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January 23, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



57 



The above picture showa the Kerantnm garden of L.onla P. Faolk, Florist 

 of Ross Township, Allegheny Co., Fa. 



This picture was taken Sept. 6, 1907, the day before we started to make the geranium cuttings The operator 

 stood too close to the bed of geraniums, as it only shows about two-thirds of the garden. This bed contains 3,000 

 geraniums, composed of 13 varieties— the leading 13 selected out of over 50 varieties— the BIO 18 which are the 

 leading geraniums for retail purposes about Pittsburg. 



I run a first-class retail business and always demand the highest prices, give every variety a good test. I us- 

 ually grow from 20,000 to 25,000 geraniums and have retailed pretty near all of them each season. The varieties are 

 A. Ricard, S. A. Nutt, Marvel, Beaute Poitevine, Jean Viaud, Kleber, Castries, Mme. Jaulin, Mrs. 

 E. 6. Hill, Jean de la Brete, Mme. Buchner and Beauty, a large single salmon; and also my New 



Geranium H. L. HARTMAN 



The latter variety is a beautiful, bright, deep rose- 

 pink and it ranks next to A. Bicard, as it is classed 

 first in geraniums, and H. L. Hartman will be classed 

 second. You can see this variety at the left of the 

 picture. The color takes white in a photograph. This 

 variety grows very bushy and dwarf, joints close, 

 making it easy to propagate. This geranium is the 

 best bloomer and makes the largest truss of any 

 geranium grown. The truss is so large that it forms 

 a round ball when in full bloom. The color arranges 

 so nicely with other varieties that when left out of 

 these other varieties it is missed, just as much as if 



you were to leave out A. Bicard. The center of the 

 upper part of each floret is shaded to orange-scarlet, 

 making it one of the prettiest geraniums grown. It is 

 full semi-double. One batch of 1,500 in 4-inch pots 

 in the greenhouse came into full bloom the week of 

 Decoration Day, 1907, and were all sold in three days 

 at $2 per dozen. A florist from Syracuse, N. Y., saw 

 them and said it was the finest geranium he -ever had 

 seen; he bought 200 of my stock plants from 2^4 -inch 

 pots. For further particulars and prices, as I have a 

 few more left to sell, please write to me, or watch the 

 Florists' Beview. 



PETUNIA AMERICAN FAVORITE 



I shall introduce to the trade my new petunia 

 American Favorite. This grand novelty is to petunias 

 what the American Beauty is to roses. It ranks first. 

 In habit this petunia is dwarf and bushy, one of the 

 very Eest bloomers.. The flowers are very large and 

 full double, exceedingly fragrant. A bed of two or 

 three dozen of this petunia is equal to a bed of roses, 

 as the flowers run from almost pure white to the 

 darkest shades in petunia colors. There will be as 

 high as 12 to 15 different colors on one stock at a 

 time, ranging from light to dark mixed and striped. 

 It is a perfect beauty. It is one of the best petunias 

 for a pot plant for market. They have three or four 



different colors on a plant in a 4-inch pot, and sell 

 readily at 25 cents each. Everybody admires the 

 American Favorite petunia. This petunia comes in 

 bloom very small and continues blooming long after 

 all other varieties quit in the fall, I have several 

 other double petunias and all of them quit blooming 

 after the first frost (September 26, 1907), but Ameri- 

 can Favorite continued in full bloom. I covered them 

 every night from October 14, the night of the first 

 heavy frost, until November 10, when I cut them up 

 for cuttings. I now introduce it to the Trade. Every 

 Florist should have a hundred or more of this novelty 

 this season. For prices and further particulars watch 

 the Florists' Beview, or write 



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LOUIS P. TAULK 



WEST VIEW, ----- PENNSYLVANIA 







