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JUNB 30, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



HI 



ASPARAGUS 



Scandens Deflexus 



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Similar in habit of growth to Asparagus 

 Sprengeri, but with smaller foliage of a 

 peculiarly pleasing light green color, which 

 shows up very distinct and pleasing under 

 artificial light. Very useful to grow on 

 into specimens in 6, 7 or 8-inch pans for 

 apartment decoration. 



3-inch pots, 92*00 per doc., $15.00 p«r lOO 



HENRY A. DREER 



714-716 Chestnut Street 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



The above pricea are intended for the trade only. 



ASPARAGUS SCANDENS DEFLEXUS 



old saying of Barnum, 'The American 

 public likes to be humbugged.' 



"Many still use the tomato-can type 

 of cover and highly lithographed col- 

 ored plates that could be called either 

 a peach or a plum. If you look care- 

 fully, you will find in one Eve reclin- 

 ing on the bough of an apple tree, in 

 others pictures of the mayor of our 

 city, our political aspirations, affidavits 

 of our trustworthiness. 



"One of my correspondents covers 

 the entire subject in the following para- 

 graph, which I quote from his letter: 



Don't you think it about time that the nurs- 

 ery BrmH which tliinic their Koods should be 

 liighly painted, cliange their methods, so that 

 public confidence in the nursery business may 

 be increased and not impaired further? 



"Around 1800 there was an interest- 

 ing and eccentric character, 'Johnny 

 Appleseed,' who sowed apple seed over 

 the wild and woolly west; he considered 

 pruning and grafting wicked. Now, 

 jumping a hundred years, we have one 

 'Curculio' Lindley, chairman of a vigi- 

 lance committee, who considers' seed- 

 lings of all kinds listed by nurserymen 

 in 5/6-foot and 11/16-inch and up grade, 

 a wicked practice. Many years ago Rus- 

 sian Mennonites brought apricots to 

 Kansas and Nebraska. A few of these 

 seeedlings, named and budded, are a 

 valuable addition for northern latitudes, 

 but the O. E. variety, commonly listed 

 and sold, will give many types. Rus- 

 sian and multicaulis mulberry are 

 widely sold by enterprising agents as 

 fruit-bearing trees, but their use should 

 be restricted to windbreaks in the 

 northwest, and the latter for propagat- 

 ing purposes in other sections. Angers 

 quince is a seedling stock used for bud- 

 ding, also for dwarfing apple, and for 

 budding broad-leaved ornamentals in 

 the south. Prunus amerieana, common 

 wild plum of the north, is a seedling 

 listed by some concerns, not in fheir 

 ornamental department, but with other 

 budded and grafted varieties. 



"As a retail nurseryman, you would 

 not dare catalogue any of the aliove- 

 named seedlings, any more than you 



SEASONABLE STOCK 



READY NOW 



French Hydrangeas, 2%-m. pots, Mme. Chautard and Mine. Hamar, 



$6.60 per 100; $60.00 per 1000. 

 Primula Chinensis,2^-in., large flowered English strain, $5.00 per 100. 

 Genista Racemosa, 2yi-\xi., pinched and bushy, $0.00 per 100. 

 Begonias, 2)^-in., Metallic*. $6.00 per 100; Sandertonii. }6.00 per 100; 



Corallina, Lucarna, $12.00 per 100. 

 Primula Obconica, large flowering, separate colors, $>'3.(hi i>er UK); 



$45.00 per 1000. 



The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesvilie, Ohio 



Chrysanthemums and Roses 



OUR SPECIALTY 



Write us about anything you want 

 in this line. 



CHAS. H. TOTTY CO., n^ jer^t 



Joesph Beacock Company 



Wyncote, Pa. 



Palms and Cibotiums 



See Classified advert' sements 



would peach or apple seedlings, so why 

 should they appear in a wholesale list? 

 ' ' Cut back seedlings, especially pecan 

 and peach, are in quite heavy demand, 

 especially in some sections of the south. 

 It is no trouble to point out the pur- 

 pose for which they are wanted. When 



CARNATIONS 



F. Dorner & Sons Co., 

 LAFAYEHE, IND. 



Bobbink & Atkins 



NURSERYMEN 

 FLORISTS and PLANTERS 



RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY 



they are not cut back, then what? They 

 get into the hands of irresponsible 

 dealers and wild-cat nurserymen, who 

 simply sell and deliver the trees for 

 what they are not. Selling seedlings is 

 not a credit to the nursery industry. 

 "Your committee has tried to catch 



