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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



JLvRCH 26, 1903. 



EVERYTHING FOR FLORISTS. 



Write for nuntatlons on your wants to 



McKELLAR & WINTEESON, 

 45. 47. 49 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



FERTILIZERS. 



Fine bone meal, THE ROSE GROWER and 

 best fertilizer. 50 lbs.. $1.00: 100 lbs., $1.90; 

 2M lbs IsiS: 50O lbs., $8.00; 1,000 lbs., 



' STEWART'S SEED STORE. Omaha, Keb. 



FLORAL DESIGNS. 



Wal Flowers and Was Floral Desicns. 

 J. Stern. 192S Germantown Ave., Phila.. Pa. 



GALAX LEAVES. 



GALAX LEAVES. We are prepared to ship 2 

 miinbn galax leaves per month. Price, to the 

 Trade only, 36c per looO. F. O. B carg Elliin, 

 N C WOODRUFF & MILES. 

 "• ^' Cherry Lane. N. C. 



RROVZE OR GREEN GALAX LEAVES. 

 DoftVge prepaid. 75c per 1000. LECCOTHOB 

 SPRAYS Ri-een or bronze, $3.00 per lOoo; pur- 

 chasers pay freight, etc. H. H. Hill, Victoria, 

 Macon Co.. North Carolina. 



GALAX LEAVES, green or bronze, Al qual- 

 ity. 40c per 1000, 10.000 lots. Cash. F. O. B. 

 Elkin, N. C. Cold storage a specialty. Mrs. 

 Alice Bryan. Lauralbranch. N. C. __^ 



GALAX LEAVES, green or bronze. $1.00 per 

 1000; 75c per 1000 in 3000 lots. Crowl Fern 

 Co.. Mi llington. Mass. 



GALAX LEAVES, green or bronze, $1.00 per 

 1000 in 5000 lots. H. M. Robinson & Co.. 



32 Court Sq.. Boston. Mass. 



GALAX LE.AVES. Bronze or green. $1.00 per 

 1000. A. J. Fcllouris. 468 Sixth Ave., New York. 

 GAL.AX LE.WES. green or bronze. 

 N. Lecakes & Co.. 53 W. 2.8th St.. New York. 



GLASS. ETC. 



We make a special greenhouse putty. Price 

 on application. Lord & Bnrnham Co., 



^ Irvl ngton-on-Hudson, N. \. 



GREENHOUSE GLASS, paint and putty are 



our ^Peelalties.^^^^ limbaCH. Pittsburg. Pa. 



GREENHOUSE GLASS. Write 

 Vanhorne. Griffen & Co.. 4ii Vestry St.. N. Y. 



Importers and jobbers of greenhouse glass. 

 WHEELER-STENZEL CO., 



30 Su dbury St.. Boston. Mass. 



Florists' Specialties in Glass. Paint and Putty. 

 Instructive advertising free for the asking. 



Write JOHN LUCAS & CO.. Phlladelpbia. Pa. 

 Greenhouse glass and putty a specialty. C. S. 

 Weber & Co.. 1 Desbrosses St.. New Y'ork. 



Greenhouse glass a specialty. Sprague, Smith 

 Co., 207-209 Randolph St., Chicago. 



BUSINESS BRINGERS— 



REVIEW Classlfled Advs. 



GOLD FISH. 



A nice lot of 5 to 6-in. flsh; also some Bnc 

 selected spawuers. Write for prices. 



Chas. Pommert, Amelia, Ohio. 



HOSE. 



Good Hose. J. G. & A. Esier. Saddle River. N. .1 

 Penn Rubber Co.. 60S Arch St., Phlla.. Pa. 



INSECTICIDES. 



Use SULPHO-TOBACCO SOAP and have clean, 

 healthy plants. Sample cake free if you men- 

 tion The Florists' Review. 

 LARKIN SOAP CO., Butfalo, N. X. 



Send for a 5-lb. trial pkg. of our TOBACCO 

 POWDER. Our booklet tells of It. Write 

 Dept. D, for It. 



H. A. Stoothof f Co.. 116 West St., New York. 



DUNNITE. a formula for preventing and rem- 

 edying BLACK SPOT on rose plants. Write us. 



Dunne & Co., 54 West 30th St., New York. 



Rose Leaf Extract of Tobacco will save you 

 money. For free booklet write KENTUCKY 

 TOBACCO PRODUCT CO., Louisville, Ky. 



Tobacco stems, fresh and strong, bale of 300 

 lbs., $1^50^ W. C. Beckert, Alleghepy. Pa. 



NICOTICIDE kills all greenhouse pests. 

 Sold by all seedsmen. 



PAIN^ AND PUTTY. 



GOOD THINGS! 



HAMMOND'S GREENHOUSE WHITE PAINT 

 and TWBMLOW'S 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. T. 



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., Nor th Cambridge. Mass. 



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 & Son. 361-363 Herndon st. 

 (near Wrightwuod ave. ), Chicag o. 



Those RED pots. The right kind. 

 C. C. POLLWORTU CO.. Milwaukee. Wis. 



Red Standard Flower pots; Fern, Azalea and 

 Palm pots. 



HARRISON POTTERY, Harrison, Ohio. 



BED POTS. STANDARD SIZE. 



SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. Syracuse, N. Y. . 



lied pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colesburg Pottery Co.. Coieshnrg. Iowa. 



BUSINESS BKINGKKS— 



REVIEW Classified Art»« 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Sphagnum moss of first quality. Can ship at a 

 momeufa notice — 2 bales. §1.50; lU-bale lots, 

 $6.00. Z. K. JKWETT & CO.. Sparta. Wis. 



Kjpbugnum moss, 5uc per bag; $1.00 per bbl. 

 H. M. Robluson & Co., 32 Court aq.. Boston, 

 Mass. 



Sphagnum Moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co.. Millington. Mass. 



TIN FOIL 



American brand FLORIST FOIL— The stand- 

 ard foil of America. 

 John J. Crooke Co., 186 Grand St., New York. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Model Extension carnation supports and gal- 

 vanized rose stakes. Parker-Bruea Mfg. Co., 

 208 Jersey St., Harrison. N. J. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tvlng wires. 

 Igoe Bros.. 220 North 9th St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work In the west. &IcKeliar & Winterson, 



45, 47, 49 Wabash aye., Chicago. 



Wired toothpicks. 10.000. $1.50: 50,000, $6.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 

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



We are manufacturers — no middleman's 

 profits. 



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



Emll Steffens. Manufacturer of Florists* Wire 

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



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

 Mannfacturers of Wire Designs. 



E. II. Hunt. 70-7S Waho^ ave.. Chicago. 



HEUCHERAS. 



These graceful hardy plants have won 

 considerable appreciation during late 

 years, yet it is to be doubted if they 

 are employed to the best advantage in 

 most gardens. Clumps or groups of 

 them will always be of some value in the 

 borders, but they are excellent for fill- 

 ing large ground-spaces in the shrubbery, 

 where their beautiful foliage is service- 

 able, and their blooms are not rivaled 

 by gay tlowers in their immediate vicin- 

 ity. Heuchera blossom has genuine 

 merit of its own ; it is not fair to in- 

 spect it after feasting the eyes upon 

 noble spikes of brilliant delphiniums, 

 phloxes, and pentstemons. The leaves 

 are useful as accompaniments to other 

 flowers in vases, and some of them be- 

 come noticeable in the garden in winter 

 by reason of their «rimson-marone tint- 

 ings. 



Heuchera hispida (Eichardsoni) pos- 

 sesses delightful shiny brown foliage, 

 hence it is called the Satin Plant, or 

 Satin Leaf, and not only does it owii 

 pretty leaves, but the whole form of the 

 plant is elegant in the extreme. When 

 it is remembered that this is the case 

 in the depth of winter, as well as in sum- 



mer, we may well reftain from criticis- 

 ing its greenish-brown panicles, which 

 appear on stems half a yard or more 

 high in June and July. I prefer to see 

 it planted in the spaces around and in 

 front of silver-foliaged trees and shrubs, 

 but where these are not provided it looks 

 well with a foreground of white-and- 

 green-leaved geraniums, or near Pampas 

 and other light-hued grasses. 



The leaves of H. americana are a bril- 

 liant deep green, and its stems support 

 tiny dull purple flowers. This is one 

 of the few perennials that are always 

 charming in shade, suitable for clothing 

 those ground-spaces under trees that are 

 either given up to periwinkles or ivy, or 

 are left bare in nine gardens out of 

 ten. Purple, too, are the flowers of H. 

 micrantha, but a kind with which I am 

 not acquainted is offered for sale as 

 Heuchera macrantha, whose blossom is 

 described as "light rosy-salmon." H. 

 Menziesi has stems clothed in leaves, in- 

 stead of flat clustered, foliage, and grows 

 nearly a yard high, but the blossom is 

 quite insignificant. 



H. sanguinea offers really effective red 

 flowers, and has a white companion now. 

 The red form is the only heuchera which 

 is frequently to be found in our herba- 

 ceous borders; it grows two feet high, 

 and blooms in the middle of summer. 

 Florists have introduced an improvement 

 upon it in Heuchera sanguinea grandi- 

 flora, which is finer, more floriferous, a 

 deeper red, and half a foot taller. Some 

 gardeners are fond of H. pubescens, 

 with pale red flowers, the foliage of 

 which is covered with a soft-looking 

 down. H. glabra has attractive white 

 flowers, which are spotted with pink, 

 while H. longipetala and H. bracteata 

 have white blooms, which are valuable 

 for cutting to use with others. 



It should be noted that heucheras re- 

 fuse to thrive in very stiff or clayish 

 soil, though upon gravel, or in any ordi- 

 nary garden-compost, they are absolutely 

 hardy. On rockeries they clothe the 

 stones with their pretty foliage, and in- 

 variably flourish. They are named in 

 honor of their introducer, a German 

 botanist named Huecher. 



M. H. in Gardeners' Magazine. 



THE TREE TOMATO. 



^h». Theodosia 15. Shepherd, ^'en)- 

 tura, Cal., says that when the value of 

 the tree tomato as a fruit Is once fully 

 appreciated acres of it will be planted. 

 It bears from seed the second season, and 

 a young plant set out in tne spring grows 

 G feet and comes into bearing by Christ- 

 mas in California. The foliage is large 

 and handsome, the branches spreading. 

 The fruit is pendant in clusters bt'ow the 

 foliage, is the size of a large egg, and 

 of a beautiful orange salmon color when 

 ripe. It has a deiieious sub-acid taste, 

 slightly resembling the tomato. It is 

 delicious raw, served with sugar and 

 cream, or cooked as sauce, and for jelly 

 or jam is very fine. It will keep for 

 weeks, as it does not bruise on account 

 of its very tough skin and the solid na- 

 ture of the fruit covering the seeds, 

 which are like those of the tomato. In 

 C'ejlon and India it is extensively grown 

 and is known as the "poor man's fruit." 

 It is a showy plant for house and conser- 

 vatory, and a most beautiful plant in the 

 garden. It is a native of South Amer- 

 ice. 



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