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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 5, 1902 



EVERYTHING FOR FLORISTS. 



Write for quotatloDS on your wants to Mc- 

 Kellar & Wlutersun Co., 45. 47. 49 Wabaab 

 Ave.. Chicago, 



.v'^''5,f"'^^'''^S1' ^"y- ">e EASIEST way, and 

 Xhe BEST way to get rid of thiit surplus stock 

 Is to use the REVIEWS classified adrs. 



FERTILIZERS. 



WE MAIL SAMPLES ON REQUEST. 



PURE BONE MEAL for Greenhouses. The 

 brand we are selling has no superior. It Is pure 

 bone, guaranteed free from acids, and Is sold 

 at as low rates as many Interior brands, which 

 cannot be used with safety in greenhouse cul- 

 ture. 5 lbs.. 25c: 10 lbs.. 40c: 25 lbs.. 60c: 50 

 lbs., $1.00: 100 lbs.. $2.00; 200 lbs., $3.50; 1,000 

 lbs.. $15.00; ton, $27.50. 



PULVERIZED SHEEP MANURE. The most 

 effective of all fertilizers and largely used' by 

 the best growers about Chicago. We ask for a 

 trial order from every one who has not given It 

 a trial. Those who have, we feel assured of 

 their patronage. Price per sack of about 2 

 bushels, weighing 90 to 100 lbs.. $1.50; 500 lbs.. 

 $5.00; ton. $15.00. 



HORN SHAVINGS. 5 lbs., 4Dc: 10 lbs . 70c- 

 25 lbs., $1.00; 100 lbs., $3.50. 



E. H. HUNT. 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



FLORISTS- BONE MEAL, a tried and tested 

 brand, per sack (200 Ibs.l. $3.25; per ton, 

 $2S.00. Johnson & Stokes, 217-219 Market St 

 Philadelphia. Pa. 



BONE MEAI^Pierson's Superior Brand, ap- 

 proved by Pennsylvania Agricultural Station, 

 $3.25 a sack (200 lbs.); $20.00 a ton. Henry F 

 Mlchell. 1018 Market St.. Philadelphia Pa ' 



Bone meal, best for florists. 200 lb. bag. 

 $3.50. A. M. Ilerr. Lancaster, Pa. 



GARDEN TOOLS. 



Parlln & OrendorfT Co.. Canton. 111. 



GLASS ETC. 



Try LUCAS for Glass, Paint and Putty. 

 4 pamphlets on Glass tell you all about it 

 Write JOHN LDOAS & CO.. Philadelphia, Pa. 



We make special greenhouse putty. Price on 

 • pplicatlon. Lord & Barnham Co., Irvlneton- 

 on-Hadson. N. Y. • b 



Importers and Jobbers of greenhouse glass 

 Wheeler-Stenzel Co.. 30 Sudbury St., Boston, 



Greenhouse glass and putty a specialty. C 

 S. Weber & Co.. 10 Desbrosses St., New Y ork. 



Greenhouse glass a specialty. Sprague. Smith 

 Co., 207-209 Randolph St., Chicago. 



HOSE. 



trSJy*?'^ TYPHOON BRAND. The best 

 HOSE for greenhouse use. It stands the wear 

 or dragging and pulling around bench posts 

 Price low for quality. Three-quarter inch, 7-ply 

 black: ^ -* 



5n-foot $ 7.50 



lOO-'oot 14.00 



200-foot 2fl.'i0 



300-foot 39:00 



Cut to 25 ft. lengths It wanted. Fitted with 

 either coupler. Acme or plain. 



E. H. HUNT. 70-78 Wabash Ave.. CHICAGO. 



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



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



INSECTICIDES. 



FEESH TOBACCO STE.M.S, ^ tale (250 

 lbs.). $1..50; per ton. $S.5o. 



CYCLO.NE ATOMIZER SPRAYER. You can't 

 afford to be without one: tin. 50c; brass, 75c. 



Write for our descriptive circular. 



JOHNSON & STOKES. 217-219 Market St., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



NIKOTEEN does not Injure the most sensi- 

 tive plants; Indorsed by prominent florists: used 

 for fumigation or spraying, indoors or out. 

 Sold by seedsmen. Circular free 

 SKABCDRA DIP CO.. Chicago . 



Rose lice, red spider and mildew on rose 

 bushes prevented by SULPHO-TOBACCO SOAP. 

 Write for our special offer to florists. 

 LARKIN SOAP C O.. Buffalo. N. Y. 



To kill all greenhouse pests use NICOTICIDE. 

 Tobacco Warehousing and Trading Co., 1002 

 Magnolia Ave.. Louisvill e. Ky. 



Rose Leaf Extract of Tobacco will save von 

 money. For free booklet write KENTUCKY 

 TOBACCO PRODUCT CO., Louisville, Ky. 



PAINT AND PUTTY. 



GOOD THINGS! 



HAMMOND'S GREENHOUSE WHITE PAINT 

 and TWEMLOWS OLD ENGLISH LIQUID 

 GLAZING PUTTY. In use by some of the 

 largest florists in the United States. Write as 

 for prices. 



HAMMOND'S PAINT AND SLUGSHOT 

 WORKS, FIshklU-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



POTS. 



Standard Pots. We are now ready to supply 

 a superior quality of pots In unlimited quanti- 

 ties, Cntalo^es and price lists furnished on 

 application. 



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



Standard Flower Pots, If your greenhouses 

 are within 600 miles of the Capital, write us; 

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

 and M Sts.. N. E.. Washington. P. C. 



The WhlUdin Pottery Co., Incorporated, Man- 

 ufacturers of flower pots, Philadelphia, Long 

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



Flower Pots. Before baying write us for 

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

 (near Wrlghtwood Ave.). Chicago. 



Red Standard Pots. Write for prices; we will 

 surprise you. The Zlegler Filter & Pottery Co., 

 Toledo. Ohio. 



Red Standard Pots, wide bottoms, well 

 burned and porous. Reduced prices. 



Harrison Pottery, Harrison, Ohio. 



Red Pots. 



Colesturg Pottery Co.. Colesburg. Iowa. 



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. 2 bales. $1.50; lu-bale lots. $6.00. 

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

 Sparta. Wis, 



Sphagnum Moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co., Mlllington, Mass. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



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. 



WIRE WORK. 



Wire hanging baskets. 12-in.. well made, 

 painted green. $2.00 per dozen; $15.00 per 100. 

 Geo. L. Miller, Newark, Ohio. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire work 

 in the west. McKellar & Winterson Co., 45. 47, 

 49 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



Emil StetCens. Manufacturer of Florists' 

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



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

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



E. H. Hunt 76-78 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



THE LAWS OF HEREDITY. 



The evolution of all living organisms, 

 plant or animal, depends upon two things 

 — tirst, the general accepted law that 

 "like begets like," and, second, the 

 subtle modification of this law, which 

 imparts not merely the slight differences 

 which distinguish every individual organ- 

 ism, but also now and again seems to re- 

 fute the first law altogether, so different 

 are the offspring from the parent. That 

 these modifications are also subject to 

 definite laws is beyond a doubt, since 

 the deeper our insight into natural phe- 

 nomena the stronger becomes the con- 

 viction that law rules throughout, how- 

 ever conflicting the outward results may 

 be. The first cited law by itself would 

 preclude evolution, i. e., development of 

 higher types from lower ones, altogether, 

 while the law of variation without re- 

 striction would people the world with 

 a practical chaos of organic life, permit- 

 ting of no classification at all. 



Fortunately a definite restriction is 

 seen in the fact that, however marked 

 may be the ' ' sport ' ' or wide variation 

 which now and again appears, it almost 

 invariably retains the specific or generic 

 character of the parents, i. e., beneath 

 the outward change of form the family 

 features persist. Thus, in a human white 

 community numbering millions, though 

 there may be enough freaks to satisfy 

 the most exacting Barnum, and no two 

 individuals are exactly alike, we shall 

 find no examples of the negro type among 

 their pure-blooded offspring; and so 

 might we raise ten million oaks, and find 

 among them the hundreds of varieties 



we may see any day in the Kew Ar- 

 boretum, but never a one would bear 

 anything but acorns, and the search for 

 a sycamore or conifer among their prog- 

 eny would inevitably be vain. In this 

 sense, therefore, the law that "like be- 

 gets like" is absolutely without excep- 

 tion so far as families are concerned. 

 Even when the hybridist manages to 

 mingle two diverse species, the resulting 

 offspring are either true to one or the 

 other, or display the joint features of 

 both; but no alien characters appear, 

 and, as Mendel's researches have demon- 

 strated, when they in turn reach the 

 productive stage, if they do so at all, 

 the two families separate themselves to 

 a large degree, and obviously resent the 

 alliance as a permanent one. 



With regard to the variation in the 

 offspring which, to revert to humanity, 

 enables us to recognize one individual 

 from another with the greatest ease, 

 this is, of course, accounted for by the 

 fact that the parents are dissimilar as 

 between themselves, so that the offspring 

 represents to a greater or less degree a 

 combination of the parental features; 

 and in plant life we see here how much 

 evolutional developments must depend 

 upon those multiform and marvellous 

 contrivances which exist t.o secure cross- 

 fertilization, and can understand the 

 correlated standstill or decadence of self- 

 fertilized tlowers. 



Reproduction, as we know, is accomp- 

 lished in some low types of life alto- 

 gether asexually, but never in the higher 

 types, and since, as we have seen, va- 

 riation is largely due to parental com- 

 bination, and forms the one essential fac- 

 tor in evolutional adaptation to change, 

 we also see how grand was the far-seeing 

 precision which ordained not merely that 

 like should beget like, but that two indi- 

 viduals should be concerned, instead of 

 simply the one which the few exceptions 

 prove to be sufficient for the mere pur- 

 pose of multiplication. To this we owe 

 all the marvels of organic nature, animal 

 and vegetable; without it man certainly 

 would never have crowned the edifice, 

 and the world would presumably have 

 been little more than a colony of prim- 

 ordial algae and micro-organisms. — ■ 

 Gardener's Magazine. 



Madison, N. J. — The seventh annual 

 flower show of the Morris County Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Society will be 

 held Nov. 6 and 7 next. The premium 

 list has been issued and copies may be 

 had on application to the secretary, 

 Chas. H. Atkins. 



An EXHIBITION of roses, piEonies, etc., 

 will be hold at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, Bronx Park, New York, June 

 11. A meeting of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York will be held at the 

 same time. 



HoPKiNsviLLE, Ky. — The Crowswood 

 Nurseries state that Wm. F. Snyder is 

 no longer connected with them and that 

 he never occupied the position of man- 

 ager. 



A SEASON.tBLE HiNT.— This is a good 

 time to order a copy of the Florists' 

 Manual, by William Scott, if you do not 

 already have a copy. It costs $5, but 

 contains more matter of real value to 

 florists than a library of other books 

 costing from $50 to $75. 



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