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THE FLORAL WORLD 



FOR FALL PLANTING. 



Our advice to our patrons in the South is 

 to try planting Roses in the Fali. 



SAMPLE COLLECTION OF 



20 Roses kxSl.OO 



We here offer you a choice lot of twenty-five 

 varieties of Roses to give Fall planting- a test. If 

 only half of the collection lives, you vdll have the 

 worth of your money. These are the best kinds 

 for Fall planting. This ofTer is made to give you 

 a chance to test Fall planting at a very moderate 

 cost. Large, two-year-old plants, 25 cents each; 

 five for $1.00. 



V. hite Bousere— For open ground plant- lady Dorothea— Has the colors of a beau- 

 ing it has no superior. tiful sunset. 'Will not disappoint you. 



Madame Eus-ene Couviii — It c o m b i n e s Madame Hoste — The size of the bud cer- 

 shades of white and yellow in pleasing tainly startles the beholder, being long 

 harmony. and pointed and of a lovely creamy 



Sylph — Flowers ivorj' white, tinted with M hite. 

 peach color. Queen of Fragrance — Color pure white, 



Aurora — Bright pink in color, double to sometimes edged and tinged with a 

 the center. delicate shell pink. 



Johanna Wasselhoft — This is the finest Bouquet of Gold— The richest and deep- 

 grand bedding yellow Rose. est yellow of all Roses. 



Madame Scipion Cochet — Color a soft Highland Mary — Flowers large and sweet, 

 primrose yellow with rose shadings. blossoms beautifully cupped, each petal 



Mrs. Mawley — Like Manian Cochet, only being white. 



^ several shades lighter in color. Papa Gontier— A grand red tea, fine crim- 



Francis Dubreuil — A grand new red son shade, silken texture. 

 Rose. Very double and full. 



Ruby Gold — A grand combination of col- 

 ors, including yellow, pink, rose and 

 crimson. 



Henry M. Stanley — Color a rare shade of 

 amber rose, tinged with apricot yellow 

 towards the center. 



Empress Eugenie — Deep rich pink in col- 

 or. It is hardy. 



Beauty of Stapleford — A grand red Rose. 

 The flowers are very large and perfect 

 in form. 



Christine De None — It is particularly val- 

 uable because red has been a very 

 scarce color among Tea Roses. 



Killarney — Color salmon pink, deepening 

 to rosy pink. 



^HE GOOD & REESE CO., The Largest Rose Growers in the World, P. 0. Box 71, Springfield, 0^ 



HOW TO ARRANGE FLOWER BEDS. 



For small yards it is best to plant the 

 flowers along the fence and around the 

 house, and leave the rest of the ^-ard in 

 grass, as a small yard cut up in beds will 

 not show to advantage. Make a border 

 of about three or four feet and plant with 

 roses and hardy plants, and put hj-acinths 

 and tulips along the edge of the border 

 and you will be pleased with the result. 

 Climbing roses and vines around the 

 porch or portico will be splendid. Cle- 

 matis is a good vine for shade on the 

 porch, for, by giving it plenty of water, it 

 will bloom almost all summer. Clematis 

 can be rooted the same as roses, by tak- 

 ing cutti::rs in the fall and putting them 

 under gLiss cans. K. Unverferth. 



Missouri. 



E MEXICAN p::!mrose. 



" Qui common primrose," is the con- 

 temptuous remark of the Texas amateur 



when first she receives a Mexican prim- 

 rose from the florist. Then she tucks it 

 away where she hopes it will die, for our 

 roadsides and creeks are bordered with 

 them, and they creep with riotous profu- 

 sion through the palings into our country'' 

 gardens. And though you could never 

 call them intrusive, they are common — in 

 the summer. 



Our primrose, though as delicate in 

 texture and as pinky white as an}^ of the 

 florist's, is rather hard to domesticate and 

 does not at first understand how to blos- 

 som in winter. The one from the florist 

 wo7i't die. and generally begins blooming 

 at once, though it be mid-winter, if put in 

 rich soil and given plenty of water. 



The Mexican primrose is desirable as a 

 winter plant, not only because of the 

 graceful beaut}- and wanton profusion of 

 its " buttercups " and the ease with which 

 it is grown, but an occasional freeze does 

 it no harm. Louise Varnell. 



Texas. 



