NOVEUBBB 11, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



17 



Thompson's Dahlias 



Lead the Chicago Market in Both Bulbs and Cut Flowers 



DAHLIA No. 111.— A Kraiid 4-iacb flower. Richest yel ow. with hair line of lavender on 

 edge of each petal and lavender tipped. A good chryaanthemum. 



GROWN BY 



Central Seed & Bulb Co. 



Chicago Office, 52 Wabash Ave. Gardens at Benton Harbor, Mich. 



Caters to the catalogue trade, and exclusive control given of new varieties. We have a specially 

 prepared booklet showing some of these new thiogs, in addition to the standard varieties, which we 

 should be pleased to mail you free on request. The half tone engravings and the paper are the finest 

 that could be procured, and the printers were given a free hand to produce the best possible work. They 

 did well and you will be interested. 



This season we have grown at the Leaflet Park Gardens, Benton Harbor, Mich., over a quarter of 

 a million Gladiolus and 30,000 Dahlias, 75,000 Gladiolus Augusta, 25,000 America, and all the best 

 standard varieties. Many of our bulbs are three inches in diameter. Full lines of Japan and German 

 Iris, Tiger Lilies, Tritomas, Peonies and Oxalis. 



Benton Harbor is in the best of the Michigan fruit belt, and the peach and other tender fruits grow 

 to perfection. Here the Gladiolus, Dahlias, Lilies, Iris, and other outdoor flowers thrive in all their 

 glory. We shipped Dahlias to the Chicago Cut Flower Market on Oct. I&th, past. This little booklet 

 shows several of these things. The engraving of Thompson's Hybrids shows the line on which we are 

 working in improving the Gladiolus. Correspondence invited on any American out-of-door bulbs. 



Thompson's New Dahlias and others of the bulbs we grow can be procured through the well known 

 and reliable seedsmen : 



The W. W. BARNARD CO., 108-1 10 W. Kinzie St., Chicago. LEONARD SEED CO., 228-230 Kinzie St., Chicago 



All Cut Flowers in 1IaiimI«am P Cmaww WHOLESALK 62-64 AU1^am«« 



SeMon are handled by WaUgilan Ul OfMUTTy^ FLORISTS Wabaah Ave., UlllvayU 



