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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



35 



Fall Bulbs 



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New Tariff Prices 



Per 100 1000 



Paper White Grandiflora Narcissus 



13 centimeti-rB ai'd over. Kine (< aa CO AA 

 bulbs. fiOOO »t $8 5u per 1000 >1.UU >».UU 



Chinese lilies 32.00 



Basket. 8U bulos. H.i^: 120 buibs, 94.50. 



f reesias. Pure While .90 7.50 



^-incb aud up B rinuda grown aiid 

 superior to the Freiiv b or the Oaliiornla. 



Lilium Candidum 5.50 50.00 



Extra qunliiy. 



Lilium Formosum, 7/9 7.00 65.00 



Lilium Harrisii, 5/7 4.00 38.00 



Callas, fine bulbs 7.00 60.00 



Oxalis (Bermuda Buttercup) .75 6.00 

 Mastica, for glazing— 



Per qt., $0.35 ; per gal., 1.25 

 Mastica Machine 1.25 



Mushroom Spawn The be^t English miUtraPk 



10 lbs. . . .75 



25lbs.... . . 1.50 



100 lbs. 6.00 



New Crop Pansy Seed— 



Jobnson'a Famous Prize Winners. 



Tbf n esi Oiitiii ^t aiii otT n d in ib - tiade. 



1000 seeds, $0.30; 2000 seeds, .50 

 5000 seeds, 1.00; per oz., 5.00 



DUTCH BULBS READY 



Write lor Wliolesale Catalogue 



Johnson Seed Co. 



217 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Aiciiuuii A.UK iM:tiuMf Mueu >uu Mlite. 



tomer is always pleased and satisfied. He 

 always gets growth and blooms. 



Improvements to be Detired. 



Speaking from the fanciers' stand- 

 point, we still have some improvements to 

 desire and look forward to in color, size 

 and form. For instance, we have no 

 large, widely opened white, blue or yel- 

 low. In pink we have America, which is 

 well nigh perfect, and in red we have 

 Mrs. King, Princeps, and several others 

 of large size, perfect color and beautiful, 

 wido-open shape. But in white the best 

 we can offer as yet are Augusta and 

 Snowbank, both of which are compara- 

 tively small. In yellow, the situation is 

 still worse, as we have only Isaac Bu- 

 chanan and Canary Bird in bright, clear 

 yellow, and both are small. 



It seems to me that the great need 

 now is for whites and yellows equal in 

 size, shape and vigor to America and 

 Mrs. King. I suppose they will come in 

 time, but we all ought to hurry that time 

 if we possibly can. 



How to Get Needed Colors. 

 It is my impression that it can best be 

 done by intelligent, painstaking and sei- 

 ontifie hand hybridizing, using our best 

 and most vigorous pinks for the mother 

 plant and crossing with our best yellows 

 and whites. I understand there is al- 

 ready one man in this state who has been 



Rawson's New Pink Beauty Lupine 



Should now be sown for an early fall crop in the hot- 

 hou^e. It has proven one of the most profitable crops 

 during the laet seapon and must be considered one of 

 the best novelties of recent years. 



Peru 30c 4 os $1.00 



W. W. RAWSON ft CO., Seedsmen 



6 UNION ST.. BOSTON, MASS. 



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! GIGANTIC PANSIESf 



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can only be produced from the Giant Strains. Our CBALLENOC PANHT q 



seed contains only the dant sHf colors, the slant striped and varlecated ii 



and the slant btotobed, all carefuliy mixed in proportion. Tou could not buy S 



better seed 11 you paid $ioO.OO per ounce. ti 



3 Pansy^-Boddington's Challenge s 



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Trade pkt. 

 60c 



^s oz. 

 76c 



O We aliio offer pansy seed in separate colors, 



H oz. ^ ns. 1 oz ■ 



$1.60 $8.76 $6.00 D 



Write for special price and catalogue. ' 



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3 ARTHUR T. BODDIN8T0N. seedsman, "»^*?... New York City s 



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Bill B0 ^aee«J Bl A MTO '°' Florists' forclni;: Azaleas. Roses. Palms, etc. 

 BULBa SfflD r LJlla I 9 Romans, Valleys. Ulies. etc., imported to order 

 ■"^^■•'' •■■■•■ ■ •»»BW ■ «r Summer and Pall 1909 delivery; address 



AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, 31 Barclay SL, or P. 0. Box 752, NEW YORK 



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OUR SPECIALTY 



Next faU will be 



Lroorle Saaunlcera (Amaryllis Hallii). 



Home'srown Ltllume. 



All varieties of German and Japan Iris. 



Write for prices. 



JOHN LEWIS CNILDS, Horal Pali N. Y. 



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RUSCONIi;.' BULBS 



CICANTEUM and AURATUM 



Valley Pipe, aU cold storace 

 8KB08 AMD rLORISTS* SUPPLIBS 



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working along that line for several years, 

 C. L. Goodrich, of Luther, Iowa, and 

 some of the flowers resulting from these 

 crosses, especially from the second and 

 third crosses of line breeding, are really 

 wonderful. He is an amateur grower and 

 his work is little known, but it seems to 

 me that he is on the right track and that 

 he is getting nearer to what is needed 

 than any of us professionals. 



There is also a distinct need of a 

 striped type of large size and showing 

 delicate shadings and combinations of 

 pink and white. So far as I know, there 

 is no commercial sort of this description, 

 but such a one would be very useful. Eu- 

 gene Scribe has very nearly the color I 

 mean and is of good form, but is entirely 

 too small. If we could get that color and 

 form combined with the size of Princeps 

 or Mrs. King, we would have a flower of 

 great value. 



SUNT PANSY Hi! 



Ihe KENILWORTH strain 



is onsarpasspd the immense flowers of Sis to 4 

 inches are of perfect form and sabstance; every 

 tint and shade is pnduced in striking r-ombina- 

 tion and endless variation of beautiful rolon 

 and markinKs: it is the result of years of selec- 

 tion; it embraces the largest and best of Engl sh, 

 Krench. Oerman and American onvelties; 

 1909 seed greatly improved by rich shades 

 of brown bronze, red and mahogany. New 

 seed: 1000, 25c: 2000, 40c; 6000, $1; k oz., 

 $1.40: ifl-oz.. t2.60; oz . Vt. 



BAIMBOW is a blend of over 

 60 of the latest introdui tlons o 

 giant pansles of the mof>t beauti- 

 ful gorgeous colors, blotched, 

 striped, veined, margined , 

 etc. With every $1.00 worth 

 of Keniiwnrtb strain. I will 

 send 1< 00 of Rainbow free; 

 and with other amounts 

 in like proportion. 



WARD'S LILY BULBS 



Not Ho^e Cheap, 

 But How Good. 



RALPH M. WARD & CO. 



12 W. Broadway, NEW YORK 



Admonition to Growers. 



In conclusion I wish to urge all who 

 grow and sell gladiolus bulbs to strin- 

 gently weed out and throw away the poor 

 sorts. I know it takes nerve to pull up 

 and throw away a third or a half of a 

 fairly good mixture, but it is almost a 

 crime to allow these trashy sorts of doubt- 

 ful color and small size to creep in. Often 

 they increase much faster than the better 

 ones and cause disappointment to the 

 buyer. 



