 
hut with a special personal welcome from the 
chairman and other of the leading metro¬ 
politan horticulturists, so that no one will find 
himself a stranger amongst strangers, hut 
rather amongst friends. This gardeners’gather¬ 
ing should make with the conference the 
horticultural event of the season. 
'W’egetable Nomenclature.— A serious task 
v has been set to the committee charged 
with the supervision of the Chiswick Vegetable 
Conference. One of the objects of that 
conference is to revise nomenclature so far 
as to give to every vegetable, if possible, its 
original or correct name. At one of the 
meetings of the committee held recently a 
resolution was passed that in determining 
names, priority of origin of introduction shall 
be followed as far as possible. That resolution, 
it will be seen, is prominently placed at the 
head of the schedule of selection as a guide 
to those undertaking that responsible duty. 
We do not know how far a record of the 
original names of vegetables has been kept 
at Chiswick, but it is obvious that unless 
some such record is to be found, endless 
trouble may arise to judges or members of 
committees in determining matters so subject 
to dispute. 
Whatsoever course may be taken at the 
conference, and we hope to see the above 
resolution strictly adhered to, yet it is certain 
that few, if any, will adopt its spirit later and 
amend their nomenclature. Of course, the 
conference is in no way hound by that. It 
is the duty of the committee just as if no 
such thing as the seed trade or its irrelevant 
methods of naming vegetables existed. 
The honour of raising or of introducing any 
good vegetable should be placed on the right 
shoulders, whilst if the variety be not good 
no one need be anxious to obtain a dubious 
honour. The carrying out of this matter 
firmly and rigidly should lend great additional 
interest to the conference proceedings; and 
gardeners, and indeed all classes of exhibitors, 
might do much to assist the committee by 
giving all information they may possess in 
regard to the names of their exhibits. 
STiie Chiswick Tomatos.— Although there 
were many objects of interest at the 
Drill Hall meeting on the 12th inst., yet for 
once—in spite of a beautiful array of flowers— 
fruits in the shape- of Tomatos may be 
said to have taken the cake. The plants 
from Chiswick, sent up by Mr. Barron, were 
superbly fruited and rich in colour, because 
of the wealth of gloiving red fruits each one 
carried. The new variety, miscalled Chiswick 
Hybrid, for no cross products of varieties of 
the same species can he hybrids, is a first- 
rate kind, having the merit of carrying less 
lengthy clusters of fruit than Horsford’s 
Prelude, one of its parents, of having rather 
finer and deeper coloured samples, as also of 
finishing up more fully. Everybody interested 
in Tomatos should now see the house devoted 
