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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



CUT FLOW ER BOX ES. 



Hunt's LIBERTY Folding Boxes are PURE 

 WHITE, almost waterproof and stronger than 

 any other box on the market. Send for sample. 

 Price no higher than the "cheap-looking" boxes 

 usually sold. 



E. H. HUNT. 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



■I II l.iiWIMi P.dXE.N, th,. Iicst, strongest and 

 neatest folding out Mower box made. 



Livingston Seed Co.. 



Colurnhus. 0. 



' box sells on its merits. 



Send for sample. 

 ('. POLLWORTH I'll.. Milwaukee, Wis. 



DECORA TIVE MATE RIAL. 



Fancy and dagger ferns, laurel festooning. 



Co.. Millington, Mass. 



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

 Leueothoe sprays, fancy ferns, green sheet 

 uoss, sphagnum moss, etc. 



L. J. Kreshover. llu W. 27th St.. N. Y. 



J. SMITH, Hinsdale, Mass. 

 Fancy and dagger ferns, evergreens, etc. Goc 

 stock, low prices. 



A. J. Fellouris -li'.s sixth Ave.. New York. 



.,• spin. 

 5." W. 



28th St.. N.Y. 



EVERYTHING FOR FLORISTS. 



Write for quotations on your wants to 



47. 49 Wabash 



FERTILIZERS. 



Sheep manure, guaran 



s.':.7.". r, 'ii lbs. : sr 0.1 11.100 



W. W. Barnard & Co.. 161 Kini. St 



$1.00 100 lbs.; 

 Chicago. 



FLORAL DESIGNS. 



GALAX LEAVES. 



Galax, bronze or gre 

 for violets. 



L. J. Kreshover. 110 West 27th St 



mall green galax 



GLASS, ETC. 



special greenhous 

 Lord & Burnham 



Florists' Specialties iii Glass. Paint and Putty. 

 Instructive advertising free for the asking. 

 Write JOHN LUCAS & CO.. Philadelphia. Pa. 



lsx'jo double strength A 



Glass (new). 7.", be 

 and 30 boxes 16x24 single strength 

 F. Walker & Co., Louisville, Ky. 



10 Desbrosses 



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



Esler, Saddle River, N. J. 



INSECTICIDES. 



Buffalo. N. Y. 



lbs. Freight paid. 



Send for 

 POWDER. 

 Dept 



our 1. klet lolls 



Stoothoff Co., 116 West St., New York. 



Rose Loaf Extract of Tola will save you 



money. For free booklet write KENTUCKY 

 TOBACCO PRODUCT CO.. Louisville. Ky. 



e, lying BLACK SPOT 



PAINT AND PUTTY. 



TWEMLOW'S OLD ENGLISH GLAZING 

 PUTTY. An old article when goods were 

 made for quality, not eheapness. It lasts a 

 lifetime and is the best article today for all 

 greenhouse glazing. Makes a firm, lasting bed 



5-gailon can 

 10-galIor. can 

 20-gallon 



II. HUNT. 76-7S Wabash ti 



J1.25 



5.90 



12.00 



23.00 



Chicago. 



GOOD THINGS! 

 HAMMONDS GREEMIol Si: WHITE PAINT 

 and TWEMLOW'S OLD ENGLISH LIQUID 

 GI.\/,ING PUTTY. In use by 

 largest florists In the United Stal 

 for prlt 



Write us 



Catalogues and price lists furnished on 

 ppllcation. 



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



Standard Flower Pots. If your greenhouses 

 re within 500 miles of the Capital, write us; 

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

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



Flower Pots. Befor 

 prices. Geo. Keller & 

 (near Wrightwood Av 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



gnum moss of first quality. Can ship at a 



t's notice— 2 bales, st.,,11: m-bale lots, 



Z. K. JEWETT & CO., Sparta. Wis. 



H. J. Smith. Hinsdale. Mas 



can brand FLORIST FOIL— The stand- 

 of America. 

 Crooke Co.. 186 Grand St.. New York. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



10.000. $1.50; 50,000, $6.25. 



ale by dealers. 



'. COWEE, Berlin. N. Y. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Model Extension 

 208 jersey St., Harrison, 



su[.|-a is; also gal- 



Model Extension 

 vanlzed rose stakes and tying 

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

 BUSINESS ERINGERS— 



Advs. 



WIRE WORK. 



45, 47. 49 Wa 



POLLWORTH CO.. 



niddleman'f 

 tee. Wis. 



E. II. Hunt. 76-7S Wabash 



FORCING TOMATOES. 



Bulletin No. 81 of the University of 

 Illinois Experiment Station, Urbana. 

 111., is devoted to forcing tomatoes and 

 contains much useful information on 

 the subject. The results of a series of 

 experiments are summarized as follows: 



By checking the plants it is possible 

 to secure fruit in fifty days from bench- 

 ing. ' 



To secure fruit by Thanksgiving day 

 the seed must be sown by July 20th and 

 the plants benched not later than Oc- 

 tober 1st. 



Pollen is not discharged during the 

 cloudy weather and advantage must be 

 taken of short periods of sunshine to 

 pollinate by hand. Since the product 

 is most valuable it will pay the grower 

 to pollinate by hand regularly between 

 December 1st and March 1st. The ad- 

 vantages are a larger number of fruits 

 set. and larger, more uniform fruits. 



A careful selection of varieties for the 

 midwinter crop is requisite for the 

 greatest success. Those varieties devel- 

 oped under forcing house conditions 

 like Best of All and Lorillard give the 

 best results. 



Eclipse gave the largest yields both 

 for the winter and spring crops of 1902. 

 It is not quite so early as Best of All, 

 but it produced the smoothest and most 

 solid fruits. 



The yield of Yellow Prince was de- 

 cidedly inferior to that of the Com- 

 bination grown under similar condi- 

 tions. 



Plants trained to single stems gave a 

 much greater yield per square foot of 

 bench titan those trained to three stems, 

 the yield of the former being one and 

 one-fifth pounds against four-fifths of 

 a. pound for the latter. 



The average yield for the season. 

 1901-'02, including both the winter and 

 spring crop, was from two to nearly 

 two and one-half pounds per square foot 

 of bench, or from seven to almost nine 

 pounds per stem. 



TEMPERATURE. 



One very important point in success- 

 ful greenhouse work is temperature. In 

 my opinion many failures are due to 

 misuse of the all-important factor, heat. 

 How very rare it is in this section to 

 see a well grown cyclamen! In a walk 

 through the markets nothing but poor, 

 sickly specimens will be seen, due 

 mainly to being kept too warm. And 

 so it is with many other plants, primu- 

 las, cinerarias, etc. Cyclamen will de- 

 velop beautifully in from 50 to 55 de- 

 grees, but this depends a good deal 

 upon where the heating pipes are lo- 

 cated. If the steam pipes are close to 

 the bottom of the bench upon which the 

 plants stand, obviously the roots must 

 be in a considerably higher temperature 

 than 55 degrees. Mrs. Lawson carna- 

 tion develops finely here in a tempera- 

 ture of from 50* to 55 and grows nearly 

 as large as exhibition blooms. 



On a visit the other day to a grower 

 near here I noticed a remarkable dis- 

 play of buds, but the blooms were small. 

 It struck me at once that the plants 

 were being forced, so I inquired as to 

 temperature. We aim at 50 to 55 de- 

 grees, was the answer. For the moment 

 I could not see where the cause of the 

 difference could come in, but it occurred 

 to me to look under the bench and 

 there were the rows of steam pipe9 



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