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HORTICULTURF- 



February 26, 1910 



For San Jose Scale, and to Improve Health of Tree and Shrub. 



BOWKER'S 



Concentrated 



Lime-Sulphur 



Made in New England. FRESH from Factory to User. 



NOW IS THE TIME TO ORDER Lime-Sulphur, 

 which should be used while the trees are dormant. It 

 destroys San Jose and all other Scale Insects and fung- 

 ous spores wintering on the bark. It improves the health of 

 the tree by destroying the mosses and lichens. As J. H. Hale 

 says: "It smoothes up the trees." 



All ready to use by adding cold water. No boiling, no special mixing 

 plant required; no gnesswork as to formula. Just add cold water, and spray. 



Before spraying your orchard, post yourself about Bowker's sprays. — Write today for prices. 



INSECTICIDE COMPANY, 



43 Chatham St., Boston, Mass. 



BOWKER 



Manufacturers of Bowker's PYROX for fruits and vegetables 



BY "WIRELESS" FROM CRAIG'S. 



Among the specialties which are 

 given a large place in the Easter prep- 

 arations at the Philadelphia establish- 

 ment, roses are among the leaders thit. 

 year, hardly second to any other class 

 of flowering plants. The advent of 

 the Ramblers of varied hue and the 

 ever-blooming polyanthas, known as 

 Baby Ramblers, has given a big im- 

 pulse to rose plant growing for Easter. 

 Mr. Craig was so well pleased with 

 the new English variety, Mrs. Cutbush, 

 last year, that he has largely increased 

 his stock tor this season. The flowers 

 are semi-double and light pink. Phyl- 

 lis, which is also semi-double and 

 beautiful shell-pink, he characterizes 

 as the finest of the Baby Ramblers. 

 Lady Gay, Dorothy Perkins, Hiawatha 

 and other popular Ramblers are, of 

 course, well represented in a great 

 variety of forms, bush, standard, pyra- 

 mid and trained in balloon and fan 

 shapes. The buds are well set on all 

 of them, but it is necessary to push 

 them right along and permit no check. 



The idea is to get the flowers to begin 

 to open ten days before Easter and 

 then throw air on them freely so as 

 to get them toughened up. This ia 

 the only condition in which they will 

 give satisfaction. "But we want sun- 

 light," Mr. Craig says, with much 

 earnestness. "We'll get them all right 

 if only we have that." 



Among the lilies this year is a 

 house of Giganteums from bulbs 

 grown in Formosa. Unfortunately,' 

 they are badly mixed. Not more than 

 2.5 per cent, are true to type, but these 

 are very fine — the strongest, most 

 lusty plants imaginable and great 

 things are promised as soon as 

 straight goods of this strain can be 

 had. Mr. Craig, in speaking of the 

 cultural methods being followed just 

 at present with lilies, quotes approv- 

 ingly the reply of A. N. Pierson, who, 

 on being asked what he was doing 

 said, "We grow them on hand-bar- 

 rows, moving and carrying them con- 

 tinuously, first to one house and then 

 to another." Sure enough there's lots 



of work with the lily crop in a season 

 such as this is. For drawing up the 

 stalks on short lilies, the bulbs of 

 which were brought in from under 

 the snow in January and are now 

 showing buds well advanced, Mr. 

 Craig has tented them over with to- 

 bacco cloth supported on a lath frame- 

 work, and they are stretching their 

 necks upward in encouraging fashion. 

 A new ficus, known for the present 

 as "No. 49," is being groomed for 

 presentation in quantity to the trade 

 in the near future. It is somewhat on 

 the order of altissimus, but the leaves 

 are larger and more graceful in out- 

 line than altissimus. 



Independence, Mo. — Eric Frandsen 

 has purchased a florist establishment 

 here. He was for a number of years 

 employed In Lincoln, Neb. 



Cedar Rapids, Iowa.— H. G. Williams 

 and family have just moved from 

 Williamsburg to this place. Mr. Wil- 

 liams has charge of the branch of the 

 Williamsburg Nursery Co. 



