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September 4, 1909 



New Offers in Thi s Issue. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



A. J. Pietfi-s. Seed Gro\vi-i-. Ilollister, Cal. 

 For page see List of Advi'itisers. 



CARNATIONS FIELD GROWN. 



C. H. Jenkins, Cumberland Centre, Me. 

 For pag e sec List of Advertisers. 



CARNATION PLANTS FIELD 

 GROWN. 



Welch Bros., 226 Devonshire St.. Doston. 

 For pag e aee List of .Advertisers. 



DAHLIA SHOW SEPT. 28-OCT. 1. 



K. Vincent, Jr. & Sens Co.. White Marsh. 

 Md. 

 For page s ee List of Advertisers. 



DAHLIAS. 



Herbert, Atco, N. J. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



FIELD GROWN CARNATIONS: 

 CALIFORNIA VIOLETS. 



W. J. & M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne, lud. 

 For pag e see List of Advertisers. 



GIANT PANSY PLANTS. 



Chas. Frost, Kenilworth, N. J. 

 F or page see List of Advertisers. 



IMPORTANT TO CATALOGUE 



MEN. 



Dingee & Couard Co., West Grove, Pa. 

 For pa ge see List of .Advertisers. 



LILY BULBS, HORSESHOE BRAND. 



R. M. Ward & Co., 12 W. Broadway, 



New York. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



SABBATIA CHLOROIDES. 



L. H. Read, Fruitvale, Ala. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 

 — Price list of Vines and Climbers in 

 pots. Very useful stock which can be 

 planted at any season. 



Thomas J. Grey Co., Boston, Mass.— 

 Bulb Catalogue, 1909. Price list of 

 bulbs for fall planting and miscellane- 

 ous horticultural sundries. 



Hjalniar Hartmann & Co., Copen- 

 hagen, Denmark. — Prospectus of Dan- 

 ish lily of the valley, and Comtesse 

 Knuth carnation for September de- 

 livery. 



Dingee & Conard Co.. West Grove, 

 Pa. — New Guide to Rose Cultuie and 

 Bulb Growing, Fall, 1909. Colored il- 

 lustrations of hyacinths and Charles 

 Dingee rose adorn the covers. 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 

 — New Floral Guide, Autumn, 1909. 

 The usual enticing contents. Cover 

 shows peony Marie Lemoine on front 

 and standard single early tulips on 

 rear. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York 

 City— Bulb Catalogue for 1909. Com- 

 pares favorably with past publications 

 issuing from this old reliable house. 

 The cover is rich but unobtrusive in 

 color and design. 



Eastern Nurseries, Jamaica Plain, 

 Mass. Henry S. Dawson, Mgr.— Early 

 Autumn List. This includes a special 

 price list of evergreens for early fall 

 shipment and hardy herbaceous plants 

 of the choicer sorts. 



Burbank's Experiment Farms, Santa 

 Rosa, Cal. — Descriptive List of the 

 New Burbank Giant Amaryllis; 136 va- 

 rieties are listed with brief descrip- 

 tions. The present stock of each is 

 given and each variety is offered out- 

 right. The illustrations which are 

 given show a very fine type of flower. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The hall in Vincent Square was 

 Ugain, on August 17, ablaze with color, 

 the tables being filled with a profusion 

 of shrubby phloxes, gladioli, gloxinias, 

 cut sprays of llowering shrubs, clema- 

 tises, canuas, hardy fuchsias, herbace- 

 ous perennials and a good assortment 

 uf orchids, including many fine cat- 

 tleyas and hybrid laelio-cattleyas from 

 the trading houses, and a capital dis- 

 play of codiaeums (crotons). 

 Orchids. 

 Messrs. Sander & Sons came out 

 strongly with these plants in much va- 

 liety. The more remarkable were the 

 following: CyiJripedium "LUtor, a cross 

 of C. Lawrenceianum and C. Sander- 

 ianum. The Hower has the long, 

 drooping petals of the Selenipediums, 

 and a brown pouch of constricted 

 shape, a dorsal sepal of a greenish 

 color with erect lines on it, of a black- 

 brown tint: the petals twisted and nar- 

 row and furnished with dark colored 

 spots. Cypripedium Olga Bagshaw pos- 

 sesses likewise a dorsal sepal of fine 

 proportions, white, with a purplish 

 tinge about the central area, the petals 

 of a varnished brown color. Dendro- 

 bium Regium has flowers of a pleas- 

 ing, rosy purple tint, and a throat of a 

 shade of yellow; and is very free to 

 flower. Laelio cattleya Digbyanas were 

 many and the more striking were L. 

 c. Digbyana Mossiae, a light purple 

 flower, of a deeper tint in the sepals 

 and petals and a lip gracefully fringed 

 in the Digbyana manner; L. c. Bletch- 

 leyensis, a very fine variety having a 

 labellum of rich purple; L. c. Berthe 

 Fournier, a cross of L. c. elegans and 

 C. Dowiana aurea. The flower pos- 

 sesses rosy purple petals and sepals 

 and a purple lip, the petals and sepals 

 being folded inwards, rather spoiling 

 their effect. L. c. Digbyana gigas was 

 a striking variety with the Digbyana 

 fringfd lip. A splendid spike of Odou- 

 toglossiim crispum Harryanum was re- 

 marked, with much biown spotting on 

 a milk-while ground; also Odontioda 

 Bradshav.iae, with sepals and petals 

 of a pinkish orange, and the tips pale 

 flesh color. L. C. Nysa is a flower 

 with a lip of an intense purple shade, 

 sepals voluted, and petals outspread, 

 wavy at the edges and of a light pur- 

 ple tint. Brasso-cattleya Pluto excel- 

 lens is a strikingly pale brown as re- 

 gards the petals and sepals, the lip 

 fringed as in Brassia, purplish at the 

 base, merging into cerise at the mar- 

 gin. 



Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. exhibit- 

 ed some fine orchids, notable being 

 Cattleya Venus, the lip of which is of 

 rich purple with lines of orange run- 

 ning down the tube; sepals and petals 

 lemon yellow. Trichopilia Turialon 

 has flowers of canary yellow, with a 

 green tinge on the sepals and petals, 

 the throat colored orange. Angraecum 

 Rothschildianum is a dwarf species 

 with depressed white blossoms, with 

 some green color in the throat. 



Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. showed a 

 very splendidly bloomed plant of Odon- 

 toglossum Rolfae, the individual flow- 

 ers measuring 3 inches in diameter; 

 Cattleya Piltiana is a variety with 

 creamy white sepals and petals, a lip 

 reticulated with purple, and a bright 

 yellow throat; Cypripedium gigas 

 Corndean variety is a robust growing 



plant, having a dark brown pouch and 

 sepals, the doisal one being white with 

 a green central area. 



H. S. Goodson exhibited Laelio-cat- 

 tleya Black Prince, a flower having a 

 fine purple colored lip. and rosy purple 

 sepals and petals (award of merit). 

 He likewise showed Odontoglossum 

 Goodsoni, a cupped flower, white, with, 

 spots of rich brown and eight of the 

 flowers on one spike (flrst-class certifi- 

 cate). 



Messrs. Moore, Ltd., showed Dendro- 

 bium acuminatum, having a flower 

 stalk one foot high, surmounted with, 

 a number of closely set, rosy-red flow- 

 ers, the central parts being the deeper 

 in color (first-class certificate). This 

 firm were likewise exhibitors of L. c. 

 Jason, the flower of which has a rich 

 purple labellum waved at the edge, the 

 sepals and petals being lemon yellow 

 (award of merit). 



Two dozen plants of Disa grandiflora, 

 in flower, from Mrs. Bischoffsheim cre- 

 ated quite a sensation among the visi- 

 tors. A very interesting exhibit con- 

 sisting of hardy flowering shrubs and 

 climbing plants was contributed by 

 Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. This in- 

 cluded several forms of Buddleia varia- 

 bilis; Clematis Countesse de Brouch- 

 ard, rosy puiple: C. Colette Deville, 

 rich purple; C. La France, bright blue; 

 several species of Hydrangeas, includ- 

 ing H. Japonica tricolor; very finely 

 (lowered growths of Eucryphia pinnati- 

 tolia, numerous species of Hypericum; 

 flethra canescens, a plant with white, 

 terminal flower spikes, eight inches in 

 length, showy and striking in appear- 

 ance: .\mygdalus dulcis pupurea with 

 reddish-purple foliage; several distinct 

 looking Spiraeas, Coriaria terminalia 

 bearing semi-transparent yellow ber- 

 ries, etc. This firm were exhibitors 

 also' of a nice lot of small plants of 

 Amphiconie Eniodi in bloom; of a 

 pretty, veiy dwarf and floriferous Be- 

 gonia with closely double, scarlet flow- 

 ers named Washington: of Canna in- 

 dica in fine bloom, the variety King 

 Humbert obtaining an award of merit; 

 and a batch of Primula obconica rubra 

 improved, flnely bloomed, the color be- 

 ing a lively pink. 



Mr. E. Patten showed a double flow- 

 ered Pelargonium Paul Crampel. It 

 was sure to come. Hardy herbaceous 

 perennials were* most abundantly 

 shown in the cut state by the trade, 

 also phloxes, gladioli. Fuchsia necar- 

 toni in variety, hollyhocks, etc. 



Messrs. H. B. May made a creditable 

 display with crotons, nicely grown and 



colored highly. ^^ 



FREDERICK MOORE. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Vancouver, B. C— Swires & Fatkin 

 have purchased the Hazlewood Nur- 

 sery. 



Jacksonville, Fla.— The newly incor- 

 porated company. Mills, the Florist, 

 met on August 18 and elected C. D. 

 Mills president and C. L. Whipp, sec- 

 retary and treasurer. The general of- 

 fices of the company will be on For- 

 syth street. 



Chicago. — A sad accident occurred 

 at the J. A. Budlong place on the north 

 side of the city. Aug. 27th, during a 

 severe storm that passed over the 

 city at that time. Three laborers took 

 shelter under a tree which was struck 

 by lightning and all were killed. 



