December 19, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



135 



HOSE. 



Good Hose. J. G. & A. Esler, Saddle River. N. J. 

 Penn Rubber Co., 608 Arch St., Phila., Pa. 



INSECTICIDES. 



Nikoteen. Does not injure the moat sensitive 

 plants. Indorsed by prominent florists. Used 

 for fumigation or spraying, indoors or out. 

 200 lbs. of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteeu. 

 Sold by seedsmen. Circular free. - 



Skabcura Dip Co., Chicago. 



Rose leaf extract of tobacco will save you 

 money. For free booklet write Kentucky To- 

 bacco Product Co., Louisville, Ky. 



POTS. 



Standard Pots. We are now ready to supply 

 a superior quality of pots in unlimited quanti- 

 ties. Catalogues and price lists furnished on 

 application. 



A. H. Hews & Co., North Cambridge, Mass. 



Standard Flower Pots. If your greenhouses 

 are within 500 miles of the Capital, write us; 

 we can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 28th 

 and M Sts.. N. E., Washington, D. C. 



The Whiildin Pottery Co., Incorporated, Man- 

 ufacturers of flower pots, Philadelphia, Long 

 Island City, N. Y.. Jersey City. N. J. 



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Son, 361-363 Herndon St. 

 (near Wrightwood Ave.), Chicago. 



Red Standard Pots. Write for prices; we will 

 surprise you. The Ziegler Filter & Pottery Co., 

 Toledo, Ohio. 



Red Standard Pots, wide bottoms, well 

 burned and porous. Reduced prices. 



Harrison Pottery. Harrison. Ohio. 



Red Pots. Sample pot and price list on appli- 

 cation. C. C. Pollworth Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 



Red Pots. 



Colesburg Pottery Co., Colesburg, Iowa. 



POT HANGERS. 



Krlck's Flower Pot Hanger. Just the thing 

 to display your plants by hanging them on 

 the walls, etc., especially when crowdcij for 

 room. No. 1 will flt 2 to 5-In. pots, 30c per 

 doz. ; No. 2, 6 to 8-In., 40c per doz.; No. 3, 

 S to 12-ln., 50c per doz. By mall 10c extra 

 per doz. Sample pair. 10c postpaid. 

 W. C. Krlck. 1287 Broadway, Brooklyn. N.T. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Why not buy your Sphagnum Moss from first 

 hand? We are always ready to ship on a mo- 

 ment's notice and can save you at least 20 per 

 cent. Prices, single bale, 75c; 10-bale lots, $5.50. 

 Send for sample bale. Z. K. Jewett & Co., 

 Sparta, Wis. 



TIN FOIL. 



Tin foil for florists. Special shades and de- 

 signs. Write for samples and prices. The 

 Palen Co., Kingston, N. Y. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Thaden's Wire Tendril is adapted to hori- 

 zontal wires as well as stakes for roses, carna- 

 tions, chrysanthemums, etc. Easily put on 

 and easily taken off and are durable. Sample 

 100, prepaid, for 50c. H. Thaden & Co., At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



Model Extension Carnation Supports, made 

 with two or three circles; also galvanized rose 

 stakes and tying wires. Igoe Bros., 226 North 

 9th St.. Brooklyn. N. Y. 



DO NOT TIE UP roses or carnations until 

 you have read our circular on wire. H. F. 

 Littlefleld. Worcester. Mass. 



WIRE WORK. 



C. A. Kuehn, 1122 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo., 

 manufacturer of the Patent Wire Clamp Floral 

 Designs. A full line of supplies always on 

 hand. Write for catalogue. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work In the west. McKellar & Wlnterson, 45 

 47. 49 Wabash Ave ., Chicago. 



Emll Steffens, Manufacturer of Florists' 

 Wire Designs. 335 East 21st St.. New York. 



Reed & Keller, 122 W. 25th St., New York, 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



B. H. Hunt, 76-78 Wabash Aye., Chicago. 



As A Christmas present for an appre- 

 tiated employe or a friend in the trade 

 nothing will prove more satisfactory 

 than a copy of the Florists' Manual, by 

 Wm. Scott. 



The Review is 0. K. and I wish j'ou 

 success for another year. — William 

 WiCKHAM, Adrian, Mich. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Magazine. 



Gloxinias as Annuals. — At the meet- 

 ing of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 

 on Tuesday last (July 29), Messrs. Sut- 

 ton & Sons exhibited a collection of 

 gloxinias which attracted much atten- 

 tion from visitors by reason of the high 

 quality of the strain and the fact that 

 the plants had been grown from seed 

 within a period of seven months. A 

 display of gloxinias made early in the 

 summer must of necessity consist of 

 plants grown from corms of a previous 

 year, as it is practically impossible to 

 produce flowering plants of gloxinias 

 from seed sown the same year. For 

 some years past Messrs. Sutton & Sons 

 have devoted their attention to securing 

 a strain of early-flowering gloxinias, so 

 that from seed sown in January and 

 February plants suitable for decorative 

 pui jjoses may be obtained from July on- 

 wards, when the older plants have lost 

 their freshness and finest flowers. The 

 collection staked on Tuesday consisted 

 exclusively of plants raised from seed 

 sown in January last, thus proving to 

 demonstration that not only may the 

 gloxinia be treated as an annual, but that 

 when so grown plants of great decora- 

 tive value can be had within a period of 

 seven months, thus saving a considerable 

 amount of trouble as compared with 

 plants of greater age. In addition to in- 

 dicating the early-flowering character- 

 istics of the strain, the collection illus- 

 trated the wide diversity of color it af- 

 fords and the high quality of the indi- 

 vidual blooms. 



Fertility of Greenfly. — The wonderful 

 fertility of greenfly is all too well known 

 to gardeners, but the possible progeny 

 from one fly in one season has been illus- 

 trated in a somewhat startling manner 

 by a daily contemporary, which states 

 that a single greenfly will produce ninety 

 young, all fertile females. In a few days 

 each one of these ninety will produce 

 other ninety, each equally capable of 

 reiplenishing the earth with greenfly. 

 During the summer, about eleven gener- 

 ations of this interesting creature make 

 their appearance. It will, therefore, be 

 seen that at the end of the season the 

 progeny of a single fly would number, 

 barring accidents, three thousand one 

 hundred and thirty-eight trillions two 

 hundred and five thousand nine hundred 

 and sixty billions nine hundred thousand 

 millions! The accidents that fortunately 

 prevent this consummation take tV.e form 

 of .birds, lace-wing flies, ladybirds, and 

 happily hundreds of other natural causes. 

 If ten greenflies should weigh a grain 

 (a by no means inordinate estimate), its 

 descendants in the eleventh degree would 

 weigh no less than one hundred and 

 forty-five billion tons. Whether this is 

 more or less than the whole planet 

 weighs matters not. Mathematics are 

 mathematics, and greenflies are greenflies. 



The Value of Perennial Phloxes in 

 the garden was admirably exemplified by 

 the contributions of these flowers to the 

 meeting of the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety on Tuesday. It is evident that 

 some weeding out of varieties is neces- 

 sary, for while all that were staged are 

 extremely beautiful there is a consider- 

 able diff'erence in their relative merits, 

 and it is desirable that those with but 



little space at their command should se- 

 lect the best. The spikes staged aff'orded 

 an excellent object lesson to the visitors, 

 and shoH'cd 1^'^— ereatly superior are the 

 spikes produced by plants that have two 

 or three stems only instead of a crowd, 

 as is too often the case. One of the 

 chief points in the cultivation of these 

 attractive and fragrant flowers is to pro- 

 vide a deeply dug soil that has been lib- 

 erally enriched with organic manure, 

 such as that from an exhausted hotbed 

 or the farmyard; and another is to re- 

 move at a very early stage of growth all 

 but two or three of the rising stems, the 

 most promising being as .a matter of 

 course allowed to remain. Unfortunately 

 it is too much the custom to allow all the 

 growths to remain, with the re.sult of 

 their producing a few flowers at the 

 points, and these of obvious inferiority. 

 Lapagerias. — These climbers are as a 

 rule cleaner than most plants if they 

 are in a vigorous condition, but they are 

 subject to insect pests, especially thrips, 

 for the eradication of which frequent 

 gentle fumigation is necessary, followed 

 by good syringings in the infected parts. 

 Once a year, about Christmas time, the 

 plants should be taken down and thor- 

 oughly sponged and cleaned with warm 

 water with a little soft soap added. In 

 training the plants the strongest wood 

 should be preserved and weakly shoots 

 cut away, but not having very large 

 foliage more growths can be laid in 

 than of most other climbers, but it is bet- 

 ter not to let the shoots be overcrowded. 

 As lapageria flowers are produced from 

 the old wood as well as from the new 

 shoots, this must be remembered in prun- 

 ing, and only short pieces cut away where 

 the growth is too thick. Strictly speak- 

 ing, the propagation of lapagerias is a 

 nurseryman's business; they usually lay- 

 er them. 



Failure with Asters. — China asters 

 have an unpleasant way of collapsing 

 just previous to flowering, and at pres- 

 ent no satisfactory solution of the diflTi- 

 culty is forthcoming. It is probable 

 that the strain of producing flower buds, 

 together with a check such as hot, dry 

 weather produces, renders the plants 

 liable to a canker-like disease that at- 

 tacks the stems at the ground line; this 

 quickly works through the bark, cuts 

 off' food supplies, and brings about the 

 collapse. Such cultural methods as in- 

 sure robust seedlings and prevent checks 

 to growth should be followed, but at all 

 times it is necessary to have a reserve 

 stock, so that gaps in the beds or borders 

 may be filled up as soon as the blooms 

 show color, for curiously enough asters 

 can, if they reach this stage, be lifted, 

 planted, or potted up with success. 



Spot on Pelargonium Leaves. — The 

 spots on your pelargonium leaves are 

 caused by a fungus which attacks plants 

 grown under too close and moist condi- 

 tions. It very frequently happens that 

 when old plants are restarted water is 

 freely given in the hope that growth will 

 be rapid and strong; the efl'cct is, how- 

 ever, entirely opposite to that desired, 

 for the new growth presents little evap- 

 orating surface, and the young and ten- 

 der rootlets find themselves in sucli cold 

 and wet material that the majority die, 

 leaving the plant a prey to insect and 

 fungus attacks. Burn all affected leaves, 

 reduce the water supply, and provide a 

 healthier atmosphere. 



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