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Tlower (Brower 
June, 1919 
GLADIOLI 
Send for my catalog, containing 125 dis- 
tinct varieties, four special offers and 
some excellent mixtures, TODAY— IT 
IS FREE. 
JELLE ROOS 
Dept. D. MILTON, MASS. 
NEW 
GLADIOLI 
FpmoIi Primulliius 
Booklet giving valuable culture directions free. 
OIDAR ACRES 
B. HAMMOND TRACY, Inc. - Wenham, Mass. 
GLADIOLI 
WHICH CATALOGUE WOULD YOU LIKE, 
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL ? 
John Lewis Childs, Inc. 
Flowerfield, L. I. 
THE NATIONAL WAR GARDEN 
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Garden Number 
of the 
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GARDEN NUMBER for 1919 
a sumptuously beautiful magazine of 100 
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May June July August 
THE TOUCHSTONE contains in every issue, 
the most beautiful of garden articles. Send 
your dollar today- address 
The Touchstone Magazine 
Mary Fanton Roberts, Editor. 
1 West 47th Street 
New York City 
Dahlias 
New Varieties and 
Novelties 
Standard Varieties 
for Florists. 
“The Dahlia Ivin (/" 
Let me send you TEN distinct, named varieties, all 
properly labelled and guaranteed for 
$1.00 postpaid. 
Send for my free Illustrated Catalog. 
The largest Dahlia Grower in the World. 
Gladioli, Peonies, Iris, Phlox, Fruit Trees, 
Ornamental Shrubs and Nursery Stock. 
J. K. Alexander, The Dahlia King 
35-47 Central St.. E. Bridgewater. Mass. 
We Grow the Leading Varieties, bo sid nd 
Also originators of a classy bunch of Seedlings, some 
of which will soon be ready for distribution. 
Gladiolus Specialists PEMBROKE, N.Y. 
Fred W. Baumgras 
Grower of Fancy 
GLADIOLI 
423 Pearl St. Lansing, Mich. 
E. E. STEWART 
WHOLESALE GROWER OF 
GLADIOLI 
LIST OF 85 VARIETIES 
Brooklyn - - Michigan 
Derby Gardens Gladioli 
LIST ON APPLICATION. 
WHOLESALE. RETAIL. 
John H. Umpleby, Lake View, N.Y. 
SEEDLING IRIS 
Entire Stocks for Sale 
1 to 100 of a Variety, 25c. to $25.00 per plant. 
We have received Two Silver Medalsand over Fifteen 
other Awards from the Mass. Horticultural Society 
for Seedlings of our production. Send for special list 
or plan to visit the Garden in Iris Time. 
THE GLEN ROAD IRIS GARDENS 
GRACE STURTEVANT, PROP. 
Wellesley Farms .... Mass. 
WILDFLOWERS The haunts, habits 
and uses of our native plants, their behavior un- 
der cultivation, and the origination of new forms 
by sports and hybridizing is the special field of 
THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 
$ 1 .26 a year 
SAMPLE FREE 23 VOLUMES ISSUED 
Willard N. Clute & Co.. Joliet, 111. 
M. F. Wright & Daughter 
GROWERS OF GLADIOLI 
401 South Clay St„ Sturgis, Mich. 
j W. F. SHEARER ] 
J Gladiolus Grower 
I 504 South College St. Angola, Ind. 
GROWER OF 
Choice Gladioli 
J. C. & B. U. Grossman, 
R. 2 Wolcottville, Ind. 
Gladiolus Flowers 
It is raining in Southern Illinoisand I will have 
many thousand flower spikes for sale at 
Market Prices. Correspondence solicited. 
HENRY C. ECKERT 
BELLEVILLE - - ILLINOIS 
JOHN ZEESTRATEN 
GROWER OF CHOICE 
GLADIOLI 
Mansfield - Mass. 
EXHIBITION CACTUS DAHLIAS 
A collection of the best dozen varieties, each the best 
of its color, selected and propagated by a Newport 
private gardener, who has won with them repeatedly 
at Boston, Providence and Newport. Robust well 
roofed plants, $5.00 the dozen, or $10.00 for 25, all dif- 
ferent. 
COLLARETTE DAHLIAS 
I have been importing the cream of the new produc- 
tions of the leading English specialists who have 
made wonderful improvements over the earlier va- 
rieties in this class. They have received the highest 
awards abroad but are not generally listed in this 
country. I will send a set of one dozen of the best, 
all different, strong tubers (not plants, as above) for 
$5.00. Generous packet of seed saved from larger 
collection, 25c. 
GLADIOLI— Choice Seedlings 
As advertised in April, a few hundred left at $5.00 
per hundred. 
All above offers prepaid in zones 1-4. 
F. P. WEBBER, - - - Newport, R. I. 
Harken all ye 
Flower Lovers 
Especially all of you who have grown 
Dahlias or tried to grow them. 
Tried to grow them is more correct especially 
if you live in that great middle western section 
where the mercury climbs to 103 in the shade, 
just when the Dahlia is making its nice suc- 
culent green growth, and then later when 
after weeks of petting, the flowers are open- 
ing nicely, along comes J. Frost and makes 
them look as if they had been gassed. 
I am going to find out something. 
I want to know what are the best growers, 
most drought resistant, freest blooming cactus 
dahlias for this great section of the U. S. A. 
and to that end I have purchased over one 
hundred varieties in all colors from the most 
prominent growers in all parts of the country. 
I purchased only varieties that bore the 
grower's highest endorsements as to the above 
qualities, attractive color being also specified 
as a prime requisite in each case. 
My next Fall’s catalog will list six to ten of 
the best varieties that have proved them- 
selves by this summer's trials and if you 
would avail yourself of the dahlia knowledge 
that will be thus gained only through large 
expense on my part YOU SHOULD SEND 
YOUR NAME TODAY for insertion on my 
mailing list. 
Raymond M. Champe 
Walled Lake, Oakland County, Michigan 
ALL THE BEST IN 
Gladioli, Dahlias, Darwin Tulips, Iris, Peonies, Phlox 
