The E. G. Hill Company 
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Here are some BIG EARLY FANCIES for your Next Autumn’s Early 
Opening or Home Exhibit. Wake your town up with 
some of these early giants: 
Plant these early; give them time to make big blooms. 
Alice Lemon 
Chrysolora 
Christy Matthewson 
H. E. Converse Nerissa 
Mrs. Gilbert Drabble Odessa 
Chieftain Win. Turner 
A. J. Balfour—Color, rose-pink; 
broad petals of great substance; 
nothing can touch it in color. Easy 
to do, but a slow propagator. 
Advance (Smith’s)—This variety 
displaces every other of its date— 
first early; it is a nice grower bloom¬ 
ing from late September into Octo¬ 
ber . 
Alice Lemon—A beautiful light 
pink flower of enormous size; stem 
and foliage fine. Fine for early 
openings . 
Algonac—A large exhibition white 
with creamy center; fine for specimen 
plants or cutting. Novelty of 1915... 
A. S. Baldwin—A commercial yel¬ 
low of very high grade, absolutely re¬ 
liable and without culls; foliage up to 
the flower; color fine, broad petaled 
and incurved with fine texture. An 
extra good novelty. Novelty of 1915.. 
Antigone—Pure snow white, in¬ 
curved into a round ball of satin-like 
texture; a commercial variety bloom¬ 
ing d.. ing the month of October. 3 
feet high. Novelty of 1915. 
Adele Giiswold—An enormous 
flower of pure bright pink, with foli¬ 
age well carried. Form and color 
grand. 5 feet. One of the very best. 
Novelty of 1915. 
Arlette Dubois—-(See Mile. Arlette 
Dubois.) 
Bob Pulling—The grandest exhibi¬ 
tion yellow of recent years; of won¬ 
derful size, composed of petals an inch 
and a half in width, and some 10 
inches deep. The form shows its great 
size to its best advantage. A top- 
notch show variety. Novelty of 1915. 
Chrysolora—Fine, large incurved, 
with perfect stem and foliage; re¬ 
ject the early crowns. 
GENERAL LIST 
Including novelties of 1915. 
Take Blooming Take 
Bud Date Bud 
Calumet—A magnificent color, 
golden, rosy bronze, like old Source Aug. 20 
d’Or, and of immense size. Novelty to 
Sept. 10 Nov. 5 of 1915 . Aug. 30 
Chadwick Improved—Pure snow- 
white, never tints; should have been 
called Snow-white Chadwick; as fine 
July 5 to 15 as the original with absolute purity 
Sept., Oct. of color; best late white. Sept. 20 
Chas. Rager—Flower nicely in¬ 
curving in form; pure snow-white 
with a grand stem, and foliage as 
Aug. 15 Oct. 25 handsome as "Eaton”; a very easy 
doer . Sept. 1 
Chieftain—The loveliest pink of 
Sept. 1 Nov. 1 them all; ready October 25th. Splen¬ 
did keeper. A globular incurved, full 
and round; good rose-pink, on stiff 
stems with foliage that is just right; 
an easy doer. Chieftain is among 
pinks what Bonnaffon is among yel- 
Aug. 20 Nov. 5 lows; no culls in the variety; perfect 
in form and color, and the very best 
commercial pink in existence; every¬ 
body likes it. Sept. 10 
C. J. Veit—Chestnut scarlet; very 
Any bud Oct. large; fine for exhibition collections.. 
Ctess. Granard—An enormous ex¬ 
hibition yellow. Fine habit, stiff 
stem, nice foliage; good rich color... Aug. 10 
Christy Matthewson—A big, fine 
Aug. 20 Nov. 1 'mum, full and massive; very distinct 
in form. Pure snow-white of enor¬ 
mous size, fine keeper; one of the 
showiest ’mums of its date; splen¬ 
did for early exhibits and store 
openings . Aug. 15 
Crystal Gem—Early commercial, 
large in size, a good clear white, ar¬ 
tistic in form, good stem and foliage 
Aug. 1 Nov. 1 and is ready to cut October 15. In 
growth it resembles Comoleta (from 
Second bud about which it is a seedling) hut is some- 
Aug. 15 Oct. 15 what taller. Novelty of 1915. Aug. 15 
Blooming 
Date 
Nov. 5 
Late 
Nov. 1 
Oct. 25 
Nov. 5 
Nov. 1 
Oct. 15 
Oct. 15 
