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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



NOTBMBEB 23, 1911. 



FLOWER COLORINQS. 



CYACEINB FLOWER COLORING, yellow, 

 otatige; pink, blue, green, American Beauty, 20c 

 per qt. by mall. 

 O. R. Cranston. 146 Orchard St., Auburn, R. I. 



. QOLO FISH. 



GOLD FISH. 

 We are now shipping 



Extra fancy crop. 



FANCY LONG TAILS 



FANTAILS 



TELESCOPES 



If you have not our price list 



A post card will bring It. 



GLEN MARY FISH FARM, 



Chas. Pommert. Prop., Amelia, O. 



POTS. 



Standard Flower Pots. If vour greenhouses 

 are within 50 miles of the Capital, write us; we 

 can save you money. W. II. Ernest, 28th and 

 M Sts. N. E.. Washington, D. C. 



We make Standard Flower Pots, etc. 

 Write us when In need. 

 Wllmer Cope & Bro. 

 Lincoln University, Ches ter Co., Pa. 



"NUF SED." Best red pots are made by 

 Geo. E. Feustel, Falrport, Iow a. 



Red pots, none better. 

 Coleshurg Pottery Co.. Colesburg, Iowa. 



RAFFIA. 



Raffla. Red Star and 3 other grades. Bale 

 lots or less. Colored raffla, 20 colors. Write for 

 prices. 



McHutchlBon & Co., 17 Murray St., New Yo rk. 



Raffia (colored), 20 beautiful shades. Samples 

 free. R. H. Comey Co., Camden, N. J. 



Or 2440-24&4 Washburne Ave., Chicago. 



SPHAQNUM MOSS. 



Sphagnum moss In 10 bbl. burlapped bales, 

 clean and fresh. 1 bale. $3.7.'5: 5 bales, $3.50 each 



S. S PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO., 

 1608-20 Ludlow St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Sphagnum moss, clean stock; 12 bbl. bale, 

 $3.50. Green moss. In bhls., $1.00 per bbl. 



James Day. Mllford, New Hampshire. 



SPRINKLERS. 



Spray with lead arsenate both sides of foliage. 

 Ask for K's Sprayer. .T. Koposay. So. Bend. Ind. 



TOBACCO. ~ 



Tobacco dust and stems. Dust In cases, about 

 300 lbs., 2c per lb. Baled stems, about 150 to 175 

 lbs., $1.25; ton, $11.00. 'Cash. Money back If 

 you say so. 8. R. Levy, Blngha mton, N. T. 



Fresh tobacco stems. In bales, 200 lbs., $1.50; 

 600 lbs., $3.50; 1000 lbs., $6.50; ton, $12.00. 

 Scharff Bros., Van Wert, Ohio. 



Tobacco dust for dusting, 100 lb. sack, $1.75; 

 200 lbs., $3.00. G. H. Hunkel, Milwaukee, Wis . 



Fresh tobacco stems. 65c per 100; $12.00 per 

 ton. F. O. B. N. D. Mills, Middletown. N. Y. 



- WIRE WORK. 



Florists' wire designs and hanging baskets. 



Wyandott« Wire Works Co., 



700 Ferry St., Kansas City, Kan. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire work 

 In the west. E. F. Wlnterson Co., 

 166 North Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



FALLS CITY WIRE WORKS, 

 451 S. Third St., Louisville, Ky. 



William E. Hiclscher's Wire Works, 

 38 and 40 Broadway, Detroit, Mich. 



Illustrated book, 250 designs free. 

 C. C. Pollworth Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, WU. 

 Wm. H. Woerner, 520 N. 16th St., Omaha, Neb. 



WREATHS. 



Holly wreaths a specialty; In large and small 

 quantities for the holiday decorations. Write for 

 prices. H. E. Conwell, Milton. Del. 



Some, N. Y. — E. J. Byam has retaken 

 his plant recently occupied by Kipp & 

 Edwards. Jos. Watkins has been en- 

 gaged as grower. The Humphrey Floral 

 Co. is in charge of the Misses Hum- 

 phrey, who report excellent business. 



Oeneva, N. Y. — Smith & Gannett ex- 

 pect to go into the growing of carna- 

 tions more heavily next season, the soil 

 being well suited to their culture. E. 

 J. Welsh reports a busy season with 

 funeral work. He grows bedding stock 

 in quantity. 



Auburn, N. Y. — Alfred Patrick & 

 Sons are extending their nursery 

 branch, being of the opinion there is 

 more money in this direction than in 

 adding to glass just now. J. Hicks & 

 Son have had excellent results from the 

 new rose house and find sale for all 

 they can grow. Dobbs & Son have a 

 modern plant, which they find is all 

 they can profitably handle. 



SNOW'S CONOBETE BENCH. 



The florist who makes his own con- 

 crete benches, or is planning to do so, 

 is naturally interested in the experi- 

 ments of other florists in the same line 

 of work, especially if tbese other flo- 

 rists not only built the benches, but 

 began the undertaking by designing 

 and constructing the molds or forms. 

 Even if one person does not adopt an- 

 other pferson 's device in its entirety, 

 he can generally obtain some helpful 

 suggestion, at least, from the other 

 person's method of procedure. 



Among the florists who have done the 

 job of concrete bench building from 

 start to finish, from the planning of 

 the first mold to the laying of the last 

 slab, is Harvey B. Snow, of Camden, 

 N. Y. Mr. Snow has sent a diagram 

 of a cross section of his bench and the 

 diagram is here reproduced, to illus- 

 trate Mr. Snow's description. He says: 



"I have been interested in the arti- 

 cles on concrete benches in The Beview 

 and have built one this summer which 



Snow's Concrete Bench. 



seems to be entirely satisfactory. Per- 

 haps others may be interested in our 

 methods. 



"First I built foundations, 8x10 

 inches square, on a grade the length 

 of the house, placing them the length 

 of the rail apart, which in our case was 

 five feet five inches. Then I made 

 boxes for the posts, 6x6x18 inches, in- 

 side measurements. The forms for the 

 sides and rails consisted of boards of 

 the proper length, attached at each end 

 to wooden blocks of the desired shape. 

 I made these blocks or end pieces from 

 pieces of plank, 6x9 inches, by cutting 

 a piec6, 41^x6 inches, from one corner 

 of them. The 9-inch side of these pieces 

 was not boarded, as that side of the 

 form was left open for the admission 

 of the concrete. The slabs were made 

 in boxes li/^xlO inches, and three feet 

 six inches long. The end pieces were 

 angles cast one and one-half inches 

 thick, one side being five inches wide 

 and the other six inches. 



' ' In the posts coarse gravel was 

 used. The rails were reinforced with 

 buggy tire, put in edgeways. The slabs 

 were reinforced with the common poul- 

 try wire. The forms were put together 

 with screws, which permitted their be- 

 ing easily removed and refilled as soon 

 as the concrete had set. 



"The sketch shows the bench set up 

 without the end piece in place. It has 

 the advantage of being easily taken 

 down and moved. The slabs will bear 

 a man's weight in the center without 

 breaking. I did the work myself and 

 the cost for materials was approxi- 

 mately 20 cents per running foot of 

 bench. ' ' 



HE IS FROM PIKE COUNTY. 



S. Bryson Ayres, of Independence, 

 visited relatives at Louisiana, Mo., the 



other day and the Journal, of the latter 

 place, took occasion to remark: "Bry- 

 son is now proprietor of the S. Bryson 

 Ayres Co., wholesale florists, nursery- 

 men and seedsmen, and has built up 

 a big business. The company has 148,- 

 000 square feet devoted to the culture 

 of sweet peas, in which the company 

 has become famous. Mr. Ayres has 

 propagated new varieties of sweet peas 

 which have attracted the attention of 

 Cornell University, which will carry on 

 a line of testing these varieties. Bry- 

 son 's many friends and relatives in 

 Pike will be glad to hear of his success. 

 If you can mention a line of human en- 

 deavor in which Pike doesn't get to 

 the front, let us hear of it." 



FIANTS FOB SMALL HOUSE. 



I should be glad to have some sug- 

 gestions which would keep me in green- 

 house operations. I have a lean-to 

 greenhouse twenty-five feet long and 

 sixteen feet wide; walk with raised 

 beds on each side. I would like to 

 know what I can do with this outfit to 

 produce a little revenue without too 

 much technical knowledge. I have some 

 call for a general line of house plants, 

 and in the early spring season, raised 

 some aster and tomato plants for sale. 

 Is there anything that can be raised 

 in my beds through the winter? I have 

 a small hot water heater and can keep 

 the house about 75 degrees at night. 

 What class of small plants would it pay 

 me to raise, either for flowers or for 

 sale? Besides the above, would say I 

 do quite a little in potted bulbs which 

 will come in along January and Febru- 

 ary. While speaking of bulbs, would 

 like to know if anything can be done 

 with bulbs like this: Last year I buried 

 my bulbs in pots and flats outside. 

 This summer I found I had overlooked 

 four or five boxes of bulbs, daffodils, 

 which had been covered up all winter 

 and summer. The bulbs seem hard and 

 with plenty of roots. I brought in a 

 few this month and they show some 

 life, but do not seem to move at all 

 beyond slight green tip, A. H. R. 



If you could keep a night tempera- 

 ture as near 40 to 42 degrees as possi- 

 ble, single violets, such as Princess of 

 Wales, would probably pay you as well 

 as anything. You could, no doubt, sell 

 these near home, as you could hardly 

 expect to compete with the big special- 

 ists in the wholesale markets. You could 

 follow the violets, which would be over 

 by the end of March, with bedding gera- 

 niums, which you could winter in flats 

 of sand, and also raise asters, tomatoes, 

 lettuce, cabbage and any other plants 

 for which you might find a call. Pansies 

 also pay well. Planted in October, you 

 could pick quite a lot of flowers through 

 the winter and by lifting and planting 

 a quantity in flats or baskets from 

 the open ground or frames the last p&rt 

 of February, you could get them well 

 in flower in April before the pansy 

 specialists have much to offer. It would 

 be better to stick to one or two varie- 

 ties of plants rather than to grow a 

 miscellaneous mixture in your house. 



It is possible the narcissi may flower 

 this season, although I have not had 

 your experience v.ith them. It would 

 be better, however, to leave them out- 

 doors or in a cellar covered up until 

 they have sprouts a couple of inches 

 long before trying to force them. 



C. W. 



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