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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



February 20, 1908. 



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VIGK QUALITY ASTERS 



INTRODUCED BY US 

 GROWN EVERYWHERE 



▼lek's Branobing' (8 colors) 

 Tlok'B Bnowdrltt 

 ▼lok'a Boyal Pnrpla 

 ▼lok's lavender 0«m 

 Vlok'« r»7break 

 Vlok'B Purity 

 ▼iok'B Bnnset 

 ▼lok'a Mikado 

 Vlok's Cardinal 

 ▼lek's ▼lolet Xlnff 



HOW TO GROW ASTERS 



(revised) 



Fun tf lafonHatiin for Aster Srowert 

 Price 10 cents 



Free with an order of Aster Seed. 



SEND FOR OUR NEW 



Illustrated and Descriptive 



Aster Book for Florists 



It describes in detail, not only the varieties originating with us, but 

 also all other leading sorts. 



The largest and handsomest work of its kind ever issued. 



Every florist ought to have 



VICK'S WHOLESALE CATALOGUE 



which gives prices on all the best varieties of flower and vegetable 

 seeds, plants for greenhouse and outdoors: splendid assortment of 

 bulbs. Both of these catalogues are free. 



ROCHESTER, 



N. Y. 



JAMES VICK'S SONS, 



The Leading: Specialists and Largest Grow^ers 

 of EUffh-Grade Asters in the World. 



FLORISTS* ' ' "* 



NOVELTY COLLECTION 



Six of oar latest introductions. 

 Including Sunrise (new) and Early 

 White BranchiDg (new). 



Price 

 Vick's Early White Branch- 

 ing 10.28 



Vick'a imperial Aster, Sun- 



riie 26 



Vlck'8 Violet King 20 



Vick's Cardinal 26 



VIck'B Lavender Gem 26 



Vick's Rosy Carmine 26 



Ho w to Grow Asters .10 



$1.50 



All of the above, including our 

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Lilium Multillon 



7x9, $45.00 per 1000 



D. RUSCONI 



188 West eth St. Cincinnati, Ohio 



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September, in a place where close at- 

 tention can be given to shading, ven- 

 tilating and watering. The method 

 which has given most satisfaction in 

 California is to sow the seed in well- 

 prepared ground covered with a cloth 

 house. This is easily and cheaply con- 

 structed. 



The roof should be high enough from 

 the ground to provide plenty of space 

 for a person to move about without 

 stooping. The soil should be about six 

 inches deep, on top of about eight 

 inches of stable manure. The bed 

 should be raised above the surface of 

 the ground three or four inches and 

 edged with narrow boards a few inches 

 above the paths; these will keep the 

 soil in position and give a neat appear- 

 ance. 



The soil should consist of sandy loam 

 mixed with screenings of dried horse 

 manure, not for the purpose of enrich- 

 ing the soil, but to make it porous and 

 easily worked. Fresh manure is inju- 

 rious to the young plants. Make the 

 surface of the beds level with a garden 

 rake, sow the seed thinly, and press 

 down with a piece of board. The seeds 

 should then be covered with one-half 

 inch of soil and cocoanut fiber in equal 

 parts; ground redwood bark will an- 

 swer the purpose quite as well, the idea 

 being to keep the surface porous. 



Water should be given through a fine 

 sprinkler whenever the soil shows indi- 

 cations of becoming dry. The seeds 

 should germinate in from three to ^ix 

 weeks. In April, or as soon as the 

 weather will permit, the cloth may be 

 removed gradually in order to harden off 

 the young plants previous to planting 

 out. The seeds may also be sown in a 

 frame built and covered so as to exclude 

 sunshine and heavy rains while germina- 

 tion takes place; and while the plants 

 are small care should be taken not to 

 have the seed beds too wet at the plant- 

 ing-out period, as in this condition the 

 seedlings are more easily wilted than 

 otherwise when put in the field. 



Pricking Off the Seedlings. 

 It is a question whether or not it pays 

 to prick off the seedlings previous to 



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Send (or our wholesale list of seeds 

 for Florists and Market Qardeneri, 

 ready in a few days. 



GLADIOLUS PRIMULINUS 

 $8.00 per doz.; $60.00 per 100. 



DRIMULINUS HYBRIDS 



I $3.00 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



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 38 Park Place, 

 NEW YORK. 



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A halftone from a wash-drawing, or from a 

 photograph retouched by us. makes the best 11- 

 lustration any seedsmaG can get. Brings out 

 the detail, removes detects. 



Now is the Time 



to order the cuts for your special spring lists. 

 Our artists are the best in the Cnited States 

 on flower and vegetable drawing. We make 

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RELIABLE SEEDS 



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Tr. 6 Tr. 

 Pkt. Pkt. 



Aeeratum Blue Star 20c $1.25 



Beeonla GraoiliR lumino8a...5Ck; 2..')0 



BeBonla Erfordia 50c 2.50 



Centaurea Candidissima 25c 1.25 



Lobelia, new Trailing Ham- 



hurKia 30c 1.50 



Petunia, Double Giants, 



fringed, mixed $1.00 5.00 



Petunia, Single Fringed 

 (iiants, mixed 75c' 4.00 



Phlox Drum., Dwarf Fireball, 

 Roseball, Snowball, each 25c 1.25 



Primula Obconlca Grandi- 

 tlora, new hybrids, as blue, 

 blood red, carmine, pink, pur- 

 ple, violet, pure white, com- 

 pacta. gigantea, fringed 

 mixed hybrids, each sepa- 

 rate 50c 2.50 



SalvlaBontire 25c 1.25 



Sweet Alyssum Carpet 

 yueen, real dwarf, for pots .25c 1.25 



Stocks, German Ten Weeks', 

 wall-flower leaved, white, 

 pink, purple, lavender, blood 



red, each 8ej)arate .50o 2.,50 



For larsrer qiiantlties ask for my 

 ne^r price list. 



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Seedsman, Hoboken, N. J. 



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 SEKD (TRUK) 



Greenliouse Gro'wn. Per 100. .50c: 

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 In BEST sorts 



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TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONL^S 



Single, in each color separate. Pure white, rose, 



blush, yellow, scarlet, dark red. orange. 



salmon, 40c per doz.; $2.50 per 100; $22.50 



per 1000. 

 Single, all colors mixed, 3.5c per doz.; $2.25 per 



100; $20.00 per 1000. 



Double TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONIAS 



Separate colors, white, scarlet, rose, yellow. 



orange, per doz., (>5c; per 100, !M..50; per 



1000. $42.00. 

 All colors double mixed, per doz., 60c; per 100, 



$4.00; per 1000, $:W.00. 



GLOXINIAS 



In separate colors, white, blue, purple, red. 

 spotted, separate or mixed, per doz., .50c: 

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