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The Florists^ Review 



April 9, 1914. 



KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



The month of March kept to the i)ro- 

 verbial <lescription of "ft and ended 

 with mild, fair weather, after several 

 weeks of blustering storms. In busi- 

 ness the month was exceptionally good 

 and compared quite favorably with 

 March, 1913, which included Easter. 

 Lent seems to make no difference in 

 the flower trade nowadays. 



There is a good stock of all kinds of 

 blooming plants for Easter. Roses are 

 likely to be in short supply, but carna- 

 tions, valley and lilies will be plentiful. 

 Easter lilies are fine this year, although 

 a little short in stem. 



Various Notes. 



The Knoxville Florists' Society met 

 Tuesday, April 7, at the store of A. 11. 

 Dailey, on Prince street. 



C. L. Baum received a small ship- 

 ment of cut blooms of Carnation Phila- 

 delphia from the Michigan Cut Flower 

 Exchange, through the courtesy of S. 

 S. Skidelsky & Co. They were in good 

 condition, i-onsidering that they were 

 not packed in ice. Mr. Baum consid- 

 ers this one of the best varieties seen 

 here and will house several hundred 

 plants next year. He has some fine 

 azaleas and rhododendrons for Easter. 



Business is better than usual just 

 before Easter with A. H. Dailey, and 

 prospects for the holiday are good. Or- 

 ders for bedding plants and shrubbery 

 are heavy now. 



Addison J. McNutt has been having 

 a good sale of pot plants at good prices 

 and the outlook for Easter is excellent. 



A good line of stock on hand for 

 Easter and plenty of work in bedding 

 stock make Mrs. Rosa Hall Ryno sat- 

 isfied at present. 



The Howell Nursery Co. has been so 

 busy with out-of-town trade that local 

 orders have been delayed. In some 

 cases the local trade has had to be sac- 

 rificed to take care of the other orders. 



D. R. Mayo finds garden seed trade 

 brisk, but the larger part of the field 

 seed business is over. Cow peas and 

 soy beans are selling well in antici- 

 pation of higher prices. The former 

 are $2.40 to $2.50 and the latter $1.90 

 to $2 per bushel. A. J. M. 



Scotch^ 



Soot 



Where there is a house that is just full of 

 buds almost ready to show color, nothing 

 will turn better color into the flowers than a 

 little soot, that can be scattered over the 

 benches before watering. The amount ap- 

 plied should not be excessive, as the soot is 

 very strong and may damage some of the 

 foliage somewhat. Apply just enough to 

 blacken the surface of the soil in the benches 

 and let it go at that Better a little oftener 

 than too much all at once. 



We offer the genuine in 

 original cwt. sacks, at 



$2.7S per 112 lbs.; $12.S0 per 560 Ik 

 STUMPP & WALTER CO. 



30-32 Barclay St., NEW YORK 



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 when wxitlnff advertisers. 



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The President Talks 

 About the Kind of 

 .^ Iron We Kick for in 

 Our Houses 



n|ONG ago we stopped buying bur iron here. 



IH there and everywhere in the open market, ^ i ^ i^ l 



■^ where we could get it cheapest. You are up against it when you 



start kicking about our iron. 

 We found out that the only way to get the 

 high grade of iron, best for greenhouse strength 



and endurance, was to buy iron containing certain mixtures which the best engineers 

 in the country declare to be best for structural purposes where required to stand the 

 stress and strain that is in a greenhouse. 



We won't go into the scientific side of the question here; our chemist will gladly 

 do that for you any time you are visiting our factory. 



Greenhouse iron must not be too soft; neither can it be too brittle. It must bend 

 to the greatest extent possible before it breaks— still on the other hand it must not 

 bend so easily it lacks rigidity. The weight of iron does not determine its strength, 

 but the proportion of its mixture and proper manufacture together do. There is just 

 the right method of manufacture and mixture of iron that is just right for greenhouses. 



Every house we sell you will, every time, have the same right iron, because we 

 buy the same right iron mixture every time- no matter whether the price is up or down. 



It's just another one of the things you can depend on depending on in Hitchings 

 houses. 



"We go anywhere for business." Remember it when you are ready to do business. 



Two Iron Framers of C. H. Metcalf. at Milford, Mass. ^ 



NEW TOIK OmCE 



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IN THE GREENHOUSE 



The best fertilizer for greenhouse or outdoor use, for 

 c&mations. roses, chrysanthemums and violets, or potted 

 plants, is Sheep Manure, and to be certain of the best- 

 full strength— get 



'^'^ SHEEP'S HEAD SHEEP MANURE 



Guaranteed high percentage of nitrogen, phosphoric 

 acid and potash. Weed seeds killed. Will not cause black 

 spot. Hasten maturity, quicken the budding and stiffen 

 the stems. Write for booklet and prices. 



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THE AETNA BRAND TANKAGE FERTILIZER 



la acknowledged to be the best balanced fertilizer mannfactnred and it contains the ten Basle 

 Salts ccnatitutlng soil. It is giving aatisfactory resulta wherever osed. Write for lampls 

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