April 16, 1910 



flORTlCUi-TURE 



589 



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For Decoration Day 



We have this year the most complete, elegant and salable stock of florists' 

 goods ever offered for the MEMORIAL DAY trade. Our line of PRE- 

 SERVED FOLIAGE and other INDESTRUCTIBLE DECORATIVE 

 MATERIAL cannot be excelled and the name of BAYERSDORFER & CO., 

 on the package guarantees that goods and prices are 



All 



Don't wait until the last moment to make inquiry. SEND NOW for list of 

 Standard and New Goods for this important occasion. All you have to do is 

 to show the goods. THEY'LL SELL. Wreaths of Cycas, Magnolia, Fern and 

 other foliage in Green, Autumn Tints and Moss effects are among the novelties. 



H. BAYERSDORFER ®, CO. 



The Florists' Supply House of America 



1129 Arch .Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



show their buds by the last week of 

 April and not later than the flr.st week 

 in May to be right for this date. If 

 any of them are showing buds now 

 ihey should he placed in the coolest 

 house you have. Making a rapid growth 

 at this time of the year they will need 

 great nuantities of water at the roots, 

 fumigation at regular intervals, fre- 

 quent syringing and the utmost care 

 in ventilation. Just at this time a 

 sharp lookout must be kept for green- 

 lly that get established down in the 

 crown of the buds where smoke fails 

 to reach them. Nicotine applied not 

 too strong is the best remedy. 

 Lily of the Valley. 

 Lily of the valley that is unprotected 

 outside seldom gives good satisfaction. 

 Those who have beds of it should have 

 iheir beds of such size that they can 

 he covered with frames that will pre- 

 vent the heavy rains from injuring the 

 flowers. You can thus have flowers 

 two weeks ahead of those that comes 

 along naturally. They will take plenty 

 of water up to when the bells begin 

 to show white. Two weeks before the 

 flowers are fully developed a shade on 

 the glass will improve the quality of 

 the blooms. 



JOHN J. M. FARRELL. 



Mr. Farrell's next notes will be oq 

 Aerldes, Candytuft, Campanulas, Herba- 

 ceous Perennials, Hydrangeas and (.-are of 

 Shrubs after Easter. 



CARNATION WHITE FAIR MAID. 



At the time this white sport from 

 Fair Maid was put on the market we 

 did not hesitate to assert its prospec- 

 tive value as a carnation of the "bread 

 and butter" class. In the ambition to 

 produce and the rivalry to possess the 

 splendid show varieties that have ap- 

 peared in the meantime. White Fair 

 Maid has apparently been forgotten or 

 discarded, although its remarkable 

 freedom of bloom, its grand perfume 

 and line keeping qualities place It in 

 a class almost by itself for the every- 

 day use of the florist who retails his 

 own product. We were glad to hear 

 so shrewd and capable a grower as 

 John McKenzie of North Cambridge, 

 Mass., a few days ago assert most em- 

 phatically that White Fair Maid is the 

 most profitable and altogether desir- 

 able carnation he has on his place. He 

 says no other white now on the mar- 

 ket can equal it, and he has tried most 

 of them. 



INCORPORATED. 



Gerrardstown, W. Va. — W. S. Miller 

 Co., nursery and orchard business, 

 capital stock $35,000. Incorporators, 

 L. P. Miller, Bessie L. Miller and 

 Nannie C. Miller of Gerrardstown, 

 Mary Lou Winn of Sumpters, S. C, 

 and William H. Miller of Enon Valley, 

 Pa . 



Peirce Bros, of Waltham, Mass., are 

 owners of several large automobiles 

 used for transporting flowers and 

 plants to market in Boston. One of 

 them got unmanageable on Beacon 

 street last Friday and ripped a piece 

 out of the fence surrounding Boston 

 Common, but nobody was hurt. 



PETUNIA BAR HARBOR BEAUTY. 



Vernon T. Sherwood writes us a line 

 in regard to the history of this famous 

 petunia. It came originally from Vil- 

 morin and was given the name under 

 which it is now known by A. T. Bod- 

 dington. Mr. Pulitzer's gardener says 

 it is the only trailing plant for v in-f 

 dow boxes that will keep good on his 

 storm-whipped piazza. English ivy, Ne- 

 peta glechoma, geraniums, vincas, nas- 

 turtiums and other things having failed 

 to do it and its keeping qualities are 

 remarkable, the plants being a blaze 

 of color all season — in fact, it is con- 

 spicuous from the decks of passing 

 steamers. 



APHINE 



The practicability of sprayirg, compared 

 to fumigating or vaporizing is being more 

 generally recognized than tierelofore 

 among those engaged in floriculture and 

 horticulture. 



Spraying, when operated on scientific 

 lines, is proving the most economical 

 method of combating insect pests. 

 Fumigation requires the filling of the 

 house. Spraying requires application to 

 that portion of the house only where 

 the insects make their appearance. 

 Fumigation is not beneficial to flower or 

 foliage. Spraying with Aphine does not 

 effect them in the least; inlact it invigor- 

 ates the plants. 



Send for descriptive circular 



Aphine Manufacturing 

 Company 



MADISON, N. J. 



