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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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NOVEMBKll 24, 1010. 



TWO SPLENDID 



^■■^ ITH the iDtroduction of every new rose the questions arise in every grower^s mind: Shall I hyy 



lyyj now grown? Is it an improvement over what wc now have? 



■ A J After critically examining the rose from all sides^ as a commercial flower, color, fragrance, 



' a free bloomer, whether a good strong healthy grower, whether a winter bloomer or simply a f 



thoroughly convinced that it is a better rose than existing kinds, it is not hard to determine the quantity to 



AH of the foregoing points we claim for Melody and Double Killarney and feel no grower can 

 bound to be money-makers to all buyers, especially the first year buyers. 



Melody, the new Irish rose, will fill a long-felt want for a good commercial yellow, one of the mo: 



With its rich, glossy green, red-tinged foliage and its beautiful well-formed yellow bud, it has 

 during the last two months. It has made such good impressions all along the line that we have and are be 



Melody grows much better on own roots than grafted. 



Melody, own root, $6.00 per dozen; $30.00 per 100; $70.00 per 250; $250.00 per 

 1000. Grafted, $5.00 extra per 100. 2>^-inch pots, delivery during March. Orders filled 

 strictly in rotation. Orders for cut blooms in quantity on short notice, $10.00, $12.00 and 

 $15.00 per 100. 



We quote Robert Scott & Son^s description of Melody. 



NEW IRISH ROSE MELODY 



** The freest flowering winter-forcing Rose yet introduced. 

 Melody is a yellow pedigree seedling of Messrs. Alex. Dick- 

 son & Sons, Newtown ards, Ireland, and is the fourth rose p» — ,% 

 they have given us for winter forcing, their former introduc- ^^^ 



tions being Killarney, Liberty and Mrs. Jardine. 



**Melody has a strong willowy growth, un- 

 like any other forcing variety, with rich glossy 

 foliage. Flowers are of perfect form, of a beautiful 

 yellow shading, shading toward the center to deep 

 apricot yellow, and very double. It will be parti- 

 cularly valuable to Florists from the fact that it 

 produces such quantities of flowers in winter, when other 

 varieties are apt to be shy. With us in Sharon Hill it is 

 as free in winter as My Maryland is in summer, and from 

 one two-year-old plant last December we cut 26 f lowerst 

 and from the same plant on the next crop in February 

 wc cut 27.*' 



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