556 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



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65. — Four Christmas offerings, simple yet pleasing 165 



56.— A real HoUy wreath 167 



57. — A flower gift for a Winter holiday 170 



58.— Hyacinths for Easter 173 



59. — ^Another tasteful Easter arrangement 174 



60. — ^A window for Memorial Day 176 



61. — A St. Valentine's Day business-getter 178 



62. — ^A favor for February the fourteenth 180 



63. — ^A typical Easter combination of popular stock 181 



64. — Annuals in the hotbeds in April 183 



65.^ — How lovely is a Lily pool 186 



66. — ^The charm of the window box 189 



67. — Perfection in a bedding plant 192 



68. — ^An example of high-class carpet bedding 196 



69.— A house of Tulips in flats 198 



70.— An Easter Lfly basket 201 



71.— The useful conifers 204 



72. — ^A well-known hardy fern 207 



73. — The popular hardy Maidenhair Fern 211 



74. — ^The hardy plant border 215 



75. — Perennials effectively used in design work 218 



76. — ^Another perennial product 219 



77. — A weU-planned rock <arden 222 



78.— One of the popular Maples 226 



79. — The ever-attractive Mountain Ash 230 



80. — Four popular and reliable fruiting plants 232 



81. — Fritz Bahr and 4000 plants of his favorite Phlox 236 



82. — The old and the new in Carnations 238 



83. — ^Abies concolor or Colorado White Fir 241 



84. — ^Abutilon Thompsonii 242 



85. — ^Acacia harpophylla 242 



86. — AchiUea miUefoIiuni roseum and A. Ptannica flore pleno 244 



87. — Maidenhair Fern {Adiantum cunealum) 246 



88. — Double Hollyhocks 249 



89.— Single HoUyhocks 251 



90. — Snapdragon 255 



91. — Aquilegias grown under glass 256 



92. — ^Areca lutescens 258 



93. — Asparagus Sprengeri 260 



94. — Asparagus plumosus 262 



95. — ^Aspidistra lurida 263 



96.— A field of Asters 264 



97.— Dostalek's Aster 265 



98. — Ball's Improved Aster 266 



99. — ^The late branching Aster 267 



100.— The single Aster 267 



101. — ^The improved Comet Aster 268 



102. — ^The hardy Aster Novi-Belgii 269 



103. — ^Azalea Anthony Koster 271 



104. — ^Azalea amoena 273 



105. — ^A Begonia factory 275 



106. — Begonia Mrs. J. A. Peterson 276 



107. — Tuberous-rooted Begonias 278 



108. — Begonia Corallina de Lucerne 279 



109. — Begonia Gloire de Lorraine 280 



110. — Berberis Thunbergii 282 



111. — ^Bougainvillea in a seven-inch pot 284 



112. — A Bougainvillea basket 285 



113. — Bouvardia Humboldtii 287 



114. — Buddleia variabilis 288 



115. — Boxwood in tub 289 



116. — Calceolaria 290 



117. — Calendulas in variety 292 



118. — Callas 294 



