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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Dbcbmbbb 23, 1909. 



NEW 

 SEEDLING ROSE 



Radiance 



A seedling from Cardinal, a brilliant rosy carmine with opaline tints, in the open flower. 

 The form is flne, large, with cupped petals, bud long, brilliant, radiant, with extra 

 long stems, a constant bloomer, fragrant, foliage abundant and of splendid substance. 



2X-inch pots, $18.00 per 100; ready for delivery in March. Cash or satisfactory reference. 



JOHN COOK, SIS N. Charles St., BALTIMORE, MD. 



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and nectarines, prefer to have their bor- 

 ders entirely inside, where they are under 

 more perfect control. A depth of two 

 and one-half feet is ample for grapes and 

 you need not make up all the border at 

 once; it is better if added to piecemeal. 

 If your borders were entirely outdoors, 

 your vines would not be any later than 

 if the roots were under glass. I would 

 certainly advise against any outdoor bor- 

 ders. With roots all under glass, you 

 know where you have them and can be 

 tolerably sure that they get the proper 

 amount of moisture, which is less easy 

 when they are outdoors. W. N. C. 



LETTUCE AT GRAND RAPIDS. 



The Grand Kapids Greenhouse Co. has 

 two and a half acres of lettuce to cut 

 for the holiday trade, but the oflScers 

 do not feel as happy over the situation 

 as they would if prices were higher. The 

 selling price from the producer is now 

 5 to 6 cents a pound, but there is hope 

 that better figures may be in effect later. 

 Recently the company shipped a carload 

 of the lettuce to Cincinnati, but while 

 there was a fair demand for the stock 

 neither dealers nor public appeared wil- 

 ling to pay the high prices which have 

 obtained in other years at this season. 

 The lettuce now awaiting cutting will 

 run to fully 1,000 barrels and each barrel 

 with a standard weight of eighty pounds. 

 The thousand barrels would make about 

 seven carloads. 



ANTS ON LETTUCE. 



Will you kindly inform us what harm 

 little red ants do to lettuce in hothouses 

 and what can be done to get rid of 

 them? H. B. 



I know of no injury ever done to 

 lettuce by ants, but it is often the case 

 that ants are found crawling upon plants 

 that are infested with aphis, commonly 

 called green lice, and I suspect that your 

 lettuce has aphis on it. The aphis secrete 

 a sticky, sweet substance, sometimes 

 called honey dew, upon the foliage where 

 they are particularly thick. Tbe anta 

 are fond of this substance. 



If your lettuce has aphis on it, of 

 course you will not ruin your trade and 

 hurt all other growers in the Tjusiness 

 by putting the lettuce on the market in 

 that condition. A batch of lettuce in- 

 fested with lice will turn the average 

 housewife against it so that she will not 

 buy any more that winter. Get rid of 

 the lice, if there are any, by regular 

 fumigations with tobacco stems or nico- 

 tine fumigating papers. H. G. 



Young Grafted Rose Plants 



Ready March 16 



White Killarney, 2%-in per 100, $12.00 



My Maryland, 2%-in " 12.00 



0. P. BiSSETT RED CARNATION 



Rooted cuttings per 100, $6.00; per 1000, $50.00 



Kaiserin 



Bench pUnts, now ready for shipment, two years old and 



over per 1000, $50.00 



Our rooted cuttings and young rose plants have a national 

 reputation for choice quality and careful packing. 



Bassett & Washburn 



Office and Store, 



76 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Greenhouses, 



Hinsdale, 111. 



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Rooted Carnation Cuttinsfs 



FOR DECEMBER DELIVERY 



ENCHANTRESS, PERFECTION, BEACON, $3.00 per 100; 



$25.00 per 1000. 

 ROSE-PINK ENCHANTRESS, WHITE ENCHANTRESS, 



WINSOR, $2.50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 

 We can fill orders from 1000 to 100,000 and guarantee the stock. 



J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet, III. 



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HiLLSBORO, O. — Simon J. Hider says 

 business the first part of the month was 

 not especially brisk, but that it kept 

 stock well cleaned up. 



Dover, N. H. — Charles L. Howe, of the 

 Garrison Hill Greenhouses, has recently 

 been visiting Portland, Me., where one of 

 his branch stores is located. 



P RilV/l U li^ 



No better ttrmins in existence. Famons Ronadorfer 

 aad LattBMiin Obconica hTbrids, 2-in. itock ready aow. 

 For price* see claaafied adv. 



J. L. SCHILLBR, 929 Praaty Ave, Tolc^, Q. 



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