. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. *9K The American Florist. 1039 Some of Aschmann's Choice Plants A wonderful clock at a hotel in In- terlaken, Switzerland. The biggest wonder of nature the world lias ever seen. See that clock? ll is mack- of (lowers. It has hands and show s the time ' See that little house in the rear, also made of flowers? There U hidden a mechanism that strikes the quarter, half and the hour. What do you think this eli ok is made of? ll is made of plants of brilliancy—mostly of dwarf begonias, the Vernon type, short variety, pi
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. *9K The American Florist. 1039 Some of Aschmann's Choice Plants A wonderful clock at a hotel in In- terlaken, Switzerland. The biggest wonder of nature the world lias ever seen. See that clock? ll is mack- of (lowers. It has hands and show s the time ' See that little house in the rear, also made of flowers? There U hidden a mechanism that strikes the quarter, half and the hour. What do you think this eli ok is made of? ll is made of plants of brilliancy—mostly of dwarf begonias, the Vernon type, short variety, pink and red. The head gardener, the creator of this clock, of this famous, world-wide known hotel at Interlaken, Switzerland, has been offered a fortune by American and other millionaires of the world, to make them a clock similar to this, but he declined the offers, saying that he was hired by the hotel company for the next ten years. I was fortunate enough, Is Not That a Sight. A Sight, yes! 'the greatest sinht we ever saw," explained one tourist to another, na7inj; from the other side and pointing ai an old-fashioned house, on barnyard No. la north, exposing in the moonlight a heap of wax\. large, white, (ragrant flowers. "What kind of a vine is that "they asked one another: It is that so well reputed, white [lowering moon-flower. A gentleman hearing the conversational the two. that Godfrey Aschmann of Philadelphia was the man that raised them and shipped them all over the entire country. It is a rapid grower and a constant bloomer, yrows fifty feet high in one summer. Nothing better for Quick shade; urows everywhere; on the garden walls on the roof garden, the barns and all over the bouse in a remarkable short time; thrives well in any soil. The botanical nam. is Ipomea Noctiflora. We raise them by the and it is one of our great specialties - 35 years on th< market. It bears an abundance of sweet, pure white, waxy Bower as big as-a sauc
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