September 7, 1889. THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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MY 
BULB CHIDE 
IN TWO PARTS, 
FOR 
1889 
IS NOW READY. 
P AR T I, 
Contains a first-class selection of HYACINTHS, 
TULIPS, CROCUS, ANEMONES, RANUN¬ 
CULUS, IXIAS, SPARAXIS, FREESIAS, 
SCILLAS, AMARYLLIS, BEGONIAS, and a 
great many other families too numerous to mention. 
The Catalogue is profusely Illustrated, and all the 
plants fully described and priced. 
In addition to above, will be found a most useful 
selection of 
HARDY PERENNIALS 
FOR AUTUMN PLANTING, 
Also collections of HELLEBORES, HEMERO- 
CALLIS, ASTERS, HEPATXCAS, and many 
other useful families. 
FORGING PLANTS 
In great variety- SPXRiSAS, LILY OP THE 
VALLEY, SOLOMON’S SEAL, DEUTZIAS, 
and many other well-known plants 
PART II, 
Contains a grand collection of 
NARCISSUS, LILIES AND 
IRIS, 
Probably the most complete in existence. This is also 
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED, and the Catalogue 
is full of useful information as to soil, situation, adapt¬ 
abilities, &c., in addition to most accurate descriptions 
of each plant enumerated. 
M Y 
TREE AND HERBACEOUS 
Paeony Catalogue 
Is also issued with the above, and contains every 
variety worthy of cultivation. It contains a beautiful 
COLOURED PLATE 
OF 
P^onyAnomala Hybrida, 
A new single variety of special merit. 
TREE CARNATIONS. 
My collection of these is unique, and the plants 
I am now offering are marvellously strong, and will 
produce an IMMENSE QUANTITY OF BLOOM 
during the AUTUMN and WINTER. 
Thos. 8. Ware, 
Hale Farm Nurseries, 
TOTTENHAM, LONDON 
WEBBS’ 
EARLY FORGING- 
F LOWER R OOTS 
BO31 AN HYACINTHS — 
Early White, selected roots .2s. per doz. 
Ditto .15s- Per 100. 
FINEST NAMED HYACINTHS .. 6s. to 12s. per doz. 
POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS — 
Double Roman .. .. .. 3c£. each, Is. 6 d. per doz. 
Paper White.3d. each, Is. 6 d. per doz. 
EARLY TULIPS— 
Due Van Tliol, single, scarlet and yellow, 9 d. per doz., 5s. 100. 
Ditto double ditto 8 d. per doz., 3s. 6d. 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. 
LAINC’S BEGONIAS. 
AWARDED FOUR GOLD MEDALS. 
A GREAT 
SPECIALTY. 
A GREAT 
SPECIALTY. 
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 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. lOO. 
Freesia refracta alba, the coming Flower of the Day, 
planted now, will bloom at Christmas, Is. doz., 7s. 6d. lOO ; 
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 increase 1 demand, but 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 
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 TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
NOW IN FULL BLOOM. 
Unequalled us 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. 
JOHN MIN© & 
NURSERIES, FOREST HILL, LONDON, S.E. 
ORCHIDS 
Nest Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, September 9th.—National Chrysanthemum Society: 
Meeting of General Committee at 7 p in. Sale of Dutch 
Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Wednesday, September 11th. — National Chrysanthemum 
Society’s Show at the Westminster Aquarium : Floral Com¬ 
mittee meeting at 2 p.m.; Conference at 4 p.m. Brighton 
Autumn Fruit Show. Derby Horticultural Exhibition. 
Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society's Autumn Show and 
Plum Conference at Edinburgh. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 
Autumn Flower Show (three days). Trade Sale of Plants at 
P. Ladds’, Swanley, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Thursday, September 12th.—Continuation of Exhibitions at the 
Westminster Aquarium, Derby, Edinburgh, and Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne. Trade Sale of Plants at Gregory & Evans’, by 
Protheroe & Morris. 
Friday, September 13th.—Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Saturday, September 14th.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. __ 
FO R I N DEX T O CONTE NTS, S E E P, 12. 
fsais&5»ss OF 
Healthy, Well-Established Plants 
AT YEFY FEASONABLE PRICES. 
Large Specimen Orchids a Speciality. 
My collection of Specimen and Half Specimen Stove and 
Greenhouse Plants stands unrivalled. 
PRICE LISTS FREE ON APPLICATION TO 
JAMES CYPHER, 
Erotic Hurseries, CHELTENHAM. 
DUTCH 
AND ALL OTHER 
HYACINTHS, TULIPS, CROCUSES, 
SNOWDROPS, NARCISSI, LILLIES, &c. 
IN GREAT VARIETY. 
ZS’Best Qualities only. !2s*Prices most moderate. 
Disciijilive Priced t atalejuc (IVo. 
POST PREP, ON APPLICATION. 
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^ Seed Establishments 
(Limited), 
ROSES in POTS. 
All tlie 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. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
pfHE National Dahlia Exhibition. —Lovers 
of the fine old flower, which some critics 
will call lumpy and formal, but which florists 
love for its beauty none the less, will find 
a grand display of Dahlias at the Crystal 
Palace on the 6th and 7th, Friday and 
Saturday of the present week. Unlike the 
poor Roses, which on the occasion of the 
visit of the Shah to the Palace early in July, 
collapsed utterly under the influence of the great 
heat, Dahlias may he looked for in all their 
fine form and exceeding beauty on the second 
day as on the first. They are really autumn 
flowers, almost always more beautiful in 
September than during any other month. 
So far as recent seedlings show, we fear 
the haters of formalism in flowers will he 
angered to learn that the development is 
rather in the greater perfection of form and 
outline than in any other way. The Cactus 
Dahlias even, once so much admired because 
of their quaint appearance, pointed petals, and 
to some extent irregular outlines, are more 
