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October G, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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INSECTICIDES. 



A 6-lb. trial package of our TOBACCO POW- 

 DER will eo8t you iiutbliiK if you will pay the 

 express qbarges ou It. Write Department D for 

 It. H. A. StoothofC Co.. 116 West St.. N. Y. 



To-bak-lne Is the most elTectlve Insecticide 

 on the market. Write for our "Words of Wis- 

 dom." It is free. 

 B. H. Hunt, 76 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



Rose Leaf Extract of Tobacco. For pamphlet 

 write to Kentucky Tobacco Product Co., Louis- 

 vi ne, Ky. 



NICOTICIDE kills all greenhouse pests. 

 Tobacco Warehousing and Trading Co., 1004- 

 1006 Magnolia Ave., LouisTllle. Ky. 



I'X)STITE, 5 lbs.. 60c; 25 lbs., |2.50; 50 lbs.. 

 $4.00. C. H. Joosten. 201 West St., N. Y. 



LEAF-MOLD. 



Leaf-mold and orchid peat. Send for prices 

 and samples. Chas. Wage, OhloTllle, N . Y. 



Leaf-mold and orchid peat. Write for prices. 

 F. J. Scott, Loyd, N. Y. 



POT HAfJGERS. 



Kramer's pot hangers. Neat, simple, prac- 

 tical. Write. 



I. N. Kramer & Son, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



POTS. 



standard Flower Pots. If your greenhouses 

 are within 500 miles of the Capital, write us; 

 we can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 28th 

 iind M Sts. N. E., Washington, D. C. 



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

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

 St. (near Wrightwood Ave.), C hicago. 



Standard Pots. Catalogues and price lists 

 furnished on application. 

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



Red pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colesburg Pottery Co.. Colesburg. Iowa. 



Those RED pots. The right kind. 



C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee, Wis. 



SHIPPING TRUNKS. 



Crane Bros., Westfleld, Mass. 

 Manufacturers Linenotd Seamless 

 Trunks and Boxes for shipping 

 Cut flowers. Send for price list. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Sphagnum moss, clean and fresh. 5 bbl. bale, 

 $1.25; 3 bales. |3.2S; 5 bales, $5.00. 

 H. R. Akers, Chatsworth, N. J. 



Buy your moss now while we are curing it. 

 1 bale or 100 at 60c each. 

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



Sphagnum moss, large bale, $1.75 each; by 

 freight, .$2.00. 

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



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co.. Mlulpgton, Mass. 



Sphagnnni moss. Write for prices. 

 H. M. Robinson & Co., -11 Province St., Boston. 



TOBACCO STEMS. 



I->osh tobacco stems, bale of 300 lbs., $1.50. 

 W. C. Beckert, Allegheny, Pa. 



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TOOTHPICKS. 



Wired toothpicks, 10,000, $1.50; 60,000, $6.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 



W. J. COWEB, Berlin, N. Y. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Excelsior carnation supports, made of gal- 

 vanized wire. 10 In. long, $7.00 1000. $60.00 

 lO.OM); 13 in. long, $7.60 1000, $70.00 10,000; 

 20 In. long. $8.00 1,000, $75.00 10,000. Also 

 stemming wire, rose stakes, etc. 

 H. F. Llttlefleld. Worcester. Mass. 



Thaden's wire tendrils and twin stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



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

 lanta. Ga. 



' Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying wires. 

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



Model Extension carnation supports. 



Parker-Bruen Mfg. Co., Harrison. N. J. 



WIRE WORK. 



• We are the largest mannfacturers of wire 

 work In the west. E. F. Winterson Co., 

 45, 47, 49 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



We are manufacturers — no middleman's 

 profits. 



0. C. POLLWORTH CO.. Milw aukee. Wis . 



ESmll Steffens, Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Degigng, 335 East 21st St.. New York. 



Reed tc Keller, 122 W. 25th St., New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kiuds. Write me. 

 Wm. Murphy, Wholesale Florist, Cincinnati, O. 



E. H. Hunt, 76-78 Wabusb Ave., Chicago. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Cliromcle. 



When a flower bud is forming at 

 the apex of each shoot on a chrysanthe- 

 mum growth ceases for a brief period. 

 In a few days each shoot will be bris- 

 tling with new growths, especially im- 

 mediately under the newly formed bud. 

 When it can be determined that the bud 

 is perfect in form, all these shoots 

 should be removed. This is what is 

 meant by the term "taking" the bud; 

 really taking the bud in chargeyis what 

 is meant. 



Clerodendron fallax has on several 

 occasions been strongly recommended 

 for its usefulness for conservatory deco- 

 ration during the summer months. The 

 best way is to grow it in considerable 

 numbers and to take the plants to the 

 conservatory when coming into bloom. 



Begonias contribute materially to 

 the many attractions of the greenhouse 

 in the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, and afford 

 object lessons of much value to visitors. 

 Especially noteworthy in the center of 

 the house are the splendidly flowered ex- 

 amples of Begonia cocinea, a robust 

 erect-growing species, bearing in profu- 

 sion large clusters of bright coral-red 

 flowers; and President Carnot, a mag- 

 nificent variety, similar in character to 

 the foregoing, but more robust in 

 growth, and producing larger and more 

 richly colored flowers. The specimens 

 of the first-named are about four feet 

 in height, while the examples of the lat- 

 ter range from four to six feet, and, 

 with their numerous clusters of bright red 

 flowers are very effective. 



Spiraea Abguta. — The shrubby forms 

 of spirsea are now innumerable, but 

 however rigid a selection is carried out, 

 this must on no account be omitted. It 

 forms a dense bush about four feet to 

 five feet high, and toward the end of 

 April the slender, gracefully disposed 

 branches are crowded with clusters of 

 pure white blossoms. A great recom- 

 mendation is its comparative indiffer- 

 ence to frosts and cutting winds, which 

 often play havoc with many early flow- 

 ering shrubs. This spiraea is of hybrid 

 origin, having been raised, on the Con- 

 tinent, between S. Thunbergi and S. 

 multiflora. It is sometimes employed 

 for flowering under glass, a purpose for 

 which it is well suited. 



Impatiens Oliveri is a handsome spe- 

 cies that has the promise of proving of 

 considerable value for decorative pur- 

 poses. This species was discovered by 

 the late Joseph Thomson, at Lykipia, 

 Tropical East Africa, at elevations 

 ranging from 6,000 to 8,000 feet, with 

 flowers scarcely more than one and a 

 half inches across. It is a point of 

 some interest that while the flowers of 

 the wild plants are white, the flowers of 

 the plants under cultivation are of a 

 rose-lilac hue. 



Within the last fifty years great 

 changes have taken place in plant cul- 

 ture, many subjects at one time popu- 

 lar having almost disappeared from cul- 

 tivation, Avhile, on the other hand, some 

 (tuberou.s begonias, for instance), then 

 completely unknown, are now met with 

 in nearly every garden. Through all 



these vicissitudes the zonal pelargonium 

 (geranium) has held its own as a gen- 

 eral favorite, not, however, always rep- 

 resented by double-flowered forms, for 

 these did not make their appearance till 

 1865. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Magazine. 



Amaryllises, when the bulbs are 

 dried off and quite at rest, may be win- 

 tered in any structure where the temper- 

 ature does not fall below 38 degrees. 

 This may be considered a safe limit, al- 

 though once in my experience a batch of 

 bulbs which had commenced to throw up' 

 their young leaves were accidently sub- 

 jected to a temperature which was one 

 or two degrees below freezing point, 

 without apparent injury to either leaves 

 or bulbs. 



The proper maintenance of hedges 

 under any circumstances entails no small 

 amount of labor, but by cutting at the 

 right season, while the growth is soft, 

 labor is considerably lessened as com- 

 pared with that which is required to cut 

 hardened growths. Moreover, winter or 

 spring cut hedges frequently bulge out 

 at the top and look unsightly all the 

 year. The same thing may, of course, 

 happen by cutting in August, but at 

 that time the fault is more easy to rem- 

 edy, and early autumn trimming pro- 

 duces a neat hedge during the greater 

 part of the year — autumn, winter,, 

 spring, and part of summer. This can- 

 not be said to be the case with pruning 

 deferred to winter or spring. 



Lonicera Hildebranti. — 1 lately vis- 

 ited Eobert Veitch & Son 's nursery at 

 Exeter, and among many other inter- 

 esting things saw this giant honeysuckle 

 in fine bloom in a glasshouse. I cut a 

 couple of bloom-trusses to take home 

 with me, and found on measuring the 

 perfect flowers that they were five 

 inches in length, and nearly three inches 

 across the open mouth. The blossoms 

 are bright yellow in color and very fra- 

 grant. 



Begonia Socotrana. — Prior to the 

 introduction of the newer varieties of 

 winter-flowering begonias, one was al- 

 ways endeavoring to induce this species 

 to flower in the early part of the win- 

 ter, but the necessity for this no longer 

 exists, and it is now most Useful when 

 in bloom at its proper season, which is 

 from about the middle to the end of 

 winter. Let the chisters of bulbils be 

 divided into smaller clusters of about 

 six or eight, and pot these in loam, leaf- 

 soil and/sand, using small, well-drained 

 pots. ^This begonia enjoys a high tom- 

 peratllre and a moist atmosphere, and 

 should be grown near to the glass, in 

 order to prevent the flower-stems from 

 becoming drawn. When the plants are 

 well rooted they should be afforded a 

 shift into 5-inch pots, which will be 

 suflBiciently large enough for all but very 

 strong plants to flower in. 



When the growths of peonies have 

 withered, cut them off, and fork over 

 the soil lightly, then apply a mulch of 

 good rotten manure, and afford water 

 afterwards if necessary. These remarks 

 will apply to the Moutan as well as to 

 herbaceous varieties. Eemove all shoots 

 from the stocks of Moutan peonies that 

 appear below the grafts. 



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