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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



Febbuabt 22, 1912. 



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Ever-Ready Pot Covers 

 Are Plant Sales Boosters 



nHEY make beautiful plants more beautiful by hiding the ugly clay pots— and they are 

 instantly applied. They are so inexpensive you can easily afford to give one with every 

 plant— the added attractiveness of the plant makes for a quicker sale and is more than 



worth the slight added cost. 



The Ever-Ready has a strong cardboard foundation covered with best quality of 

 Waterproof Crepe Paper, tied with Silk Fiber liibbon at top and bottom, and all firmly 

 jnit together witli improved metal fasteners. The frill covers the saucer, if one is used. 



Furnished in four attractive colors, and sizes and shapes to fit all pots or pans. 

 Write for price list and circulars today. You will need Ever-Ready Pot Covers for 

 Easter and Spring trade. 



EVER-READY FLOWER POT OOYER CO. 



146 Hughes Ave., BUFFALO, N. Y. 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



WHO KNOWS OF THIS I.ETTUCE? 



Will you please inform me where I 

 can get seed of the Orchard lettuce, a 

 sample of which I enclose? I bought 

 seed last spring of what was supposed 

 to be this variety of lettuce, and it 

 turned out to be nothing more than the 

 common broad-leaved endive. The Or- 

 chard lettuce is a head lettuce and un- 

 usually beautiful. I should also like to 

 know how to grow it. W. G. B. 



I am unable to tell you just what va- 

 riety of lettuce the sample was which 

 you' sent. It was pretty well dried up 

 when received. I would suggest that 

 you get a catalogue from one of the 

 large, reliable seed companies that ad- 

 vertise in The Eeview. and look for the 

 particular kind you want. You will 

 find the head lettuce and leaf lettuce in 

 separate lists, with a good description 

 of each variety. Any of these firms 

 will sell you just what you want. 



If 3'ou want the lettuce to grow in- 

 side, it will be best to get a forcing va- 

 riety. Head lettuce should be sown in 

 boxes or coldframes, not too thickly, 

 and transplanted to the field or to beds 

 inside as soon as large enough to han- 

 dle. Set them eight inches apart. 



H. G. 



A STUNTED LETTUCE CROP. 



I should like to get a little light on 

 a subject with which I am not familiar. 



1 have several houses, facing east, with 

 lettuce in them. Since the cold weath- 

 er commenced, the lettuce has prac- 

 tically not grown any. The leaves start 

 out and become about one-third devel- 

 oped; then they quit growing and the 

 lower leaves begin to wilt. I have five 

 houses, each • 30x260, in this section. 

 Two of the houses are 6 years old, with 

 new soil in some of the beds and old 

 soil in others. Two of the houses are 



2 years old and one house was built 

 last year; the first planting is still in 

 it. In parts of the houses there are 

 some eelworms and in other places there 

 are fishworms. I have no green fiy. 



PROTECTION 1 1 1 



of your plants from frecBinc Tlila can only be done 

 by uBlnr a celebrated 



LEHMAN WAGON HEATER 



^r* 400.000 are in use by Floristo. horsemen, doctors and 

 farmers. They burn Liehman Coal (from which there Is no 

 smoke or danger) , at a cost of less than ^c per hour. 



CAN YOU AFFORD TO BK WITHOUT ONE? 



LEHMAN BROS. 



MAirCFACTTTBEBS 



10 Bond St. NEW YORK 



BEWAKF OF IMITATIONS 



For circular and price list write 



J. W. ERRINGER, General Westera Sales AgL 

 20 L Rudolph St, CHiaCO, ILL 



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Watch for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pan CnHure Moshroom Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper grades is 

 thus easily exposed. Fresh sample 

 brick, with illustrated book, mailed 

 postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 ceipt of 40 cents in postage. Address 



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



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I maintain a temperature of 50 de- 

 grees at night and from 60 to 65 degrees 

 in the daytime, with a moderate amount 

 of moisture. Some of the plants are 

 ten weeks old, with about twenty 

 leaves; these plants are about half 

 grown, and are stubby, tough and 

 stunted. 



I also have five houses, each 30x200, 

 facing south, and these contain a first- 

 class crop of lettuce. If I take plants 

 out of the first-mentioned place and 

 plant them in the section facing south, 

 they develop quickly. We treat both 

 places just alike. Please give me all 

 the information you can on this subject. 



F. L. L. 



The east and west houses are unques- 

 tionably lighter than those in which 

 the ridge runs north and south, but that 

 difference does not explain your trouble 

 at all. If the temperature and treat- 

 ment are the same in both ranges, then 

 the trouble is below ground, not above. 

 I have a suspicion that you water the 

 sick section too much and that the soil 

 is sour and soggy. Examine the soil 

 in both ranges and see whether it is not 



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 yoar 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. 



Cash r«qiilr«d wltb orders from 

 unknoim corraepondanta 



^o.2. Norfolk, Va. 



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Fox-Hall farm, «f ' » 



BEST FHENOH SEES. 



Radish, Scarlet Globe; Self-Blancblng CWary; 

 Lettace, Improved Big Boston (onallty extra). 

 Black Seed Big Boston, Beaollea^s Forcing, 4B 

 bead fill up a barrel; Beanliea's Globe white 

 npped Forcing (% pink, % white) new radlah; 

 White Tipped Scarlet tnmlp; Beet, Detroit, 

 Crosby; long smooth parsley, large rooted, extra; 

 Splna<A. Savoy, Vlroflay, Trinmpb, etc.; Bndlve. 

 Curled and BscaroUe. All this has been selected 

 by myself and Is the quality as nsed by the 

 market gardeners of Pari s. S end for prices. 

 BEAULIEV. 



Woodhaven, Borough of Queens. New Tork. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



nice and mealy in the section doing 

 well, and entirely different, wet, sticky 

 and soggy, in the other section. It is 

 not the eelworms that are to blame, 

 or the plants would not do well after 

 being moved to the other house. Eel- 

 worms, however, are hard on lettuce at 

 times. 



Perhaps the soil is not of much ac- 



