MAY 2C, 1S98. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



977 



exists a great industry in our line. It 

 is situated on the main road from 

 Chicago to New York, which goes 

 through Buffalo, via Rochester. Syra- 

 cuse, rtica. Albany, and then to the 

 great city. Well, a mile west of Corfu, 

 lives Nelson Brown, a man who never 

 knew or pretended to know anything 

 about gardening, but in a few years 

 he has cultivated pansies to such an 

 extent that this year's shipment of 

 pansy plants reached lOO.OUO. or to 

 give you a good idea he contracted 

 with the American Express Co., for 

 20 tons of express weight: and they 

 were all shipped in little baskets. 1 

 dozen pansies in each basket. Still 

 more remarkable is the fact that the 

 city of Rochester nearly took them all. 

 Now don't all you seedsmen flood the 

 man with letters, with the valuable 

 information that you have the only 

 pansy seed. He is going to take The 

 Review, and will soon find out the best 

 people. When a man spends fifty dol- 

 lars a year for pansy seed he ought 

 to have pansies. 



A Marksman. . 



"i'ou know, Mr. Editor, that I 

 never approve of too much of youi 

 columns being given to sport. The 

 Review is a trade journal devoted to 

 horticulture, not bowling or shooting, 

 but pardon a few words about a man 

 who really can shoot — not a George 

 Anderson, who is liable to miss two 

 birds out of twenty-five, but one who 

 never misses. A few weeks ago the 

 rather extensive houses and property 

 of Mr. Thrall, of Jamestown, N. Y., 

 were sold at sheriff's sale. T)ie sher- 

 iff, as you know, always gives a good 

 title. The purchaser was Jlr. Bartlett. 

 When he introduced himself he said. 

 "I know nothing of the business: 

 I have been in the gun business all 

 my life." I little thought to whom I 

 was talking, although I had seen him 

 shoot. He is going to join our club 

 and is going right into the business. 



One of his feats with the Burgess 

 repeating gun is to break six glass 

 balls thrown in the air at once, and he 

 breaks them all before they reach the 

 ground. Another is to lay the gun 

 on the ground, throw up two balls 

 with his own hand, turn a handspring, 

 pick up his gun and break both before 

 they reach terra firma. I pity Darby 

 Road, Chestnut Hill or Holmesburg. 

 There are several men who could do 

 the last trick, notably Pe*er Crowe, 

 Burt Eddy or Edwin Lonsdale, except- 

 ing the handspring and breaking the 

 balls. He is a clean cut, fine young 

 man of exemplary habits, and in ap- 

 pearance much resembles C. D. Ball. 

 It is Bartlett, the expert and trick 

 shooter. W. S. 



THE HARRISII DISEASE. 



The experiments at Lincoln Park, 

 Chicago, showing that Kraft's Plant 

 Tonic will kill the mites that cause the 

 Harrisii disease, have excited a great 

 deal of interest. Indications are that 

 the tonic will be largely used by grow- 

 ers of Harrisii lilies. 



Butted Glass. 



This is no lontjer an experiment, it h.-^s come to stay. There 

 are various ways of making Butted Roofs, Init the best way 

 is with tlie 



Clipper Bar. 



Willi this ii;ir v<>u can make a roof that is absolutfly free 

 from drip, :mU ^'lass cannot be torn out by the wind. Butted 

 ghiss makes a tijiht roof , a warm house and saves fuel. It 

 hists lon;ier. looks better and costs less than the old-fashioned 

 roof. Hut do not think that this is the only bar we sell, for 

 it is not; we furnish what people want and there is notliins 

 in t^reenhouse material that you cannot get from us, and all 

 of open-air-dried Cypress clear of bri^^ht sap, stained sap, 

 knots and nil other defects. 



Lockland Lumber Co. 



Write for Circulars 

 or Estimates. 



Lockland, Ohio. 



Correspondence 



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EED STORES and 

 FLOWER STORES ! 



L.iii prutitabi\ handle uiir Excelsior Brand, 

 an Odorless. Soluble Plant Food. j 



Write for prices and terms to the trade and | 

 testimonial leaflet. 



JUST ARRIVED 

 IN FHt tONOiriON 



CATTLEYA LABIATA C. MOSSIAE, 



C.TRIAN/t. also LAELIA PURPURATA and 

 MILTONIA CANDIDA. 



Lager & Hurrell, frporVe""." Sumniit, n, j. 



Vinca Major Variegata. 



1,000 3-incb Pots. 



:s to 5 leads. 18 to "24 Indies lung. 

 7.-1, i„T ilM/en . $."p,IJO per 100. 



NATHAN SMITH & SON, Adrian, Mieli. 



^.-.oTHEMOON 



Company 



* For f Trees, Shrubs, Vines, 

 Your i and Small Fruits. 



iJescriptive Illustrateti <'atalogvie Free. 



THE WM. H. MOON CO., 

 ^^_^ Morrisville, Pa. 



NEW AND SECOND-HAND MATERIAL 



purcliased fr.)m Slieriff. Kcieiver, ,ind Assisnee sales at 

 less than one-half prices. Pipe and Fittin^^s, Hose, 

 Florists' Wire, Hot Water Heaters, (ireenliouse Boilers 

 and Engines, Rope, Light Wrought Iron Pipe, (.llass 

 Sash, and thousands of other anicles, for s-ile by 



CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING CO. 



Largest Mail Order Depot for New and Second-Hand 



Material in the World. 



W. 3STH 4 IRON STS., CHICAGO. 



Write fur our free illustrated catalogues. 



WHENEVER you need any irade 

 supplies not offered in our advertising 

 columns, write us about i'. We will 

 place you in comniunicitioii with 

 some one who can supply what you 

 want. 



Pure Bone Elour, 



FOR FLOBISTS- USE. 



.\MMONIA .■) percent. 



NITROGEN 4.1.5 ■' 



BtiNE PHOSPHATE :.:. 



Pure Dried Blood, 



.\M.\IONIA. 

 NITROGEN 



Write for Prices. 



In per cent. 



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1 We also manufacture an ODORLESS LAWN FOOD | 



THE WALKER FERTILIZER CO,, 



CLIFTON SPRINGS, N. V. 



To Clean Out^ 



1 3.000 .Mternanthera. .\urea Nana, per 100. .. $1.00 

 I 10.000 .\sters. Perfection, white, pink, blue 



I and scarlet, per 100, 60c ; per 1.000 4.00 



.Also 2.000 Snowball .Asters, extra strong. 

 I 1.000 Fuchsias. 3-inch, mi.xed. per 100 2..iO 



THE MORRIS FLORAL CO., Morris, III. 



•G ANN AS' 



.\lplionse liouvier. Queen Charlotte. Mine. Crozy. 



Paul Marquant. Florence Vaughan, Fuerst 



Bismark. hne plants from pots, $.").00 per 100. 



BOUN'ARDIAS. single red, white and pink, 



from i-incli pots, $2.00 per 100. 

 CHBYSANTKEMUmS — l'enii^\ U ania and 



otluT fill'- vari.tif-. Write tor inires. 

 C. EISELE. 1 1th & JeHerson Sts.. Philadelphia. Pa. 



GOOD PLAMS CHEAP! 



Cannas. I'l sorts. ;Miich, 2c each. 

 Geraniums, L'^i-inch. fine good assortment, $1.75 



IiiT lOM. 



Altemantheras. red and vellow, 2-inch plants, 

 $1.00 per 100. Rdoted Cuttings 5l)c per 100. 



Cash with Okder. 

 G. W. WEATHEBBT, Chillicotlie, Mo. 



