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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Septeubbh 29, 1904. 



Mr. Business Man 



By the use of ribbon and chiffon you add 

 to the charm of your flowers a strong 

 appeal to feminine nature. 



Our goods are in florists' shops throughout the 

 country. If not in yours, write us for samples. 



LION & WERTHEINER, 



RIBBON MANUFACTURERS 



463-467 Broadway, 



NEW YORK CITY. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



IT IS TO LAUGH. 



The following is an extract from an 

 article by Bene Bache, published in a 

 recent issue of our venerable contempo- 

 rary, the Saturday Evening Post: 



Fbrty thonsand acres of glass In the neighbor- 

 hood of Boston alone are now devoted to the 

 forcing of vegetables. In order that a privileged 

 and luxurious class may have celery, lettuce, 

 tomatoes, canllflower and cacnmbera In wint«'. 

 By the adoption of ingenious, yet simple, expe- 

 dients, au artificial summer Is maintained all 

 the year around, and even the climate of the 

 tropics is counterfeited for the growing of prod- 

 ucts belonging to but intltudes. In such ways 

 no less than |5,000,000 worth of table delicacies 

 is raised tot market in this country annually, 

 no price being deemed too high to pay for dain- 

 ties that are out of season. 



Thus lettuce is grown in the soath in "cold 

 frames," to meet the Christmas demand, and 

 the gardener, when this crop has been gathered. 

 Starts egg plants under glass sashes. Electric 

 lettuce, forced under arc lights, is raised on a 

 considerable scale near Boston, the plants be- 

 ing compelled by this means to woric night and 

 day. It may be a hardship for them, but when 

 the pro4act fetches $3 a dosen heads a poor 

 vegetable has nc rights that the commercial 

 horticulturist feels bound to respect. Hothouse 

 lettuce supplements the cold-frame output, and 

 thus the delicacy, green and crisp, is obtainable 

 In any month of the year. 



Winter cucumbers are grown on overhead 

 trellises, being made almost seedless by re- 

 strlctinc the stock in a greenhouse to a single 

 variety, to prevent cross-fertilisation, and to- 

 matoes are Ingeniously manipulated by cutting 

 the plants down and removing all but a certain 

 number of fruits, which not only attain ex- 

 traordinary sise and juiciness, but ripen consid- 

 erably ahead of time. Such tomatoes fetch 40 

 cents a pound, but they are worth it, consid- 

 ering the fact that they may be purchased all 

 through the season when outdoor ones are un- 

 obtainable. 



The earliest rantaloupes are from New Or- 

 leans and fetch $1.50 each. Twice that price is 

 paid sometimes for cantaloupes grown on trel- 

 lises, each individual fruit being suspended in 

 a sort of sling, with a piece of board a foot 

 square to rest upon, so that it cannot suffer 

 defilement by contact with the earth. 



Shades of Benjamin Franklin! What 

 tommy-rot ! And what a lot of glass 

 in the neighborhood of Boston. Forty 

 thousand acres is 1,742,400,000 square 

 feet. The census of 1900 discovered in 

 the whole United States a total glass 

 area of but 96,230,420 square feet (2,- 

 209 acres) devoted to cut flowers, plants 

 and vegetables. This is only one- 

 eighteenth of what Mr. Bache attributes 

 to vegetables alone in the neighborhood 

 of Boston! 



Uppeb Sandusky, 0. — S. O. Streby 

 says the summer season has been about 

 as usual, and that prospects are for bet- 

 ter trade than ever this fall and winter. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMCRKAN ASSOCUTION Of NURSERYMEN. 



Pres.. B. W. Kirkpatrtck, McElnney, Tex.; 

 yice-Pres., C. L. WatrouB, Des Molnea; Sec'y, 

 Qeo. C. Seager, BocbeBter; Treas., C. L. Tates. 

 Rochester. The »th annual convention will be 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, 1905. 



A SKETCH of the life of the late Ja- 

 ' cob Warren Manning has been reprinted 

 in neat pamphlet form from the "Mas- 

 sachusetts Edition of the American Series 

 of Popular Biographies." 



A SUMMARY of the new postoffice rul- 

 ing under which catalogues may now 

 be mailed in quantities of not less than 

 2,000 identical pieces without stamps af- 

 fixed will be found on page 910 of this 

 issue. 



A European nurseryman states, in a 

 catalogue just to hand," that "at the 

 prices quoted we send out good stuff, not 

 fragments of plants," which is on a par 

 with the assertion of a western nursery- 

 man whose catalogfue declares that "no 

 plants shipped by mail; we do not deal 

 in microscopic specimens. " 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



I am very much pleased to be able to 

 send you the following statement of 

 peonies (three plants each) received from 

 the members of the American Peony So- 

 ciety, who are contributing to the co- 

 operative test now under way between 

 the experiment station of Cornell Uni- 

 versity and the American Peony Society: 



Jackson & Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y., 

 41 varieties; «• 



• J. F. Eosenfield, West Point, Neb., 143 

 varieties. ^ 



W. & T. Smith Co., Geneva, N. Y., 55 

 varieties. 



Peterson Nursery, Chicago, HI., 125 

 varieties. John Craig. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



T. R. Watson, Plymouth, Mass., nur- 

 sery stock; The Tottenham Nurseries, 

 Dedemsvaart, Holland, nursery stock; W. 

 W. Barnard & Co., Chicago, bulbs. 



A NEW cemetery is to be developed at 

 Jamestown, N. Y. James L. .Weeks is 

 president of the corporation. 



Egbert D. Patton has charge of the 

 work upon a new cemetery being estab- 

 lished near Colorado Springs at a large 

 cost for landscaping. 



Apple Seedlings, Apple Grafts 



rOSBST TBBB BBBDIiXVOS, 

 aXVMUAL BTrBSBBT BTOOZ 



|E ARE PREPARED to famlBb Nebraska 

 or Kansas-grown Apple Seedlings, and 

 will contract to furnish piece root or 

 whole root grafts in quantities. We issue no 

 retail catalogue, and want replies from nur- 

 serymen or planters who buy in large quan- 

 tities. Wholesale Price List ready Sept. 1. 

 Satisfaction guaranteed. 



SHENANDOAH NURSERIES, 



D. S. UKE, Prop. SHENANDOAH, lA. 



lUatlaa Tk* Bavtow 



roo writ*. 



CALIFORNIA PRIVET 



500,000 plants, all sises up to i}i feet. Fine, 

 bushy plants. Large block must be cleared this 

 fall. Will make very low prices on any quantity 

 from 1000 to a carload. You can save lots of 

 money by gretting my prices. 



James McColgan, Red Bank, N. J. 



Mentioo Hie Beriew when yon write. 



VAN DER WEIJDEN & CO. 



Tbe Nufserles. BOSKOOP, HOLUNO. 



iriTBSEBT STOCK. FLOBZ8T 8TOOZ. 



Such as Rhododendrons, Azaleas. Boxwood, 

 Blue Spruce (Ko8«er), Magnolia, Taxus and Coni- 

 fers in variety, Clematis, H. P. Dwarf and Tree 

 Roses, Crimson Ramblers, Pot-p-own Plants for 

 forclngr, etc. First quality only. Moderate prices. 

 Atk for prictt, Citilofua frii on domind. Ho tfontt. 

 MwitioB Hie Brtow whan yon writo. 



VERGREEN. 



An Immgn— Stock of both large and 

 small sized EVBBGRBKN TBBB8 in 

 great variety; also BTBBOBEEN 

 SHBUBS. Correspondence solicited. 



THE WM. H. MOON CO., Morrisfllle, Pa. 



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