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DREER'S 



HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 

 SPRING FLOWERING BULBS 



The Fall is an excellent time to set out Hardy Perennial Plants, 

 Vines, Shrubs, Roses, etc. We make a specialty of these plants and grow- 

 in large assortment. A complete list will be found in our AUTUMN 

 CATALOGUE, also Spring-flowering Bullis which must be planted this 

 Fall for blooming next Spring. 



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HENRY A. DREER 



714-716 CHESTNUT STREET 

 PHILADELPHIA, - PA 



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Gladiolus had never been rich in yellow- 

 shades, for until the discovery of /.. 

 primutinus, only about half a dozen yellow 

 species had been found and these had 

 proved slow in helping the development 

 of a yellow large flowered garden type. 



/.. priiiiuHnus has not materially helped 

 in this direction either, for while its yel- 

 low coloring is so potent that it almost 

 always appears among crossbreds, either 

 as a clear shade or intermixed with red, 

 the hooded character, too, is dominant. The 

 same character was noticeable in the old 

 Lemoine type, a strain derived from pur- 

 purco-auratits. Raisers all over the world 

 have strains of PrimuHnits hybrids, many 

 of them exceedingly lovely and worthy of 

 name, yet for our own part we have always 

 felt we would like to see these glorious 

 orange and other tints in the ordinary type. 

 We scarcely dare use the term Gandai'ciisis 

 in these days, for the species and varieties 

 have now become so mixed that the whole 

 bunch of hybrids have apparently got 

 together until no one knows where Ganda- 

 voisis. Saundcrsii, Cliilds^ii, Lcmoinei, etc., 

 begin and end. 



It was to be expected that size would 

 be developed in the Priiiiiiliniis hybrids and 

 it is in this direction that the sesthetic 

 see decline rather than advance. At the 

 recent Boston show .\. Gilchrist, of 

 Toronto exhibited hybrids of Primulinus 

 X America, which, while retaining the 

 loose habit of the former, had lost the 

 hooded character and yellow tint and par- 

 taken of the color, size and open form of 

 the other parent. 



That development in this direction is 

 general, is evident by the fact that one of 

 the most noted nurserymen on the other 

 side makes a protest against the spoiling 

 of this charming type. While urging 

 every effort in the direction of new colors, 

 he considers any departure in the matter 

 of size and form a loss, not a gain. The 

 tendency to expand every flower to its 

 utmost limit of size at the expense of 

 balance and form is. he considers, to be 

 deplored. — florist Excliange. 



COLD WATER FOR FROZEN 

 PLANTS 



An article in The Fruiterer and Market 

 Grower on the above subject from the pen 

 of the veteran horticulturist, Mr. W. F. 

 Emptage, reminds me of my own experi- 

 ence. Many years ago I took charge of a 

 garden in Northern France. I was but 

 twenty-tw-o years of age, and considered 

 myself lucky to get such a charge at so 

 early a period of my gardening career. It 

 happened that there came a severe Winter. 



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One night the thermometer marked 3U de- 

 grees of frost. I had made the round of 

 the glasshouses about 2 p. m. and found 

 the temperature all right, but as the frost 

 was increasing I thought I would make 

 sure and go through again about an hour 

 later. Everything was right in the Palm, 

 Caiin-llia, and Orchid houses, but when I 

 came to the house which contained my 

 whole stock of bedding plants I saw. w-ith 

 horror, that the stokehole was half-filled 

 with water ; it was evident that the boiler 

 had given out. It may be imagined what 

 my feelings were. I knew that the boiler 

 could be repaired on the following day, for, 

 like nearly all the hot-water boilers then 

 in use in France, it was made of copper, 

 but what could I do to stay the destruction. 

 The thermometer steadily fell until frost 

 entered the house and ultimately 10 de- 

 grees of frost were registered, the plants, 

 of course, being frozen as hard as boards. 

 To all appearance the plants were doomed, 

 which meant either a big outlay or denuded 

 ilower-bcds the following Sinnmer. Sud- 

 denly it flashed into my mind that my 

 father once related how he had dealt yvith 

 a house of frozen plants. Fortunately, it 

 was one of those frosts that do not last 

 throughout the day, and soon after day- 

 lireak the temperature hcgan to rise. I 

 I'dled all the water cans and stood, syringe 

 in hand, watching the thermometer, and 

 when it was within a degree of thawing 

 point I thorou.ghly drenched the house with 

 tank water. This operation T repeated, so 

 that the foliage was covered with moisture 

 until the temperature was .t degrees above 

 freezing. In all my life T never passed 



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