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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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beauty by the beginning of June, from 

 when they will flower all the summer. 



The winter treatment may be similar 

 to that advised for seedlings, but old, 

 pot-bound plants will stand a surprising 

 amount of rough usage. A few outside 

 leaves may brown and die, but new ones 

 will form on introduction to heat, and 

 no harm will accrue from the loss of the 

 old ones. Bepotting is not required 

 more often than once in two years, but 

 pot-bound plants should be liberally fed. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, April 18. — Head lettuce, 

 $1.50 to $3 bbl.; leaf lettuce, 35c to 40c 

 case; cucumbers, $1.15 to $1.25 doz. 



Boston, April 16. — Tomatoes, 30c to 

 40c lb.; mushrooms, 50c to 60c lb.; rhu- 

 barb, 6c to 8c lb.; cucumbers, $3 to $8 

 box; lettuce, 25e to 60c doz.; mint, 60c 

 doz. bunches; parsley, $1.25 box; beets, 

 $1.50 to $1.75 doz. bunches. 



New York, April 16. — Cucumbers in 

 much larger supply; No. 1 Boston, per 

 doz., $1 to $1.25; No. 2 Boston, $4 to 

 $6 box. Lettuce poor and dragging, 25c 

 to 60c doz. Mushrooms in light receipt 

 and higher, 10c to 60c lb. Few tomatoes 

 arriving, 20c to 30c lb. Beet tops, 50c 

 to 75c bu.; radishes, $1.50 to $3 per 

 100 bunches; rhubarb, $2.50 to $4.50 per 

 100 bunches; mint, 35c to 50c doz. 

 bunches. 



GREENHOUSE GRAPES. 



What is the cause of young roots 

 breaking out along the vines, even to 

 the top, and on the spurs? When is the 

 best time to feed grape vines? The heat 

 was turned on the first of February. 

 What is best to feed them with? Mine 

 are old vines and are set about four feet 

 apart. A. T. B. 



The breaking out of aerial roots along 

 the grape vines is caused by the atmos- 

 phere of the house being too moist and 

 too close. The reduction of the moisture 

 and the giving of more air will stop 

 the growth of the roots. I don't believe 

 that the roots in themselves do any 

 material damage to the vines but when 

 the condition of the atmosphere of the 

 house is such as to cause the growth of 

 aerial roots it is not congenial to the 

 best interests of the vines, as it is sure 

 to cause both thinness of foliage and 

 weakness of growth. 



The time of feeding will depend large- 

 ly on the condition of your vines. Old 

 vines as a rule should have an applica- 

 tion of some fertilizer just previous to 

 starting. For this purpose we use bone 

 meal one year and uuleached wood ashes 

 the next, giving a liberal application 

 and forking well into the border. A 

 good, liberal feeding with liquid manure 

 is given just after the grapes are 

 thinned. Liquid procured from either 

 cow manure or sheep manure is good for 

 this purpose, or the two might be com- 

 bined to good advantage. 



We have seen grape vines fed even up 

 to the time that coloring had begun, 

 but this we consider poor policy, as if 

 fed too late more or less trouble will re- 

 sult from what is known as "shank- 

 ing." This is the withering up of the 

 iruit stalk, which checks the maturing 

 of the fruit and renders the attached 



Francoa Ramosa, the Bridal Wreath. 



berries sour and useless. Late feeding 

 also results in producing poor colored 

 fruit. You will no doubt have noticed 

 that as the fruit approaelies the coloring 

 stage, the growth of the vines is prac- 

 tically at a standstill and hence unable 

 to utilize food. The manure, if applied 

 then, must stay in the soil where it 

 must cause more or less sourness, the in- 

 jury to the roots resulting from this be- 

 ing no doubt the cause of shanking and 

 the prevention of perfect color. 



W. S. Croydox. 



With the 



Advertising Man 



Have you ever used the telephone as 

 a means of securing new business, as 

 well as keeping in close touch witli your 

 old customers? 



For years we have miide a practice of 

 calling up on Friday of eaeli week, as 

 well as a few days before liolidays. a 

 selected list of customers and prospective 

 customers. Arrangements can be made 

 with the telephone conijtany to liave the 

 operator call tlio numbers for you by 

 furnishing a duplicate list, wliich \\\\\ 

 save considerable time. 



Last year we sold by this method 

 about $340 worth of plants, flowers, etc., 

 and had all our stuff ready to deliver the 

 first thing Saturday morning, so that 

 when rush orders came we could give 

 them proper attention. 



You may think this has Jiotiiing to do 

 with advertising, but it has, for adver- 

 tising sells goods and this is one of the 

 quickest and most profitable ways of ad- 

 vertising we know of. Billy Vax. 



NEV YORK. 



The Easter Market. 



The slump in prices from 6 p. m. Sat- 

 urday to 6 p. m. Monday was fully fifty 

 jJer" cent. Beauties fell gradually on Sat- 

 urday night from their top of $50 per 

 hundred to $25 to $35 on Monday. 

 Brides and Maids, which occasionally 

 touched $15 and were strong at $12 for 

 Easter, for the best sold at $8 Monday 

 and violets traveled rapidly when the 

 rain came from 75 cents to 35 cents and 

 the left-overs ran up into the hundreds 

 of thousands. One expert declared half 

 a million violets remained unsold Mon- 

 day night, and so in the wholesale mar- 

 ket what promised on Saturday when 

 darkness fell to be the greatest cleaning 

 up in the street's history, became a loss 

 and a disappointment that both whole- 

 salers and growers will bear impatient- 

 ly. Dozens of toleplione orders received 

 during the day were cancelled. The 

 storm grew worse as the night passed 

 and Easter morning opened with a heavy 

 downpour. Ketailers lost all their usual 

 Sunday trade and so shared to some ex- 

 tent in the general disappointment. For- 

 tunately for them all tlieir plants had 

 been sold before dark on Saturday and 

 so as a plant Easter this will go down 

 in history as another record-breaker. 



The sales of plants of all kinds were 

 enormous. Never was there such variety 

 and never were they more perfect. Alone 

 or in combination, large or small, the 

 demand was unprecedented. Everything 

 went. Nearly all the bon-ton retailers 

 were about out of plants on Friday 

 night. The plantsmen are perhaps the 

 happiest of all who participate in the 

 great industry that makes Easter so 



