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The Garden Magazine, March, 1924 
A Strictly Personal Message 
AS YOU KNOW, creating new and better Dahlias has been my 
life’s work. Those of you who know my Dahlias will recall the 
sensations created by the various groups of Dahlias I have introduced 
during the last ten years. When I first offered the Indian Family, 
I thought we had traveled a long ways toward perfection. But the 
Loma Family, the Fighting Ten, the groups of wonders known as the 
Sea Lions, and the Five Great Lakes, Ocean Group, all showed further 
advancement. 
And now I am going to call your attention to the magnificent 
creation pictured above— 
Our Country 
The New Stillman 
Seedling No. 2458 
Printers’ ink is utterly inadequate to portray the wonderful color 
combination of this new decorative. The main color is a deep purple, 
the florets are heavily tipped with pure white. The color runs always 
uniform and its truly mammoth size causes it to be the outstanding 
exhibition variety introduced in recent years. Price $ 50 . 
Other Outstanding New Seedlings 
of Recent Introduction 
Biltmore. No. 2008. A most beauti¬ 
ful combination of bright, rich carmine 
and white ever combined in Decorative. 
Price, $5.00. 
Murray Hill. No. 2022. New Peony- 
flowered of a beautiful rich shade of 
purple. The flowers are simply huge in 
size. Price $5.00. 
Ruth Van Fleet. No. 1451. Clear, 
light canary yellow. Hybrid Cactus. The 
stems are extra long, often measuring 16 
inches. The flowers are extremely large 
and held erect on stiff stems. Price, $2.00. 
Lady Evelyn. No. 2539. A beautiful 
light pink Cactus, nearly white at base of 
florets. Price, $5.00. 
Justice White. No.2196. Bright car¬ 
mine with each petal nearly half white at 
tips. A very large fluffy flower on good 
strong stems. Price $5.00. 
Head of the Nation. No. 2209. The 
largest, incurved, claw-shaped true cactus 
Dahlia in existence. Color, rich purple 
with magenta overcast. 
Price, bulbs or plants, $75.00 each. 
Caruso. No. 2132. This mammoth 
Hybrid Cactus is certainly a wonder. 
Color, yellow, pink and salmon, blended 
in a most unique manner. Price, $15.00. 
Silva Quarta. No. 2264. An entirely 
new species of Show Dahlia, pure lavender 
and of a most unique form. Really a 
double quilled Show Dahlia of mammoth 
size. Price, $25.00. 
Dahlias of Distinction 
Is the title of my new catalogue, a copy of which will gladly be 
mailed free upon request. It will be a pleasure to hear from you 
by an early mail. 
GEO. L. STILLMAN, Dahlia Specialist 
Box C-24 WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND 
B LUE sky, fresh air, bright sunshine these are only a part 
of the joys of living in the suburbs or country. If you 
want to get the very most out of life, have a garden with 
flowering shrubs, roses, big shade trees and evergreens. 
It’s a Waste of Time to Wait 
for Little Trees to Grow Up 
Hicks Nurseries have big trees—io, 15 and 20 years old—that 
have already grown up. They can be moved to your place this 
spring, and will give foliage and shade in summer. In January 
and hebruary we moved over 50 big trees from the nursery to 
one place on one order. 
No matter whether you want one tree or a hundred; whether 
you want shade trees or evergreens, write us. 
Send for our various booklets—“Home Landscapes,” “Winter 
Planting,” and others. 
HICKS NURSERIES 
Westbury, L. I., New York 
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Tricker’s Water Lilies I 
To know these wonderful flow- j| 
ers you must have them in your % 
own garden—and you can have them j| 
just as easily as you have other B 
flowers. A tub or a pool, a little 1 
soil, sunshine and water—that’s all §f 
they need. Then you can watch |j 
the buds burst into lovely blooms, j[ 
like rosettes of white, rose, pink, 
deep red, lavender and blue. 
Do you know that some Water jj 
Lilies only open at night? That 
some are perfectly hardy, and 
others are tender? That some are ■ 
fragrant and some are not? 
My 1924 Catalogue | 
shows these differences, pictures [j 
several varieties in natural colors, p 
tells how to make a pool, gives ad- 
vice about varieties, and full cul- §j 
tural directions. Write to-day for J 
a copy of this valuable booklet. 
WILLIAM TRICKER 
661 Forest St., Arlington, N. J. 
The Largest 
Grower of 
Water Lilies 
in America 
