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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 30, 1908. 



Fancy Ferns 



$1.25. per 1000 



These are the beet fancy cut ferns in the market— not the soft stuff from the 

 South or from Michigan, but the real article, fresh from the Berkshire Hills 



ALL CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON 



E. H. HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, III. 



XstabUshed 1878 



Lone: Dtstanoe Phone Central 1751 



Current Prices 



BEAUTIES Per doz. 



80to36-lnch $3.00 



24to30-incb $2.00to 260 



15to20-inch 1.50to 2.00 



8tol2-lnch 75 to 1.00 



Shorts .50 



BOSKS (Teas) Per 100 



Bride and Maid 94.00 to $6.00 



Richmond 4.00 to 



KlUamey 4.00 to 



Perle 4.00 to 



Roses, our selection 



CARNATIONS, medium 



" fancy 



MISCEIXANBOUS 



Harrisil lilies 



Gladioli per doz., 60c to 75c 



VaUey 3.00 to 



Sweet Peas 50 to 



Daisies 



Asters 1.00 to 



OBBENS 



Smilax Strings per doz., 1.50 to 



Asparagus Strings each, 



Asparagus Bunches " .35 to 



Sprengeri Bunches " .25 to 



Adiantum per 100, 



Ferns, Fancy per 1000, 



Galax, Green " 



" Bronze 



Boxwood .25c per lb.; 100 lbs.. 



6.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 2.00 



12.50 



4.00 



.75 

 1.00 

 3.00 



2.00 



.60 



.50 



.86 



.75 



1.26 



1.00 



1.00 



15.00 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Swarthmore, Pa., will be offered at pub- 

 lic sale August 1. This is the place 

 formerly operated by Nathan Neff. 



W. E. McKissiek is receiving fine Kil- 

 larney and Beauty roses from Carl Jur- 

 gens, of Newport, K. I. Phil. 



ANTIRRHINUMS FOR WINTER. 



I want to grow a few hundred antir- 

 rhinums next winter and have plants in 

 21^-inch pots, also some in the field 

 which have been pinched back and are 

 large and bushy, all from seed sown in 

 March. Can I use these, or will it be 

 necessary to make another sowing of 

 seed? E. C. B. 



The plants you have will answer well. 

 Give those in 2^ -inch pots a shift into 

 4-inch. If you want an early crop of 

 flowers and have the necessary bench 

 space, plant them out about September 

 1. The plants in the field will also give 

 you good returns. Our finest spikes have 

 been obtained from stock lifted in this 

 way. It is not necessary to have any 

 ball of earth attached to these, but keep 

 all possible roots intact. A light shade 

 until they become established will be of 

 assistance. The field plants, having been 

 pinched back, will send up more shoots 

 than you will require. Eub out all the 

 weakest if you want first-class spikes. 



C.W. 



SWEET PEAS FOR THANKSGIVING; 



When should I plant sweet peas for 

 Thanksgiving blooming? How many 

 rows to a bench, how close together for 

 the rows, and what kind of trellis should 

 be used? E. E. G. 



To have your sweet peas in full crop 

 for Thanksgiving, sow on ox about Au- 

 gust 10. The rows should not be nearer 

 than four feet apart and, if your house 

 is high and of good width, it is better 

 to allow five feet. If you contrive to 

 run your rows in line with the supports 

 of the house, a good plan is to run lines 

 of stout twine a foot apart the length 

 of the house and use upright strings of 

 soft white twine. Wire netting we can- 

 not recommend, while brush of any kind I 



CHAS. W. McKELLAR 



WHOLESALE FLORIST... 



51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



I ORCHIDS I 



»TFn<FF A SPECIALTY ^'t*^* 



A fine assortment of Cattleyas and other 

 Orchids always on hand, fresh every day. 



Fancy Stock in Valley, Beauties, Roses, 



Carnations and Qreens of all kinds 



Can always supply the best goods the season affords 

 A complete line of all Wire Work and Supplies constantly on hand 







■^iM^-^ 



L. D. Phone Central 8598 



causes too much shade. The vines will 

 need looking after every few days. 

 Strings to hold them in place should 

 never be tightly fastened. About two 

 inches apart for individual plants is suf- 

 ficiently thick. If the seedlings are 

 thicker than this, have courage to thin 

 them if you want fine flowers. The best 

 winter blooming varieties are Christmas 

 Pink or Earliest of All, pink and white, 

 and Mont Blanc, pure white. C. W. 



SHAW'S POND LILIES. 



The lily ponds of Walter B. Shaw, at 

 Kenilworth, D. C, are not only a profit- 

 able commercial enterprise, but they con- 

 stitute one of the interesting sights in 

 the vicinity of the national capital. 



Fifteen years ago Mr. Shaw, who is a 

 Civil war veteran, was working in the 

 treasury department at Washington. He 

 had a little place out in Kenilworth, 

 about a quarter of a mile from the 

 marsh along the Anacostia river. 



This marsh is full of spatter dock, a 

 kind of poor relation of the regular 

 water lily. But Mr. Shaw had been born 

 and brought up in Maine, where real 

 water lilies grow in all the ponds, and 



these spatter docks were just enough like 

 the genuine article to make him wonder 

 why that genuine article was so con- 

 spicuously absent. 



So he began experimenting by digging 

 a little pond, about ten feet squdre, in 

 the oozy bank of the marsh, and there he 

 planted a few roots of wild water lilies 

 that had been sent to him from friends 

 in Maine. One by one other ponds were 

 dug by Mr. Shaw and expensive culti- 

 vated varieties were bought and planted. 

 Then he began to experiment by hy- 

 bridizing to produce entirely new lilies. 

 Now all his time is given to his Lilies. 

 His one little pond has grown to nine 

 big ponds, from which he can pick more 

 than 1,500 lilies daily. And instead of 

 one variety, and that one uncultivated, 

 he can now show more than a score. At 

 least six of these are new and distinct 

 varieties which he himself has produced 

 and named. 



At the Shaw ponds picking begins as 

 early as there is enough daylight for the 

 pickers in their flat-bottomed boats to 

 discover the new buds which have just 

 reached the surface. If these buds were 

 not picked they would probably open 

 later that morning. But as soon as they 



