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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 25, 11)10. 





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Dreer's 

 Giant Cyclamen 



New Crop Seed Now Ready 



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E have for years carefully noted the various strains of Cyclamen 

 from the world's foremost specialists and feel sure that the 

 strain here offered is by far the best, regardless of price. 



Our grower has made the Cyclamen a life study, and the 

 strain is now practically perfect; the habit of the plants, purity of 

 colors, iize and substance of the flowers leaving nothing to be desired. 

 Many of the leading growers are now using this strain exclu- 

 sively. We offer as follows: 



100 Seeds 1000 Seeds 



Dreer's Giant Pure White 10.76 $ 6.00 



Dreer's Giant White with Carmine Eye, .75 



Dreer's Giant Rose with Darl( Eye 75 



Dreer's Giant Blood Red 75 



Dreer's Giant Choicest Mixed, all colors, .()0 

 Dreer's Giant Wonder of Wandsbelt, a 

 new variety of various brilliant rose shades 

 suffused with salmon. A striking color, 1.50 



6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 



12.00 



Plants for Next Winter's Blooming 



We can supply nice 3-inch pot plants of our Giant Cyclamen in 

 the first four colors noted above, $1.25 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



HENRY A. DREER, Inc., ^^V^JS^^UfH^fi. 



In starting a foundation stock one 

 should most carefully select a few 

 plants which in habit of growth, in leaf, 

 flower, pod, and in every way are of 

 the exact varietal character wanted. 

 The seed of these selections may, with 

 reasonable safety, be planted side by 

 side, but each plant should be carefully 

 examined, and the whole of any lot in 

 which a single plant shows variation 

 that seems to have come through the 

 seed rather than as a result of more or 

 less perfect development should be re- 

 jected, and it is often wise to reject all 

 of the stock that traces to the same 

 original selected plant. In making such 

 rejections it is very important that one 

 should distinguish between variations 

 which were transmitted through the 

 seed and those which result from con- 

 ditions of growth and which would not 

 be carried in the seed. This will call 

 for the exercise of wise judgment 

 founded on a full and accurate knowl- 

 edge of the varietal characteristics of 

 the sort. It will be seen that in spite 

 of the lesser liability to cross-fertilir.a- 

 tion, the building up of a true stock is 

 a much slower process with beans than 

 with corn, but when one which is true 

 has been secured it is much easier to 

 keep it so. 



NEW BEDFOBD, MASS. 



The Market. 



Trade the last week or two was fairly 

 good. There were plenty of flowers. 

 Asters of the early sort were in full 

 bloom; they retailed at 35 cents per 

 dozen. Carnations were abojt gone, 

 and what few were seen were ex- 



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Stops bruising of foliage 



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