December 30, 1898. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
271 
SPRING 
CATALOeUE 
FOR 1894. 
Beautifully Illustrated with Five Coloured 
Plates (Illustrating Cucumbers, Onions, Beans. 
Celery, Primulas. Gloxinias, SLlenes, Antirrhi¬ 
nums, Convolvulus, and Chrysanthemums), 
and hundreds of Engravings. Also containing 
complete Cultural Instructions, an article on 
“ Beautiful Borders,” List of Novelties, &c., &c., 
NOW READY, POST FREE, Is. 
which may he deducted off subsequent Orders. 
ABRIDGED EDITION, ready on FEBRUARY 1. Gratis 
and Post Free. 
SEEDSMEN BY ROYAL WARRANTS, 
woRiSLiY, siQiReimei 
IVEosli Celeries are 
HARRISON’S 
EARLY ROSE. LEICESTER RED. PENGELLY WHITE. 
6 d. and is. per packet, post free. 
Trade Prices.—y. and 6s. per dozen respectively. 
Stamps received for small remittances. 
Our General Catalogue of famous LEICESTER 
SEEDS, which are highly prized for Exhibition 
and Market Gardening purposes, post free on 
application. Send for a copy to 
HARRISON & SONS, 
SEED GROWERS AND MERCHANTS, 
LEICESTER. 
NOW REiLOY. 
DANIELS’ 
lllnstrated Gnide and Seed Catalogue 
for Amateur Gardeners, 
SPRING, 1894, 
Containing 132 pages, imperial size, of heautifully illustrated 
letterpress, three supeth coloured plates, a select list of Choice 
Kitchen Garden and Flower Seeds, Seed Potatos, Fruit Trees, 
Roses, ClematisBS, Carnations, and other florists’ flowers, wi'h 
copious notes on cultivation, and a list of the hest novelties of 
the season. The whole enclosed in a charmingly printed 
coloured wrapper. This will he found by far the best and 
most complete Garden Catalogue yet published, and should 
certainly be in the hands of all who are interested in horti¬ 
culture. 
PRICE Is., POST FREE. 
The Shilling to be deducted from first order of 5s. or upwards. 
DANIELS BROS., 
Royal Norfolk Seed Establishment, 
NORWICH. 
THE BEST 
AT MOST MODERATE RRICES. 
SEED POTATOS, 
GARDEN TOOLS, & SUNDRIES. 
Descriptive Catalogue No. 432, Post Free 
on Application. 
Delivered Free by Rail or Parcel Post. 
_ itiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiKHiiniiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiitiiiniiiiimiiiii 
DICKSONSChestcr 
VEITCH’S GENUINE SEEDS. 
es Veitch 
BEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEIR 
SEED CATALOGUE FOR 1894, 
Containing Novelties and Specialities of Sterling Merit has 
now been posted to all their Customers. 
If anyone has failed to receioe the same, J. V. Sons on receiving information, will be pleased 
to forward a duplicate copy, post free. 
ROYAL EXOTIC NURSERY, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.VV. 
All Seeds Ca.x>]?i£i.^e Fx>ee. 
Mliam 
Novelties and Specialities 
IN 
FLOWER SEEDS 
Foi? 1 S 9 ^. 
THE BEST OF THE SEASON 
Per Packet. 
Anemone, St. Brigid varieties 
Beet, ornamental leaved, McGregor’i 
Favourite .. 
Calceolaria, Golden King .. 
Carnation. Marguerite 
Cyclamen giganteum cruentum (new) 
Fern Spores, greenhouse .. 
,, ,, stove .. 
Freesia refracta (mixed) 
Humea elegans, English saved 
Pansy, Peacock (new) 
Poppy, Mont Blanc (new) .. 
Primula. Princess May (new) 
Vitis heterophylla variegata 
Illustrated Seed Catalogue for 1894 has now been posted 
to all customers. Another copy will he forwarded gratis 
and post free on application to any who may not yet have 
received one. 
73.§XiM/Mm4fS0Ti, 
UPPER HOLLOW 
LOA/DON. N. 
Nothing so profitable and easy 
to grow. 
FOR FLERSURE ARD PROFIT 
FRUIT 
ROSES 
80 Acres in Stock. 
Hundreds of 
Thousands. 
Bushes in variety. Packing and Carriage Free for cash 
with order. 8s. per dozen, 60s. per 100. All other Nursery 
Stock carriage forward. 
ROSES IN POTS FROM 15s. doz. 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, 91 ACRES. 
4 ACRES OF GLASS. 
CLEMATIS (80,000) FRO.vl 15s. DOZEN. 
N.B.—Single Plants are sold at slightly increased Prices. 
SEEDS 
The best procurable. 
LISTS FREE. 
GENERAL CATALOGUE 
(over 140 pages) of Nursery Stock, artistically produced,, 
containing some hundreds of illustrations, and full of 
valuable information sent FREE. 
SIVLIT'H Sl CO., 
For Index to Contents see page 281„ 
WELLS- CHRYSANTHEMUIVIS 
Gained Highest Honours of any English Firm in 1892. 
Send for NewAlphabeticalCatalogue.Now Ready.post free from 
W. WELLS, Earlswood Nurseries, Redhill, Surrey. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatert 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, January ist.—Sale of Dutch Bulbs at Protheroe & 
Morris’ Rooms (and three following days). 
Friday, January 5th.—Sale of Orchids at Protheroe & Morris 
Rooms. 
1;[|^ IpuHiI, 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, DECEMBER ^oth, 1893. 
Whe Old Year. —How soon again have 
we to record the passing away of the 
5ear, and yet how soon again to rejoice 
over the advent of the new one. Are we 
miserable hypocrites that our sorrow for the 
one event is so soon changed into joy over 
the other, or after all is it but a fiction that 
we really care nothing whatever about the 
dead or concern ourselves with the new 
born. Theold year gave to us many blessings 
in the shape of delightful summer weather 
and warmth, such as we have rarely ex¬ 
perienced during any previous year, and it 
has in the matter of drought left behind a 
record that is almost unique, and yet, whilst 
at one time mourning over the ill effects 
generally on our gardens and crops of all 
that prolonged dryness, how so' n have we 
nearly forgotten our troubles in the won- 
damper autumn pro¬ 
face of 
drous change the 
duced, and which has made the 
Nature to change as if by magic. 
The autumn, too, has given to us material 
recompense, for it has been very open, pro¬ 
longed, and in an unusual degree favourable 
for all descriptions of garden operations. 
But the year, in spite of its great heat, has 
not spared us all our old triends. Very 
many have fallen before old Father Time’s 
keen scythe, and left us so much the 
poorer. Not a few of the old school of 
florists have disappeared during the year 
and Barlow, Tjmons, Dodwell, are but a 
few among the notable ones who have gone 
from us. May others as good, as earnest, 
and as true florists arise to take their 
places. 
