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A NEW SUGGESTION
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For Lovers of ^Roses, | ^ JUN 1 6 1
Sweet Peas, [ir.aD^Mttaantcfil
and Other Flower^
All for Present Planting
October, 1917
MAURICE FULD
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Plantsman - Seedsman
1457 Broadway New York
FOR BEST SUCCESS
Plant Roses from October to December
This is not a new idea, but one which all plantsmen have preferred for a score of
years and the only reason it has not been suggested is the fact that we have depended
upon Europe to supply us this material and the plants never arrived until December —
too late to plant them.
One of the great benefits derived from this unfortunate war is the increased
resourcefulness of the American grower, who has now through necessity developed
the culture of all plants here in America, so that in future we need not depend on
others.
American-grown roses are not only equal to the best of the European, but really
are far superior, and the reasons for this claim must be apparent to everyone.
1. They are grown on American soil and under American climatic conditions.
2. They are not subject to a six weeks’ transportation risk, during which time all
plants suffer.
3. The roses offered here are grown on a light soil, so that when given better
conditions, which naturally you do, they must prosper.
4. There is no more guessing — will this rose do well here, for its very presence is
its best proof.
The reasons why fall planting is preferable to spring are also apparent.
1. The plant suffers least in transplanting.
2. It is taken from the field and shipped direct to you.
3. It is established when spring comes and can grow ahead much sooner and
therefore give better results the first season.
4. It lightens our burdens of the mass of work always existing in spring.
5. The loss in fall planting is much less than that of the spring.
My Selection of Varieties
I know what you want, because you have told me — I know your ideal in a rose,
and to prove it, I state it here.
A rose which grows by itself; a rose which produces blooms all the time; a rose
which produces good blooms on long stems ; a rose which is robust so as to be immune
if possible from disease; a rose fine for cutting as well as for effect in the garden.
Of course, you will say: Are there any such roses?
Yes, there are, and many more would there be if we just realized that roses are
the favorite children of the garden and like those of the human family, they must be
nursed well during the first year of their growing in our garden.
Since March of this year I have published in “Flower Lore” the most exhaustive
story of Rose Culture you will find in the world, a story written for the primary grade
in the school of gardening, a story which you can easily grasp and adopt. The story
is not finished as yet, but will be continued in every number of “Flower Lore” to come.
If you are not a subscriber, you ought to be.
Delivery of the roses as here offered can be made at once, except where otherwise
noted.
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HYBRID TEAS OR MONTHLY ROSES
To make selections easier, I offer these in color sections as follows :
WHITE
Each
Augustine Guinnoisseau, white La France, tinged with blush $ .60
British Queen, pure ivory-white 60
Ellen Willmot, wax white, pink center 60
Grace Darling, cream white, tinted peach .60
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, white..* 60
Killarney Double White, pure white 60
Mrs. Harold Brocklebank, white, buff center 75
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, cream}'" white, center pink-shaded 60
Pharisaer, rosy white 60
YELLOW
Duchess of Wellington, yellow, stained with crimson 60
Le Progres, yellow chrome 60
Marquise de Sinety, golden yellow, shaded red 60
Mme. Charles Lutaud, chrome-yellow 60
Mme. Jenny Guillemot, saffron-yellow .60
Mme. Ravary, orange-yellow 60
Mrs. Aaron Ward, Indian yellow .60
Mrs. Ambrose Riccardo, yellow, very rich 75
Mrs. Amy Hammond, pale amber, apricot shading 75
Mrs. Archie Gray, cream yellow, light 75
Mrs. David McKee, creamy yellow 60
Mrs. Sam Ross, straw-colored 75
Queen Mary, yellow, border of carmine 75
Senatuer Mascuraud, blend of yellow and orange 60
Souvenir de Gustav Pratt, pale yellow 60
Sunburst, bronzy yellow 60
ORANGE, SALMON AND COPPER
Antoine Rivoire, rosy flesh on yellow ground 60
Autumn Tints, blend of copper red, orange and pink 1.00
Betty, ruddy gold -SO
Countess of Gosford, salmon-pink, base yellow 60
Dean Hole, salmon-pink 60
Dorothy Page Roberts, pink, suffused yellow 60
Duchess of Sutherland, rosy pink, shaded yellow 60
Earl of Warwick, salmon-pink, shaded vermilion 60
Farben Konigin, salmon-pink 60
Irish Fireflame, orange, single flowers 75
Joseph Hill, rosy salmon 60
Lady Pirrie, coppery-salmon .60
Mabel Drew, deep ochre, yellow center 60
Mme. Jules Bouche, silvery salmon .60
Mme. Leon Paine, salmon pink 60
Mme. Segond Weber, rosy salmon .60
Mrs. A. R. Waddell, reddish salmon 60
My Maryland, salmon pink, pale edge 60
Old Gold, reddish orange
Ophelia, salmon-flesh
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PALE PINK
Each
Countess Clanwilliam, peach pink, cherry-red edge 75
Edgar M. Burnett, flesh-pink, tinted rose 75
Florence Pemberton, flushed pink and cream white 60
F. R. Patzer, cream, outside pink 75
Grace Molyneux, light apricot, flesh center 60
Killarney Brilliant, bright pink 60
Killarney, flesh, shaded white 60
Konigin Carola, rose-color, silvery white back 60
Lady Alice Stanley, coral-rose, flesh inside 60
Lady Ashtown, pale rose 60
Lady Ursula, flesh-pink 60
La France, bright pink
Lyon Rose, coral pink .60
Mme. Caroline Testout, bright rose 160
Mme. E. Rostrand, flesh-pink 60
Mrs. G. W. Kershaw, rose-pink 1.25
Mrs. Moorfield Storey, shell-pink 60
Prince of Bulgaria, flesh-pink 60
Souvenir du President Carnot, flesh, shaded white j60
Totote Gelos, flesh-pink, shaded yellow 75
Viscountess Folkestone,’ pink, center salmon-pink 60
Wellesley, carnation-rose color ^60
DEEP PINK
Colleen, rose-pink, slight crimson veins 75
Duchess of Westminster, rose 60
Gustav Grunerwald, carmine pink 60
Miss Cynthia Forde, rose-pink 60
Mrs. Geo. Norwood, rich pink 75
Walter Speed, pure pink 60
William Shean, pure pink, veined ochre 60
Killarney Queen, clear pink 60
SCARLET
Arthur R. Goodwin, orange-red, passing to salmon-pink. 60
Augustus Hartmann, geranium-red, shaded with orange 1.00
Brilliant, bright scarlet .60
Chateau de Clos-Vougeot, velvety scarlet 60
Francis Scott Key, red 60
Hadley, deep red .60
Iona Herdman, blend of orange and red 75
Lieutenant Chaure, red, shaded garnet 60
Mrs. Geo. Shawyer, brilliant rose 60
CRIMSON
Admiral Ward, crimson-red overlaid with black *®6
Edward Mawley, velvety crimson 60
Etoile de France, crimson, cerise-red center 60
Friedrichsruhe, blood-red, overlaid black *60
General McArthur, bright crimson 60
Gruss an Teplitz, scarlet-crimson .60
H. V. Machin, bright crimson 1-00
Jonkheer J. L. Mock, carmine 60
King George V., blackish crimson .60
Laurent Carle, velvety carmine 60
Mevrouw Dora Van Tets, crimson 60
Mme. Abel Chatenay, carmine-rose, shaded salmon .60
Radiance, carmine-rose 60
Robert Huey, crimson 60
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WHITE
TEA ROSES
Each
Lady Plymouth, cream bordering on yellow 60
Molly Sharman Crawford, cream white 60
White Maman Cochet, pure white 60
Mrs. Campbell Hall, creamy buff with rose carmine 75
YELLOW
Blumenschmidt, bright yellow, border pink .60
Etoile de Lyon, sulphur-yellow 60
Harry Kirk, true sulphur-yellow 60
Kaiser Friedrich, yellow, shaded rose 60
Lady Hillingdon, apricot-yellow .60
Marie Van Houtee, canary yellow 60
Mme. Constant Soupert, deep yellow, shaded pink... 60
Mme. Francisca Kruger, coppery yellow 60
Mme. Jean Dupuy, golden yellow 60
Perle des Jardins, straw-yellow J60
Yellow Maman Cochet, yellow, center apricot 60
SALMON, COPPER AND ORANGE
Lady Roberts, rich apricot, red base 60
Souvenir de Pierre Netting, apricot, blended with copper yellow 60
Mrs. S. T. Wright, Cadmium old gold, suffused with rose pink 60
PINK
Pink Maman Cochet, pink 60
Wm. R. Smith, flesh tints, salmon-pink 60
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES
This class of roses used to be very popular, but it is now superseded by the hybrid
teas, for we can get a more constant crop of blooms from them. At the same time,
the Hybrid Perpetuals were the roses we used to know first, and we call them old
friends, and so we cannot at all times discard them altogether. For this reason I am
offering a limited selection of the best.
Each
CLIO, satin flesh, with pink center 60
FRAU KARL DRUSCHKl, finest white rose .60
GEORGE ARENDS, bright pink flowers J60
MRS. JOHN LAING, soft satiny rose 60
PAUL NEYRON, clear pink, fragrant 60
PRINCE CAMILLE DE ROHAN, dark blood-red 60
ULRICH BRUNNER, light red, unusual 60
HARDY CLIMBING ROSES
Those of you who know me have realized by now my dislikes for certain flowers,
and particularly my strong dislike for such a rose as the Crimson Rambler. I know
so many more beautiful climbing roses than this latter that I want everyone in this
country to pull up their crimson ramblers and destroy them, and if you want my
opinion as to the best climbing rose of today adopt the American Pillar. It is a good
name for a patriot, and is a mighty good rose to bear that name.
What I am offering under this heading is the cream of the best. I can offer other
varieties if you wish them, and if you have any preference just let me have your list,
and I will promptly inform you if I can furnish the roses or not.
Each
AMERICAN PILLAR, cherry-pink $1.00
AVIATEUR BLERIOT, saffron-yellow 60
DOROTHY PERKINS, shell-pink .60
DR. W. VAN FLEET, pink 1.00
GARDENIA, bright yellow 60
HIAWATHA, crimson, snow-white base 160
LADY GAY, cherry-pink, faint white 60
SILVER MOON, cream yellow to wax white .75
TAUSENDSCHON, pink and white 60
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO POSSESS A PICTURESQUE
HEDGE?
Something different, which no one else has ; something which will make your
garden charmingly beautiful; something which at one time of the year will fill your
heart full of joy, and everybody else’s who may come near your garden. And, still
more, something which you can be sure will live and thrive.
I can read the following question on the lips of every reader of my offer: “I
wonder what new plant he is going to offer to us now?”
Let me tell you my story :
Three years ago last June I visited Detroit and saw a number of gardens. There
was one garden that was like a fairyland. It was rose time, and you must be able to
go back with me in memory to revive the impression I received when from a distance
of a mile I saw a most wonderful stretch of pink; so that I ran toward it, and with
every step my imagination grew wilder as to what it could be, and finally I was ready
to exclaim, “How marvelously beautiful!” What a wonderful sight! And lo, behold,
there was for a stretch of several hundred feet a hedge of a most robust growing rose;
a plant four or five feet high, trimmed somewhat square, with the cleanest and
healthiest foliage (very similar to the finest of Hybrid Tea Roses) of gloss bronzy
green in appearance, but simply showered with real double roses of the most pleasing
pale pink, and, mind you, the average flower was from five to six inches across.
I should say there were from 25 to 50 of such flowers on a single plant — and now
can you realize the picture? Of course, I was interested. I secured the name of the
rose and put it away for future reference.
From Detroit I went to Camden, Maine, and lo, behold, here I found a smaller
hedge of the same rose, and the owner told me that he has had it for five years and
his plants had grown to a height of seven feet, but he cut them back every year to
keep them within his desired limit.
This rose is called “Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.” It is an offspring of the Rugosa
roses, from which it obtains its robustness, but in appearance it has no resemblance.
It is just as delightfully attractive as any rose in our gardens, but produces a dense
growth, as good as any privet hedge, and it has really two seasons of attractiveness —
one in June, when all roses bloom; the other in the fall, when the plants are covered
once more with the most exquisite coral-red giant seed pods.
For hedge, set plants 18 inches apart in single rows. Put plenty of manure in the
bottom of the trench, and you will have the most beautiful hedge in your town for
fifty years to come.
No rosebug or disease attacks this rose; nor will animals, for it is full of thorns —
just as if created for a hedge. And last, but not least, the rose possesses an exquisite
fragrance and flowers every month of the summer.
I offer now, for “November delivery,” American-grown stock, field-grown plants
of excellent quality, at $4.50 a dozen; $35 per hundred
I have offered this rose for two seasons now, and each time I have been oversold
to ten times the amount available. For this reason I am presenting my offer NOW,
as you may want your needs reserved, and thus be one of the fortunate to enjoy this
feast for the eye next year.
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THE LATEST WRINKLE IN GROWING SWEET PEAS
IS SOWING THE SEED IN OCTOBER
This new culture will again, to a great degree, entirely revolutionize the raising
of this popular flower in our American gardens.
From the outset I want to make it quite clear that it is not a theory, but a fact,
that the culture now published has been tried for a number of years in several varying
sections of this country and proven a great boon and improvement over the existing
methods.
Its Advantages
1. That this work in the fall will materially relieve our burdens for the spring.
2. That our plants are far more sturdy and can make their roots during ideal
weather conditions,
3. That our flowers appear fully three weeks earlier, and as this is under the
favorable cool nights’ season, we can enjoy a much longer period of bloom.
4. That we do not have to make all the extra trips in spring to the country,
provided we live in the city during winter, and thus can have our flowers almost as
soon as we come to the country for good.
Now, I do quite well know the feelings of the average amateur, when it comes to
adopting a new method. He is skeptical, he is never quite ready and willing to
discard an old successful method. I have not forgotten yet that it took me six years
to get the public to experiment with the culture of sweet peas, which I published last
March in “Flower Lore,” but T am sure that those who have tried it will never again
go back to the older method, and so I ask you if you will please just try a limited
space with the method I herewith disclose.
We can never make progress if we are not ready to change our ways.
This new culture changes the actual work as previously described but very little,
and here is the story :
Prepare your trench at once in the same manner as you do in the spring and fill
it up level to the ground. Sow your seeds any time this month again exactly as you
do in the spring with one addition, namely, that we do not plant them in pots, but
when sprouted in blotting paper we plant them right out of doors, and in order to
make the seeds sprout quicker and more uniform we scrape a little part of the skin
opposite the sprouting germ with a file. I want to say right now that almost every
seed will sprout when scraped and this method should be followed in the future for
spring sowing as well.
These sprouted seeds will germinate and com^e through the ground this fall, and
as they grow we draw the soil from either side of the row right over the plants, so
that only the top is visible, and finally when it gets near freezing weather we cover
the top as well. This will put the actual seed from 8 to 10 inches below the highest
point of the ridge and allows a furrow on either side of the plants, and this ridge and
furrow has a duofold purpose, namely, in addition to being a protection for the plant
in winter, it throws off any surplus moisture and thus the seeds cannot rot.
If we want to be very careful we can cover the ridge still further with either
straw or dry m.anure after the soil in the ridge has frozen.
And now we forget them until next spring. About the time when we would
naturally sow our sweet pea seeds out of doors we remove the covering and throw
back the soil covering the plants, so that the plants will be fully exposed and trenches
will be filled up to the level of the garden.
And from this time on we proceed in growing them as we do in the spring. No
more waiting for the soil to dry or weather to moderate.
You will be surprised to find how well your plants have wintered, for, to tell the
truth, sweet peas can and will stand considerable frost.
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SWEET PEAS
No. 5500
No. 5525
No. 5550
No. 5560
No. 5570
No. 5580
No. 5590
No. 51600
No. 5610
No. 5620
No. 5630
No. 5635
No. 5640
No. 5650
No. 5660
No. 5663
No. 5670
No. 5680
No. 5685
No. 5687
No. 5690
No. 5700
No. 5710
No. 5720
No. 5730
No. 5732
No. 5750
No. 5760
No. 5770
No. 5780
No. 5790
No. 5810
No. 5820
No. 5830
No. 5835
No. 5840
No. 5850
No. 5860
No. 1600
No. 1610
No. 1615
No. 1630
Fold’s Delightful Mixture of all Colors
Pkt. (25 seeds)
Fold’s Artistic Mixture (pale colors only)
Pkt. (25 seeds)
Alfred Watkins, clear pale lavender
Barbara, clear soft salmon-orange
Bertie Usher, white with violet flake; unique
Blanche Ferry Spencer, lower part rich warm pink; wings
Blue Jacket, clear deep navy blue
Cherub, creamy bufif, edged bright rose
Constance Hinton, considered by exhibitors the finest,
largest, purest white
Dobbie’s Cream, pale yellow
Don Alvar, most beautiful clear lavender; seeds v£ry rare
Edna May Improved, considered today in England the
finest white Sweet Pea
George Herbert, bright rose .
Helen Lewis, orange pink
Hercules, palest satiny pink
Hope (Novelty 1917), clear soft rose
Irish Belle, mauve
Jean Ireland, cream buff edged rose
Jessie Cuthbertson, white, flaked rose
Job Loader (Novelty 1917), deep crimson
King Edward, deep crimson
King Manoel, large shining maroon
King Mauve, large mauve
King White, a fine giant white
Lady Evelyn Eyre, most delightful pale pink
Lady Fisher (Novelty 1917), blush pink
Margaret Atlee, warm salmon pink
Margaret Madison, clear azure blue
May Unwin, bright orange
Mrs. Cuthbertson, lower part clear rose pink, wings pure
white, a real pleasing color and flower
Mrs. H. J. Damerum, deep cream, gives 5 flowers to a
stem, excellent for exhibitions, seeds very rare
Nubian, deep chocolate
Orchid, rich clear mauve
Phantom Blue (new), opalescent blue, marvelously blend-
ed with a tinge of purple giving the entire flower a
delightful pastel or “art” shade of blue; a rare, ex-
quisite flower
Princess Henry of Battenberg (Novelty 1917), clear rosy
lavender
Royal Purple, deep royal purple
The President, bright orange scarlet
Wedgewood, wedgewood blue
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Sow in October to flower next Summer
Superb Blending of all Colors pkt. $0.15
Pure White “ -25
Lavender Pink “ -25
Crimson “ *25
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