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An excellent opportunity to stock up with a high class of Decorative Stock, grown 

 by well known growers. Will also offer each day Bulbs, Dutch and Bermudian. 

 CATALOG NOW READY 



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201 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK 



Auctioneers 



DAHLIA NOTES. 

 Watson's Idea of the Best Commercial 

 '- Sorts Seen at Peacock Dahlia 



Farms. 

 Two of the finest of the l)ig show 

 whites are John Walker and Storm 

 King. 



Eureka — Decorative, pink. Petals 

 quilled full to center. Dwarf hranch- 

 ing habit. 



Floradora — Dark crimson cactus. 

 Pointed petals, quite full to center, 

 medium height and branching habit. 



Ami Barillet— Single scarlet; dark 



bronze foliage, which reminds one of 



a bed of dark-leaved cannas. Dwarf. 



Bird of Passage— Show, pink, flushed 



with crimson. 



President Viger — In our opinion this, 

 the first of the collarette type, is still 

 the best. 



Pink Century— Single; I would call 

 this th« biggest and best of all the 

 20th century seedlings. Shell pink 

 biooms averaging 6 to 8 inches in di- 

 ameter. 



Twentieth Century — Although not as 

 large as pink century, , the lovely 

 blending of wine, red and white in this 

 variety puts it in a class by itself. 



Gorgeous — A seedling of 20th Cen- 

 tury; dazzling scarlet. 



Aegis — Curiously twisted and in- 

 curved cactus. Glowing bright red. 



Clifford W. Bruton- Decorative; the 

 best double yellow in existence today. 

 Kriemhilde — The best pink cactus 

 with pink petals so far. Outside petals 

 pink, centre white. It brings a high 

 price in the cut flower market. Victor 

 Von Schaeffel, which was introduced 

 this year as an improvement on 

 Kriemhik'ife, does not, in our opinion 

 stand in the same class. 



Apple Blossom — Show; color well in- 

 dicated by the name. 



William Agnew and Katherine Duer 

 — Two finest reds in existence today. 

 Both of the decorative type and very 

 effective for table decorations under 

 antificial light. Both command good 

 prices as cut flowers. 



Fern-leaved Beauty — Fancy class. 

 White, striped with deep crimson. 



Kaiser Wilhelra— Very similar to 

 Oj-iole, but better. Quilled petals, 

 bright yellow, tipped with carmine. 

 Arabella — A yellow show, tipped old 

 rose and lavender. Emily Edwards is 

 another lovely show variety; white, 

 suffused with pink. 



Buttercup — A single yellow, not par- 

 ticularly remarkable for size, but for 

 quality it is simply immense. Stems 

 slender, strong and wiry, making it ex- 

 cellent for cutting. 



Black Beauty— The best of the very 

 dark; much better than Black Prince. 



Lyndhuist — Scarlet, decorative. 



Nympha^a — For beautiful pink and 

 white and fine cactus lorm, Nymphyea 

 is the ideal. 



Frank L. Bassett — Decorative; shows 

 up strong at a distance, bright royal 

 purple. 



Sylvia — A new decorative, ranking 

 with Bruton and Lyndhurst; white 

 shading to soft pink on outer petals. 



Brunhilde — Plum color. 



Miss May Lomas — Blush; show. 



Arachne — Like a spider, bright red 

 and white cactus, with curiously 

 twisted petals. Variable as to coloring. 



Armorer — Red; show. 



St. George — Yellow; single. 



Alba Superba — For a single white, 

 we think this beats White Century- 

 It may not be quite as large, but it is 

 purer white and has far better sub- 

 stance. A much better flower for ship- 

 ping and selling. 



Gracie — Another good single. The 

 color is white, suffused with blush 

 shading to soft pink at centre. Best 

 of its class. 



Henry Patrick — White; decorative. 



Grand Duke Alexis— White, tinged 

 with pink. 



Red Piper — Pompon; very deep red 

 and fine form. To our mind this is 

 better than sunshine, which is gener- 

 ally cracked up as the best red. 



Rosalie — Pompon; yellow, tipped 

 with crimson. 



Alevvine — Blush pompon. 



G. C. W. 



S. S. Pennock's Idea of the Best Com- 

 mercial Sorts. 



In connection with the above article 

 by Mr. Watson, it is interesting to note 

 the following list of varieties selected 

 by that keen judge of commercial val- 

 ue, Mr. S. S. Pennock, who went over 

 the same fields about two weeks later 

 than Mr. Watson: 



Crimson Century, Nymphrea, Ami 

 Barillet. White Century, Record, Pro- 

 fessor Mansfield, Frantz Litz, March 

 of Beebe, Miss May Lomas, Scarlet 

 Century. Sindolt. General Butler. Gail- 

 lardia. Denver, Standard Bearer, St. 

 George, President Viger, Queen of the 

 Belgians, John Thorpe, Henry Patrick, 

 Scarlet Century, A. D. Livoni, Twenti- 

 eth Century, Mrs. H. J. Jones. Penel- 

 ope. Mrs. Keith, Lyndhurst, William 

 Agnew, John Elitch, Carol, Gorgeous, 

 C. W. Bruton, Arabella, Kriemhilde 

 Perle d'Or. 



PITHY AND TO THE POINT. 



It .gives me great pleasure to receive 

 Horticulture. It is pithy and to the 

 point; a journal that every one in the 

 profession ought to read. Please find 

 check for $1.— W. W. 



"AN ELASTIC TERM." 



"So fer as I'm able to make out 

 through gen'ral hobservation, the 

 great trouble wi' gard'ners is that 

 there's too many of 'em. They may 

 not be all good 'uns, but that ain't the 

 point just now, and the word gard'ner, 

 by the way, is a werry elastick term. 

 It describes the hoccupation o' the 

 heminent 'orticulturist who manages 

 the hextensive domains o' the lord o' 

 the manor, just as it does that o' the 

 hindividual who looks arter th' par- 

 son's garden, tends to 'is pony, feeds 

 'is pigs, cleans 'is knives and boots, 

 rings th' church bell for service, puts 

 in th' amens at th' end of th' prayers 

 on Sundays, buries th' dead, and fills 

 sundry other hoffises, perokial and 

 otherwise, for the magnificent stipend 

 of one pound a week and such little 

 hextras as can be picked up. In an 

 hoccupation havin' such a wide range, 

 so to speak, it ain't surprising that it 

 inkludes a large number o' prakti- 

 shioners. and just wen a man is a 

 gard'ner or ain't a gardner is largely 

 a kwestion o' personal opinion. Per- 

 sonally 1 don't perfess to call myself 

 a gard'ner, laberer is good enough for 

 me; but if I was to suggest to th' par- 

 son's handyman, referred to above, as 

 he worn't a gard'ner iu th' true sense 

 o' th' word, why 'e'd take it as an 

 hinsult which nowt but blood would 

 wipe out.— •■Old Jim" in The Journal 

 Iture. 



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