July 15, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



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PANSIES 



We are making a specialty of Pansies. Our collec- 

 tion is the richest in variety and quality ever offered in 

 this country. If you want the finest pansies that it is 

 possible to obtain, make your -..lection from the follow- 

 ing list of seeds: 



MIXTURES OF GIANT FLOWERED PANSIES. 



Holmes' Triumph of the Giant. Robust compact growing 

 plants; heavy foliage surmounted by enormous flowers of 

 perfect form and great substance, on strong tall stalks. 

 Petals overlapped and undulating. Rich and rare colors: 

 Trade packet, 50c; 1-16 oz., $1.00; % oz., $1.75; % oz., 

 $3.00; V4 oz., $5.00; oz., $8.50. 



Bugnot's Giant Spotted: Trade packet, 40c; 1-16 oz„ 85c; 

 % oz., $1.50; Vi oz., $2.50; Yi oz., $4.50; oz., $7.50. 



Holmes' Mammoth Five-blotched. Cassier Type but flowers 

 double size, magnificent colors. Trade packet, 35c. ; 1-16 

 oz., 75c; % oz., $1.1'5; Yi oz., $2.00; Yi oz., $3.50; oz., $6.00. 

 Giant Cassier: Yi "Z., $1.75; Yi oz., $3.00; oz.. $5.00. 



Mine. PerreU Great American Giant, "Red White and 

 Blue:" hi oz., $1.50; y 2 oz., $2.50; oz., $4.00. 



Odier Five-spotted Beauties: >4 oz., $1.25; Yi oz., $2.00; 

 oz., $3.50. 



Goliath aud Orchid (Cattleya) flowered, same price as 

 Odier. 



Giant Trimardeau: % oz., $1.00: Yi oz., $1.50; oz., $2.50. 



Trimardeau, Giant Spotted Parisian: Yi oz.. $1.50; Yi oz.. 

 $2.50; oz., $4.00. 



(ussier and Trimardeau Mixture: Yi OZ., $1.00; Yi oz., 

 $1.75; oz., $3.00. 



Holmes' Giant Masterpiece. Enormous flowers, 4 inches 

 across, daintily ruflied edges, clearly distinct markings 

 and. in fact, a flower of recent introduction that has 

 won volumes of praise from lovers of this particular 

 flower. It is a master indeed of its class. Yi oz., $1.75; 

 % oz., $3.00; oz., $5.00. 



GIANT FLOWERED SORTS. 



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Giant Cassier, Hortensia red, sai 



Mi oz., $1.75; oz., $3.00. 

 Giant Marmorata: Yt oz., $1.00; Yi oz., $1.50; oz., $2.50. 

 Odier Five-spotted Yellow aud Five-spotted White, beauti 



fill, and Psyche, curled Five-blotched, charming: Yi oz. 



$2.00; Yi oz., $3.50; oz., $6.00. 

 Giant Vulcan, brilliant dark red with five black blotches, grand 



effect: Trade packet. 50c; 1-16 oz., 85c; % oz., $1.75; Yi 



oz., $2.75; Yi oz.. $4.75; oz., $8.00. 



Giant Trimardeau, separate colors, Adonis, Atropurpurea, 

 Fire King. Canary Bird, Indigo Blue, Emperor William, 

 Lord Beacousfleld. Peacock, White with eye: Yi oz.. 75c; 

 Yi oz., $1.25: oz., $2.00. 



Crimson King, Mauve Queen, Snowflake: Yi oz.. S5c ; Y« oz., 

 $1.50; oz., $2.50. 



Auricula flowered Prince Bismark. striped, light blue, rosy 

 lilac, marbled on white ground, King of Blacks, violet blue: 

 Yi oz., 60c; Yi oz., $1.00; oz., $1.50. 



Atropurpurea, do albo-marginata atrosanguiuea, auricula- 

 flowered, azure-blue, Snow Queen, Diana, Fairy Queen. Prince 

 Bismark, yellow with eye. striped fancy, Wallflower Colored, 

 gold margined, Havana-brown, light blue. Emperor William, 

 Mahogany. Black Prince, King of the Blacks, pelargonium 

 flowered. Peacock, quadricolor, rubra, violet, Victoria, violet 

 white margined, white with black eye: y 4 oz., 35c.; Yi oz., 

 60c; oz., $1.00. Aureapura, Coquette de Poissy, Fire King, 

 orange. Lord Beacousfleld: Yi oz., 40c; % oz., $75c ; oz., 

 $1.25. Cardinal: Yi oz., 85c; Yi oz., $1.50; oz., $2.50. Presi- 

 dent Carnot and Emperor Frederick: Yi oz., 50c; % oz 

 85c; oz., $1.50. Sunlight: 1-16 oz., 75c; % oz., 1.25: U oz.. 

 $2.00; % oz., $3.50; oz., $6.00. 



HOLMES SEED CO., Harrisburg, Pa. 



to the title of my story, "Railroad 

 Gardening as a Paying Investment," 

 I think the fact that my company has 

 kept the system up enthusiastically 

 during ail the twenty-one years I have 

 been in their employ and are as keen 

 for it as ever, is striking evidence 

 that they have found it a paying in- 

 vestment. The territory over which I 

 have direct charge runs from Philadel- 

 phia to Williamsport; from Reading 

 to Harrisburg; from Reading to Allen- 

 town; from Philadelphia to Chestnut 

 Hill; from Philadelphia to Bound 

 Brook; from Philadelphia to Bethle- 

 hem; from Camden to Atlantic City 

 and Cape May, and several other 

 branches. If any of you feel like get- 

 ting away from the smoke, dust and 

 din of the city, and settling down 

 among healthful and pleasant sur- 

 roundings — and have the price — first 

 take a run along any of those lines 

 any fine day in summer; and if you 

 do not find something that will suit 

 both your desires and your dollars I 

 will be very much mistaken. 



"Greetings nod Welcome you'll find there 



before you. 

 And the oftener you come the more we'll 



adore you." 



The greetings of the blooming flow- 

 ers and the welcome of healthy sur- 

 roundings — with safe and perfect serv- 



ice thrown in — for a very small con- 

 sideration. , 



HORTICULTURAL QUARANTINE. 



Congressman Burnham has intro- 

 duced a bill "to regulate the importa- 

 tion and interstate transportation of 

 nursery stock, to enable the Secretary 

 of Agriculture to establish and main- 

 tain quarantine districts for plant dis- 

 eases and insect pests, to permit and 

 regulate the movement of fruits, 

 plants, and vegetables therefrom, and 

 for other purposes." 



The bill provides that it shall be un- 

 lawful to import or offer for entry into 

 the United States from any foreign 

 country any nursery stock unless a 

 permit from the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture or a satisfactory certificate of in- 

 spection from the proper official of the 

 country from which the importation is 

 made, to the effect that the nursery 

 stock is free from insect pests or in- 

 jurious diseases, but food articles and 

 nursery stock imported for scientific 

 or experimental purposes are excepted 

 from this regulation, when imported 

 under regulations prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



The Secretary of Agriculture is au- 

 thorized by the terms of the bill to 

 quarantine any State or Territory or 

 any portion thereof when he shall de- 



termine the fact that a dangerous 

 plant disease or insect infestation ex- 

 ists there. The bill is sweeping and 

 explicit. It makes violation of the pro- 

 visions contained in it a misdemeanor 

 punishable by a fine not to exceed 

 $500, or imprisonment not to exceed 

 one year, or both such fine and im- 

 prisonment in the discretion of the 

 court. The sum of $25,000 is men- 

 tioned as the amount to be appropri- 

 ated to carry out the provisions of the 



bill. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Glens Falls, N. Y.— A. J. Binley is 

 rebuilding and extending his exten- 

 sion plant. His patent flower box 

 holder is in increasing demand. 



Doctor Little has the finest collec- 

 tion of orchids in this vicinity and is 

 constantly adding to it with new va- 

 rieties. 



Syracuse, N. Y.— Park Superintend- 

 ent Campbell has suggested to the 

 Rose Society that Kirk Park be set 

 aside especially for a rose garden. It 

 has a rich soil and a considerable area 

 of sunny lowland peculiarly suited to 

 the planting of the Queen of Flowers. 

 The Rose Society is young, but full 

 of enthusiasm and proposes to make 

 this the Rose City as its sister city, 

 Rochester, is well named the Flower 

 City. 



