FK9StVASiX- Q, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



'35 



SHAMROCK 



IRISH. THK BXAL THING! GREKN 



Best to order early and grow on for strong; 

 plants for St. Patrick's Day- Our stock is very 

 fine. 94.00 per 100, or by mail, postpaid, 60c doz. 



....XXX SEEDS.... 



FHLOZ DRUM. PUBnLA, very dwarf, 

 grand for pots, fine colors, good per cent of 

 new Oicily varieties, pkt., 26c. 



ALTBIUII COH^ACTUM, most dwarf and 

 compact variety grown, perfect balls when 

 grown in pots, pkt., 26c. 



Pli'lUMlA STAB, Improved, finest marked 

 flowers, very fine, pkt., 260. 



PBTUMIA, GIAHT, single fringed, large and 

 fine, pkt., 26c. 



CBIMRSR PRIBfROBX, finest grown, single 

 and doable, mixed, 600 seeds, $1.00; >i pkt.,60c. 



GIANT PAHBT, finest grown, critically se- 

 lected, 6000 seeds, $1.00; >^ pkt., 60o. 



SALVIA Bonfire, finest grown, brilliant scarlet 

 and compact, lOOO seeds, 40c. 



Caali. Liberal extra oooiit of seeds In all pkts. 



JOHN r. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. 

 TSB Kom or PBZMmosaB. 



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making sure that one place is not get- 

 ting more or less than another. Such a 

 soil as yours Trill retain the moisture 

 for a considerable time, so I would ad- 

 vise you not to water when you think 

 the soil is dry, but wait until you see 

 your plants beginning to suffer for want 

 of it; then give a good watering as di- 

 rected above. You will be surprised to 

 find how little water your plants vrill 

 really need in such a soil as this, espe- 

 cially during the dull, short days. 



Wm. Soott. 



LARVAE IN CUCUMBER SOIL. 



In growing hothouse cucumbers we 

 gather stable manure during the winter 

 and pile it up. In the follovring April 

 it is worked over and then left until 

 used the following fall. In September 

 we fill our house with one-third of this 

 manure and two-thirds soil — rotted sod — 

 and this compost is thoroughly worked 

 over in the benches. The plants are 

 then set out. About six to eight weeks 

 afterward the pieces of manure all over 

 the house are full of white maggots 

 about an eighth of an inch long. These 

 hatch into a small, dark bluish fly or 

 gnat. While in the larvee stage they 

 kill many cucumber vines. 



Can any cucumber grower or anyone 

 else give me any light as to prevention 

 of these maggots or how to save the 

 cucumber vines! W. & C. 



I understand from your statement that 

 the sods and manure are composted sepa- 

 rately. In my judgment this is not as 

 desirable as composting the soil and 

 manure together by putting down a layer 

 of sods about twelve inches deep, on top 

 of this putting a layer of manure eight 

 to ten inches deep, then sods and manure 

 until the heap is two feet and a half 

 or three feet deep. Make the heap about 

 eight feet wide and any length desired. 

 Leave it saucer-shaped on top. After 

 it has been up for three months, begin 

 at one end and cut it down with a mat- 

 tock and re-pile it so sua to thoroughly 

 work the soil and manure together. If 

 Ijandled in this way, the manure becomes 

 '0 thoroughly mixed vnth the soil that it 

 Ices not offer a congenial breeding place 

 for insects, while heaps of pure manure 

 ^0. It is likely that if you sprinkle 



GOLD MEDAL STRAIN BEGONIAS 



Taberona— Rooted 



Per doz. Per 100 



Single White 10.40 12.50 



" Yellow 40 2.60 



" Nankeen 40 3.60 



" Pink ,. .40 2.60 



" Rose .40 2.50 



*' Bed 40 3.60 



" Dark Red 40 2.60 



" Salmon 40 3.60 



" Orange 40 3.60 



" Mixed 86 3.36 



Double White 66 6.00. 



Yellow 66 6.00 



" Orange 66 6.00 



Rose 66 600 



" DarkRoae 66 6.00 



" DarkRed 66 6.00 



" Red 66 6.00 



" Salmon 66 6.00 



" MUed 60 4.00 



CALADIUM ESGULENTUU, or Klephant's Ear 



size 6xT-inch bulbs 



" 7x9 " " 



Per doz. Per 100 



10.86 13.00 



48 8.00 



Size 9xU-ln«h bolbe 



" 13-lnoh and over bulbs. 



Perdos. Per 100 



10.86 M.0O 



3.40 10.0C 



Aaaerlca... 



AvK^uta. 



BrenchleTenels, 



selected let size. . 



GLADIOLUS BULBS 



Of the following varletiea we have exceptionally large and choice atook. 

 Per 100 Per 1000 Per 6000 



.r.oo 



, 3.60 



. 1.60 

 3.00 



Hay 



White and Ufht.. 1.60 



Bpeelal Bllxca, ex- 

 Ira large sel. bulbs 1.00 



Tnberoaes. Kxeel- 

 ■lor Pearl, 4x0— 

 lat Blze 



160.00 

 30.00 



10 00 

 16.00 

 13.00 



8.00 



9.00 



1360.80 

 96.00 



47.60 

 60.00 

 67.60 



17.60 



40.00 



so SutiJaf S^re^^ 



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ColdStorageLILIES 



Lilium Lonfl^omm, 9 to 10, 200 bulbs in case $14.00 per case 



" Mnltiflonuii, 9 to 10, 200 bulbs in case. . . . 18.00 per case 



" Gifl^antettm, 7 to 9, 300 bulbs in case 21.00 per case 



•• " 9 to 10, 200 bulbs in case 21.00 per case 



CURRIE BROS. Gb.^SS.». Milwaukee, Wis. 



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PRIZE STRAIN Begonias and Gloxinias 



THK BEST STOCKS PROCURABLK. LAROK BULBS 



BEGONIAS, TX7BEROUS ROOTED Per doz. 



Slngrle, white, yellow, scarlet, rose and crimson 35c 



Sinele Mixed 30c 



Double Wliite, yellow, scarlet, rose and crimson 60c 



Double Mixed 50c 



GLOXINIAS, GIANT FLOWERING 

 Blue, white, spotted, crimson, violet with white border, red 



with white border 60c 



Giant Mixed 50c 



Per 100 Per 1000 



$2.50 

 2.25 

 4.00 

 3.75 



3.75 

 3.50 



$22.00 

 20.00 

 .'W.OO 

 35.00 



35.00 



32.00 



Headquarters for FORCING RHUBARB ROOTS and LILT OF THE VALLEY PIPS 



Write for our new Wholesale List for florists. 



JOHNSON SEED COMPANY, 217 Market Stnet, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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GLADIOLI 



cnoTAMO w vnra madkra tine 



HTA CK T HUl CANDICAJn 



■POTTED CALLA LILIES IE VABIKTT 



OEBMAH IRIS 



VABIEGATED DAT LILT 



DELPHIMnnf FOBMOSUM 



Send for Price List of Bolbs and Hardy Plants. 



E. 8. MILLSR, WadiiiK Birar, N.T. 



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"marked for QUALITY" 



1908 novelties and standard and named varie- 

 ties. Write for my book, it is free. 



B. HAMMOND TRACY 



Cedar Acres, Box lie,WENHAM, MASS. 

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Ageratiim »'^^°^pS"»,S«7/«5i 

 Alyssum "^j^^^.SJ^,^., o. 86c 

 CANDYTUFT Empress .-pirt.. loc; 02,300. 



BELLIS Snowball pkt.. 26c. 



BELLIS Longfillow pkt.. 25c. 



SALVIA SplenileRS p^t.. 25c; 01.. $l35 



SALVIA Bonfire p^t.. 2sc: oz., 2.50 



VERBENA, Mammoth, mixed pkt., 2Se; 



oz., $1.60 



BRIDGEMAN'S SEED WAREHOUSE 



Blokarda Bros., Props. 

 87 BABt 19tli St. NKW YORK 



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