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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 4, 191S. 



TOMATOES (Bonny Best) TOMATOES 



Most prolific for forcinR or outside crop. Size and color are right. Will produce double the fruit of auy other tomato in existence. 

 No trick in growing tomatoes; jast plant them, tie and run them to single or two stems; keep side shoots out; no hand fertilizing 

 needed. That isn't all— try tliis in your carnation benches. They will make you money. No higher temperature needed. 



Laife transplanted plants, $1.75 100, $18.00 1000. cash; to clean up. 2S0 at 1000 rate. B. B. POHLMANN, Rockford, 111. 



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That the Detroit meeting is going to 

 be a success no one questions, but it 

 will be a much greater success in point 

 of numbers and influence if every nur- 

 seryman who ought to belong responds 

 to this invitation. A fee of $5 per year 

 is exceedingly small compared with the 

 benefits afforded by a membership. 



It is the expectation that a special 

 railroad car will be chartered to con- 

 vey the nurserymen of Rochester, N. Y., 

 and the immediate vicinity. Those in- 

 terested should write E. S. Osborne, of 

 the Charlton Nursery Co. Final par- 

 ticulars regarding special rates and spe- 

 cial car parties will be contained in the 

 announcement. In the meantime, John 

 Hall, secretary, 204 Granite building, 

 Rochester, N. Y., will gladly respond to 

 requests for further information con- 

 cerning membership, etc. 



John Hall, Sec 'y. 



UPHOLDS COLLECTOR'S COUNT. 



The Board of General Appraisers has 

 overruled the protest of the Marble 

 City Nursery Co., of Knoxville, Tenn., 

 against the assessment of duty on nur- 

 sery stock by the collector of customs 

 at Memphis. The question involved 

 was the number of plants, which were 

 dutiable at the rate of $1 per thousand. 

 The collector examined two cases of the 

 importation and reported an excess, 

 upon which basis he estimated an ex- 

 cess in the whole shipment. The im- 

 porter claimed the enumeration by the 

 collector was wrong. The board holds 

 that as no evidence was produced by 

 the importer, the protest could not be 

 accepted as proof, being in the nature 

 of an ex parte affidavit. The board holds 

 that the finding of the collector is pre- 

 sumptively correct and was not over- 

 come by any testimony in the case. 

 P. 



PRUNING DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



I should like to know whether it 

 makes any difference to shrubs if they 

 are trimmed at this time of the year, 

 and what effect it has on the blossoms. 

 The shrubs are bush honeysuckle, hardy 

 hydrangea, lilac, Viburnum Opulus 

 sterile or Snowball, Spiraea Van Hout- 

 tei and Philadelphus coronarius or Gar- 

 land syringa. L. T. P.— 111. 



The proper time to prune all the 

 shrubs named, with the exception of the 

 hydrangeas, is after they have flowered. 

 Cut the hydrangeas back moderately 

 hard now, leaving merely two or three 

 eyes of the previous year's growths. 

 If the plants are young, you can leave 

 the growths somewhat longer. 



Lilacs, viburnums, spirseas, philadel- 

 phus, etc., must not be pruned now, or 

 you will simply be cutting away the 

 flowering wood. Just as soon as these 

 shrubs have flowered you should cut 

 out all dead, dying and weak wood, and 

 head back any runaway shoots. The 

 plants will then make a good growth 

 and ripen some before winter. Any of 

 the shrubs named, which have become 



SALVIA GREGGII 



HARDY EVER-BLOOMING SHRUB 



Last season we advertised this remarkable new plant and soon sold all 

 our stock. This seasons orders have poured in so rapidly from all sections 

 of the country, from Georgia to Oregon and from Massachusetts to California, 

 that it has not been necessary to do much advertising. Some nurserymen 

 who ordered only a few last season are ordering them by the 1000 this year. 



It is extremely hardy. Has withstood a temperature of ten degrees be- 

 low zero. Is a great drouth resister. It flourishes and blooms profusely in 

 the hottest and driest weather. It is as near an everblooming plant as we 

 have ever seen. It begibs to bloom iu early spring sooq after growth com- 

 mences. The blossoms literally cover the plant for two months or more. 

 Then for a few months it does not bloom so freely, but is perhaps never 

 without some flowers. In the fall it puts on another full crop of blossoms 

 thai coDlinue until long after the early frosts have set in. It requires a kill- 

 ing frost to check its flowering. 



The color is an indescribable lovely shade of red. It is a dark soft cerise crimson, 

 much the color if a well grown American Beauty rose. It has none of the harsh, glaring 

 shades of the -salvia splendens. The beautiful color is perhaps the most attractive fea- 

 ture ef this novelty. 



It is a hard-wooded shrub. Grows three to four feet hiRh and three to four feet 

 wide in a compact globe, very full and neat in appearance. It is beautiful when massed 

 in a solid bed, and is as useful as the Spiraea Van Houttei for bordering shrub beds. It 

 is not so tall, but as compact and giaceful as the Spiraea, and in addition it is a blaze 

 of beautiful red nearly all the season. 



100 1000 



Fleld-jBTown Plants, 18 to 20 inches, bushy $12 60 



*^ ♦♦ 15t0l8 10 00 



Small Plants for lining out, 6 to 8 inches 5.00 ilO.OO 



BAKER BROS. CO.. FT. WORTH. TEXAS 



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TREE SEEDS 



Lb. 10 Lbs. 



Concolor Fir $1.00 $7.60 



Douglas Fir 2.76 26.00 



Hemlock 4 00 37 60 



Engelmann Spruce 3.50 30.00 



Colo. Blue Spruce 3.76 36.00 



Silver Cedar 60 3.60 



Jack Pine •, 3 50 30.00 



Ponderosa Pine 1.76 16.00 



Pitch Pine 3.00 26.00 



White Pine 2.50 20.00 



Will supply H lb. at lb. rates; 6 Iba. atlO-lb. ratea; ^ ba. at bu. rate*. Our 

 seeds give satisfaction. Before offered to the trade Uiey are fnlly tested 

 for germlnatloa and parity. Order at once, while snpplles are available. 



THE D. HILL COMPANY, ^^t,. Box 403, Dundee, Illinois 



Lb. 10 Lbs. 



Scotch Pine $2.60 $2000 



Am. Arbor Vitae 2.76 26.00 



European Larch ... 1.75 15.00 



Am. Red Oak (per bu.. $2.00) .25 1.00 



Hard Maple. 75 6.50 



Wild Black Cherry 26 1.60 



Catalpa Speciosa 1.00 7.60 



Syringa Vulgaris 76 6.60 



Rhus Glabra.. .60 4.00 



Corous Paniculata 76 6 50 



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Paper Pots and 

 Dirt Bands 



Sm our larre advt. on pace* M and 99. 



Try our Paper Pots and Dirt Bands free. Order 

 what you want — try them according to our direc- 

 tions, and If not satisfactory ship them back and 

 we will refund your money. Samples free. 



r.W. RocheUe & Sons, S^I^IXl: 



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too tall and ungainly, can be cut down 

 close to the ground now. They will 

 make considerable growth before fall. 

 Beduce the number of shoots some- 

 what, leaving the strongest. In a cou- 

 ple of seasons you will have strong 

 plants again. If the plants are ex- 

 tremely old, it pays better to plant 

 young stock. 



A good many so-called gardeners give 

 their customers' shrubs an annual 



RAFFIA 



Natural— Four standard grades. 

 Colored— Twenty colors. 



We are headquarters — always carry 

 several hundred bales in stock. Can ship 

 any grade in any quantity at a moment's 

 notice. 



Bale (225 lbs.) lots or less. 



Write for prices and terms. 



McHutchlson & Co. 



Tbe Import House 



17 Murray Street, NEW YORK 



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spring shearing, cutting away the flow- 

 ering wood and at the same time giving 

 the shrubs a topiary appearance. 



C. W. 



