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The Florists^ Review 



Afbil 22, 1920 



AxlAX BLACK GLAZING CEMENT 



^ PRACTICAL glazing material made for application in a 

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simply a putty bulber or two and a filling gun to load them — furnished/rec to users. 

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with excellent results. To prospective purchasers we can give names of 8atis6ed users in every green- 

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NOT AFFECTED BY EXTREME HEAT OR COLD 



Our product is a cement-like composition of Asbestos Fibres, and heavy, semi-drying hydro-carbon oils. Its 

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material remains soft and plastic. Because of ibis we guar- 

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 white putties are used. 



LOW COST 



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One gallon is sufficient to glaze 500 lineal feet of sash. 



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D. S. CHAPIN 



1410 Olive Avenu« Chicago 



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 bulbers 



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 bulber 



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PROPAGATION BY LEAVES. 



A writer in a British horticultural 

 journal points out that at the present 

 day propagation by means of leaves is 

 found to be quite practicable in the case 

 of many plants, notably a number of 

 the gesneriacesB and several of the 

 begonias. "In the case of Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine," he states, "some 

 growers prefer to increase the plants 

 from leaves, while others use cuttings of 

 the young shoots. One thing to bear in 

 mind is that where stock is limited a 

 greater number of young plants may be 

 grown from leaves than from cuttings. 

 The various garden forms of Begonia 

 Bex may also be increased in this way. 

 In the case of these plants, several speci- 

 mens may be obtained from a single 

 leaf. The method generally employed is 

 to take a well-matured leaf and lay it 

 on a bed of cocoanut refuse or on a pan 

 filled with sandy soil, holding it in po- 

 sition by two or three pegs. Then, with 

 a sharp knife, the midrib is severed in 

 three or four places and, to a lesser ex- 

 tent, the secondary ones. In a warm 

 propagating case a y«ung plant will be 

 formed from each cut, so that a single 

 leaf will yield several plants. Some 

 cut up the leaves and insert them as 

 cuttings, but this method is, as a rule, 

 less satisfactory than the other. 



"In the case of Begonia Oloire de 

 Lorraine, single leaves with their 

 petioles are taken, these last being 

 dibbled into the prepared soil up to 

 the blade of the leaf. 



"Gloxinias are readily propagated in 

 the way recommended for Begonia Rex 

 and its varieties, but in the case of the 

 gloxinia it is best to make cuts only in 



the midrib. Many other gesneriaceous 

 plants are increased in this way, but 

 gloxinias are almost the only ones 

 propagated by leaf cuttings, and even 

 for these the practice is less followea 

 than it was formerly. 



"Many of the numerous succulent 

 plants can be and are propagated from 

 leaves — in their case a simple matter. 

 The leaves may be pulled off the 

 stem and dibbled as cuttings into pots 

 of sandy soil, standing them on a green- 

 house stage or in some similar position. 

 They do not need to be kept in a close 

 case, or even shaded. The grower must 

 guard against the plants receiving an 

 excess of moisture, which would cause 

 the leaves to decay. 



"Crassulas, cotyledons, Bochea fal- 

 cata and others may be increased in this 

 way. The showy-flowered Pingaicula 

 caudata is another subject that may 

 be propagated by means of leaf cut- 

 tings. The leaves should be dibbled into 

 clean, well drained pots or pans filled 

 with a mixture of peat, sphagnum moss 

 chopped fine and silver sand. After 

 the leaf cuttings are inserted they 

 should be well watered and the pots or 

 pans placed in a propagating ease where 

 gentle warmth is maintained." 



BUPTALO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



For the time of year, the average 

 prices are excellent. This is a fair indi- 

 cation that the stores are doing a brisk 

 business and using most of the produc- 

 tion. Occasionally there is an accumu- 

 lation of some kinds of stock, but it does 

 not last long enough to reduce prices 



seriously. Roses and lilies of the besi 

 grades have suffered the most. All rosei 

 selling at $12 per hundred and less hav( 

 a waiting market; the extras and spe 

 cials do not average so well in proper 

 tion to their quality. Last week ai 

 abundance of Easter lilies came in 

 These were of exceptional quality anc 

 were considered real bargains at $12.5( 

 per hundred. Many of the stores tool 

 advantage of this oversupply anc 

 staged lily windows. Callas were alsc 

 overplentiful and good stock sold ai 

 low as $15 per hundred. The supply ol 

 carnations continued to be a problem t( 

 move, but Saturday most of the store! 

 staged these flowers as their week-enc 

 leader and thus moved a large part ol 

 the supply. A strong effort is beinj 

 made at the wholesale house to hold th( 

 best at $6 per hundred, but the supplj 

 of other stock at popular prices attract! 

 the buyers and the everyday carnation! 

 remain weak. 



Valley at lower prices is again in pop 

 ular demand for brides' bouquets; hov' 

 ever, sweet peas have been so widelj 

 used during the last two or three year! 

 that it is doubtful if they will ever b< 

 displaced to any extent, even though 

 valley again becomes obtainable at lo^ 

 prices. P. P. A. 



Evart, Mich. — Samuel Shore sayt 

 business is just beginning to piek n{ 

 and that he anticipates an active season 

 Mr. Shore believes that city florists dc 

 not always appreciate the problems oi 

 their confreres in the small places, espe 

 cially in the towns that have no fac 

 tories to pay high wages. He says sucl 

 florists have great difficulty in selling 

 stock at midwinter city prices. 



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