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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 7. IDlu. 



but can only carry out the instructions 

 of congress. 1 have noted with pleas- 

 ure, during the last year, that many of 

 our newspapers recognize this distribu- 

 tion as a waste of the people's money, 

 for which no real benefit is derived ex- 

 cept by congressmen who like to flat- 

 ter their constituents by a package of 

 free seed that does not even comply 

 with Par. 5, Sec. 49(5, Postal Service 

 Kegulations. [The paragraph requiring 

 sealed envelopes to be of transparent 

 ])aper.] The only effective way of com- 

 bating this evil is to lay the ax at the 

 root, the congressman himself, and show 

 him the error of his ways. The time 

 will come when this free seed distribu- 

 tion of common varieties will cease, 

 but it will not be through a direct fight 

 of the seedsman, as he will always be 

 accused of self-interest in his efforts." 



IMPOETS. 



The imports of seeds through the port 



of New York for the Aveek ending, June 



25 were as follows: 



Kind. Pkgs. Val. Kind. Pkgs. Val. 



Anise 152 $ 2,180 Coriander.. 161$ 444 



Canarv ... 200 025 Millet 1,280 3,495 



Caraway . . 350 2,137 Mustard . . 300 2,365 



Castor ...5,107 22,507 Other 19 611 



CloTer ... 12 174 



In the same period the imports of 



bulbs, trees and plants were valued at 



$3,978. 



A BED OF PANSIES. 



As I intend to put in a pansy bed in 

 a few weeks, I should like to ask you 

 a few questions on the subject. I want 

 to make coldframes six feet wide and 

 thirty feet long. How far apart should 

 my plants be set to make good, stocky 

 plants? How many seeds ought I to 

 purchase to make plants enough to fill 

 this bed? Our soil here in Illinois is a 

 rich, black, heavy loam, with scarcely 

 any sand in it. What could I add to the 

 soil to made it an ideal pansy soil? 



H. A. E. 



Allow the plants three inches apart 

 each way in the frame, which would 

 give you space for nearly 3,000 plants. 

 One ounce of good quality seed should 

 give you a sufficient number of plants, 

 provided they are carefully sown and 

 properly treated. An addition of rotted 

 horse manure, sand and some leaf-mold, 

 a year old and only partially decayed, 

 would lighten your soil and much im- 

 prove it for pansies. They like a light, 

 but tolerably rich and porous soil. 



W. C. 



NAME OF PLANT. 



We are sending under separate cover 

 a bloom and leaf of a plant that one of 

 our customers brought to us to get the 

 name. He says this plant has no bulb 

 and that he got it in Kochester, N. Y., 

 twenty years ago. He has shown it to 

 florists all over the country and they 

 do not know what it is. In his descrip- 

 tion he said it had a stem that stood 

 out of the pot about four inches and 

 the leaves broke from the top. I showed 

 him a crinum and he said it grew like 

 that, but that the stem did not get 

 larger at the bottom, being practically 

 the same size all the way down. It 

 usually blooms in February and never 

 dies down or rests like amaryllis. They 

 propagate from it in the following 

 manner: It throws out shoots from the 

 stem, like a Sansevieria Zeylanica, and 

 when the shoot comes up at the side of 

 the pot they cut it off a short distance ' 



CINERARIAS 



RAWSON'S BEAUTY CINERARIAS, both tall and dwarf, 

 every plant a prize winner; trade package, $1.00. 



^ W. W. RAWSON & CO. 



^m^ 



Seedsmen, 



5 Union Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



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SEED PANSY SEED 



11 Brown's improved (iiant Prize Pansies, the finest strain of pansies in the market, surpassing 

 all other strains: as to variety of colors and size they are unsurpassable, many measuring i^ inches 

 m diameter. My own grown seed, new 1910 crop ready. I'rice mixed seed. 8000 seeds. Si. 00: ^ 

 o«., Sl.SO: ij oz., $2.50; 1 oz., $5.00; ^4 lb., $14.00; la lb., $M.OO; 1 lb!, $50.00 

 beparate colors giant yellow, with dark eye, same price. Plants ready Sept. 1. Cash with order 



PETER BROWN, Pansy Seed Grower, Lancaster, Pa. 



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from the stem. Can you name this 

 plant? p. p. -p. C. 



It is Imantophyllum miniatum, also 

 called Clivia miniata. This is the old 

 form. There are now many new and 

 vastly improved varieties in cultiva- 

 tion, c. W. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



CUCUMBERS TURN YELLOW. 



Will you please tell me the trouble 

 with my cukes? When they are only 

 half grown they turn yellow at the 

 stem and commence to ripen. If any 

 are green when picked, they get yellow 

 after a couple of days. Is there any- 

 thing that can be done to make cukes a 

 dark green? j, l. P. 



It is hard to tell what the trouble is 

 without seeing one of the cukes, but I 

 am of the opinion that you have a poor 

 variety. A cucumber that has black 

 thorns on it instead of white will turn 

 yellow every time before becoming 

 large enough to make a good cuke. 

 Many of the pickling varieties are of 

 the black-spine type. The best of cukes 

 will sometimes turn yellow if the plants 

 are sickly, but they usually get all 

 twisted up and worthless at the same 

 time. 



Plenty of rich soil, fertilizer and wa- 

 ter will keep the color of the cukes 

 good if the plants are healthy and of 

 good varieties. jj q. 



Vegetable Plants 



Cabbace. All Head, Succession, Second Earlv 

 Eariy Summer Flat Dutch. Sure Head, Danish 

 Round and Ball Head, at 20c per 100, ll 00 ner 

 1000: 10,000 and over. 85c per loW). ^^^ 



Celery. White Plume, (iolden Self-Blanchinir 

 Giant Pascal Golden Heart and Boston Marknt 

 20cPerl00; il.OO per 1000:10.000 and over,^fc 



Kce Plants. Black Beauty and New York 

 Improved. 40c per 100. $2.00 per 1000. 



Peppers. Bull Nose, Ruby King and Sweet 

 Mountain. 40c per 100, #2.00 per 1000. 



CASH WITH ORDER. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co.,''"W"* 



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THE GRANITE STATE 



MOWING MACHINE CO. 



HINSDALK, N. H., U. S. A. 



Manufacturers of Granite State Lawn and Field 



Mowers, Capitol Trimmers 



and Specialties for Garden and Cemetery use. 



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CREDIT THE PARCELS POST. 



It is reported from Paris that the 

 extension of the French parcels post 

 privileges to the shipment of cut flow- 

 ers has so stimulated the trade, which 

 has increased in value from $57,000,- 

 000 in 1892 to $77,000,000 in 1909, that 

 a technical board of horticulture has 

 been created and attached to the 

 French department of agriculture. An 

 earnest attempt will be made to co- 

 ordinate the individual efforts of the 

 numerous horticultural societies and 

 syndicates, and of the transportation 

 companies, technical experts, inventors / 

 and other agencies interested in the 

 matter, and thus establish greater 

 unity and cooperation among all who 

 are in any way connected with the 

 production and traffic in plants and 

 flowers. 



The adv. in The Eeview cleaned us 

 out.— B. M. Wichers & Co., Gretna, La. 



Discontinue our adv. in The Eeview; 

 had a stack of letters that took hours to 

 answer. — C. H. Frey, Lincoln, Neb. 



With the Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Irrigation ONE 

 MAN can do the work 



of FORTY MEN 

 watering with a hose. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROT, O. 



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