February, 1917 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
61 
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I T’S the best Annual we’ve ever issued. Complete — and yet 
concise and to the point. Full of “lifelike” illustrations. 
Hundreds of helpful, handsome, handy pages. A postal and 
it’s yours — absolutely free. We especially feature Vegetable 
Seeds, Farm Seeds, Clovers and Grass Seeds, Flower Seeds, 
Bulbs, Gladiolus, Dahlias, Roses, Perennial Plants, Bedding 
Plants, Hedges, Fruit Trees, Fertilizers, Spraying Implements, 
Lawn Mowers and Poultry Supplies. 
Here Are Some of Our Specials 
Golden Dawn 
Sweet Corn 
Medium early variety 
— unsurpassed for sweet- 
ness and flavor. Stalks 
5 to 5J4 feet high — ears 
of good size and usually 
well filled to extreme end. 
(Another popular sweet 
corn is Granite State — for 
which we have had many 
calls.) 
Lawn Seed 
Franklin Park Lawn 
Seed — m ade from re- 
cleaned seed s — formula 
of Park Commissioners of 
Boston. Starts at once if 
ground is in proper shape. 
Free from weeds, contains 
no chaff. 
Paris Golden 
Celery 
Self-blanchin g — ex- 
tremely early variety — 
compact, straight, vig- 
orous, rich golden yellow 
stocks. Seed carefully 
tested for purity. 
Asters 
We offer you only the 
choicest varieties and 
most select strains. You’ll 
really be interested in 
reading about them in our 
instructive Annual 
Danvers Yellow 
Globe Onions 
Uniform-heaviest crop- 
per and best keeper. True 
Buxton type, early, very 
thick bulb, flat or slightly 
convex bottom, full oval 
top, small neck, rich 
brownish yellow skin. 
Dahlias 
A whole host of new 
varieties — an extraor- 
dinary array of colors — 
and a delight to every 
lover of beautiful flowers. 
See our annual for com- 
plete descriptions. 
Crosby’s Improved 
Egyptian Beets 
Early variety, h^s small 
top, excellent form and 
small tap root. Great 
improvement over old 
variety of Egyptian Beet. 
True to shape and color. 
Improved by the late 
Josiah Crosby of Arling- 
ton, Mass. 
Begonias 
Single-flowering and 
double - flowering. Also 
single-fringed Begonias — 
beautiful giant blooms 
with elegantly fringed 
edges. Rather new- 
limited quantity. 
For free delivery system see our 
catalogue 
FOTTLER, FISKE, R AWSON CO., Faneuil Hall Square, Boston, Mass. 
Herbaceous Spiraeas 
such as shown below growing in our nurseries will grow in your 
garden. Because we value them highly as most beautiful and de- 
pendable hardy plants, we have gradually acquired the 
Most Complete Collection 
in this country 
The following new sorts produce masses of three foot flower spikes throughout the 
summer: 
Ceres — Beautiful light rose. Silver White — Very graceful. 
Juno — Rich rosy violet. Venus — A fine deep rose; tall, branch- 
Rose Perle — White, overlaid with a in £ s P'kes. 
delicate silvery sheen. Vesta — Very light rose. 
Price, 35c each; $3.00 for 10 
Order at once. Plant this Spring. Complete catalogue free on request. 
MOUNT DESERT NURSERIES 
Bar Harbor, Maine 
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The World’s Best Dahlias 
Accurately describing all the best new and standard varieties in 
Cactus, Decorative, Giant Flowering, Show, Fancy, Pompon, 
Paeony, Duplex, Collarette, Anemone, Century and Single. Natural 
color reproductions of new Decoratives, “Dr. T yrrell” and “Minnie 
Burgle” and 38 beautiful half-tone illustrations of the distinct 
types. The leading Dahlia catalogue with the 1917 novelties. 
PEACOCK DAHLIA FARMS, Berlin, New Jersey 
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