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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA 
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I World's Choicest Nursery and Greenhouse Products. 
1 Grown in America. 
I The supreme excellence of our products upholds 
I the high Standard attained by them. Our 
j organization is efficient and equip- 
I ment complete. 
I Homegrown Roses 
I Evergreens and Rhododendrons 
I Trees and shrubs 
I Hardy Old-Fashioned Flowers 
I House Plants 
I ASK FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED GENERAL CAT- 
I ALOG — also for our catalog of— 
I Our Heart Cypress Plant Tubs 
I NURSERYMEN AND FLORISTS 
RUTHERFORD 
NEW JERSEY 
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I CARNATION I 
I "Cottage Maid" I 
I W/^E have 5000 pot plants of the | 
I Novelty for 1917 in excellent | 
I condition, ready for immediate | 
I shipment. "Cottage Maid" is a | 
I sport from Mrs. C. W. Ward, I 
I identical in growth and habit — | 
I colof a lovely, light pink, which | 
I never fades but comes a little | 
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I 2V^ Pot Plants | 
I $3.00 Dozen $20.00 Hundred | 
CHARLES H. TOTTY 
MADISON 
NEW^ JERSEY 
DREER'S 
GARDEN BOOK 
FOR 1917 
Seventy -Ninth Annual Edition 
A dependable guide-book which tells when to plant, 
how to plant, and what to plant. It gives cultural 
articles, written by experts, which will be valuable to 
every gardener. It contains 288 pages, four colored and 
four duotone plates, and lists all the dependable tested 
standard varieties of Vegetables and Flowers, besides 
many important Novelties. 
The newest Roses, the best Dahlias, and Dreer's Im- 
proved Hardy Perennials are given special prominence. 
It features a number of noteworthy specialties in 
Vegetables, Sweet Peas, Asters and Columbines. 
Whatever is worth growing you will find in Dreer'i 
Garden Book for 1917, with full instructions how to 
grow it. 
A copy will be mailed free if you mention this 
publication. 
Lawn Grass Seeds, one of our leading specialties. 
If interested, ask for a copy of our Lawn Booklet. 
HENRY A. DREER 
714-716 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA 
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TWO PLANTS EVERYONE 
SHOULD GROW 
Azalea Kaempferi 
HARDY, SCARLET, JAPANESE AZALEA. 
Tile most gorgeous of the hardy Azaleas. 
Flowering PlanU, $10.00 per doz., $75.00 per 100. 
Larger Plants, $20 per doz., $150.00 per 100. 
Hypericum patulum 
var. Henryi 
A new hardy St. John's Wort, growing 2^2 to 4 ft. 
with masses of clear yellow flowers, produced in great 
profusion during July and August. The leaves are 
eliptic-ovate, about V/2 in. long and are retained late 
into the fall. A very desirable yellow-flowered shrub. 
Flowering Plants, $3.50 per doz., $28.00 per 100. 
Larger Plants, $5.00 per doz., $40.00 per 100. 
Catalogue on application. 
R. & J. Farquhar & Co. 
6 South Market St., 
Boston, Mass. 
