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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 30, 1904. 



POTS. 



standard Flower Puts. If your greenbousea 

 are within 50U mllea of the Capital, write ua; 

 we can save you money. W. U. Ernest, 28tb 

 and M StB.. N. E.. Washington. D. C. 



newer fots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Sons, 361-363 Herndon 

 St. (near Wright wood Ave.), Chicago. 



Standard Puts. Catalogues and price Ustr 

 furnished on application. 

 A. H. Hews &. Co., No. Cambridge, Mass. 



Bed pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colesburg Pottery Co., Colesburg, Iowa. 



Those RED pots. The right klnd^ 



0. 0. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee. Wis. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Buy your moss now while we are curing it. 

 1 bale or 100 at 60c each. 

 Z. K. Jewett & Co.. Sparta, Wis. 



Sphagnum moss, large bale, $1.7S each; by 

 frelgbt, $2.00. 

 L. J. Kreshover. 110-112 W. 27th St., W. Y. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Growl Fern Co., Mllllngton. Mass. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices. 

 H. li. Robinson & Co., 11 Province St., Boston. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



Wired toothpicks, 10,000, $1.S0; 60,000, $6.2B. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 

 W. J. COWEE. Berlin. N. Y. 



The CHEAPEST way. the EASIEST way. 

 and the BEST way to get rid of that surplus 

 stock is to use the REVIBW'S classified advs. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Thaden's wire tendrils and twin stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



H. Thaden & Co.. 472 W. Hunter St., At- 

 lanta. Ga. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 Taoixed rose stakes and tying wires. 

 Igoe Bros.. 226 North 9th St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work in the west. B. F. Wlnterson Co., 

 45, 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



We are manufacturers — do middleman's 

 profits. 

 C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milyankee. Wis. 



Bmil Steffens. Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs. 838 East 21st St.. New York. 



Reed A Keller. 122 W. 2Sth St.. New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire De signs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Murphy. Wholesale Florist. Cincinnati, O. 



E. H. Bunt, 76-78 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



^_ NITRATE OF SODA. 



It is scarcely necessary to say that this 

 is a most useful stimulant, and of all 

 4irtificial manures none gives quicker re- 

 sults or needs using with more care and 

 discretion. Much damage is often done 

 by those using it without a proper knowl- 

 ■€dge of its nature and effects. An ounce 

 to the square yard is 250 pounds to the 

 acre, and this is the utmost that should 

 •€ver be applied at one time, and it would 

 be better to give only half an ounce, and 

 repeat the dressing a fortnight later. It 

 is a very soluble manure, and hence of 

 ^uick action, though, on the other hand, 

 it is soon washed down into the subsoil, 

 out of the reach of the roots. Its effect 

 is seen in the dark green color of the 

 foliage, and this increased vigor is com- 

 municated to the roots, thus enabling 

 them to lay hold of the more or less in- 

 soluble plant food of the soil with great- 

 er power, and to dissolve it by the action 

 of the root-sap. 



Farmers say nitrate of soda is an ex- 

 iiausting manure, and doubtless it is, by 

 virtue of its increasing the power of the 

 plant to absorb the plant food in the 

 •soil. Of course, it is only a partial ma- 

 nure, but provided a good supply of 

 ■phosphate is applied also, and there is 

 a fair amount of potash in the soil, as 

 -there usually is in any repeatedly ma- 

 nured ground, there need be no fear 

 -of exhausting the soil, while very gojd 

 ■results will be obtained by its judicious 

 cise. 



Nitrate of soda is often very lumpy, 

 and it should always be broken up bo- 

 fore using, so that there are no lumps 

 bigger than peas. It has the effect of 

 lowering the temperature of water, and 

 therefore, of the soil containing it. Any- 

 one can prove this for himself by dis- 

 solving some in a pail of water. When 

 used as a liquid manure half an ounce 

 to the gallon of water is sufficiently 

 strong, and if the soil is very dry It 

 would be best to give some plain water 

 first, or some of the tender rootlets may 

 be damaged. In scattering nitrate on 

 the soil care should be taken that it does 

 not rest on the leaves of plants in active 

 growth, as it will injure them if it does. 



Care is especially necessary in apply- 

 ing nitrate to fruit trees. It should never 

 be given them unless they are carrying 

 heavy crops of fruit, or it will induce 

 rankness of growth at the expense of 

 fruitfulness. It should not be given to 

 them after July in any circumstances, 

 as it will cause a late summer growth, 

 which never becomes properly ripened, 

 and is, therefore, not fruitful. Some 

 fruit growers give a small dressing of 

 nitrate just before the trees blossom, to 

 aid in setting the fruit — a rather critical 

 time in cold springs. Tomatoes should 

 not receive nitrate until two trusses of 

 blossom have set their fruit, or it will 

 induce too much growth. Afterwards it 

 causes the fruit to swell very rapidly. 

 The carrying of the fruit insures a well- 

 balanced growth. With vegetables, whore 

 we want vigorous growth and cannot 

 well have too much of it, the case is 

 different. With all the cabbage family 

 good returns follow the use of nitrate, 

 half a pound to the twenty square yards 

 being applied every two or three weeks 

 during the growing season until August 

 when we want the growth to harden. 

 Beets, onions, carrots, and parsnips 

 should have a dressing twice during the 

 season at the same rate, early in June, 

 and again in July. It is as well to 

 lightly hoe it in. Peas and beans do not 

 need nitrate. Asparagus profits by a 

 dressing of nitrate, not only during the 

 cutting season, but during the siimmei, 

 too, when it is storing up plant food in 

 the roots for the growths of the follow- 

 ing spring. The same with rhubarb. 



With flowers a good deal of discre- 

 tion is necessary in the use of nitrate, 

 as in some we prize vigorous foliage, and 

 in others we want as much bloom ns 

 possible, and do not mind how little foli- 

 age there may be, while if there is much 

 rank foliage we do not secure so much 

 blossom, as, for instance, with gera- 

 niums. Most annuals are more or less 

 greedy feeders, and will profit by having 

 a little nitrate lightly worked in the 

 soil among them, and watered in. If 

 they have a sufficiently well-cultivated 

 soil to give them a good root run, they 

 make a splendid response to it, but if 

 the worked soil is shallow, as it often is 

 among perennial plants, and the plants 

 have not been properly spaced out. it 

 only increases their weakness and untidy 

 tangle. — Alger Petts in the Gardeners ' 

 Chronicle. 



Rock Island, III. — Henry Meyer is 

 now sole owner of the Longview Floral 

 Co.. his partner, Wm. Behring, having 

 retired. 



Rochester, X. Y. — John Fay Ken- 

 rell, the gladiolus grower, still retains 

 his old address at this postoffice for his 

 business mail. 



TARRYTOWN. N. Y. 



Following is a list of the prize win- 

 ners at the June show of the Tarrytown 

 Horticultural Society, which was held 

 June 14. 



Vase of hybrid perpetual roses, not to ex- 

 ceed fifty blooms, Gen. Howard Carrol's prize, 

 $25, won by David MacFarlane, Scarborough. 



Collection of flowers cut from hardy peren- 

 nials, Mrs. H. Draper's prize, $20, won by 

 D. MacFarlane. 



Collection outdoor roses, E. Buckhout's prize, 

 ice pitcher, won by H. Nicholls. 



Six varieties outdoor roses, six of each, C. 

 H. Curtis' prize, silver butter dish, won by 

 A. Gnerson, gardener for H. Arnold, Port- 

 chester. 



Three varieties outdoor roses, six of each, A. 

 Bourn' s prize, pipe, won by Jas. Ballantyne, 

 gardener for Mrs. Geo. Lewis, Tarrytown. 



Twelve outdoor roses, any one variety, Rus- 

 sell J-awrle's prize, cigar case, won by H. 

 Nlcliolls. 



Vase roses, "W. F. McCord's prize, military 

 brushes, won by A. "Wlssenberger, gardener 

 for H. Willetts, White Plains. 



Display of outdoor climbing roses, J. S. 

 Locketfs prize, fountain pen, won by A. 

 Grierson. 



Antirrhinum, Geo. Vare's prize, box of 

 cigars, won by Jas. Ballantyne. 



Collection of flowers cut from hardy shrubs, 

 A. P. Husted's prize, umbrella, won by Jas. 

 Ballantyne. 



Collection sweet peas, B. Huston's prize, box 

 of cigars, won by Jas. Ballantyne. 



Several special exhibits awarded certificates 

 of merits were those of F. S. Pammer and the 

 F. R. Plcrson Co., among which was the new 

 fern, which is a very great lihprovement on 

 Nephrolepls Piersoni. 



Seconitt'' prizes were awarded to Mr. Grlerson 

 for display of perennials and for collection of 

 roses. 



There were several fine exhibits of 

 vegetables, strawberries, etc. 



This was the best June exhibition this 

 society has ever given and much credit 

 is due to F. S. Pammer for the very 

 able management of the show. 



F. A. L. 



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