AUGCST 12, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



31 



Ferns 



Galax 



Moss 



■nCIAL PRICKS ON LARGS QUANTITIXS 



C« E. CRITCHELL9^84.86 East '^street, 'Cificinnati, Ohio 



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FERNS 



New Crop of Ferns 



Fancy and DacKer 



Ready now. Special price for large orders. 

 Price. $1.25 per 1000. 



Caldwell The Woodsman Decorative Co. 



SVXRGRKKN, ALABAMA. 



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NEW CROP 



Fresh from the Patch 



Fancy and Dasher Fernet $1>P0 per 1000 

 Green Galax, SOc per 1000 



Discount on large orders. If you want the 

 cream of the season, send orders now. Sixteen 

 years' experience. Send cash with first order. 



J.N.PRITCHARD,ElkPark,N.C. 



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Dn DflTTCQ Bntler.Tenn. 'Wholesale 

 i U • r U I I Cn I Dealer In Bvericreens. 



Fancy and Dagger Ferns, 75c per lOOO. Galax Leaves^ 

 green or bronze. 100«, 50c. Green LeucothoeSprays 

 SI per lOtX). Bronze Leucothoe Sprays, $3 per 10oO| 

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raised from them flowered in the tem- 

 perate house in July. Although scarcely 

 distinct enough to rank as a species, this 

 humea may well be named the gigantic 

 variety of H. elegans, as it is about 

 twenty feet high, with a stem an inch in 

 diameter, and the largest leaves are fif- 

 teen inches by five inches. The panicles 

 are correspondingly large, and there are 

 dark red and pink forms. A humea of 

 these proportions can be grown only in 

 tall conservatories, except in sub-tropical 

 countries, where it ought to prove very 

 serviceable. 



OUTLOOK FOR PLANT BREEDING 



Record of the Past. 



Dr. H. J. Webber, professor of experi- 

 uiental plant breeding in Cornell Uni- 

 V rsity, recently spoke before the Massa- 

 c lusetts Horticultural Society. His sub- 

 ,1 ct was "The Outlook for Plant Breed- 

 ing," and he said in part: 



The early history of our cultivated 

 r ants is shrouded in mystery. The wild 

 'pes from which they sprung are in 

 ' any cases entirely unknown, and the 

 i'iudifications which have taken place are 

 ' ■ profound, in many cases, as to preclude 



e recognition of the wild prototypes if 

 ' ey are now living. Each century has 

 itherited increasingly better and better 

 ^Tts from the preceding century. It 



ould seem to us today that we have 

 Clearly reached the limit of perfection, yet 

 f am led to wonder, when I review the 

 tremendous possibilities opened to me by 

 wy fifteen years of research in the field 

 ^i plant breeding, if we are really doing 

 ^11 in this field of development which the 

 world has a right to expect of us. 



Some great economic problems await 



...NEW CROP... 



NATIVE FERNS 



Now ready, 75c per 1000. Discount on large orders. 



Tel. Office, New Salem, Mas*. Fine Boxwood, 60-lb. cases $8.00 



L. D. Phone Connection. ««,•_. 'd...«__ _. n-......^ ■-< <^ -•»«. 



wsuax, Bronxe or Green.... $1 M per lOOQ 



Wild Bmllax, 60-lb. cases w $6.00 



OroondFtne 7o per lb. 



Dse oar Laurel Featoonlnc for your 

 Weddlncs and Decoratlona, made 

 tresb daily from the woods. 4c. 5c and 6c 

 per yd. 



Large bunches Bunched Laurel 86c 



■mrrr r ■rwT^wn^'WT w.oa Laurel Bloasoms, 50c per buncb. Fine 



in I lilil WQTOW, JUABS. stock and great sellers. Try a sample lot. 



GROWL FERN CO., - Millington, Mass. 



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New Crop rprnn 

 Hardy Cut rCillD 



First Quality. Write for Prices 



PATiCY DAGGER ALSO DEALERS IN 



.... BALED SPRUCE FOR CEMETERY USE.... 



GALAX LKAVU. BOUQUXT GRBXH. SFHAGVUII MOSS. Bto. 



L. B. Brague & Son, s^-H^ Hinsdale, Miss. 



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GREEN GALAX 



New crop now reMf- Medium size. 2hi to 

 3-in., at $3 00 per case, parge size. 3^4 to 4i^-in., 

 at $3.50 per case. 10,000 to the case. ' Low prices, 

 low rates and first-class leaves," my motto. 

 Send me at least a sample order. 



Cash with order. 



a. A. HOLDER, Round Peak, N. C. 



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solution by the breeders of the future, 

 but it is in the general improvement of 

 all crops that one finds the most numer- 

 ous problems. In no crop or in no place 

 have we apparently exhausted the field 

 of improvement. 



Variations. 



The fact that we can improve plants 

 depends upon the occurrence of varia- 

 tions. No two plants are alike in all re- 

 spects, and while the difference between 

 individuals of the same species or variety 

 is ordinarily slight, still there occasion- 

 ally occurs a marked variation or sport 

 which may be of an entirely different 

 and new type. 



Call and see our Exhibit 

 at the Convention. 



Shaw Fern Company 



Pittsf ield, >lass. 



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 NEW CROP OF 



Fancy Ferns 



Price, $1.00 per 1000. Caeh with 

 order. 



FRED. W. ZEITFUSS, Clarion, Pa. 



Breeders now recognize three types of 

 variations: Fluctuations, mutations and 

 variations due to hybridization. Fluctu- 

 ating variations are the slight individual 

 variations which are not considered to be 

 heritable, but which are doubtless in 

 some degree transmitted. In the case of 



