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The Florists^ Review 



March 5, 1914. 



Price List," a neat, compact little book of forty- 

 six pages, nearly all devoted to dahlias, but con- 

 taining a brief list, also, of miscellaneous plants, 

 shrubs and roots. 



Sterling Emery Wheel Mfg. Co., Tlffln, O.— 

 A well illustrated, clearly printed, 32-page cata- 

 logue of lawii vases, bouquet holders, chairs and 

 settees, all of cast-iron construction. 



New England Nurseries Co., Bedford, Mass. — 

 Two carefully compiled nursery catalogues, whole- 

 sale and general. The wholesale list is a handy 

 32-page book, with no illustrations and no un- 

 necessary descriptive matter. The general cata- 

 logue contains eighty-eight pages, with illustra- 

 tions and helpful suggestions in regard to the 

 selection of stock for specific purposes, such as 

 seashore planting, and the planting of groups, 

 rock gardens, small grounds or the spaces under 

 shrubbery. 



D. M. Andrews, Boulder, Colo. — Colorado wild 

 flowers, shrubs, evergreens, cacti, ferns and other 

 native plants, with illustrations and cultural 

 directions; twenty-four pages. 



Ross Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass. — "Catalogue 

 of New England's Greatest Agricultural Depart- 

 ment Store," a 120-page book, illustrated. The 

 first sixty-seven pages are devoted to seeds, 

 bulbs and plants; the rest of the book is occu- 

 pied by unusually comprehensive lists of fertil- 

 izers, agricultural implements, garden tools, poul- 

 try supplies, etc. 



Palisades Nurseries, Inc., Sparkill, N. Y. — Two 

 catalogues, general and wholesale, each well 

 adapted to its purpose. Both are excellently 

 printed on large pages. The wholesale list con- 

 tains twelve pages, with no ornamentation ex- 

 cept that- of clear and accurate typography. The 

 general catalogue contains fifty-two pages, finely 

 illustrated. Both catalogues give special promi- 

 nence to hardy perennial plants, but also include 

 miscellaneous nursery stock, such as vines, roses, 

 shrubs, fruits and trees; the general catalogue 

 also comprises a list of seeds of hardy peren- 

 nials, with cultural directions. 



M, Crawford Co., Cuyahoga Falls, O.— A 12- 

 page catalogue of strawberry plants and gladiolus 

 bulbs. Several of the gladioli listed were orig- 

 inated by Mr. Crawford himself. 



Vegetable Forcing 



PBOPAGATINa SWUET POTATOES. 



On reading an article in The Eeview 

 of February 12, page 62, with reference 

 to the starting of slips or sprouts on 

 sweet potatoes, it occurred to me that 

 many readers might be interested in a 

 southern method of propagating the 

 tubers, as practiced on my place. No 

 doubt the process described in The Re- 

 view, of starting the growths on a 

 bench or in a hotbed, is the best proc- 

 ess for many parts of the country, but 

 the plan I learned here seems also to 

 work well, at least under southern 

 conditions. 



When I started business here, in 

 northeastern Florida, I was new to this 

 climate and inexperienced in the grow- 

 ing of sweet potato plants. My fore- 

 man was an old Virginian negro, who 

 had been a slave. He spread my sweet 

 potatoes in a shallow pile, in winter, 

 on the tables in the packing shed. In- 

 stead of windows in this shed, there 

 were openings which could be closed or 

 partly closed by doors. The doors were 

 hung from the top by strap hinges, at- 

 tached to the outside, so that the doors 

 could swing outward at the lower end 

 and could be held oj^en by a strip of 

 wood set on end. One end of this 

 strip or support was fastened to the 

 lower edge of the door by a screw eye. 

 Thus the doors could be held open at 

 the right slant, so that light and air 

 could be admitted, but no direct sun- 

 shine could strike the potatoes. My 

 foreman ripped up old fertilizer sacks 

 and spread three thicknesses of them 

 over the pile, and we had the finest 

 sweet potato plants I ever saw. He 

 never sprinkled the tubers and there 

 was no soil on any of them. He used 

 the largest and best potatoes. My ob- 

 jection to those sprouted in the ground 

 is that they have such long roots. The 

 shorter and fatter the roots are on the 



Last Call for 

 Easter 



Surplus of 177,500 Valley. 71 cases of 

 2600 each, new stock from cold storage, 

 fine for Easter forcing— 



$13.00 per 1000 -$32.50 per case 



(in case lots only) 



* $13.50 per 1000, in lots of a single thousand. 



This is a splendid opportunity for growei^, 

 seedsmen and jobbers to stock up. 



Cold storage valley is always scarce and 

 this offer will appear only once. 



lillili:^ OI' THE vAl.l<ey 



3038-40-42 WEST MADISON ST. 



GHICiAGO 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



OF FINEST QUALITY-For Early and Late Forcing 



IN CASES OF 1000.500 AND 250 PIPS AT $16.00 per 1000 



ALL EXPENSES PAID-NEW YORK or CHICAGO 



CORP. OF CHAS. F. MEYER, 99 Warren Street, NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



NEW CROP 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANU 



WlMsonain Greenhouse Grown Seed 



Not to be compared with the inferior California and 



Florida ontdoor grown seed. 



1000 seeds, $3.00: SOOO, $14.00; 10,000, $27.00 



ASPARAGUS SPBKNGEKI, 1000 seeds, 70c: 



5000 seeds, $3.00. 



C. H. Hnnkel C<., SectoeB. HilwiMkce. Wit. 



Alwayi mention the Florists' Review wher 

 writing ftdvertisers* 



Watch for oar Trade Mark Stamped 

 on every brick of Lamtwrt's 



Pure Cnhire Nuhnoni Spawn 



Snbstltntlon of cheaper grrades is tfaiia 

 easily exposed. Fresh sample brick, 

 ^,1^^^^ with lllQBtrated book, mailed postfwid 

 ^9, CT^ ^f manufactarers upon receipt of 40 

 ^N^^,^^ cents in postage. Addreoa 



Trade Hark. AacriCM SpiWO Co., SL Pul, MiMi 



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 wben wzltlxic advertisers. 



