March 2, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
419 
IF YOU WANT 
REALLY GOOD SEEDS 
AT MODERATE PRICES apply to 
Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 
Tenby Street, BIRMINGHAM. 
No Nurseryman will serve you better in quality, 
quantity, or price. 
THE SIX BEST TOMATOS 
In cultivation, often sold under ether names to get fancy prices. 
Each packet contains nearly 200 seeds. Perfection, 3d.; Ham 
Green Favourite, 3d.; Hackwood Park Prolific, 3d.; Challenger, 
3d.; Roseleigh Gein, a grand new large smooth selection, 3d.; 
Golden Perfection, the best yellow. 3d. Collection, is. 8d., post 
free ; singly, id. each extra for postage. 
THE FOUR BEST CUCUMBERS. 
Each packet contains io seeds, Lockie’s Perfection, Rollisson’s 
Selected Telegraph, Epicurean, and Covent Garden Favourite, 
6d. each ; or the collection, 2S., post free ; singly, id. extra for 
postage. 
SWEET PEAS—A SPECIALITY. 
ECKFORD’S and other choice varieties at a third 
or a fourth usual prices. 
Nothing gives so much cut bloom at so small a cost, or so 
little trouble. To get best results SOW AT ONCE, as 
directions sent with each collection. 
SPECIAL VERY CHEAP OFFER. 
8 Really Good Varieties— Queen of England, 
white; Blanche Ferry, pink and white; Princess 
Beatrice, pale pink; Apple Blossom, apple blossom 
tint; Orange Prince, orange pink ; Splendour, rich 
deep rose ; Cardinal, bright cardinal; Countess of 
Radnor, pale heliotrope, 25 seeds of each, is. 3d. 
7 Extra Choice and Newer Varieties— Emily 
Henderson,fine large white; Venus, pale lemon flushed 
with pink; Mrs. Gladstone, delicate pink; Her 
Majesty, soft rosy-pink ; Lady Penzance, bright pale 
rose; Firefly, bright glowing crimson; Monarch, 
large bronzy-purpie, 25 seeds of each, is. 6d. 
The Two Collections, 2 s. 6d. —Postage 2d. each 
Collection extra ; or the two 3d. extra. 
Extra Choice Mixture, 3d. per 100 seeds; postage Id. extra. 
ALL OTHER SEEDS EQUALLY MODERATE. 
FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION. 
Please mention this Paper. 
The Late MR. DODWELL’S 
GRAND CARNATIONS. 
THE FINEST GROWN. 
All Classes, 10/6 per dozen. 
List of Specialties can be obtained of— 
Mr. A. MEDHURST, 
Thk Cottage. Stanley Road, Oxford. 
NEW 
Tomato. 
“RROCKHAMPTON KING,” Per Packet, Is. 
Highly recommended for Early Forcing. Special Prizes will 
be given in 1895. For particulars applv— 
W. E. TIDY, 
Brockhampton Nurseries, Havant, Herts. 
CARRIAGE FR.EE. \ BOXES OF 
GARDEN SEEDS. 
Liberal in Quantity. Excellent in Quality. 
Arranged to produce a Constant Supply op the Best 
Vegetables all the Year round. 
DftV Containing rg varieties of PI 
VflfiDlld UvAj Vegetable Seeds, 0 /" 
WEBBS’ BOX/ Co °v.ti°.lifsS 01 12/6 
WEBBS’ BOX, Vegetable Seeds. of 15- 
1 AICBDC’ onv Containing 61 vars. of fH / 
fgUOOQ QUA, Vegetable Seeds, l\/ m 
Acknowledged to be the best value ever offered. 
Other Boxes at 2s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 31s. 6d., 42s., 63s., and 
105s. each. 
All Carriage Free, 5 per cent, discount for cash. 
CERTIFICATE OF QUALITY 
From Mr. E. MORGAN, Wynnstay. 
“ I have had Webbs Collection of Vegetable Seeds 
for several years past, and I am glad to say that they 
have produced ejcellent crops running on all the year 
round. Peas, a continuous supply, of splendid quality ; 
Lettuce simply grand ; and Onions very suitable for 
spring and autumn use. 11 
WEBBS’ SPRING CATALOGUE. 
Beautifully Illustrated, post free, Is., gratis to customers. 
Abridged Edition, gratis and post free. 
WEBB & SONS, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
Should in their own interest buy a few Plants 
from H. J. Jones, to learn the reason why. Send 
for my Spring Catalogue (free), which contains 
special selected lists of Chrysanthemums, Begonias, 
Pelargoniums, &c. 
TO PREVENT DISAPPOINTMENT 
SOW 
SUTTON’S 
SEEDS 
AND HAVE THE 
Finest Vegetables 
FOR THE TABLE 
ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
SUTTON’S Collections, 
prepared at the following prices, con¬ 
tain not only a most liberal supply, 
but all the varieties are of the very 
best, of excellent quality when cooked, 
and abundant croppers. 
10/6, 12/6, 21/-, 31/—, and 42/-. 
Sent Carriage Free on Receipt of Remittance. 
“Your seeds would carry'the palm anywhere. This year 
I have not bad a single tailure out of the whole collec¬ 
tion, every one being a complete success.”—Mr. W. J. 
Titchener, Gardener to H. M. Gordon, Esq. 
Sutton’s Seeds 
GENUINE ONLY FROM SUTTON & SONS,READING. , 
For Index to Contents see page 428. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit ot man ”— Bacon. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, March 5th. —Sale of Orchids, Bulbs, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednksday, March 6tb.—Sale of Lily Bulbs, Plants, &c., at 
Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Thursday, March 7th.—Sale of Hardy Border Bulbs and 
Plants at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Friday, March 8th.—Orchid Sale at Protheroe & Morris' 
Rooms. 
ijMd. 
Edited by BRIAN WYNNE. 
SATURDAY , MARCH 2nd , 1895. 
llotments for the People.— There 
are still amongst us many well-mean¬ 
ing people who doubt the advantage 
of allotments to working men and others, 
but the fact that it is of material advantage 
is rapidly gaining ground. We have often 
been described as a nation of shop-keepers, 
and many years may elapse before we are 
spoken of as a nation of gardeners, but 
there is still plenty of room for a wider 
diffusion of the “ art that does mend 
Nature,” and to put it into practice land is 
necessary, but more particularly in the 
neighbourhood of large towns, where popu¬ 
lation is congested, often under unfavour¬ 
able conditions to health. This fact has 
Ryecroft Nursery, LEWISHAM. 
COMMON SENSE APPLIED TO A SEED ACCOUNT. 
TO buy Vegetable and Flower Seeds at low prices is unwise, as evidently the seller must buy or produce those seeds cheaply 
"*• although doing so involves a poor quality. Cheap seeds are not rogued and picked to the extent those are for high-class 
trade ; and plants producing high-class strains are seldom free seeders like ordinary types. To buy seeds at high prices in very 
many cases is not only paying for undoubted good quality, but also for reputation or expensively illustrated and printed catalogues, 
with their temptations of so-called Novelties, which so often disappoint us. Considering the reduced rentals from estates, and 
profits from trade, common sense condemns either plan, and urges buyers to trade with firms whose standing is high enough to 
ensure quality with moderate prices. Few retail firms go the trouble and expense we do in testing seeds. We test the percentage 
of growths of all the seeds we sell before we put any in packets, those not satisfactory are destroyed. We also, every summer, 
at our seed trial grounds test many hundreds ofkinds ot seeds to see they are true to name, and it is these efforts to ensure quality 
combined with moderate prices, which have increased our business started twenty-five years ago, with about £50 wages per 
annum for one labourer, to its present extent of about 200 men and boys, with a labour account annually of £8,000. 
The following can all be depended upon as being thoroughly good either for the exhibitor or non-exhibitor—better cannot be 
bought:— 
CLIBRAN’S SINGLE BEGONIA ls, 6 d. & 2s.6d. packet. CLIBRAN’S DOUBLE BEGONIA 2s,6d. packet. 
„ HERBACEOUS CALCEOLARIA & CINERARIA, ls. 6 d. & 2s.6d. packet. PRIMULA, Is. & 2s.6d. packet. 
These strains represent the work of about ten years. 
“JOHN BRIGHT” STOCK, the finest of all Exhibition Stocks, Is 6 d. packet. 
CLIBRAN’S TENDER AND TRUE CABBAGE, the finest early variety, per oz. Is. 
„ WHITE HEART COS LETTUCE, large, solid, crisp, per packet, 6 d. 
„ YELLOW TURNIP, grand for Exhibition, good flavour, 8 d. per oz. 
„ TOMATO, heavy cropper, splendid flavour, large and beautiful fruit, Is. packet. 
„ BEET, the darkest grown, fine flavour, grand for Exhibition, 6 d. packet. 
Seed Catalogue with descriptions of above, and some hundreds of varieties of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, post tree.— 
CLIBRAN’S, 10 & 12, Market Street, MANCHESTER; 
AND AT ALTRINCHAM. 
NOW READY 
HARPE’S illustrated 
Descriptive Catalogue 
Post Free on application to 
CHARLES SHARPE «Sc Co., Ltd., 
Seeb farmers anb merchants, SLEAFORD. 
