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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



.Januabx 13, 1910. 



Every Florist Who Grows 



ASTERS 



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 immediately. Get yoar name on our 

 files for our regular Florists' Whole- 

 sale Catalogue. These books are free. 

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ROCHESTER, N. T. 



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ture, and whom we have to thank for the 

 splendid Hohenzollern aster now obtain- 

 able in many tints, has developed from it 

 the novel variety Hercules. The latter is 

 an excellent plant for furnishing cut 

 blooms, and because of its uniform 

 growth it makes a good subject for 

 groups in the open. Like the Hohenzol- 

 lern, it is a true autumn-flowering aster, 

 and must be sown early and pricked out in 

 order to flower at its best and ripen its 

 seeds fully. A white variety will shortly 

 be put on the market. Hercules is said 

 by the German gardening press to be the 

 largest-flowered aster yet known. 



ORIGIN OF SPENCER PEAS. 



In a paper read before the National 

 Sweet Pea Society in London, England, 

 December 10, Wm. Cuthbertson, of Deb- 

 bie & Co., of Mark 's Tey and Edinburgh, 

 said in part: 



"Some people argue that sweet peas 

 are pollinated by wind-borne or insect- 

 borne pollen, and that accounts for the 

 variations we get in so many stocks of 

 Spencer sweet peas. I have never been 

 able to subscribe to this theory, because 

 I think I have had as large an expe- 

 rience as most, and have not observed it 

 happen in practice. The plan we adopt 

 at Mark's Tey is to grow the different 

 varieties in lines 100 feet long. There 

 may be four lines of The Marquis, fol- 

 lowed closely by four lines of Countess 

 Spencer, then four lines of Helen Lewis, 

 and so on. If the wind or insect theory 

 of cross fertilization held good we should 

 not get pure seed, but as a matter of 

 fact we do. Then again, it is suggested 

 that in America there must be insects, 

 unknown in this country, at work there 

 to give us the fine variations we so fre- 

 quently get! I should like to have Mr. 

 Burpee's or Mr. Morse's opinion on this 

 point. ' ' 



Under date of January 5 Mr. Burpee 

 wrote: 



"Keplying to Mr. Cuthbertson 's in- 

 quiry, would say that, in common with 

 most growers and observers of Spencer 

 sweet peas, I hold firmly to the opinion 

 that the great majority of new varieties 

 of this type are entirely what might be 

 called accidental sports. No special 

 climatic conditions or 'insect theory' 

 seems to apply to California more than 

 to England. It is noteworthy that sports 

 of similar character and in several cases 

 identically the same have been found in 

 both countries. 



"While most of the varieties so far 

 introduced have been accidental sports, 

 it is only fair to say that now there are 

 quite a number of new seedlings, the re- 

 sult of cross-fertilizatiouj both in Cali- 

 fornia and England. 



"Most of the work on the Spencer 



Dreer's Double Petunias 



OUR DOUBLE PETUNIAS, for more than half a century, have been the 

 acknowledged standard. The strain this season is equal in high quality to its 

 predecessors, and is well known to the trade. i^'^" 



We offer 16 distinct varieties, in strong, 3-inch pots, which will quickly 

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 100; the set of 15 for $1.00. 



Seed of our SUPERB STRAIN OF FRINGED PETUNIAS. Double, 



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Our Quarterly Wholesale Price List, issued January 1st, offers a 

 full line of seasonable Plants, Seeds and Bulbs. 



Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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GLADIOLI... 



Here la good Talae. All stock la l>a-lnch and up. 



Per 100 1000 



President Tatt $3.00 125.00 



Golden Qneen 4.00 80.U0 



America 8 50 30.00 



Aninista 200 15.00 



Africa 4.00 



DeChevlUe 2.00 15.00 



Easter 1.50 12.00 



Florida 2.00 16.00 



PerlOO 



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Giant Pink 4.00 



L.e Pactole 3 00 



Klondyke .*. 4.00 



May 2.00 



Mohawk 5.00 



Mrs. Francis King 2 50 



Marie Liemoine 1.50 



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