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Trepel the office iceboxes and counters 

 at nis present location. 



C. C. Trepel has just opened his 

 seventh store in New York, at the cor- 

 ner of Seventh avenue and One Hun- 

 dred Twenty-fifth street. 



Young & Nugent have made many 

 improvements in their store front and 

 window, and now call their headquar- 

 ters the Twenty-eighth Street Flower 

 Shop. 



A. J. Guttman says Peace and Laura 

 Weber carnations are the best keepers 

 in his firm's collection. 



The Nassau Nurseries, Inc., have 

 been incorporated to operate a nursery 

 at Great Neck, N. Y., with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The officers are: 

 President, H. J. Maynard; vice-presi- 

 dent, M. E. Maynard; secretary and 

 treasurer, W. E. Maynard. 



The big windows of the Stumpp & 

 Walter Co. are filled with everything 

 for the commuter's garden, and their 

 novelties, chickens and blooming plants 

 draw the crowds continuously. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 S. S. Pennock and George Burton, of 

 Philadelphia; Prof. Arno H. Nehrling, 

 of Amherst, Mass.; E. Allan Peirce, of 

 Waltham, Mass.; A. Farenwald, of 

 Roslyn, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. 

 Peterson, of Cincinnati, O. 



The New York flower show of 1916 

 has made an early start, as already en- 

 gagements have been completed for its 

 continuance, and nearly $10,000 of space 

 has been contracted for by the exhibi- 

 tors. 



J. K. Allen is busy at his new store, 

 118 West Twenty-eighth street, and all 

 will be in readiness for his move early 

 in April. 



Bowling. 



The five bowlers who will represent 



the New York Florists' Bowling Club 



in the match with the Tuxedo Club 



April 14 are J. Miesem, J. Fenrich, C. 



W. Scott, M. C. Ford and H. C. Riedel. 



At the gathering March 25 the members 



of the club rolled the following scores: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d TM. 



J. Miesem 190 215 175 580 



C. W. Scott 158 176 164 496 



P. Jacobson 162 147 178 487 



R. J. Irwin 152 159 156 467 



H. O. Riedel 220 192 181 693 



J. Fenrich 168 157 165 490 



A. Schanzer 119 165 ... 284 



P. Meconl 166 173 ... 339 



J. Austin Shaw. 



The Florists' Review 



Ai-itil. 1, 1915. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



The Market. 



Trade has been good during the 

 month of March. Funeral work, which 

 was plentiful during the first part of 

 March, has dropped off during the last 

 week. Stock is plentiful, and the indi- 

 cations are that there will be enough 

 to supply all demands for Easter. The 

 weather has been cold during March, 

 which makes it easy for the pot plant 

 growers to time their stock almost to 

 the minute. 



American Beauties and roses of all 

 sorts are plentiful and of good quality, 

 and are finding a good market. Sweet 

 peas are fine, and have a good (iall. 

 Carnations are abundant, as is bulbous 

 stock, which can be had at almost any 

 price. There will be no shortage in 

 Easter lilies this year, either in pot 

 plants or cut blooms. 



The market is well supplied with 

 blooming plants of all kinds; cycla- 

 mens, primulas, daffodils, tulips, lilacs. 



ROCHELLE PAPER POTS 



DIBT BASOB 



(Paper Pots witbout bottoms, newspapers beiUK 



spread on the bench for bottoms.) 

 Inch 1000 6000 10,000 20.000 60,000 100,000 



1% $0.60 $1.80 % 3.40 I 6.26 $14.00 $ 26.00 



2 60 2.00 8.70 7.00 16.00 80.00 



2% 70 2.40 4.40 8.26 19.60 87.00 



2H 76 2.76 5.00 9.60 28.00 44.00 



8 90 S.60 6.76 12.60 29.00 66.00 



8% 96 4.00 7.60 14.60 86.00 66.00 



4 1.00 4.60 8.60 16.60 40.00 76.00 



4% 1.26 5.50 10.60 19.00 45.00 87.60 



5 1.60 6.25 12.00 22.00 60.00 100.00 



6 2.10 8.60 16.00 80.00 70.00 125.00 



No tacks or folding block needed. Samples 



free. Please mention this paper. 



Copyright directions for use with each order. 



Oar Sqnare Paper Dirt Bands are the original 

 of all that are on the market today. All others 

 being sold are Imltatlmis of these we adrertlse, 

 and some of the Imitations l>elng sold are made 

 of cheap paper, costing only about half as much 

 as oar beary stock. We sell no experiments. 

 Ours have been tried ont by long ase in the green- 

 honse. They will stand np in any wet and heat 

 as long as wanted. Samples of all sizes FREB. 



SQVAKE FAFEB POTS. 



(Folding block and tsclcs included.) 



Inch 600 1000 6000 10,000 20.000 50,000 



1% $0.50 $ .70 $ SJ» $ 8.60 $12.00 $ 26.00 



8 60 .80 4.00 7.60 13.00 82.00 



2\i 76 1.00 4.60 8.60 16.00 38.00 



8 90 1.25 6.75 11.00 20.00 49.00 



4 1.25 1.75 8.50 15.00 29.00 76.00 



6 1.76 2.76 12.50 23.60 45.00 105.00 



6 2.75 8.76 16.50 31.26 60.00 140.00 



7 8.60 4.76 20.60 89.00 75.00 175.00 



The 2-in. and 2H-in. are Une for siiippinc potted 



plants in. 



Try our paper pots and Dirt Bands free. Order 

 what yoa want — try them according to our direc- 

 tions, and if not satisfactory ship them beck and 

 we will refund your money. Price list free. 



"Oould yon ship me by freight at once 16.000 

 more 2-ln. Dirt Bands and 6000 8-in. Dirt Bands T 

 I like them yery much." — H. B. Wearer, Bird-in- 

 Hand, Pa. (Mr. Wearer grows Carnations. If Igno- 

 nettee. Sweet Peas and Cat Flowers. He got 5000 

 2-in. Dirt Bands in December and 40.000 in 

 January, 20,000 In March last year, 70,000 in 

 January of this year, and has Just ordered 20,000 

 more.) 



DIRT BANDS— Experience in Using Them 



H. B. WEAVER 



Oamations 



Mignonettes Onlted Phone. 



Sweet Peas 



Cut Flowers 



Blrd-ln-Hand, Pa., March 2S. 1914. 

 r. W. Rochelle ft Sons, 



Chester, N. J. 



Oentlemen: In reply to your query would state 

 that I planted seedling stock plants and snap- 

 dragon cuttings in the first lot of l>ands that I 

 recelred from you early in Jfltauary. 



We took some of these out and planted them 

 where they are to remain atwut the 16th of 

 February. They made a GOOD GROWTH while 

 In the bands, and transplanted AS THOUGH tbey 

 had nerer been moved at all. 



I bare now about 14,000 carnation plants 

 started In 2-ln. bands which are making a RAPID 

 GROWTH, scarcely losing a plant In transplant- 

 ing from the sand. 



1 also hare about 20,000 aster plants trans- 

 planted In 2-ln. bands which can stey there till 

 time to plant ont of doors WITHOUT FEAR OF 

 BECOMING ROOT BOUND, as wonld be the case 

 if I used 2-in. pots. 



Plants SELDOM BECOME ROOT BOUND 

 enough to injure them IN THE DIRT BANDS, 

 and DO NOT RE<3UIRB NEAR THE AMOUNT 

 OF ATTENTION that a pot plant does, In water- 

 ing, shifting, transplanting, etc. 



I make my bands and set them in flats, as I 

 make them up, each flat holding 117. 



When we get crowded Indoors It takes bot a 

 short time to more the flats to a cold frame, 

 where we harden them off before setting tbem ta 

 the Held. 



One man can set MORE THAN ANOTHER 

 TIME AS MANT (twice as many) plants la the 

 fleld from these bands and flats than be can from 

 pots , and after he is through DOBS NOT HAVE 

 THE BOTHER OF GATHERING UP. OLIAN- 

 ING, and STORING AWAY A LOT OF POTS. 



I beliere anyone using these bends ONOS 

 WILL BECOME A REGULAR CUSTOMER. 



Tonrs trnly, 

 H. B. Weerwr. 



H. B. WEAVER 



Cut Flowers United Ph(»e. 



Carnations a Specialty 



Birdin-Hand, Pa., Jan. Ttb. 1»1B. 

 F. W. Rochelle ft Sons. 



Dear Sirs: Ton may send me 70,000 two-Inch 

 Dirt Bands Instead of 60.000. I enclose a check 

 for same. If yon will send me a ttm drenlars 

 and price lists I will distrlbnto them 



friends. We hare a florists' club in oar connty 

 of about sixty members. 



Yours truly. 



H. B. Wesrer. 

 "We note friend H. B. Wearer's testimonial. 

 Coming from a man like H. B. Wearer it is 

 WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD." — James 

 Brown, Jr., Florist, Coatesrllle, Pa. 



Zn^o MORE BLOSSOMS 



on plants raised in Square Paper Pots than en 

 plants raised in clay pots of same else. 



There were 456 stems of blossoms on 40 plants 

 raised in 4-lnch Square Paper Pots and lOB steas 

 of blossoms on 40 plants raised in 4-inch clay 

 pots. 



The abore was taken from the following report 

 in the Market Growers* Journal, January 1, lil4. 

 page 6. 



NUMBER OF STEMS IN BLOSSOM 



When set in the fleld May 16th, the root sys- 

 tems of the plants from the 4-inch sonare paper 

 l>ots were 4-lncb cubes (64 cubic Inches of ssU 

 and roots) and from the 4-lnch clay pots the reel 

 systems contained 81 cubic Inches of BoU amt 

 roots (the amount that a 4-lnch clay pot holds). 



The third count of blossoms was made Jnae ST, 

 42 days after the plants had been set in the fleld. 



The plants from the' square paper pots were 

 then more than twice as large and rfgoroos as 

 those raised In clay pots. 



All plants raised in sqnare paper pots are 

 larger and more rigorous than those raised In clay 

 pots, because tbey bare abont double root rooa 

 for the same size pots. 



Measure the two pots and yon will find that 

 the 4-lnch square paper pot holds as mnch sell 

 as two 4-lnch clay pots. 



It is the same with square dirt bands, which 

 are sqnare paper pots witbout bottoms (the bot- 

 toms being famished by old newspapers spread 

 on the bench). 



The theory that it Is only necessary to bare a 

 big top to the plant has been prored mlaleading. 



There must be a big root system to push the 

 top or the plant will grow slow and small. 



Try some square paper pots or dirt bands with 

 your clay pots and see If you can afford to nae 

 any clay pots. 



Some of the florists around Philadelphia are 

 using large numbers of square dirt bands and 

 paper pots. 



We hare shipped to Mr. P. B. Dllks, Brldss- 

 burg, Phlla., Pa., 150,000 2-lncb aquare dirt hands 

 and 20,000 8-lncb sqnare dirt bands: to Mr. Oee. 

 W. Dllks, Frankford, Pa., 10,000 2-Inch sqnart 

 dirt bands and 10,000 8-Inch square dirt bends: 

 to Mr. M. H. Hostetter, Manbeint. Pa.. SO.OOO 

 2H-lnch dirt hands and 6000 6-tnch dirt bands: 

 Mr. H. B. Wearer, Blrd-In-Hand, Pa., 186.000 

 2-lnch dirt bands. 



393^0 MORE EARLY FRUIT 



120 early tomato planta reported In Market 

 Growers' Journal, Jan. 1, 1914, raised In 4-lach 

 clay pota (31 cubic Inches of soil and roots), had 

 yielded up to Aug. 11 7% peach baskets--44.7l 

 worth of ripe tomatoes, while 120 plants raised la 

 4-lnch SQUARE paper pots (64 cubic IndMS «< 

 soil and roots), had yielded 33 peach basket*— 

 $23.60 worth of ripe tomatoes — 393 per cent 



Address F. W. ROCHELLE A SONS, 



