HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
Dreer’s Dahlias 
w i; offer and fully describe in 
our Garden Book this season 
three hundred and forty-eight of 
the choicest New and Standard 
varieties, which include all types 
and colors of this favorite Fall 
flower, every one having been care¬ 
fully tested and found desirable. 
If you have never grown Dahlias 
you should begin by getting our 
Six “Incomparable" Dahlias for 
Garden Decoration, for $1.25 
Or send for a copy of our Garden 
Book free and make your own selec¬ 
tion. 
HENRY A. DREER. 
Paeonj-Flowered Dahlia 
714-716 Chestnut St. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
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A Great Bargain in Finest Quality Bulbs 
I have secured an option upon a large quantity of 
the following choice varieties, which I can supply 
while they last at prices quoted below: 
Per 100 Per 1,000 
AMERICA, finest pink; large flowers $ 1.25 $10.00 
AUGUSTA, pure white: large flowers 1.50 12.00 
BARON HULOT. beautiful rich blue 2.00 17.00 
BRENCHLEYENSIS, brilliant ver- 
million-scarlet. 1.25 10.00 
HALLEY, bright salmon-pink; very 
P°P ular . 2.00 17.00 
HOLLANDIA, rich salmon-orange* 
beautiful ..’ 2.00 | 17.00 
MRS. FRANCIS KING, flamingo- 
scarlet; very large . 2.00 17.00 
NIAGARA, soft primrose-yellow; 
large and beautiful . 5.00 40.00 
PINK BEAUTY, peach blow pink* 
ear, y.. 1.0011510.00 
PRINCEPS, rich crimson-scarlet; 
large and brilliant. 2.50 (20.00 
TEN EACH OF THE ABOVE, (regular price $5 00 ) 
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These bulbs were grown under contract by a prominent 
Holland grower for the French. German and Russian 
trade. I hese contracts were broken on account of the 
war, and the grower is compelled to sell at a great sacrifice 
I Will guarantee that they are of the same FINE QUAL- 
11 Y as the goods I regularly deliver to my customers. 
They are packed in lots of 100 and not less than 100 
bulbs will be sold to a customer at these prices. This 
is the greatest bargain ever offered in Gladioli bulbs, and 
the entire allotment will be quickly taken. Compare 
these prices with any catalog and send your order 
with remittance today. 
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174 Broadway Paterson, N. J. 
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its way to water the increase and spread 
was immediate. It is not surprising that 
it thus naturalized itself when it is con¬ 
sidered to what class it belongs. 
Named after the botanist Pontederia in 
the sixteenth century, this genus of mono- 
cotyledonous plants numbers eight Ameri¬ 
can species. Pontederia cordatus, the 
pickerel weed, is the most widely common. 
Several former species are not now classed 
with that genus, but separated as the genus 
eichornia, the most distinguished of the 
two species, E. crassipes major , known 
under several local names. In Jamaica it 
is called the bladder-stalked pickerel weed; 
in Guiana, the gamalote or water plan- * 
tain, and in the United States, the water 
hyacinth. 
The specific name, bladder-stalked pick¬ 
erel weed, is derived from the curiously 
inflated stems. This balloon-like stem con¬ 
struction naturally supports the plant, en¬ 
abling it to float upon the surface of the 
water with the many clustered roots de¬ 
pending. Filled with delicate, spongy air- 
cells, the inflated stems act as buoys, caus¬ 
ing decided difference of root growth 
from the pickerel weeds in general. They 
spread horizontally over the muddy bot¬ 
tom, whereas the water hyacinth is inde¬ 
pendent of soil, deriving its sustenance 
from air ancl water. The roots, vertical 
in the water, when shallow will take hold 
of bottom soil of sand or muck. However, 
as soon as the water rises and streams' in¬ 
crease in depth the plants float on the sur¬ 
face and the roots depend high above the 
bottom soil. 
The water hyacinth advances always in 
a heavy phalanx. It bears down and 
overgrows every plant it encounters. 
Coarse aquatic plants on the margins of 
running streams afford the water hyacinth 
protection until a plantation forms; then 
every plant disappears except the ag¬ 
gressor. 
The name water hyacinth is from the 
similarity of the bloom stalk to that of the 
hyacinth. The tall, erect bloom-stalk bears 
twenty flowers, more or less, all around 
and from base to tip, each the size of a 
silver half-dollar, exquisitely tinted rosy- 
lavender, with a gleam of gold in the cen¬ 
ter. The plant, with equal justice, might 
be called the water orchid. 
In color, size, shape and texture the 
flower of the water hyacinth bears close 
resemblance to some of the loveliest of the 
terrestrial orchids. The crisp, green fo¬ 
liage, shining as if varnished, of the fresh¬ 
est, quickest growth of any plant of land 
or water, and the beautiful hirsute roots 
of reddish-purple, softly depending be¬ 
neath the surface of the water, with the 
grace of seaweed, add their charms to the 
loveliness of the flowers. 
For its perfect beauty and rapid 
growth, the water hyacinth is, and always 
will be, a favorite for aquaria indoors, 
where every interesting feature can be 
closely scrutinized, and for water tanks 
of large sizes, inconspicuous, outdoor po- 
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