Febbuarv 27, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



31 



Lettuce Plants 



anmd Raplda, Boston Markot and BlB 

 Boston, 25c per 100; $1.00 per 1000. 



vAUJiTn Mayflowor and Lorlllard, 

 I UMAI U eocperlOO. 



R.VINCENT,Jr.&SONSCO.,WhiteMarsh,Md. 



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in nearly all experiment station publi- 

 cations on fertilizers, or in the bulletins 

 of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, but we give below a few 

 pointers in which the hothouse vege- 

 table grower is most interested. 



Nitrogen promotes growth of stems 

 and foliage. Potash finishes the filling 

 out of the foliage, fruit, etc., and hard- 

 ens the stems or stalks. Phosphoric 

 acid, probably the most important of 

 the three, assists in the maturing of 

 the crop and the setting of fruit or 

 flowers in greater quantity. 



Many growers are successful in grow- 

 ing a" fine, healthy batch of plants, 

 but fail to get satisfactory results as 

 to number of blooms or quantity of 

 fruit, from lack of phosphoric acid in 

 the soil in sufficient quantity. Usually 

 such cases are a result of continual use 

 of horse manure, the best and most 

 popular of fertilizers for vegetables. 

 This is richest in nitrogen, but some 

 commercial fertilizer should be used in 

 connection with it after a few applica- 

 tions, to furnish more phosphoric acid 

 and potash. For vegetable growers there 

 is no manure so good as horse manure, 

 if good and fresh and not burned and 

 dried out. Bone meal makes an ex- 

 cellent running mate, and when these 

 two are properly used together, the 

 finest crops can be grown on the same 

 soil year after year. 



Horse manure is considered valuable 

 for vegetables partly on account of its 

 heating and warming the soil and loos- 

 ening it up or putting it in the best 

 mechanical condition, but this is getting 

 away from the subject of plant food. 



There is entirely too much confusion 

 caused, in the mind of the buyer who 

 does not happen to be posted, by the 

 various terms and high sounding words 

 used by fertilizer dealers or manufactur- 

 ers in labeling their goods. It often 

 seems that the guaranteed analysis is 

 so worded as to intentionally confuse 

 the buyer, especially if the goods are 

 short of any one ingredient. The grow- 

 er, like the' oft quoted man from Mis- 

 souri, must insist that he be * ' shown ''' 

 just what per cent of available nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid and potash the goods 

 contain before he gets confused by such 

 terms as precipitated, reverted, soluble, 

 actual equivalent, etc. 



We give below a table of the proportions 

 of ingredients used in fertilizer on dif- 

 ferent crops to best advantage in recent 

 experiments : 



Var. of Phosphoric 



Vegetable. Nitrogen. Acid. Potash. 



Heans 1% 7% »% 



Heets .V/o 6% »% 



Cucnnibers 0% iy/c VF/o 



I-ettiice 5% (K/o »% 



Iladlshes 3% 1% »% 



I HAVE been much pleased with the 

 Keview and think it is the best paper 

 printed for the trade. — August Miu^er, 

 Greenwich, Conn. 



Please renew my subscription for an- 

 other year. I would feel like locking 

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 I had to do without the Review. — A. L. 

 Van Ostrand, Abilene, Kan, 



BOLMES' TESTED SEEDS 



OF KNOWN VITALITY AND PURITY 



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Salzer*s 

 Early Bird. 



■7nB?E7 We have the finest, earliest Scarlet Radish 

 on earth, namely Salzer's Early Bird, 



A Half-Ounce Package Free! 



We gladly send you free a half-ounce package to try 



for 1908, and our Market Gardener's Wholesale Catalog. 



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Or, If you will send us Sets, in postage, we will add to the radish a 



package of Salzer's Blue Ribbon Rockyford Muskmelon, the finest 



muskmelon this side of the stars, and also a package of Salzer's 



Fourth of July Watermelon, the earliest watermelon grown. 



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Seeds for the Market Gardener 



la car Bpeclalty. Quality our first consideration. We have a very larce aad complete 

 stock of all kinds of seeds and everything in the line of fruit trees, berry bushes, etc. 

 Our new 104-page catalogue contains true descriptions and no overdrawn iUustra- 

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BEATRICE, NEB. 



A BED OF MUSHROOMS 



Raised from our Spawn, will bear longer and yield better than from any other variety of 

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PIfi 4 TOMATO 



THE EARLIEST TOMATO KNOWN 



Vines similar to the Dwarf Champion, standing 

 well up from the ground; fruit purplish pink in 

 color; will bear shipping equally as well as the 

 Stone. Was a great favorite with the truckers 

 in this section last season. Pkt., 10c: ^ oz., 20c; 

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A full line of Market Growers' Seed Specialties. 



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LETTUCE PLANTS 



Grand Rapids and Simpson, $1.00 per 1000; 

 $9.00 ner 10.000. 

 Unrooted Carnation Cuttlngm, Pink Law- 

 son. Wolcott, Queen, Enchantress, $1.00 per 100; 



$8.00 per 1000. 



Geraniums. 2>^-ln.Ricard and Nutt, $2.50 per 100 



B. E. WXDSWORTH 



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 do without it; it is the standard of ex- 

 cellence. — Frank Bros., Beardstown, 111. 



giVE ACRES with the 



Skinner Irrigation will 



produce as much crops as 



TEN ACRES without it. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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FIX>RIST8 have a splendid oppor- 

 tunity of raising Mashrooms by 

 utiliiing the waste space anderthe 

 benches, and then utilizing the waste 

 material of expended mushroom 

 beds in growing flowers. L.amb«rt's 

 Pare Caltnre 8IU8HBOOBI 

 SPAWN, the best Spawn in the market, is soU by all 

 leading seedsmen. A fresh sample brick, enourh for 

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 of 40c in postagre stamps. Address American 

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The Review is the best a-nd most up- 

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