January 25, 18 ( J0. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
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all seeds warranted. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY ST„ BIRMINGHAM, 
the celebrated amateur importer of bulbs. 
Having been continually solicited by a large number of my Bulb 
friends to keep a select stock of the best and most reliable 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds, I have decided to do so. 
“ Quality before Quantity ” being my “motto,” I shall 
spare no expense to get the very best strain of every variety 
offered in this list, and send out all fresh new seeds of the latest 
crrowth. The majority, if not nearly all ordinary Seedsmen say 
they will not be responsible for the failure of any Seeds. I 
cannot guarantee there shall be no failures, but as the best 
guarantee it is possible to give of my wish to sell only genuine 
Seeds, I will undertake to replace, free of charge, any Vegetable 
or Flower Seeds from which a fair proportion fail to germinate 
in due course, uuder fair and proper treatment, or which do not 
come true to name. 
I stall not confuse my friends with a long list of six or eight 
hundred varieties of Flower Seeds, but confine myself to about 
two hundred varieties that will be satisfactory to purchaser as 
well as seller. In Vegetable Seeds, I contend that few want 
more than six or eight varieties of Peas, three or four sorts of 
Cabbage or Broccoli, two or three of Carrots, one of Parsnips, 
and so on, and where the list is much increased, it often contains 
names manufactured to suit a particular locality, or selected 
stocks of old varieties slightly improved under new names. As 
a proof of this, I have often heard of two or three so-called 
varieties of Seeds being taken from the same bag or drawer. 
One gentleman in the trade went so far as to tell me, in his cata¬ 
logue were four varieties of Parsnips, but all were taken from 
one bag. 
TERMS, strictly cash with order from unknown correspon¬ 
dents ; references given if required. 
All Flower Seeds sent post free ; all general Seed Order" over 
10s. carriage paid ; Orders over £3, 5 ptr cent, discount; Orders 
over £5, 10 per cent, discount. 
My “UNIQUE SEED LIST," entered at Stationers’ Hall and 
Copyright, is the most original and useful List ever published 
for amateurs. It contains only the most select varieties of 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds in cultivation, and gives full cul¬ 
tural directions. This List was sent, post free, to all my Bulb 
friends about the middle of December. To all new applicants 
the price will he OcZ., but this may be deducted from the first 
order of 5s. or over. 
Choice Primula, Calceolaria, Carnation, and Picotee 
Seeds will be of a specially good strain. 
Best white Raffia Fibre, 6 d. per pound. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
FOR PLEASURE and PROFIT. 
PDHiT Nothing so profitable and easy to grow. 
rnUi 1 ■ 74 Acres in Stock. 
See Catalogue for simple Instructions and hinds of 
Trees to suit all soils. 
0 Cl Q 1= Q 20 Acres. 
IIUO LUi Bushes, 8 s. per doz. ; 60s. per 100. 
Packing and carriage free for cash with order. 
ROSES IN POTS from 15s. per dozen. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES. —91 Acres. 4 Acres of 
Glass. 
CLEMATIS (80,000), 12s., 18s. and 24s. per dozen. 
SEEDS & DULDS. W“£™! ow r 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST FREE, 
RICHARD SMITH & Co. 
WORCESTER. 
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Gratis Post Free. 
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Letters received lately : — 
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derful success with your seeds." 
ased with the collection.” 
BEN. 
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243, WALWOR 
SODDY, 
eedsman, 
TH ROAD, LONDON, S.E. 
The BEST CARROTS 
For Exhibition and General Use. 
SUTTON’S 
EARLY GEM 
Was first offered by us in 1885, and has become not only 
a general favourite, but indispensable where a large 
supply of Early Carrots is required. It is perfectly 
distinct, oval in shape, quality excellent, and flesli 
very tender, with almost an entire absence of core. 
On the exhibition table it has competed with con¬ 
spicuous success at the Loyal Horticultural and other 
great Shows, and again carried off a large number of 
First Prizes in 1889. 
“ From you! Early Gem Carrot Seed I had some of the finest 
Carrots I ever saw; they look perfect models.”—M r. JOS. 
PRIDAY, Littledean. 
Price of Seed, Is. 3d. per oz., post free. 
SUTTON’S 
NEW RED INTERMEDIATE, 
By far the best type of Intermediate Carrot yet 
offered. The skin is a clear bright red, and the flesh 
very close in texture, with little core. Its extremely 
handsome appearance gives it a special value for 
bunching, and as an Exhibition Carrot it has no 
equal. 
“The best Carrot I ever grew; very close in texture, and 
first class for exhibition. — Mr, C. BROOKS, Gardener to 
H. A. Simonds, Esq. 
Price of Seed, Is. per oz., post free. 
GENUINE ONLY FROMSUTTON&SONS,READING 
Next Week's Engagements. 
Monday, January 27th.—Annual Meeting of the National Chry¬ 
santhemum Society. Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, January 29th.—Sale of Lilium auratum Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. Sale of Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, 
&c., at Stevens' Rooms. 
Thursday, January 30th.—Sale of Orchids and Japan Lilies at 
Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, January 31st.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris’s 
Rooms. 
Saturday, February 1st.—Sale of Trees, Shrubs, Bulbs, &c , 
at Stevens’ Rooms. 
For Indexto Contents & Advertisements, see p. 334. 
“ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”—B acon. 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1890. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
-t^histle Seeds. —A case which reads amusing 
's) enough, but, all the same, shows that a 
mass of Thistles next door to one’s garden 
is no joke, came into the Loughborough 
County Court last week, when the plaintiff, a 
retired solicitor named Giles, recovered £3 
from the defendant, a farmer named Walker, 
who through gross neglect had allowed a 
mass of Thistles to grow and seed on his 
ground, and thus flooded his neighbour’s 
garden with seed, to his great harm .Although 
the amount awarded was not large, still it is 
satisfactory to find a court of law ready to 
admit that under such circumstances the 
injured person is entitled to damages. 
To have as a neighbour a grossly neglectful 
person who allows his land or garden to 
become a perfect nest of weeds, the seeds 
from which arc wafted long distances, and 
in that way become a source of serious 
annoyance to others, is indeed an evil which 
only those can realise who are so placed. 
The law clearly establishes the fact that 
whatever right a man may have to do as he 
likes with his own, lie may not create a 
nuisance to others, and to the worker in 
the soil the neighbourhood of a foul field 
or garden is indeed a nuisance of the 
gravest kind. 
Bad enough indeed is often the condition 
of the sides and ditches bordering upon 
rural lanes and highways, but this state of 
things is almost always due to the bad 
administration of farmers and others charged 
with the maintenance of roads, and who 
are themselves the injured ones. But the 
near presence of any big mass of weeds 
seeding, and especially of the Thistle order, 
is productive of so much evil that strong 
measures are needed to suppress it, and we 
regret that instead of recovering damages 
through the costly process of an appeal to 
a court of law, the local authorities are 
not empowered, on complaint being made, to 
compel the destruction of seeding weeds 
calculated to injure adjoining land. 
7Y tie R. H. S Meetings. —The recent January 
^ meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
at the Drill Hall, saw in operation for the first 
time the new rule as to the meetings beginning at 
twelve o’clock. It has often been satisfactorily 
shown that meeting at eleven o’clock in the 
morning meant, practically, for most of those 
compelled to attend, wasting an entire day. The 
alteration of the hour to twelve o’clock was a 
gain in the morning to those having business 
to transact, or especially long distances to travel 
to London for the gathering. But now that 
the Orchid Committee relieves the Floral 
Committee of so much of its old work, the 
committees were at the last meeting all up 
within an hour, so that the interval before 
the lecture began—fully two hours—proved 
to he too long for many, and as a result the 
sixty to seventy members of the committees 
present, dwindled down to about a dozen 
when Mr. Wilks’ paper on “ Winter Garden¬ 
ing ” was read. 
We are disposed to think that as time rolls 
on, the Council will find it will be wiser to 
start the meetings at one o’clock, or else 
bring forward the lectures to two o’clock, 
and so arrange matters that members of the 
committees may attend the lectures and dis¬ 
cussions also. The Council, it is evident, have 
got past the delusion that these Drill Hall 
Meetings are shows. They are nothing of the 
sort, and never will be. To hold the meetings 
of the committees at one o’clock, and have 
the lectures and discussions concluded by four 
o’clock, is to concentrate the . whole work of 
the gatherings into the compass of three hours, 
for which all concerned, we are sure, would 
he deeply thankful. In advising the hour 
of one as the commencing period of the day, 
we are most anxious to secure a large and 
interested audience at the afternoon lectures. 
?The R.H.S. Orchid Committee. —The doings 
^ of the committees of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society naturally create wide interest, 
because they do take cognisance of all subjects 
submitted to them, come from whence they 
may, and in an impartial spirit. We honestly 
believe that every member desires to do his 
best without fear or favour, and according to 
his lights to deal justly with all subjects, 
and sad would it be did any act otherwise. 
The appointment last year of a semi-detached 
or hybrid body from the Floral Committee, 
called tire Orchid Committee, caused some 
sharp comments in the gardening press, but 
it seems after all to have been a wise move, 
as this year the committee has been organised 
independently and strengthened, so that now 
