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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Febbcary 27, 1908. 



LILIIM LONGIFLORIM 



Ask your dealer for our own special grown stock or write us direct for quota- 

 tions. Only a limited quantity available for the coming season, 1908. Delivery will 

 be made the first part of August. 



The bulbs are thoroughly ripened one month before the Bermuda Harrisii and 

 are considered far superior in quality, as they are entirely free from disease. 



Careful trials were made for two years and were so successful that we imported 

 over 300 cases last season. 



Our cases will be marked Y. N. Co. 



YOKOHAMA NURSERY C0.,Ltd.,3iBafc!aySL.NEW YORK 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



File No. 47946. Inyolce No. 22320. Findings of 

 Sharretts, G. A.: Radish Early Scarlet Turnip; 

 entered at 42s, advanced to 508 per cwt; do 

 Long Scarlet; entered at 42s per cwt, no ad- 

 vance. Radish Icicle; entered at 46s per cwt, 

 no advance. Beet Early Blood Turnip; entered 

 at 3l8 per cwt, no advance. Beet Large Smooth 

 Blood Turnip; entered at Sis per cwt, no ad- 

 vance. Add packing. 



SEA MOSS.— From J. C. Schmidt, Erfurt, ex- 

 ported January 8. 1908; entered at New York. 

 File No. 47976. Invoice No. 20813. Findings of 

 Sharretts, G. A.: la olive green; entered at 

 200, advanced to 240 marks per 1000 bundles. 

 Add packing. 



IMPORTS. 



The imports of seed through the port 

 of New York for the week ending Feb- 

 ruary 15 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgg. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Annatto ... 173 $ 2918 Grass 100 $3588 



Canary ... 50 232 Millet 219 682 



Caraway .. 450 4313 Mustard 200 1832 



Clover 19.38 65220 Sugar beet... 13 64 



Cummin . . . .W 982 Other 4526 



Fenugreek . . 47 241 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$6,175. 



GLADIOLUS PRAECOX HARDY. 



The perfect hardiness of Gladiolus 

 PrsBCox is with most cultivators a mat- 

 ter of great doubtfulness. According to 

 a letter of the introducers, the firm of 

 F. Roemer, at Quedlinburg, appearing 

 in the issue of Die Gartenwelt for Janu- 

 ary 11, the plant in color or markings 

 or size is not inferior to any other 

 race of gladiolus, and it has the great 

 advantage over those of being easily in- 

 creased by seed, the seedlings also 

 flowering the first year. That the 

 corms are hardy was well established in 

 Mr, Roemer 's garden last winter, a se- 

 vere one in Germany. Young brood and 



AZALEAS 



for fall delivery, the best DAI 11 C for spring or fall 

 that are grown, also 'nLIHO delivery, furnishedby 



AUGUST HAEftEHS, Somergem, SeTio°;'*" 



ADDRESS THE AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES 



AUGUST ROLKER & SONS, 81 Barclay St., or P. O. Box 768, New York 



Mention Tb^ Review when yon write. 



No.34i 



WIBOLTTS SNOWBALL 

 CAULLrLOWER-SEED 



i« thf earlmt of 1 

 all Snowballs, ihri I 

 most compact, the ' 

 surest headtr. is 

 giving ihc largest and snow- 

 whitest heads, and is the 

 best l(evper in dry-wrailier. 

 Demand it through yotir 

 seed-lirm or direct from ^ 



R. WIBOLTT, lUKSXOV, OtmuRiTj 



\l»*nft<tn Tttp Hpvtpw whon vr\n ^prttA 



corms were inadvertently left in the soil 

 in which the seedlings had been grown, 

 which was thrown into a heap and ex- 

 posed to the severe frosts that occurred, 

 without protection from snow or any- 

 thing else; and the frost had penetrated 

 the soil to the depth of one foot. To' 

 wards the middle of May Mr. Roemer 

 was astonished to observe the heap to 

 be covered with gladioli arising from 

 the brood corms, many of them only 

 just covered by the soil. The conns 

 were left undisturbed in the heap, where 

 they flowered beautifully. The Horti- 

 cultural Trade Journal says the matter 

 to be certain about is, if only the brood 

 is hardy, and the full grown corms not 

 hardy. So far no species or race of 

 gladiolus have proved hardy. Further 

 trials seem desirable with G. Praecox. 



They all read the Review. 



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'(JlbcrfSchenkel, 



Hamburg eirmsiiy 

 ^IWilflpril' &Schenkel,Oroian]eneriffc) 

 Wholesale growers inSEEDSoF 



_ ^fopicaiuseFulPIanJs, 



Vegetables,ber/v\uda Onions 



ehc. 

 Jllush'ated ca^alogue Free, oadimana. 



Morttlnn The KmtI»»w when yon wr1»» 



SOME MORE ABOUT GLADIOLUS. 



Referring to the notes in the Review 

 of January 23, and February 13, speak- 

 ing of ruffled gladioli, I found some of 

 the same among my new hybrids. One 

 was almost white, with large flowers 

 which resemble A. E. Kunderd's de- 

 scription. I also have one which flowers 

 all around the spike, behaves well and 

 multiplies rapidly. I also found one 

 which has flowers like rose buds, and 

 one which has kinks in the petals that 

 make it look like a double one. 



Arthur Cowee inquires for an ever- 

 blooming gladiolus. I have it, or at 

 least a start, selected from my hybrids. 

 The corms grow, from the largest to the 

 smallest bulblets, all in a bunch so they 

 show as if they would grow and bloom 

 continuously if they were forced. This 

 year I shall trv the forcing of them and 



