Dec-ember 12, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



801 



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If you are looking for Christmas Stock that will bring you 

 credit this will interest you. Take Poinsettias for instance. 

 Does any intelligent florist think it will improve his standing 

 with refined customers to substitute cloth imitations 

 for the genuine article? DON'T YOU DO IT. I can 

 ship you fresh Poinsettias, splendid quality, cut or in Pans 

 at prices that mean a good profit for you. 



ALSO EVERYTHING IN CUT FLOWERS THAT 

 THE NEW YORK AND JERSEY GROWERS PRO- 

 DUCE FOR THE CHRISTMAS MARKET. 



ALL GRADES OF FLOWERS TO SUIT ALL BUYERS 



J. K. ALLEN 



The Old Reliable Commission and Shipping House 



106 West 28 Street, NEW YORK 



TELEPHONE 167 MADISON SQ. 



OPEN DAILY 6 A. M. 



THE MONEY IN HOT BEDS. 



Hot beds and cold frames are used 

 for these two objects: 1st, to get ahead 

 of the weather and, 2nd, to get ahead 

 of competition. 



By growing plants in winter weather 

 ready to set out half-grown in the 

 spring just as soon as the ground will 

 do, one gains half the growing season 

 — a gain of one to two months. 



By gaining one to two months the 

 grower has flowers or vegetables to 

 sell when they are a luxury and are 

 worth two to ten times as much in the 

 market as they would be when every- 

 body has them. 



The sash advertised by the Sunlight 

 Double Glass Sash Co., of Louisville, 

 Ky., in this issue, are half an inch 

 thicker than the ordinary sash and are 

 made of Louisiana Red Cypress, the 

 most lasting and suitable wood for the 

 purpose. Their main improvement 

 over the ordinary sash is in the use 

 of two layers of glass instead of one. 

 Between these layers of glass is a 

 dry air space 5-8 of an inch thick — a 

 perfect non-conductor of either heat or 

 cold. It lets the sunlight in to warm 

 up the bed and does not let the warmth 

 out. It does away with the use of 

 boards or mats and saves the labor 

 and expense of covering and uncover- 

 ing when cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, 

 violets or any half-hardy plants are 

 being grown, and even for tomatoes, 

 peppers and other tender plants, it is 

 said to be rarely necessary to put any 

 covering over the two layers of glass. 



A minute account of this sash is 

 given in the catalogue of the above 

 named firm and we advise our readers 

 to send for a copy. 



CARNATION EDWARD. 



This new carnation being dissemi- 

 nated by W. H. Shumway, Ber- 

 lin, Conn., is four years old. It 

 has attracted the attention of all 

 who have seen it growing, and has 



Carnation lMwitrd. 



received high recognition wherever ex- 

 hibited. Mr. Shumway says: "I am 

 impressed with its wonderful habit of 

 producing flowers without being what 

 is termed a "cropper." While 1 do uoi 

 claim it never splits. I claim that the 

 percentage of good blooms is above the 

 average, many of them measuring four 

 inches and over in diameter. 



"It is easy to grow and comes into 

 bloom early. The flowers are deep 

 pink, fringed petals and very full 

 centre." 



BUSY PEOPLE. 



To realize what the above title 

 means, stroll in, or rather, make the 

 attempt to peer in through the piles 

 of holiday greens and specialties to be 

 found just now at New York's two big 

 depots for this class of material— 1 he 

 Kervan Co. at 113 and George Cot 

 sonas & Co. at 50 West 28th streel 

 Palms, smilax, log mosses and pines 

 from Florida and Alabama, laurel and 

 ferns from Massachusetts and Vei 

 mont. hemlock and spruce from Maine, 

 ground pine from Michigan, mistletoe 

 from across the Atlantic, galax and 

 leucothoe from North Carolina ami 

 holly from Delaware and Maryland 

 are constantly coming and constant- 

 ly going out in big loads in bull- 

 or made up in festooning and 

 wreathing to supply the big florist 

 trade in all directions. It is esti- 

 mated that no less than four hundred 

 million ^alax leaves are picked every 

 year, mainly in the mountains of North 

 Carolina. Of this enormous quantity 

 New York alone uses seventy-five mil- 

 lion and fifteen million are sent to 

 Europe, and the industry is still grow- 

 ing. The bronze galax for this year 

 have been received so far only in small 

 sizes from plants growing on dry, ex- 

 pi , . .1 hillsides. The cold, frosty weath- 

 er, which gives this prized coloring. 

 reaches to the moist, shady woods 

 where the big leaves grow, a little 

 lain-. The early fall demand must, 

 therefore, be supplied mainly from the 

 cold storage stock. 



Steelmanville, N. J.— Walter Shane 

 has named a new pink seedling carnn 

 tion Mis. Mary S. Fleming. 



