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The Garden Magazine, March, 1920 
WHAT WE HAVE DONE 
During the last twenty-five years we have named and introduced hundreds of wonderful new 
flowers, vegetables and berries. Among them, which stand pre-eminent the world over, is the 
Cosmos, Rudbeckia Golden Glow, Gladiolus Childsi, and G. America, Chinese Woolflower 
and Giant Christmas Kochia. 
WHAT WE ARE DOING THIS YEAR 
Our catalogue for 1920 is replete with sterling novelties; notably, Autumn Glory (Helianthus 
Questifolius) the most showy of all autumn flowers; American Red Cross, queen of all Cannas; 
Gladiolus White America; Mammoth Long-stemmed Asters; three new colors in Woolflower 
and three in Salvias; Mastodon Pansies and Early Spencer Sweet Peas; new Sweet Corn Sixty 
Day Makegood, ten days earlier than any other; Jack Frost, a new white Cucumber; Matchless 
Lettuce and Supreme Muskmelon, both superior to all other sorts, Rajah Beet, Top Notch 
Tomato; Great Dane Cabbage; and Farmer Potato. These are all real wonders in their way. 
In Berries we have the marvelous Thornless Grape Vine Blackberry; Everbearing Black- 
berry Macatawa; New Everbearing Raspberry Leyerle; and the greatest of all Everbearing 
Strawberries Neverfail, and the wonderful Pierc^Giant Grape. 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds. Select standard and new varieties of greatest merit. 
Dahlias, the most wonderful new sorts from all parts of the world. 
Gladioli. We claim the largest and finest stocks of these. We grow gladioli by the hundred acres. 
Cannas, Irises and other Bulbs. Immense stocks and most superb varieties. 
Hardy Plants, in great variety, Lilies, Phloxes, Peonies, etc. 
Hou se Plants. Many wonderful new sorts, including thirty-five kinds of Boston Ferns, three 
new Salvias, Cacti, etc. 
Hardy Shrubs, Vines, Roses, etc., in select varieties. 
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Spencers. In judging them 1 have considered 
not only the quality of the bloom, but the vigor of 
the plant fromits earliest stages to its full develop- 
ment, the amount of bloom produced, and the 
length of the blooming period. With these 
considerations in view, therefore, my conclusions 
were as follows: First, Yarravia, originated in 
Australia; planted in January; began blooming in 
April and bloomed until July; plants strong and 
healthy; bright-rose bloom of good quality. 
This new early Spencer is a decided acquisition 
for Southern gardens because of the fact that it 
begins blooming before the hot weather starts in. 
Second, Elfrieda Pierson, a huge pale pink; 
blooming period from May 15th to July; vines 
extremely vigorous, producing an abundance of 
duplex flowers. Third, Norvic, a 1914 introduc- 
tion from an English grower, very vigorous; 
plants not so floriferous as King White, but the 
quality of the bloom is slightly superior. Fourth, 
The President, the brightest Sweet Pea in exis- 
tence; its color is a glowing scarlet; the plants arc 
stronger in growth than Sterling Sweet or Fiery 
Cross. Fifth, Jean Ireland, a veritable little 
fairy; clear primrose, edged rose; the daintiness 
of the flowers makes it consistent that their size 
be diminutive; the vines, though prolific, are not 
tall. Sixth, New Miriam Bauer, a most charming 
and distinct novelty; the strongest grower of all; 
a soft shell pink on cream ground; the flowers 
very large, are nicely placed on the long stems. 
This choosing of varieties is so much a matter of 
individual taste that probably no other person’s 
list will include all of these. And 1 do not say 
that this sextette is composed of the very best for 
universal growing, but that it is composed of 
varieties good for the Southern states. 
Buford Reid, Arkansas. 
Louise Bonne de Jersey Pear 
I F I were to be restricted to one variety of pear, 
I think it would be Louise Bonne. No, I’d not 
plant Bartlett because I can get all I want from 
California all summer and early fall. I’d not 
choose Clapp’s Favorite because it rots at the 
core. Flemish Beauty bears too many defec- 
tive, diseased fruits; Seckel, while the highest 
flavored of all pears, bears too small and too few 
fruits; Angouleme is too variable in quality and 
too uncertain a bearer; so is Anjou. But Louise 
Bonne, while gritty and astringent skinned, is 
double the size of even large specimens of Seckel. 
It never rots at the core like Clapp, nor cracks 
like Flemish Beauty, nor loads down with 
inferior pears one year and bears a few choice 
specimens the next like Angouleme. In my 
experience from boyhood to the present it is, of the 
several score of varieties 1 know, the most regular 
annual bearer of beautiful looking, sound- 
hearted, good tasting pears. Moreover, for the 
man with limited space, it does remarkably well 
as a dwarf. 
M. G. Kains, New York. 
Anticipating Spring 
S PIRAEA sorbifolia or Sorbaria sorbifolia is as 
interesting as Pussy Willow for, like it, a twig 
of this shrub will open its buds when placed in a 
little water and given plenty of sunshine. It 
deserves a place in every collection for, though it 
suckers and is a little untidy in its growth, it can 
be given a subordinate position and with spade 
and pruning shears easily be kept in check. The 
twigs properly arranged in a fitting vase have a 
very decorative effect as the buds first swell, then 
burst and push forth little leaves that grow quite 
rapidly. A vase full of them in a sunny window 
will help that impatient feeling in eariy spring, 
as the leaves will start in three weeks. 
M eller, North Dakota. 
