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June 29, 1911. 



Tlic Weekly Florists' Review. 



51 



Fischer's Grand Freesia Purity 



CNow is the time to order your stock of Freesia Purity. Be sure to 

 ask your dealer for Fischer's guaranteed stock, grown by him and sup- 

 plied to you in his original package. Then you will get the true, pure 

 stock that has been grown in the open field with the object of growing 

 good, vigorous bulbs, to give you good flowers, and not exhausted green- 

 house bulbs that already have done duly for the flower market. Insist 

 on getting his guaranteed stock, packed in muslin bags of 100, 250 and 

 500 bulbs, indorsed by his signature on a certificate of guarantee in each 

 package. 



<I,A correction of error: Stumpp & Walter Co. have no Purity Freesia 

 stock grown by me. 



RUDOLPH FISCHER, San Gabriel, Cal. 



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Freesia Purity 



PURE STOCK 



Grown with great care in a most congenial soil and climate — the 



coast of Middle California. 



$25.00, $22.00 and $18.00 per 1000 



ACCORDING TO SIZK 



GEO. J. STREHTOR, R«edde, Santa Cruz, CaL 



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Bedding Plants «^°^li^:^Sn; 



Nlvens. Pies. Smith. BonDaSon. (i. Ruffled P»<lunla 

 R. 0.^, Ic; Acbyrantbea K. C, Ic. From tlats: Silvia 

 Splendena. Ic; Lobelia. Oiygtat Palace, lo; Agera- 

 tum. bine. Ic: Aatera, Urpgo and Semple's Braoch- 

 lD(r, I'ac; Mme. 84llerolO< raaiumri.lc; faruHtlons. 

 pink, wliltf. red. crImeoD.l'uc; Dianlhus 2H(-ln..2c: 

 Dahlias, large, cactus and show, labeled 5c: Cannes 

 from field Kate Gray. Burbaok, Allemanla, 2c: Ivy 

 Oeranlums. pink, white, red. crimson, 4-ln.. 5c: S. 

 A. Nutt (dark red) K. 0. and 2'2-ln.. 1 and zc: *ucli- 

 Hlas, slngrle and double. 3-ln., 4c. 6c. Vines: VlrKlnla 

 creeper, passion vines. muebleDbecklas. Boston 

 and Enitllsh ivy. KHLK'S NUB8EKY. :i»4 

 Sanborn Ave.. San .lose, Cal. 



and, as a consequence, flowers of all 

 kinds are in splendid shape. It is rare 

 in the middle of June to find roses and 

 carnations up to form and color, but 

 they are certainly that way this year. 

 Sweet peas are a glut in the markets 

 and still they are the most popular 

 flower at present. Quite a lot of Lilium 

 longiflorum are being brought into town, 

 but they do not move well. The same 

 caa be said of valley and glsTdioli. In 

 fact, it is hard to tell just what the 

 dear public wants at this time. Ap- 

 parently everyone with any money has 

 gone tt) the mountains or the seashore, 

 and those who are left are not patroniz- 

 ing the florists to any great extent. 



Various Notes. 



M. H. Dunn, head gardener for the 

 town of Alameda, has refused to accept 

 a dismissal from his position at the 

 hands of the park commissioners of 

 that town and will carry his case to 

 the courts. 



The Eealty Syndicate Nursery has 

 abandoned its grounds at Piedmont and 

 will subdivide the property for build- 

 ing purposes. 



Frank Clarke, of Clarke Bros., Oak- 



land, is absent on a trip to Portland, 

 Ore. 



The Trumbull Seed Co. has opened a 

 store at 259 Market street, in the prem- 

 ises formerly occupied by the May 

 Seed Co. 



Joseph Stock is in Santa Barbara on 

 a few weeks' vacation. G. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



FABSLEY FOS WINTER. 



Please give directions for starting 

 parsley, to be wintered in coldframes, 

 so that it may be cut through the win- 

 ter. F. E. S. 



Parsley may be sowed now and will 

 make good plants to take in in the fall. 

 Lift them and transplant them to cold- 

 frames or greenhouses after frost 

 comes, taking care to get all the roots 

 and as much soil as possible with each 

 plant, and then trim the leaves nearly 

 all off, to aid them in starting. 



H. G. 



PLANTS FOR EMPTY BENCHES. 



What can I put in my empty benches 

 now to make me something until I 

 can put them in lettuce in the fall? 

 What cuttings should be started dur- 

 ing the latter part of June to Sep- 

 tember 1? L. M. S. 



It is a little late now to start any 

 crops from seed to net you anything. 

 If you had had tomato plants of good 



size and could have planted them not 

 later than the first part of June, they 

 would have brought in good returns; 

 so also with cucumbers, but if planted 

 now they would be .just coming well into 

 bearing when you would want to start 

 your lettuces. The same ai)plies to such 

 crops as melons and eggplants. There 

 are no flowering plants which you 

 could grow satisfactorily through the 

 summer months, unless it might be 

 some of the early varieties of chrys- 

 anthemums, like Cilory of Pacific, 

 CJolden Glow, Polly Kose, etc. These 

 could still be planted and the crop 

 cleared before the middle of October. 

 Propagation is always at a low ebb 

 during the hot summer months and un- 

 less you had plants of the varieties to 

 be propagated from, it would not pay 

 you to do anything in this line. Out- 

 side of ornamental-leaved plants, cut- 

 tings of deciduous flowering shrubs and 

 some few other plants, little is done in 

 this line until cooler weather. Another 

 season cannot you plan somewhat dif 

 ferently? Empty benches do not pay 

 and it would be much better to run let- 

 tuces, say, until the middle or end of 

 April and then follow with strong to- 

 mato plants or cucumbers, whichever 

 you would have best market for. These 

 would produce i)rofitably, especially 

 the tomatoes, until you had to pre- 

 pare for the fall lettuce crop. Many 

 growers grow violets, planting in Octo- 

 ber, pull these out about the end of 

 March or a little later, and follow with 

 tomatoes. These two crops prove good 

 paying ones and lettuce followed by 

 cucumbers and tomatoes, which could 

 run until September 1, would prove 

 equally profitable. C. W. . 



Norwalk, Conn. — George C. Comstock, 

 of Broad River, furnished the decora- 

 tions, comprising 1,000 fine white carna- 

 tions and a large number of roses, for 

 the Dennis-Post wedding, June 17. 



Danville, 111. — Harry A. Du Bois. who 

 recently purchased the Wadsworth es- 

 tablishment, on West North street, has 

 now bought also the greenhouses which 

 formerly belonged to John Willius, 

 south of the city. The Willius range, 

 it is said, contains 25,000 square feet 

 of glass and is in good condition. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



Cabbage— Wakefield, All Head. Snccesslon and 

 other varieties $1.00 1000: 10.0( and over, BSc 10(10. 



liettnce— Orand Rtpldn. Blgr Boston. Boston Mar- 

 ket and Tennis Ball. $1.00 1000; 10,000 and over. 8Sc 

 1000. 



Beet— Crosby, Egyptian and Eclipse, $1.26 1000. 

 Cash with order. 



R. ViRceat, Jr.. & Sons Co., White Marsh, Md. 



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SWEET POTATO PLANTS 



Yellow Naneemond, Big Stem Jersey 

 and other varieties. Single— 1000, $1.60; 

 10,000, $12.50. 



H. AUSTIN CO., Felton, Del. 



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Wtttoh for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Port CBltnra Moshroon Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper grades ia 



thus easily OKPOsed. Fresh •ample 



brick, with Olostrated book, mailed 



-_ .-^^ postpaid by manafactorers upon re* 



,^ ^>^ celpt of 40 cents in postage. Addreat 



Tndeiiiaik. Amcrioui Spawn Co., St Paul, Mlm. 



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