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September 20, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



il75 



TOOTHPICKS. 



The FLOKISTS' MANUAL, by Win. Scott. It 

 tells you Ju8t what you want to know In Just 

 the way you want to be told. It's ready now. 

 Price. $5.00. Prepaid. 



Florists' Pub. Co.. Caxton Bldg., Chicago. 



Wired toothpicks, 10,000, $1.60; 50,000, $6.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 

 W. J. COWEE, Berlin, N. Y. 



Cowee's wired, 10,000 for $1.50. Save freight 

 and buy In Denver. 



BARTELDKS SEED CO.. Denver, Colo. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying wire. 

 Igoe Bros., 6.3 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Model carnation supports, slightly used, 7oc 

 per 100. 

 H. Engler, 4651 Lancaster Ave.. Phlla., Pa. 



The Gem carnation support. Write for prices. 

 J. H. Broxey. Dayton. Ohio. 



Advertisers have learned from experience that 

 THE REVIEW 



PAYS 



BEST. 



WIRE WORK. 



Wm. H. Woerner, Wire Worker of the West. 

 Manufacturer florists' designs only. Second to 

 none. Illustrated catalogues. 

 1103 N. ISth St., Omaha, Neb. 



Our own make. Best goods. Special summer 

 prices. Send list. Wm. A. Bastlan, 1303 Balti- 

 more Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work In the west. E. F. Wlnterson Co., 

 45. 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



We carry largest stock In the west. Quick 

 service. Western florists like our goods. 

 BARTELDES SEED CO.. Denver, Colo. 



Emll Steffens. Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Deglgns. 335 East 21st St., New York. 



Wire work. Best made. Try a sample order. 

 Scranton Florist Supply Co., Scranton, Pa. 



Full line of wire work. Write for list. 



Hoi ton & Hunkel Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 



Reed & Keller, 122 W. 25th St., New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Murphy. Wholesale Florist, Cincinnati, O. 



Wire work. 

 C. C. Pollworth Co.. Manufacturers, Milwaukee. 



Wire work, all kinds. 

 C. E. Critchell, 36 E. 3rd St., Cincinnati, O. 



Wire work. 

 H. Kenney, 88 Rochester Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



E. H. Hunt, 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 



It is not often that a really good lot 

 of tree peonies are seen in England, and 

 hardly ever are they met with in Scot- 

 land; plenty of collections and plants in 

 quantity for garden decoration and cut- 

 ting of the herbaceous section are seen, 

 but the tree peonies are sadly neglected, 

 considering what lovely plants they 

 make. 



In small gardens the question of the 

 size they grow and the cost of the plants 

 probably prevents them being plante<l ; 

 but this is no drawback to large private 

 establishments, where money and space 

 are no objects. The probable objection is 

 the tenderness of the spring growths; 

 many times a single frost spoils the 

 whole year's bloom. But it is the gen- 

 erally accepted opinion that they are ten- 

 der that causes them to sutfer; they are 

 usually planted in the warmest and most 

 sheltered spot, consequently at the slight- 

 est spring warmth they break into 

 growth, with the inevitable result that 

 a later frost injures them. They should 

 be planted in a more exposed position, 

 wliere they get the benefit of early 

 spring warmth as late as possible, and 

 oniy slightly protected during the hard- 

 est frost and worst east winds. Treated 

 thus they may be "bloomed and grown 

 successfully as far north as Edinburgh 

 or even still farther north in Scotland. 



My reason for these remarks is that 

 tree peonies will become much more 

 fashionable for use in shrubberies and 

 as lawn ornaments, and large sales and 



inquiries for plants are reported by our 

 leading nurserymen. 



Visitors from America to Europe need 

 not go as far as Holland to see bulbs, 

 especially tulips, growing in patches of 

 many acres. The Hogg & Kobertson bulb 

 farm at Dublin, Ireland, has now reached 

 a size and variety of bulbs cultivated 

 such as to render it well worth a visit. 

 Early forcing tulips do especially well, 

 much better even than in Holland. The 

 growth is stronger and taller, and the 

 blooms are one-quarter larger than ordi- 

 nary Dutch-grown. The soil is sand, al- 

 most identical with that met with in 

 Holland, and the moisture is supplied 

 from below as in Holland. This season 

 there are over seven acres of early tulips, 

 over five acres of miscellaneous bulbs, 

 and many acres of all sorts of narcissi. 



This is only a beginning; in the course 

 of time, considering the exceptionally 

 high quality of the bulbs produced and 

 the rate at which they grow and propa- 

 gate, it is pretty certain that Ireland 

 will be a formidable rival of Holland in 

 bulb culture. In all, Hogg & Robertson 

 have nearly fifty acres of land entirely 

 devoted to bulbs. 



At the meeting of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society on July 17 A. N. Sutton 

 exhibited a collection of tuber-bearing 

 solanums, including Solanum Commer- 

 soni violet, which is being placed upon 

 the market by a French firm. From ap- 

 pearances it seems that the variety is no 

 different from the older Blue Giant. 



At the same meeting it was stated 

 that the Mexican Dasylirion glaucophyl- 

 lum was flowering at Inwood, Temple 

 Combe. The rate of growth ot the flower 

 stalk during the fortnight before bloom- 

 ing was sixteen feet, or considerably 

 more than half an inch per hour for 

 the whole time. It is supposed to be the 

 only one bloomea in England since 1857, 

 when one bloomed at Kew. 



Blue primroses are being talked of 

 and sought for again. The strain of 

 G. F. Wilson put on the market some 

 years ago is said to come true blue. 

 Some of them may, but my experience has 

 been that plants from seed saved from 



true blue flowers entirely will result in 

 every imaginable color — red, pink, pur- 

 ple, lavender and even yellow and white. 

 The fact that I grew the seed under 

 glass and entirely separate^ from other 

 colors in primroses does not appear to 

 make any difference, and even if a true 

 blue plant is selected and divided up, 

 the divisions are just as likely to come 

 purple or red, so much so that after ex- 

 periments I came to the conclusion that 

 the blue color was more the effect of 

 light and shade and different chemical 

 compositions of the soil than anything 

 else. It is a great pity a permanent 

 true blue strain cannot be established. 

 It would be a valuable acquisition to our 

 spring flowers, a blue flower or two in 

 spring being badly needed. It would ue 

 a lucky find for the fortunate raiser, and 

 would probably result in a little fortune 

 when placed on the market. J. B. 



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