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HORTICULTURE 



September 9, 1911 



AM Tills Is IM Smg little House m Mrs, C A, Armstrong's 

 Greenwich, Conn. Alexander Slaw Is Tie GariHener 



YES, it is right hand; by the residence — hot more than 100 

 feet from it. And say what you will, that's the way it 

 should be, when conditions make it possible. What's 

 the use of having an inside garden way off out of reach? 

 Von don't locate tl utdoors flower garden that way. 



We come out strong on this nearby locating opinion, be- 

 cause we believe that it is not only an advantage to the 

 owner, but a decided one to the gardener. 



It's only plain common sense that your employer will 

 keep up a stronger interest in you and what you are doing 

 if it is but a step to run in and look through the house. The 

 more Interesting you make it tor him, the more interested he 

 will be in you; the more valuable you become, and the surer 

 are your chances for advance and the securing of more houses 

 (Read that again.) And it's every gardener's ambition to 



secure both. When it ■ ies to making such additions you 



will particularly need our services. Need them because a house 

 located near the residence requires careful designing and plan- 



Lord 



ning, else it will be a botcli affair. Ii is surprising, for ex- 

 ample, what an attractively fleeigued hood entrance will do 

 to 6et a plain house off, if it lie rightly placed and consistently 

 handled. But these and the hundred and one other things 

 that go to make up a successful greenhouse can't be secured 

 from builders with but a few year--' experience. You kimw 

 that well enough. You also know that when you tell your 

 gardener friends that yours is a "Lord & Burnham house,'* 

 it means something'. It means you have the very best house 

 money tan buy. If this were not so. then why do the new 

 concerns so often refer to their houses as "just as good as 

 any L. & B. house?" Ever think of that side nf it before? 

 It simply means, our constructions are the standard construc- 

 tions now, just as they have always been for half a century 

 and more. 



Send for the catalog (that new 100 pages in colors). It's 

 a conclusive bit of evidence. We will send one to your em- 

 ployer if you say so. 



FACTORIES: IRVINGTON, N. Y.-DES PLA1NES, ILL, 



NEW YORK BOSTON PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO 



St. James Bldg. Tremont Bldg. Franklin Bank BIdg. Rookery Bldg. 



LILIUM HARRISII 



(The Bermuda Easter l_ i I _y 



I— E1T" US supply your- wants in L_ilies this season 



We think we can make it to your advantage to do so, as regards both quality and price. 



The stock that we offer is not gathered indiscriminately from all kinds of sources, but is grown for 

 us by a few selected growers, whose stocks have been worked up from the true, original stock. In or- 

 der to ensure the health of the product, the bulbs are not grown on the same field oftener than one sea- 

 son, other crops being grown on the field the preceding year. The ground is thoroughly manured when 

 the previous crop is grown, leaving it in a high state of cultivation, and when the lily bulbs are planted 

 no fresh manure is used, and this prevents disease and ensures a crop of strong, healthy bulbs. 



In addition to this, we do not dig our bulbs as early as they are usually dug, but leave them in the 

 ground until they are thoroughly ripened and matured. When Harrisii is good, it leaves little to be de- 

 sired. There is very little, if any, stock obtainable as good as the stock that we are offering. We are 

 supplying only this one grade of selected stock, and when this is disposed of, we shall have no more to offer. 



While the quality of the stock that we offer is of the highest, our prices are as low as, or lower than, 

 the prices of those who offer the ordinary stock gathered from indiscriminate sources. We are sure buyers 

 will find our stock very satisfactory, and much more so than the Japan-grown T ongiflorum, which has bad- 

 ly deteriorated in recent years. 



Bear in mind that we were the original introducers of Harrisii in Bermuda, and that we have excep- 

 tional facilities for obtaining our present supplies. Also take note that the smallest bulbs that we offer 

 are 6-7 inch bulbs, not 5-7 inch, as usually offered. 



6-7 inch bulbs, 335 to the case, $15.00 per case; full thousand lots, $40.00 per 1,000. 



7-9 inch bulbs, 200 to the case, $16.00 per case; full thousand lots, $75.00 per 1,000. 



9-11 inch bulbs, 100 to the case, jlS.OO per case; full thousand lots, $175.00 per 1,000. 



FERNS 



We have an exceptionally nice lot of ferns in the following varieties, — good, bushy, well-grown plants 

 that will please the most critical buyers. Plants have been grown in pots, and are thoroughly well estab- 

 lished and nicely finished. 



Nephrolepis Bostoniensis and Piersoni, 6-in. pots $0.50 each 



Xephrolepis Elegantissima, Piersoni. Bostoniensis, and Harrisii, heavy 8-in. plants $1.00 to 1.50 each 



Nephrolepis Elegantissima, Bostoniensis, and Harrisii, heavy 10-in. plants 2.50 each 



F. R. PIERSON COMPANY, Tar, » , N !&To R H !! ,ls,n ' 



