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48 The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Apbil 1, 1909. 



THg Florists' Supply House of America 



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 ^ Easter shipment we sent you and think you may not have enough for this the 

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of last year will be multiplied by six 

 when this season's importation arrives. 

 Cleanliness, thrift and vigor are evi- 

 denced everywhere. 



At 1526 Ranstead Street. 



Caller: "Good morning, William Jen- 

 nings Bryan." 



Edward Eeid: "Good morning, why do 

 you call me that?" 



Caller: "Because the solid south is for 

 you." 



The Features at Riverton. 



The establishment of Henry A. Dreer, 

 at Riverton, N. J., has grown to such vast 

 proportions as to baffle detailed descrip- 

 tion of the whole place. The only way 

 in which the ground can be covered intel- 

 ligently, without becoming wearisome^ is 

 to take a bird's-eye view of one or two 

 departments at a time. The most inter- 

 esting departments in this wonderful 

 place at present are the hardy roses and 

 the perennials. 



Experience has taught the powers that 

 be at Eiyertpn that hardy roses cannot be 

 successfully carried over winter in 

 frames; the percentage of winter-killed 

 stock destroys the profit. The bulk of 

 the stock is therefore potted up during 

 the winter in fives and sixes, and placed 

 in a range of glass, 150x175 feet, devoted 

 exclusively to this purpose. This range 

 is kept at a temperature a little above 

 freezing in late winter. The temperature 

 is allowed to increase on sunny days and 

 as the spring advances, care being taken 

 to give plenty of air at the same time. 

 The stock is all imported, grafted on 

 Manetti, from England and Ireland. 

 Jacqueminot, Magna Charta, Laing, Lui- 

 zet, Kaiserin, Killarney, Hermosa, Agrip- 

 pina, Carnot and La France are ranged 

 side by side with the more modern Harry 

 Kirk and Mildred Grant. The effect of 

 this vast sea of roses just coming into 

 bud is impr€ssive. 



To show that the Dreer Co. is appre- 

 ciated, it is only necessary to say that 

 the well-known amateur and professional 

 rosarians come or send here from all 

 over the .country asking for plans of rose 

 beds and rose borders requiring hundreds 

 and sometimes thousands of many varie- 

 ties. These orders are picked out and 

 set by themselves until the proper time 

 arrives for shipping. This time is gauged 



Extra Selected Bulbs 



Per doz. Per 100 



Caladium, Mammoth $1.3i $10.00 



• " 1st size 90 6.50 



2nd size. .60 4.50 



Japanese Fern Balls, medium 



. size 2.00 16.00 



Japanese Fern Balls, large size. 2.75 20.00 



Japanese Roots, named 1.00 8.00 



Lilium Auratum, 8/9 90 6.00 



9/11 1.25 8.50 



Album. 8/9 1.10 7.50 



9/11 1.60 12.00 



Rubrum, 8/9 85 5.00 



9/11 1.25 7.75 



Tuberose^, Large Bulbs 20 1.00 



$8.00 per 1000, 



Cinnamon Vine Roots (Hardy), 35c per doz.; 



$2.50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 



Cycas Revoluta, 1 to 10 lbs. each; 25 lbs., 



$2.26; 100 lbs., $8.50. 



PerlOO PerlOOO 



Canna Roots, named .$2.50 $20.00 



Gladiolus Bulbs, mixed. . ..*... 1.25 10.00 



" Brenchleyensis 1.25 12.00 



Pink and Rose 1.50 12.00 



Ught and White .... 1.75 16.00 



" Yellow Shades...... 3.00 29.00 



Lily of the Valley Clumps, $2.00 per doz.; 



$15.00 per 100. 



Mexican Vines, Large Roots, 30c per doz.; 



$2.00 per 100; $15.00 per 1000. 



Write for our litest Wholesale Cfatalogue of Spting Flowering: Bulbs and Stipplies. 



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by the earliness or lateness of spring in 

 the particular locality for which they are 

 destined. Among the varieties noted were 

 some of the best known Dickson introduc- 

 tions, for which, judging from the tags, 

 there was a lively demand. The trend of 

 public sentiment is toward the hybrid tea 

 classes, as giving the best satisfaction. 



There were frames filled with hardy 

 roses, outside plants that had not been 

 admitted to the immense range just de- 

 scribed, probably through lack of room. 

 These had wintered well t^is year, owing 

 possibly to the season, undoubtedly as- 

 sisted by the original method of covering, 

 the variegated pennisetum tops being 

 used for protection. ' ' What if they take 

 fire?" an expert said; but they did not, 

 and an English grower admired the cov- 

 ering 80 much that he asked whether the 

 pennisetum was grown especially to use 

 the tops to form protection for roses! 



I have waxed so enthusiastic over the 



roses that little space is left me to de- 

 scribe the hardy perennials. I must, how- 

 ever, stop to tell how frame after frame 

 appeared, filled with delphiniums, campa- 

 nulas, centaureas and so on — ad infini- 

 tum, it seems to me, looking down the 

 long rows just starting int» vigorous 

 growth. It takes judgment to handle 

 these perennials; the chiefs at Riverton 

 spend anxious moments deciding when 

 the weather conditions will permit remov- 

 ing the protection in order that the stock 

 may be properly hardened. These potted 

 plants mark an epoch in the growing of 

 perennials. The old-time plan of digging 

 them out of the ground or from frames, 

 where they had been placed during the 

 winter, l\as been superseded by this more 

 modern practice, which gives the planter 

 in some distant town or state something 

 on which he can depend when planning 

 landscape effects. The cost of produc- 



