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Title: Floral treasures : 1901
Identifier: CAT31285203 (find matches)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Champion City Greenhouses (Springfield, Ohio); Good & Reese Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Roses Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: Springfield, Ohio : Good & Reese Co. , Champion City Green Houses
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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The Good & Beese Company, Florists and Seedsmen, Chrysanthemums . -H:The Up^tcvDate, 1901, Set§*«- THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS named on this page arc the choicest productions from all exhibitions and sources for the year 1900. Our patrons can rely on them being each and every one the very choicest color, as awards are not given until the judges are satisfied that they are better than any existing sorts. So if you wish to be up to date, and have the very best, order this set. PRICE, 15 CENTS EACH; THE SET OF TEN FOR $1.09; ANY FIVE FOR 50 CENTS. IN ORDERING SAY "UP-TO-DATE," 1901, SET. SUNSTONE. Robust habit like "The Queen." Petals hook up at the end, Bhowing the light straw reverse; upper surface bright yellow shading to red at the base. The flower, being flat, shows the three colors to advantage. The most beautiful combination of color yet produced. Five feet high, seven inches in diameter. Awarded first-class certificate by the National Chrysanthemum Show, England. GOLDEN TROPHY. The largest yellow in existence. This magnificent new Chrys- anthemum was exhibited last Fall measuring over fifteen inches in diameter, and is, without exception, the largest yellow Chrys- anthemum ever introduced. The color is a deep, rich yellow^ the half expanded flower incurving. In the fully expanded' flower the petals are reflexed, showing a yellow disc. Some idea of the value of the new sort may be formed from the fact that the introducer had the entire stock sold one year in ad- vance. The flowers are of enormous size. We have no hesi- tancy in saying that we regard this the best of all yellow Chrys- anthemums. DEFENDER. This is the richest deep crimson variety we have ever seen, and excels in its color as Golden Wedding does in yellow. The color is of the richest velvety crimson, which in the flower itself is soft and velvety like. The outer petals are broad and droop- ing, and have a lustrous sheen in the sunlight. The form is flat with drooping outer petals, which gives it a very graceful ap- pearance. This is the popular form and, combined with the splendid color, stamps Defender as a Chrysantemum of rare merit. JOHN SHRIMPTON. Incurved Japanese bloom of large size and high-built, solid form. Deepest crimson, nearest approach to black. Never burns as crimsons are apt to do. Strong, healthy habit. Winner of silver cup at Madison Square Garden, 1895, lor the best seedling; silver medal at Philadelphia; first prize at Madison Square Gar- den, 1896. for best seedling exhibited previous to 1897, and supe- rior to existing varieties. SUNDEW. A exhibition bronze. This is an elegant grower. Heavy, stocky stems, and clothed throughout in fine foliage. Height four feet. The flower is of immense size, crowded with petal* which are stiff and of great substance, Form incurving, depth about three and one-half inches. A most imposing bloom. Col- or Indian red, faced with bronze. Received fifty dollar pre- mium at Indianapolis as the best bronze. WESTERN KING. In the entire Chrysanthemum family there is no grander white variety, no matter when it blooms. It is the most popular style, immense, incurving, broad channeled petals, of great substance and the purest white. A perfect ball of snow. It is sixteen to eighteen inches in circumference. We think this variety does not possess a single fault. HER MAJESTY. The sensational variety of the year. It has won prizes and cer" tificates wherever shown. It is an enormous globular Japanese* with broad, incurving petals. Color white, shading to pale lem" on, stiff stems and nice foliage. Grows about four feet high- The flowers are often twelve inches in diameter. It is undoubt- edly the most meritorious variety of the year. LORNA DOONE. This variety is of mammoth size, of robust habit, with magnificent foliage, purest snow white in color, very broad, heavy, deep flower, measuring fourteen inches in diameter. When the flower is several days old the outer petals curl and interlace. Probably the largest of all whites, and no doubt the very best. This charming variety has taken prizes wherever shown. It is as pure in color as its namesake was in charac- ter in Blackmore's beautiful romance. BELLE OF CASTLEWOOD. One of the grandest varieties of the year. Flowers of immense size, almost spherical, outer petals recurving slightly, quite double, and carried on a good stem. The color is a soft lemon, suffused with pink. This is the variety that took the silver cup at Madison Square, offered for the best pink seedling; also first-class certificate at the same time and place. Also certificates at Indianapolis. It missed the premium at Indianapolis, through being ruled out of the pink class, where it had been entered, as not being self-pink, but was pronounced one of the finest on the table.
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UP-TO-DATE" CHRYSANTHEMUMS. MARaUIS MORTEMARTE. A superb, clear Merinot rose pink, petals thick and heavy, cup-shaped, solid to the center, immense in size, having been exhibited eleven inchesacross* Hab- it the best, stems stiff and erect, covered with most luxuriant foliage. The best pink in commerce. Awarded silver medal by Pennsylvania Horticultur- al Society, certificate of merit at Madison Square Garden exhibition, and was one of the varieties winning the Spaulding prize at Philadelphia for best six new seed- lings.

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