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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 6, 1905. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



wired toothpicks, 10,000, $1.50; 60,000, $6.26. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 



W. J. COWBB, Berlin, N. Y. 



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- 

 yaulzed rose stakes and tying wire. 

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



Galvanized rose stakes. Any length and size 

 of wire. Write 



H. F. Mlchell Co.. 1018 Market St.. Phll a. 



Model Extension carnation supports. 



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



WIRE WORK. 



wire work. As manufacturers we eliminate 

 the 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. E. F. Wlnterson Co., 

 45, 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chica go. 



Emll Steffens, Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs. 335 East 2l8t St., New York. 



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

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Murphy, Wholesale Florist, Cincinn ati. 0. 

 Wire work, all kinds. ' ' 



C. E. Crltchell, 36 E. 3rd St., Cincinnati, O. 



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



TAREYTOWN, N. Y. 



The Tarrytown Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its regular monthly meeting 

 on Tuesday evening, June 27. Three 

 new members were elected and two 

 names proposed for membership. The 

 prize this month was given for the best 

 collection of outdoor flowers, shrubs in- 

 cluded. Several fine collections were 

 staged, the winning lot coming from 

 Greystone, Samuel Untermyer's place at 

 Yonkers, his gardener, John Feather- 

 stone, staging over sixty varieties. The 

 F. R. Pierson Co. exhibited a number of 

 beautiful varieties of iris, also some of 

 the newer climbing roses, all of which 

 were very much admired. It was de- 

 cided to hold the annual outing in 

 August, Rye Beach being again selected 

 as being the most accessible to the ma- 

 jority of the members. W. S. 



SOOETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The Southwestern Excursion Bureau 

 announces a round trip rate of one and 

 one-third fare to the conversion at Wash- 

 ington in co-operation with the other 

 railroad passenger committees who have 

 made similar announcements. The terri- 

 tory under the jurisdiction of this bureau 

 indades southern Missouri, southeastern 

 Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian 

 Territory and Texas. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Sec'y. 



CEMETERY PLANTING. 



The rules and regulations of the mod- 

 em cemetery, covering the permissible 

 plants in the decoration of graves and 

 lots, when first promulgated, created 

 more or less consternation in the florists' 

 establishments in close proximity to the 

 cemeteries. The lawn plan, with level 

 graves, promised to seriously restrict 

 the use of bedding fdants and the class 

 of shrubs and planting material so lav- 

 ishly and irresponsibly used under the 

 old regime ; and while the authorities of 

 the lawn plan cemeteries practically con- 

 trol such details nowadays, plants and 

 shrubs used in the new order of things 

 for memorial or decorative purposes are 

 of so much better quality and kind that 



the trade has really been benefited rather 

 than otherwise, and a prosperous spring 

 and summer business is the rule. It 

 may always be taken for granted that 

 improvement carries with it compensat- 

 ing opportunities, besides imparting its 

 beneficial influences to all allied inter- 

 ests, and the lawn plan of cemetery de- 

 sign and maintenance has further dem- 

 onstrated the truth of this formula. — 

 Park and Cemetery. 



RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS. 



* ' The re-introduction of what is be- 

 lieved to be the original form of Ranun- 

 culus Asiaticus, is certainly an interest- 

 ing event, and may serve the purpose, ' ' 

 says a writer in the Horticultural Ad- 

 vertiser, "as did the re-introduction of 

 the single dahlia, of giving a new lease 

 of popularity to a flower, which, in the 

 first half of the nineteenth century, was 

 highly popular. Gerarde, a herbalist of 

 celebrity, in the year 1596, wrote con- 

 cerning the ranunculus, and about the 

 same time, Parkinson specifically enumer- 

 ates several varieties of this flower. The 

 exact period of introduction of the type 

 to this country is probably unknown. It 

 may be surmised that the original intro- 

 duction was single-flowered, and that 

 with cultivation a double form put in 

 appearance. Van Oosten, who published 

 a work in England, in 1703, says there 

 are two sorts of ranunculus, single and 

 double. By the early part of the nine- 

 teenth century, the single varieties ap- 

 pear to have dropped out of cultivation, 

 but there had been a great increase of 

 sorts, for John Mason, who established 

 himself in business in 1781, and there- 

 with laid the foundation of the house of 

 Cooper, Taber & Co., published a cata- 

 logue in 1820, which contained nearly 

 400 sorts of ranunculus, showing how the 

 varieties haa multiplied. The Dutchmen 

 early saw the advantage of cultivating 

 the ranunculus, and from that source was 

 derived most of the varieties with strong 

 and dark body colors. The English 

 growers, not content with the Dutch 

 strains, turned their attention to the pro- 



duction of lighter and parti-colored va- 

 rieties, these productions having br*'- 

 liant edges and spots on white and yt^ 

 low grounds. As late as 1858, Carey 

 Tyso published a pamphlet dealing with 

 the culture of the ranunculus, in which 

 he offered collections of 100 varieties. 

 Where are they nowf It is to be feared 

 utterly lost. Even the coarser and har- 

 dier turban varieties, which were at one 

 time grown so much in market gardens 

 round London, the scarlet turban espe- 

 cially, for bunching, have practically 

 disappeared." 



Lake Odessa, Mich. — The Lake 

 Odessa Vegetable & Floral Co. is build- 

 ing two greenhouses, 20x100, and the 

 necessary service buildings. The mem- 

 bers of the firm are C. L. Vincent, for- 

 merly of Vincent Bros., Ionia, Mich., and 

 G. P. Gassett, of Grand Rapids. 



Auburn, N. Y. — John A. Kraus has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy, scheduling 

 liabilities of $1,810,77 and assets of $570, 

 part of which is claimed as exempt. The 

 liabilities in the trade are not large. 

 Those scheduled are: P. R. Quinlan & 

 Co., Syracuse, $75; U. S. Cut Flower 

 Co., Elmira, $6.24; Syracuse Pottery Co., 

 Syracuse, $22.38; W. & T. Cass, Geneva, 

 $25.75 ; Smith & Gannett, Geneva, $3. 



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