March 1, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
408 
Liberal 
BOXES 
Excellent 
in 
OF 
in 
Quantity. 
GARDEN 
Quality. 
Arranged to 'produce a constant supply of 
the best Vegetables all the year round. 
Ulf ODO* DftV Containing 19 varieties of K / 
W&Ue5u OilA Vegetable Seeds v>/ 
WE BBS 7 BOX Vegetable Seeds "12/6 
WEBBSTBOX c “‘tSUL'S“' sor 15;- 
lMCOKSO’ 0IW Containing 61 varieties of O'? /_ 
W OH A Vegetable Seeds k / 
Acknowledged to be the best value ever oftered. 
Other Boxes at 2s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 31s. Gd., 42s., 63s., 
and 105s. each. 
All Carriage Free. 5 per cent, discou nt for Cash. 
CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY. 
From the Rev. TV. T. BARKER, Siikstone 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, but 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. 
¥E!T0H’8 
COLLECTIONS OP 
SUPERB ASTERS. 
THE FINEST IN CULTIVATION. 
VICTORIA. 
The most showy and massive of all the Asters. Grand for 
Exhibition. 
Collection of 12 distinct. colours, separate, Ss. 
Finest mixed colours, per pkt., Is. 
DWARF CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Splendid free-flowering variety. Individual flowers often 
4 inches in diameter. 
Collection of 12 distinct colours, separate, 2s. 6d. 
Finest mixed colours, per pkt., Is. 
TruffautsP/eomy Perfection 
A noble incurved variety, of great size and symmetry. 
Collection of 12 distinct colours, separate, 2s. 6d. 
Finest mixed colours, per pkt., Is. 
POMPON IMBRICATED. 
A charming free-flowering variety, of neat habit. Highly 
useful for cutting. 
Collection of 12 distinct colours, separate, 2s. 6d. 
Finest mixed colours, per pkt., 6d. 
REID’S QUILLED IMPROVED. 
The finest and most perfect form of Quilled Aster. 
Collection of 16 distinct colours, separate, 2s 6d. 
Finest mixed colours, per pkt., 6d. 
For full descriptions of the above, see SEED CATA¬ 
LOGUE for 1890, forwarded Gratis and Post Free 
on application. 
JA8. YE1TCH & SONS, 
Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, S.W. 
SUTTON’S 
DOUBLE 
HOLLYHOCKS. 
Hollyhocks may now be grown and 
flowered as annuals with great ease. 
Seedlings are far more robust than plants 
grown from cuttings, so that this stately 
flower may again adorn our gardens 
without the trouble of wintering plants. 
SUTTON’S PRIZE 
HOLLYHOCKS. 
Saved from a magnificent collection of 
fine named sorts. 
TEN VARIETIES.separate 6 /- 
SIX VARIETIES. separate 3/6 
MIXED .per pkt. 2/6 
FREE BY POST. 
“.My Hollyhocks were the grandest I ever saw.”—Hr. J. 
BUTLER, Gardener to F. A. Denny, Esq. 
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 be.-t strain of every r ariety 
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 he 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 stall not confuse my friends with a long list of six or eight 
hundred varieties of Flower Seeds, hut 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 ot Parsnips, 
and soon, and where the list is much increased, i t often contains 
Dames 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, 5 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 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, 6d. per pound. 
(Please Mention this Paper.) 
Letter Orders have same care as for my own planting. 
Robert Sydenham, 
NEW TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
PEA—Sharpe’s Victory.per pint packet 
PEA—Sharpe’s Empress.per (plait 
PEA—Sharpe’s Queen. ,, 
„ „ » . per pint 
PEA—Sharpe’s Sir F. A. Milbank... ,, 
PEA—Sharpe’s Triumph. ,, 
PEA—Sharpe’s Paragon.. 
POTATO—Sharpe’s Standard.per lb. 
POTATO—Sharpe’s Victor.per stone 
POTATO—Sharpe’s Duke of Albany ,, 
BROCCOLI—Sharpe’s Monarch ..per packet 
BROCCOLI—Sharpe’s Selected Winter, 
per packet 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS — Sharpe’s 
“ Standard ” ... per packet 
CABBAG E—Sharpe’s “Standard,” per packet 
BEAM—Sharpe’s Conqueror ...T.per pint 
CUCUMBER—Sharpe’s Epicurean, 
per packet 
BEET—Sharpe’s Emperor . ,, 
TOMATO—Sharpe’s Eclipse . ,, 
ONION — Sharpe’s Prize White 
Spanish . » 
O 6 
4 O 
1 O 
2 O 
1 O 
For Full Description of the above, see 
Illustrated Seed Catalogue 
FOR 189©. 
POST FREE ON APPLICATION TO 
CHARLES SHARPE & Go., 
SLEAFORD. 
Next Week’s Engagements. 
Monday, March 3rd.—Sale of Lily and other Bulbs at Protheroe 
Sc Morris’s Rooms. 
Wednesday, March 5th.—Sale of Lily and other Bulbs, Tubers, 
&c., at Protheroe & Morris's Rooms. 
Friday, March 7th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Moiris’s 
Rooms. 
For Indexto Contents & Advertisements, see p.412. 
lt Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.” —Bacon. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1890. 
CURRENT TOPICS. 
C M lorists and Fl orists. —The re-publication 
H in our columns of the Rev. George 
Jeans’ essay on the “Philosophy of Florist’s 
Flowers ” lias probably done much to enlighten 
readers as to the distinctively high aims of 
true floriculture. Perhaps it has done some¬ 
thing also to enlighten many who have termed 
themselves Florists—with, as Mr. Ranger John¬ 
son so aptly puts it, a capital F—as to the 
narrowness of their own conceptions as com¬ 
pared with those of the mentor of true 
floriculture. 
We have three classes of florists, so called, 
of which the lowest range is found in those 
who grow flowering plants for sale only, and 
have no more of soul or true floricultural 
afflatus than has a cow. They are traders 
pure and simple — nothing more. Then we 
have a somewhat large and rather dubious 
