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Plant Specialties
New Hampshire Mums

COLPRIT’S NURSERY, located
among the pines of New Hampshire and subjected to extremes of
heat and cold, is an ideal spot to test the hardiness of plant material.
Varieties which prove hardy here should be grown successfully in any
climate in the temperate zone.

Our home, shown above, is typical of early New Hampshire farm
homes and was built some two hundred years ago. The interior is
quaint with its wainscoting, panelling, fireplaces and brick oven.
Here we are trying to “Keep the home-fires burning till the boys
come home.”

UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER

Because of the necessity of winning the war, we are surrendering a large part of
our ornamental plant business for the duration. We are abandoning all landscape
contracting in order to increase our production of poultry, vegetables and seed
specialties.

This booklet is the only list we shall issue this season. However, we will be glad
to furnish estimates on any list of nursery stock which you may require.

The hybridizing and growing of new hardy Chrysanthemums has become a
specialty with us. We have developed the Arcticum hybrids to the point where
they are the finest Chrysanthemums for northern planting because of their ex-
treme hardiness and early blooming habit.

The varieties which we introduce this year are fully tested and formed a part of
our FIRST PRIZE EXHIBIT at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Show
last fall.

We invite you to visit our nursery, if possible, in September or early October to
see our attractive display garden. There you will see not only the Mums listed in
this booklet but also many others including new hybrids and seedlings still in the
testing stage.

Very truly yours,

Colprit’s Nursery ERNEST 8S. COLPRIT
Dover, N. H.

Introducing

COCHECO

Our Newest
Arcticum Hybrid

Chrysanthemum

A new and unique type of Chrysanthemum of iron-clad hardiness, its blooms
are remarkably frost-resistant. It is easy to grow, requires no pinching, and its
foliage is attractive and not liable to disease. Its compact habit makes it desirable
as a pot or bedding plant. Although the florets are similar to those of the Cushion
Mums the plant is upright and has none of the floppiness seen in these varieties.
The unfolding buds are purplish in color, opening to a most brilliant pink and re-
maining in good condition for several weeks. For profusion of bloom it surpasses

any Chrysanthemum we have yet seen.

Cocheco is the Indian name of our near-by river.

Priced at 50¢ each, $5.00 per doz., $30.00 per 100

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INTRODUCTIONS

These have never been offered be-
fore. At the Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society Show last fall these
four varieties attracted considerable
attention. Their compact habit of
growth and profusion of good-sized
blooms in the early part of the season
especially recommend them.

Priced at 50c each, $5.00 per doz.

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ARBUTUS

TOP KICK

A large Pompon Chrysanthemum, fully double, and of a clear soft
tan color. The plant is of medium height, well branched, with good
healthy foliage. The name was suggested by its superior and outstand-
ing quality. In bloom in mid-September.

ARBUTUS

The delicate pink of this variety is much like the color of the may-
flower. It is one of our earliest bloomers, coming in late August and
early September. It makes a valuable cut-flower. An unusual and very
attractive variety.

TANGERINE

Large aster-type flowers of a brilliant tangerine color make this
variety quite distinctive. The plants are medium in height and well
branched, furnishing an abundance of bloom from the middle of Sep-
tember on.

TRIUMPH

We have long sought for a red Mum showing neither yellow nor
bronze shadings. This is it. The bloom is large and with the color of the
Heart of France aster. Give it good cultivation and plenty of water and
it will surprise you. In bloom with us in early September.

CHRYSANTHEMUM

ARCTICUM
HYBRIDS

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Originating
with us

Priced at 25c¢ each, $2.50 per doz.

WINNIPESAUKEE

DURHAM

Named for our near-by New Hampshire University town. A medium-
sized double bloom of intense orange which is practically non-fading.
Very hardy plant of medium height and compact habit. Its season is
late September and early October.

OLD DOVER

A dwarf plant with large double blooms of a pleasing golden bronze
shading at times to yellow. This is one of our earliest and most con-
tinuous flowering varieties. It retains many of the characteristics of its
Arcticum parent.

WINNIPESAUKEE

Fully double blooms in great profusion in late September. Coral-red
at first but gradually changing to glowing salmon. These blooms retain
their beauty for a long season. The foliage is clean and very attractive.

ROCHESTER

This dark red variety is a vigorous grower coming into bloom in late
September or early October. Semi-double to double.

KOREAN HYBRIDS

Taller than the preceding varieties, these Chrysanthemums make excellent
cutting material. Since we originated them several years ago they have become
popular with florists in many parts of the country and with home-owners wherever

they have been grown. pyiced at 25e each, $2.50 per doz.

MADBURY MAID

A tall variety with double and semi-double blooms of a deep bronzy
pink color. This is one of our hardiest and most satisfactory Mums and
has been successfully grown in several of our northern states. In bloom
from early September into October.

TREASURE TROVE

Another very hardy Chrysanthemum originated by us and introduced
to the public by the Bay State Nurseries. A fine cutting variety which
has been popular for several years and is grown by many florists through-
out the country. Its soft clear yellow blooms are in season in late Sep-
tember or early October.

GOOD SPORT

This is becoming a favorite Mum for cutting because of its tall
straight stems which are topped with clusters of good-sized flowers.
The double and semi-double blooms are a soft bronze-yellow shade. The
season is late September and October.

TREASURE
TROVE

Coming to Us from Minnesota

The following two varieties, originated at the University of Minnesota, have
proved as hardy here as in their native state. We are pleased to recommend them
as very desirable early blooming Chrysanthemums.

Priced at 50c each, $5.00 per doz.

DULUTH

A large-sized double bloom of creamy yellow color first appearing in
August. With good cultivation a second crop will be obtained about
a month later.

WELCOME

Here we have a new and unusual shade best described as mallow-
purple. In bloom in early September. We consider this a very attrac-
tive and worth-while variety.

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Two early-blooming varieties of great merit and popularity.

Priced at 25¢ each, $2.50 per doz.

SEMINOLE

Aster-type white blooms in great profusion in late August.

ALGONQUIN
Bright golden yellow. Aster type. Early September.

The Cushion Mums

Often called Amelia or Azaleamum. Very profuse bloomers forming mounds of
color. The pink, bronze and white varieties are very carly bloomers—August and
early September. Red Cusnion is an especially brilliant color but is later blooming

than the others. Priced at 25c each, $2.50 per doz.

PINK CUSHION WHITE CUSHION
BRONZE CUSHION RED CUSHION

GLADIOLUS HARDY PHLOX

Glads are common, oh so common, Ps,
but not ours. We have discarded the
common ones. These are all exhibition
varieties. The spikes and the in-
dividual florets are large and the colors
are the very finest.

Priced at 75c per doz., postpaid Pe oe Wi
Alice Tiplady. Orange. =
Amador. Rich sparkling red. ig Ws
Charles Dickens. Radiant purple. (iy

Commander Koehl. Blood-red.

Gate of Heaven. Ruffled; yellow.

Maid of Orleans. Creamy white.

Minuet. Delicate lavender.

Peggy Lou. Shrimp-pink.

Pelegrina. Deep blue-violet.

Phyllis MeQuiston. Pure pink, light
throat.

Rosa van Lima. Light rose.

Shirley Temple. Cream, yellow

Into the discard go many varieties
of perennials as we make room for
vegetables for victory. In the Phlox
throat. section these are the survivors. Some

are old, some are new, but all are most
desirable in the garden.

Priced at 25c each,
$2.50 per doz.

B. Comte. Darkest amaranth-red.

Daily Sketch. Enormous trusses of
salmon with crimson eye.

E. I. Farrington. Salmon-pink with
deeper eye.

George Stipp. Glowing salmon with
lighter eye.

Leo Schlageter. The best brilliant
scarlet.

Mary Louise. Finest white; immense

florets.

Miss Lingard. Early. White; uni-

versal favorite.

Morgenrood. Bright rose. New and

striking.

Mrs. Miliy van Hoboken. Giant

PLEASE ADD POSTAGE
For Parcel Post shipment of Chrysanthe-

mums and Phlox please add 10c per plant, blooms of clear pink.
15c for 3 plants, and 25c for 5 plants. . : Oya,

Express shipment is best for six or more Nordlicht. Glowing lilac—a new
plants. Suchshipments need not be prepaid. shade. One of the best.

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