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August 17, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



697 



in any quantity 

 and ali grades 



Extra Fancy Fancy ^= Common 



$2.00 a (00 



$J.0O to $J^0 a JOO $4.00 to $5.00 a JOOO 



Tea Roses, Beauties and Carnations of gfood summer 

 quality. Harrisii, Suratum, Album and Rubrum Liiies, 



iine and plentiful. Giadioii of every color. Splendid heads of 

 Hydrangeas. '* Green Goods" for every use. 



EVSBTTHIHO IN BBASOV AND OF BEST QXTAIiXTY. 



Fancy Valley always on hand 



DEPARTMENT OF NADE-UP WORK. 



While trade is quiet and you do not wish to carry much stock 

 you can rely on our Department of Made-Up Work. We are pre- 

 pared to execute orders for any kind of funeral piece, from the cheap- 

 est to the most Expensive. Usual trade discount allowed. 



8BB DVB 8PB0XA& AOVEBTZBBMBBT OV PAOB 661. 

 WB MBAV JUST WHAT WB BAT. 



AKBBIOAV BBAVTT, Per doi. 



8S-40-inota stem MOO 



SM-ao-incb tteto 8.0O 



ao-lncta Item 2.00 



16-liicta stem 1.80 



12-lncb Item 1.00 



Sbort stem, per 100, $4.00 to $6.00 



Per 100 



Brldei, Brideamaida $2.00to$ 6.0O 



Kaiserin S.OOto 800 



Otaatenay SOOto 6.00 



Golden Gate S.OOto 6.00 



Liberty S.OOto 8.00 



Oamatlona l.fiOto 200 



Asters l.OOto 2.00 



" common.. 1000, $4.0O-$5.00 



VaUey 4.00 



Auratums, per doz., $1.25 to $1.60 S.OOto 10.00 



Easter Lilies per dos., 1.60 



GladloU l.OOto 2.00 



fancy yarietles S.OOto 6.00 



Sbasta Daisies fiOto 1.00 



Asparams, per strlnr, 26c to 60c 



AsparaKiis Sprenireri 2.00 to 4.00 



Galax, bronze per 1000. $1.25 .16 



*' fcreen. new crop. " 1.00 .16 



▲diantom .76 



Leucotboe Sprays .75 



Rrailaz per dos.. «1.60 10.00 



Fancy Ferns per 1000, $1.00 .16 



Bv^Mt to ckaage wttkoat Hotlee. 



E. C. AMLING 



JlX^^"^ 32-34-36 Randolph St. "gS£^T Chicago, 111. 



The Larg^edt, Best 

 Equipped and Most 

 Centrally Located 

 Wholesale Cut 

 Flower House in 

 Chicago. 



or more by aUowing one or two of the 

 shoots surrounding it to make several 

 leaves and removing them gradually one 

 by one. This diverts the flow of sap 

 from the bud somewhat and a bud so 

 treated will come out all right, where 

 otherwise it might have been rough, mis- 

 shapen and useless. 



Varieties that I would not recommend 

 to be taken before September are S. T. 

 Wright, Col. Appleton, Queen Alex- 

 andra or any variety that is being grown 

 for late flowers, such as Maud Dean, 

 Chadwick or W. S. Allen. 



The buds of most of the early kinds 

 may be taken after the first week in Au- 

 gust. This would include Fitzwygram, 

 Bergmann, Merstham Yellow, Alice 

 Byron and Merry Monarch. Glory of 

 the Pacific makes a poorly colored flower 

 if taken before the 20th and Mrs. Rob- 

 inson must not be taken before that 

 date. 



Just about the time that buds are be- 

 ing produced feeding should not be car- 

 ried on. K«ep your plants quiet until 

 the change is completed and the bud is 

 commencing to swell. 



Charles H. Totty. 



HORTICULTURE IN SCHOOLS. 



[A lecture by Miss Susan B. Slpe, Instructor 

 'n botany in Normal School No. 1, at Wash- 

 Inston, before the Society of American Florists, 

 August 16, 1905.] 



Statistics taken in the training school 

 for teachers in the District of Colum- 

 bia show that two-thirds of the stu- 

 dents have never put a seed into the 

 ground. But few of the students have 

 any idea of the preparation of the soil 

 for ordinary garden making. One 

 young girl attempted to dig her gar- 



den three feet in depth with a trowel 

 to prepare a bed for coreopsis seed. 

 The lack of general information about 

 our commonest vegetables and flowers 

 is appalling. One student in the pres- 

 ent class did not know peas when she 

 saw the pods on the vines. The zinnia, 

 the cockscomb, the pink, the scarlet 

 sage are but masses of flowers to most 

 of the students, and nothing more. And 

 these students will be teachers in our 

 public schools next year! 



Training of our public school teach- 

 ers in elementary gardening is a neces- 

 sity if we are to reach the children. 

 Realizing this fact, the Department of 

 Agriculture, through the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, is urging the establish- 

 ment of elementary courses in horti- 

 culture and agriculture in all normal 

 schools. It is using the two normal 

 schools in Washington to demonstrate 

 its ideas. 



The work has grown much beyond the 

 original scope. At first an expert was 

 sent to the schools to lecture to the 

 students on practical subjects relating 

 to gardens, in a plain and simple man- 

 ner, so that what they learned could 

 be applied in their own gardens. Ev- 

 ery student was required, and is still 

 required, to have a garden at home. 

 Where there is not sufficient land, win- 

 dow gardening is required. As these 

 home gardens are legitimate school 

 work they must be inspected. In all 

 175 students have taken the course 

 since its establishment. All of them 

 have had home gardens and all gardens 

 have been visited by the instructor in 

 charge. This work is very valuable in 

 a teacher's training. The garden can 



be studied through to its full fruit. 

 Usually so much pleasure is derived 

 from it that the young teacher is 

 anxious to have the children under her 

 charge have the same pleasure. She 

 acquires information enough to enable 

 her to start the children in the right 

 way. In all there is nothing so helpful 

 to a teacher as garden work at her own 

 home. 



The growth of the work necessitated 

 the doing away with the lectures after 

 the first year. A greenhouse was as- 

 signed the school, where plant propa- 

 gation could be carried on and plant 

 life studied. Immediately the school 

 became the source of supply for plants 

 for school ground decoration and for 

 the beautifying of school-rooms in 

 winter. A larger greenhouse, this last 

 winter, has afforded facilities for ex- 

 perimental work, so that the students 

 are receiving a substantial course in 

 processes of plant life, in effect of 

 water and fertilizer on soils and in 

 planning gardens for simple landscape 

 effects. This is having a noticeable 

 effect upon the eity. One hundred and 

 twenty of the 124 buildings for graded 

 schools have gardens this year, for dec- 

 orative effect, and these have in turn 

 inspired the children to have home gar- 

 dens; 120,000 penny packages of seed 

 have been sold the children by a local 

 seedsman. As a consequence there are 

 now thousands of young gardeners at 

 work in the District who will never lose 

 their fondness for the soil and will be 

 better citizens in later years for their 

 instruction in gardening. 



The work around the school buildings 

 has been done with little expense to the 



