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HORTICULTURE 



March 21, 1914 



Easter Flowering Plants for 1914 



The Finest Stock I Have Ever Offered. You Cannot Duplicate 



Them Anywhere 



R05E5 BRISTLING WITH BUD5 



Flower of Fairfield, Crimson Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, Excelsa, Tausendschoen,Baby Ramljlers, and Multi- 

 flora Novelties, all sizes, bush, standard and trained, from $1.50 to' $10.00 each. Prices in detail on applica- 

 tion. Magna Charta, Brunner, Druschki, etc., $9.00 to $24.00 a dozen. 



HYDRANGEAS-all the Latest French Novelties 



General de Vibraye. Radiant — dark pink, Souv. de Cbantard. 

 Mme. Riveraine. Vicunitess de Vibraye, Mont Rose — pink, 

 Bouciuet Rose, Hamard, Mme. MouiUere, Avalamlie — white, 

 Andre Leroy's Blue. .51,2 in., 6 in., OV^ in., 7 in. pots, Jl.OO to 

 $3.00 each. Specimens in 10-in pots, $6.00 each. 



Otakea — 61.0, 7 and 8-inch pots, $1.50, $2.00, $3.50 and $3.00 each. 

 Bouquet Rose — 6 and Gyj-inch pots. $1.50. $3.00, $2.50 and $3.00 



each. Radiant, Vibraye. Souv. de Chantard — 1 and 4y>-inch 



pots, $4.00, $6.00 and $6.00 per doz. 



AZALEAS 



All sizes and varieties, such as Van der Cruyssen, Empress of 

 India, Sacuntala. Niobe. Schreyveriana, Mme. Jos. Vervaene, 

 Ernst Thiers, Mme. Morreux. Haerensiana, Varonne, Rapheal 

 and Hexe, $8.00, $a.OO, $13.00, $18.00, $24.00 per doz. Larger 

 sizes from $3.00 to $10.00 each. 



Specimen plants in pyramids and fans, from $4.00 to $10.00 

 each. 



BOUGAINVILLEAS, TILIPS, HYACINTHS, DAFFODILS, DAISIES. LILIES, 



ALL HIGH-CLASS STOCK. 



For filling — Firefly and Chas. Encke, 

 and $12.00 a doz. 



$4.00, $6.00, $6.00, $9.00 



Rhododendrons — 7. 8, 0, 10 and 11-inch pots and pans, $1.60, 

 $2.00, $3.(!0 to $8.00 each. 



Spirea — Gladston, Queen Alexandra, Peach 

 and 8-inch iiots, 50c., ;5c. and $1.00 each. 



GENISTAS, GARDENIAS, 



Blossom, 6V4, 7 



ERICAS, ETC. 



316 19th STREET, COLLEGE POINT, QUEENSBOROUGH, N. Y. 



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A REVIEW OF THE CRAIG EASTER 

 SHOW. 



Perhaps the most striking feature of 

 the Craig Easter offerings for 1914 are 

 the hydrangeas. There are many 

 houses devoted lo these exclusively 

 and they are exceedingly promising 

 and well grown. The standbys, like 

 Thomas Hogg and Otaksa, are well to 

 the fore, of course, but what makes 

 the Craig display so unique Is the 

 magnificent showing of the new 

 French varieties. These have proved 

 valuable additions, giving greater va- 

 riety in color, form and character to 

 this favorite old Easter plant. 



Next come the roses: the Ramblers 

 in all their fine array of variety, form 

 and color, also in all sizes from little 

 ones to big specimens, and a lot of the 

 trained creations in fajicy forms, 

 globes, pyramids, circles, etc. All 

 these are well done and promising, 

 and a couple of weeks from this writ- 

 ing (March 17th) will be In perfection. 

 There are also a nice lot of hybrids, 

 such as Magna Charta, which are al- 

 ways in demand at this time. 



We have never seen the rhododen- 

 drons look better; they are exception- 

 ally well budded and the plants are 

 very shapely and well furnished with 

 foliage. One of the fine things about 

 a rhododendron as an Easter plant is 

 that it can be used .in the garden 

 after having done duty as an Easter 

 offering. This point should never be 

 forgotten by retailers when talking to 

 their customers about their selections. 

 The favorite azalea is no use in that 

 connection. 



Several houses are devoted to our 

 old friend Genista fragrans, and most- 

 ly in the smaller sizes, not because 

 they cannot be grown to big specimens 

 but on account of the large demand 

 for the smaller plant for basket work 

 for which they are very suitable. 

 Spireas look fine; nearly all of them 

 the magnificent variety, Gladstone. 

 There is a house of marguerites, the 

 old-fashioned well-known white daisy. 

 Chrysanthemum frutescens. This is in 

 small to medium sizes and, like the 

 genista, is in large demand for bas- 

 kets, etc. Beautiful stock — a pleasure 

 to look at. 



We saw nothing of the Easter lilies, 

 which seems strange in an Easter 

 plant display; but it was explained 

 that these were all at the Norwood 

 establishment. We have young Rob- 

 ert's word tor It that they are the fin- 

 est ever. Foliage plants and ferns In 



great variety, comment on which, how- 

 ever (no matter how good they be and 

 interesting), is not germane to this 

 little story. G. C. W. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Beverly Farms, Mass. — John L. 

 Chapman, gardener on the Spaulding 

 estate has leased the greenhouses and 

 will run them for commercial use. 



Newburgh, N. Y. — Among the suffer- 

 ers in the recent heavy snowfall was 

 Wesley Wait, whose greenhouses were 

 badly wrecked by falling telegraph 

 poles. 



Bordentown, N. J. — The recent heavy 

 snowfall caused a portion of the green- 

 house owned by William Jobes, which 

 is leased by Frank K. Bennett, to col- 

 lapse, entailing a loss of several hun- 

 dred dollars' worth of flowers. 



Easter Plants Standard Quality 



AZALEAS— .50, .75, $1.00 up to $4.50. 



ACACIA ARMATA— $2.00, $2.50, $3.00. 



RAMBLER ROSES — Tausendschoen, 

 $2.00 and $2.50 each. Dorothy Per- 

 kins and Hiawatha, $1.50 to $2.00 

 each. 



LIL.ACS — Marie Legraye, $1.50 each. 



SPIR.iEAS — Gladstone and Queen Alex- 

 andra, .50 and .75 each. 



TULIPS — Murillo, Couronne d'Or, Car- 

 dinal, Rose Grisdeliu, Rose Luisante, 

 12 bulbs to pan, .50 per pan. 



LILIES — Giganteums, .12 per bud and 

 bloom. 



WM. A. RIGGS, Auburndale, Mass. 



