January 9. 1915 



HORTICULTUEE 



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Two fbf Pernet-Ducher's 



SniE. EnOlARD HERRIOT, "The Daily Mail Rose." 



Mme. Edouard Harriot, "The Daily 

 Mail Rose" — Winner of the Gold 

 Cup which was offered by the ' ' Daily 

 Mail" of London for the Best New 

 Rose exhibited at the International 

 Horticultural Exhibition in London 

 in 1913. It is an entirely new color in 

 Roses which one of our best posted 

 Rose enthusiasts describes as being 

 like sunshine on a copper-red metal. 

 The buds are exceptionally long, 

 slender and pointed. We offer strong, 

 imported dormant plants, suitable for 

 5 inch pots, $6 per doz.; $50 per 100. 



Willowmere — In bud a splendid coral 

 red suffused with carmine opening to 

 a large, full, handsome flower of a 

 rich shrimp-pink, shaded yellow in 

 the centre and flushed carmine-pink 

 toward the edges of the petals. 

 Strong imported dormant plants, 

 $7.50 per doz.; $60 per 100. 



HENRY A DREER 



714 & 716 Chestnut Street 

 PHILADELPHIA, - - - PA. 



The above prices are for the trade only 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Chicago — G. H. Perkins, 3rd, New- 

 ark, N. Y. 



Woonsocket, R. I. — George Butler, 

 Ipswich, Mass. 



Uxbridge, Mass. — Thomas Hoola- 

 han, Beverly, Mass. 



St. Louis — J. Beyers, representing 

 Chicago Carnation Co., Chicago, III. 



Washington, D. C. — I. Rosnosky, 

 representing H. F. Michell Company, 

 and S. H. Bayersdorfer, Phila., Pa. 



Philadelphia — Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 

 Schmidt, Harrisburg. Pa.; Hillborn 

 Darlington, Doylestown, Pa.; W. R. 

 Thorns, Atlantic City, N. J. 



New York — S. J. Renter, Westerly, 

 R. I.: A. Miller, representing A. Hen- 

 derson & Co., Chicago; E. Allen Pierce, 

 Wadtham, Mass.; Thomas Roland. Na- 

 hant, Mass.; W. F. Kasting, Buffalo. 

 N. Y. 



Boston— C. S. Strout, Biddeford, 

 Me.; C. W. Hoitt, Nashua, N. H.; M. H. 

 Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass.; D. F. Roy, 

 Marion, Mass.; A. B. Greenlaw, repre- 

 senting S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



TWO CROMWELL HOUSES. 



Kansas City, Mo. — Sam. Murray re- 

 ports a tremendous Christmas busi- 

 ness. He was simply astounded at the 

 demand tor plants and baskets, of 

 which his stock was very fine. The 

 store force "including the old man" 

 were busy on Christmas work from 7 

 a. m. on Wednesday until 6.;',0 p. m. 

 on I'^iday without intermission. 



Pkoi-agati.ng 

 At A. N. rierson's 



The i)i(tiHe on this page and the 

 one which appears on the cover page 

 of this issue give glimpses of a young 

 rose house just planted and a propa- 

 gating house in the busy shipping 

 season for young stock, in the mam- 

 moth Pierson range at Cromwell. 



Hot .SE 

 CronnTcll, Conn. 



Conn. The place is almost a town of 

 itself employing halt a thousand men. 

 more or less, and exciting wonder and 

 admiration in the mind of the visitor 

 as to where a market can be found for 

 the iPi-odigious daily output of this vast 

 estaiilishment. 



