Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them   By: Violet Purton Biddle

SPECIAL NOTICE.

SEEDS

IF YOU WANT REALLY GOOD BULBS & SEEDS AT MODERATE PRICES, SEND TO

Mr. ROBERT SYDENHAM, 44, Tenby Street, Birmingham.

No One will serve you Better.

HIS UNIQUE LISTS

Are acknowledged by all to be the Best, Cheapest, and most Reliable ever published. They contain only the Best VEGETABLES, FLOWERS, AND BULBS WORTH GROWING.

Being the Selections of the Largest Seed Growers, Market Gardeners, and the most celebrated Professional Gardeners and Amateurs in the kingdom.

They also contain very useful cultural instructions.

Mr. SYDENHAM'S Bulbs and Seeds were represented and gained First Prizes at London, Birmingham, Preston, Newcastle on Tyne, Shrewsbury, Edinburgh, etc., etc., in 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900.

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.

12 good varieties, 50 seeds of each, 1s. 6d.; 12 choice varieties, 50 seeds of each, 2s.; or the Two Collections for 2s. 6d.; a Third Collection of the 12 best varieties for Exhibition, 3s.; or the Three Collections, 5s., post free, with a packet each of the four best striped varieties added free of charge. Generally sold at twice or three times the money.

THE BEST TOMATOES, 3d. per packet of 200 Seeds. THE BEST CUCUMBERS, 6d. per packet of 10 Seeds. ALL OTHER SEEDS equally cheap and good.

FULL LISTS POST FREE ON APPLICATION.

=PUT IT ON TOP= of your Fowlhouse, Tool or Bicycle Shed, or anything in the shape of a shed that you are building. Ask your ironmonger for our handy booklet, which will help you considerably with useful hints on building all kinds of structures, and roofing them with =RED HAND ROOFING FELT=

If your ironmonger has not got it, you can get it free, and name of nearest holder, from D. ANDERSON & SON, LD., LAGAN WORKS, BELFAST.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

LAXTON'S GRAND NEW LARGE FRUITED, EARLY STRAWBERRY FOR 1901.

The "Laxton," THE IDEAL AMATEURS' AND MARKET GROWERS' FRUIT.

The Fruit that everyone must Grow!

A DARKER, FIRMER, AND IMPROVED "ROYAL SOVEREIGN."

We believe this to be by far the =finest= of our many introductions, and in it we claim to have combined all the good points of those two fine varieties from which it was raised, viz, "Royal Sovereign" and "Sir J. Paxton," and believe it to be the most wonderful Strawberry for earliness, size, firmness, quality, hardiness, and vigour of plant combined.

=The following are some of its good points =

=Earliness.= In earliness it is as early as "Royal Sovereign."

=Size.= In size it is as large as, if not larger than, "Sovereign," and certainly larger than "Sir J. Paxton."

=Colour.= But in colour it is much =darker and brighter= than "Sovereign," partaking of the rich colour and taking appearance of "Sir J. Paxton."

=Flavour.= In flavour it is quite as rich as "Royal Sovereign."

=Firmness.= It is also =much firmer= than "Sovereign," does not rot on the ground in damp weather, and is a far better traveller.

=Cropping Qualities.= Its cropping qualities are prodigious, heavier than either "Sovereign" or "Paxton," throwing its bold tresses well above the foliage.

=Constitution.= A very hardy and vigorous grower, retaining its foliage well in winter.

=Fast Selling Out for 1901.= The demand for this variety has been already very large, and as the stock is small and is fast selling out, we must ask for early orders or we shall be unable to execute until 1902. =PLANTS IN POTS ONLY SUPPLIED.=

=PRICE 18s. per doz.; £5 per 100.=

(Not less than 1/2 at the doz. and 100 rates.) As the demand is very great, and the stock limited, the price cannot be much lower for several years. A Handsome Coloured Plate, and full descriptive Catalogue published shortly.

Free on application.