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FLOWERS  ARE  INVALUABLE 
AT  CHRISTMAS. 
A  Beautiful  Display  can  be  produced  from 
WEBBS’ 
EARLY  BULBS - 
The  Finest  Roots  of  the  Season. 
ROMAN  HYACINTHS. 
EARLY  WHITE,  extra  large  bulbs,  2/6  per  dozen. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
selected  bulbs 
do. 
gool  bulbs  .. 
do. 
18  6  per  100. 
2 /•  per  dozen. 
14/-  per  100. 
1/6  per  dozen. 
10/6  per  ICO. 
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DOUBLE  ROMAN,  1/-  per  dozen,  7/- per  100. 
PAPER-WHITE,  1/-  per  dozen,  7/- per  100. 
do.  large-flowering,  1/6  per  dozen,  10/-  per  I/O. 
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Double,  Scarlet  and  \  ellow,  8d.  per  dozen,  4/-  per  100. 
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Beautifully  Illustrated  and  containing  complete 
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iiiiimiMimuiii. 
Descriptive  Catalogue  No.  565 
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OF 
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JumiiraJ  of  3porticul4ui[C. 
THURSDAY,  AUGUST  23,  1902. 
Autumn, 
ILLUSTRA TED  AND  DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE, 
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9* 
^ EMBUS  edax  rerum— Time  the 
^  devourer  of  all  thiDgs.  So  runs 
the  old  motto  on  an  ancient 
dial.  In  the  hurry  and  rush  of 
to-day  there  is  little  regard  f'r 
such  things.  Perhaps  it  is  better 
so,  for  to  contemplate  what  lias 
been  “  Since  yonder  spheres  sublime, 
pealed  their  first  notes  to  sound  the 
march  of  time,”  seems  “Teasing  one  out  of 
thought  as  doth  eternity.”  The  present,  not 
the  past,  is  our  concern  ;  yet,  even  now,  the 
insatiable  maw,  “  As  if  increase  of  appetite 
had  grown  by  what  it  fed  on,”  appears  to 
have  suddenly  absorbed  this,  cur  summer  of 
1892,  and  it  has  gone!  Gone!  Is  it  pre¬ 
mature  to  judge  it  1  To  summarise  a  summer 
which,  to  say  the  least,  has  been  peculiar.  So 
far  as  dates  are  concerned,  summer  is,  of 
course,  still  with  us ;  but  those  who  live  in 
close  communion  with  Nature  are  not  much 
concerned  about  dates,  unless  it  be  one  fix^d 
for  a  flower  show  which  altereth  not,  and,  as 
worried  exhibitors,  come  in  conflict  with  the 
Old  Dame  by  urging  her  on,  or  restricting 
her  undue  haste. 
Gardening  friends  say  they  never  knew  a 
summer  that  has  gone  so  quick,  except  some 
few  of  short  memory,  who  assert  there  has 
been  none.  Being  in  agreement  with  the 
“gone  so  quick”  section,  it  is  noticeable  that 
not  one  has  a  word  in  praise  of  the  departed, 
although  it  is  but  fair  to  add  that  on  the 
principle,  possibly,  De  mortuis  nil  nisi  bonum , 
they  say  nothing,  bad  of  it.  Still,  the  fact 
remains  that  to  all  intents  and  purposes  we 
are  gliding  into  autumn.  Autumn?  Yes,  so 
it  seems  to  one  who  is  first  in  the  garden  and 
the  last  out  of  it.  The  face  of  Nature’s  floral 
clock  endorses  the  assumption.  Lines  of 
Montbretia  are  aglow  ;  Asters  wear  autumnal 
livery  in  manyhued  buttons  ;  dense  cushiony 
RIVERS  &  SON, 
SAWBRIDGEWORTH,  HERTS." 
BARLOW  STATION.  G.E.R. 
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