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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil 2, 1914. 



<z^^xJ^xi^ The Carnation Support Co. 



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SELr-TYING CARNATION SUPPORTS 

 and ROSE STAKES 



[PATENTED] 



CONNERSVILLE, IND. 



SELF-TIED 

 ROSE STAKES. 



**THE LOOP! 

 THE LOOP'S THE THINGl" 



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rUMIOANT FOR GEEEN APHIS. 



I am somewhat of an amateur in the 

 greenhouse business, for, although I 

 have had a greenhouse for several years, 

 I have only used it in the spring to 

 start garden plants. This year, how- 

 ever, I have been running it through 

 the winter and want some advice. I 

 have been troubled with aphis on my 

 lettuce, cabbage plants, carnations and 

 Sprengeri. I have fumigated with to- 

 bacco stems, and the smoke injured my 

 cabbage plants, lettuce, heliotropes, 

 snapdragons, asters, petunias and some 

 other stock. Will you tell me what is 

 best to use, and when and how to use 

 it! Would Sulpho Tobacco soap be the 

 proper thing with which to spray let- 

 tuce and cabbage plants? I sprayed 

 the cabbage plants with Paris green 

 and it did not kill the aphis. 



N. V. 0. 



Tobacco stems as a fumigant are now 

 almost obsolete. They are far more 

 liable to burn the foliage than other 

 fumigants and will surely do so if al- 

 lowed to blaze; in addition, they leave 

 an offensive odor and render vegetables 

 and flowers unfit to use for forty-eight 

 hours. Try one of the paper nicotine 

 fumigants. These are safe and clean to 

 use and leave little odor. Most of the 

 vegetable growers now use hydrocyanic 

 acid gas in their lettuce houses and find 

 it safe and reliable. Spraying vegetable 

 crops is not to be recommended, but it 

 is all right for many flower crops. 



Sulpho Tobacco soap is good for mil- 

 dew, but not for aphis. Paris green 

 and other poisonous sprays are all right 

 for leaf-eating caterpillars, but are 

 worthless against aphides, which must 

 be killed through suffocation by a soap, 

 nicotine or spray. If you should use 

 hydrocyanic acid gas, it is well to re- 

 member that this is a most deadly gas 

 and only careful and responsible persons 

 should use it. It does little or no in- 

 jury when applied where the tempera- 

 ture is low, say 40 to 50 degrees at 

 night, but with a higher temperature, 

 also later in the season, danger of dam- 

 age is greatly increased. Some plants, 

 such as snapdragons and heliotropes, 

 are quite susceptible to injury from 

 hydrocyanic acid gas, but are not 

 harmed in the least by the tobacco 

 papers. C. W. 



PLENTY OF BUSINESS. 



Fortunate is the man who can say 

 that he has plenty of business. Others 

 look to him to learn how they, too, can 

 reach that prosperous condition — espe- 

 cially when they find out that 30 cents 

 a week was the total price of that 

 prosperity. For a 3-line classified ad 

 is what this man has been running in 

 The Review, and see the results: 



Kindly dlwontinue onr gladiolus ad. It has 

 brought UR plenty of business. Bulbs are sold out 

 In most of onr varieties, although It is yet early 

 In the season. — O. D. Black, Independence, la., 

 March 25, 1914. 



Model 

 Extension 

 Carnation 

 Support 



Mtdt with two 01 

 three circles. En- 

 dorsed by an thf 

 T.eadtnf Gumattoo 

 Growers as the best 

 stspport on market 



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OALVANIZIDWim 

 ROSK STAKES. 



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GREENHOUSE MATERIALS 



Furnished and Erected 



IRON or WOOD SASH BARS in all lengths 

 up to 32 feet. Milled to any detail furnished or 

 will furnish details and cut materials ready for 

 erection. 



FRANK VAN AflSCHE 



Fulton Ave., Ro6e Ave. and 



Dwiffht St., JERSEY CITY. N. J. 



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GARDEN CITY SAND CO. 



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Phones Main 4827; Ante. 3»^04 



Boildinif and Propagating; Banda 



Fire Brick and Fire Clay, Portland Cement. 

 Stonekote, Hard Wall Plaster 



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YOD ^D ALLTHE BEST 

 OFFERS ALL the time in t!i« 

 Revlcw'i CHassiiiecl Advs. 



Paper Pots and 

 Dirt Bands 



277% MORE BLOSSOMS 



on plants raised in Square Paper Pots that* 

 on plants raised in clay pots of same size. 



There were 456 stems of blossoms on 40 

 plants raised in 4-inch Square Paper Pots- 

 and 105 stems of blossoms on 40 plants raised 

 in 4-inch clay pots. 



The above was taken from the following^ 

 report in the Market Growers' Journal Janu- 

 ary 1, 1914, page 6. 



NUMBER OF STEMS IN BLOSSOM 



When set in the field May 15th, the root 

 systems of the plants from the 4-inch square 

 paper pots were 4-lnch cubes (64 cubic inches- 

 of soil and roots) and from the 4-inch clay 

 pots the root systems contained 31 cubic 

 inches of soil and roots (the amount that 

 a 4-inch clay pot holds). 



The third count of blossoms was made 

 June 27th, 42 days after the plants had 

 been set in the field. 



The plants from the square paper pots- 

 were then more than twice as large and 

 vigorous as those raised in clay pots. 



Ail plants raised in square paper pots are 

 larger and more vigorous than those raised 

 in clay pots, because they have about double 

 root room for the same size pots. 



Measure the two pots and you will find 

 that the 4-inch square paper pot holds as- 

 much soil as two 4-inch clay pots. 



It is the same with square dirt bands, 

 which are square paper pots without bottoms 

 (the bottoms being furnished by old news- 

 papers spread on the bench). 



The theory that it Is only necessary to 

 have a big top to the plant has been proved 

 misleading. 



There must be a big root system to push 

 the top or the plant will grow slow and 

 small. 



Try some square paper pots or dirt bands 

 with your clay pots and see if you can 

 afTord to use any clay pots. 



Some of the florists around Philadelphia 

 are using large numbers of square dirt bands 

 and paper pots. 



"We have shipped to Mr. P. B. Dilks, 

 Bridesburg, Phila., Pa., 150,000 2-lnch square 

 dirt bands and 20.000 8-inch square dirt 

 bands; to Mr. Geo. W. Dilks, Frankford, 

 Pa., 10,000 2-inch square dirt bands and 

 10,000 8-inch square dirt bands; to Mr. H. 

 B. Weaver, Bird-ln-hand, Pa., 45,000 2-lnch 

 square dirt bands; to Mr. M. H. Hostetter, 

 Manheim, Pa., 20,000 2Vi-inch dirt bands and 

 8,000 5-inch dirt bands. 



See our other advertisement on page 147 

 for prices. Samples and price list free. 

 Prompt shipment. 



F.W.ROCeELLE&SONS,'"g*P" 



