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JANDABY 20, 1910. , 



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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



39 



DREER'8 RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



We offer below a short list of flower seeds which should be sOWn early. New 

 crops of same are now ready, for complete list see our current Wholesale 

 Catalogue. If you have not received a copy we will send you one on application. 



SALVIA BONFIRE 



Aeer atum Blue Perfection, dark blue 



Ageratum Cope'a Pet, light blue 



Alyisum Little Gem or Carpet of Snow, very dwarf. 



Antirrhinum Giant, white 



': " scarlet 



" pink 



" " garnet 



yellow 



" " Btriped 



Begonia Semperflorena Vernon 



Candytuft £mprea§, best white 



Centaurea Gymnocarpa 



Candidissima 



" Cyanus, new double blue 



Tr. pkt. 

 . . . .10.16 



15 



15 



20 



20 



20 



20 



20 



20 



25 



10 



18 



25 



25 



Oz. 

 $0.60 

 .35 

 .40 

 .50 

 .50 

 .60 

 .60 

 .60 

 .50 



.20 

 .35 

 .76 



.75 



Cineraria Maritima Candidissima 



Cobaea iScandens, bhie 



white 



Delphinium Belladonna, new 



Dracaena Australia , , 



Indivisa 



Pflnnisetum Rueppelianum 



Heliotrope Lemoine's Giant 



Ipomoea Grandiflora ( White Moonflower) 



LobPlia Crystal Palace Oompacta, true , 



Emperor William 



Speciosa 



" Gracilis 



Petunia Dreer's Superb Single Fringed 



Dreer'B Superb Double Fringed, $1.60 per 1000 seeds. 



Pyrethrum aureum (Golden Feather^ 



Oalvia Splendens, Scarlet Sage 



Bonfire 



BallofPlre 



BurningBiBh 



Zurich 



Smilax 



Solanum Capsicastrum 



Steyia serrata 



Stocks Large Flowering 10 weeks, blood red 



canary 



" rose 



" light blue 



purple 



pure white , 



Stocks Cut and Come Again, white 



■' rose 



" '\ " blood red 



[[ \\ " " dark blue 



' " yellow 



lilac 



Tr. 



Tbunbergia, mixed colors. 



Torenia Fournieri 



Verbena Mammoth, pink... 

 • " " blue. 



pkt. 

 .10 

 .15 

 .20 

 .17 

 .16 

 .10 

 .10 

 .40 

 .15 

 .25 

 .26 

 .16 

 .15 

 .60 



.10 

 .26 

 .40 

 .60 

 .40 

 .60 

 .10 

 .10 

 .20 

 .40 

 .40 

 .40 

 .40 

 .40 

 .40 

 .60 

 .50 

 50 

 .60 

 .60 

 .60 

 .15 

 .30 



purple 



scarlet 



striped 



white 



finest mixed. 



.30 

 .80 

 s30 

 .30 

 .30 

 .25 



Oz. 

 .90 



.40 



.76 



.60 



.30 



.26 



2.00 



.40 



1.00 



1.00 



.60 



.40 



.26 

 1.00 

 2.26 

 3.00 

 2.00 



.30 

 .26 

 .75 

 2 60 

 12.60 

 2.60 

 250 

 250 

 2.50 

 8.00 

 8.00 

 3.00 

 300 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 .40 

 1.50 

 1.26 

 125 

 1.26 

 125 

 1.25 

 1.25 

 1.00 



HENRY A. DREER 714 Chestnut St., PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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Knight-Smith, which was one of these. 

 As soon as we saw Eckford's variety we 

 anticipated the result as we all found it, 

 and we all had to discard Mrs. Knight- 

 Smith. 



I believe we shall be able to fix most 

 of the Spencers by simple but continu- 

 ous selection. Countess Spencer itself 

 now comes true and so do several others. 

 The tendency is to revert to the hooded 

 or grandiflora type, rather than to other 

 ■colors, after the fixing is accomplished. 



The failure of the blossoms to set 

 seed is still a great mystery. The blos- 

 soms seem always to come to perfection 

 and then drop off, just as they should 

 fade and droop to make way for the pod. 

 I have not been able, so far, to find the 

 «ause for this and am inclined to think 

 it is the nature of the type. This char- 

 acteristic certainly means a long bloom- 

 ing period and for the planter it means 

 the very thing he wants. 



Lester L, Morse. 



FAST MAILS FOR FREE SEEDS. 



A lot of newspapers are alarmed at the 

 prospect that Congress will increase the 

 rate of postage on newspapers, and some 

 of the papers are joining in the fight on 

 congressional free seeds, as witness the 

 following: 



' ' In its quest of means to reduce the 

 government 's seventeen-and-a-half -million- 

 dollar postal deficit. Congress would do 

 ^ell to weigh the following incident: 

 Sixty-one big mail sacks full of seed were 

 received yesterday at the postoflSce at 

 Indianapolis, Ind., having come all the 

 jvay from Washington. They were sent 

 »y a congressman of that district and 

 constituted his 1910 allotment of seed. 



Fine 

 Aster Seed 



Catalogue now ready 



Vick & Hill Co. 



p. 0. Box 613 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Metal Clasp 

 Mailing Envelopes 



LOUIS JEFFREY 



78ttaaBd BrvHiwUk Ave., PHILADILPHIA, PA. 



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They had come by fast mail trains for 

 which the United States pays thousands 

 of dollars. And the congressman had 

 used his postoffice frank in sending them. 

 ' ' There you find one of the most fruit- 

 ful sources of the postoffice department 's 

 annual deficit. Where is the business 

 house that would think of sending garden 

 seed in quantity by mail? Except under 

 rare circumstances all such matter goes 

 by freight. Nor does the trip from 

 Washington to Indianapolis end the ex- 

 travagance. At the latter city the con- 

 gressman's secretary undid the sacks, 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



Very finest gradei of Valley for ahipment »■ 

 deaired from New York. 



GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



Palms, Bay Trees. Picas. Arancarlas, Aspidis- 

 tras, etc., of choice quality. 



HOLLAND PLANTS 



Roses. Peonies, Rhododendrons, Box Trees, 

 Olematis, Conifers, etc., at low prices. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



Finest trades of Berlin and Hamburg for 

 Import. 



H. FRANK DARROW 



p. 0. Box 1250 26 Barday SL, NEW YORK 



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Every Florist Who Grows 



ASTERS 



Bhoald Bend for onr Aeter Book 

 immediately. Get your name on our 

 files for our regular Floriatfl' Whole- 

 Bale Catalogue. Theae booka are free. 



When writina, mention this paper. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



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took out several thousand packages and 

 remailed them to constituents scattered 

 over the state. 



"For all of this the government must 

 pay. The expense of the railway mail 



