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The Florists^ Review 



JUNB 3, 1916. 



WE REJOICE 



With the lucky florist who had a bench of my famous Silver Pink Snapdragon Seed- 

 lings at his command for Memorial Day. We had a great show and received many 

 words of praise and congratulations from visiting florists and from retail customers. 

 Though we cut armfuls of S. P. blooms we did not have enough, and turned 

 away many inauiries at wholesale. 



Four other leading varieties that have cropped at their regular season gave 

 practically no yield for this important flower day-a fact that is greatly advancing the 

 popularity of our Silver Pink Seedlings, which can be so timed as to get blooms when 

 you need them. 



Now is the time to sow seed for fall crop. Stop hustling long enough to send your 

 order. Price of seed of our original Silver Pink, $1.00 per pkt.; 3 for $2.50; 7 for $5 00. 

 Seedling plants of same, at $4.00 per 100; $35.00 per 1000. Plants of Nelrose, Garnet and 

 Yellow, at $5.00 per 100; $60.00 per 1000. 



Remember, we grow snapdragons, and can supply your every need. 



G. S. RAMSBURG, Somersworth, N. H. 



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season. The following table shows the 

 precipitation by months: 



SAN JOSE. 

 Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May 



Normal 1.47 2.68 2.86 2.45 2.85 1.30 0.59 



1913-14 4.10 3.00 6.23 3.94 0.90 0.65 0.19 



1914-15 1.36 3.73 4.85 7.02 1.49 1.07 .... 



SANTA CLARA. 



Normal 1.69 2.97 3.01 2.60 3.11 1.07 0.63 



1013-14 ... 4.14 2..'57 7..36 3.18 0.81 0.80 0.16 



1914-15 0.73 5.61 5.85 8.49 1.78 1.14.... 



HOLLISTER. 



Normal 1.49 1.97 2.71 1.99 2.38 1.05 0.!i4 



1913 14...... 2.96 2.85 8.39 2.210.76 1.12 0.29 



1914-15 0.21 3.77 3.60 6.110.89 1.03 .... 



GILROY. 



Normal 2.10 3.13 4.56 3.14 3.55 1.50 0.76 



1013-14 .... 3.28 10.12 14.64 2.81 0.95 1.05 0.05 



1914-15 0.52 5.41 4.84 5.65 1.34 1.19 .... 



Mildew has appeared among the 

 onions to such an extent as to cause 

 some growers to predict already that 

 the yield of seed will be exceedingly 

 light. Hope will rise again, however, 

 if the weather man puts the brake on 

 his rain machine immediately; other- 

 wise the outlook is gloomy. 



In the lettuce fields, rot has set in. 

 The same trouble is reported to have 

 appeared in the beet fields. Up to this 

 writing no other lines have been re- 

 ported affected, though each rainy day 

 brings added danger. 



UNFOKTXJNATEI.Y. 



In The Beview of May 13 is quoted 

 the Minnesota law recently enacted in 

 regard to the creation and enforcement 

 of a lien against crops to secure pay- 

 ment for the seed therefor. Perhaps 

 some of the Minnesota seedsmen may 

 get the impression that this applies to 

 all seeds. Unfortunately, it only ap- 

 plies to seed grain contracts, and not 

 to all seeds, Curtis Nye Smith. 



SPINACH IN TEXAS. 



Texas is the state of big things, in- 

 cluding big stories. Here is the prize 

 spinach story: 



"The winter and spring spinach crop 

 upon the 1,500-acre farm which Del 

 Walker and associates established in the 

 valley of the Colorado river, near Aus- 

 tin, Tex., will aggregate approximately 

 215 carloads. Up to this time 160 car- 

 loads of 'greens' have been shipped, 

 and there are about fifty-five carloads 

 still in the field. The shipping season 

 began December 30, and will end early 

 in May. Each car contains 1,000 bar- 

 rels of spinach, and the average price 

 obtained per car is about $800. At this 

 rate the total amount of money that 

 will be realized from the season's crop 

 will be about $172,000. Besides the 

 enormous quantity of 'greens' which 

 will have been shipped by the end of 



GLADIOLI 



I can supply fine, plump bulbs of America 

 in any quantity; 1st size, 1>^ to 2^-inch. 

 If ordered this month, I will make the price 

 17.00 per 1000, 250 at 1000 rate. Cold stor- 

 age bulbs next month. 



E. E. STEWART, Brooklyn, Mich. 



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C. F. M. SPECIALS 



Floribunda VALLEY Pips, select quality at $16.00 per 1000. 



T Brand LIL. GI6ANTEUM, the lily without a peer, per case : 

 7/9, $18.00; 8/10. $19.00; 9/10, $20.00. Baby cases, 7/9, 100 buibs, $6.50. 



LIL. SPEC. RUBRUM MAGNIFICUM, size 8/9 (200 bulbs), special at 

 $10.60 per case. 



CORP. OF CHAS. F. MEYER. 99 Warren Street, NEW YORK 



Mention Th» R^Tlew wb»n yon write. 



Llllnm Glgrantenm, 7-9 In., 300 In case. $IB.00 per case 



60.00 per lOUO 



LlUum Fonnosnni, 8-9 In., 300 In case, 18.00 per case 



LlUnm Album, 220 In case 12.00 per case 



Llllam Auratum, 160 In case 10.00 per case 



Lily of the Valley Pips, extra fine. . . . 14.00 per 1000 



Bamboo Canes, Wood Moss and Spha^iun Moss. 

 To-bak-ine. Nlkoteen and Nico-Fome. 



DBITCTANI l^^ West 6th street, 

 . nUOl/Uni, CINCINNATI, OHIO 



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the season, many thousands of barrels 

 •will be canned." 



SOUTHERN OOBN LEAF-BEETLE. 



Within the last fortnight serious in- 

 vasions of the corn leaf-beetle have 

 occurred. In many of the fields at- 

 tacked it has been necessary to replant. 

 The beetles can be killed, according to 

 the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, by use 

 of a poisoned bait composed of twenty- 

 five pounds of wheat bran, one pound of 

 Paris green, one gallon of low-grade 

 molasses, the juice of three oranges, 

 and su£5cient water added to bring the 

 mixture to a stiff dough. A heaping 

 teaspoonful of this mixture is scattered 

 about each hill of com where the 

 beetles are at work. 



This pest has become of considerable 

 importance in the last few years and is 

 found in the southern half of the United 

 States. It extends as far north as 



It is onr BUSINESS 



to supply YOU 



with SUPERIOR GLADIOLI 



JOHN LEWIS CHILDS 



Flowerfield, L. L, N.Y. 



ROCHELLE 



17 Years 

 Wholesale Veeetahle Plant Growers 



See Pilce List of 6,010,000 Vefretable Plants 

 in Classified Columns 



f. W. ROCHELLE & SONS, Chester, N. J. 



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southern Iowa, central Illinois and cen- 

 tral Ohio. 



Cleaning up all rubbish in the corn 

 fields early in the fall and delaying the 

 planting of corn in the spring are two 

 methods of lessening the damage from 

 the southern corn leaf-beetle. 



The beetle is a small, dark-bronze in- 

 sect about three-sixteenths of an inch 

 long and about one-third as wide, 

 usually more or less covered "with soil. 

 They hibernate under piles of corn 

 husks, fodder and shocks, etc., to emerge 

 again in the spring to lay their eggs. 

 When the beetles emerge, they attack 



