April 10, 1909 



HORTICULTURi: 



531 



THE QUALITY 

 YOU CAN MAKE 

 MONEY ON 



CANNAS 



Alic 



3-50 



Red-Flowering, Green 

 Foliage 



Perdoz. 100 II 



Bouvier. 5 ft. Dark 



$0.35 $a-»5 $' 



Roosevelt. Deep 



mson. 4 ft 50 



Beaute Poltevine. 3'Ait. 



Dark crimson .35 



Black Prince. Velvety 



maroon; 3 to 4 ft.; green 



foliage 50 



Charles HenderBon. 4ft. 



Bright crimson 35 



Crimson Bedder. 3 ft. 



Intense scarlet 30 



Duke of .narlborough. 



4>4ft. Darkcrimsen 35 



J.D. Eisele. Brilliant ver- 



m.llion-scarlet 5 ft. 35 



Explorateur Crampbel. 



Deep rich crimson 5^^ ft. .30 

 Express. Crimson; foliag; 



green. Dwarf habit. 2 to 



aVaft .60 



Pres. McKinlev. Bril- 



jHtojft. .35 



75 



50 



Pink-Flowering 



L Patry. Delicate rosy 



pink, 4J4 ft $0.35 



IjUray. Attractive rosy pink, 



3ft -35 



Louise. A grand pink, tall .45 



Martha Washington. 

 Rose. Height, 3^/,l0 3tt. 



Mile. Berat. aVi ft- Rcse- 

 carmine 



Tennyson. Rosy pink: 

 green foliage; 5J4 ft 



•75 



CATALOGUE FREE. 



Orange-Flowered 



Per doz. 100 

 President Cleveland. 



Bright, distinct 



scarlet ; 4 ft $0.35 



Red, Gold-Edged and 

 Spotted 



Gladiator. Bright yellow, 

 spotted crimson, green 

 foliage; 4ft $0.50 



Cinnabar. Cinnabar-red, 

 edged with distinct golden 

 band; 4^ ft 30 



Queen Charlotte. Scar- 

 let gold edge 30 



Mme. Crozy. 5!« ft. Ver- 

 million, gold border 35 



Premier. Deep crimson, 



bordered yellow. 2J4 ft. .30 



Souv. d' A. Crozy. 4 ft. 



Crimson, gold band 50 



Yellow Shades 



Buttercup. iH ft. Clear 



goldenyellow $3.40 $2.75 $25.< 



Comte de Bouchard. 



Yellow, spotted red, 4ii ft. 

 Florence Vaughan. 5 ft. 



Yellow, spotted crimson . 

 L.E. Bailey. Rich yellow. 



dotted with red; 4K ft 



White and Cream Shades 



Alsace. 354 ft. Creamy white $0.30 $t.75 $i5.c 



Bronze-Leaved, Red- 

 Flowering 



Brandywine. 4 'o 5 ft. 



Dark bronze foliage. 



Crimson flowers $0-50 $4.< 



Black Beauty. True. 



5 ft. Grand foliage 60 4.50 



We go through tlie block from 14th Street to 



7.50 



7-5° 



$35.< 



King Humbert 



Bronze foliage. Orange 



scarlet with bright rec 



markings. 

 Leonard Vaughan. 4J4 



ft. Bright scarlet 35 



Musafolia. The finest fol- 



iaged Canna, with 



like leaves, 3 



by 5 ft., of a dark green 



bronze-tinged color 35 



Philadelphia. A bright 



■ Height 5 ft. .75 

 Papa Nardy Large, rich 



d, 4>i ft 30 



Pillar of Fire 6 to 7 ft. 



high; flowers bright 



Robusta. Height 6 to 8 ft., 



with immense foliage .30 1.75 



Shenandoah. Large Sal- 

 mon flowers, 6 ft 3° '-75 



Orchid-Flowering 



ia. 4 to 5 ft. Scar- 

 yellow. Green 

 foliage 



Austria. Pure canary-yel- 

 low; an orchid-flowering 

 type. 5 ft •■■• 



Italia. iVi ft- Green foliage 

 Red bord red yellow 



Kronus. Rich golden yel- 

 low, with patches of 

 bright red, 5 ft 



Mrs. Kale Gray. 6 ft. 

 Cireen foliage. Scarlet 

 and yellow 



Pennsylvania. 5 ft. Green 

 foliage. Deep scarlet. 



Alle 



?o.35 



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jth Street, but 



addr 



;ill 



INGTON, Seedsman, 



342 West 14th St., 



NEW YORK CITY. 



The New York Florists' Bowling 

 Olub will bowl at Thum's Alleys, on 

 Monday afternoon, April 12, instead 

 of Monday evening as the regular 

 meeting of the Florists' Club takes 

 place on that evening. 



A NEW NURSERY CONCERN. 



The Lowell M. Palmer estate at Stam- 

 ford, Conn., has been sold to the Fern- 

 wood Nursery. The Fernwood Nursery 

 has recently been incorporated, with 

 the following officers: B. ,J. Ezechel, 

 president; J. J. Davidson, vice-presi- 

 dent; L. G. Bernheinier, secretary and 

 treasurer. New York office .53 West 

 30th street. The president of the 

 company, B. J. Ezechel, is well known 

 for many years among the florist 

 trade of New York. Sam A. Wood- 

 row, recently engaged in the whole- 

 sale plant business at 53 W. 30th 

 street, has been engaged as traveling 

 salesman. 



The L. M. Palmer estate, for many 

 years under the supervision of that 

 expert plantsman. A. Hans, is far- 

 famed for the splendid collection of 

 hardy conifers, rhododendrons and 

 ferns gathered together and raised by 

 Mr. Hans. The estate consists of 

 about eighty acres. 



PERSONAL. 



Visitors in Toledo — Robert Rahaley 

 and Alb. Pochelon of Detroit, Mich. 



Chicago visitors: A. T. Pyfer, Joliet. 

 111.; Alex. Siegel, St. Louis, Mo. 



H. R. Hughes, Chicago, is convales- 

 cent, following a severe attack of La 

 Grippe with heart complications. 



Visitors in Albany: Harry Meyer of 

 Louis Meyer & Bro., New York; Fred 

 M. Simon, agent for Wolf & Co., Phila- 

 delphia. 



Miss Ethel Merrill of Portland is in 

 charge of the new flower store opened 

 at Westbrook, Me., recently by N. W. 

 Hannaford. 



R. LeRoy Lau.ghlin has taken charge 

 of the business of the Laughlin Seed 

 Co., at Kenton. O., which includes 

 their eastern agency. 



Wm. McM. Brown, who has contri- 

 buted some interesting cultural ar- 

 ticles for HORTICULTURE during 

 the' past year, , has resigned his posi- 



tion with W. N. Craig on the Ames 

 estate. North Easton. Mass., and start- 

 ed on April 9 for the Pacific coast, 

 with a view to possibly locating there. 



Willard Asmus. ten-year-old son of 

 George Asmus of the Schiller Co., 

 Chi=ago, is recovering from an attack 

 of incipient appendicitis. 



Visitors in Boston— E. J. Harnion, 

 Portland Me., John Wilson, Burling- 

 ton, Vt., Prof. E. A. White. Amherst, 

 Mass., D. F. Roy, Marion, Ma.ss. 



Arthur Smith has resigned his posi- 

 tion with Peter Smith & Sons, Detroit, 

 Mich., and will start in business as a 

 landscape architect at Spokane, Wash. 



W. Desmond, formerly with the 

 L. S. Donaldson Co.. Minneapolis, has 

 5one into partnership with T. Souden. 

 Their store is located on Hennepin 

 avenue, where they occupy a very 

 prominent corner and make a flue 

 window display. Charles Snell, for- 

 merly of New York and later of Chi- 

 cago," is the successor of W. Desmond 

 at L. S. Donaldson's. 



Headquarters for Asparagus Plumosus Seed 



GREENHOUSE CROWN 



100 seeds, .50 

 1,000 •• $3.75 



5,000 seeds, $17.50 

 10,000 " $32.50 



New 

 Crop 



LATH HOUSE CROWN 



100 seeds, .40 1 5,000 " $12..50 

 1,000 •' $2.75 I 10.000 " $23.00 



Write for Our Wholesale Cafmlogtie 



HENRY F. MIGHELL GO. 



1018 Market Street. 



PHILADELPHIA 



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