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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 
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The Value of Screens of “Pearl” 
P ROTECT your home and the health of your treasures against 
germ -carrying insects night and day. Flies and mosquitoes are 
the greatest carrier of disease known. Keep them out. Screen 
your door and windows; screen your porches, and especially 
screen your sleeping porch — with PEARL WIRE CLOTH. 
PEARL WIRE CLOTH is a health as well as a comfort necessity. 
Its patented metallic coating gathers no dirt — keeps it clean — 
makes it sanitary, beautiful and lasting. Lasts longer, and 
so is therefore most economical. 
Buy only the genuine. Two copper wires in the selvage and our red 
tag on every roll. 
Call on our local dealer or write direct for samples and liter- 
ature if you’re interested in screen material. Address 
Dept. “G.” 
The Gilbert & Bennett Mfg. Co. 
New York Georgetown, Conn. Chicago Kansas City 
G & B PEARL is made in two weights — regular and extra heavy 
The best hardware dealer in your city sells “ PEARL/* 
There is more health 
in a well screened 
house than in many a 
doctor's visit 
GLADIOLI WITH 
FAMILY TREES 
Many of my choice offerings represent years 
of breeding by best-known growers in 
America and abroad. 
Exquisite color schemes with these stately 
flowers are suggested in my catalogue, both 
for the garden and indoors. 
A copy for the asking. 
W. L. CRISSEY c “‘ Boring, Ore. 
TRANSPLANTED SEEDLINGS OF 
SUMMER FLOWERING ANNUALS 
It is now unnecessary to go through all the trouble, worry and 
uncertainty of raising your own annuals from seed. We offer 
fine, strong, healihy transplanted plants delivered to your 
home, postage paid, at the proper planting time. 
SNAPDRAGONS, pink, yellow, red. assorted. 
STR AWFLOWERS, pink, red, yellow, assorted. 
CALENDULA, orange. 
COSMOS, Lady Lenox. 
ZINNIA, giant mixed. 
MARIGOLD, tall, dwarf. 
ASTERS, late branching, Rochester, Imperial white- 
light, pink, rose, purple, assorted. 
Price: Dozen — 50c: 100 — $£.50: 25 of a kind at 100 rate. Send 
for list of pot grown Salvia, Geraniums, Vincas, Petunias. 
Cannas, Coleus, etc. 
THE PARK GARDEN COMPANY 
770 South Avenue Rochester, New York 
THE AMERICAN ROSE 
SOCIETY 
Department of Plant Registration 
T HE following registrations of varieties of ' 
Roses have been approved by the registra-- 1 
tion committee of the American Rose Society, and 
unless objections are received in the secretary’s 
office within three weeks of the publication of this 
notice the registration will become permanent. 
Doctor Huey, Class: H. W.; Parentage: 
Ethel x Gruss an Teplitz; Description: Habit of 
plant, climber; character of foliage, good; freedom 
of growth and hardiness, good; flower large, semi- 
double, dark maroon in color. A free-flowering 
variety with good lasting qualities. Introducer: 
George C. Thomas, Jr. 
Bloomfield Progress', Class: H. T.; Parent- 
age: Mary, Countess of llchester x General 
MacArthur; Description: A strong-growing, 
bushy plant with red double flowers of strong 
fragrance; petalage over 50; freedom of bloom 
and lasting quality very good. This Rose is * 
similar to General MacArthur, but differs in 
habit, size and form of flower, having superior 
qualities, as it holds the centre better and is 
larger than General MacArthur in hot weather. 
Introducer: George C. Thomas, Jr. 
Bloomfield Abundance; Glass: H. \\\; Parent- 
age: Sylvia x Dorothy Page Roberts; Descrip- 
tion: A bushy plant, 3 to 6 ft. in height, with 
dark green, glossy foliage, not susceptible to mil- 
dew; flowers, Salmon pink, double, produced 
singly and in sprays. This Rose is similar to 
Cecile Brunner, but is hardier and of a larger 
bloom. Introducer: George C. Thomas, Jr. 
Bloomfield Perpetual; Class: H. P.; Parentage: 
Iceberg x Frau Karl Druschki; Description: 
Habit of growth, bushy, 3 to 3 ft. in height, with 
good green foliage; (lowers, white, single resem- 
bling Cherokee; a very free-flowering variety 
with good keeping qualities. The Rose is similar 
to the Cherokee in flower, but differs in having 
a bushy growth which is hardy in Philadelphia, 
and blooms until November. Introducer George 
G. Thomas, Jr 
REGISTRATION OF NEW ROSES 
Frederick R. M. Undritz, West New I 
Brighton, S. I., N. Y., has requested permis- I 
sion of the Executive Committee of the Amer- 1 
ican Rose Society to change the name of the ! 
variety of Rose registered by him August 23, 1917, | 
as “Frederick R. M. Undritz” to “General John 
Pershing.” Inasmuch as this Rose has not yet 1 
been disseminated, the Executive Committee 
of the American Rose Society voted to allow 
this change of name. 
General John Pershing. H. W. Dr. W. Van 
Fleet x Mrs. W. J. Grant (Belle Siebrecht). | 
Climber. Foliage same as Dr. W. Van F leet; very 
vigorous, perfectly hardy; flower double, four 
inches in diameter, dark pink, centre projecting, < 
medium long, quite fragrant; bud pointed and 
firm; fifty-three petals, curved, stiff, centre 
close; blooms profusely in June; may bloom later; 
lasting quality, on bush five or six days. 
E. A. White. 
