302 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1914 



Dreers Water Lilies 



Dreer's Garden Book for 1914 



ontains list of the largest collection of Aquatic Plants in America. 

 ver i.ooo photo-reproductions, 4 color pagres and 6 duotone plates, 

 nltural articles by experts for growing: practically everv vegetable, 

 jwer and plant. Sent free if you mention this publication. 



Tropical Water Lilies 



The largest and finest collection in 

 America. Many wonderful hybrids. 

 These are all suitable for growing in 

 fountains and poo.s as well as ponds. 

 Furnished in strong growing pot-plants. 



Victoria Regia and its hybrids, in 

 several sizes. 



Nelumbiums. 12 kinds, in strong 

 pot-plants (or dormant until June 15th). 

 No aquatic is more worthy of culti- 

 vation and best of all, they are easily 

 grown and are hardy. 



We offer free to our patrons the services and 

 advice of our experts in devising plans for ponds, 

 and in selecting varieties. 



HENRY A. DREER, 714-716 Chestnut St., Philadelphia 



RareTulips,Narcissi 

 and Hyacinths 

 from Holland 



These special large size bulbs 

 are grown in the most famous 

 \? Gardens of Holland. By placing your 

 orders early you can secure Farr's choice speci- 

 mens at the price asked later in the season 

 for ordinary quality. 



Ten percent discount on all 

 orders received before July 1st. 



These bul'js can only be had on individual 

 orders placed early in the season; therefore it 

 is of great importance to you that you make 

 your reservation at once. To induce you to 

 do this I make the special discount of 10 per- 

 cent before July ist. My Bulb Booklet is 

 ready— may I send you a copy? 



BERTRAND H. FARR 



104 Garfield Ave., Wyomissing, Pa. 



farr*s Peony Fields will be in their gloru the first week 

 in Jiin?„ Come and see them. Tell me when you will 

 arrive in Reading and I will meet you at the station. 



Make your garden everlasting! 



Use Sunlight Double Glass Sash on this inexpensive 

 ready-made greenhouse. 



The sash serve either on hot-beds or cold frames or on 

 the greenhouse according to the season and the plants 

 you want to grow. 



The greenhouse is so made that the sash are readily 

 removable when wanted for other work. 



As the sash are double glazed they need no mats or 

 shutters and are complete, profitable and long lived. 



Get our catalogue. It is free. If Prof. Massey's book- 

 let on hot-beds and cold frames or the use of an inex- 

 pensive greenhouse is wanted send 4c. in stamps. 



Sunlight Double Glass Sash Co. 



927 E. Broadway 



Louisville, Ky. - .. 



The Finest of Holland Bulbs 



Imported on Order 



I IMPORT the choicest selected bulbs grown by the most 

 expert growers in Holland, in any quantity you wish, 

 at the lowest prices possible for bulbs of the best 

 quality. Every bulb is TRUE TO NAME, and their blooms 

 aie as appealing as this Little Kiddie. 



My list contains most of the new Exhibition varieties, as 

 well as all the old favorites. 



Don't order elsewhere before you have seen my Import 

 Price Li--t. Send for it today as all orders for fall delivery 

 must be in my hands by July 15. 



A. B. VANDERBEEK, Paterson, N. J. 



PEONIES 



TULIPS 



HYACINTHS 



NARCISSUS 



JONQUILS 



IRIS 



Weighed in the Balance 



{Continued from page 286) 



RECENT PERNETIANA ROSES 



ANEW type of garden rose appeared in 

 1900, when Soleil d'Or was introduced 

 by Pernet-Ducher, in whose honor it has. 

 been named Pernetiana. The pioneers of 

 this type had many of the characteristics of 

 the parent, the Austrian Briar, and did 

 not take kindly to the usual garden cul- 

 ture, dropping their foliage continually. 

 According to the originator of the tvpe 

 they should be planted in stiff clav. 



Any of the roses of this type, however, 

 are, on account of their unusual and warm 

 colorings, well worthy of any additional 

 petting which they may demand. The 

 original of the type is a wonderful com- 

 bination of color, when perfect, and Juliet, 

 is perhaps the most singular colored var- 

 iety in existence. It is a beautiful rose, 

 with a distinct and somewhat startling 

 beauty all its own. 



We may look forward to further noveL 

 color effects in this Pernetiana type, with 

 the equally important addition of good 

 growing habit and continuity of bloom. 



Willowmere, the introduction of this 

 season, resembles the Hybrid Tea rose 

 closely in habit, and will prove a valuable 

 garden rose in a most desired color. The 

 bud is an attractive elongated form, opening 

 coral carmine, and passing into a rich, 

 shrimp red with a glorious shading of 

 yellow in the centre of the open flower. 

 A shading of carmine pink near the edge 

 of the petals adds further to an already 

 wide play of colors. The flower, on the 

 whole, may be described as an improved 

 Lyon rose, with an equally desirable im- 

 provement in the habit of growth. 



Madam Edouard Herriot, another fine 

 addition to this type, is perhaps better 

 known in Europe as the Daily Mail rose, 

 having had the distinction of capturing the 

 Daily Mail Cup, offered for the most 

 meritorious new rose at the London Inter- 

 national Show in 191 2. It is a coral red, 

 shaded with a suffusion of yellow and rosy 

 scarlet. The flower is not large or too full, 

 and is unusually attractive among gar- 

 den roses. The foliage is vigorous and 

 glossy in appearance, reminding one of 

 burnished copper, and appears to have un- 

 usual disease-resisting qualities. This 

 variety would be an ornament to the gar- 

 den if it never developed a flower. 



Lyon Rose is one of the best known and 

 certainly one of the most popular of the 

 Pernetiana roses. With all its faults, 

 it is a desirable rose for the garden, but 

 will, no doubt, soon be superseded by the 

 later addition, Willowmere. 



Rayon d'Or, an extremely attractive 

 rose in the bud, quickly opens into a sun- 

 flower yellow, somewhat single blossom, 

 that does not resist the hot sun very well; 

 the growth, under usual conditions, lacks 

 vigor, and unless given special care, is 

 not altogether successful in our climate. 



If you wish information about dogs apply to the Readers' Service 





