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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 5, 1904. 



WANTED-Continued 



Wanted — 200 small plants of Pandauus 

 Veltchll. Give size of pots and prices. 



Anton Schulthels. Kox "S. Co llege Point. L. I. 



Wanted — At once. 2000 centaureas from 2-iu. 



J. W. Dunford. Broadway and Franklin Aves.. 



St. Louis. Mo. 



Wanted — Silver striped pepperomla. 



McGregor Bros. Co., SprlnKSeld. O. 



BASKETS. ETC. 



Baskets, Puerto Rico Mats, etc. 



Fraiu Birnatlel, Coborg, Oermany. 



CUT FLOWER BOXES. 



Our t)ox seliB CD Its merits. 



Send for sample. 

 C. O. POLLWORTH CO.. Mllwankee. Wis. 



Florists' Boies. The J. W. Setton Mfg. Co., 

 241-217 S. JetrersoQ St., Chicago. 



DECORATIVE MATERIAL. 



Hard; cat t&ncy and dagger ferns, moeses, 

 evergreens, wreathing, etc. Satisfaction guar- 

 anteed^ H. J. Smith. Hinsdale. Maas. 



Fancy and dagger ferns, laurel festooning, 

 ^ound pine, sphagnum moss, etc. 



Crowl Fern Co., MlUington, Mass. 



Dagger ferns, laurel festoouing, leucothoe 

 sprays, bouquet green, etc. 

 H. M. Robinson & Co.. 11 ProTlnce St.. Boston. 



Leucothoe sprays, fancy ferns, green sheet 

 moss, sphagnum moss. etc. 



U J. Kreshover. 110 W. 27th St.. New York. 



Fancy and dagger ferns, evergreens, etc. Good 

 stock, low prices. 



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



Galax, ferns and leucothoe sprays are our spe- 

 cialties. N. Lecakes & Co., 53 W. 28th St., N.Y. 



For southern wild smllai write 

 Caldwell The Woodsman Co., EJvergreen, Ala, 



EVERYTHING FOR FLORISTS 



Write for quotations on your wants to 



B. F. WINTBRSON CO., 



45, 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



FLORAL DESIGNS. 



Wax flowers and wax floral designs. 

 J. Stern & Oo., 1928 Germantown Ave.. Phlla. 



Wax flowers and wax floral designs. 

 G. Stern. 416 West Chicago Ave.. Chicago. 



Wax flowers and wax floral designs. 



Jos. G. Neldinger, 1226 Poplar St., Pl^Jlta. 



GALAX LEAVES. 



Galax, bronze or green, and small green galax 

 for violets. 

 !>■ J. Kreshover, 110 W. 27th St.. New Y ork. 



GAIiAX LEAVES. Bronze or green. 



A. J. Fellourls, 468 Sixth Ave., New Yo rk. 



GAlfAX LEAVES, green or bronze. 

 N. Lecakes & Co.. 53 W. 28th St., New York. 



GALAX LEIAVES, green or bronze. 

 Crowl Fern Co.. M illlngton. Mass. 



GALAX LEIAVES. green or bronze. 

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



GALAX LEAVES, bronze or green. 

 Wm. Murphy, Wholesale Florist, ClBclnnatl, O. 



GLASS, ETC. 



Large stock of greenhouse sizes on band. 

 Write for prices; no order too large for ns to 

 handle, no order too small to receive our care* 

 ful attention. 



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

 cago. 111. 



We carry the largest stock of American and 

 Imported glass In this country. Glass for green- 

 bouses Is our specialty. 



Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.. Pitt sburg. Pa. 



We make a special greenhouse putty. Price 

 on application. Lord & Bombam Co., Irvlngton- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



Greenhouse Glass. 



Johnston Glass Co., 



Hartford a ty. Ind. 



Greenhouse glass, paint and putty are <rar 

 specialties. Casper Llmbach. Pi ttsborg. Pa. 



Greenhouse glass a specialty. Sprague. Smith 

 Co.. 206 Randolph St.. Chicago. 



Greenhouse glass exclusively. 



Stenzel Glass Co.. 101 Portland St.. Boston. 



Send In yoor order now for a copy of tbe 

 Florists* Manual. 



GLAZING POJNTS. 



SIebert*s zinc "Never-mst*' glazing points. 

 Sold by all seedsmen, or C. T. Sicbert, Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. 



Peerless glazing points are the best 



H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Fa. 



HOSE. 



•■ANCHOR" greenhouse hose, specially con- 

 structed for florists' use. 



Mineralized Rubber Co., 18 Clltt St., N. Y. 



Good Hose, J. Q. & A. Esler, Saddle Blver, N.J. 



INSECTICIDES. 



A 5-lb. trial package of our TOBACCO POW- 

 DER will cost you nothing it you will pay the 

 express charges on It. Write Department D tor 

 it. H. A. Stoothoff Co.. 116 West St.. N. Y. 



Nikoteen Aphis punk is the most convenient 

 and effective way of applying an Insecticide. 

 All dealers sell It. 



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



To-bak-ine is the most effective insecticide 

 on the market. Write for our "Words of Wis- 

 dom." It is fr^. 



Detroit Nicotine Co., Detroit, Mich. 



Rose Leaf Extract of Tobacco. For pamphlet 

 write to Kentucky Tobacco Product C«., Lools- 

 vlUe. Ky. 



NIOOTICIDB kills all greenhouse pests. 



Tobacco Warehousing and Trading Cs., 1004- 

 1006 Magnolia Ave., Louisville, Ky. 



LABELS. 



Tree and plant latjels. 



Williams & Sons Co., Manufacturers, 



Batavia, III. 



PAINTS. 



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 us 

 for prices. 



HAMMONDS PAINT AND SLUGSHOT 

 WORKS. Fishklll-on-Hudson. N. Y. 



PATTON'S SON-PROOF PAINT is the best 

 paint made. We are the sole distributors. 

 Write ns. 



Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.. Pittsburg. Pa. 



We make a special greenhouse paint. Price 

 on application. Lord & Bumham Co., Irvlngton- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



POT HANGERS. 



Kramer's pot hangers. Neat, simple, prac- 

 tical. Write. • 



I. N. Kramer & Son, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



POTS. 



DO middleman's 



We are manufacturers 

 profits. 

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



Emll SteCfens, Manufacturer of Florists* Wire 

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



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

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



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. 



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Sons. 361-363 Herndon 

 St. (near Wrlghtwood Ave.). Chicago. 



Standard Pots. Catalogues and price lists 

 furnished on application. 



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



Red pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colpsburg Pottery Co.. Colesbnrg. Iowa. 



Ked standard flower pots; low prices. 



Harrison Pottery. Harrison. Ohio. 



Those RED pots. The right kind. 



O. 0. POLLWORTH CO.. MUwaukee, Wis. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. ~ 



Sp*iagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co., Milllngton. Mass. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices. 

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



TIN FOIL. 



American brand FLORIST FOIL— The sUnd- 

 ard foil of America. 

 John J. Crooke Co., 155 Ave. D, New York. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



Wired toothpicks, 10.000. $1.50: 50,000, 16.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 



W. J. COWEB, BerUn, N. T. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Thaden's wire tendrils and twine stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



H. Thaden & Co., 472 W. Hunter St.. At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



Model EiXtenslon carnation sup[H>rts; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying wires. 

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



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufactnrers of wire 

 work la the west. B. F. Wlnterson Co., 



45, 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Morphy. Wholesale Florist. Cincinnati, O. 



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



BUSINESS BRINGERS— 



REVIEW Classified Advs. 



THE VERBENA AS A BEDDER. 



Twenty or thirty years ago the verbena 

 as a bedding plant was second only to 

 the pelargonium in popularity, but now 

 it is far from common. In those days 

 Merbenas were almost entirely propa- 

 gated by cuttings, and the plants were 

 very subject to attacks by insects and, 

 sometimes, in a damp or over-manured 

 and grub-infested soil, were liable to 

 disease. It is only in comparatively re- 

 cent years that verbenas have been raised 

 from seed, and such are models of health 

 and vigor, making much more robust 

 plants than cuttings, and producing as 

 much blossom, the only drawback being 

 that unless the seed is raised very early 

 in the year they do not bloom so early 

 as cuttings, which, like pelargoniums, 

 may be showing for bloom even when 

 planted out. 



Verbenas need a fairly light, dry soil, 

 which is rich in humus and the position 

 must be a sunny one or they will pro- 

 duce more leaf than flower. The bed 

 should be deeply dug and spent hotbed 

 manure and leaf-mold freely added to it. 

 Too much raw manure, like a \vet, close 

 soil, is apt to induce disease in a damp 

 summer. The bed should be prepared 

 early in the spring, thougli where bulbs 

 or other spring flowers are grown on 

 the bed this is not possible. The seed 

 should be sown in heat in light, rich 

 soil in February or ]\Iaicli. preferably 

 the former, and as soon as the plants are 

 in their third leaf they should be pricked 

 out round the sides of small pots, and 

 after the.t' have become est,ablished. kept 

 close to the glass and allowed plenty of 

 ventilation, so as to induce a good sturdy 

 growth. By the end of March or begin- 

 ning of April they should be nice little 

 plants, ready to be potted off singly into 

 small pots, in rich, sandy soil: and when 

 they are well rooted in these pots thev 

 should be taken out of the house and 

 put in a cold frame', near the glass, choos- 

 ing genial weather to make the change, 

 and afterwards putting a covering over 

 the frame on cold nights. 



By the middle of May they should be 

 hardened off ready for planting out in 

 the bed. care being taken that the sun 

 does not shine on the plants the first 

 day they are taken out of the frame, if 

 thev are at all succulent, and also that 

 they do not suffer from drought at this 

 stage of cramped root-room, as this has 

 a stunting efJFect upon their after- 

 growth. They should be planted out 

 from one and a half to two feet apart, 

 and as they grow the shoots should be 

 securely pegged down over the bed until 

 it is nicely coveted, when they may be 

 allowed to go their own way. On some 

 parts of the bed there is almost certain 

 to be a congestion of growth, and in such 

 places the shoots should be thinned out, 

 as more and finer flowers will be ob- 

 tained from strong shoot? thinly dis- 

 posed than from a tangle of weak ones. 

 The plants will stand a fair amount of 



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