February 8, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
355 
WEBBS' 
BOXES 
OF 
Arranged to produce a constant supply of 
the best Vegetables all the year round. 
WEBBS’ BOX 
Containing 19 varieties of 
Vegetable Seeds 
Ilf J” DD5> DHV Containing 42 varieties of 4? O //* 
fT&SJIJ© OUA Vegetable Seeds I i/O 
WEBBS’ BOX 
Containing 47 varieties of -IT £7 1 
Vegetable Seeds A £>( * 
IS!'” S3 PCS’ Containing 61 varieties of 
By A Vegetable Seeds Hi I . 
Acknowledged to be the best value ever offered. 
Other Boxes at 2s. 6(1.. 7s. 6d., 31s. 6d., 42s., 63s., 
and 105s. each. 
All Carriage Free. 5 per cent, discount for Cash. 
CERTIFICATE .OF QUALITY. 
From the Rev. W. T. BARKER, Silkstone Vicarage.— 
“The Guinea Box of Vegetable Seeds was-more than suffi 
cient to give me a good round of crops for rather over half 
an acre of kitchen garden. The Carrots and Turnips were > 
particularly good, hut the chief'advantage was in the 
judgment shown, selection of seeds, and their proportion to 
each other." 
WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE, 
Beautifully illustrated, post free, Is.; gratis to customers. 
ABRIDGED EDITION, gratis and post free. 
r£> d 
sia? 
ALL SEEDS WARRANTED 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY ST., BIRMINGHAM, 
THE CELEBRATED AMATEUR IMPORTER OF BULBS. 
Having been continually solicited by a large number of iny 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 
growth. 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 he no failures, hut 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 gei inmate 
in due course, under 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. Iu 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 sent Post Free on application. 
Choice Primula, Calceolaria, Carnation, and Picotee 
Seeds will be of a specially good strain. 
Best white Raffia Fibre, 6<L per pouud. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own -planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY STREET , BIRMINGHAM. 
GOLD MEDS,L 9 
Quite the most Original Catalogue in the Trade. Terms and Prices 
certainly the best. Post Free to every applicant. 
EVERY GARDENER should in 
his own interest see our Cata¬ 
logue, as a number of specially 
good things can only be ob¬ 
tained from us. We specially 
urge gardeners to write for it. 
THE NEW JAPANESE 
PRIMULAS are the most re¬ 
markable flowers in this group 
ever introduced, they will one 
day he as generally grown as 
Primula siueusis. Three 
medals in three weeks. These 
are of such very special char¬ 
acter that every lover of very 
choice flowers should see our 
list. Gems for cutting. 
GOLD MEDAL for Tuberous Be¬ 
gonias, which are the cheapest 
in the trade. Every lover of 
Begonias should see our list. 
We are very strong here. 
SEEDS THAT GIVE SATISFAC¬ 
TION —Our great strength as a 
seed firm, and the cause of our 
extraordinary increasing trade 
is the high quality of our flower 
seeds, and the front position we 
occupy for exhibition vege¬ 
tables. 
The best proof of our confidence 
that our terms and prices are 
the best is that we send our 
grand illustrated descriptive 
practical-note Catalogue post 
free to every applicant. 
£50 AND TWO MEDALS offered 
by us to our customers only on 
so ingenious a method that all 
can compete on fair and equal 
terms wherever they reside. 
All who can grow things well 
should certainly see our 
Catalogue. 
RYDER & SON, 
SEED MERCHANTS, 
SALE, MANCHESTER. 
SODDY'S 
Bees Collections. 
COMPLETE CATALOGUES GRATIS. 
VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Collection 25. 
Collection US . 
Collection G 
Collection ID 
Collection IE 
Collection E3E3 
ICO varieties 
72 varieties 
50 varieties 
( 23 varieties 
i large pkts. 
23 varieties 
14 varieties 
<& 2 /- 
22 ./= 
10/6 
5 /- 
3 /- 
3 ./- 
ALL- CARRIAGE PAID. 
Extract from Letters received lately : — 
“CERTAINLY SPLENDID VALUE.” 
<• I have had wonderful success with your seeds.” 
“ I am highly pleased with the collection." 
C? ET SAJ G f \ Hi Seed Merchant 
E>E.nS. OwU’L# I 5 & Bulb Importer, 
243, WALWORTH ROAD, LONDON, S.E. 
FOR PLEASURE and PROFIT. 
ROSES. 
SUTTON’S 
IMPROVED 
READING ONION 
A first-rate main-crop Onion of very 
handsome shape and mild flavour; alto¬ 
gether superior to the variety commonly 
sold as “Reading. 
SlOISITT Nothing so profitable and easy to grow, 
a HI 0 ! i a 74 Acres in Stock. 
See Catalogue for simple Instructions and kinds of 
Trees to suit all soils. 
20 Acres. 
_r a Bushes, 8s. 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. 
Vegetable, Flower 
and Farm. 
SEEDS & BULB S, 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST FREE, 
RICHARD SMITH & CO. 
WORCESTER. 
“This is the ninth First Prize 1 have taken at Woodstock 
with your ‘Improved Reading’ Onion, and at various other 
shows over twenty First Prizes.”—Mr. G. NEAL, Gardener to 
P. Southby, Esq. 
“ I never before grew such a grand crop, and, as a keeper, 
your ‘Improved Reading’ Ouion cannot he excelled.”— 
j. ERRINGTON, Esq., Carlisle. 
“ Your ‘ Improved Reading ’ Onion proved to he one of the 
best I had, maturing good bulbs and early, which is a con- 
jsideration here for keeping through the winter."—Mr J. 
WILSON, Gardener to the Right Hon. Lord Elphinstone. 
Price of Seed, Is. 6d. per oz, post free. 
S JJ T T © M 9 S 
IMPROVED QUEEN ONION. 
( First Class Certificate R.ll.S.) 
The quickest-growing' Onion in cultivation. 
Price of Seed, Is. 6d. per pkt., post free. 
Next Week's Engagements. 
Monday, February 10th.—United Horticultural Benefit and 
Provident Society : Annual Meeting. Sale of Lily Bulbs at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday, February 11th.—Royal Horticultural Society : Fruit 
and Floral Committees at 12 noon ; Annual Meeting at 3 p.m. 
Wednesday, February 12th.—Sale of Lily Bulbs at Protheroe 
& Morris’s Rooms. Sale of Hardy Plants, ice., at Stevens s 
Rooms. 
Thursday, February 12tli.—Sale of Lily Bulbs and Tuberoses 
at Stevens' Rooms. 
Friday, February 11 th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris's 
Rooms. 
For Indexto Contents & Advertisements, see p. 365. 
‘ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest! 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1890. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
7The Late Mr. AVildsmith.— It would be 
® impossible for us to permit the record 
of tlie death and burial of our greatly 
esteemed friend, the gardener at Heckfield 
Place, in another column, to pass without 
making here some reference to the sad 
event. It was our privilege to have enjoyed 
a cordial and continuous intimacy with him- 
who is gone for some twenty years. During 
that time, having the most ample opportunities 
for studying the man and his work, we have 
no hesitation in declaring him to have stood 
in the very front rank of British gardeners, 
and that too in spite of some defects, which 
were sufficiently apparent. Those defects, let 
it he understood, were, however, chiefly of 
manner, for beneath a somewhat occasionally 
