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The Florists' Review 



AUODBT 20, 1014. 



FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO 



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ThA^Moai Complete 

 Collection 



12 AND 13 FANEUIL HALL SQUARE, BOSTON 



The Florists' Supply House 



i««ds 



The Highest Grade 



Our Specialty: 



ASTERS -^ ^^ 



Of all the Florists' varieties. 



ANTIRRHINUM 

 CANDYTUFT 



Fiske's Giant White Perfection. 



CINERARIA 



CYCLAMEN 



Fiske 8 Gold Medal Strain. 



PANSIES 



All the Leading Strains. 



PETUNIAS 



Giants of California. 



PRIMULA 



Gold Medal Strain. 



The Florists' Supply House 



Sundries 

 for ths Florist 



Our Specialty: 



STOCKS 



Boston Flower Market in Colors, 

 85 to 90% double. 



SWEET PEAS 



AH the Best Christmas Flower- 

 ing and Spencer Types. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



LILIUM GIGANTEUM 



All the year 'round from our own 

 storage plant. 



BULBS 



from Bermuda. France, Holland, 

 Japan and China in their season. 



' Glidioli aad Dahlias, the Largest Collcdion 



Bulbs 

 for the Florist 



Our Salesrooms are at Faneuil Hall Square. Storehouses are on South Market St.. also on Union St. 



FOTTLER. FISKE. RAWSON CO.. 



12 and 13 Faneuil Hall Square. BOSTON 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 



rose soils in the United States has 

 shown that the clays run from 6 to 29 

 per cent, while the fine sands, silt and 

 clay run from 67.18 to 88.15 per cent. 

 The gravel, coarse, medium and fine 

 sand run from 1.92 to 24.33 per cent. 

 The average percentage of the coarser 

 particles in these rose soils is 9.68, while 

 the average percentage of the finer par- 

 ticles is 79.36 per cent. The average 

 percentage for the silt is 22.36; for fine 

 silts, 16.21 per cent. When these results 

 are compared with those from the typ- 

 ical truck garden soil, it will be no- 

 ticed that there is a great deal of differ- 

 ence between the total percentage of 

 coarse particles and the total percentage 

 of finer particles in this soil. 



In a typical truck garden soil, the 

 coarser particles total 39.15 per cent, 

 and the finer particles 40.25 per cent. 

 The best rose soils appear to be those 

 possessing 8 to 12 per cent or more of 

 clay and which are well supplied with 

 other grades of finer particles. The per- 

 centage of the fine sand, silt and clay 

 usually exceeds 75 per cent in an ideal 

 rose soil, but just how important are the 

 clay and the two grades of silt and fine 

 sand in making up such a soil cannot at 

 present be determined. 



There are many native species of 

 plants which show an adaptation to soil 

 texture, and many species which are 

 confined strictly to certain types of 

 soils. We have our dry, sandy soil spe- 

 cies; also those depending upon humus, 

 but the latter type is continually dis- 

 appearing in some localities. Variations 

 in the chemical constituents also affect 

 the distribution of species. 



The chemical and biological properties 

 of the soil constitute more important 



Giant Pansy Seed, Home Grown 



As fine as the very best obtainable: — 

 $6.00 per ounce; $1.60 per quarter ounce; 60c per trade packet 



Cyclamen Seed, the celebrated English 

 strain, $9.00 per 1000. 



Poinsettias. 2>^-inch, strong, $5.00 per 

 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



Fern Flats, 10 best varieties, $2.00 per 

 flat; 20 flats at $1.75 each. 



Befi^onia Gloire de Chatelaine, easiest 

 Begonia grown, $6.00 per 100. 



For Rosesy Primulas, Snapdragons. Asparagfus Plumosus Nanus. 



Sprengeri. Cyclamen plants, etc., see our ads 



in the Classified Columns. 



S. S. SKIDELSKY & CO. 



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PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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factors in plant growth than mechanical 

 properties; but this phase of the sub- 

 ject is so extremely complex, notwith- 

 standing the immense amount of re- 

 search given to it, that the subject is 

 far from being exhausted. 



All greenhouse soils contain more or 

 less large quantities of plant food, anil 

 in all soils various subsidiary constitu- 

 ents and admixtures which plants can 

 use, are found. It is possible, therefore, 

 to grow good crops in most soils for 



