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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



8BFTEMBEB 6, 1906. 



1608-1618 

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SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, 



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Carnations 



Queen Louise 16 00 



Lawson 600 



Nelson 6.00 



Queen 6.00 



Crocker 6 00 



J. £. Haines 6.00 



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of Philadelphia 



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ACETYLENE FOR PLANTS. 



The results obtained in the elaborate 

 experiments with acetylene on plant life 

 at Cornell University, as set forth in a 

 paper by Prof, John Craig read before 

 the International Acetylene Association, 

 is what would be expected, when the 

 close approximation of acetylene illumi- 

 nation to sunlight is considered, says the 

 Acetylene Journal. 



The sun, as every one knows, stands 

 for life and development in plant culture. 

 It is the chief element upon which the 

 gardener who forces flowers and vege- 

 tables under glass depends. The dark 

 periods when the sun refuses to reveal 

 itself are as well dark periods to the 

 spirits of the forcing man. When, there- 

 fore, he can turn to what is virtually 

 sunshine, as produced with ease, econ- 

 omy and in abundance by acetylene, he 

 at once finds help over hard places. 



Professor Craig, to whom we are in- 

 debted for this important experiment, be- 

 gins his paper by quoting Munsterberg 

 as showing the nearly equal color values 

 of the sun and acetylene as revealed by 

 spectrum analysis. It is a showing such 

 as no other artificial light reveals. In 

 that brief comparison is found the basis 

 of the success with acetylene in plant 

 culture. 



It will be noticed that the benefit from 

 acetylene was found not only as making 

 up for deficiency of sunlight, but in add- 

 ing to the efficiency of sunlight for plant 

 Sowth. In the experiment on one hnn- 

 ed and fifty different kinds of plants, 

 with few exceptions the growth was 

 stronger, while the time of bloom and 

 of maturity was materially advanced. 



For instance, strawberries were 

 brought into bearing sixteen days, or 

 more than two weeks, earlier as a result 

 of acetylene added to sunlight. In the 

 case of geranium and lilium blooms, the 

 gain was even greater, being sometimes 

 tiiree weeks ahead. In many plants the 

 amount of bloom was increased several 

 fold through the use of acetylene. 



Badishes are a common crop with the 

 under-glass grower. Not only was the 

 maturing period of radishes shortened 

 20 per cent, but the product was in- 

 creased in weight under the influence 

 of acetylene as compared with sunlight 

 alone. 



When it is considered that the short- 

 est and darkest days of the year are 

 those preceding the holidays, when prices 

 of flowers and vegetables reach their 

 highest limit, it is not hard to perceive 

 how the plant grower will profit by this 

 agent in the hastening of his produce to 

 market. 



It is not overlooked that the cost of 

 carbide must be reckoned, but with the 

 season of growth shortened by weeks, a 



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Wholesale Gut Flower Prices. 



' Boston. Sept. 6. 

 Per 100 



Beauties, Specials SlO 00 to $20.00 



Extra 6.00 to 8.00 



Short Stems 200to 4.00 



Brides, Specials S.OOto 4.00 



Seconds...; 1.00 



Bridesmaids, Specials 8.00 to 6.00 



Seconds 1.00 



Chatenay 1.00 to 4.00 



Wellesley, Klllamey l.OOto 4.00 



Liberty, Richmond l.OOto 6.00 



Kaiserin l.OOto 6.00 



Oamot l.OOto 6.00 



Oamations, Special 2.00 



Select 1.60 



Ordinary I.OO 



Lily of the Valley 2.00to 4.00 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings 30.00 to 50.00 



' Sprays, bunches, 25.00 to 60.00 



Sprengeri, bunches 25.00 



Smilax lO.OOto 12.60 



Adiantum 60to 1.00 



Harrisii 6.00to 8.00 



Gladioli ....;... S.OOto 6.00 



Lilium Anratum 6.00to 6.00 



: ,, PittsbufK. Sept. 6. 



. Per do«. 



Beauties, Specials V. 92.00 to 92.50 



Extra 2.00 



Medium 1.26to 1.60 



Short 86to .60 



Per 100 



96.00 

 4.00 

 8.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 12.00 

 6.00 

 1.00 

 1.60 

 60.00 



Brides and Bridesmaids, Fanny... 



Medium, 

 Short.... 9 2.00 to 

 Richmond, Specials 



Select 



Ordinary ; S.OOto 



Kaiserin, Specials S.OOto 



Ordinary S.OOto 



Oamations 76 to 



Adiantum 1.26 to 



Asparasrus Plumosus, Strings 



Sprays, per bunch.. 60c 



Sprengeri, bunch... 60c 



Smilax 12.60 to 



Valley 2.00 to 



Easter Lilies 15 00 to 



Gladioli 2.00 to 



Asters 60 to 



16.00 

 4.00 



18.00 

 4.00 

 2.00 



large, direct reduction in the always 

 costly fuel bill is made. The force of 

 this point is that the saving on fuel 

 comes at a time when the outside tem- 

 perature demands liberal coaling in 

 order to provide the requisite forcing 

 heat. The increase in the product from 

 acetylene, as noted in radishes and in 

 some flowers, likewise will go directly to 

 offsetting the outlay for acetylene. 



We shall be surprised if the enter- 

 prising plant growers of America do not 

 get busy in making tests to their own 

 satisfaction of the advantage of acety- 

 lene in plant culture, aiong lines so com- 

 mendably suggested by the Cornell ex- 

 periments. 



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FANCY AND DAGGER FERNS 



I am now booking- 

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 for Christmas by the lb., 

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Wholesale Cut Flower Prices. 



Milwaukee, Sept. 6. 

 PerlOO 



Beauties 925.00 



Medium 916.00 to 20.00 



Shorts 4.00to 8.0O 



Bride and Bridesmaid 400to 6.00 



Golden Gate, Ohatenay 4.00to 6.00 



Liberty 4.00to 6.00 



Perle 4.00to 6.00 



Oamations l.OOto 2.00 



Asters 76to 1.00 



Valley 8.00 



Daisies .50 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings 60.00 



Sprays 2.00 



Sprengeri, 2.00 



Smilax 16.00 



Auratum, per dosen. . . .76c to 91.60 



Lancifolium Lilies S.0O 



Ferns. perlOOO 9!2.00 .25 



Adiantum I.00 



Gladioli 2.00to 4.0O 



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