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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 6, 1909. 



Boston Ferns 



They are scarce, but we have them. 



Retailable Sizes, $7.00 to $9.00 per doz. 



If you are from Missouri, let us sh6w^ you. 



Winterson's Seed Store 



45-47-49 IWabash Ave., Chicago 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



PRIZE TAKER ONION SETS. 



Will Prize Taker onion seed, sown this 

 year for sets, continue to enlarge if set 

 out next spring, or will they go to seed? 

 Or, if I sow seed this fall in the open 

 ground, would they stand the winter here, 

 in the state of Washington, and make 

 large onions the next year, or would they 

 go to seed? I would like to have some 

 onions that would continue for the sec- 

 ond year. C. J. J. 



Prize Taker onion sets grown from 

 seed this year will, if planted next year, 

 continue to enlarge and make a big onion, 

 provided the sets are not larger than 

 three-fourths of an inch in diameter. A 

 set of any onion will be likely to run to 

 seed if the set is more than an inch in 

 diameter, but as long as it is less than 

 an inch it will produce a bulb and will 

 not run to seed. 



In the climate of Washington, it is 

 likely that Prize Taker onion seed will 

 successfully make an onion if planted in 

 the fall and allowed to winter over. A 

 better plan, perhaps, would be to plant 

 the seeds early in a hotbed in the spring 

 and transplant them to where the onions 

 are to grow. The successful Prize Taker 

 onion growers of this locality do this, 

 and have good results from it. If the 

 young plants are transplanted, they will 

 in all cases proceed to make a bulb, pro- 

 vided they are not too large. The grow- 

 ers here who pursue this method under- 

 stand just how large the small plants 

 should be. Weather conditions have a 

 considerable effect, and it may be that 

 the conditions in the state of Washington 

 would be different from those in Illinois. 

 I should judge, however, that onions can 

 be grown in Washington either from sets 

 or from transplanted shoots, if the re- 

 strictions I have named in each case are 

 looked out for. J. M. C. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



The Market 



Business conditions for the last fort 

 night have been rather quiet, 

 ages of summer are to be 



If You Grow Mushrooms 



and want tbe best spawn nuule, use 



ANGLO-AMERICAN 



An exceptionally fine lot ot Spawn ready for shipment. If 

 your dealer cannot supply you write direct to us. 



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Anglo-American Spawn Co., Kennett Square, PaJ 



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