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HORTICULTUEE 



August 17. 1912 



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Intended for All Cut Flower Buyers 

 Within Reach of the Philadelphia Market 



It is continuous uniform good service that counts. We give you 

 the Best that is in us, in every transaction. If v^^e fail, it's because we are 

 human like you are, or conditions are beyond our control. Our average 

 for "makinu; good" however is topnotch. 



We please most all that give us the opportunity. 



The kind of services we render during a season, must appeal to 

 you, and will surely merit your complete confidence. 



As to our square dealings, and sincerity of purpose, we point with 

 pardonable pride to our business record of the past ten years or more. 



Results speak louder than words. 



And we assure you there is no slackening in our push and energy. 

 Our facilities are nearly perfect, the most modern in this country, and our supply 

 of cut flowers larger and better each season. With these facts in view it 

 seems imperative that you should investigate, or establish closer business 

 relations with us. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Niessen Building 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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as one of the foremost plant empori- 

 ums of the country — but the place, 

 like its founder, Robert Craig, has a 

 personality and youthfulness about it 

 which is so refreshing that no matter 

 how often you go there or how often 

 you write about it there seems to be a 

 rebirth in your outlook each succeed- 

 ing year. The reason for this is prob- 

 ably because Robert and his boys stay 

 young and in touch with the world. 

 Confucius tells us that the only wise 

 man and the only happy man is he 

 who retains to the end the heart of a 

 child. Robert Craig and his boys have 

 that happy faculty to an eminent de- 

 gree. It is therefore a delight to a 

 visitor to take a run through their 

 wonderful expanses of all that is latest 

 and best In foliage plants and flower- 

 ing plants for the holidays. I forget 

 how many thousands of crotons. but 

 they looked to me more like millions. 

 There's no doubt about it, Craig is "the 

 croton king." The croton with its 

 highly colored foliage is simply indis- 

 pensable to the up-to-date florist dur- 

 ing fall and winter and Craig can be 

 "caught with the goods" all the year 

 round. Another great specialty here 

 is the cyclamen which has been a 

 Craig specialty for twenty years. I 

 can remember back in the early days 

 when he was ransacking the world for 

 good cyclamen seed. And now, with 

 selection and reselection and constant 

 vigilance, we really have at Craig's a 

 race of jewels. We even have here 

 the Kleinheinz Giant White — the most 

 magnificent thing in cyclamens I have 

 ever seen and I date from the old 

 David Allen glories at Boston (1884 to 

 1894), the first and one of the greatest 

 ot our American cyclamen growers. 



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H. BAYERSDORFER & CO.: No 



convention would be complete without 

 the familiar exhibit of this long-estab- 

 lished firm of dealers in florists' sup- 

 plies. They have been leaders in that 

 important line since the beginning and 

 have done much to keep Philadelphia 

 in the forefront. Their exhibit at Chi- 

 cago will be one of the best they have 

 ever shown and will certainly be a 

 revelation to many florists who have 

 never before visited a convention. One 



of the most striking novelties will be 

 a line of artistic baskets finished with 

 their new electric brush. This gives 

 an effect unattainable by other means: 

 graceful, artistic shadings that no 

 hand brush could ever imitate. The 

 electric brush is an aerating device 

 and blows the colors instead of con- 

 tact application. Another line that 

 will create much interest is bisque 

 ware in red, white, green and brown 

 comprising statuettes of brownies, 

 imps and other allegorical subjects. 

 The Bayersdorfer line of gun metal 

 vases is charming, effective and very 

 artistic, the models followed being the 

 best styles of Pompeian. Etruscan and 

 Grecian. We are not easily enthused 

 on the Christmas wreath proposition, 

 but Bayersdorfer certainly has a new 

 wonder in a green statice foundation 

 dotted with scarlet ammobium. The 

 ammobium looks a little like a red im- 

 mortelle, but is far more graceful. We 

 could tell about other things, but we 

 refrain and mention these only to whet 

 your appetite for the great exhibit. 

 Welcome to visitors at Chicago will 

 be extended by Messrs. Sidney and I. 

 M. Bayersdorfer, Martin Reukauf, and 

 S. D. Green. 



INCORPORATED. 

 Bedford City. Va.— Flat Top Or- 

 chards. Inc., capital stock $50,000. 

 President, H. H. Hall; vice-president, 

 R. L. Sale; secretary and treasurer, 

 Nelson Sale. 



The "Double Claw" Hammer adver- 

 tised in this paper is a very ingenious 

 and useful implement which every- 

 body will want. Send to them for 

 description of what it will do. 



