January 23. 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



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Dreer's Select Fancy-Leaved Caladiums 

 Tuberous Rooted Bepnias and Gloxinias 



We feel fortunate that in spite of the disarranged con- 

 dition of affairs in Belgium, we can offer the strain of 

 Tuberous Rooted Begonias and Gloxinias that we have been 

 supplying from the same expert grower for more than a 

 quarter of a century, and without any advance in price. 



YOU MAY BUY CHEAPER, BUT NOT BETTER STOCK 



TUBEROUS BOOTED BEGONIAS. Doz. 100 IWK) 



Single Varieties to Color. Scarlet, rriiiison. 



White, Rose, Yellow, Orange $0.40 $2.50 $22.50 



Single Varieties in t'hoioest Mixture 35 2.25 20.00 



Double Varieties to Color. Si-arlet, Rose, 



White. Yellow CO 4.50 40.00 



Double Varieties in Choicest .'tlixture 50 4.00 35.00 



Double Fringed Varieties, New. White, Scarlet 



and Kose 1.50 10.00 90.00 



Single Frilled Varieties. Scarlet, White Pink 



and Yellow S3 6.00 50.00 



Begonia Zeppelin 1.25 S.OO 70.00 



Begonia Lafayette 1.50 10.00 



GLOXINIAS. Blue, Red, White, Blue with 

 White Edge, Red with White Edge, or 



Finest Mi.xed 60 3,50 30.00 



Gloxinia, New I^iperor Varieties. Hybrida 



Imperialis. Choicest Mixed 85 6.00 50.00 



FANCY-LEAVED CAIADIUMS. An Immense 

 stock of the choicest varieties ; 



Fine Standard Varieties 1.75 12.00 100.00 



Rare and New Varieties 2.25 15.00 140.00 



Rare and New Varieties 3.50 25.00 



Choice Mixed Varieties 1.50 10.00 90.00 



The above prices are intentled for the trade only. 



For full line of Seasonable Plants, Bulbs, Seeds, etc., see our 

 current Wholesale Price List 



HENRY A. DREER 



714-716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



A. Winters, a florist of Richmond, 

 Cal., has opened a branch shop at 

 Pinole. 



H. Plath has a large crop of tulips 

 coming on at his nurseries in tlie 

 Ocean View district, and will begin 

 cutting in a week or two. 



The MacRorie-McLaren Company has 

 a large house of Phalaenoposis com- 

 ing on, and expects to make a large 

 cutting for the Easter trade. 



The H. N. Sanborn Company, of 

 Oakland and Berkeley, is rather work- 

 ing out of the nursery business, and 

 specializing more on seeds, aside from 

 its extensive retail business in cut 

 flowers. The seed department is hav- 

 ing a good run on sweet peas and 

 pansies. 



The Francis Floral Company. Sui 

 ter and Powell streets, conducted by 

 P. Schlotzhauer, had its basement 

 inundated a few days ago, when a 

 Japanese automobilist skidded and 

 broke off a fire plug in front of the 

 store, and narrowly escaped going 

 through the window. 



The California Nursery Company 

 at Niles has preparations for the com- 

 ing season well imder way, with a 

 large force of men at work on im- 

 provements. This company recently 

 shipped five carloads of .lapanese 

 palms, from 15 to 20 years old. to Los 

 Angeles, where they will be planted 

 along the principal streets. A great 

 deal of stock of various kinds, includ- 

 ing palms, oranges and oleanders, are 

 being sent to the Exposition. 



Ten carloads of rhododendrons, clip- 

 ped conifers and bulbs, the third 

 large shipment received at the World's 

 Fair for the Netherland's Horticultur- 

 al Commission, arrived January 19. 

 This shipment completes the most im- 

 portant landscape gardening exhibit 

 ever made by Holland outside of her 

 own borders. 



In the cargo were 600 conifers of 

 more than a dozen species, 2,000 

 rhododendrons in variety, just ready 

 to burst into bloom, and many un- 

 usual sorts of magnolias, holly, aucu- 

 bas and smaller shrubs and bulbs. 

 The exhibit will be transplanted this 

 week into two acres of garden space, 

 bordering the Palace of Horticulture 



on the west and south, and reaching 

 almost to the Baker street entrance. 

 Many of the conifers and other ever- 

 greens — such as Buxus and Taxus bac- 

 cata, six to eight feet tall, have been 

 clipped and trained into weird shapes. 

 Sixty thousand tulips, hyacinths, 

 narcissus, daffodils, etc., will be in 

 bloom for the opening day, and a 

 continuous succession of bulb and 

 shrub bloom will be maintained 

 throughout the Exposition period by 

 means of successive planting. This 

 will include 50,000 begonias. These 

 gardens lie between those of Japan 

 and of California. Massachusetts and 

 other states. The entire Holland ap- 

 propriation amounts to $400,000. 



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 loo late. 



Ophelia, Prince d'Arenberg, Francis Scott Key, 

 and Killarney Brilliant. Everyone will grow them. 



Tell us your wants and get our quotations before ordering. 



S. J. REUTER & SON, Inc 



WESTERLY, R. I. 



