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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



NOTBHBBB 1, 1006. 



Augusta Gladiolus 



We are headquarters for them. 

 We offer for Fall deliveries (Decem- 

 ber) 500,000 first-class Bulbs. 



Augusta No. I, $12.00 per 1000. 



Augusta No. II, $9.00 per 1000. 

 No less than 25,000 at these prices. 



Cash with order. ^ • 



, ROWEHL A.GRANZ 



HicksTille, L. I., N. Y. 



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P. W. NARCISSUS 



13 cm. and up, 11.00 per 100; $8.00 per 1000. 



WANTED— lOO.OfO seeds Asp. Plumosus Nanus 

 true. Feb. and March delivery. Casb. 



JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. 



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Cineraria 



Large-flowering prize, splendid mixed, t. p., 60c. 

 Large-flowering, semi-dwarf prize, splendid 



mixed, t. p., 60c. 

 PANST, superb mixed, oz., $4.60; K-oz., $1.16; 



J^oz., 60c. 



W. C. BECKERT, ALLEGHENY, PA. 



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Wm. P. Craig 



lUPOBTIB— KXPORTKB 



Plants,* Bulbs and Seeds 



1806 Filbert St. 

 ■•N.;:; Irasd i°aT'^^°''^ Philadelphia 



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labor is decidedly low. The men are 

 paid from $2.50 to $5 per week; the 

 higher figure is for well-educated, smart 

 men employed in the higher arts of seed 

 raising. A great many women and chil- 

 dren also are employed, the women get- 

 ting about $1.50 per week; they work 

 about two hours shorter time than the 

 men, whose summer hours are from 6 

 a. m. to 7 p. m. As one might expect, 

 the ordinary German laborer does not go 

 about his work in any great hustle, but 

 takes things with a philosophic calm 

 which augurs well for a ripe old age. 

 The higher grade of workmen, such as 

 those in charge of greenhouses, or whose 

 duty it is to fertilize the choicer flowers, 

 are an intelligent set of men, many of 

 them speaking two or three languages. 

 The cleaning of the flower fields is done 

 principally with small draw hoes, about 

 four inches wide, supplemented by hand 

 weeding. The farms of the best cultivat- 

 ors are kept wonderfully clean; on some 

 one hardly sees a weed in a morning's 

 drive. Extreme care and thoroughness in 

 every detail are found in these establish- 

 ments. For instance, on the beds of the 

 commonest hardy annuals, seed of which 

 will sell at 20 cents to 25 cents per 

 pound, one will see sticks put to every 

 plant which is ever so little superior in 

 color, form or habit to its neighbors; 

 these plants are kept for stock seed. 

 Again, sugar beet seed is one of the 

 great cultures of some of the growers 

 (I saw a field of seventy-five acres on one 

 farm), and t6 improve, their stock and 

 increase the percentage of sugar, they 

 actually take out a sample of every root 



Florists' Bulbs 



ALL our HOLLAND BULBS have arrived in excellent condition. 

 Our TULIPS are FIRST SIZE aOWERING BULBS only. 



SINGLE TULIPS 



100 1000 



Artus, dark scarlet $U.5 $10.75 



Chrycolora, pure yellow ... .95 7.50 

 G>tta2e Maid, rosy pink ... .85 8.00 

 Katrmkroon, red and yellow 1.50 14.50 



La Reine» white LOO 8.00 



Yellow Prince, yelbw .90 8.00 



DOUBLE TULIPS 



100 1000 



Gloria Soils, bronze red .... $L25 $12.00 

 Imperator Rubrorum, scarlet 2.75 - 24.00 



MuriUo, blush white . 2.00 18.50 



Totirnesol, red and yellow . L75 15.00 



Toumesol, yellow 2.25 20.00 



La Candetir, white 1.25 11.50 



UUIJIVI MULTIFLORIM 



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Boddington's Early or Easter Flowering Type 



7— 9-inch bulbs, 300 in a case ....%. . .$5,00 per 100> $45.00 per 1000 



9— 10-inch bulbs, 200 in a case 8.50 per lOOj 80.00 per 1000 



lilLIUM OIGANTEUM AND ALL OTHER BULBS. 



' Send for Special Prices and Gitalogue. 



Dutcii Romans or Miniature Hyacintlis 



To name 35c per do24 $2.25 per 10O> $20.00 per 1000 



FREESIAS, >^ toX-incb (surplus to close), 75c per 100; $6.00 per 1000. 



ARTHUR To BODDINGTON 



342 W. I4tii Street, 



NEW YORK CITY 



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Sterilized^ 

 Siieep Manure 



Free from weed seeds and other deleterious 

 matter, all-round fertilizer for florists, 100 

 lbs., $125; $20.00 per ton. 



Straw and Burlap Mats 



Made of rye straw, tied with marline twine, size 6x6 feet, wiU cover 

 two coldframes, $1.25; $14.00 per doz. Burlap Mats, same size, made 

 of jute qttilted, grand mat for all pttrposes, $1.25 ; $14.00 per doz* 



Clay's Fertilizer 



G)nsidered one of the best fertilizers on the market, very popular with 

 English and Scotch gardeners, 56 lbs., $4iX) ) 112 lbs., $7.00. 



W. ELLIOTT & SONS 



201 FULTON ST., NEW YORK. 



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which is to be planted for stock seed, 

 and test it for the ainount of sugar con- ) 

 tained, and if it does not reach a certain 

 standard it is rejected. The method em- 

 ployed is very scientific, but in working 

 is simple, and can be done with great ^ 

 rapidity. At Dippe Bros.' there is a 

 room sixty feet square entirely devoted 

 to this chemical analysis of the sugar 

 beets. 



Coldframes play an important part in 

 the growing of plants for. seed. Millions 

 of seedlings are raised in them, to be 

 transplanted to the fields, while many 

 half-hardy subjects are entirely grown in 

 them. These frames are low, perhaps not 

 more than nine inches at the back. When 

 the plants are too high for the frames, 

 the lights are rdised on stakes driven 

 into the ground and connected by build- 



