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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



SCPTEMBGB 3, 1908. 



oue-balf of the estimated yield. The 

 cause is due to disease spreading out 

 through the continuous rainy weather we 

 had from November right down to the 

 latter part of the month of April. It 

 was curious to notice at one of my fields, 

 sown with the same kind of bulbs, 

 manured, watered and cultivated in* the 

 same way, that disease made great havoc 

 in a certain part of the middle of the 

 field, and the sides were untouched, some 

 of the stalks bearing a head of seeds 

 measuring twenty inches in diameter. 

 Again, at the Orotava district there was 

 a field yielding the most abnormal quan- 

 tity of seeds. To eveiy hundredweight of 

 onions it yielded oyer a hundredweight 

 of good seeds, and any one understanding 

 this cultivation will imagine what the 

 size of the heads or tops must have 

 been. This was about one acre of land 

 planted by my friends and competitors, 

 Messrs. Wildpret Bros., of Orotava. 



American buyers have had their or- 

 ders very much cut down by exporters 

 on this side, and the demand for White 

 Bermuda and White Crystal Wax has 

 been considerable from your side. There 

 are still a few parcels on offer by small 

 farmers, but the f majority of native 

 farmers are very\ routinary in their 

 methods and lackinAscientific knowledge 

 of agriculture. Th^e have, through 

 sheer ignorance, raised hybrid onions 

 year after, year, thus tampering with the 

 true stock. My aim is to purify as much 

 as possible this cultivation, but this end 

 can only bo attained by cultivating the 

 onions under an intelligent supervision. 

 Attention nuist be paid to keeping up 

 the classical, flattish-round, perfect 

 shape of the Bermuda onion. No bulbe 

 must be planted that are not absolutely 

 healthy, true to stock and shape. 



Seedsmen and dealers in the United 

 States Tiill considerably help in the work 

 of perfecting the cultivaiion of Ber- 

 muda onion seeds if they order a mini- 

 ]nuni quantity of their likely require- 

 ments one year ahead. That is to say, 

 that such minimum quantity orders 

 should be in the hands of Teneriffe ex- 

 porters not later than in the month of 

 August of every year. 



Kindly call the attention of your read- 

 ers to the fact that the climate and soil 

 of Teneriffe are privileged for raising 

 under the most favorable conditions 

 nearly all kinds of foreign flowers, 

 seeds, ])lants and bulbs imported in the 

 United States and especially in the 

 famous valley of Orotava and at La- 

 guna. T shall be pleased to give to in- 

 terested parties any information re- 

 quired. Liliuni Harrisii thrives here bet- 

 ter than at the Azores or in Bermuda, 

 hut never a serious attempt has been 

 luado to export the bulbs. 



Federico C. Varela. 



DUTCH BULBS. 



The steamer Statendam, from Rotter- 

 dam, which arrived at New York Au- 

 gust 24, had the following consignments 

 of Dutch bulbs: 



Conslpiiee. Cases. 



]iod<1ington, A. T 81 



Dnrrow, II. Frank ; . . . 20 



Klllott, Wm.. & Sons 50 



Henderson, V.. & Co 178 



Hageraaun. Wm., & Co 07 



Knantli, Nachod & Kulinc 48 



Maltus & Ware 442 



Chllds, John Lewis 8 



Stumpp & Walter 108 



Tliorbum. .T. M., & Co r.2 



Vaughan's Seed Stm-e !)4 



Total 1JC.3 



Herrington's book on mums sent by 

 the Review for 50 cents. 



DUTCH BULBS 



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Yuess Gardens Company 



91 Water St. 



NEWBURGH, N. Y. 



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ZVOUNEK'S ORIGINAL WINTER-FLOWERhG SWEET PEAS 



We are the accredited agents for New England for these seeds and furnish them in original 

 packages direct to our customers. 



FRESH SEEDS READY NOW 



STAVDARD VARISTXES— Zmas Pink, pink and white, norenoe Denzer, pure 

 white. Mrs. K. Wild, carmine or dark nink. Watohuns, pure white; black -seeded; 

 short grower. Price, I oz., 80c; 2 oz., 50o; 4 oz., 75c;, ^Ib., $2.4iO. 



NKW VARIKTIXS, 1907— Mrs. Alex. Wallace, lavender. Mrs. Wm. Sim, pleasing 

 salmon pink BIrs. F. J. Dolansky. daybreak pink. Le MarQuis, violet. Xmas 

 Meteor, scarlet. Jack Hunter, light yellow. Xmas Captain, blue and purple. 

 Mrs. Chas. H Totty, sky blue Miss Josey Rellly, lilac. Wm. J. Stevrart, blue 

 self. Price, 1 oz., 50c; 2 oz., 7ao; 1 lb., $5.00. 



Winter Flowerine Mixture, over 25 colors, mixed, 1 lb., $2.00. 



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5 UNION ST., BOSTON, MASS. 



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Cold Storage Lilies 



Multlflorum, 9 to 10. case of 200 bulbs per case. $15.50 



Gisanteum, 7to 9, case of 300 bulbs " Si. 00 



9 to 10. case of 200 bulbs " 19.00 



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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



.Jolin Peed & Son, West Norwood, 

 London, England, bulbs, roots, plants and 

 supplies; Louisiana Red Cypress Co., 

 New Orleans, La., booklet on Louisiana 

 red cypress; Wilson-Hoyt Co., Short 

 Hills, N. J., ''Wilson-Hoyt Concrete 

 Steel Greenhouse Benches;" Dingce & 

 ( 'onard Co., West Grove, Pa., ' ' New 

 (iuide to Rose Culture and Bulb Grow- 

 ing"; Henry P. Michel! Co., Philadel- 

 ])hia, Pa., circular on "The Moore-Liv- 

 ingston Ad just.ible Plant Stand ' ' ; Val- 

 desian Nurseries, Bostic, N. C, hedge 

 ]i1ants, shade trees, shrubs, berry plants, 

 etc.; Frank E. Riic, Peoria, HI., plants, 

 seeds, bulbs, poultry food and other sup- 

 plies; Barteldes Seed Co., Denver, Colo., 

 seeds, plants, bulbs and supplies; Wni. 



Elliott & Sons, New York, N. Y., seeds, 

 bulbs, plants and supplies; Wood, Stubbs 

 & Co., Louisville, Ky., flower, vegetable 

 and field seeds, bulbs, fertilizers and sun- 

 ilries; W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, 111., 

 bulbs and seeds for fall planting. 



BULB GROWING IN VIRGIPWA. 



(Continued from page 9.) 

 the Avater is scarcely ever more than 

 four feet below the surface. To keep 

 the water from overflowing the land, 

 ditches were dug around every cut of 

 land. These cuts usuallj' contain be- 

 tween four and five acres. The ditches 

 are generally about four feet deep, and 

 it is only after a long hot spell that you 

 find them drv. Thus those ditcher take 



