September 21, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
85 
WEBBS 
FREE BY 
POST 
OR RAIL. 
BULBS 
FOR GREENHOUSE DECORATION. 
Collection A, containing 461 Bulbs 
B, „ 262 
C, 
D, 
E, 
F, 
207 
134 
96 
60 
s. d. 
Price 42 0 
.i 21 
„ 15 
„ 10 
„ 7 
5 
FOR GARDEN BEDS, BORDERS, &c. 
M, containing 2,923 Bulbs. 
. .. Price 
105 
0 
N, 
1,909 „ . 
63 
0 
o, 
1,286 ,, . 
42 
0 
p, 
680 „ . 
21 
0 
Q, 
424 „ . 
15 
0 
R, 
315 „ . 
10 
6 
s, 
203 „ . 
7 
6 
T, 
V 
114 „ . 
* * V 
5 
0 
£ per 
cent. 
Discount for 
Cash. 
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. 
JERSEY FRUIT TREES AND ROSES. 
Carriage paid. Packed gratis. 
Strong healthy trees, the finest that money can buy. 
Roses wonderfully cheap. Cordons a specialite. Before 
ordering be sure to write for our Illustrated Catalogues. 
Joshua Le Cornu & Son, High View Nurseries. 
THE ORCHID FLOWER HOLDER 
(patented). 
A useful invention for Orchid Growers and Floral Decorators. 
Price,per dozen, 3s. 9d., postpaid. 
TO BE HAD OF 
ALFRED OUTRAM, 
7, MOORE PARK ROAD, FULHAM, LONDON, S.W. 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
The finest, most varied, choice, and interesting collection in 
the Trade. 
1,400 species and varieties of Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy 
Ferns. 
Partially descriptive Catalogue free on application. 
Illustrated Catalogue (No. 21). containing 120 illustrations, 
and much valuable information on the cultivation of Ferns, 
Is. 6d., post free. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, 
FERN NURSERY, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
cursusE's 
MILLTRACK 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 t SEED MERCHANTS, 
HIGHOAfF, STOKSSKEES, 
_ LONDON N. 
BULBS for EARLY FORCING. 
18 
7 
7 
Perdoz Perl 
WHITE ROMAN HYACINTHS, first quality 
Bulbs, carefully selected.2 
NARCISSUS, PAPER WHITE.. i 
DOUBLE R01YIAJ1 .. .. 1 „ 
LIL1UM HARRISII (Bermuda Easter Lily).—Our direct i 
portation from Bermuda of this charming pure white L 
enables us to offer gTand Bulbs, in the best possible condith 
at extraordinarily low prices. Fine selected, 7s. per dozi 
50s. per 100 ; extra fine selected, 7 to 9 ins. in circumferen 
10s. per dozen, 75 s. per 100. Potted now, will be in bloom 
Christmas and the New Year. 
Descriptive CATALOGUE of Dutch and other Bulbs 
Post Free on application. 
RICHARD SMITH & Co., 
Merchants, WORCESTER. 
BULBS 
EVERY iBUIrli 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 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. 61. doz., 19s. 100. 
Freesia refracta alba, the coming Flower of the Day, 
planted now, 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. dcz., 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 increased 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, Liiiuni Harrisi, &c., &c. 
A full list now ready, and sent post free on application. 
(Pi.ease Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
P URE WOOD CHARCOAL, specially pre¬ 
pared for Horticultural use. Extract from The Journal 
of Horticulture :—“ Charcoal is invaluable as a marmrial agent; 
each little piece is a pantry full of the good things of this life. 
There is no cultivated plant which is not benefited by having 
Charcoal applied to the soil in which it is rooted.” Apply for 
pamphlet and prices to the manufacturers—HIRST, BROOKE & 
HIRST, Leeds. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, September 23rd.—Bulb Sales at Stevens’, and Protheroe 
& Morris’s Booms. 
Tuesday, September 24th.—National Vegetable Conference at 
Chiswick : Opening proceedings at 1 p.m., Dinner at the 
Cannon Street Hotel at 6 p.m. 
Wednesday, Sept. 25th.—Vegetable Conference at Chiswick, 
commencing at 2 p m. Bulb Sales at Stevens’, and 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, September 26th.—Vegetable Conference at Chiswick, 
commencing at 2 p.m. Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
Friday, September 27th.—Sale of Mr. Bonny’s Orchids at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Saturday, September 2Sth.— Opening of the International Fruit 
Exhibition at Ghent. Bulb Sales at Stevens’, and Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. 
For Index to Contents & Advertisements, see p. 46, 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
i 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
|&he Vegetable Conference.— Just one last 
word calling attention to this gathering, 
which takes place at Chiswick on Tuesday 
next, and the two following days. We have 
been told by a gardener in a contemporary 
that the Royal Horticultural Society is popular 
with the gardeners of the kingdom, and rve 
hope that may prove to he so in this particular 
case, for, as we have all along held, the success 
or otherwise of the Vegetable Conference 
depends upon the support—or the want of 
it—received from the gardeners. We may, 
however, point out to any who may not yet he 
quite decided in mind on the matter, that if they 
do not love the society, at least they need 
not visit its sins upon the shoulders of the 
Conference Committee, because each member 
of that committee is either a gardener himself 
or fully entitled to the confidence of the 
gardeners. 
Every member of the committee is working 
for the success of the conference from pure 
love of horticulture, and for that reason alone, 
if others were lacking, merit hearty support. 
But we are assured that although the con¬ 
ference is not one of prize competitions, and 
offers to gardeners none of those inducements 
which are expected at ordinary flower show's, 
yet is it conceived in pure singleness of purpose 
for the good of gardening. So far as vegetables 
and their culture is concerned, the fact that 
no special encouragement whatever is offered 
to traders, but that all exhibits come into 
the same classes or sections and on the same 
footing, show's that a fine spirit of fairness 
animates the committee, and that there are no 
partialities. 
Gardeners just now should be resting some- 
what after the labours of the summer, and 
should be able to spare a day or tw'o for the 
conference, and W'e believe with fine weather 
they will have every opportunity to spend 
a pleasant and, we hope, a very profitable 
time. 
Ikhe National Chrysanthemum Conference. 
—Mr. W. Holmes, as chairman of the 
conference on Chrysanthemums, held in St. 
Stephen’s Hall, Westminster, last week, made 
the pertinent observation that the day had 
passed for questions as to the value of con¬ 
ferences, for it w T as more generally understood 
that beyond mere exhibitions horticultural 
societies felt that through conferences valuable 
work w'as to he accomplished. It cannot he 
doubted hut that this observation is strictly 
correct, and we hope to see it widely adopted. 
The recent conference rvas a case in point, 
for it succeeded in obtaining from the veteran 
raiser and grow'er, Mr. W. Piercy, a paper 
which but for the conference might never 
have been written. With great knowdedgo 
he summed up the history so far as is known of 
the early-blooming section of the Chrysanthe¬ 
mum, and the large number of grow'ers and 
others present listened to the aged writer 
with great attention and respect. 
In relation to this matter it was to be 
deplored that so able a grower of show flowers 
of the section as Mr. Blackburne w r as not 
present to enlighten the conference as to the 
methods w'herehy he succeeds in securing from 
Madame Desgrauges as well as from C. 
Wermig, blooms which vie in size and quality 
with those of Madame Lacroix and other fine 
varieties at the November shows. We may 
well hope to see some other growers producing 
such grand flow'ers from early bloomers next 
year. To many grow'ers probably early bloomers 
come of especial value for cutting purposes 
as they do to Mr. Turton (see p. 39), but if to 
be exhibited there can he no reason why the 
flowers staged should not be of the finest 
the plants will produce. The experiences of 
the National Chrysanthemum Society fully 
justify the holding of conferences, and we 
hope to see them extended at future exhibitions 
in London as also in connection with provincial 
societies. 
^The Auction Sale Season.— We are right 
into the midst of the great plant and 
nursery Auction Sales, and by hundreds of 
thousands Heaths, Lems, Genistas, Tree 
Carnations, Bouvardias, Roses, Clematises, and 
myriads of other plants are being disposed of 
at the hammer. It is not at all a marvel 
how these vast quantities are produced, indeed 
they form hut a moderate portion of the great 
army of plants annually produced in trade and 
market establishments. The wonder is rather 
what becomes of them, for to some bourne 
from whence few return they must eventually 
go. Doubtless, countless thousands of plant 
