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HOETICULTUEE 



February 21, 1914 



HENDERSON'S 



NEW CROP 



ASTER SEED 



HENDERSON'S INVINCIBLE ASTERS 



A superior strain of Giant Peony 

 Flowered Asters — of great im- 

 portance for florists' cutting 

 purposes, 



LAVENDER, CRIMSON, BI.UE, 



ROSE-PINK. WHITE. PllBPLE. 



Trade packet of lOno seeds. 50r. ; 



per oz., $2.00. 



SEMPLE'S LATE FLOWERING ASTERS 



Large, double. long-stemmed 

 flowers, splendid varieties for 

 tiorists. 



LAVENDER. CRIMSON, SHELL- 

 PINK. WHITE. PURPLE. 

 Trade packet of 1(100 seeds. 25e. : 

 per oz.. ,$1.25. 



CREGO'S ASTERS 



A higlil.v developed Comet type 



of florists' Asters. Our seed 



'•omes from the originator. 



WHITE. CRIMSON, ROSE-PINK, 



SHELL-PINK. LIGHT BLUE, 



VIOLET. 



Trade packet of lOno seeds, 75c.; 



per oz.. $3.00. 



■ aOEEN OF THE EARLIES " ASTERS 



(Queen of the Market), valuable 

 on account of their extreme 

 earliness and for cutting: plants 

 12 inches high; medium-sized 

 double flowers on long stems. 

 WHITE. ROSE-PINK. INDIGO 



BLUE, SCARLET. 



Trade packet of 1000 seeds. 25c. ; 



per oz.. T5c. 



ASTERMUMS 



A new race of American Comet 



Asters reseml>ling Japanese 



Cbrvsanthemums. 



SNOW WHITE. ROSE-PINK. 



L.WENDER. 



Trade packet of looo seeds, 75c. ; 



per oz.. $4.00. 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., 35-37 Cortlandt St., NEW YORK 



FARQUHAR'S FLOWER 



FOR THE FLORIST 



Write for our Wholesale Catalogue 



R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., ^SillV* 



masonry wall. The rafters are bent 

 at the eaves to an easy and graceful 

 curve. Curved glass Is used at the 

 eaves, giving a very pleasing effect 

 and a house of the maximum light, 

 because there is neither eaves plate 

 nor gutter at the eaves to obstruct 

 light. The majority of private green- 

 houses are now being built with 

 curved eaves. 



Concrete Wails. 



Occasionally a private house is built 

 without foundation walls. These 

 houses are built then with foot pieces 

 for the purpose of saving masonry 

 sub-walls or foundations. This meth- 

 od is used now exclusively in the best 

 commercial iron-frame houses. 



I stated that the rafters are placed 



eight feet four inches apart, and the 

 foot pieces of these rafters are ex- 

 tended into the ground about two 

 feet six inches. Holes are first dug 

 to hard pan, or the bottom is thorough- 

 ly tamped. Concrete footings are 

 made for the foot pieces to rest on. 

 The foot pieces are then firmly set in 

 concrete piers. Concrete panel or cur- 



tain walls four inches to nine inches 

 thick are built between the fiat Iron 

 posts or rafter feet. These walls need 

 not be more than four inches thick. 

 They only extend three inches to six 

 inches below grade and the ends rest 

 on the concrete piers. The outside 

 faces are finished in various ways; 



( Contijiiifd oil page 284) 



I More Red Devil Cutters Used Annually Than All Others Combined 



Q/AJ^AiiXf AM/y^m^ -wmoO 



I 



SMITH & HEMENW.4Y CO., 



Send (Jo. for sample No. 024 

 and Booklet 40 styles, and 

 understand why. 

 SEND FOR BOOKLET ANY- 

 HOW. 



161 CH.^MBERS ST., NEW YORK 



