

^'OVHMBKK i!8, 1907. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



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House of Cocos Weddelliana in 5-inch Pots, at Henry A« Dreer^s, Riverton, N. J. 



with waxed tissue paper. And note tliis, 

 you who have competitors in business: 

 the dealer who always sends out the 

 most tasteful, most neat and attractive 

 violet package, even though it costs a 

 little extra, and always has his violets 

 up to standard, mark you, will in a very 

 short time have the bulk of the trade, 

 and the cream of it, as you will soon 

 find to your sorrow and chagrin. 



A Time Not to Smoke. 



Now, one of the things that are abso- 

 lutely essential to this perfect package 

 is the absence of all foreign odors. 

 Never under any circumstances allow 

 smoking while handling them, or while 

 picking or filling with water previously 

 to packing them. This is a matter that 

 you cannot be too particular about. 



And do not think any lot of old vases, 

 etc., good enough for putting them in to , 

 fill with water, but get some pans of 

 such size and shape as will be conven- 

 ient for you, and make some covers of 

 wire netting for them, so that as you 

 pick and bunch, you can place them in 

 there, which will keep the leaves and 

 blooms from the water and yet allow 

 the stems to be in in good shape and 

 without crowding in any way. 



Another thing that it is well to keep 

 111 mmd IS the grading and quality. Do 

 not mix a few small or off-color flowers 

 in a bunch of otherwise first-class 

 blooms; they spoil the appearance and 

 lower the price of a bunch which, but 

 tor them, Avould be perfect and com- 

 mnivl the top market price. 



R. E. Shuphelt. 



BEST SINGLE VIOLETS. 



I would like to ask you what you con- 

 sider to be the best single violet to grow, 

 also what temperature do they require in 

 cold weather? C. H. H. 



The best single violet is undoubtedly 

 Princess of Wales, of which probably 

 ten times as many are grown as of #11 

 other sorts put together. A night tem- 

 perature of 40 to 45 degrees suits single 

 violets in winter. It should not exceed 

 the latter figure, or leaf growth will be 

 excited at the pxpense of flowers. Single 

 violets are hardy and should be allowed 

 to freeze tolerably hard before being 

 housed. They are better housed after 

 the middle of October. C. W. 



THE HOUSE OF COCOS. 



One of the features which interested 

 the thousand visitors at Riverton, N. J., 

 during the S. A. F. convention was the 

 house of Cocos Weddelliana in 5-inch 

 pots. There were few among the visitors 

 who ever had seen so many plants of 

 this palm, or, indeed, any considerable 

 number in such large pots. The princi 

 pal use of the coeos is for the center of 

 fern dishes and in 2-inch and 3-inch pots 

 it has a large sale. Last season the 

 Henry A. Dreer company had a few 

 plants in larger sizes and found they 

 sold well. Conceiving the idea that the 

 larger sizes would prove profitable, they 

 this season set aside a number of thou- 

 sands for growing on into 5-inch pots. 

 The house of these plants as it appeared 

 at convention time is shown in the ac- 

 companying illustration. It looks dif- 



ferently now, for a large part of the 

 stock has been taken by appreciative re- 

 tailers. 



AMPELOPSIS JAPONICA POISONING 



A British nurseryman writes as fol- 

 lows in the Horticultural Advertiser: 



"While we had known that Ampelop- 

 sis Japonica (Rhus toxicodendron) was 

 poisonous, having had severe cases 

 through handling it, we had not observed 

 any ill effects from the variety Hoggii 

 until recently, when, having occasion to 

 propagate, one of the propagating staff 

 was told to prepare and put in some 

 cuttings. He took the precaution to 

 wash his hands immediately he had fin- 

 ished, but within two days his lips and 

 face generally began to swell, which 

 were the first symptoms; then his hands 

 and arms swelled and blistered, all the 

 skin came off his hands, and great boils 

 came up on his arms; altogether he was 

 off work for five weeks. 



"Like Primula obconica, it does not 

 affect everybody, but those it does the 

 slightest touch seems enough. We decid- 

 ed directly our man took ill to destroy 

 every plant on the nursery. We hapjjened 

 to have a few standing on some plunging 

 ground, and one of our men who is not 

 harmed by handling it pulled them up 

 and burned them. A few days after an- 

 other man who had occasion to work in 

 the same piece of ground, although he 

 could only have come in contact with 

 some of the roots that had gone through 

 the pots, developed symptoms of poison- 

 ing, though not so severe as the first 

 ease. So that it would seem that all 

 parts of the plant arc dangerous." 



