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HORTICULTURE 



July 12. 1919 



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There is a keen demand for 



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in color, but people have been clamoring for more distinct colors, for larger blooms; the mixed colors did 

 not always please, the flowers were often too small. 



Rud. Fischer, the Freesia Wizard of San Gabriel, Cal., has been experimenting with colored Freesias 

 for fourteen years. Under those Southern skies he has been breeding, creating, improving, segregating, 

 discarding, until he had selected from millions of seedlings, a very few exceptionally beautiful types of 



wonderful colors and of very 

 large blooms, the stock of 

 which he has been quietly in- 

 creasing and which he is now 

 ready to put on the market. 

 For several years we have 

 been negotiating about the 

 sale of his finest creations; 

 we have been watching them 

 with great interest; last 

 Spring we flowered them, 

 through the courtesy of that 

 eminent Horticulturist, Mr. 

 T. A. Havemeyer, in his con- 

 servatories at Brookville, L. 

 I., and we are proud that we 

 have finally secured the ex- 

 clusive sale of the finest crea- 

 tions of Mr. Rud. Fischer. We 

 offer: 



FREESIA Fischeru 



The incomparably beautiful; the 

 choicest in its color, selected 

 from millions of seedlings: the 

 finest, largest, purest, strongest 

 and most fragrant. $10.00 per 

 hundred, $75.00 per thousand. 



FREESIA 



Mrs. Chas. Hamilton 



Selected from many thousands of 

 picked varieties for its beautiful 

 appearance, most pleasing shade 

 of soft, pinkish lavender; the 

 color reaches well down the 

 throat; very Targe flowers, seven 

 to eight carried on long, stiff 

 stems, holding the flower erect; 

 foliage reaching well up the 

 stem, very fragrant. $15.00 per 

 hundred. 



FREESIA Mrs. Chas. Pike 



Remarkably fine, large wide-open 

 flowers, a %-lnch band of red- 

 dish lavender runs around the 

 edge of a white flower; strong 

 grower, stems 18 to 20 inches, 

 standing up well ; foliage lux- 

 uriant, coming well up the stems. 

 Splendid keeper, from 8 to 10 

 buds, very fragrant. $15.00 per 

 hundred. 



FREESIA Katherine Watkins 



While the flower is not quite so 

 large as the others, it is a Free- 

 sia "Par Excellence" for color; 

 beautiful salmon-bun", from 4 to 

 6 buds open at one time; grows 

 nearly two feet tall, with narrow 

 stiff foliage on wiry stems; is a 

 -rent keeper, highly fragrant: 

 truly a wonderful flower. $15.00 

 per hundred. 

 LIFE SIZE OF FREESIA FISCHERU 



The Wholesale Trade is invited to correspond with us regarding trade prices 



John Scheepers, he, fe&l 1 2 Stone St., New York 



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