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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



OCTOBBB 4, 1906. 



WE ARE NOW ON WITH 

 A FINE CROP OF 



ROSES 



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The Following Lines Speak for Themselves 



Indianapolis^ Sept. 22, )906. 

 H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Gentlemen — Goods have arrived and well satisfied with same. I believe they are 

 the nicest stock I ever had. Yours respectfully, JOHN RIEMAN. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 50-56 N. 4th St, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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baskets and hampers, the long sprays 

 giving a loose, graceful appearance not 

 to be attained in the stiflF, closely 

 cropped plants preferred here. This is 

 a point worth the notice of some of our 

 floral artists. Mr. Strohlein found con- 

 ditions prosperous, both on the continent 

 and in England. 



VuiotM Notes. 



August 's weather debts have been paid 

 to us by September. 



Chas. E. Schackerman is the latest 

 acquisition to the force of M, Eice & Co. 



Godfrey Aschmann has favored Phil 

 with a pictorial post-card from St. Got- 

 thard, Switzerland. 



Wm. E. Gibson has resigned his posi- 

 tion in Charleston, S. C, and is now in 

 this city considering possibilities. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. are sparing no 

 effort to make their new building the 

 most completely equipped of its kind in 

 the country. 



Wm. F. Bassett & Sons, Hammonton, 

 N. J., are sending some of the finest 

 dahlias coming to this market to the Leo 

 Niessen Co. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. has 

 sent out its business announcements 

 beautifully illustrated with views of the 

 store and cold storage plant. 



The Florists' Protective Association 

 held a meeting last Thursday evening, 

 which made it clear that united action 

 could not be secured at this time. It is 

 probable that the association will be dis- 

 solved. This is a step backward. 



The annual meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held last Tuesday evening. The 

 club resolved itself into a committee of 

 the whole to consider plans for holding 

 the convention of the S. A. F. in this 

 city next August. The following officers 

 were elected: President, Samuel S. 



Pennock; vice-president, Fred Hahman; 

 secretary, Edwin Lonsdale; treasurer, J. 

 Wm. Colflesh. 



Edw. Eeid has improved his store ar- 

 rangements by changing his refrigerator. 

 He has been busy with shipping orders 

 this week. Lilium Harrisii is a spe- 

 cialty here. 



W. E. McKissick is combining natural 

 grasses with dahlias from David Herbert 

 & Son, Atco, N. J. He also is receiving 

 locally grown white ostrich plume asters, 

 a rarity now. 



Three hundred cases of azaleas were 

 received at Eiverton this week and many 

 more are expected shortly. 



B. Eschner has once more returned to 

 brighten life for his friends in the 

 Quaker City. 



Charles W. Turnley, the well known 

 florist of Camden, died recently. 



Hubert W. Johnson has sent out a cir- 

 cular letter to his constituents setting 

 forth the advantages to be derived from 

 dealing with his company. 



Philip Freud, of H. F. Michell Co., 

 has been looking over the field in New 

 York. He believes Michell 's is thor- 

 oughly up-to-date. 



Among the growers seen in town this 

 week are Alphonse Pericat, of Colling- 

 dale; John Savage, of Gwynedd, and 

 James Verner, of Garrettford. 



Charles E. Meehan says that A. J. 

 Pennock has the best house of young 

 Eichmonds that he has seen, and that 

 the grafted plants are superior to his 

 own -root stock. Phil. 



Grand Forks, N. D.— The Wichler 

 Floral Co. has located here. J. V. Wich- 

 ler, manager, is well known over the 

 northwest as a successful landscape gar- 

 dener. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



INDICT LETTUCE GROWEBS. 



The grand jury at Jefferson, 0., on 

 September 27 returned an indictment 

 against members of the Ashtabula Let- 

 tuce Growers' Association, who are 

 charged with an unlawful combination to 

 contVol the price of the outputs of crops 

 grown under glass, notably lettuce, toma- 

 toes and cucumbers. The men indicted 

 are Ernest E. Dunbar, Charles Hopkins, 

 E. W. Griswold Jr., Frank Luce, Ed- 

 win A. Adams, Jay Adams, E. Wilson 

 Eogers and F. and William Stone. 



CUCUMBERS. 



The soil for cucumbers, says L. C. Cor- 

 bett, in Bulletin No. 254 of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, should be a rich 

 compost which would fall under the 

 classification of a sandy loam. Sods 

 from an old pasture with a good turf 

 overtopping a clay loam, composted with 

 about one-third the bulk of cow manure, 

 to which, at the time of placing it in 

 the greenhouse, about fifteen per cent 

 of its bulk of sand is added, should 

 make a good soil for cucumbers. From 

 time to time during the growth of the 

 cucumbers they should be watered with 

 liquid manure from a leach containing 

 fresh horse manure and sheep manure. 

 It should be the aim of the grower to 

 keep the plants in the most vigorous pos- 

 sible condition. 



There are a number of methods of seed 

 sowing practiced by successful cucumber 

 growers, all of which have some advan- 

 tages. Three of the more common meth- 



