The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 2, 1000. 



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CMP Johnson's Popular Pansies 



rvo 



Lar^e trade pkt. (2000 seeds) Oz. 



Azure blue 10.20 



Be rlan striped 20 10.76 



Black (Faust) 20 .75 



Bronze shades , 20 .76 



Emperor Frederick, (new), dark red 20 .76 



Emperor WllUam, ultramarine blue 20 .76 



English, large flowerlngr, fine mixed 26 1.00 



Fire Dragon, fiery orange and bronze 2ti .76 



Fire King, golden yellow, up'r pet's purple .20 .76 



French, large flowering, flncHt mixed 20 .80 



Lord Beaconsfleld, deep purple violet 20 .76 



Prince Bismarck, beautiful golden bronze .20 .75 



Quadricolor or Pheasant's Eye (rainbow) .20 .76 



Snow Queen, satiny white 20 .75 



Strlpea and mottled, large flowered 20 .76 



Gold margined 2P' .76 



Havana brown 20 .76 



Meteor, (new), bright brown 20 .75 



HMUlauaxters tor 

 the Bast Sncllalit 



franohand 

 OMVUiii Strmlns 



Oz. 



Large trade pkt. (2U00 seeds) 

 Peacock, ultramarine blue, deep claret 



and white 10.30 



Bed Victoria, (new), very fine 26 



Red Biding Hood, red shades, fine 26 



White, pure 30 



Tellow, pure » 



Yellow with dark eye SO 



White, with dark eye .90 



Fine mixed 16 



Fine English mixed 20 



JOHMSOM'S KISrOLT COLLECTION 

 OIANT PAN8I£8 embraces the PRIZK>WIN 

 NINO STRAINS of the world's best specialists. 

 It is absolutely unrivaled in range of majniflcent 

 colors, size and substance, and no expense has been 

 spared to bring it up to its present high standard of 

 excellence. Half trade packet (1000 seeds), 80c; trade 

 pkt., (2000 seeds), 60c; 5000 seeds, 11.00; per oz., t6.0a 



10.76 

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 1.00 

 .76 

 .76 

 .76 

 .76 

 .60 

 .76 



or 



Send for our complete Hat of Oiant Panslea. 



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One of Our KUkgrly Pansies 



JOHNSON SEED CO., 



Herbert W. Johnson (of the late firm 

 of Johnson & Stokes), President 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



217 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



iu a solution containing from one to five 

 parts per thousand of copper sulpliate, 

 in Avhich was stirred while boiling two 

 to three per cent of starch. After cool- 

 ing the mixture, four to five times its 

 weight of seed was placed in it, thor- 

 oughly mixed, and allowed to remain for 

 twenty hours, after which the seed was 

 dusted with lime and spread to dry. 

 This method of treatment increased the 

 yield of all the crops experimented with, 

 including corn, wheat, barley, oats, lu- 

 pines and buckwheat. 



These various experiments encourage 

 the hope that some of these methods 

 may eventually be profitably applied in 

 practice in certain cases, especially in 

 the stimulation of old seeds and others 

 of low vitality. Many important de- 

 tails, however, remain to be worked out 

 before any of the methods proposed can 

 be recommended for general or extended 

 use. 



NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 



The mistakes and consequent heavy 

 losses in reference to the right and 

 wrong way of retarding lily of the valley 

 were very forcibly demonstrated to me 

 this week. A batch of a million was 

 ruined through being improperly retard- 

 ed in one of our public cold stores. They 

 had been kept at a regular 28 degrees 

 during the whole time, but the atmos- 

 phere was simply dry, cold air. "What 

 valley requires is 4 to 6 degrees of solid, 

 wet frost witli an atmospliere that is 

 continually more or less making ice. It 

 should never be forgotten that there is 

 a difference of fully 5 degrees in the 

 effect of wet and dry frost on both 

 vegetable and animal life, and one of 

 the greatest items toward success in re- 

 tarding valleys is putting them in an 

 atmosphere heavily laden with moisture. 

 Lilium longifloruni and other Japan lilies 

 will not successfully retard in a moia- 

 ture-Iaden atmosphere. 



The now rambler rose, Hiawatha, is 

 making quite a sen.sation and is likely 

 to become exceptionally popular as a 

 decorative garden variety. It is quite 

 an improvement on the old Crimson Ram- 

 bler. It is reported that orders for 

 plants and buds of Hiawatha have so 

 far come to hand to the one or two 

 nunserymen who hold a stock far in ex- 

 cess of the supply in English growers' 

 hands, and many orders have been and 

 are still being booked forward for next 

 season's delivery and. even as far ahead 

 as 190S. 



The big palm growers are experiencing 

 an amount of good business which has 

 nob been their lot for som^y^ars. 



I have received a report from Naples 



LILIUM HARRISII r^eadv 



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6 to 7 inches 65c per doz.; $4.50 per 100: $40.00 per 1000 



6 to 7 inches ■...76cperdoz.; 6.50 per 100; 50.00 per 1000 



FRENCH BULBS AND CALLAS DUE SOON. 



NEW CROP of FLOWER SEEDS 



CHINKSE FRINGKD PRIMROSK-Choice I CALCEOLARIA — Hybrida Superba, 1000 

 separate colors, 250 seeds, 50c; 1000 seeds, $1.75. seeds. 50c 

 Magnifica, mixed, 250 seeds, 60c; ICOO seeds, $1.76. I CINKRARLA.— Extra choice, 1000 seeds, 50c. 



Write for trade list. 



CURRIE BROS CO. "' "iS^i^^l^ 



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, WIS. 



NEM/ CROP 

 Mlchell's Giant Strain 



Grown for ns by one of the leading: 

 growers in Europe, and for size of blooms 

 and free flowerinK qualities cannot be 

 excelled. lOO Seeds 1000 Seeds 



$6.00 

 6.09 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 



Giant White 76e 



Giant Pink 3fte 



Giant Bed 76e 



Giant White with Bed Eye, 76c 

 fliant Mixed 60e 



NEW 

 CROP 



PANSY SEED 



^M(cheil'$ Giant Exhibition INixture 



For size of bloom, length of stem, rich 

 coioring and distinct markings this strain 

 cannot be excelled. Has been awarded 

 Firtt Prize wherever exhibited. Price, 

 trade pkt., 50c; V» oz., 76c: 1 oz., $5.00. 



Send for our wholesale catalogue of 

 SEEDS, BULBS and every re(iuisite for 

 the greenhouse and garden. 



HENRY F. MICHELL CO. 



1018 Market St., PHIUDELPHIA, PA. 



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giving a much encouraged prospect. One 

 large grower reports that in aspidistras 

 especially the still living roots are mak- 

 ing rapid growth. A fair qiJRntity can be 

 exported in the coming fall. This re- 

 port also applies to canna roots, large 

 quantities of which were buried in the 

 eruption. B. J. 



We could not run our greenhouses 

 without tEe Review, — W. G. Thomas, 

 Sheffield, 111. 



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 wben writing; adverH^Ars. 



