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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 23, 1908. 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



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 We want American buyers to send us a trial order. We are certain of shipping regular supplies after 

 you have seen crop. ^ ' -y ; ,y . . s - 



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ishroom Growers and 



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sales in the height of tho season were 

 made at $1 to $2, according to quality. 

 The top figure for the best Imperial val- 

 ley cantaloupes on that market was $2 

 and a great deal of stock sold down 

 to $1. 



There are said still to be a consider- 

 able number of last year's crop of Japa- 

 nese longiflorum bulbs in cold storage 

 in London. 



The produce markets have been glut- 

 ted with watermelons, cantaloupes, beans, 

 etc., but peas were not in oversupply and 

 tomatoes have thus far brought fair 

 prices. 



There are reports that dry weather 

 has cut the crops of lily bulbs, the 

 world over,- below earlier calculations, 

 large sizes being particularly affected, 

 but the trade feels confident there will 

 be enough bulbs so that everyone can 

 get some. 



The shipping of cucumbers east from 

 Marysville, Cal., has become an impor- 

 tant industry. In one day recently over 

 15,000 pounds of these were shipped 

 from Marysville, and every day one or 

 two cars have gone out. The cucumbers 

 are all grown in the swamp lands of 

 Yuba county. 



THE FRENCH GARDEN. 



Charles D. McKay, of the firm of 

 Watkins & Simpson, London, has been 

 seeking to educate the English gardeners 

 to the intensive method employed in 

 French gardening and has succeeded in 

 awakening throughout England a wave 

 of enthusiasm for this method of culture 

 which promises in the near future to re- 

 sult in the establishing of a great in- 

 dustry, the importations of French vege- 

 tables grown by this method now result- 

 ing in the payment of tens of thousands 

 of pounds sterling, which will no longer 

 be sent out of England after the French 

 method becomes thoroughly established 

 in that country. 



The history of the French market gar- 

 den in England goes back only three 

 years. The first one was established in 

 1905, at Evesham, through the efforts of 

 Mr. McKay, whose work resulted in a 

 body of Evesham gardeners first being 

 taken to France to make an investigation 

 of the method. Since then the ^success 

 of this garden has caused many similar 

 ones to be established and the demand 

 for instruction in the method has become 

 80 great that Mr. McKay has now written 

 a practical manual of French gardening, 

 which has been published by the Daily 

 Mail. He gives complete cultural details, 

 by means of which any gardener of ex- 

 perience can employ the methods prac- 

 ticed by the French cultivator. 



IMPORTANT 



Novelties 



of our raisins of 



Perennials, Carnations 



DAHLIAS, CLEMATIS, etc. 

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Goes & Koenemann 



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The French grow their lettuce under 

 small "chassis," or frames, and also 

 use a large numoer of "cloches," or 

 uell-glasses, it being stated that there arc 

 so employed in the vicinity of Paris 

 360,000 lights and 2,160,000 bell-glasses, 

 from which early vegetables to the value 

 of 13,500,000 francs are sold each year. 

 Stable manure is used to supply the nec- 

 essary heat and the skill of the gardener 

 is shown in the vast amount of output 

 from a limited space. 



EUROPEAN SEEDS. 



It is still early in the season to give 

 an accurate forecast of the seed harvest 

 throughout Europe, but taking it gener- 

 ally I find seed growers anticipate short 

 crops. A late, cold spring was followed 

 by dry weather in June; July has come 

 upon us with a great wave of heat, and 

 plants that ordinarily should have con- 

 tinued in growth ^or another week or two 

 are finishing off. This applies markedly 

 to culinary peas and sweet peas. One 

 grower, generally well to the front with 

 good blooms at the sweet pea show in 

 London, facetiously remarked a day or 

 two ago that if the hot weather continues 

 he hopes to show new seed, July 24, in- 

 stead of flowers. 



I have been in conversation with Eng- 

 lish and German growers this week and 

 find that short crop prospects are general. 

 Wholesale houses are in no way disposed 

 to book orders, even when brought under 

 their notice, except with a reservation on 

 prices. Neither can they be drawn on as 

 to novelties for the coming season, until 

 they see prospects of harvested seeds. 



Garten's, Ltd., Warrington, England, 

 well-known agricultural seed growers and 

 hybridizers, who have achieved success 

 with improved oats, grasses, etc., include 

 in their new introductions a distinct now 

 breed of white oat, the yielding capacity 

 of which has been proved in competitive 

 tests with every known variety of oat 

 and it has in all cases broken the record. 



AZALEA INDICA 



Immense stock of all leading varieties, nicely 

 shaped and well budded plants. 



ULT OF THK VAIXET 



Very finest Hamburg and Berlin Pips lor Im-, 

 port and from cold storage. 



HANBTTI STOCKS 



English and French grown especially for flo- 

 rists' use. 



HOIXAND PLANTS 



Roses, Peonies, Rhododendrons, Box Trees, 

 Clematis, Conifers, etc. 



LILT BULBS 



Japanese, Bermuda and Azores, Dutch and 

 French Hyacinths, etc. 



For particulars and other information please 

 apply to. 



H. FRANK DARROW. 



Import Wholesale 



P. 0. B«x I2S0, 26 Barclay St., New York 



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 successful crop of ItIU Olllf UUlTlO 



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JOHNSON'S IMPROVED 

 MUSHROOM SPAWN 



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Prices and particulars on application. Kote tbe , 

 address, 



JOHNSON'S, Ltd. 



44 Bedford Bow. W. C. LONDON. ENG. 



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English Grown Seeds 



Farm, Garden and Flower Seeds of best qual- 

 ity. Specialties: Giant Fancy Pansy, saved from 

 named plants; Carrot, Onion, Brussels Sprouts, 

 Cabbage, Golden Ball Turnip. 



Price list free on application to 



THE BEDFORDSHIRE SEED CO,, Ltd. 



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It is named The Yielder, an appropriate 

 title according to the results obtained. A 

 distinct new breed of wheat named Re- 

 liance is also being offered for the first 

 time. Judging from its appearance last 

 week, it will prove a heavy cropper. 



Coming back again to flower novelties,' 

 Myosotis dissitiflora Elfrida, raised by 

 M. Herb, of Naples, a cross between M. 

 dissitiflora grandiflora and M. oblongata 

 perfecta, is becoming quite popular with 

 many German florists. It has large, deep 

 blue flowers borne on long, stiff stems 

 and outdoors comes into flower three 

 weeks ahead of dissitiflora. It can also 

 be forced advantageously during the win- 

 ter months. Bee. 



OLDS MOVES TO MADISON. 



As announced briefly in the Review of 

 July 16, the L. L. Olds Seed Co. has 

 leased quarters at Madison, Wis., and 

 will remove from Clinton. It is expected 

 to soon erect a building specially con- 

 structed for seed purposes. 



The Olds Seed Co. started in a small 

 way in Clinton, Wis., about five years 



