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HORTICULTURE 



March 10, 1917 



Pansy and Verbena Baskets 



Their use assures the Florist and Greenhouse 

 man the largest cash return for their plants. 



Small size No. -^iji^ Large size No. 2 



9 in long. 6 m. wide. 3 in. deep, 13 in. long, 7% in. wide. 3H in deep 



Nested 500 in a crate. I Wire handles detached I Nested 250 in a crate. 



Price $9.00 per lOOO | $2.00 per lOOO extra I Price $17.00 per 1000 



Samples Sent Free Upon Request 



G. P. READ, Inc., 199 Duane St., New York 



ILL-JUDGED PRESS PUBLICITY. 



We have received from J. J. Lane, 

 manager of the Garden Magazine a 

 letter vigorously criticising as a very 

 reprehensible publicity effort the fol- 

 lowing, which appeared in the New 

 York Evening Post, and which Mr. 

 Lane declares to he one of the most 

 wonderful examples of the circus type 

 of press agent "dope" he had ever 

 seen: 



ONION THIEVES BEWARE! 

 Flower Show Has n Detective to Guard It.s 

 Biilb Display. 

 Because of the similarity between gladi- 

 olus bulbs and onions, a special detective 



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YOUR TREES NEED 

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Because it kills every fcind o/ scole and 4«- 

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because it wipes out the Ptajl Psylla, Bud Moth 

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Wrylt tor C.'iulor No 13. 



B. G. PRATT CO. 



De-pt. t3 

 SO Church Street New York 



liatrnl ti.is lifcn cngageil to watch the gladi- 

 olus exhibit at the International Flower 

 Show, in Grand Central Palace, which opens 

 Thursday, March 15. Lately a number of 

 prospective exhii>itors have reported thefts 

 of shipments of bulbs, these being mistaken 

 for crates of onions. 



Harry Salir, detective, announcer, and 

 liaseliafl fan, has been enjraged by the man- 

 agement for tliis jol). He is known to 

 tlinusands of metropolitan fans, for he ia 

 tlie personage wlio so often appears at the 

 liome plate at tlie Polo Grounds and an- 

 nounces in ringing tones, "Batteries f'r 



t'day is ." Not long ago Harry ran 



down the crooks wiio stole the big peanut 

 consignment intended for Polo Grounds 

 consumption. He says if he can protect 

 peanuts, he can tlo liliewise for gladioli, (tr 

 ■'amateur onions." as he calls them. 



As a side line, Satir will be called upon 

 to watch the rare liut scarcely more val- 

 uable orchiil exhiliit, appraiseil at several 

 hundred thousand ilollars. which will in- 

 clutle some of tlie newest and rarest speci- 

 mens ever brought to or cultivated in 

 America. 



Mr. Lane writes: "Far be it from 

 me to figure out how the staid and 

 sedate New York Evening Post saw 

 fit to publish this literary masterpiece, 

 it seems to me that the Publicity Com- 

 mittee have gone far astray in their 

 efforts to interpret to the people what 

 the Flower Show is. All I have 

 learned about advertising convinces 

 me that people form their impressions 

 of a thing from the advertising they 

 see of it. If you never saw a Packard 

 automobile the dignified impressive 

 advertising done by the Packard Com- 

 pany would make you realize that the 

 Packard automobile was ultra su- 

 preme, something not in the category 

 of a flivver or a tin Lizzie. The pub- 

 licity of the Flower Show will like- 

 wise give the people an impression of 

 what they are to expect there. If it 

 is the work of the publicity man to 

 try and get the people from the East 

 Side who are not interested in "Wallace 

 Pierson roses, P. R. Pierson's roses, 

 or the bulb garden of Scheepers, It 

 certainly seems to me that we are clut- 

 tering up the exhibit with people who 

 are not our kind of people. Not that 

 I think -it is objectionable to have 

 those people there but in that case why 

 not run a circus instead of a Flower 

 Show?" 



An award of merit has been given 

 to a new double flowered variety of 

 the white Primula malacoides by the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of Lon- 

 don. 



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 A spray remedy for green, black, wbitc 

 fly, thrlpa and soft scale. 



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