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HORTICULTURE 



February 2, 190T 



SEED CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



J. M. Thornburn & Co., New York. 

 Trade price-list of flower and vegetable 

 seeds for January, 1907. Very com- 

 plete. 



Schlegel & Fottler Company, Boston. 

 List of seeds, plants and bulbs for 1907. 

 Cover design, a pretty flower garden 

 picture. Contents the usual standard 

 list, with a selection of interesting 

 novelties. 



W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass. 

 This catalogue is a beauty in itself, 

 and its cover page is also "a beauty." 

 The back cover shows some new Shas- 

 ta daisies. Half-tone illustrations are 

 excellent throughout. 



Burpee's Farm Annual, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. Colored cover of "Earliest Pink" 

 tomato and other special products of 

 "Seeds That Grow." Among the novel- 

 ties given special prominence are the 

 wonderful improved Bush Lima Beans. 



Weeber & Don, New York. 1907 cat- 

 alogue of garden, farm and flower 

 seeds. No colors, but a fine lawn 

 scene and a bed of luscious mushrooms 

 furnish the cover attractions. There is 

 a novelty list of more than usual in- 

 terest. 



Joseph Breck & Sons, Boston. An- 

 nual Catalogue for 1907. This firm 

 lacks only fifteen years of a full cen- 

 tury's honorable existence, but there 

 is nothing antiquated about their cata- 

 logue which is a strictly up-to-date 

 production. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York. 

 "Everything for the Garden." The 

 title page is a garden scene of exquisite 

 beauty. The back cover is a garden 

 view of bountiful productiveness. There 

 are also four colored inserts. The il- 

 lustrations are many and the list of 

 novelties is very extensive. 



H. F. Michell Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. 

 Wholesale catalogues of seeds, bulbs, 

 plants and supplies for the florist and 

 market gardener. A very practical 

 and useful list. Also Michell's Seeds 

 for 1907. A splendid retail list. Con- 

 tains a fine colored plate of Michell's 

 Improved Semple Asters. Covers ele- 

 gantly embossed in colors. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston. 

 Garden Annual for 1907. Incarvillea 

 Delavayi on the front and foxgloves on 

 the back cover page, in colors beauti- 

 fully reproduced attract attention to 

 the contents. There are profuse half- 

 tone illustrations of the best produc- 

 tions in annual and perennial border 

 plants and ornamental shrubbery. 



Wm. Elliott & Sons, New York. Seed 

 catalogue for 1907. Messrs. Elliott have 

 outdone themselves in this instance 

 with one of the prettiest covers ever 

 sent out. The subject is a Japanese 

 scene showing a garden of iris in 

 bloom. Phlox Drummondii occupies 

 the back cover. Between the covers 

 there is "food for thought" for every 

 horticulturist. 



H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. Gar- 

 den Book for 1907. Here is a catalogue 

 the peer of anything ever issued in 

 this country. Besides the covers which 

 illustrate in rich colors Salvia Ball of 

 Fire, Gypsophila elegans alba grandi- 

 flora, Gypsophila paniculata and Ever- 

 blooming Hybrid Sweet William ther" 

 are inserts of Iceland Poppies, Dahlia 

 Frank Smith and Phlox Drummondii, 

 also of selected vegetables all executed 

 in colors true to nature. And the book 

 is "full of meat." 



HARDY JAPANESE LILIES 



These are excellent for forcing and bring handsome prices. 

 We have an e.xtra fine importation juat received in good shape. Try 

 a few and note the ready sale. 



AURATUM, White, spotted crimson, yellow stripes 



8 to 9 inches in circum. 



9 to 11 " ." 



11 to 13 " " 



Duz. 



$ .75 

 1.10 

 2.00 



100 



$5.25 



7 50 



15.00 



ALBUM, (Praecox) Pure white improved type 



8 to 9 inches in circum. 



9 to 11 " " 



1.00 

 1.50 



7.00 

 11.00 



1000 

 $47.50 



70.00 

 130.00 



65.00 

 105.00 



MELPOMENE, Rich crimson 



8 to 9 inches in circum. . . . 1.00 7.25 65.00 



MAGNIFICUM, Mammoth beautiful crimson blooms 



8 to 9 inches in eircuui. 



9 to 11 " 



1.00 

 1.20 



7.00 65.00 



H.OO 76.00 



SALVIA CLARA BEDHAN or BONFIRE 



A special strain of carefully hand selected seed from large specimen 

 plants, per ;'i trade pkt. 25c., per trade pkt. lOc, per oz. $2.50 



bend for our New Wholesale Catalo4|ue. It will interest 

 and \>ay every riorist. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



1018 Market Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



STATEMENT OF PLANT AND SEED 

 IMPORTS. 



There were entered at the port of 

 New York from January 8 to 28, in- 

 clusive, the following plants, etc. 



From Holland: O. G. Hempstead 

 & Son, 4 bis. flower seed; C. B. Rich- 

 ard, 1 case plants; J. M. Thorbum & 

 Co., 16 bis. garden seed; Vaughan's 

 Seed Store, 1 cs. trees, 1 cs. plants, 10 

 pgs. seed; Sundry Forwarders. 4 cs. 

 plants, 97 bgs. seed. 



From Belgium; H. F. Darrow, 1 cs. 

 l)lants; Vaughan's Seed Store, 6 cs. 

 bulbs; Maltus & Ware, 7 cs. bulbs. 



From France: C. C. Abel & Co., 21 

 pgs. plants; H. F. Darrow, 63 cs. do., 

 76 cs. seed; McHutchison & Co., 154 

 cs. plants, 53 cs. seed; C. B. Richard, 

 1 cs. plants; General Order, 50 cs. 

 plants; Sundry Forwarders, 1189 cs. 

 do. 



From Germany; H. F. Darrow, 130 

 cs. lily of the valley, 12 pgs. seed; W. 

 Taat, 70 cs. lily of the valley; J. 



Roehrs Co., 1 cs. bulbs; Vaughan's 

 Seed Store, 4 cs. flower seed; General 

 Order, 40 cs. lily of the valley, 7 pgs. 

 seed. 



From England: H. F. Darrow, 1 cs. 

 trees; Sundry Forwarders, 4 cs. trees, 

 40 pgs. plants. 



Via Southampton; C. C. Abel & 

 Co., 49 cs. plants; McHutchison & Co., 

 70 cs. trees; Aug. Rolker & Sons, 40 

 cs. plants; Vaughan's Seed Store, 35 

 pgs. seed; Weeber & Don, 2 cs. garden 

 seed; Sundry Forwarders, 27 cs. trees, 

 12 cs. plants. 



FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION. 



This is the time of year that the 

 United States government makes its 

 distribution of free seeds. There is an 

 abundance for all, and any persons 

 desiring to get seeds In this way can 

 receive them by mailing a request to 

 Congressman W. W. Cocks, House of 

 Representatives, Washington, D. C. 

 — From Flushing (N. Y.) Journal, Jan. 

 16, 1907. 



JOHNSON'S HIGH CRADE 



LILY OF THE VALLEY PIPE 



ARE THE FINEST OFFERED TO THE TRADE. 



Per Per Percase 

 loo loco 2c;oopips 



Selected Hamburg, for forcing, 1.25 11.00 25.00 



200 pips 



Selected Berlin, unsurpissed in quality, 1.50 14.00 27.00 



New Crop Flower Seeds Ready— Write for our Florists' Wholesale Catalogue. 



JOHNSON SEED COMPANY, '^U.^^'^^d^P^. 



Herbert W. Johnpon, of the late 

 firm of Johnson & Stokes, President. 



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