GROWERS OF FINE PERENNIALS 13 
U. S. TOP LIST. . 
. 194 VARIETIES 
Hardy Chiysanthemums 
To tradesmen exclusively, this is the most complete presentation from a single specialist source. 
The modern list of Hardy Chrysanthemums is a lengthy, complex subject. Your source must have your 
confidence. Here is how we solicit yours. 
Each year, we plant 300 plus varieties and see many more. 
purpose balance selected from them all. 
This catalog listing is the well rounded, all 
The field grown plant that you will receive, or the one that was used for the pot plant stock, was flowered 
and carefully rogued. They are plants that held their flowers, did not drop their leaves, and have NO sign 
of stunt. 
Whether you sell from field display, from beds, from pots, or use the tremendous cut-flower yield, the 
best varieties for your purpose are here. 
tunity. 
NOTE: 
If we can help with your selection, we will welcome the oppor- 
May we suggest the field grown plants as the best buy? We ship them fresh from the field, and 
remove nota single division. The unit cost in your planting thus runs from a fraction of a cent to not 
more than 3c. 
ALL PURPOSE CUT AND DECORATIVES 
ALABASTER (English). Large pure white with slightly 
incurved petals. Will grow to five inches across if disbudded. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
ALGONQUIN. A very hardy variety, with healthy foliage. 
- One of the best yellow Mums, producing pure, bright yellow 
flowers three inches across. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
ALLEGRO. Double. Glowing shrimp—pink with coppery 
salmon sheen. Early October. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
AMBER GLOW. Early. 24”. A tight, fully double, 3” 
bloom. Color is a fine and bright saimon orange. Flowers 
are massed atop the sturdy stems of a really vigorous plant. 
Fine for cutting, for the exhibition show. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
ANN, (USDA). Hardy and early flowering even in the 
rugged climate of New England, where it found its origin. 
Flowers are fuliy double, white, averaging 2 to 3 inches 
across. This compact, free-flowering plant, has been proven 
remarkably frost-resistant. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $3.00; Per 100, $25.00 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
ARGONNE. Mid-season. 24”. A full, rounded button pom- 
pom of rich, jewel-like, amaranth purple. Distinctive for its 
overwhelming mass of bloom on sturdy stems, and its abil- 
ity to hold that difficult color right through the season un- 
til frost. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
AUTUMN BREATH. A striking oddity. It is a firm duplex, 
rigidly showing a burnt cinnamon-bright yellow bi-color in 
symmetrical focus. It compares with the straw flower. 
The flowers appear in extra-ordinary abundance on literally 
dozens of thin but sturdy stems. It is a good clean grower, 
bright and novel, and appears the second week in Septem- 
ber 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
AUTUMN GOLD. Mid-season. Low. Bright gold on yel- 
low, duplex; hundreds of blooms en-masse atop an upright 
plant. Blooms right to the ground, makes a fine logis, ak 
row in the field, a block in the border, is a dazzling show of 
color. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
AUTUMN LIGHTS. Coppery bronze semi-double blossoms 
with gleaming orange overcast. Compact, branchy plant, 
healthy, dark green foliage, unusually hardy. Height, 14% 
ft. Late September. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
AVALANCHE. This variety easily takes its place among 
the best whites that we have ever seen. The flowers are 
very large, measuring 4 inches across. The flower petals 
are long, ray-like extensions that occur in so good numbers 
that the effect is richly double. It is a perfect cut flower 
type; early, free-flowering, tall and straight stemmed. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.75; Per 100, $22.50 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $1.75; Per 100, $11.00 
AVIATOR. Mid-season. 24”. A shimmering, dusky, alto- 
gether new shade of copper-red. Flowers fully double in 
profusion on a plant of good habit. Perfect in its season and 
its novelty. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BALCOMBE BRILLIANCE. (English). Mid-season. 24”. 
Brilliant red in the Carnival shade. Fully double, largest 
size, borne on a heavily foliate, strongly stemmed plant 
that is a decorative green all the year until frost. 
POT PLANTS — Per 10, $3.50; Per 100, $30.00 
BETTY. Delicate apple-blossom pink with dark rose cen- 
ter. Very upright twenty-six inch plant with fine formed 
double flowers which mature in late September. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BISHOP GANNON. Mlid-season. 18”. This is a clear yel- 
low duplex in the best of form. Prolific bloomer, a row 
will be the brightest mass in the field—a real traffic stop- 
per. Sturdy stems for liberal cut yield. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BOKHARA. Full double perfectly formed flowers on well- 
branched stems. Exceptionally hardy with disease resistant 
foliage. Perfect for cutting by Oct. 10th. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BONFIRE. Double burnt-bronze red flowers on 24 inch 
plants. Blooms in early Oct. and is very frost resistant. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BOSTON. A true fall color, bright red bronze, fully double, 
medium tall, mid-October. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.50; Per 100, $20.00 
BRONZE PYRAMID. A straight medium tall new variety. 
Duplex flowers are the high toned orange bronze favorite 
in the Fall. Dozens of branches straight from the crown 
without disbudding. Foliage forest green and clean. Per- 
fect cut flower variety. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.25; Per 100, $18.00 
BURGUNDY. Rich cerise-crimson, acquiring deeper tones 
in the center as the bloom matures. The flowers are of 
good size, quite double and carried on erect, branching 
stems. 
HEAVY FIELD GROWN — Per 10, $2.00; Per 100, $15.00 
