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HORTICULTURE 



[January 25, 1908] 



NewRose-MY MARYLAND 



Rose Growers in attendance upon the Carnation 

 Show at Washington are invited to stop over at 

 Baltimore and see this rose growing. 



I am booking orders now. It is a beautiful salmon 

 pink with long buds. Easy and strong grower. 

 Makes no blind wood, has averaged 22 flowt rs to 

 a plant since the first of October, has long, stiff 

 stems. Some of the largest growers who have 

 seen it have bought from one to three thousand 

 plants. 



PRICE, 2 1-2 inch pots, $5 per dozen, $25 per 100, $200 per 1000, 



STOCK LIMITED 



JOHN COOK, 318 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



American. . 



American Horticultural Distributing 

 Co., Martinsburg, W. Va. — Pamphlet 

 of Target Brand Scale Destroyer. 



W. \V. Barnard Company, Chicago. — 

 Market Gardeners' Price List of high 

 grade vegetable seeds and gardening 

 tools. 



Henry Saxton Adams, Wellesley, 

 Mass. — Adams' Little Green Book of 

 Choice Seeds and Bulbs, 190S. Sweet 

 peas for cover subject. 



D. McNallie Plant and Fruit Co., 

 Sarcoxie, Mo. — 190S Catalogue and 

 Price List of Strawberry Plants. 

 10,000,000 in 75 varieties. 



R. Vincent, Jr.. & Sons Co.. Whitp 

 Marsh, Md.— Wholesale Trade List of 

 \ egetable. Greenhouse and Bedding 

 Plants for Florists and Dealers Only. 



California Rose Company, Pomona, 

 Cal. — Illustrated and Descriptive Book 

 of Field Grown Roses. Issued for Fall 

 of 1907 and Spring of 1908. Finely il- 

 lustrated. 



Chicago Carnation Company, Joliet, 

 111. — Price List of Carnations and 

 Chrysanthemums for 190S. Portraits of 

 Manager A. T. Pyfer and Supt. Peter 

 Olsem adorn the title page. 



W. W. Wilmore, Denver, Colo. — 

 Catalogue of Dahlias, Hardy Herba- 

 ceous Plants, etc., for Spring, 1908. 

 Illustrated with excellent portraits of 

 the various types of dahlias, which are 

 Mr. Wilmore's leading specialties. Also 

 Dahlia Trade List. 



Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse, Rick- 

 ards Bros., proprietors. New York City 



— Flower and Vegetable Seed Cata- 

 logue for 1908. Pretty cover design in 

 gold and drab on brown background. 

 A good sensible publication and very 

 creditable to "the boys." 



Joseph Brack & Sons, Boston, Mass. 

 —1908 Catalogue of High Grade Seeds. 

 As usual a comprehensive list, with 

 fine descriptive text and dignified 

 make-up. 'The cover is white with in- 

 scription in soft green tints with deli- 

 cate scroll work in red. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., White 

 ilarsh, Md. — Geraniums. A very at- 

 tractive catalogue, a collection of 

 handsome geranium novelty portraits 

 bound together, all of the highest ar- 

 tistic excellence and well calculated to 

 bring business to the house. 



James Smalley & Co., McPherson, 

 Kansas.- Garden and Field Seed An- 

 nual, 1908. Golden chrysanthehums 

 and golden corn, with background of 

 brown oak leaves, form a somewhat 

 unusual but effective cover. Kansas' 

 seed interests seem to be well taken 

 care of. "^ 



Johnson Seed Company, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. — Garden and Farm Annual. 

 190S. A robust old gentleman gazing 

 in admiration on a mammoth onion 

 duly labeled, calls attention on the 

 cover page to the good things enumer- 

 ated within. Profusely illustrated with 

 convincing half-tones. 



Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich. 

 Wholesale Catalogue for 1908 of Chry- 

 santhemums, New and Standard Va- 

 rieties. The reader doesn't need to go 

 beyond this catalogue to get in touch 

 with the top crust of the chrysanthe- 



mum interest in America. Send for 

 it and take your inspiration from it. 

 It fills the bill. 



Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia. 

 Pa.— Michell's 1908 Book of Seeds. 

 This astute seed merchant has chosen 

 for his front cover illustration a group 

 of hardy chrysanthemums in colors 

 and for the back cover some exquisite 

 dahlias. The novelty list is a good 

 one and the catalogue is altogether 

 up-to-date. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York City. 

 — Seeds, 190S. This volume is quite 

 unusual in size and form. The front 

 cover presents a charming garden 

 scene in dainty colors, of trees and 

 shrubs and bloming rhododendrons. 

 Nasturtium Pink Beauty adorns the 

 back cover. One of the handsomest 

 of the season. 



Storrs & Hairison Co.. Painesville. 

 0.— Sprmg Catalogue, No. 2, 1908.— 

 Cover subjects are Digitalis and Royal 

 Striped Comet .4.sters effectively por- 

 trayed in colors. This is a book of 

 over 100 pages devoted to greenhouse 

 and hardy plants, seeds, trees and 

 shrubs, and profusely illustrated with 

 half tones and wood cuts. 



Fancher Creek Nurseries, Fresno, 

 Cal. — New Products of the Trees; Lu- 

 ther Burbank's Late Introduction. 

 Contains a number of beautifully col- 

 ored plates of the Vesuvius, Formosa, 

 Gaviota and Santa Rosa plums, Rut- 

 land plumcot and finished lumber of 

 the Pa'adox and Royal Black walnut, 

 the latter a cross between Juglans 

 nigra and J. Califcrnica. The volume 

 contains also portraits of Luther Bur- 

 bank and Geo. C. Roeding. 



