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HORTICULTURE 



January 11, 1908 



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I GOLD MEDAL STRAIN BEGONIAS I 





TUBEROUS 



Dti:. 100 

 >insie While 40c $2.3u 



■• Yellow 40c 2.50 



" Nankeen 40c 2.50 



•' Pink 40c -■S° 



•• Rose 40c .'.50 



" Red 40': ^-y 



•• Dark Red 40c 2.50 



" Salmon 40c 2.50 



" Orange 40c 2.50 



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CALADIUM 

 ESCULENTUM 



or Elephant's Ear 



Doz. 100 



•Size 5x7 inch bulbs $0.36 $2.00 



" 7x9 " " 48 3-°o 



" 9x11" " 85 6.00 



•• 12 inch and over bulbs 2.40 16.00 



GLADIOLUS BULBS 



lOQ 1000 J 000 



America $7.00 $60.00 $250.00 



Augusta 2.50 



Brenchleyensis, selected 



1 St si/e 1.50 



Hay 2.00 



White and Light 1.50 



Special Hixed, extra large 



selected bulbs i.oo 



Tuberoses Excelsior 



Pearl. 4x0 — i st si/e . . 



10,00 

 15.00 



8.00 



95.00 



47-50 

 60.00 

 57-50 



37-50 





STUMPP & WALTER COMPANY, 50 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



Seed Trade 



The executive cummittee o£ the 

 Anieiicaii Seed Trade Association will 

 meet at the Auditorium, Chicago, 

 .laiiuary 21. 



.James J. H. Gregory has transferred 

 his seed business at Marblehead, Mass., 

 to his son, Edgar. Mr. Gregory, Sr., 

 is now in his eightieth year. 



We mentioned in seed ti-ade notes 

 last weelv Mr. O. K. Natt. There is 

 no such gentleman; the name is P. K. 

 Nott. "A rose by any other name 

 would smell as sweet." 



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catalogOes received. 



W \V. Barnard Co., Chicago.- Pre- 

 liminary List of norists' Flower Seeds 

 for Early Sowing. 



G. S. Crego. Maywood. 111.— Illus- 

 trated folder of the Crego aster, which 

 Is described as "the best aster m the 

 market." 



Pacific Nurseries, F. Ludemann, 

 Prop San Francisco, Cal.— Catalogue 

 and Price-list. 1907-1908. A very ex- 

 plicit list of plants, tender and hardy. 



W. W. Johnson & Sou, Boston, Eng- 

 land.— List of novelties and specialties, 

 with wholesale prices to the trade. 

 Vegetabls and flower seeds are in- 

 cluded. 



Haskell Avenue Floral Company, 

 Dallas, Texas.— Roses and Plants for 

 the South. Fills the bill. Colored il- 

 lustration of Meteor rose adorns the 

 first cover page. 



James Vick's Sons. Rochester, X. Y. 

 — Vicks' Garden and Floral Guide, 190S. 

 Chock full, as usual, with good mate- 

 rial. The front cover illustration is a 

 trio of Vicks' famed asters in colors. 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 

 —New Floral Guide for 1908. Rose il- 

 lustrations in colors on cover. This 

 catalogue not only lists roses but a 

 general line of tender and hardy 

 plants. 



Feliy & Dykhuis, Boskoop, Holland. 

 —Wholesale Catalogue of specialties 

 for nurserymen and landscape archi- 

 tects. Also "The Paeonia," a descrip- 

 tive list of over three hundred varie- 

 ties of P. sinensis, phloxes, irisis. etc. 



California Nursery Company, Nlles, 

 Cal.— Catalogues and Price-list of Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, Palms, Roses, 

 etc., tor 1907-1908. This company has 

 600 acres under cultivation and the 

 present is the 23rd edition of their 

 patalogue. 



Sluis & Groot, Bnkhuizen, Holland.— 



General Wholesale Price-list of Vege- 

 table, Flower and Agricultural Seeds. 

 Includes a colored plate of Tropaeoluni 

 Lobbianum Queen Wilhelmina; flowers 

 scarlet and foliage creamy-white, mar- 

 bled and veined. 



W. E. Marshall & Co., New York 

 City.— Seed Catalogue for Spring, 1908. 

 The Countess of Lonsdale dahlia forms 

 the first rover page illustration, and 

 Black Valentine bean the last. The 

 contents are comprehensive and in- 

 clude a good novelty list. 



A. Mitting, Santa Cniz, Cal.— Whole- 

 sale Price-list for Florists and Nur- 

 serymen. Frontispiece, a cut of Super- 

 lative raspberry, a European introduc- 

 tion said to produce berries three 

 times as large as any known rasp- 

 berry and to be a continuous cropper 



Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.— 1908 Wholesale Catalogue for 

 Florists and Market Gardeners. This 

 has the characteristic Michell business 

 ring in every one of Its fifty pages, and 

 the florist or market gardener who 

 does not send for a copy should be 

 fined. 



W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston.— Gar- 

 den Manual for 1908. A belle toying 

 with a bunch of Canterbury Bells for 

 the edification of an elderly gentleman 

 in the window, forms an exnre^sive 

 frontispiece. The book is a McFarland 

 production which sufBciently fixes its 

 merit as a typographical and pictorial 

 attraction. 



David Herbert & Son, Atco, N. J.— 

 190S Descriptive Catalogue of Dahlias, 

 for seedsmen, florists, nurserymen and 

 dealers. This is a very desirable list 

 for those who wish to learn about the 

 new. and rare varieties and the 

 best of the standard sorts. The collec- 

 tion represented is undoubtedly th? 

 largest in this country. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia. 

 Pa. — Burpee's Farm Annual, contain- 

 ing "the plain truth about the best 

 seeds that grow." tTnique New Ford- 

 hook Bush Lima Bean distinguishes 

 the front and a group of brilliant sweet 

 peas the back cover page. Spencer 

 sweet peas, new nasturtiums. Ford- 

 hook musk melon and Wayahead let- 

 tuce are the subjects of colored inserts. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York 

 City.— Seed Catalogue, 1908. A high- 

 class catalogue in every respect. The 

 cuts are beautiful and the arrangement 

 of the text convenient, creditable alike 

 to compiler and printer. The light, 

 creamy brown cover is embossed, the 

 first page showing a garland of asters 

 in colors and the last page a cluster of 



carnations. Thorburn's Trade List 

 comes by same mail. It is a business 

 proposition from cover to cover. 



H. A. Dreer, Inc., Phila., Pa. — Dreer's 

 Garden Book, 183S-190S.— This is the 

 seventieth anniversary edition of this 

 old but ever young friend of the flower 

 and gardtn lover. No attempt at sen- 

 sational effect is made on the covers, 

 which are dark green with no orna- 

 ment other than the inscription in 

 gold embossed letters, but there are 

 four handsome colored inserts — garden 

 vegetables, pansies, cannas and paeo- 

 nies respectively — and the pages are 

 well filled with readable descriptive 

 matter as usual. 



"Everything for the Garden," by 

 Peter Henderson & Co., New York, is 



MICH ELLS 



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HYACINTHS, TULIPS, NARCISSI 



AND OTHFR BULBS 



ROMAN HYACINTHS and the true 

 PAPER WHITE GRANDIFLORA 



Ask for our Wholeaale Trade Llit at HlUegom 



K. VELTHUYS, Hlllesom, Holland 



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