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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FEBRUARY 21. 189S. 



MAIL ADDRESSES. 



You will doubtless confer a favor on 

 all your advertisers if you will write 

 and publish an article on the import- 

 ance of plain writing and full postof- 

 fice addresses. 



This morning we received a postal 

 card that is anything l)ut plain. We 

 can only guess at the signature. After 

 a good deal of studying we concluded 

 that its heading was Warsaw. The 

 state not being written, we turned the 

 card over to find it in the postmark, 

 but the postmark reads. "Pittsburgh 

 and Chicago P. O.." indicating that 

 the card was mailed on train in one of 

 four states: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio 

 or Pennsylvania. We turned to one 

 state after another in a national di- 

 rectory and found that each one of 

 these states has a Warsaw. We have 

 written a postal card to each one of 

 them, and if we have properly guessed 

 the name we will probably get another 

 communication giving the full address 

 that we requested. 



(The above communication seems to 

 cover in itself the point it is desired to 

 emphasize. Every business house has 

 au unpleasantly large number of simi- 

 larly imperfect names and addresses 

 to decipher. Often it is impossible to 

 reach the writers, and the recipient is 

 condemned for not answering, when 

 an answer would have been immedi- 

 ately forthcoming had the name and 

 address been decipherable. — Ed.) 



HEN MANURE. 



1 have three or four barrels of fresh 

 lien manure and would like to know 

 how to use it in feeding plants in the 

 greenhouse. Will it be safe to use it 

 on carnations? How much shall I use 

 to a barrel of 50 gallons of water? 

 Please give me full instructions. 



W. J. M. 



Don't attempt to use the hen manure 

 except as a liquid. If you do use it 

 otherwise it should be mixed with earth 

 for some time first, and then in making 

 a compost one-twentieth of the manure 

 is enough. One gallon of the manure to 

 50 gallons of water will make a strong 

 solution. Better be on the safe side 

 and apply to the bench not oftener than 

 once in two weeks. WM. SCOTT. 



SWEET PEA REVIEW. 



The Sunset Seed and Plant Co.. San 

 Francisco, has published a third edi- 

 tion of their "Sweet Pea Review." and 

 a copy is at hand. This is certainly a 

 very useful little handbook of the 

 sweet pea and we are pleased to see 

 the publishers are keeping it thorou;;h- 

 ly up to date. No one interested in 

 sweet peas can afford to be without it. 

 In no other publication that we know 

 anything about is there given so much 

 really useful information about this 

 popular flower. 



RICHMOND. KY.— J. E. Runs is 



building a greenhouse and will embark 

 in the florists' business here. 



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