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HORTICULTURE 



July 1, 1911 



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PANSY SEED TIME 



PANSY-Boddington's "CHALLENGE" 



COUOR 



This mixture contains all the finest Giant strains — of 

 the leading Pansy Specialists in the world — the Giant self- 

 colors, the Giant striped and margined, and the Giant 

 blotched, etc., all carefully mixed in proportion— the finest 

 that money can buy -the finest your money can buy. A 

 florist who has grown it said, "Why don't you call it 

 Defiance?" 

 Trade pkt.. 5Sc ; ' s oz., 75c; #-«., J1.58; ^-iz., $2.75; H., $5.00 



Choice Varieties of Giant Pansies 



Vi oz. 



Oz. 



.85 3.00 



.85 3.00 



Trade pkt. 



Giant Trimardeau. Improved mammoth- 

 flowering in good range of color $0.15 $0.50 $1.50 



Giant Masterpiece i Frilled Pansy). Petals 

 beautifully waved, exquisite colors 15 



t :i.^ier\ Giant. A tine strain of large 

 highly colored flowers 15 



Giant Bugnot's stained. Exhibition. Ex- 

 tra choice flowers, large and plenty of 

 light colors 50 



Giant -Madame Ferret. A recent introduc- 

 tion, by a celebrated French specialist ; 

 of strong, free growth. Especially rich 

 in red shades 



.15 



Trade pkt. 



Giant Fire King. Brilliant reddish yel- 

 low, with large brown eyes $0.25 



Giant Lord Beaconsfleld. Deep purple 

 violet, top petals light blue 15 



Giant Canary Bird. A five-spotted yellow 

 variety. Ground color, is a deep golden 

 yellow and each petal is marked with a 

 dark blotch 



Giant Orchldeseflora, or Orchid-flowered 

 Pansy. Splendid variety. Beautiful shades 

 of pink, lilac, orange, rose, terra cotta. 

 chamoise, etc 



Giant Emperor William. Ultramarine blue, 

 purple eye 



Giant Golden Queen. Bright yellow, no eye. 



Giant Golden Yellow. Yellow, brown eye. 



Giant King of the Blacks (Faust). Black. 



Giant President McKinley. Golden yel- 

 low, large dark blotch 



Giant Prince Bismarck. Yellowish bronze, 

 dark eye 25 



Giant Rosy Lilac 15 



Giant Pretiosa. Crimson-rose, white mar- 

 gin, violet blotch 15 



(iiant White. Violet spot, the largest white. .10 



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Yi oz. Oz. 

 $1.00 $3.00 



.50 1.50 



..85 3.00 



1.25 4.00 



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5 ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON, Seedsman, 342 West 14th St., NEW YORK 5 



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Seed Trade 



Altoona, la. — The Iowa Seed Co., of 

 Des Moines, is to erect a 100,000 

 bushel elevator here. 



Thomas J. Grey, the ever-awake and 

 never-at-rest seedsman of Boston, has 

 just returned from a trip through Con- 

 necticut on business and pleasure 

 combined. 



ployees. Mr. Parker is "80 

 young," and still hustling. 



years 



Birmingham, Ala. — Fire caused a 

 loss of about $10,000 to the Barber 

 Drug & Seed Store recently. 



St. Louis, Mo. — Henry Hesel, man- 

 ager of the St. Louis Seed Co., is at 

 present traveling in Europe. 



Harry Wild, superintendent at the 

 Converse Estate, Conn., will sail, ac- 

 companied by his wife and two chil- 



Milford, Conn. — The Everett B. 

 Clark Seed Co. is about to build a 

 38 x 62 three-story brick seed ware- 

 house. 



New York visitors: Henry Rix, 

 Omaha, Neb.; W. W. Barnard, Chi- 

 cago; J. K. M. L. Farquahar, Boston. 



PERSONAL. 



Piet Koster embarked from New 

 York for home on the Rotterdam on 

 Tuesday, June 27. 



Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sehenck of 

 New York sailed for Europe on Tues- 

 day, the 27th inst. 



A. N. Pierson of Cromwell, Conn., 

 is on a trip through the west and is 

 in San Francisco this week. 



Jos. E. Roelker of New York was 

 a recent visitor at Detroit, also Mr. 

 Miller, formerly of Skidelski & Irwin, 

 who stopped off on the way from New 

 York to Chicago, where he is taking 

 his place as a member of the firm of 

 A. Henderson & Co. 



E. W. King and Frank Cullen have 

 leturned to Philadelphia from their 

 across-continent tour — as far as the 

 Pacific coast — and booked for England 

 on the Olympic. W. Atlee Burpee and 

 David Burpee Chis son) are on the 

 same steamer besides the Doubledays 

 and many other prominent representa- 

 tives of the horticultural and publish- 

 ing fraternities. 



George Fisher, buyer for the H. A. 

 Fisher Co., was recently married to a 

 young lady of Kalamazoo, Mich. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Ellison and Mrs. 

 Wm. Ellison of St. Louis left last week 

 for their summer vacation at Northern 

 lakes. 



ciiaries H. Breck 



Massachusetts Representative, American 

 Seed Trade Association. 



dren, on the Allan liner, Persian, from 

 Boston on July 7, for a two months' 

 vacation. 



Charles W. Parker, president of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 observed his 80th birthday anniver- 

 sary June 27th. An immense bouquet 

 of American Beauty roses was the 

 congratulatory gift from his em- 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBAGE, Wakefield, All Head, Succes- 

 sion, and other varieties, $1.00 per 

 1000; 10.000 and over. (g85c. per 1000. 



LETTUCE, Grand Rapids, Big Boston, 

 Boston Market and Tennis Ball, $1.00 

 per 1000; 10,000 and over, @85c. per 

 1000. 



BEET, Crosby, Egyptian and Eclipse, 

 $1.25 per 1000. 



Cash With Order 



V R. VINCENT. 1R. t SONS CO., WHITE MARSH, Wy 



Golden Self-Blanching Celery 



White Plume, Giant Pascal transplanted 

 plants, $2.75 per thousand. Untransplanted 

 plants, $1.00 per thousand. 



FOX HALL FARM 



NORFOLK, VA. 



