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The Florists' Review 



May 7, 1914. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



The Market. 



The business among the retailers can 

 be considered fair. Borne of them have 

 been quite busy with spring weddings, 

 but little funeral work is being done, 

 which usually helps considerably to dis- 

 pose of stock. The market and land- 

 scape gardeners are doing well and 

 their stock is moving constantly at this 

 time of the year. The demand for win- 

 dow-boxes is much less here than in 

 other cities farther north; once planted 

 they last for several years and, further- 

 more, it seems to me this line of the 

 business could be made more extensive 

 if more energetically drummed up. Out- 

 door grown Louisiana lilies, sweet peas 

 and different varieties of gladioli are 

 coming in plentifully, but the sale is 

 only a limited one and an overstock of 

 these flowers will soon be on -hand. 

 Gladiolus America is fine and it finds 

 a ready sale at the northern markets, 

 having been in bloom here since the lat- 

 ter part of April. Spiraja, rhododendron, 

 hydrangea, pot roses, etc., are still in 

 the market, but since Easter there hajs 

 been hardly any sale for them. A con- 

 siderable demand for Washingtonia fili- 

 fera and W. Sonorae has been noted 

 lately and no doubt the demand for this 

 fast-growing outdoor palm will be heavy 

 in a few years. The stock of old plants 

 on hand is not large. < B. £. 



ScotetU 



Soot 



Where there is a house that ie 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 of tener 

 than too much all at once. 



We offer the genuine in 

 original cwt. saclu, at 



$2.75 per 112 Ik; $12.80 per 560 Ik 

 8TUMPP & WALTER CO. 



50«32 BarcUy St., NEW YOSK 



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No low if 70a 

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•••POT 1000 



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GREENHOUSE CLAY THE BENCHES 



are being umd by the leading Florist* all 

 over the country. Our Benches last a life- 

 time. Write today for circulars and prices. 



CANT CONDUIT CO., ClevelaBi Oiw 



Mratlon TIm R«Tlew when yoa writs. 



The President 

 Trots Out Our 

 Family Skeleton 

 Far Yonr Benefit 



nPHE iron frame is to a greenhouse 

 '■ what the skeleton is to our bodies. 

 If more greenhouses were built with the 

 strength where needed as with our bones, 

 fewer houses would have gone down in 

 last winter's his snow and blow. 



There's no sense in building a house as 

 light as a cobweb or as heavy as a bridge. 

 Between the two, however, there's lots of 

 chance for difference of opinion. But one 

 thing is certain, you can't get back of the 

 laws of cause and effect. Long before 

 greenhouses were ever built the laws of 

 stress iind strain were worked out and 

 established. It's nothing new with engi- 

 neers. But it is new with some green- 

 house builders. When houses were 25 or 

 90 feet wide, one could safely approxi- 



mate the strengtli^ the members should 

 have with simple ftgurlng. But when you 

 get beyond, say 40 feet, you are rapidly 

 multiplying the strains on your frame 

 and pressure on your roof way out of 

 proportion to the inor«aae in widtti. It's 

 not a tluDg any man c»B Igure offhand. 

 It often taJies oar best sngineers days to 

 do it. It involves not only much figur- 

 ing, but the making^ of many diagrams 

 and stress and strain lines. 



Never yet has one of our Iron Frame 

 houses gone down by snow or blow. 



One thing is certain, the brain power 

 of a factory is a lot more importattt than 

 its horse power. 



You can depend on depending on Hitch- 

 ings and "we go anywhere for business." 



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Iron Frame Vegetable Hoase Srected for L. B. Coddington at Murray Hill, N. J, 



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FACIORT. aiZABETH. 1. J. 



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40 U. IStli It. 



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IN THE GREENHOUSE 



The best fertilizer for greenhouse or outdoor use, for 

 carnations, roses, chrysanthemums and vicdets, or potted 

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

 full strength— get 



SHEEP'S HEAD SHEEP MANURE 



Onaranteed high percentage of nitrogen, phosphoric 

 add and potash. Weed seeds killed. WiU not cause black 

 spot. Hasten maturity, auicken the budding and stiffen 

 the stems. Write for booklet and prices. 



NATURAL GUANO CO., 811 River Street. Aaron, llliMis 



Mentioo The Herlew when yoa write. 



THE AETNA BRAND TANKAGE FERTILIZER 



la acknowledged to be tbe best balanced fertilizer mannfactnred and It contains ths ton Basle 

 Salts constitatlng soil. It is glTing satisfactory results wherever nsed. Write for lampls 



""^ rARMERS AND FLORISTS FnTHIZCR COMPANY, 



•10 KxehMS* AvMMM. Rmm •. U. S. Yaria, Tel. Yards 40 CHICAQO, ILL. 



Mention The Review wtien yoa write. 



