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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



M Mil II 1, I'.Hit;. 



ill '>lllii. <i'iii|s iiH ;i i||[i|i| Iil; trolli Ills 

 ]<.H-;il in.'\\ s|i;i jK'i' ;iii<l ^u«^;^r--ts tli,-it 11 is 

 AVtiJ'tliv iif ;i I'l \v c-diiiiiii-nl-i. It ;ip|i(';iis 

 thai tliiii' is --(i:!!!- ii|iiiiisii ion in tliiit, 

 tcwij. oi' it wniild ihit 111' in'fcsstiry to 

 iiisti't smli ];ii';:i' l\ jinl ;hls and ([iioTc 

 hiic'i \iiv |Mi|ail;ir piiro. \Iy t'riciid 

 need iidt wiiiry, Smli alli'iii|iis al Utiiii- 

 iiif:' trade ii\ iiiidci^'l li 11^ \iiiii- I'ciii- 

 t.oiiil'iiiaiy am! ad^ i rl i'-i lit; sindi fidii-u- 

 lous jiiiics ail' tlir Weak wi'tijuni id' ;i 

 weak man and w^ iia\r all in smne dc- 

 groe snilrit'd trnai smii luisiiiess 

 iMOtliods. I liiai liss id' it r\cry year 

 and tliciT can lie lint niic ini'Nitaliie oiul. 



■'In til is casi' \\c know that only vei'y 

 ])i.ior i'osrs or cat nations could be ]iro- 

 cured at wholesale t'oi the jjritros (|Uote'd. 

 (Jrow or olTer tor snle the li(>st liowers 

 and plants and duiiLie actandiiioly and 

 vuu need not worry ahoiit siidi o|>|io>i- 

 tion, ami rommilier that with scarcely 

 an e\ceiitii)ii neither yon nor any other 

 respectable liorist excr lost a valiietl cns- 

 toiner by charyiti^r a ^ond stifV jirice I'nr 

 a lirst-class aiticle. The price, if it ijid 

 at the tiiiK^ seem ratiier ext)'ava<;ant. 

 will be <iuickly t'oi^dtten. but poor <ju;il- 

 ity at any juice will neither be I'oiyotten 

 iior 1';)roi\en. 



''The cuttiii;^ id' prices below those ot' 

 old establishetl linns is ot'teii the method 



e'lipliiyed b\- beginners in mirs as well 

 as in other biisinesses. It is to tiieiii 

 tile simplest and stidn;^c^t i-aid I'.iey can 

 play. liviwcvci. it nay work in (dher 

 bn^iiii ss. it ne\er does in ours, and your 

 oppiim III who is stdliiiL; al a loss is slow- 

 ly peinaps but snrely cuiiio to the wall 

 and the tiaie will coaie when the fearless 

 and sijiiare dealine man will lia\i' less 

 upposil ion. 



'•A cunt ract or remarked to 1 he writer 

 iccently: ■()ur lirtn will fi<iure down to 

 the lowest ]i\iiiy- prolit and if anotiier 

 firm ^oes below that we are pleased that 

 he '.^ets the conlracd. foi' we know Ih.at 

 he is crippling himsidt' and will be less 

 opposition in the future.' 



'•This is not philantliropy, but biisi- 

 m^ss, and nowadays business is made np 

 of 10(t per cent of self jiresei'sation aud 

 only a trace of ]ihilanthroj)y. 



''(ill ahead, my friend, and coufjratu- 

 iate \nuis(df that your contem])orary is 

 not made oi' nnu'O iirilliant stutt" and al- 

 ways iciiieinber that it is (juality that 

 will aci|uire am! keep j;'ood trade and not 

 low prices. The ycnius is not yet born who 

 can <ell hi<ili (|uality Ijelow cost and 

 sur\i>e, ami in comdnsion, we believe 

 there is less and less e\ery year of the 

 weak atteaipt to ^ain trade by cutting 

 jirices. 



SORTS TO GROW WITH LAWSON. 



Will ycui kindly j;i\e us a list of car- 

 nations that ^vill j;iow ill the same hou'^e 

 with Lawson.' We ymw one house nt' 

 carntuions to supply eiii- local trade- 

 and want white, jiink, scai!«'t and crim- 

 son. Now, l.awson iiixi's us splendid 

 blooms and is in all w.ays satisfactory, 

 but we A\ish lor a liehter pink, also some- 

 thinj: of the cnlor of the old haybreak. 

 If }uu can L;i\e iis a list thai wi> can 

 grow \\ilh bawsnii and ilo reasonably 



well. We vhal! be -|e;it l\ ublioed. 



11, 1'. II. 



I will take It I'lir ;^ranted thai you 

 grow your i.awsuii in almnt ')'> de^reis 



and \\ill make my list ai idin^ly. To 



start \\itli. yoii .-.an ;;et the l.awson sports 



in e\ery elie nt' tiie>e ridnls. e.\i-ept dim 



son. and if Law^-mi is entirely -;iii'~t'ar 



tory with Null as ;i jdiiK. the ut hers will 



lie eijUally so III their les|iei-ti\e cdors. 



Tlii'ie aic White Lawsoii. i.\liii|i lia^ lieen 



on ihe market twn seasons and ha- come 



to stay; N'aiie^iated Lawson c;iiiie out 



la.sf ye.ar. K'ed L.-iwsoii i-,anie out in I'.Hit, 



■aii'l there is a li^ild pmk Law-mi of the 



l)a_\l)ieak shade coininji out llii- season. 



ifarlowaiden \\ill do \ei\ well in the 



same iiouse \\itli an occasional li;ilit dose 



of wood ashes to .stitfen the stem, whicli 



i.s lialile to (aiine a Iritle ue.ak in such a 



liiph temperature. If you will run }vnv 



house at -"l' d< yree.s there arc ]»len1y (d' 



vaiiftie.- that will thrive in that tein- 



peiatnre, Vesjier, I.ady T'.ountifiil and 



The Rello are all fine. Kmhantress is 



the be'-t li^ht ]»ink. In scailet the ideal 



has not yet been reached, but <'ardinal is 



iloiiiir well almost everywhere and mg 



hope to get something out of this sea- 



son's introductions. In a pink lighter 

 than Lawsou there is nothing ii|i to-dale 

 e\ce|it those eoming out this seasmi. 

 fiancee was expected to till the \\;iiit 

 for this cidor and may do it yet, but it 

 will have to do better than it has this 

 -easoii. A. T. .1. I'.Aii;. 



TROUBLE WITH ESTELLE. 



What is tlie cause ot' f!st(dle carnations 

 bringiiiL; .about fifty per cent semidouble 

 liowers.' The others are |ierfect. The 

 plants are in a line, healthy condition, 

 medium liea\y soil, temperature ."ii' de 

 ;;rees to .*>."> degrees. Is this \.ariety sub- 

 ject to this fault.' The\ ;iie rai-ed from 

 late iiittings. also late jdanted in the 

 house. M. P.. 



|-!stelli has alw.ays been more or less 

 -iib,|eil to this trouble and. while umler 

 eeiinin conditions it would jiioiluce le^s 



of such blooiiis, yet 1 doubt whether jou 

 will ever be able to cut all double blooms 

 through the whole season. It goes with- 

 out saying that the better the culture 

 the less suidi blooms will appear. Strong, 

 early cuttings, eaily jdanting aud good 

 culture in general will help to overcome 

 it to a degree. 



Cardinal i.s a great improvement over 

 Kstelle ill that way, a.s it never comes 

 single, tiiough it resembles Estelle a 

 great deal in general habit, etc. Unless 

 you have had extraordinary success with 

 I'^stelle ill the past, I would advise you 

 to drop it and plant some of the newer 

 scarlet varieties, as they will pay you 

 much better and with less trouble. 



A. F. J. Bauh. 



A NEW YORK PLACE. 



William Y, \''clie and Tied A. \ elie 

 are pro[)rietorR of the A'^alley View 

 ( Jreeiihouses, .Marlborough, \. Y. The 

 town is a pretty one, on the Hudson, 

 witiiin easy shipping distance of Xew 

 ■^'ork, where most of the product finds 

 an outlet, Marie Louise violets aud 

 fancy carnations are the crops grown in 

 the five lanises, Avhicii have a total glass 

 ar-a of L'o,000 square feet. One of the 

 accompanying illustrations shows an out- 

 side view of the plant, the other an in- 

 side \iew of a house of Enchantress car- 

 }iations, the house 3;jxl7o, about »!,000 

 idants in all. As it has done every- 

 where, l\nciianitress has given splendid 

 results here, probably better than any 

 other variety. The houses are Lord & 

 liurnham material, embodying that 

 firm 's devices. Tln^ illustration gives a 

 good view of the ventilating a|)paratus, 

 especially the worm \viiich operates the 

 shaft. 



THE NEW MONEY ORDER. 



The new toiiii of money orders adcijited 

 by the I'liited States jtostollice dej)art- 

 ineiit, 's .-III iiii|)roveineiit over the form 

 no\v in use. ( )n the left-hand side of the 

 new order is a column of figures com- 

 mencing at .*! and running in fives to 

 $11.0. The clerk at the issuing (»fiii-e 

 will tear this out so that it will show the 

 number next higher than the amount for 

 wiiich the order is issued; this will pre- 

 vent the raising of the ;iinoiint of the 

 Older above the amount imlicated in tTir 

 column of (igures. With tlie (dd onlers 

 the (i;^uies could be erased ;inil others 

 substituted : even if an order of this 

 •-^oit could iioL be cashed at a posloflic(>, 

 It mieht be pas'^ed on an individual. An- 

 otiier radical change in the order is that 

 til" a-.lilress of the person to whom the 

 older is nia'le out i- to l.e placed on the 

 .i|,|.-r :is well .'IS his n-iiiie. 



Establishment of VcHe Bros., Marlborough, N. Y. 



