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February 22, 1908. 
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR 1908. 
E E D S s^ vt 
UCCESS. 
If you want 
REALLY GOOD SEEDS 
at moderate prices 
SEND TO 
MR. Robt. SYDENHAM, 
NEW TENBY STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 
No one will serve you better. 
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Flowers & Vegetables 
WORTH GROWING, 
Being the Selections of the Largest Seed Growers, Market 
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and Amateurs in the Kingdom. They also contain very 
useful cultural instructions. 
SWEET PEAS A SPECIALITY. 
No flowers give so much cut bloom at so little cost and 
trouble if treated as instructions sent with each collection 
2 Cood Varieties, 50 Seeds of each ... Is. 6d. 
12 Better Varieties, 50 Seeds of each ... Is. 9d 
Or the Two Collections for 2s. 6d. 
12 Best Varieties, 50 Seeds of each .... 2s. Od. 
Or the Three Collections, 4s. post free, 
and four striped and four other varieties added free 
of charge. 
NAMES ON APPLICATION, 
2 Newest Varieties ... ... ... 4s. Od. 
or what I consider the best of the newest. 
The number of seeds in these packets varies; the quantities 
are stated in black figures after each name : 
Agnes Ecktord (15) soft blush pink, 3d.; Earl Cromer 
(20) mulberry. 4d.; Frank, Dolby (20) laveuder, 4d. ; 
Herbert Smith (25) orauge bi-color, 6d.; Lord Nelson (20) 
dark blue, 4d. : Miss Millie Maslin (25) rich crimson, 4d. ; 
Mrs Hardcastle Sykes (20) blush pink, 6d.; Mrs. Collier 
(20) new primrose, 4d. ; Nora Unwi > (20) white, 4d.; 
Primrose Countess or Clara Curtis (10) new wavy prim¬ 
rose, 6d.; Queen of Spain (20) salmon-pink, 4d. ; White 
Countess (10) syn. or improved Etta Dyke, the newest, best, 
aud largest wavy white, 6d. 
Collections Nos. 3 and 4, 5s. 
Primrose Countess and White Countess may be had in pkts. 
of 25 seeds, Is. each, or 6 packets for 5s. 
Special Price for the four collections, 7s. 
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l^lUsb, ?Uirts. 
Increasing interest seems to be taken 
in British plants all over the country, no 
doubt as the material is ready to hand to 
every aspiring botanist. Under the title 
of “A List of British Plants,” Mr. George 
Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.S., Fielding 
Curator in the University of Oxford, has 
compiled a list not only of well-estab¬ 
lished plants, but of many others which 
have been introduced from abroad, and 
have become more or less established in 
this country. Some of those recorded can 
only, of course, be escapes from gardens 
or outcasts, and some of these cannot 
possibly become established in our clim¬ 
ate. A London rubbish heap is a good 
place to look for l^hese adventitious 
plants, waifs and strays. The number of 
flowering plants has been raised to 2,865, 
or double the number that British floras 
used to record. Besides flowering plants, 
Ferns and their allies have been listed. 
The ordinary cultivator cannot be very 
deeply interested in the record of all these 
subjects, as many of them are, from his 
point of view, merely weeds. The large 
number of good garden plants, however, 
should prove interesting, seeing that they 
include such handsome subjects as Linum 
grandiflorum, Royle’s Balsam, the three 
most commonly cultivated species of 
Tropaeolum or Nasturtium, the Holly¬ 
hock, four species of Lavatera, and four 
Anemones. The field and garden Pea, as 
well as the dwarf Bean, Tomato, and Po¬ 
tato have also been recorded, but we can 
scarcely expect them to compete with our 
native vegetation with much success in an 
adverse climate. Fruit is represented by 
the cut-leaved Bramble, which evidently 
reproduces itself true from seeds and be¬ 
comes established on commons within 
easy ranges of gardens. That interesting 
blue-flowered plant belonging to the Po¬ 
tato family, namely, Nicandra physa- 
loides, seems determined to travel round 
the world, for we have named specimens 
from the Garden of Gethsemane and had 
others from the Transvaal, while the 
plant itself is really a native of Peru. 
The repeated change of generic and 
specific names in botanical works must be 
a little puzzling to beginners. A redeem¬ 
ing feature of the list, however, is that 
the best known synonyms are given in 
italics, following the adopted name, and 
which we hope has now been determined 
as the earliest and therefore correct name. 
While these changes are going on ,it is 
impossible to utilise them in daily jour¬ 
nalism or even in private gardens. For 
scientific purposes, however, the work ac¬ 
complished by Mr. Druce is excellent. 
-- 
Fragrant 
Flowers The Year 
Through. 
How do we judge the beauty of flowers? 
First by their colouring, then by their de¬ 
sign and arrangement in the garden, and 
lastly, but not least so, by their delight¬ 
ful fragrance. Below will be found a few 
hardy plants that will give this pleasing 
odour all the year round:— 
January. —I. stylosa, miniature Iris, 
with azure blue flowers; Winter Helio¬ 
trope (Tussilago fragans), of great value 
for its rich perfume from Christmastide 
to February, a single spray being suffi¬ 
cient to scent a room. 
February. —Baker’s Iris, with yellow 
and violet flowers of dwarf habit, the per¬ 
fume being similar to that of Violets. 
March. —The Giant Snowflake, which 
resembles a giant Snowdrop; Wall¬ 
flowers, single and double; Auriculas, al¬ 
pine varieties being very beautiful and 
hardy; Dusty Miller, an old yellow 
variety, is said to be the sweetest of them 
all; Cowslips, Oxlips, and Primroses are 
all very sweet. . 
April. — Sweet Violets, Wallflowers, 
Auriculas, Cowslips, etc. 
May. —Florentine Iris, with greyish 
white flowers, sweetly perfumed; Wood¬ 
ruff, which grows in sun or shade, and 
makes a beautiful carpet of white, with its 
masses of bloom; Bluebells; Mountain 
Clematis is a very sweet, white flowered 
climber; Columbine, green flowered; 
Evening Primrose, Lupins, St. Bruno's 
Lily, Stocks, and Cornflowers. 
JUNE. —Day Lily and many other 
Lilies, Balm, Traveller’s Joy, Cyclamens, 
etc. 
July. —Lavender, Carnations, Roses, 
Cape Lilies, Lily of the Valley, and many 
others. 
August. —Ten Week Stocks, Brompton 
Stocks, and others in great variety too 
numerous to mention. If all the plants 
mentioned in this list are carefully studied 
it will be found that along with others 
plenty of delightfully-scented flowers can 
be grown for the remaining months of the 
year. JOSEPH FLOYD. 
-- 
The leaves of Ilex opaca make a 
very good tea, says Dr. E. L. Lee, of 
Bridgeport, U.S.A. 
