SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR SPRING OF 1903 
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Special Offer of Gladioli 
Gladioli sent postpaid by mail for 10 cts. per doz., and 75 cts. per 100 in addition to prices quoted. Prices good until withdrawn. 
Delivery at any time from November until June 15 
For cutting, for the decoration of the house, or for any purpose for which cut-flowers are used during the summer and fall months, no 
flower can be grown as satisfactorily as the Gladiolus. The spikes of flowers are large, showy and very beautiful, and last a week in water 
after cutting. By planting at intervals from April 1 until June 15, they can be had in blossom from June 25 until frost. For cutting pur¬ 
poses they can be grown in the vegetable garden or any convenient place, and, as they can be planted very closely, a large quantity can be 
grown in a very small space. They are of the easiest culture, failure being practically impossible, and it can be safely estimated that the 
bulbs will increase at least 50 per cent every season. The bulbs can be wintered in any room or cellar that is free from frost. The bulbs 
offered below are strictly first-class, and are from the largest and best Gladiolus grower in the world. 
Per 100 Per 1,000 
Seedling Cladloli. Superb quality; all colors. $2 00 $15 00 
Mixed Gladioli. Best quality: all colors. 1 75 14 00 
Red and Scarlet Gladioli. Splendid for massing in 
shrubberies and borders .. 1 40 11 00 
White and Light Gladioli. A choice mixture made 
from all named Gladioli; equal to what is gener¬ 
ally sold at four times the price. 2 50 18 00 
White and Light Gladioli. Finest quality D 
made up from the choicest named varieties.$0 
Pink Gladioli. Best quality. 
Yellow and Orange Cladloli . 
Striped and Variegated. 
New Cladloli Childsll. Best quality mixed. 
“ ii “ named varieties.... 
.10 to 50 cts. each, $1 to 5 00 
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This is a specially fine mixture, made up of over 100 fine named varieties, and includes also a good percentage of Childsii Hybrids, 
the stock for those who want only the very best that can possibly be had. First size, $3 per 100, $25 per 1,000. 
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Gardening Books and Papers. 
I am sorry to say it, but there is at present no gardening paper published in America worthy of consideration. For a few years we 
had an excellent paper, well suited to the needs of our country. Its editor was able and enthusiastic, and had the business management 
been as intelligent as the editorial the success of the paper wouid have been unqualified; but the editor was allowed to resign and the paper 
dropped into the uninteresting rut occupied by its contemporaries. This is preliminary to recommending the English paper, The Carden, 
which is beyond question the best gardening paper published in the world. It is a weekly, well edited, well printed, and freely illustrated 
with pictures made in the best gardens in England. Each number also contains a fine colored plate of flowers of some fine tree, shrub, plant 
or bulb, so that it is really a cheap paper at $4.50 per year. I will be glad to forward subscriptions to the London office for my customers. 
Since the above w r as written a new magazine entitled Country Life in America has been published by Doubleday, Page & Co., of 
New York, and edited by that high authority, Prof. L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University. This is hardly a gardening magazine, but consider¬ 
able space is devoted to gardening matters and is altogether the most beautiful and interesting magazine that I find on my library table. 
This magazine has been run on a liberal scale, the publishers believing that there is ample field for a magazine appealing to the better class 
of country-lovers. I am glad to say that their experience has borne out this hope, and the magazine has prospered so that it now has a 
regular circulation of above 50,000 copies. Its continuation on its present scale should be a satisfaction to every country-lover and every 
person connected with the country. The price is $3.00 a year, it is printed on coated paper, most superbly illustrated, and in every way 
worth what the publishers charge. An English paper that gives me a great deal of pleasure is Country Life. It is a 32-page weekly, ex¬ 
clusive of advertisements, and is beautifully printed and illusti*/;ed. It, treats of all pursuits and sports of country life, but is especially 
interesting on account of its illustrated descriptions of English country places, one of which it publishes each week, showing house, gardens 
and lawns. My attention was called to this paper recently by one of my clients, and 1 was so well pleased with it that I bought all the back 
numbers as well as subscribing. The price for American subscriptions is $10.00 per year. I will forward subscriptions if desired. 
The best book on gardening ever published, and worth more than all other books on gardening and landscape gardening, is Wm. 
Robinson’s The English Flower Carden, now in its eighth edition. Whatever success I have made as a landscape gardener I owe to the 
inspiration of this book. It not only teaches good gardening, but, what is quite as important, condems bad, giving reasons that are con¬ 
vincing for both. This book has done more to improve the gardening in England than all other influences combined, and I wish it were 
in my power to secure its reading by all thoughtful, intelligent people in this country. The book is very comprehensive, treating of the 
arrangement of various styles of gardens, and contains descriptions of almost every tree, shrub, plant and bulb of value used in orna¬ 
mental gardening. It is profusely illustrated by the best English artists with pictures made in hundreds of English gardens. The price is 
$0.00. It may be ordered from any bookseller, or I will forward it on receipt of the price. 
A delightful book recently published in England is Wood and Carden, by Miss Jekyll. The book hasn’t much to say about culture, 
but is full of good suggestions for arrangement, and the illustrations, from photographs made by the author, are a delight, and should 
do much toward the banishment of ugly and inartistic gardens. It is charmingly written by an enthusiastic amateur, and should be 
read and owned by every lover of a good garden as well as by those who know nothing of the pleasures of a garden. The book can be 
obtained through anv bookseller. A later book written by Miss Jekyll, Wall and Water Cardens, tells most interestingly of two of the most 
fascinating phases of gardening. The pictures are superb and should do much to improve the gardens of England and America. Still 
another book by Miss Jekyll is Lilies for English Cardens. A friend complains that he finds no good lily illustrations. Well he will find 
them here and the best and most exhaustive work on lilies yet written. 
