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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 20, 1906. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



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WIRE SUPPORTS. 



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WIRE WORK. 



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We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

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45, 47, 40 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



William E. Hlelscher's Wire Works, 38-40 

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Wire work. Best made. Try a sample order. 

 Scranton Florists' Supply Co., Scranton. Pa. 



Full line of wire work. Write for list. 

 Holton & Hunkel Co., Milwaukee. Wis. 



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

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Murph y, Wholesale Florist. Cincinnati. O. 



Wire work, all kinds. 

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



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LILY OF THE VALLEY. 



Peat Samples. 



As a supplement to my article of No- 

 vember 15 on lily of the valley I would 

 like to add some further remarks in 

 the way, to some extent, of a correction 

 to my statements in reference to black 

 peat grown samples. 



It may not be generally known that 

 there is heavy, wet peat and also dry, 

 sandy peat. Samples of valley pips 

 grown on the two distinct soils are 

 somewhat different in their nature and 

 require different treatment. After a 

 dry season, like the present, it might 

 have been supposed that these peat 

 samples would do for late forcing. This 

 is proving fairly correct with the samples 

 grown on sandy peat and these same 

 samples also can be used for early 

 forcing, and in fact for forcing from 

 December to April to a certain extent, 

 but in all peat samples it is necessary 

 to continually examine the crown while 

 being heeled in in the open ground, as 

 the following remarks will show. 



Previous to this year it has been my 

 experience that after a dry season peat 

 samples were suitable for late forcing. 

 But several samples which have lately 

 come under ray notice, in bulk quanti- 

 ties, are already showing signs that they 



will not keep until the time for late 

 forcing, but must be forced at once; as 

 after they are heeled in in the open 

 ground they are found on examination 

 to be losing all their roots through rot, 

 caused by excessive moisture in the roots. 



The one great trouble with these peat 

 samples is excessive moisture in the 

 roots and pips. This causes them in 

 wet years to rot while being stored, 

 awaiting use. It also causes them to 

 badly rot when being forced if they have 

 the slightest oversupply of water. Also 

 when retarded they are liable to more 

 or less rot or mould, this causing the 

 base of the crown to part from the 

 junction of the roots and the roots them- 

 selves to get soft. 



Judging by the samples I have already 

 tested this year, it is not safe to rely 

 upon even such a dry season as last to 

 reduce the moisture and otherwise pro- 

 duce a normal crown from black, heavy 

 peat. Any grower having a bulk of peat 

 samples on hand will do well to fre- 

 quently examine them and see that rot 

 and mildew has not set in, whether 

 stored by heeling in in open ground, as 

 is a general practice in England, or 

 whether stored in moss or in the cold 

 storage rooms. H. Amburger. 



MIGNONETTE. 



Since we hear so little about mignon- 

 ette, are we to infer that it is not a 

 profitable flower to grow for the whole- 

 sale market? If it is profitable, why do 

 not more growers grow it? Are there 

 any conditions which make it especially 

 hard to grow? How many good spikes 

 per plant can reasonably be expected 

 for the season extending from November 

 to May? W. K. 



"We were not aware that so little was 

 said about this humble, sweet flower. 

 We have a neighbor who grows the south 

 bench of a 125-foot bouse every winter 

 and we are quite sure that he would not 

 persist in growing it if*" he had any 

 doubt of its being profitable. We have 

 never kept an accurate account of what 

 it returned per square foot of bench 

 room. We consider it quite as profitable 

 as carnations if well grown, with this 

 difference, that you can always sell good 

 carnations while the market for mignon- 

 ette can be overdone. W. S. 



PROPAGATING DAHLIAS. 



I would like to know if it would be 

 practical to start dahlias for cuttings on 

 the ground just under the edge of the 

 benches? We have several seedlings and 

 choice varieties that we wish to increase 

 by cuttings as much as possible, and 

 want to know if they will do well under 

 the bench rather than on the bench. 



N. H. G. 



Yes, it would be possible to start 

 dahlias growing on the edge of the path, 

 beneath the bench, but we would consider 

 it a poor place, as the growth made 

 would be sure to be weak and spindling. 

 It will pay you, whether in a large or 

 small way, to give your dahlias proper 

 surroundings. If you are so short of a 

 few feet of benchroom, then you are at- 

 tempting to grow more than you have 

 room for and something will be sure to 

 be neglected. You need not begin to 

 grow your dahlias for cutting before 

 February 1, and surely by that time you 

 will have room for them on the bench 

 in the light, the only place for them. 



W.S. 



