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THE QUALITY 

 YOU CAN MAKE 

 MONEY ON 



CANNAS 



SOUND PIECES 

 TRUE TO NAME 

 BED ROCK PRICES 



Red-Flowering, Green 

 Foliage 



r.T (loz. im) If 



A. Huiivier. 5 ft. Daik 



Alii'o liuoeevelt. Deep 



.rimson. 4 ft 50 350 3 



Beaui« Poltevlne. -,J4ti. 



Dark crimson '. 35 2.2; 2 



Black Prince. Velvety 



maroon; 3 to 4 ft ; green 



foliage .50 



ride 



Hedde 



riei 



it. 



75 



1.25 



Duke of Marlborough. 



4Mfl. Dark crimson 3; 



•I. I> Biaele. Brilliant ver 



million-scarlet 5 ft 35 



KxpIoratBUr Crampbel. 



Deep rich crimson sJill. .30 

 Kxpres.**. Crimson; foliag: 



green. Dwarf habit. 1 to 



a'/jft 60 



Flamiiiieo. 4}i ft. Intense 



McKinley. Bril 



■''A 



■ 35 



Pink-Flowering 



L. Patry. Delicate rosy 



•■j^'pink, 4!4ft $0.35 $2.2 



Luray. .Attractive rosy pink, 



3 fl .35 2.2 



Louise. A grand pink, tall .45 3.<;i 

 Martha Washington. 

 ,^_ Rose. Height, 3*^103 ft. 



IOC. each 75 5.01 



Mile. Berat. 4'/j ft. Rose- 



•35 



Tennyson. Rosy pink; 



green foljase: -J4 ft 50 3.00 



CATALOGUK FKF.K. 



Orange-Flowered 



I'irfh.z, 1(X) KXK) 



It n 



$25.c 



Hrij;ht 



^';»'l":-ili $..--^ $,.7^ $ 



Red, Gold-Edged and 

 Spotted 



Gladiator. Bright yellow, 

 spotted crimson, gfeen 

 foliage: 4fl $0.5,, $2. 



Cinnabar. Cinnabar- red, 

 edged with distinct golden 

 band; 4^ ft -^o 2 



Queen Charlotte. .Scar 



let gold edge 30 2. 



Alme. Crozy. $% ft. Ver- 

 million, gold border 35 2, 



Preuiier. Deep crimson, 



bordered yellow. 2j$ ft. .30 a. 



S uv. d" A. Crozy. 4 ft. 



Crimson, gold band 50 4. 



Yellow Shades 



Buttercup. 3K ft. Clear 



••« golden yellow $0.40 $2. 



Co lute de B >nchard. 



Yellow, spotted red, -4^ ft. .30 2. 

 Florence VauBhan. 5 ft. 



\ cllow, spotted crimson . .50 2.75 25.< 

 L.. E.Bailey. Rich yellow, 

 .._ dotted with red; 4 >6 ft .30 2.00 17.1 



White and Cream Shades 



Alsace. ;J4 ft. Creamy white $030 $1.75 fi^' 



Bronze-Leaved, Red- 

 Flowering 



Brandywine. 4 to 3 ft. 



Dark bronze foliage. 



Crimson flowers $0.50 $4.00 $,,.0 



Black Beauty. True. 



5 ft. tirond foliage .60 4.50 40. c 



Wc ■j.o through the block from 14th Street V- 13th St 



17.50 



$15.00 



17-50 



red . 

 King Huuibprt. I'i n e 



BroDze foliage. Orange- 

 scarlet with bright red 

 markings. 4 ft 



Leonard Vaughan. 4J4 

 ft. Bright scarlet 



Musafolia. The finest fol- 

 iaged Caona, with enor- 

 mous musa-like leaves, 3 

 by 5 ft., of a dark green 

 bronze tinged color 



Philadelphia. A bright 

 Rlowing red. Height 5 fl. 



Papa Nardy Large, rich 

 carmine-red, ^% ft. 



Pillar of Fire 6 to 7 ft. 

 high; flowers bright crim- 



irlet . 



RobuAta. Height 6 to 8 ft., 



with immense foliage 

 Shenandoah. Large Sal 



Orchid-Flowering 



Alltf>inannia. 4 to 5 ft. Scar- 

 let and yellow. Green 

 foliage a 



Austria. Pure canary-yel- 

 low; an orchid-flowering 

 type. 5 ft 



Italia. 4V2 ft. Oreen foliage 

 Red bord red yellow 



Kronus. Rich golden yel- 

 low, with patches of 

 bright red, 5 ft 



Mrs. Kate tJray. 6 ft. 



. Green foliage. Scarlet 



and yellow. 



Pennsylvania. 5 ft. Green 

 foliage. Deep scarlet 



BOODINGTON, Seedsma 



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addr. 



till 



St., 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Visitors this weeli: Franlv Henry. 

 Clias. Loeclinfer, New Yoik; W. H. 

 Vance, Wilmington, Del.; P. T. Barnes, 

 Harrisburg. Pa. 



A silver tray engraved with Easter 

 lilies and Asparagus plumosus is 

 among the special prizes offered by the 

 H. F. Michell Co. for Uie forthcoming 

 exhibition of the Boston Flower Grow- 

 ers, Feb. 27th, for the best 12 pots of 

 Easter lilies. 



J. Stern & Co., the enterprising sup- 

 ply house of this city, report largely 

 increased business over January last 

 year. They have three men now on 

 the road. 



Samuel S. Pennock thinks Mr. Stew- 

 art's address at the Indianapolis con- 

 vention full of wit and wisdom and 

 should be framed and hung up in the 

 office of every retailer and wholesaler 

 the world over. 



W. Kleinheinz of the Widener Con- 

 servatories does not subscribe to the 

 genera! notion that Lady Bountifxil is 

 a less desirable commercial white car- 

 nation than White Perfection. 



Edward A. Stroud, of the Strafford 

 Flower F^rms, is receiving the con- 

 gratulations of his many friends on 

 his success at Indianapolis with his ex- 

 hibit of white carnations. 



W. Paul Binder has resigned his po- 

 sition as manager of the Shellem 

 greenhouses It is understood that J. 

 Shellem. Jr., will be manager during 

 his father's illness. Mr. Shellem, Sr., 

 being now at St. Agnes' Hospital seri- 

 ously ill with heart trouble. 



The local mail order trade has felt 



the effect of the western blizzard the 

 past few da.vs. Notwithstanding, all 

 agree that January business breaks 

 the record. Dingee & Conard Co. re- 

 port that both enquiries and orders ex- 

 ceed last year, which was their high 

 water mark. 



Some very fine Georgia carnations 

 were seen here recently. They showed 

 up fine and their keeping quality 

 proves exceptional. This new variety 

 promises to be one of our best com- 

 mercial whites. The experts are very 

 much interested in it. 



SHAW'S GARDEN AND SUNDAY. 



The trustees of Shaw's Garden have 

 decided to omit the annual ba.nquet 

 provided for in the will of Henry Shaw 

 founding the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 . den, and the $1000 thus saved will be 

 added to the endowme'nt fund, a sum 

 that yielded ?2U),S14.31 last year. This 

 decision is announced in the annual 

 report of the trustee^ which also con- 

 tains the information that 118,46-5 

 persons visited the garden during 

 1908. Of tlie iGial iitlendance it is 

 btated that 33,971 pa?s"Pd through the 

 gates on the only two Sundays in the 

 year that the garden is open, leaving 

 only 84,494 as (he number of visitors 

 on the other 316 days that the institu- 

 tion was open. 



The iucopie of the garden, all but 

 about $47,000 of which wa.s spent last 

 year, is about $2.50 for each visitor on 

 a week day, an enormous sum. If the 

 garden had bef'n open every Sunday 

 and the attondancfe had been \vliat it 

 was en the Sundays it was open, the 



342 West 14th St., i 



I NEW YORK CITY. | 



total attendance would have reached 

 nearly a million and the cost per visi- 

 tor would have been less than 2S 

 cents. 



In providing by will that th'e garden 

 sihould be oiiened only on the flri.t 

 Sunday in June and September each 

 >ear, Mr. Shaw was actuated by a 

 Sabbatarian influence that was 

 stronger a quarter of a century ago 

 than it is now. The tiustetes have 

 seen fit to disregard his wishes con- 

 cerning the annual banquet. T.hey 

 might profitably decide that in closing 

 the garden en the days that the larg- 

 est attendance is possible the inten- 

 tion of the founder is not realized. 



William Fischer formerly assistant 

 on the Helen Gould place at Irving- 

 ton, N. Y., has taken position as head 

 iinrdener with Walter IvUttgcn, Bethel. 

 Conn. 



BULBS FOR FLORISTS 



' If you will permit, we would 

 like to mail you our Wholesale 

 Price List for 1900. Drop us 

 a postal. 



RALPH M. WARD 

 &C0. 



12 W. B'way, N. York 



