October 19, 1889. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
99 
WANTED. 
T ARGE PALMS and other DECORATIVE 
JL_J PLANTS in Exchange. 
To offer, 3,000 coloured DRACAENAS, in thumbs, well rooted. 
,, 2.000 coloured DRACdiNAS, in 3£-in. pots. 
All the Leading Varieties at Greatly Reduced Prices for Cash. 
Packages Free. 
THYME’S, Nurserymen, GLASGOW. 
JERSEY FRUIT TREES AMO ROSES. 
Carriage paid. Packed gratis. 
Strong healthy trees, the finest that money can buy. 
Roses wonderfully cheap. Cordons a speciality. Before 
ordering be sure to write for our Illustrated Catalogues. 
Joshua Le Cornu & Son, High View Nurseries. 
W. GORDON’S 
FIRST CONSIGNMENT OF 
LILiUNI AURATUM 
HAS ARRIVED, 
PRICES—4d„ 6d., 9d., Is., and Is. 6d. each. 
Pen 100, 30s., 35s., 45s., 55s., and 70s. 
Liberal allowance to the trade. Apply for Catalogue to 
THE NURSERIES, 
AMYAND PARK R0AD } TWICKENHAM. 
SPECIAL CULTUPE OF 
FRUIT TREES AND ROSES, 
A large and Select Stock is now offered for Sale. 
The Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits 
post free. 
The Descriptive Catalogue of Eoses post free. 
THOMAS RIVERS & SON, 
The Nurseries, SAWBRIDGEWORTH, HERTS. 
Lilies of t he Yaliey at C hristmas ? 
All who wish to have a good supply of the above in bloom by 
Christmas week, should order at once to ensure early delivery. 
To obtain reliable crowns, order direct of the grower. I offer 
the same at 5s. per 100, packing included, for cash with order ; 
cheaper by the 1,000 and 10,000. Orders are now booked for 
delivery early in November. 
T. JANNOCH, 
Li ly of the Valley Grower by Special Warrant to H.R.H. 
the Prince of Wales, 
DIRSINQHAM, KING’S LYNN, NORFOLK. 
FERNS A SPECIALITY. 
SPECIALLY LOW AUTUMN OFFER and 
Catalogue of about 1,400 Species and Varieties, free on 
application. 
Illustrated Catalogue , Is. 6d., post free. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, 
FERN NURSERY, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
DARWIN TULIPS 
New strain of single self-coloured Breeder Tulips, flowering in 
the middle of May, with extra large flowers, on stems of 3 to 4 ft. 
high, in the most brilliant and striking colours. (See Catalogue 
No. 430, pp. 23-24, and Catalogue No. 420). 
FIRST SELECTION, SECOND SELECTION. 
100 in 100 sorts, £10 3 4 100 in 100 sorts, £10 0 0 
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For Collections of 250, 500, and 1,000 Sorts, see the 
above Catalogues. 
Of these Tulips 720 varieties were planted last autumn in the 
Trocadero Park at Paris, and there flowering they were much 
admired last spring. 
To these Tulips were awarded at the PARIS WORLD 
EXHIBITION of 1889, 
A GOLD MEDAL, 
And besides, a GRAND PRIX (Diplome commimoratif 
personnel). 
As planting time is coming on, early orders are solicited. 
E. H. KRELAGE & SON, 
Nurserymen, Seedsmen, and Florists to His 
Majesty the King- of the Netherlands, 
HAARLEM, HOLLAND. 
QUESTIONS 
Addressed to Mr. S- Ryder, the 
Managing Partner of Ryder & 
Son, Sale, Manchester, intended to 
convey an idea of the style and 
advantage of our Rose business, &c. 
Do you soil many Rose trees?— We soil an 
immense number every year. I don’t think any firm 
distributes their Eoses more widely than we do. 
So you send any abroad ?—Most certainly; to 
all parts. Last spring, for instance, we sent a great 
case to H.R.H. Prince Bijet, in Siam. 
■Whom do you cater for in England ?—For 
private buyers. We lay ourselves out to serve amateurs 
and gardeners well, especially such as need flowers for 
exhibition. 
Do you succeed in pleasing your Customers ? 
—We sell more Eoses every year. That is a sufficient 
answer, is it not ? 
What special feature is there about your 
Eoses ?—They are grown to do well when the customer 
gets them. All the culture tends to make them 
healthy, hardy, and full of vitality. They are not fed 
with liquid manure, &c., to produce show flowers for 
us this year and no flowers at all next year for the 
customer. 
Will your Eoses do well-will they grow? 
—They will. I am not surprised at this question, for 
I am afraid many Roses do badly. I am confident in 
saying (so careful are we) that if Roses will do at all 
ours will. Buy my little hook, 7 d. post free. 
What is the special feature of your Col¬ 
lection ?—We don’t catalogue a long and bewildering 
list of sorts. We just select the best only—the cream. 
An amateur, therefore, can’t go wrong. He knows 
every Rose is a good one, and every good one is 
included. 
Do you offer many new Eoses?— We offer 
just a few. The number of bad kinds sent out as new 
and good kinds every year is one of the scandals of the 
trade. There are now between 400 and 500 different 
kinds of Eoses said to be new, and offered to the public 
as new. Not a dozen of these are really good ; all the 
rest will in a few'years be heard of no more. I always 
have spoken against the present system, and only offer 
those I know to be good. 
How do you decide which is a good now 
ROSO?— Let me see it excelling the old sorts at the 
shows. It must do this before it gets into our List. 
Do you take much trouble with your Hose 
Catalogue ?—I flo, indeed. It is the result of almost 
incalculable labour. At the shows, &c., I carefully 
look over all the kinds to find out which are doing 
well. My record of the winning kinds is simply in¬ 
valuable to exhibitors. It is published always in our 
Rose Catalogue. 
“What other {features of interest has your 
Collection ?—We have a very choice lot of old 
favourites—Roses one seldom meets with ; old-fashioned 
favourites that should not be lost. Our Catalogue is 
said to be very interesting. We sell a great number 
of pot Roses. 
You have a Booh on Eoses ?—Yes; ami it 
has done well. I am sure it has had the widest cir¬ 
culation of all popular Rose books ; 7 d. post free. 
RYDER tb SON assure the readers of The Gar¬ 
dening World that their exceedingly useful Catalogue 
will la sent post free with the greatest, pleasure to all 
who apply for it. Besides Roses, it contains offers of 
Fruit, Bulbs, etc., etc. Those who do not care to ask 
for the larger look may have a Catalogue of Roses alone, 
post free, with pleasure. 
Prices of Dwarf Roses from 5s. 6d. 
per dozen, carriage paid. 
Seed Merchants, &c., 
SALE, MANCHESTER, 
BULBS 
EVERY BUBB 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. 6d. 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. 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. ; Bed, 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 sibiriea, Chionodoxa 
Lucilife, Snowdrops, Crocuses, Winter Aconites, Ixias, English 
and Spanish Iris, Ranunculus, Lilium Harrisi, &c., &c. 
A full list now ready, 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. 
Next Week’s Eng-ag-ements. 
Monday, October 21st.—Bulb Sale at Protheroe & Morris’s, and 
Stevens’ Booms. Sale of Orchids at Shawbury Hall, East 
Dulwich, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Tuesday, October 22nd. — Boyal Horticultural Society: 
Meeting of Committees at 11 a.m. Lecture on Pears by Mr. 
Wildsmith at 3 p.m. Sale of the late Mr. Partington's 
Orchids at Clieshunt. Sale of Lilies at Protheroe and 
Morris’s Booms. 
Wednesday, Oct. 23rd.—Annual Dinner of the United Horti¬ 
cultural Benefit and Provident Society at the Cannon Street 
Hotel, at 6 p.m., N. N. Sherwood, Esq., in the chair. 
National Chrysanthemum Society: Meeting of Floral Com¬ 
mittee ta the Aquarium. Sale of Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s, and Stevens’ Booms. 
Thursday, October 24th.—Sale of Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Booms. 
Friday, October 25th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Booms. 
Saturday, October 26tli.—Salt s of Bulbs at Protheroe & Morris’s, 
and Stevens’ Booms. 
11 Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.’’— Bacon. 
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1889. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
7eTHE Cbystal Palace Fbuit Show.— The 
^ superb quality found in the hardy fruits 
shown at the Crystal Palace last week gives 
the exhibition a special claim upon our notice. 
The show bore ample evidence that in relation 
to both Apples and Pears, but with the 
former especially, we are going ahead. Any 
attempt to sit upon the determination of the 
trade to increase varieties must inevitably 
fail of its effect, because nothing is more 
evident than that new varieties, or fine old 
varieties resuscitated, will come to the front, 
let who may complain of the redundancy of 
lists. But' so far as old kinds on the one 
hand, or distinct new ones on the other, are 
concerned, we find no inferior ones; indeed, 
the whole tendency of the Apple movement 
is to force bad sorts out of cultivation by 
putting better and finer ones into the hands 
of growers, 
