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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



JULY 28, 1S9S. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



Business is dead. The lieated period 

 and drought continues and all stoelc 

 is suffering for want of a good hard 

 rain. The farmers are the heaviest suf- 

 ferers, whole crops being now com- 

 pletely ruined. 



Carnations are at their last ehb, poor 

 and off color. The grasshoppers are 

 getting in their deadly work, mutilat- 

 ing palms, dracaenas and anything 

 they can get at, being specially fond of 

 smilax. It is a steady skirmish to keep 

 them from eating the tender tips or 

 the mum stock. Verily the tlorisi ^ 

 path in summer is not strewn with 

 roses. 



There are some pretty good roses 

 from young stock to be had, with de- 

 mand light. Asters will soon be in and 

 then carnations can be almost dis- 

 pensed with. Sweet peas are fine but 

 a drug even at ."> cents a dozen. Lime 

 water will kill grasshoppers but can 

 any one suggest a way to get lime 

 water off the plants after using it? 



The Floral Co. are cutting some 

 very fine roses for this season of the 

 year. They, as well as the rest of the 

 boys, complain at the exorbitant price 

 of l.Sx20 glass. It is now $.xOS per 

 box! an unheard of price; last year it 

 could be bought for $2.64. 



It looks like as if the glass com- 

 panies have caught on hard that the 

 florists have to have that size glass 

 and in large quantities, so have put it 

 in a list where it is almost unap- 

 proachable. It has been suggested 

 and will be acted on this fall that tha 

 club investigate the feasibility of im- 

 porting greenhouse glass: all club to- 

 gether and get what is required in one 

 shipment. It is said lSx20 D. S. A. 

 glass, such as is in ordinary use by 

 florists, can be put down here for 

 about $3.20 per box net of 50 feet, 

 which, if so, is a saving of 

 $1.75 per box. The subject is 

 a burning one and should receive 

 all the ventilation possible. What are 

 the florist's supply men about? 



GEO. P. CRABB. 



THE REX BEGONIA, 



Replying to A. R., the Rex begonia 

 dislikes direct sunshine, but a light 

 shade is all that is required. They all 

 delight in a warm temperature, say 

 70 degrees, with plenty of moisture, 

 and must have a light, sandy, fibrous 

 soil. Many of the light leaved varie- 

 ties are very fragile. The hardiest va- 

 riety is probably Bertha McGregor, 

 which stands more sun than any other 

 variety and is the least injured when 

 used for decoration. H. 



Pansy Plants NOW READY 



30,000 Nice Seedling Pansy Plants nnu 



ready from 1S9S seed, for November and later 

 blooming, 50c per 100; $2.50 per 500; $1.00 per 

 1000. Samples free. Milling's Giant Flowering 

 Pansv Seed, trade pkl., 50c; 1 oz., $t.0fl. Tins 

 seed will raise 50,000 plants tn the pound. 



The MORRIS FLORAL CO., Morris, III. 



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$50.00 

 in Prizes! 



The Florists' Review offers the above amount for a 

 description of some really valuable and practical labor or 

 money-saving unpatented device or method of culture of 

 benefit to florists, that has not yet been published. If a 

 drav/ing is needed to make the matter plain, it may be of 

 the roughest character. 



The awards will be made entirely on the practical 

 value of the device or method, though a well worded de- 

 scription and intelligible drawing will be desirable. 



First Prize, $25.00 



Second Prize, $15.00 

 Third Prize, $10.00 



If you know of some useful labor or money-saving device 

 or method of culture of which a description has not yet been 

 published, you can easily win one of these prizes, and if 

 you know several such you may be able to win them all. 



Make your descriptions as brief as is consistent with 

 clearness. Remember that simple devices are more gen- 

 erally useful than elaborate ones. What are wanted are 

 those that will prove most valuable to the great mass of the 

 readers of the Florists' Review. Competition open to all. 



The prize-winning descriptions (and drawings, if 

 any), will be published in the Florists' Review. And 

 should others seem worthy of publication they will also 

 be given space as opportunity offers. 



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Flowering Begonias 



Otaheite Orang-e, 2';-!n.. $3.00 per 100. 

 Umbrella Plant, J'.-in., $i.00 per 100. 

 Matrimony Vine, i Hardv.i 2'^ in.. $3.00 per 100. 



JOHN A DOYLE, Springfield, Ohio. 



FAIRMOUNT'cHEM?CArLABORATORY. 



N.W Corner Broad Street and Fairmount Avenu 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



