November, 1919 
Slower (Brower 
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THE DAHLIA. 
SOME FINE DAHLIAS. 
I have never been a Dahlia enthusi- 
ast and have at home very little suitable 
room for them but I have tried a few 
varieties within the past three years, 
which have done well for me. I find 
there is a great difference in the matter 
of free flowering between different 
sorts, and the number of names in the 
catalog is so great that it is bewildering 
when one tries to select a few from so 
many “best.” I prefer, generally, the 
“Decorative” class, having rather flat 
reflexed petals and long stems, to the 
show sorts, with close round flowers — 
but that is a matter of taste. 
Two fine reds with good stems and 
very free flowering, are Mina (not 
Minnie ) Burgle and Souvenir de Gustave 
Doazon, (what a name ! Gustave Doazon 
will do). The flowers of these are 
easily grown to six inches or more in 
diameter. Mina has the darker stems 
and foliage and is a little more glossy 
crimson ; the petals a little more 
glossy, narrow, pointed, grooved. For 
white, Storm King , a white show, is 
hard to beat for abundance of perfect 
flowers. 
An immense clear yellow, decora- 
tive, is Elsie Davison, and among the 
near whites I know of nothing so beau- 
tiful as W. W. Rawson. The flower is 
most perfect in form, on long wiry 
stems and the whole flower has the 
most delicate faint shade of lavender 
on the edge of each petal and still more 
faintly suffusing the whole flower. 
A new one, which I am told has 
made quite a sensation in the New 
York cut-flower market, is King of the 
Autumn, a Holland production. The 
flowers which may easily be had from 
five to seven inches in diameter, are of 
a peculiar orange or salmon color, flat 
and attached to very long, perfectly 
straight stems so as to face straight 
sidewise. The flowers of my plant are 
some of them over seven feet from the 
ground. With regard to the matter of 
long stem; one can help that by disbud- 
ding and cutting out lateral shoots that 
start out below where the buds are set. 
A very beautiful purple decorative is 
Frank L. Bassett, though this and John 
Wanamaker, a fine pink cactus, are in- 
clined to branch too much, needing to 
be thinned out. 
It has been a hard season for Dahlias, 
which do not like dry weather or shade. 
According to the large growers, it is a 
mistake to plant early in the house ; 
better to plant dry tubers outside late 
in May and so have them begin to bloom 
in August and September. 
Geo. S. Woodruff. 
To our Advertisers : 
It is our intention that The Flower 
Grower should be in the Calcium 
Post Office at least two days in ad- 
vance of the first of the month. Some- 
times we are not able to do this from 
one cause or another. Advertising 
copy to insure submission of proof be- 
fore printing should reach us by the 
15th of the month preceding date of 
publication, and by the 20th of the 
month to insure insertion. 
We know advertisers have surely 
been busy during the digging season 
and that help has been difficult to get, 
but it must be understood that we 
cannot delay the issue of The Flower 
Grower waiting for advertising copy. 
We surely hope that all advertisers will 
give their advertising copy careful at- 
tention and send it in early. 
statement of the ownership, man- 
AGEMENT, Etc.. OF THE FLOWER GROWER, 
published in accordance with the Act of Congress of 
August 24, 1912; Publisher, Madison Cooper, Calcium, 
N.Y.; Flditor and Managing Editor, Madison Cooper, 
Calcium, N.Y.; Owner, Madison Cooper, Calcium, 
N. Y. 
Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security 
holders holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount 
of bonds, mortgages, or other securities : None. 
(Signed) Madison Cooper. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th day of 
October, 1919. 
(Signed) Wm. J. Scott, Notary Public, 
[Seal] Jefferson County, N.Y. 
Commission Expires March 30, 1921. 
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING. 
Five lines (about 40 words) $1.00 per insertion. Ad- 
ditional lines 15c. each. 
PAST HARTFORD GLADIOLUS CO.-We are 
■*-' booking orders for 1920 delivery. What kind do 
you want and how many? E. M. Smith, No. 65 Olm- 
sted street. East Hartford. Conn. 
T ABELS— Patent, paper, trees, shrub or rose label. 
■*“' Colors: white, green, blue and salmon. Plain or 
printed. A cure for those afflicted with label troubles. 
Samples. Ohio Nursery Co., Elyria, Ohio. 
A/TIXED GLADIOLI that will bloom, from the best 
that money could buy. Flowers 3 to 5 inches in 
diameter, stalks 4 to 5 feet high, 2 year old, 3 feet 
high. Best, $1 per dozen, 30 for $2. 
Geo. S. Barnes, Battle Creek, Mich. 
COME CLOSE OUTS— Pink Beauty Bulblets, $4 per 
^ peck. Bulbs. V 2 inch and under, $2.50 per 1000. 
These are slightly mixed with America. 
Halley Bulblets, $1.50 per quart ; IV 2 inch. $1.50 ; 1 to 
U /2 inch, $1.25; % to 1 inch, $1 ; % to %, 75c.; V 2 and 
under, 40c. per 100. These have a few Mrs. Frank 
Pendleton mixed with them. Also have Primulinus 
Hybrid, War, Schwaben, Willie Wigman, Chicago 
White, Mrs. F. Pendleton and Mrs. Francis King, in 
all sizes and bulblets. The above prices are not pre- 
paid. Have a lot of mixed, will close out at any 
reasonable price. Have outgrown my land, storage 
and time. F. M. Palmiter, Janesville, Wis. 
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 
9 1 .26 a year 
SAMPLE PREE 23 VOLUMES ISSUED 
Willard N. Clute 4 Co., Joliet, 111. 
Fred W. Baum gras 
Grower of Fancy 
GLADIOLI 
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successor to 
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| Growers of Choice Gladioli 
A few choice kinds left. 
| We specialize in the choice American and French 
varieties. Catalogue on request. 
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“I grow most all the best!” 
Hence your name on my mailing list 
(if you grow Gladioli) will surely 
please us both. 
L. S. KNECHTEL, Athol, Mass. 
Flower Seeds 
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Col lings wood - - New Jersey 
GLADIOLI 
Fine Home Grown Bulbs 
Fairoak Farm 
FRANK R. SAWYER - Mansfield, Mass. 
Will sell part or all of my field of 
Peonies 
about 6000 clumps, and rent the land for such 
time as purchaser may desire. Varieties are bet- 
ter than those usually grown for cut flowers. 
J. F. MUNSELL, 
ASHTABULA, .... OHIO 
W. F. SHEARER 
Gladiolus Grower 
504 South College St. Angola, Ind. 
HENRY C. ECKERT 
BELLEVILLE - - ILLINOIS 
GROWER OF 
Gladioli and Dahlias 
No Catalog— write what you want. 
OUR GLADIOLI ARE GROWN UNDER 
THE SKINNER SYSTEM OF IRRIGATION 
therefore the bulbs get all the mois- 
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see it when you get our bulbs. 
Jacob D. Spiegel, Norma, N. J. 
PAUL GREENWOOD & SON 
CALIFORNIA IRIS SEED 
FULTON, N.Y. 
1 From a choice collection of native species and 
Gladiolus Specialists 
1 hybrids, ranging in color through cream, blue, 
■ purple, mauve and pink. Pkt. of 50 seeds. $1. 1 
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