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HORTICULTURE 



March 6, 1909 



THE QUALITY 

 YOU CAN MAKE 

 MONEY ON 



CANNAS 



Red-Flowering, Green 

 Foliage 



Perdoz. 100 1000 

 , BouTier. 5 ft. Dark 



crimson $0.35 $3.25 



Alice Koosevelt. Deep 



SOUND PIECES 

 TRUE TO NAME 

 BED ROCK PRICES 



ft.. 



Beaute PolteTlne. 354 ft. 



Dark 

 ck PriB 



• 50 



•35 



3-50 



iiderBun. 4ft. 



■3" 'ft; 

 oiigii; 



Velvety 



. ^ . Et ; green 



foliage . 

 Charles t 



Bright i 



iiiiHon Bedde 



Intense scarlet . 

 Duke of Itlarlbc 



^% it. Dark cri 



J. D. Eisele. Brilliant ver- 



5 ft 35 



Explorateur Crampbel. 



Deep rich crimson sH ft. .30 

 Express. Crimson; foliage 



green. Dwarf habit. 2 to 



2'/j,ft 60 



Pres. McKinley. Bril- 



2>« to 3 ft. .35 



PInk-Flowering 



Patry. Delicate rosy 



pink, 454 ft $0.35 :$2.=5 



Luray. Attractive rosy pink, 



3 ft .35 2.25 



Louise. A grand pink, tall 

 rtha Washington. 

 ;ose. Height, 2% to 3 ft. 



Mile. Berat. 4'/2ft. Rcse- 



3-5° 



•35 



Tennyson. Rosy pink 



green foliage; sH ft 50 3.C0 



CATALOGUE FREE. 



Orange-Flowered 



Perdoz. 100 lOOO 

 President Cleveland. 



Bright, distinct or.-inge- 



scarlet;4ft $0.35 $2.23 $20.00 



Red, Gold-Edged and 

 Spotted 



Gladiator. Bright yellow, 

 spotted crimson, green 

 foliage; 4ft $0.50 $! 



Cinnabar. Cinnabar- red, 

 edged with distinct golden 

 band; 454 ft 30 ; 



Queen Charlotte. Scar- 

 let gold edge 30 ! 



Mme. Crozy. 5H ft. Ver- 

 million, gold border 35 3 



Prenaier. Deep crimson, 



bordered yellow. ,% ft, .30 : 



SouT. d' A. Crozy. 4 ft. 



Crimson, gold band 50 i 



Yellow Shades 



Buttercup. 3H ft. Clear 



golden yellow $0.40 $2.75 $25.00 



Comte de Bouchard. 



Yellow, spotted red, 4^4 ft. .30 2.00 17. 50 

 Florence Vaughan. 5 ft. 



Yellow, spotted crimson . .50 2.73 25.00 

 L.E. Bailey. Rich yellow, 



dotted with red; 4H ft 30 2.00 17.50 



White and Cream Shades 



Alsace. 3% ft. Creamy white $o 30 $1.75 $15.00 



Bronze-Leaved, Red- 

 Flowering 



Brandywine. 4 to 5 it. 



Dark bron2e foliage. 



Crimson flowers $0.50 $4.00 $3=;. 00 



Black Beauty. True. 



5 ft. Grand foliage ,60 4.50 40.00 



We go through the block from 14th Street lo 13th Street, but 



David Harum. 314 ft. 



Vermillion-scarlet 



Egandale. 4 ft. Currant- 



King Humbert. Fine 

 Bronze foliage. Orange- 

 scarlet with bright red 

 markings. 4 ft 



Leonard Vaughan. 454 

 ft. Bright scarlet 



Musafolia. The finest fol- 

 iaged Canna, with enor- 

 mous musa-like leaves, 3 

 by 5 ft., of a dark green 

 bronze-tinged color 



Philadelphia. A bright 

 glowing red. Height 5 ft. 



Papa Nardy. Large, rich 

 carmine-red, 4J4 ft 



Pillar of Fire. 6 to 7 ft. 

 high; flowers bright crim- 

 son-scarlet 



Robnsta. Height 6 to 8 ft., 

 with immense foliage 



Shenandoah. Large Sal- 



100 



$2.75 



iflo 



,6 ft. 



Orchid-Flowering 



All* mannia. 4105 ft. Scar, 

 let and yellow. Green 

 foliage $0.35 $2.25 



Austria, Pure canary-yel- 

 low; an orchid-flowering 

 type. 5ft. .30 1.75 



Italia^ 41/2 ft. Green foliage 



Red bordered yellow 30 2.00 



Kronus. Rich golden yel- 

 low, with patches of 

 bright red, 5 ft 30 1.75 



Airs. Kate Gray. 6 ft. 

 Green foliage. Scarlet 

 and yellow 3» 2.00 



Pennsiylvania. 5 ft. Green 



foliage. Deep scarlet 35 2.25 



addr^ 



still 



1000 



$25.00 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, ^n.rr'oVtfft^*^' 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular semi-monthly meeting 

 of the society was held on Feb- 

 ruar>' 26th, President Huss being 

 the presiding officer. Two new 

 members were admitted. Secretary 

 Alex, dimming, Jr., who has faith- 

 fully and well performed tile du- 

 ties of that office for two years, re- 

 signed owing to his immediate depart- 

 ure for Seattle, Washington, to take 

 part in the work on the exposition 

 grounds. He was presented with a 

 purse in recognition of his efficient 

 services to the society, and of the 

 esteem in which he was held. This 

 was "Carnation Night," and a fine ex- 

 hibit was tabled. The judges were 

 H. A. Pinney, C. Calverly and Newton 

 Osborn, all of Hartford. Their awards 

 were as follows: Whiting's Green- 

 houses (Carl Peterson, gardener). West 

 Hartford, first; A- N. Pierson, Crom- 

 well, second; J. F. Huss, Hartford, 

 third. W. H. Shumway, of Berlin, re- 

 ceived honorable mention tor two car- 

 nation seedlings. An able and elo- 

 quent paper, on "The History of the 

 Carnation." was read by H. A. Pinuey, 

 of Hartford, who was tendered a ris- 

 ing vote of thanks. Two fine speci- 

 men cyclamen plants, grown from 

 old bulbs, were exhibited by Geo. T. 

 Whitten, of the Hartford School of 

 Horticulture. George W. Smith, of 

 Melrose, was chosen secretary, to suc- 

 ceed Mr. Gumming. President Huss 

 has in preparation a schedule of com- 

 ing events, announcements of which 

 will be made in due course. 



GEORGE W. SMITH. Secretary. 



ILLINOIS STATE FLORISTS' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



My apology is due to you and to the 

 readers of your paper for having 

 failed to advise you previous to publi- 

 cation that the supplemental report 

 summarized by you in a recent issue 

 as having been presented by me at 

 the meeting of the Illinois State Flor- 

 ists' Society, had been withdrawn af- 

 ter being presented to the meeting. 



The report was withdrawn by my in- 

 structions and by vote of the meeting 

 all ■ reference to the matter was ex 

 punged from the records. 

 Truly yours, 



W. N. RUDD. 

 February 26, 1909. 



DETROIT FLORIST CLUB. 



The Detroit Florist Club had a 

 very interesting meeting March 1, 

 and the flower show next fall at the 

 Wayne Casino is now an assured fact. 

 While the affair is just beginning to 

 shape itself still the committee on 

 prizes has completed a schedule which 

 totals the amount of $1023.00. ' Chrys- 

 anthemums of course are favored, 

 but handsome prizes are also offered 

 for many other classes of plants. The 

 retailers will exhibit without compe- 

 tition. F. DANZER. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Pasadena Gardeners' Association 

 (Calif.) has decided to hold the annual 

 spring flower show on April 1, 2, Z. 



The Worcester County Horticultural 



Society, Worcester, Mass., will hold its 

 annual reunion and banquet on 

 March 10. 



The Miami Valley Nurserymen's As- 

 sociation held their annual banquet at 

 the Phillips House, Dayton, 0., on 

 Feb. 18. T. J. Dinsmore was elected 

 president and W^ N. Scarff of New Car- 

 lisle, secretary. 



The Massachusetts Fruit Growers' 

 Association will hold its annual meet- 

 ing in Horticultural Hall, Worcester, 

 on March 10 and 11. On the afternoon 

 of the 11th the Worcester County Hor- 

 ticultural Society will have an exhibi- 

 tion. 



At the meeting of the New York 

 Florists' Club on Monday evening, 

 March 8. W. H. Elliott of Brighton, 

 Mass., will give a talk on Roses. An 

 additional prize of a book elegantly 

 bound in red morocco (value $14 00) 

 for the best vase of new roses, intro- 

 ductions of 1908-9, has been offered by 

 a member of the club. 



The lecture at Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston, on Saturday, February 27, was 

 by Mrs. C. R^ F. Ladd, on "Rural N'ew 

 England." It wa? listened to by a 

 large and deeply interested audience 

 and among those who followed in the 

 discussion were Ex-Governor Bachel- 

 der, of New Hampshire, secretary of 

 the N. H. Board of Agriculture. C. R. F. 

 Ladd, past master of the Mass. Stite 

 Grange, and A. A. Hixon, secretary of 

 the Worc'ester County Horticultural 

 Society. The next lecture. March 6, 

 will be on Propagation of Plants by 

 Jackson Dawson^ 



