January 16, 1919. 



The Florists' Review 



75 



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I Dreer's RELIABLE Flower Seeds | 



= New crops of most of the important items are now ready and the balance are expected shortly. Do not delay s 



E ordering your supply of the kinds that should be sown early, such as Ageratum, Alyssum, Antirrhinum, Centaurea, S 



E Cobaea, Dracaena, Heliotrope, Moonflower, Lantana, Lobelia, Maurandia. Petunia, Pyrethrum, Salvia, = 



E Thunbergia, Verbena, Vinca, etc., etc. ,^a========^a^^^^^^^^i^ ~ 



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_ We call the special attention of Florists to the following: 

 I NEW SCARLET SAGE 



I "America" or "Globe of Fire" 



E This is without doubt the finest Scarlet Sage ever sent out. It is the 



Z earliest to come into bloom, and flowers continuously till the end of the season, 

 S and what is equally as important, it is absolutely uniform in growth, about IS 

 inches high with the brilliant scarlet soikes thrown well above the plant 

 making a total height of about 2 feet. The seed we offer is our own saving. 



i of about 2 feet. The seed we o: 



50c per trade pkt.; $4.00 per Oz. 



Dreer's Superb Lar ge 

 Flowering Fringed Petunias 



Our own unrivaled strain and too well known to reauire description. 

 We offer 



Deible Hiwering Fringed, 7Sg per SOO seeds; $1.S0 per 1000 seeds 

 Siigle ** " SOc per trade pkt. 



Our new Wholesale Price List ju<»t issued containing a complete list of 

 all the Seeds, Plants and Bulbs we offer, has been mailed. If you did not 

 receive a copy, we will be pleased to send one to any Florist on application. 



Salvia America or Globe of Fire 



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Scad far CatalofM. 



HELLER & CO. 



MoatpeGer, Ohio 



I HENRY A. DREER, chest'n'„VI*treet. PHILADELPHIA, PA. | 



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I Announcement | 



= We beg to inform our numerous friends in the | 



= trade that we have moved from Hoboken to | 



= 38 Murray Street I 



I NEW YORK CITY | 



I C. J. Speelman & Sons at Lagarde & Speelman | 



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Seed Packets 



FLOWER SEED SIZPS TO CATALOHUB 

 ENVELOPES-RETURN ENVELOPES 



Brown Bag Tillint Machine Co. 



FITCHBURQ. MASS.. U. S. A. 

 Mention The Beflew when yon write. 



collections of vegetable and flower seeds. 

 "I am frank to say," remarks Mr. 

 Thcrkildson, "that when the classifica- 

 tion of vegetables was first proposed 

 to mc I strongly objected to it, but 

 Mr. Burpee was insistent that we in- 

 vestigate just how this would be re- 

 ceived. We sent out letters to the ex- 

 periment stations all over the country 

 and the reply to these letters evidenced 

 not a doubt that the experiment sta- 

 tions considered it an excellent arrarige- 

 niont. The letters of endorsement and 

 suggestions that we received are largely 

 responsible for this classification. While 

 I am willing to admit that it is a de- 

 cided change in the catalogue, I feel 

 equally sure that it will produce re- 

 sults. ' ' 



The number of pages is reduced from 

 216 to 152. This was done in expecta- 

 tion that the Pulp and Paper Division 

 of the War Industries Board might or- 



FROM NEW YORK COLD STORAGE 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 





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Best Quality Holland-Krown 



Cases of 600 pips $15.00 per case 



Cases of 900 pips 22.60 per case 



y- CHAS. SCHWAKE & CO., Inc. 







90.92 WEST BROADWAY 



NEW YORK 



der a reduction in catalogue sizes. Of 

 course, when they removed the restric- 

 tions, the catalogue was too far ad- 

 vanced to return to the old size. How- 

 ever, it reduced the postage 1 cent, 

 making it 3 cents instead of 4 cents 

 postage, as in former years. 



THE ROTTERDAM HAS SAILED. 



Efforts will be made by the Holland- 

 ers to export as much stock as possible 

 this season, in advance of the quaran- 

 tine, and a second large shipment of 

 gladiolus bulbs, planting stock and gen- 



