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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



February 4, 1904. 



GALAX LEAVES. 



Bronze and green galax leaves, postage pre> 

 paid, 75c per 1000. Small green leaves for vio- 

 lets. H. H. Hill, Victoria, Macon Co., North 

 Carolina. 



Galax leaves. All orders receive personal and 

 prompt attention. 

 g W. Burleson & Son, Llnvllle, N. C. 



Galax, bronze or green, and small green galax 

 for violets. 

 L. J. Kreahover. 110 W. 27tb St.. New York. 



GALAX LBAVES. Bronze or green. 

 A. J. Fellourls. 468 Sixth Ave., New York. 



GALAX LEAVES, green or bronze. 

 N. Lecakes & Co., 63 W. 28th St.. New York. 



GALAX LEAVES, green or bronze. 



Growl Fern Co.. MlUlngto n, Mass. 



GALAX LEAVES, green or bronze. 

 H. M. Robinson & Co., 11 Province St., Boston. 



GLASS, ETC. 



Large stock of greenhouse sizes on hand. 

 Write for prices; do order too large for us to 

 handle, no order too small to receive our careful 

 attention. 



Sharp. Partridge & Co., 22d and Dnlon. Chi- 

 ca go. 111. 



We carry the largest stock of American and 

 Imported glass In this country. Glass for green- 

 houses is our specialty. 



Pittsburgh Plate Glass Oo.. Pittsburg. Pa. 



BYench glass for direct shipment from abroad. 

 Write for quotations. 



SemoD Bache & Co.. 7. 9, 11 Lalght St.. N. Y. 



We make a special greenhouse putty. Price 

 on application. Lord & Burnham Co.. Irvlngton- 

 on-Ho dson. N. Y. 



Greenhouse glass, paint and putty are our 

 Bpeclaltles. Casper LJmbach. Pittsburg. Pa. 



Greenhouse glass a specialty. Sprague. Smith 

 Co.. 205 Randolph St.. Chicago. 



GLAZING POINTS. 



Slebert'B zinc "Never-rusf* glazing points. 

 Sold by all seedsmen, or C. T. Slebert, Pltt&- 

 bur g. Pa. 



Peerless glazing points are the best. 



H. A. Dreer. Philadelphia, Pa. 



GOLD FISH. 



Price list now ready. 



Chas. Pommert, Amelia, O. 



HOSE. 



Bull-dog hose. 7 ply, guaranteed; %-ln., 16c 

 ft. U. Cutler Ryerson. Newark, N. J. 



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



INSECTICIDES, . 



Nlkoteen Aphis punk Is the most convenient 

 and effective way of applying an insecticide. 

 All dealers sell it. 

 Nicotine Mfg. Co.. St. Louis. Mo. 



Send for a 6-lb. trial pkg. of our TOBACCO 

 POWDER. Write Dept. D for It. 

 H. A. Stootboff Co., 118 West St., New York. 



NICOTICIDE kills all greenhouse pests. 

 Sold by all seedsmen. 



LABELS. 



Tree and plant labels. 



Williams & Sons Co., Manufacturers, 



Batavia, 111. 



We sell the FLORISTS' MANUAL on month- 

 ly payments. Write for our terms — -they're 

 easy. Florists' Pub. Co., 334 Dearborn St., 

 Chicago. 



PAINTS. 



PATTON'S SUN-PBOOF PAINT is the best 

 paint made. We are the sole distributors. 

 Write us. 



Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 



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 greenhouseH 

 are within 5UU miles of the Capital, write us; 

 we can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 2Sth 

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



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Sons. 361-363 Hemdon St. 

 (near Wrlghtwood Ave.). Chicago. 



Those RED pots. The right kind. 

 C. C. POLLWORTH CO.. Milwaukee. Wis. 



Red pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colesburg Pottery Co., Colesbnrg. Iowa. 



POT HANGERS. 



CHESSMAN'S ADJUSTABLE POT HANGER. 



Patent applied for. I-'^ts any size, 85c i>er 

 doz. The first 100 florists ordering a doz. will 

 receive 6 of our greenhouse hangers free. Order 

 now. Send size of sash bar from drip gutter 

 down. H. C. CHESSMAN. Richmond. Ind. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 qu.ititltle8. Crowl Fern Co.. MllUngton, Mass. 



5 bbl. bale. ?1.2»: 3 bales. $3.25: 5 bales. 

 $5.00. H. R. Akers. Cbatsworth. N. J. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices. 

 H. M. Robinson & Co., 11 Province St., Boston. 



TIN FOIL. 



American brand FLORIST FOIL— The stand- 

 ard foil of America. 

 John J. Crooke Co., 165 Ave. D, New York. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



Wired toothpicks, 10.000. $1.50; 50,000. $8.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 

 W. J. COWEE. Berlin. N. Y. 



BDSINESS BBINGERS— 



REVIEW Classified Advs. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying wires. 

 Igoe Bros.. 226 North 9th St., Brooklyn. N. Y. 



Wire stakes. All sizes, all lengths. 



U. Cutler Ryerson. Newark. X. J. 



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work In the west. E. F. Wlnterson Co., 



45. 47. 49 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



We are manufacturers — no middleman's 

 profits. 



C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee. Wla. 



Emil Steffens. 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. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



POMEROY, Pa. — M. Darlington's Sons 

 report a yield of 2.6S pounds of mush- 

 rooms per square foot of bed in a trial 

 of "pure culture" spawn. 



THE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Feb. 3.— Eadisbes, 20 to 40 

 cents dozen bunches. Lettuce, head, $1 

 to $4.50 barrel. Lettuce, leaf, 20 to 35 

 cents case. Cucumbers, 50 cents to $1.25 

 dozen. 



New York, Feb. 2. — Cucumbers, 25 

 cents to $1.25 dozen. Lettuce, 20 to 50 

 cents dozen. Mushrooms. 10 to 40 cents 

 pound. Radishes, $1.50 to $3 100 

 bunches. Tomatoes, 10 to 20 cents pound. 

 Ehubarb, 50 to 75 cents dozen bunches. 



A PARSLEY CROP LOST. 



Reading the Review I found the note 

 of W. S. Croydon on the cultivation of 

 parsley. I liai'e grown a sash house of 

 parsley 6x80 in this way for si.\ years 

 with good results, but this year we were 

 about six weeks behind with our work 

 in the fall, due to doing so much build- 

 ing and an unusual amount of business 

 during the summer months. I thought 

 it would be better to leave this parsley 

 planting alone and dig up some heavy 

 roots in the late fall and pack away. 

 But the cold weather set in and it froze 

 hard, not having the parsley protected, 

 and in two weeks it thawed. We went 

 out and dug Up the frozen clumps and 

 packed in the parsley house, as I call 



it, it being built for that purpose, but 

 instead of thawing open and gro%ving all 

 winter, as I had expected, it began to 

 rot and now there is nothing left of it. 

 I have almost all the hotels and board- 

 ing houses in our town to supply with 

 vegetables the year around and had to 

 cut out the parsley for the past three 

 weeks. Now I shall have to buy a 

 quantity weekly for about tliree months 

 till my seedlings make foliage. 



Cha.s. W. Eifler. 



TOMATOES. 



I have some very nice tomato plants 

 under glass and would like to have you 

 tell me what you mean by pollination, 

 also if I must remove the first flowers 

 which set on the plants. They have 

 been planted about six weeks and are 

 two feet high and verv healthv. 



G. P. C. 



Pollination is the act of transferring 

 the pollen, a yellow floury substance, 

 from the stamens to the pistil of the 

 flower, where it must be placed before 

 fertilization takes place. Tomato flow- 

 ers are seldom self-pollinating. Though 

 the pollen and the stigma (the part of 

 the pistil adapted to receive the pollen) 

 mature together, the pistil usually out- 

 grows the stamens, and by the time the 

 pollen is ripe extends so far beyond 

 the stamens that contact is hardly pos- 

 sible. Under natural conditions, where 

 the plants are grown in the open air, 

 the pollen is disseminated by natural 

 agencies, such as wind and insects, but 

 under artificial conditions, as under 

 glass, artifieial means must be employed, 

 hence the necessity of hand pollination. 

 The stigma is provided with a sticky 

 substance which holds the pollen when- 

 ever it comes in contact with it, and 

 on bright days by shaking the vines the 

 pollen is often liberated, carried around 

 by the air and in this way brought in 

 contact with the stigmas, thus accom- 

 plishing pollination. But during the 

 dull, short days of winter pollen is not 

 so freely produced nor so easily set free. 

 Then the only certain method is to 

 transfer the pollen by hand. We find 

 tho easiest way to accomplish this is to 

 shake the pollen frcm the flowers onto 

 a piece of glass and from there trans- 

 fer it to the pistil with a camelshair 

 brush. 



Don't remove the flowers that are al- 

 ready set; the more you can set at aii^ 

 early stage the better. If the plants 

 are healthy there is no danger of this 

 retarding their growth to the extent of 

 doing any harm, though it may assist 

 in keeping the plants from becoming too 

 gross. W. S. Croydon. 



WANTS TO SEE THE ADVS. 



Enclosed find money order for sub- 

 scription to the Florists' Review. 

 Please send as soon as possible, for we 

 want to see the advertisements for some 

 stock. J. C. G.VRDEN & Sons. 



MOVE YOUR SURPLUS. 



Please discontinue the advertisement 

 of Mt. Blanc cannas; have sold the lot 

 through the first insertion in the Re- 

 view. Will want to move some other 

 stock a little later. Edward Harris. 



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