CHAMPION CITY GREENHOUSES, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 
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Warning—Do You Know About the Fern Scale 
If you don’t, you had better get acquainted 
About every dealer in the land has this Fern Scale. That’s what is making your Ferns look so sickly, and what is so serious 
about the whole matter is that even the big growers think it is a fly, and even then do not know how to rid themselves of it. It 
is a scale, and the most vicious insect that ever attacked any plant. It is the most difficult to get rid of. Our stock is clean be¬ 
cause we know how to prevent it, and we also know how to get rid of it, should our stock ever become infested. You cannot 
afford to attempt to grow Ferns that have this scale, because you will fail; your plants will never look right. Buy G. & R. 
clean Ferns. 
The Grand New Dwarf Fern 
Teddy Junior” 
“TEDDY JUNIOR,” the 
Fern for every household— 
This magnificent Fern has 
never before been offered 
for sale by any florist or 
catalogue Arm. It is a sport 
from the now famous Roose¬ 
velt Fern, and while its 
habit of growth is to pro¬ 
duce a shorter frond, it re¬ 
tains all the valuable char¬ 
acteristics of the parent 
plant. The fronds are broad 
and beautifully tapered from 
base to tip; they droop just 
enough to make a shapely, 
graceful plant, permitting it 
to finish with a fine full 
center and perfect sym¬ 
metrical spread. The pinnae 
are distinctly undulated, 
giving the fronds an attrac¬ 
tive wavy appearance, which 
adds materially to their 
charming decorative effect; 
“Teddy Junior,” the Wonderful New Fern. 
Fronds of the New Fern, “Teddy Jr.” 
and thin” scraggy foliage is never seen in this variety. “Teddy” 
will produce about four times more fronds than any other Fern 
ever introduced, finishing with fifty to sixty fronds in a four- 
inch pot, while twelve to fifteen is the average number of 
fronds which other varieties will produce in the same size pot. 
It is such a compact, vigorous grower that it will thrive under 
most adverse conditions, making an exceptionally rapid growth 
and producing a plant of rare beauty and perfection in the 
average dwelling house without special care or attention. 
Owing to its habit of producing the great quantity of massive 
foliage in small pots, this Fern makes the finest pedestal plant 
ever produced, and will prove indispensable for decorating din¬ 
ing room or library tables and numerous 
other places in the home where limited 
space will not permit using larger pots or 
varieties with longer fronds. As a table decora¬ 
tion, Fern growers can appreciate the commer¬ 
cial value of a dwarf variety that will produce 
forty to fifty fronds twelve to fifteen inches long 
in a four-inch pot. Such plants could readily 
be disposed of, and every grower can produce 
them from “Teddy Junior” with as little care 
and expense as they can grow other varieties. 
Two and one-quarter inch pots. 75 cents per 
dozen; $5.00 per hundred; $45.00 per thousand. 
Nephrolepis Elegantissima 
The Philadelphia Lace Fern 
The small size pinnae, or leaflets, are subdivided into per¬ 
fect miniature fronds; the side pinnae stand at right angles 
to the midrib of the fronds, on edge instead of flat, giving 
both sides of the main frond the same beautiful appearance. 
It is impossible to conceive of the beauty and grace of this 
wonderful Fern from description. Two and one-quarter inch 
pots, $4.50 oer hundred; $40.00 per thousand. 
Nephrolepis Whitmanii 
The Ostrich Plume Fern 
A great Fern. In fact, it is a plant that ap¬ 
peals to everyone, and on that account will prove 
a much more valuable and profitable plant than 
the Boston Fern, which has had the most 
phenomenal sale of any decorative plant that 
has ever been grown, but which cannot be com¬ 
pared to the Ostrich Fern for beauty and gen¬ 
eral effectiveness. Everyone who has seen it is 
charmed with it. As someone expressed it, 
“There is nothing like the Ostrich Plume Fern 
in cultivation. In decorative effect it so far out¬ 
distances the original variety that there is posi¬ 
tively no comparison to be made. We consider 
it the most valuable novelty that has been intro¬ 
duced in many years.” It has taken gold medals 
wherever shown. Two and one-quarter inch 
pots, 60 cents per dozen; $4.00 per hundred; 
$35.00 per thousand. 
