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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Livingfston's Extra-Select 



Ohio Yellow Globe Onions 



represent the most i)crfcct strain of this desirable type of onions. Bulbs 

 rlp<!n early and evenly, arc of bright, uniform color and distinct, at- 

 tractive shape. Yields enormous crops (see illustration), the bulbs al- 

 most pushlui; each other out of the row to make full growth. They are 

 solid mild and keep well. Their remarkably uniform color caused a 

 satisfied customer to send us this letter: "It may Interest you to know 

 that among 10,000 bushels of onions raised from your seeds we have ab- 

 solutely no white ones." 



Oz., 16c; ^4 lb., 60c; lb., $1.85 postpaid. Special quotations on large 

 quantities on request. 



Onion Booklet, Wholesale C-.^-^^^ 

 ;:: and Retail Catalogues JPlce 



** Cover of Onion booklet shown to left demonstrates how Ohio Yellow 

 Globes grow for us. They will do the same for you if you study the 

 booklet and follow suggestions offered. Catalogues fully describe and 

 offer "True Blue" Seeds at fair prices. Experience has proved that our 

 Quality seeds make the price second consideration. Write for free Onion 

 booklet and catalofirues today. 



The Livingston Seed Co., ""t Cilnmbiis, Ohii 



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Stokes' Bonny Best Early Tomato 



Buf Tkii Seed il the Origiutn, ind Get it Rigkt. 



It is the flneat tomato for forcing Inside or for outdoor planting knnwn to the trade. 



Price Introducer's Seed: Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c: ^4 lb., 11.00; lb.. $3.76. Orown Set 

 Seed for greenhouse use. Pkt.. 20c; >a oc, 76c; oz.. tl.26. " Stokes' Standard" 

 Globe Tomato. A. new and wonderful strain of Olobe Tomato. Seed saved from 

 specimen fruits from line bred plants. Pkt.. 10c; 'a oz., SOc; oz..60c: ^Ib-.tl^M). ..m* 



STOKES' BIG BOSTON LEHUCE STOKES' GRAND RAPIDS LETTUCE 



A superior strain. A superior strain. 



Oz., 15c; X lb., 36c; Lb., $1.26. Oz., 16c; X lb., .?6c; Lb., $1.25. 



Send for Seed Catalogue and Market Gardeners' Wholesale Lists. 



WALTER P. STOKES, Seedsman. Phjladelpliia, Pa. 



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Vegetable Fordng. 



MAKING HOTBEDS. 



I wish you would please tell me ex- 

 actly how to make hotbeds for spring 

 plants, for sale, such as potatoes, to- 

 matoes and cabbages. I live in Okla- 

 homa. I have already made one of 

 them, but did not succeed with it. 



C. G. L. 



To have the right kind of manure is 

 the most important thing about making 

 hotbeds. It matters little whether you 

 make them on top of the ground or dig 

 pits. I usually make them on top of the 

 ground, but this method requires a 

 little more manure, for it must be in a 

 pile about two feet wider than the hot- 

 bed all around, as the hotbed does not 

 heat well around the edges unless the 

 -pfle is wider than the frame that is set 

 on top of it. Many growers dig out 

 pits the size of the sash. These are 

 two feet deep and the frame is set on 

 top of the ground like an ordinary cold- 

 frame. In either case there should be 

 about three inches of soil on top of 

 the manure, to hold in the heat and 

 also to prevent the injury of the plants 

 from the fumes that rise. 



As already stated, the manure must 

 be right, or it will not heat well. Use 

 only fresh, short horse manure, without 

 much straw in it. Where shavings have 

 been used for bedding, it does not make 

 good hotbeds. The manure should be 

 shaken up and turned over once or 

 twice before being put in the hotbeds, 

 and it should be left three or four days 

 each time it is shaken out. 



BEST FBENCH SEED. 



Radish, Scarlet Globe; Self-Blanetalns Celerj; 

 Lettuce. Improved Big Boston (qnali^ extra). 

 Black Seed Big Boston, Beanlleu^s BWcinf, 45 

 bead fill up a barrel; Beanllen'a Olob* Whit* 

 Tipped Forcing (% pink, % white) new radish; 

 White Tipped Scarlet tnmip: Beet, Detroit, 

 Crosby; long smooth parsley, larse rooted, extra; 

 Spinach, Savoy, Vlroflay, Trinmph, etc.; Endive, 

 Curled and EscaroUe. All this has been selected 

 by myself and Is the quality as nsad by the 

 market gardeners of Paris. Send for prices. 

 BEAVUEXr. 



Woodhaven, Borough of Qneens, New York. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pun Culture Mashroom Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper srrades ia 

 .JUS easily exposed. Fresn sample 

 brick, with Illustrated book, mailed 



postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 • tc " ■" ■ ■ "" 



v^^^,^ ceipi of 40 cents In postage. ATldresa 

 Trade Mark. American Spawn Co., St Paul, Minn. 



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Pile the manure in place, making it 

 deep enough so it will be eighteen 

 inches in depth when tramped down 

 solidly. Some make the depth fully 

 two feet. If everything is right, the 

 manure will heat violently in a short 

 time and then will gradually cool a 

 little. Do not put anything in except 

 the soil for a few days. When you do 

 put in the plants, watch them closely 

 in the daytime. Admit a little air at 

 the side protected from the wind, and 

 look out that the plants do not dry out 

 or run too hot and burn. 



I like to transplant the tomatoes, egg- 

 plants, peppers, etc., into flats and set 

 the flats in the' frame, but they can be 

 planted right in the soil and will do 

 well. Coleus, verbenas, alternantheras, 

 etc., in small pots, plunged deep in the 

 soil, will do wonderfully well — better 

 than anywhere else, if proper attention 

 is given to them. 



Sweet potatoes should be laid in very 



DELIVERY, 

 WAGONS 



Are Made in Many 

 Styles Particularly 

 Adapted to Your 

 Business. 



Otir catalogues and prices 

 will interest you and help 

 you make yottr selection. 



DO YOU WANT 

 THEM? 



THE 



STUDEBAKER 

 CORPORATION 



■ SOUTH BEND, IND. 

 ▲drr. No. U14. 



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Special to the Trade 



We make a specialty of growing all kinds of 

 Vegetable Plants for the Seed and Plant Trade, 

 including the best varieties of Forcing Toma- 

 toes, Asparagus, Cauliflower, Egg Plants, Pep- 

 pers, Parsley. Lettuce, Cabbage, etc. Special 

 prices made on large orders for spring delivery. 

 Let us know your wants. 



We have a fine lot of Tomato Plants, trans- 

 planted and potted: Comet, Lorillard. Bonny 

 Best, Sutton's A-1, Sutton's Abundance and 

 Winter Beauty, also Extra Early Erfurt and 

 Snowball Cauliflower. 



Casli roqulrod wltb orders from 

 onknown oorrospondonta 



fox-Hall farm, \l;^' Norfolk, Va. 



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 writing advertisers. 



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