February 22, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
387 
Per Packet Post Free. 
WEBBS’ MODESTY (pink) ... 2s.6&.&5s. 
WEBBS’ PURITY (white) . 2s. 64. & 5s. 
WEBBS’ ROSY MORN . 2s. 6cL. & 5s. 
WEBBS’ SCARLET EMPEROR, 2s. 6d. & 5s. 
WEBBS’ EXQUISITE (mixed) ... Is. 64. 
From Mr. J. HOPE, Gardener to the Right 
Hon. the Earl of Bradford. 
“ Your Primulas—‘Scarlet Emperor’ and‘Purity' 
— are really wonderfv.1: admired by everyone." 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS OF 
FLOWER SEEDS 
To SUIT all REQUIREMENTS, 
At 5s., 10s. 6d., 15s., 21s., and 42s. each. 
FREE BY POST. 
COMPRISING ONLY THE MOST SHOWY 
AND USEFUL VARIETIES. 
Full 'particulars post free on application. 
VEITCH’S 
COLLECTIONS OF 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
UNEQUALLED FOR QUALITY. 
UNSURPASSED FOR LIBERALITY. 
At 12s. 6d., 15s., 12s., 13s. 6d., and 42s. 
each. 
Carriage paid to any Station in the United Kingdom. 
Full particulars post free on application. 
JAMES VEITCH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
ALL SEEDS WARRANTED. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY ST., BIRMINGHAM, 
SUTTON’S 
SPECIALTIES IN 
TOMATOES. 
Sutton’s Golden Queen Tomato. 
“The largest and best flavoured Yellow Tomato grown; 
splendid cropper, and a fine show variety.” — Mr. D. 
MCDONALD, The Grange Gardens, Totteridge. 
Price of Seed, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per 
packet, post free. 
SUTTON’S PERFECTION TOMATO. 
“ Your Perfection is the finest Tomato I ever grew. The 
crop wonderful, much admired by everyone. Grown on a 
wall, S.E. aspect.”—Mr. J. RYCR0FT, Gardener to W. 
Walker, Esq. 
Price of Seed, Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per 
packet, post free. 
SUTTON’S ABUNDANCE TOMATO. 
“ Enormously fruitful, the bunch sent being a fair sample 
of the crowded racemes of fruit produced, the fruits averaging 
eight to twelve in a bunch. Sutton’s Abundance has sur¬ 
prised me by its vigour and productiveness. As regards 
quality it is excellent.—W. H. SMITH, Gardeners' Magazine. 
Price of Seed, Is. and Is. 6d. per packet, 
post free. 
THE 
BEST 
Skroe’s Novelties, 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, February 24th.—Sale of Bulbs, Roses, Begonias, 
Greenhouse Plants, &c , at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Tuesday. February 25th.—Sale of Established Orchids at 
Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, February 26th.—Sale of Liliums, Roses, Azaleas, 
Rhododendrons, Kentias, Ferns, &c., at Protheroe & 
Morris's Rooms. 
Friday, February 28th.—Sale of Imported and Established 
Orchids in Flower at Protheroe & Morris’s Rooms. 
For Indexto Contents & Advertisements, see p. 398. 
S UPERB P RIMULAS. 
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 
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 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 
n due course, under fair and proper treatment, or which do not 
omc true to name. 
I shall 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. 
TERMS, strictly cash with order from unknown correspon¬ 
dents ; references given if required. 
All Flower Seeds sent post free ; all general Seed Orders over 
10s. carriage paid ; Orders over £3, 0 per 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 eoutains 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 d. per pound. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
s. d. 
PEA—Sharpe’s Victory.per pint packet 2 6 
PEA—Sharpe’s Empress.per quait 3 0 
PEA—Sharpe’s Queen... ,, 3 0 
„ „ . per pint 1 6 
PEA—Sharpe’s Sir F. A. Milbank... ,, 10 
PEA—Sharpe’s Triumph... 10 
PEA—Sharpe’s Paragon. ,, 1 0 
POTATO—Sharpe’s Standard. .per lb. O 6 
POTATO—Sharpe’s Victor.per stone 4 0 
POTATO—Sharpe’s Duke of Albany ,, 2 0 
BROCCOLI—Sharpe’s Monarch...per packet 1 6 
BROCCOLI—Sharpe’s Selected Winter, 
per packet 1 0 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS — Sharpe’s 
“Standard” . per packet 1 6 
CABBAGE—Sharpe’s “Standard,” per packet 1 O 
BEAN—Sharpe’s Conqueror.per pint 1 0 
CUCUMBER—Sharpe’s Epicurean, 
per packet 2 O 
BEET—Sharpe’s Emperor.. 1 0 
TOMATO—Sharpe’s Eclipse. ,, 10 
ONION — Sharpe’s Prize White 
Spanish .. 1 0 
Fob, Full Desckittion of the above, see 
Illustrated Seed Catalogue 
^©H. 1S9©. 
POST FREE ON APPLICATION TO 
CHARLES SHARPE & Co., 
SLEAFORD. 
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 22, 1890. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
F*ardeners and Show Places. —Mentioning 
^ the fact the other week that a recently 
deceased, gardener had in life found the 
display of hospitality— essential to one in his 
position, having charge of a fine show place 
—a heavy pecuniary burthen, has served to 
remind us of many similar cases, and of one 
in particular, in which a high-class gardener, 
who had been appointed to the charge of one 
of our most famous of show places—finding' 
some time afterwards that on liis hare salary 
he was in danger of being ruined, because 
of the hospitality he was compelled to extend 
to gardening visitors, had to implore his 
employer to hear the burthen. Fortunately 
for him, the nobleman realised at once the 
reasonableness of the request, and readily 
acceded to it. 
How many leading gardeners are there in 
