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HORTICULTURE 



October 9, 1920 



Henry H. Barrows 



FERN 

 SPECIALIST 



Write for Pricei. 

 H. H. BARROWS, Whitman, Mat*. 



CHARLES H. TOHY 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 IVI.ADISOIM, IM. JP. 



NephroleiNS Norwood 



Best Crested Fern 



4 inch potH, extrii heavy, $35.00 per han- 

 dn*d; 6 inch, $75.00 per hundred. 



MKRT COMG COMPANY. ""^?f™»*' 



8n^w Q«.j^^r^ ^^nr^ai 



Awarded Certificate of Merit at 8. A. 



F. Il O. n. New York Convention And 



190 other notable kinds. Always ask for 



SWASTIKA IlRANn CANNAH. 



Til. fKiiABD A |-iE-| West grove 



LjOWESCO-I JI I PtNN.U^.A. 



■<A«I tfU. rn.. AatolM ni>t«>.. Tto^^in. 



W» •#-/ ntkvriitri it Ikr ^urttrymin t Fvmd 



frr Kmrlut DrvthtmnU 



CEDAR ACRES 



Gladioli and Dahlias 



Bookleta Free 



B. HAMMOND TRACT, INC., 



Wenham, Mass. 



THOMAS J. GREY COMPANY 



SEEDS. BVMJS AM) IMPLEMENTS 

 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



deselected Strains in Seeds 



Improved Styles in Implements 



Catalogue upun Application 



16 So. MarlMt Street 



Burpee's Seeds Grow 



Wholesale Price List for Florists 

 nnd ^larket Gardener** 



W. Atlee Burpee Co. 



Seed Growers Philadelphia 



When Writing to 

 Advertisers Please 



Mention 

 HORTICULTURE 



S. A. F. & O. H, 

 Department 



NATIONAL PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN 



Referenie has frequently been maile 

 to orders for flowers and plants direct- 

 ly forthcoming from our national mag- 

 azine advertisements. 



The advertisements all feature the 

 telegraph delivery service and the fill- 

 ing of orders in any city or town in 

 tlie United States and Canada, Some- 

 times the magazine publishers receive 

 requests for names of florists perform- 

 ing such service in specified towns, 

 which information they readily supply 

 from printed lists available. Robert L. 

 Graham, the I3aItimore florist, recently 

 received an order from Seoul, in lar- 

 away Korea, for the delivery of a 

 plant in Baltimore on a certain date. 

 The order was credited to a campaign 

 advertisement in the Literary Digest, 

 and the sender wrote; "This experi- 

 nient is being lool^ed upon with great 

 interest by many, and, if successful, 

 will no doubt prove a benefit to your 

 society." The plant was to be in 

 flower, and was a birthday gift to a 

 mother. The message "Say it with 

 ^''lowers ' was accepted in a land many 

 thousands of miles away. What must 

 be its effect in our own land? 



The Daily Mail of Nevada, Mo., in 

 an editorial published last month said: 

 "The slogan of the florist Is "Say it 

 with Flowers." It may be expensive, 

 but it is an eloquent and impressive 

 way. There are occasions when words 

 fail, but seldom do flowers. In the 

 days of our youth we gathered the 

 daisy and the wild violet, and now the 

 florist takes the place of the prairie, 

 the valley and the hills which are no 

 longer public property. If it wasn't 

 for the florist, we would be denied the 

 privilege we often exercise frequently 

 to express the thou.ghts and the best 

 impulses of the mind and heart." 



Still, Uie florists are not rendering 

 anything like the service they could, 

 because they are not making known 

 sufficiently the occasions for such 

 service. Major O'Keefe put the mat- 

 ter very plainly before the Cleveland 

 Convention w'hen in his address, he 

 gave statistics in regard to "happen- 

 ings." He said: "When one person 

 dies, two are born, and there are ten 

 marriages which take place for every 

 fourteen deaths. If it was a custom 

 as deeply rooted in the habits of peo- 

 ple to send flowers for a birth as it 

 is now a custom to send them for a 

 death, you can see what an increase 

 would be effected in the florists' busi- 



HYACINTHS 



TULIPS 

 NARCISSUS 



CROCUS 



Catalogue and Special Prices 

 on Application 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



.13 Barclay Street 



Through to 54 Park Place 



NEW YORK CITY 



SUPREME 

 BRITISH SEEDS 



Get our prices for delivery from 

 1920 Harvest on all lines of 

 GARDEN and FARM ROOT 

 SEEDS. 



KELWAY & SON 



Wbolegale Been] Growers, 

 LANGPOBT, ENGLAND. 



Cables: "Kelway X<angport." 



PAPER WHITES, LILIES, TULIPS, 



HYACINTHS, NARCISSUS and 



OTHER EALL BULBS 



Write for prlc«« 



AMERICAN BULB CO. 



172 N. Waliasli Ave., Chlcaso, III. 



E. W. FENGAR 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



147-187 LindMi At*. 

 IRVINGTON, N. J. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS 



NURSERYMEN, FLORISTS, PLANTERS 



RUTHERFORD. NEW JERSCY 



We are sabscrtbera to the Nnraerymen'B 

 Fund for Market DeTelopment, al8o "Say 

 It With Flowers" Publicity Campaign. 



BULBS 



LILIUM OIOANTEUM. aUo HABDIEIS 



shipped now or later from cold storage 

 from New York, DeuTer, Chicago and 

 London (Canada). 



FOB FALL SHIPMENT 

 VALLEY TIPS, for forcing. Holland 

 and German type. Shipment from 

 Ne^v York. 



FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT 



B\MBOO STAKES 



Natural and Green In all sizes — both 



domestic and Japanese. 

 Write for prices stating joor reqnirs- 

 ments. 



McHUTCHJSON & CO. « '^^Tol^ 



