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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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LEAF-MOLD^ 





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POT HANGERS. 



-kramer'B pot hangers. Neat, simple, prac- 

 *'T/'N.^K"amer & Son. Cedar Baplds, Iowa. 



POTS. 



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■ i^-inwpr Pots Before buying write us for 

 nrfcesG^ Keller & Sons, 361-363 Hemdon 



St (near Wrlghtwood Ave.). Chicago. 



"standard flower pots, seed, fern and orchid 

 ^^Cut^'Kylr^'n. Tos'sd Ave.. Newark. N. J. 

 Standard Pots. Catalogues and price Ust^ 

 furnished on application. 



a" H. Hew s & Co., No. Cambridge, Mass. 



Bed Dots. Write for prices and sample pot 

 Colesburg Pottery Co., Colesburg, Iowa. 



BED POTS. Standard pots at bottom figures. 

 Harrison Pottery, Harrison. Ohio. 



RAFFIA. 



Battla. Samples free If you mention The 

 Review. Large assortment of colors. 



R. H. Comey Co., Camden, N. J. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Sphagnum moss, $1.50 per 8-bbl. bale; $2.00 In 

 burlap. Cash. B. K. Baker. Pier 34 N. E.. 

 New York City. 



Sphagnum moss, large bale. $1.76 each; by 

 freight, $2.00. 

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



Live, short sphagnum moss for orchids at 75c 

 per bag. C. W. Brownell & Co.. Walden, N. Y. 



Live sphagnum moss and orchid peat always 

 on hand. Lager & Hurrell. Summit, N. J. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co.. MlUlngton, Mass. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices. 

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



Two large, dry bales, $1.60. 



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



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Thaden's wire tendrils and twin stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



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

 lanta. Qa. 



Model Extension carnation supportsf also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying wire. 

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



Model Extension carnation supports. 



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



WIRE WORK. 



Wire work. A« manufacturers we eliminate 

 toe middleman. None other made as good at 

 our prices. 



C. C. Pollworth Co.. Milwaukee, Wis. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work In the west. B. F. Wlnterson Co.. 

 46, 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



Emil Steffens, Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs, 335 Bast 21st St., New York. 



Beed & Keller, 122 W. 25th St.. New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 wm. Murphy, Wholesale Florist, Cincinnati, O. 



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



PRACTICAL VALUE OF RESEARCH. 



In these days of abundant horticul- 

 tural literature, every intelligent garde- 

 ner profits by the knowledge of others, 

 and recognizes his indebtedness to the 

 specialists who dip beneath the surface, 

 to some extent, and do much to improve 

 tne plants which constitute their special 

 study. Outside this, however, there is 



another great body of specialists with 

 which, as a rule, he has not the same 

 sympathy, and whose literature, it must 

 be admitted, is as often as not a sealed 

 book, owing to its technical and purely 

 scientific character. If we are privileged 

 to go behind the scenes, as it were, of 

 our botanical and experimental labora- 

 tories we see students and professors 

 busy with microscopes on what seems 

 to us most unpromising material, stored 

 in glass bottles, etc., all around them; 

 or, it may be, making recondite experi- 

 ments vdth chemicals, electrical batteries, 

 thermometers, and so on, the relation of 

 which to practical gardening strikes us 

 as extremely remote. 



None the less, it is upon the knowl- 

 edge thus gained that a vast deal of our 

 practical knowledge is based. The mi- 

 croscopist may be busy studying the life 

 history of some of our minute plant 

 foes, those insidious fungoid ones which 

 pervade and undermine their tissues, or, 

 on the other hand, that of those bene- 

 ficent bacilli which we are now begin- 

 ning to learn, thanks entirely to such 

 investigators, play a vital role in the 

 soil as plant builders. The chemist may 

 be studying the composition of the 

 plants, and gaining thereby knowledge 

 of what it is they extract from the soil 

 as they grow, and, therefore, what should 

 be supplied as they are removed there- 

 from as crops. 



The intermediate state between this 

 class of minuts research and practical 

 horticulture we see in our experimental 

 farms, where the chemists' discoveries 

 are utilized on a large scale, with the 

 result that in lieu of old-fashioned, hap- 

 hazard procedure, often on very waste- 

 ful lines, the market gardener, agricul- 

 turist, and even the amateur are en- 

 abled to supply the needs of their 

 plants to the most beneficial and eco- 

 nomical effect. Could we but trace the 

 origins of the majority of the sources 

 of our progress in these directions, we 

 should find it to be in these laboratory 

 operations, pursued day after day and 



year after year on systematic, scientific 

 lines, following up the clues to the 

 cause, and so eliminating mere guess- 

 work, and putting practical work on a 

 rational basis. The great primary cause 

 will probably ever remain far beyond 

 man's reach, but applied science has en- 

 abled us to extend our ordinary facul- 

 ties of observation to such a wonderful 

 extent that we are constantly discover- 

 ing more and more of the secrets of the 

 mystical world of vitality of which we 

 ourselves form a part, and, by virtue of 

 these discoveries, we are ever better en- 

 abled to hold our own in that struggle 

 for existence common to all created be- 

 ings. AH this we owe entirely to sys- 

 t3matic research of the class we have 

 in view, and the subsequent intelligent 

 application of its results to practical 

 ends. — Gardeners ' Magazine. 



VARIATION IN ASPARAGUS. 



"There has been a good deal of con- 

 troversy concerning Asparagus plumosus 

 nanus," says a writer in the Horti- 

 cultural Advertiser. "In one of the 

 earliest batches of seedling plants that 

 I handled I found some variations. 

 Generally the seedlings under good cul- 

 ture form strong crowns, and each suc- 

 ceeding growth will be stronger and at- 

 tain to a greater length; but some plants 

 form more tufted crowns, and may be 

 divided. These if worked on (that is 

 kept for divisions) and potted in a light 

 peaty compost or any ordinary soil that 

 is not too rich, will retain the dwarf 

 habit; and practically maintain the true 

 character of nanus, which is not ap> 

 plicable to most of the stock sold as 

 such. I may add, that there is a great 

 difference in regard to seeding. I have 

 known the same plants to give a good 

 crop of seed successively year after year, 

 while others under similar conditions 

 have failed as regularly. It is not al- 

 ways that when a plant flowers profusely 

 that seed is produced. A slight irregu- 

 larity in temperature, etc., may cause 

 the whole of the flowers to drop off." 



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