March 22, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



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EASTER! EASTER!! EASTER!!! 



GiGANTEUM LILIES 



$12.00 per 100 blooms, cut or in pots 

 No Charge For Packing 



Place your order with us for NOW and EASTER. WHY you should buy from us. BECAUSE we handle 

 the stock of 100 of the very best growers in New England. We sell at reasonable prices, quality always the 

 best. We continually carry the largest supply of cut flowers, best varieties, and therefore can at all times fill 

 your order at a moment's notice. By placing your order with us, we relieve you of worry as we do this for you. 



VIOLETS Single and Double 



Valley 

 Sweet Peas 

 Corn Flowers 

 Marguerites 

 Forget. me-nots 

 Calendulas 



Golden Spur, Von Sion, 

 Victoria, Poetlcus and 

 Paper White Narcissus 



Callas 

 Dutch and Roman Hya- 

 cinths 



ROSES in all grades 



American Beauty, Aaron Ward, Cardinal, Mrs. 

 Charles Russell, Lady Hlllingdon, Richmond, 

 White and Pink Killarney, Klllarney Queen, 

 Taft 



CARNATIONS Best Standard Varieties 



Smilax Strings, Plumosa Strings, Adiantum 

 Croweanum Ferns, Sprengerl 



We have hundreds of pleased customers, and our main effort will be to please you. Try us and be convinced. 

 We never disappoint. Satisfaction guaranteed. A square deal to all. 



Henry M. Robinson & Company 



Wholesale Commission Florists. 



15 Province Street 



Manufacturers and^lmporters of Florist Supplies.], [ Hardy Cut Evetgreens 



BOSTON, MASS. 9 & 15 Chapman Place 



TELEPHONES-Main.'26I7-2618-SS5. Fort Hill,r25290-2S292 



only: For azaleas — A. W. Preston; 

 palms, Mrs. C. G. Weld; ericas, Mrs. 

 Frederick Ayer; acacias, Mrs. Freder- 

 ick Ayer and Mrs. C. G. Weld; hard- 

 wooded greenhouse plants, Mrs. C. G. 

 Weld; roses, W. W. Edgar Co.; cycla- 

 mens, Mrs. C. G. Weld, and Mrs. Les- 

 ter Leland; cinerarias, Mrs. J. L. Gard- 

 ner and Wni. Whitman; schizanthus, 

 Mrs. Lester Leland; hyacinths, Wm. 

 Whitman, Mrs. C. G. Weld, Francis 

 Skinner, H. L. Rand; tulips, Wm. 

 Whitman (four firsts), A. W. Preston 

 (four), Mrs. J. L. Gardner, H. L. Rand 

 and F. Skinner (one each) ; narcissi, 

 Wm. Whitman, A. W. Preston and H. 

 L. Rand; other bulb classes were dis- 



tributed among the same exhibitors; 

 general display of bulbous plants ar- 

 ranged with foliage plants, Mrs. J. L. 

 Gardner; orchids, E. B. Dane and W. 

 A. Manda; roses. W. H. Elliott (four 

 firsts), Waban Rose Conservatories, 

 (two). In the carnation classes, A. A. 

 Pembroke was first and second for 

 vases of 100 blooms; in the classes for 

 50, A. A. Pembroke won four firsts and 

 two thirds; S. J. Goddard, one first 

 and three seconds; C. S. Strout, two 

 seconds; W. R. Nicholson, one first; 

 violets, Ed. Bingham (two) ; sweet 

 peas, Wm. Sim (four) ; antirrhiAums, 

 F. W. Fletcher. 

 Silver medals were awarded to Peter 



Fisher for carnation Gorgeous; Wm. 

 Sim for display of pansies; Wm. Sim 

 for artistic display of violets; cultural 

 certificate to Wm. Sim for sweet peas. 

 Honorable mention to F. R. Pierson 

 Co., for display of Nephrolepis varie- 

 ties.; W. A. Manda for Nephrolepis 

 tuberosa plumosa, Antherlcum Manda- 

 iana and Begonia Mrs. W. S. KlmbaJl. 



Spring Flower Show at Boston 

 The Carnations and Dinner Table Entries. 



SPRING SHOW AT PHILADELPHIA. 



The annual Spring Flower Show of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 opened on the evening of the 18th 

 inst, lasting for three days. The ex- 

 hibits filled the main hall comfortably 

 and were of a high order of merit, 

 both as to culture and variety. Hya- 

 cinths, tulips, daffodils, spireas, hy- 

 drangeas, were conspicuously excel- 

 lent in all classes. Azaleas — usually a 

 strong feature on this occasion — were 

 very little in evidence. Easter lilies 

 were also on the short side, but what 

 few were shown were of the best and 

 showed high skill in culture with good 

 stock back of same. Spireas were 

 particularly good this year. Queen 

 Alexandra and another new pink one 

 called Philadelphia, were a marked 

 feature of the show. The finest hya- 

 cinth was a variety called Jacques, 

 blush, trusses a foot long and perfect- 

 ly formed. In daffodils the sensation 

 was King Alfred, a self yellow trum- 

 pet of gigantic size and magnificent 

 form. They say these cost a dollar a 

 bulb, and we can well believe it. They 

 are worth it. There was a display of 

 the newer roses but hardly In good 

 enough form to enthuse over. The 

 Juliet was one of them and looks en- 

 tirely different in natural light from 

 what we saw of it at the Florists' 



