March 27, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



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KANSAS CITY 



Tran*fer Your Orderi to 



SAMUEL MURRAY 



1017 Grand Avenue 



M«nib«r Florlsta' Tel«vr«pb D«llT«r9 



DARDS FLOWER SERVICE 



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 for Dearly FIFTY YEAKH. 



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 L»t as fill your orders for 6t««uii«r Flower 

 ■••kets, Coraaces and ArtUtIo Boxeo •( 

 Ont Flowern. 



DARDS, Inc., Florist, 

 S41 Madison Ave., New York 



S. A. ANDERSON 



440 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. 



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Stock and prompt deliveries in BCFFAJ^O, 



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 WBMSTEBN NEW YORK. 



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 1415 Farnum St. 



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We are well equipped to handle 

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73S Euclid Avenue 



CLEVELAND, OHIO 



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earth will give the plants a new lease 

 of life. Be sure, however, that there 

 is no lack of good drainage. 



It is almost time to get ready to 

 plant sweet peas outside. To hegln 

 with you should have the soil thor- 

 oughly well pulverized, but of course 

 nothing will be done until it is dry 

 enough so that it will just crumble 

 when squeezed in the hand. If pos- 

 sible plant your sweet peas on a new 

 piece of ground each year. If you have 

 some land that was manured heavily 

 last season and plowed in the fall, it 

 will be just right for the sweet peas 

 this spring. Perhaps there is a good 

 deal of clay in your soil. If that is so, 

 add an abundance of wood ashes, say 

 30 bushels to the acre. Have your 

 trench five inches deep and four or 

 five inches wide. Then plant thinly 

 and cover with an inch of soil. Early 

 and rather deep planting is the secret 

 of having good sweet peas, for then a 

 strong root action is developed before 

 the tops make much growth. Make a 

 point of firming the earth over the 

 seeds. Considerable is being said In 

 the English papers just now about the 

 necessity of firming the earth around 

 plants and shrubs that are being set 

 aside, and to some extent the same 

 advice applies to seeds. 



You can start Bougainvilleas read- 

 ily from half ripened wood that has 

 two or three joints. Have 75 or 80 

 degrees of bottom heat and set each 

 cutting very firmly. Some shading and 

 a light sprinkling will be needed. By 

 the time half an inch of root growth 

 has been produced, pot up in a rich 

 compost, preferably three parts of 

 loam, one part of manure and a little 

 sand. As Bougainvilleas grow rapidly 

 they will need to be shifted quite fre- 

 quently until they are in six or seven- 

 inch pots. Keeping them close to the 

 glass will make them stocky and short 

 jointed. 



It is time to, set the seedling tuber- 

 ous begonias into small pots. Fibrous 

 loam and leaf mold in equal parts, with 

 the addition of a little sand, make a 

 good soil. They like to he near the 

 glass and have a temperature of 60 

 degrees. Shift on until they reach 

 five-inch pots. 



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Telephone 1652-15S8 Colnmbas 



KOTTMILLER, Florist 



426 Madison Ave. and 49th St., New 



York. Also Vanderbilt Hotel 



Telephone, Mnrrsy Hill 7»8 



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761 Hfth Ave. 

 NEW YORK CITY 



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NEW YORK. N. T. 



1063 Madison Avenne 



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'Phone Lenox 2353 

 Flowers delivered promptly in Greater 

 New York City and Neighboring States 



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