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94 



The Florists' Review 



March 13, 1913. 



My Original SILVER PINK SNAPDRAGON 



is a money-maker, being a grand variety indoors and out. Aside from a possible 

 sport, it has never varied from the soft, silvery pink which is best in full sunshine, 

 making it an ideal bedder. Plants like cut can be grown in three months, which, in 

 2^2 or S^^-in. pots, will make double the money that geraniums or any other bedding 

 plant will, from the fact that you can grow 16 plants to the square foot in 2Jfl-in. pots and 9 plants in 

 X^-in. pots. Use pencil and figure profit at 75c to $1.50 per dozen. It requires 9 months for geraniums 

 to do half go well, and a year of good growing for carnations and many other plants to equal it. 

 Clean up a comer anywhere and fill with SILVER PINK. You can't lieep it from growing. 



Price of seed— my own growing— $1.00 per packet of over 600 seeds; 8 pacltets, $2.50, deliyered. 

 Can still supply plants for MEMORIAL DAY flowering at $4.00 per 100, $36.00 per 1000. by express. 

 Cash must accompany all orders. 



Raport of ludgm; Novalty Nlsht, Clavalaiid Florists' Club, Fob. 10, 1913: 

 "G. 8. Ramaburg, Somersworth, N. H., a vase of Silver Pink snapdragon, 

 a beautiful variety and highly recommended by the^commlttee." 



Soo my iarser display ad in this woafc's Issuo. 



Q. S. RAMSBURQ, 



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Somersworth, N. H. 



sions: That book-shaped (small sized 

 page) magazines are not so popular for 

 seed and nursery advertising as they 

 were twenty or more years ago. The 

 tendency is to small copy during the 

 last few years. The largest advertise- 

 ment carried in the February Cosmo- 

 politan for this year is Henderson's, 

 which occupies one-third page. 



"In the old Century, the seed and 

 nursery ads are all concentrated to- 

 gether, and in running over its pages 

 it does not take long to find them. This 

 style is followed by most of the maga- 

 zines today, including the Cosmopolitan, 

 and I believe it is better than to scatter 

 ads of different kinds through the book. 

 The two small pages of seed ads are 

 hard to find in the Cosmopolitan, how- 

 ever, unless you turn every page of the 

 magazine. 



"In that old issue Henderson was 

 advertising to pay $250 for a name for 

 his big tomato, which was afterwards 

 named 'Ponderosa.* Burpee was fea- 

 turing pansy seed, Childs the moon- 

 flower, Maule the Marguerite carnation, 

 Scott the Ivory chrysanthemum, 

 Vaughan the Yellow Peach tomato, 

 Blanc the Queen of Night, Henderson 

 the Mrs. De Graw rose, and Reeser the 

 Bruant geranium. 



"Our replies from advertising this 

 year are much better than last. We are 

 getting more replies by the use of one- 

 half the appropriation. Last winter it 

 was so cold that people spent their time 

 in keeping warm, instead of reading 

 papers. If they do not read the papers 

 they do not answer the ads." 



CATALOGUES BECEIVED. 



Palisades Nurseries, Sparkill, N. Y., 

 hardy perennials, shrubs and trees; New 

 England Nurseries Co., Bedford, Mass., 

 general nursery stock; Charles Black, 

 Hightstown, N. J., vegetable, fruit and 

 hedge plants; Leedle Floral Co., Spring- 

 field, O., "Best Things in Roses"; Bur- 

 ton Seed Co., Denver, Colo., general and 

 wholesale lists; W. W. Barnard Co., Chi- 

 cago, 111., general and wholesale seed 

 lists; Sadie A. Thomas, Pasadena, Cal., 

 chrysanthemums; Otto Wittbold Nors- 

 ery, Edgebrook, Chicago, 111., wholesale 

 list. 



Mindenmines, Mo. — William Bogartz 

 has started business here as a florist and 

 expects to add to his facilities in the 

 near future. 



New Britain, Conn. — The business of 

 A. G. Volz has been incorporated, un- 

 der the name of the Volz Floral Co., 

 with a capital stock of $20,000. The 

 oflacers are: President, Arthur G. Volz; 

 treasurer. Rose Volz; secretary, Albert 

 Volz. 



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