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The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



The Gardening World= 

 Takes Off Its Hat 



TO THE CONCERN WHO COMES RIGHT TO 

 THE FRONT WITH NOVELTIES THAT EVERY 

 ONE WHO HAS A GARDEN CAN GROW. 



THERE ARE NO TROUBLESOME OR DOUBT- 

 FUL FEATURES ABOUT THE FOLLOWING; 

 THEY ARE OLD, YET EVER NEW. 



YOU HAVE SEEN ASTERS. BUT NOT THIS SINGLE 

 AMERICAN BRANCHING TYPE "HELVETIA," BEAUTIFUL 

 DAISY-LIKE FLOWERS BORNE ON LONG STEMS PRE- 

 SENTING A TRULY MAJESTIC APPEARANCE. 



YOU KNOW THE CALIFORNIAN POPPY AND YOU AT 

 ONCE THINK OF IT IN ITS FAMILIAR SCARLET. NOT 

 SO. THINK OF IT IN A BEAUTIFUL SHADE OF MAUVE, 

 THE MOST DESIRABLE COLOR OF PRESENT DAY FLORI- 

 CULTURE. 



YOUR OLD FAVORITE OF THE FALL, COSMOS, NO 

 LONGER SO LATE. YOU CAN ENJOY THIS POPULAR 

 FLOWER IN A VERY PLEASING DOUBLE PINK IN 

 THE MONTH OF JULY. 



NEW SINGLE ASTER 



"Helvetia/* Single late flowering Aster. Brilliant crimson. Hybrid from the American 

 late branching type. This unusual color is very pleasing and is a much desired addition 

 in "Helvetias." — Invaluable for cutting. Pkt. 50c, 5 Pkts. $2.00. 



NEW ESCHSCHOLTZIA 



"Eschscholtzia,'* (California Poppy.) Mauve Beauty, a positive new creation in 

 California poppies. Color is beautiful shade^of pure mauve. Wonderfully efFective in 

 beds and an admirable cut flower. Pkt. 50c, 5 Pkts., $2.00. 



NEW EXTRA EARLY DOUBLE COSMOS 



Cosmos. New extra Early Flowering Double: Ever since the Double Cosmos was 

 introduced growers have been striving to obtain an early flowering Double. We are 

 pleased to offer this novelty in a pleasing shade of pink. 



The plants grow to about 3 ft. high, forming a perfect bush bearing gorgeous double 

 flowers of rare beauty on long stems. Seed sown in April will bloom in July. 



Pkt. 50c, 5 Pkts., $2.00 



SPECIAL CATALOGUE OFFER. For $1.25 we will mail you postpaid one packet 

 of each of these novelties, three pkts., together with our 1922 Catalogue. A collection 

 that will give you something new in your garden or border, and something your neighbor 

 hasn't seen. Our Spring Catalogue gives many helpful garden facts. A copy will be 

 sent you on request. 



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 most highbred varieties of vegetables 

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" Your Garden Year 



is the title of our catalogue, so 

 plain and easily understood 

 that it will meet your approval 

 at once. It tells you about 

 such new novelties 



as Golden Twelve Rowed 

 Evergreen Sweet Corn, 

 Bromfield's Early Wonder 

 Beet, the finest quality 

 Pole Beans yet discover- 

 ed, a new Silver Rose 

 Aster, Double Cosmos, a 

 new Poppy from Europe, 

 marvelous Pink Petunias 

 and many more interest- 

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 Flowers and Vegetables. 

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GARDEH CITY- HEW YODK 



Noir Alvarez 



Alexander's 

 Seedlings 



Three New Dahlias 



My Dahlia experience extends over a 

 peri d of more than twenty-five years 

 and I can safely claim to know a 

 good Seedling when I see it. 



Poor Seedlings are plentiful enough 

 and always have been, but good ones are scarce. The three varieties described 

 below are good ones— any one of them w ill compare favorably with the best of 

 the latest offerings regardless of price. 



President Harding. (Alexander.) This is the finest of my new Peony-flowered seedlings, 

 so good it is sure to become a favorite. Everyone who saw it growing in our fields spoke ad- 

 miringly of it. Named expressly for and with permission of President warren U. Harding, but 

 plants of it are to be grown on the White House Grounds this year Its flowers are exception- 

 ally large, and each petal curves gracefully, adding to its beauty. In color it s a pale golden 

 yellow, blending to sulphur yellow at the tips. The flowers are well formed, witfi from five to 

 six rows of petals, and show that beautiful golden center, so characteristic of the Peony-flowered 

 type. I can highly recommend this new creation, as it was one of the very best, and produces 

 its gigantic blossoms in great abundance. -President Harding was one of the earliest to 

 blossom and flowered continuously throughout the season. $5.00 each. 

 Noir Alvarez, Decorative. A gigantic, velvety ox-blood red with fine stems, strong, up- 

 right habit of growth and a very profuse bloomer. The flowers grow « 

 diameter and are rather loosely built for a Decorative, with the cen- 

 ters always full. An extra fine dark colored variety. $2.00 each. 

 Bertha Bailey. Peony-flowered. Unique in coloring and form. 

 Very large flowers of scarlet-red blending to lemon yellow at the 

 center. The petals are long, curling, and loosely set. The stems 

 are stiff enough to hold the bloom and very graceful This is a very 

 beautiful variety and lends itself particularly to house and vase 

 decoration. $2.00 each. 



Please send for my Catalogue 



J. K. ALEXANDER, 



World's Largest Dahlia Grower 

 27-29 Central St., East Bridgewater, Mass 



"The Dahlia King" 



who will, with pleasure, personally 



answer all questions received from 



Garden Magazine readers. 



