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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



June 20, 1007. 



NEW CROP 



Ferns-Galax-Moss 



HardT Tanoy Vems 



Per 100 20c PerlOOO 11.60 



Gr««n and Brons* Galax Leaves 

 FerlOOO 11.00 Per 5000 18.76 



Green Bbeet Mosa 



Ferbale 25c Bundle. 5 bales. ..$1.00 



BpliaBmuin Moss 

 Per sank 75c 10 sacks $6.00 



SPECIAL FBICE ON LARGE QUANTITIES 



CC nDITPUCi I Wholesale Com- 

 I Ci UnllunCLL mission Florist 

 34-36 East Third St., CINCINNATI, OHIO 



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CENTAUREA MOSCHATA. 



The sweet sultans, white and purple, 

 have been considerably improved during 

 recent years, for whereas the older 

 forms only grow about a foot to a foot 

 and one-half in height, the newer forms 

 grow from two and one-half to three feet 

 in height and produce an abundance of 

 large, sweet-scented, flowers on long 

 stems. The best for general purposes is 

 the purple, though some seedsmen have 

 a giant white strain, which is also fine. 

 In the ordinary way, however, the purple 

 is the hardiest and strongest, and, to my 

 mind, the most beautiful of the sweet 

 sultans, providing a good succession of 

 cut flowers, which retain their freshness 

 in water for a longer time than most 

 flowers. The principal recommendation, 

 however, of all the forms, is their deli- 

 cate honey perfume, which is, perhaps, 

 sweeter of its kind than that of any 

 other garden flower. 



The soil that suits them best is one 

 rich in lime, and any soil deficient in 

 this essential plant food and soil tonic 

 should have some mortar-rubbish or lime 

 mixed with it, or should be given a lib- 

 eral application of basic slag, at the 

 rate, say, of five pounds to the twenty 

 square yards. I have done well with 

 them, says a writer in the Gardeners' 

 Magazine, on ordinary garden soil that 

 is naturally poor in lime simply by the 

 addition of basic slag, the soil being 

 deeply dug &nd in a generally good state 

 of fertility. As they do not stand trans- 

 planting well, seed should be sown where 

 the plants are to bloom. They will 

 repay a little more care than is often 

 bestowed upon spring-sown annuals, for 

 they are scarcely worth growing if left 

 to take care of themselves. A sunny po- 

 sition should be chosen for them and a 

 good soil that has been well prepared — 

 not in the mixed border within reach of 

 greedy perennials — and the seed should 

 be sown as soon as the conditions be- 

 come favorable. As soon as the, seed- 

 lings are in the second leaf, but before 

 they have time to become leggy, they 

 should have a preliminary thinning, so 

 that no two are left close together, and 

 then as they grow they can be gradually 

 further thinned until finally they are left 

 eight or nine inches apart, the best 

 plants always being chosen to remain. 



El Paso, III. — A. H. Wolk and Fred 

 Crane have formed a partnership for 

 the purpose of going into the florists' 

 business here. They will erect two 

 houses, each 12x100 feet, this season, 

 and will do more building next year. 

 They will devote themselves chiefly to 

 growing carnations. The firm will be 

 known as the Wolk Florist Co. 



Fancy and 

 Dagger Ferns 



$1.50 per 1000 



Use Our Laurel Festooning for your June Weddings; 

 also our Southern Wild Smilax, 50-lb. cases, $7.00 



Telecraph Offloe, NKW SALKM. MASS. 

 XiOna; Distance Teleplione Conneotlon. 



CROWL FERN CO., MILLINGTON, MASS. 



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HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



Florists* Supplies and Hardy Cut Evergreens 



Til. 2S17-2I1I Maia. 16 ProTiaee St., 9 Chapman PI., Bostov, Maaa. 



Hardy Cut Daegfer and 



Fancy Ferns, $2 per 1000. 

 Green and Bronze Galazt 



$1.50 per 1000. 

 Latirel rettooniogfor June 



Decorationc, 6c per yd. 

 Branch Laurel, 50c per 



bunch. 

 Sphagnum Mom, 50c per 



bag; 5 bags, $2.00. 



American Beauties 

 Richmonds 

 Brides and 

 Bridesmaids 

 Carnations 

 Valley 



Everything in the flower 

 line. 



Write for Price LisU 



7IorlBta' Supply Price ^ist on Applioatlon. 



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Extra fine FANCY FFDMCh $2.50 per lOOO 

 and D AQGEB M li. ■%. I ^ ^i^ Discount on large orders. 

 BOXWOOD, 20c per lb.; 60 lbs., $8.60. GALAX, Bronze and Green. $1.2» 

 per 1000; 97.60 per case. LEUCOTHOB HPBiTS, 91.00 per 100; 97.50 per 1000. 

 Let as have your standlnK order for Ferns. 



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MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER EXCHANGE, Incorporatm 



88-40 BROADWAY, DETROIT, MICH. 



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The Review is an ever welcome guest 

 and instructor. — H. B. Sullivan, Kock- 

 ford, 111. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The Lord & 

 Burnham Co., New York, has been given 

 the contract to erect greenhouses for the 

 park board, its bid having been $6,480. 



Bbaddock, Pa. — While James Drewes 

 was driving his team from the ceijietery 

 recently, the horses ran off the road at 

 Short street, and down over the edge of 

 a 12-foot embankment, Mr. Drewes go- 

 ing down under the horses and rig. He 

 luckily escaped with nothing worse than 

 bruises, however. George Bolens, with 

 him, was thrown out and cut painfully. 



New Castle, Pa. — Henry "Weinschenk 

 is rapidly building what is probably the 

 largest greenhouse under one roof any- 

 where in the world. It is 125 feet wide 

 and 600 feet long. The house stands 

 on a hillside, or rather, on the two sides 

 of a hill, a span of about eighty-five 

 feet being on one side of the hill and 

 a span of about forty feet running back 

 from the brow of the hill. This mam- 

 moth house will be used for lettuce and 

 cucumbers. 



NEW CROP 



Fancy and Dagger Gut Ferns 



Buy direct from the man in the big woods. 

 Owns and operates cold storage the year arounci 

 for proper care of ferns. 



Wholesale trade solicited. 



E. H. HITCHCOCK, Glenwood, Mich. 



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SOUTHERN 



WILD SNILAX 



BKAVKW'S rADKLBBS M08B 

 NATURAL 8HKKT M08SK8 



E.A.BEAVEN, EVERGREEN, ALA. 



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The Ocean County Moss & Peat Co. 



WARKTOWH, N. J., DMUars In 



Sphagnum Moss and Fibrous Peat 



Also peat in its natural state, live moss in sacks. 

 2>i bushels. For further iDformatlon call or 

 write to W. H. Stackhouse, Prop. Prompt 

 attention given to all correspondence. Good 

 reference on demand. 



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