March 30, 1916. 



The Florists* Review 



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ALPHANO 



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The Truth Shown Up About 

 Raw and Prepared Humus 



THERE are a lot of people being stung on 

 humus. Being stung just because they 

 seem to think all humus is practically 

 alike. Or if there is any difference, it is only 

 the difference in price. 



They apparently totally ignore the fact 

 that most humus in its unprepared state, just 

 as dug from its watery bed, is generally in- 

 juriously acid. They lose sight of the fact 

 that any humus that is sold from a dry sam- 

 ple, and delivered wet, is a mighty expensive 

 way to buy^water. 



They seem altogether to fail to grasp the 



fact that raw humus has absolutely no plant 

 foods added to make it a balanced fertilizer. 



They ignore totally the fact that it takes 

 four tons of our raw humus to make one ton 

 of concentrated Alphano Humus, that has 

 first been sun-dried and then further dried by 

 expensive mechanical methods until 75% of 

 the moisture is driven out. 



They forget that a humus that is sold 

 from a dry sample and then delivered in lumpy, 

 chunky, water-logged shape, contains just one- 

 quarter the plant foods that a dry analysis 

 shows. 



Come to Our Exhibit 

 at the New York Show 



and let us tell you all the facts and give you all 



the figures about this important humus question. 



Protect yourself against buying water at 



humus prices. Or buying humus that is low 

 in plant foods and liable to be highly injur- 

 ious because of its acidity. 



PRICE 



Our sun-dried, composted, acid-free, 

 natural Humus, we will sell to you for 

 $4.00 a ton, by the carload. 



Our prepared Alphano Humus, with 

 lo'^lc of the water driven out, abundantly 

 enriched with potash, nitrogen, phosphate 



Send for our new Alphano Book. 



and lime; and then inoculated with bil- 

 lions of nitrogen gathering bacteria, we 

 will sell to you for: 



$ 8.00 a ton by the carload in bulk 

 10.00 a ton by the carload in bags 

 12.00 a ton for less than a carload 

 5 100-lb. bags for $5.00. 



F. 0. B. Alphano, N. J. 



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Co. 



SSTABLISHKD 1905 



17 So. Battery Place 



NEW YORK 







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