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Mahch 30, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



89 



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ASTERS II DAHLIAS || GLADIOLI 



The Three Greatest Summer-Blooining Flowers in Existence for Florists 



ASTERS 



ASTERS. We have every novelty and named variety of 

 merit we can find. Price, $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1»000. 



STANDARD FLORISTS' SORTS. Over 100 varieties and 

 colors In Late Branching, Queen of the Market, Giant Comet, 

 Peony Flowered, Ostrich Plume, Chrysanthenium Flowered, 

 Victoria, etc. Any class or color, 35c per 100; $2.50 per 1,000; 

 $20.00 per 10,000. 



ASTERS IN GRAND MIXTURE 



Mixture No. 1. A superb Florists' Novelty Mixture of all of 

 the best cut flower varieties, from the earliest to the latest, 

 furnishing blooms the entire season. 50c per 100; $3.25 per 

 1,000; $25.00 per 10,000. 



Mixture No. 2. Strictly a Florists' Standard Mixture, not an 

 objectionable variety in the lot. 35c per 100; 1,000, $2.50; 10,000, 

 S20 00 



Mixture No. 3. A grand mixture of all varieties combined. 

 Suitable for retailing. 25c per 100; $1.75 per 1,000; $1.00 per 

 1,000 In 10,000 lots. 



DAHLIAS 



DAHLIAS. No flower will realize the florist greater returns, 

 for the money invested, than some well selected varieties of 

 Dahlias. 



NAMED VARIETIES OF SPECIAL VALUE 



Foster Barnes — 1911 introduction; undoubtedly the grandest 

 Florists' Show Dahlia ever introduced. As waxy as a tuberose, 

 pure white, delicately tipped lavender pink and softly shaded 

 at the center of the flower. Ideal for design work — a perfect 

 cut flower variety. 75c each; $7.50 per dozen. 



CACTUS DAHLIAS 



Aurora — Golden apricot, suffused pink, tipped white. $1.50 

 per dozen. 



Brightness — (Baxter), Carmine red, very free and fine. $2.50 

 per dozen. 



Countess of Lonsdale — Rich, salmon pink. $1.00 per dozen. 

 Dainty — Yellow ground, daintily suffused pink. $1.75 per 

 dozen. 



Frute — Peach pink, cream center. $2.00 per dozen. 

 General Buiier — Rich, dark velvety maroon, sometimes tipped 

 with white. 75c per dozen. 

 Volker — Lemon yellow, very fine. $1.25 per dozen. 



Victor von Scheffel — Most delicate flesh pink, lighter center. 

 $1.25 per dozen. 



DECORATIVE DAHLIAS 



Blue Oban — The nearest blue of any dahlia. $1.25 per dozen. 



Blushing Beauty — Lavender pink, with deeper markings. 

 75c per dozen. 



C. W. Bruton — Fine large yellow. $1.00 per dozen. 



Dellce — The finest bright pink cut flower variety in this 

 class. $3.75 per dozen. 



Jack Rose — The finest decorative dahlia of the celor — the 

 exact color of Gen. Jack Rose. $2.50 per dozen. 



Miss Virginia Mauie — Beautiful delicate pink. $1.25 per 

 dozen. 



Prinzessin Louise Victoria — Clear rose pink — great for cut 

 flowers. $1.75 per dozen. 



Souv. de Gustave Doazon — Extremely large/ on long stems, 

 rich scarlet. $1.25 per dozen. 



SHOW DAHLIAS 



•A. D. LivonI — Clear, soft rose pink. 75c per dozen. 



Arabella — Primrose yellow, shaded and tipped peach pink. 

 75c per dozen. 



Ethel Schmidt — White, flushed pink, streaked and specked 

 crimson. $2.00 per dozen. 



Incomparable — Purple maroon, a perfect ball; the most per- 

 fectly formed show dahlia In existence. $5.00 per dozen. 



John Walker — One of the best white cut flower varieties. 

 $1.50 per dozen. 



M. D. Haliock — Fine, long stemmed yellow. $1.00 per dozen. 

 Red Hussar — The old stand-by, dark red. 75c per dozen. 



Storm King — Best early white, very free. $1.25 per dozen. 



Sylvia — Rich pink, fading to white at center. 75c per dozen. 



DAHLIAS TO COLOR 

 Dahlias to color, our selection. $4.00 per hundred. 



GLADIOLI 



Gladioli in named sorts, ask for prices. 

 Groff's and Chiidsii Hybrids, large flowered Florists' Mixture, 

 all fine blooming size bulbs. 75c per 100; $5.75 per 1,000. We 

 have sold this mixture for a number of years and have never 

 had a complaint about the quality or quantity of the blooms. 



Get our catalog and use it in selling goods over the counter. 

 It will make sales for you and give you a handsome profit. We 

 will furnish the stock to flII the orders you take. 



NATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE SHOW GARDENS, Spencer, Ind., U.S.A. 



Mpntion The Review when you write. 



portance of sample and stock. (Seeds- 

 men commonly use the word sample as 

 referring to the viability, color, and 

 appearance of a lot of seed, and the 

 term stock as referring to the quality, 

 purity, and evenness of type resulting 

 from the line of breeding and ancestry.) 

 In many cases purchasers will choose 

 the better looking of two samples of 

 seed at a higher price, although they 

 know nothing of the stock from which 

 it was grown except that it is said to be 

 of the variety named, rather than the 

 poorer looking sample, which, though 

 quite possibly of lower viability, is 

 known to have been grown from well- 

 bred stock seed. Seedsmen should em- 

 phasize far more than they do, through 

 their salesmen, catalogues, and price 

 lists, the superior value of seed pro- 

 duced from stocks which are known to 

 have been carefully bred to a certain 

 distinct varietal character. They should 

 refuse to handle seeds which they do 

 not know were grown from pure and 

 true stocks. Planters should not be 

 tempted by low prices to purchase seed 

 of unknown or uncertain quality, but 

 should always buy that which they be- 

 lieve to be the purest and truest stock, 

 paying comparatively little attention 

 to appearance, or even to viability. 



(2) The seedsman should change his 

 attitude toward the contracting farmer, 

 looking upon him as a seed grower 

 rather than as a mere cultivator and 

 making every effort to increase his in- 

 terest in and knowledge of the varietal 

 character of the sort of seed he grows, 

 as well as the special cultural methods 

 which will best develop its distinguish- 

 ing merits. This would necessitate the 

 seedsman's making a greater effort to 



Dahlias and Gladioli 



500 barrels Dahlias still unsold — 400 varieties. 

 200 barrels and kinds in clumps, balance divi- 

 ded. Send list of your wants and for catalogue. 



200,000 GLADIOLUS 



In mixtures. 



20,000 Mixed Cannas 



Fancy flowering, both green and bronze leaf. 



J. L MOORE, 



NORTHBORO. 

 MASS. 



Mention The Review when Tou write 



NEW CROP FLORISTS* FLOWER SEEDS 



Vlnca, separate colors and mixed, oz., 50c. 



Verbena, mammoth, in colors or mixed, oz., 



60c. Salvia splendens. oz., Si .25; Bonfire, oz., 



t2.00. Cobaea scandens, Stocks, Lobelia, etc. 



Write for Wholesale Catalogue 



WEEBER & DON'ViKr".*' 



114 caiainbers St., New York City 



Aster Seed 



And all other SEEDS for the 

 Florist. Send want list and 



get prices by return mail. 



Davis Nursery & Seed Co.. 



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