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The Weekly Florists'" Review* 



June 20, 1U07. 



larfjc, full ;iml of oxijuisitc form, tlio 

 buds luiiff and pointed, color shell pink, 

 reflex of petals blush, base of petal 

 vciufd and snfl'iised peaeli, with a yellow 

 /.cue; ileliaht fully fragrant. 



.Mrs. llaroM iiroekleltank (IT. T.) — 

 The growth is robust, flowering freely 

 and continuously; the blooms, wiiicii are 

 ]iroduce<l on erect footstalks, are large, 

 full and iif ]ierfect formation and sweet- 

 ly perfumed; the color is creamy white, 

 center laitl', Itase of ]>etals soft golden 

 yellow, iiuicr jiotals fre(|uently tinted 

 with s;dm(iii ]-nse. luids witii a flush of 

 salmon jiink. 



Souvenir of Stella Cray (Tea) — Tlie 

 flowers are i>\ )uedinm size, full, per- 

 fcrtly fi.iiiic'il and most freely produced. 

 Tlir --hadc^ di' cdldr ;iri' hitiiertd unknown 

 in ;uiy ruse; the preilominating tone is 

 dn [, (ir;ni;^r. Avitii spl;isiies or venations 

 I't y(||(]\\. :i]iiic-(ii. salmon and crimson. 



\V. !■;. i.ippiati ill. T.V-This is :i 

 most wilcomf addition, supplying a color 

 much ]'t>(|uired — brilliant velvety crim- 

 son, sliadcil maroifu. The blooms are 

 larur. full, symmetrically formed. Avitli 

 lii;;h-|poiiitrMl <-entor and strongly jicr- 

 fiiiricd : uidw th \ igonais. 



TO DESTROY RATS. 



b'ai-. a~^ Well as other rodents, are 

 soiiietiiiie^ a iiieat pest in greeidiuuses, 

 and those win, Iia\e exjieiii'iiced the dilli- 

 culty of getting rid of ih.-m will lie in- 

 lereslecl in a new bulletin of the V. S. 

 I'epaiimeiit of Agriculture entitled 

 "Metlnids uf Destroying JJats." The 

 lat has lieen a lesident of the I'nited 

 States since 177.j and the bulletin says it 

 is the wdrst mamimd jiest in the faml, 

 doing millions <if dollars of damage each 

 year. Ill sjiite of constant warfare, its 

 uutnliers ;u-e increasing rapidly, for it 

 I'reeds three or four times a year, ]<roduc- 

 ing six to twelve at a litter' Of numer- 

 ous jMiisniis the following is recom- 

 mended : 



'■(•lie of the chea|iest and most elfec- 

 li\e piiisdus fdi- lals and mice is barium 

 carbonate, or bai'ytes. This iniueral has 

 the .advantatie of being without taste or 

 smell: and. in the sm.all (|uantilies used 

 in poisoning lats and mice, is harndess 

 to lar;:ei- animals. Jts action on rodents 

 I- slew, Imt reasonaiily sure, and has the 

 tnither advant;i;:e lli.at tlii' .animals be- 

 fore dying, if exit be ]iossible, usually 

 le.a'.e ihe pieiniscs ju search ^.)f water. 

 Its emjdoymeiit in houses, therefore, is 

 i;irely followed by the aniioving oilor 

 v\iiich atleiii|s ill,, iisi- ,,j' tin- niori' \iru- 

 lent jidi^.ins. 



•'Till' ]ioisdii may be fed in the form 

 of :i doueh made of one lifth barytes and 

 toar-lil'tljs meal, but .a more convenient 

 bait is onlin.ary oalnn.al. with .about one- 

 eiL;lith of its liiilk of barytes. mixed with 

 \v;iter iiitd ;i -tiif doueh ; or the barytes 

 ni.ay l,e v|,i'eacl ujion bread and butter 

 of inoi-tene.l toast. The jirejiared bait 

 shoidd be jilared in rat runs, a small 

 '|u;intity at a jd.ace. If a single appli- 

 cation oi' the )ioisoii fails to drive all 

 r.ats froni the premises, it should be re- 

 I'e.ated vith a change of bait." 



1m tiieenliouses there frequently is 

 much water, and the rats may not leave 

 10 die. Then, to prevent odor, trapping 

 is necessary. 



••Trapping, if ]iersistently followe<l. is 



oi f the most eifective methods of de- 



stii'vint; rats. 'j'he improved modern 

 trajis with a wire fall released by a 

 baiteil tiii;ger and dri\en liy a coiled 

 spline- haxi' marked ;idv,antages over the 

 o|i| id)ii;~. aii'l maiix oi' thi'iu nia\' be 



used at the same time. These traps, 

 sometimes called guillotine traps, are of 

 many designs, but the more simply con- 

 structed are to be preferred. Probably 

 those made (Mitirely of metal are the best, 

 as they :ire less likely to absorb and re- 

 tain odors. 



''(iuillotine traps should be baited 

 Mitli small pieces of Vienna sausage 

 (Wienerwurst) or bacon. The trigger 

 wire should be bent inward, to bring the 

 bait into ]»ro|ii>r jiosition to pernnt the 

 fall to strike the rat in the neck." 



MUSHROOMS OUTDOORS. 



Would it lie possible to gi'ow nuish- 

 rooms outdoors in the open; that is. not 

 in caves or cellars.' How could it best 

 lie .'iccoinplished .' 1 have an orchard 

 axailable for the }>urpose if it is wurth 

 trying. I,, b'. K. 



1 do not think th;it mushroom culture 

 in tlie ojieii air would ]>rove at .all a 

 success. It is jiractically impossible in 



Here is the dollar for another year. 

 I cannot do without 



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as it has sold all of my plants and 

 from its advertisers I have purchased 

 what I needed to buy. 



J. H. HOLLY. 

 Neodesha, Kan. 

 June 9, 1907. 



NEW YORK. 



our climate to gi\e them anything like 

 an equable temperature, s<iniething 

 necessary for successful mushroom lul- 

 ture. I have seen the experiment triecl 

 and \\hile on one or two in'cjisions a 

 I'ew mushrooms h;ive aj)]ieare,|. no le.al 

 croji has iieen secured. If it is ,|ecii|,.,| 

 to ex|periment outdoors, it will be neces 

 sary md oidy to mulch the bei|s. Imt 

 also to jiidtect them with shutters frinu 

 so.aking rains. It will, however. I,,' tar 

 better to s|iawu beds in cellar^ or ^licls 

 ',\iiere a night temiier.'iture of 7a\ de- 

 grees to (io degrees can be maintained 

 and from which light can be e\, lii,|..i|. 

 As the late fall and winter months are 

 those in which mushrooms '^cll espei-ially 1 

 well, the earliest bed, if sp.awned .about | 

 August 1. sliouhl couM' into bearin:^ .about ! 

 the middle of Se|>tember. As we usually 

 h:ive killing frosts early in October, such ' 

 ii bed e\"en. with ideal outdoor condi- ' 

 tions. would not yield mucli of a crop 

 unless carefully iirotected. 



In I'lngland mushrooms are ei-owri on 

 f|uite .'I laroi' scale outdoors, but it must 

 be rememlx'red that their climate is \,.|v 

 diflerent from ours, Ixdng mmh more 

 liumid and •with .1 generally lower .and 

 more even tem|>eratuif. conditions which 

 mushr(,oins like. ( . \\ . 



The Market. 



'J'he (uitdoor flowers are here and never 

 have we seen finer weigelias, spira'as 

 ;ind snowballs. They have been used lav- 

 ishly in decorations. Wagon-loads of 

 snowballs were used in the church decora- 

 tions by .Wadley & Smythe, put up for 

 the wedding of the slaughter of 8tuyve- 

 sant Fish. The delayed season seems to 

 have been just what these nursery spe- 

 cialties needed to nuike their bloom per- 

 fect. 



lieauties at their best still command 

 + 1.") .'I hundred. -V few even sold higher 

 oil .Momla\', but the t(>ndcney is toward 

 .•I lower level. If the Jieat continues 1 

 will not be surprised to see 10 cents to[) 

 by Saturday. ]^)ride and Maid will likely 

 go to W cents for selected stock and -to to 

 •tin ii thousand for the lower grades. 



Carnations are melting fast and .$1 per 

 hundred promises to be the top for good 

 stock before the week is over. Even now 

 ^•1 will purchase the best stock that 

 reacdies the market. It is simply the ex- 

 ]iected that has happened, only the sum- 

 mer break is a month later than usual. 

 F.verybody "is philosophical about it and 

 !io one se(>ms especially surjtrised or pes- 

 simistic. _ 



jjilies are down to ^\ and \ .alley 1,) 

 .$ll i>er hundred for the best. Sweet 

 pe.as and everylhing else ha\e joined the 



pl'ocessiotl. 



Weather and Auctions. 



Wiien New Noik deiddes to do any- 

 thing woith \\liile. it does it well. So 

 when the hot weather came, as it did in 

 eaiiiest on Saturday last, it was hotter 

 here by sexcral degrees th.an anywhere 

 else in the United States. The hot wave 

 continued through ^Monday anil at this 

 writing seems to have come to stay. The 

 welcome it hiis received demonstrates 

 how unpopular has been the long stretch 

 of unsf>asonable weather, hlxen in w day 

 the veg(falde and fruit markets show the 

 Ix'Tiefit of the change m increased re- 

 ceipts and more reasonable ])rices. 



The fruit auction market is a most in- 

 teresting study. The enormous daily re- 

 ceipts of fruit of e\('ry kind from the 

 south and distant west are disprised of 

 liy auction every morning and the speed, 

 syslem and thoroughness of the wdrk are 

 a revelation. 1 am indebted to .Fohn V. 

 <'leary for the details of the interesting 

 nu'thods whereby tiie vast receipts are so 

 s.ifely .and completely disposeil of. 1I(> 

 is milking a fine success of this auction 

 business. At deary's Iforticiiltural Hall 

 Ambrose^ ('leary now jin'sides and twice 

 weekly large (|uantities of liedding plants 

 and nursery stock are sold. J-^lliott ^ 

 ""^ons m.aintain their extensixe distiibu- 

 tions by the same metlnul eveiy Tuesd.ay 

 and I'riday. 



The auction season lias broken all rec- 

 oiijs this year in prices and attendance, 

 at times there being lack of even stand- 

 iii;i loom at the busy marts. I'ricos often 

 ie;iidieii aboxe iij^iilar retail I'ates. The 

 !;o!ies were much in e\ii|ence at |-",lliot t 's. 

 The \eteran has a \ery ]'ersiiasi\e \oic(,' 

 and at times it is irresistible. 



Various Notes. 



The travid to lairope .and to the sum- 

 nier resorts around New ^'ork iias begun 

 in earnest. Down at Newport Sicbrecht 

 iV Son. LeikiMis, Wadley tC' Smythe and 

 Hodgson ha\e ojiened their branch stores 

 and biisim^ss has begun. 



Tl :irl\' cliisinL; ino\ement bv Ihc 



