January 10. 1315 



HORTICULTURE 



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Two of Pernet-Ducher's 



JLME. EnOl'ARD HERRIOT, "The Daily Mail Rose.' 



Mme. Edouard Herriot, "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. 



terest in this important event. Willi the 

 clovids of pessimism of 1014 passing a'.vay 

 with the advent of New Year, we must 

 gird our armor and by will and deed malie 

 it a success or we shall be held strictly 

 to account. Many other industries are 

 only too glad to seize an opportunity to 

 take part in such an enterprise. So I say. 

 wake up! The honor of the Florists' Club, 

 the Trade and our City is at stake. Let 

 us inject new life, new hope, new stamina 

 into a cause so worthy and with interests 

 BO much identified with our own; let us 

 all pull together for our own common 

 good." 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the last regular meeting of this 

 society Mr. Frank S. GifEord gave a 

 lecture on Breeds of Cattle. A silver 

 medal was awarded to E. H. Wetter- 

 low for six plants of a new seedling 

 primula, a cross between Primula fhi 

 nensis fimbriata and Primula stellata; 

 all mauve in color, the same as the 

 parent plant. All were well grown; 

 the foliage being of the stellata type 

 with long stems and the flowers being 

 very large of the fimbriata type. A 

 certificate of merit was awarded to 

 Ernest Townsend for a very fine plant 

 of Cypripediutn insigne in a lii-indi pot. 



The sixteenth annual banrpn't of the 

 society will be held in the Town Hall. 

 Manchester, Mass., on Jan. 27th, at 

 6.30 p. m. and will be followed by an 

 entertainment by professional talent 

 and dancing from 10 to 12m. Tickets 

 will be $1.50 each, and can be obtained 

 from the chairman of the committee, 

 William Till. Magnolia, Mass. Any 

 visitors will be given a cordial wel- 

 come. The subject for the next meet- 

 ing will be a stereopticon lecture on 

 Gladioli bv B. Hammond Tracy of 

 Wenham. W. T. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHINGTON. 



All business was called off at the 

 January meeting held last Tuesday 

 evening. It was officers' night and 

 every effort was advanced to make 

 this a red letter affair. The meeting 

 room had been filled with folding 

 chairs the big event being a motion 

 picture show, character stories and 

 songs, music by a Victrola. and the 

 pearls of wisdom disseminated by Pro- 

 fessor Wall of the Sheldon Business 

 School, of Chicago, who delighted his 

 audience with his recitations and anec- 

 dotes and, in speaking on co-operation, 

 congratulated the club on the efforts 

 being made to bring the members of 

 the trade together. Truly it was a 

 most wonderful evening and Its suc- 



cess was duly attested by the hundred 

 or more members and their guests. 



LADIES' SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS. 



.Mrs. W. F. Gude, president. 1915, 

 has made the following appointments: 



Directors for two years: .Mrs. Jos. 

 Manda, W. Orange, N. J.: Mrs. J. F. 

 Wilcox, Council Bluffs, Iowa: Mrs. 

 Geo. H. Cooke, Washington, D. C. In- 

 troduction Committee, 1915: Mrs. 

 Julius Eppstein. San Francisco, Cal., 

 chairman; .Miss Bertha Meinhardt, St. 

 Louis, Mo.: .Miss Marie Rsler. Saddle 

 River, N. J.; Mrs. John Poehlmann, 

 Morton Grove, HI.; Mrs. Fred Breit- 

 meyer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. 



Mr.s. Chas. H. Mavnakd. Sec'y. 



Detroit, Mich. 



ROSES-CARNATIONS 



All the new and standard varieties. We are ready to 

 deliver carnation cuttings now. How about the nem 

 roses? Let us have your order before it is too late. 



Ophelia, Prince d'Arenberg, Francis Scott Key, 

 and Killarney Brilliant. Everyone will grow them. 



Tell us your w mts and get our qaatations before ordering. 



S. J. REUTER & SON, Inc. 



WESTERLY, R. L 



