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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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NOVKMBEU 10, 1904. 



IB « ^> mj| W I AJi f\ We grow ALL the Litest Virleties, and are getting a BIG CUT 



DlU ItIUItI^ The BEST IN CHICAGO 



Such varieties as Appleton, Bonnaffon, Philadelphia* Pennsylvania^ 

 Ducltham, Morel, Pinic and White Ivory, Whilldin and Robinson. 



Extra Fancy, Choice Steele, per dozen. 

 Fancy, Bonnaffon, etc., ** 



Choice, white, pinit or yellow, *' - 

 Small, in hundred lots, per hundred 



$4.00 



3.00 



$1.50 - 2.00 



8.00 - lO.OO 



Also headqtiaftcfs for FANCY BEAUTIES, TEA ROSES and CARNATIONS. 

 Give «8 YOUR ORDER and yoti'Il be pleased with the GOODS and Ptices. 



POEHLMANN BROS. CO. ''^c'.J?S«." ^* 



GREENHOUSES, MORTON GROVE, ILL.— 600,000 I^EET OF GLASS 



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Vegetable Forciog. 



KEEPING INSECTS DOWN. 



Tobacco in some shape or form has 

 been for years, and, to a certain extent, 

 is still, the great stand-by for the pre- 

 vention and destruction of insect pests 

 in the greenhouse. The distribution of 

 tobacco stems throughout the house is 

 one -of the best preventives we have, but, 

 AS these soon loose strength, they need 

 to be renewed every two or three weeks 

 to be effective. The cleanest and best 

 ■way to use the stems is to tie them in 

 bunches and suspend them under the 

 benches. For killing aphides, tobacco 

 smoke generated either by the burning 

 of the stems or powder is largely used. 

 The smoke cannot be applied in suflScient 

 strength to finish the fly at once without 

 causing damage to teuder plants, such as 

 tomatoes, but must be applied lightly 

 two or three nights in succession to be 

 eflfective. Tobacco paper, of which there 

 are several good ones, are among the 

 latest forms in which the fumes of to- 

 bacco can be applied. This is clean and 

 easy of application and is about as effec- 

 tive a way of using tobacco as we have 

 yet tried. 



The newest and most effective insect 

 destroyer is hydrocyanic gas. If this is 

 carefully used, I believe it is the cheap- 

 est and best insect destroyer that can 

 be employed. Up to about a year ago 

 I was somewhat sceptical about the 

 handling of this poisonous gas, but ex- 

 perience teaches me that it is just as 

 safe as anything else, so long as it is 

 carefully used. My first experience with 

 it was in a house of tomatoes. I used 

 one quart of sulphuric acid, one quart of 

 water and fivo ounces of cyanide of 

 potassium to a house containing 2,000 

 cubic feet. Although no great damage 

 resulted, the tips of the more tender 

 leaves were scorched. The next time 1 

 had occasion to use the gas, I used just 

 half the quantity to the same space, and 

 found that it killed the fly just as well, 

 while my plants were unharmed. Since 

 then I have used gas on all classes of 

 plants, allowing one pint sulphuric acid, 

 one pint water and two and one-half 

 ounces of cyanide to 2,000 cubic feet, 

 and find it effective as an insect killer, 



Boston Ferns. 



Special Reduced Prices. — 

 Eleflrant Plants. 



2>i-in. $3.00 per 100; S-ln. $6.00; 4-iD. $10.00; 6-iD.. very flne. $20.00; 6-in. $35.00; 7-in. $60.00: S-in. 

 $75.00. LarKer sizes, extra good value, and will retail readily at more than lOO par cant. 

 Profit. Try a aampla lot. 



Bosas.— 2.000 Btroner 8 in. Brides, Ivory, Gates and Maids. $4.00 per 100. 



Oamatlona.— Fine fleld-srrown, $4.00 per 100; $85.00 per 1000. 



A very nice lot of Asparagus Plumosus and Sprengeri. as follows: 2>^-in. Sprengeri, $8.60 

 per 100: 4-in. $5.00. 8-inch Plumosus, $4.00 per 100. A small trial order will convince you of the 

 value of this stock. 



W. H. GULLETT & SONS, Lincoln, ill. 



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