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The Florists' Review 



Januaby 30, 1013. 



STERUNG IRON RESERV6ffi VASES 



are no care, no trouble; simply fill the reservoir and let the vases do the 

 rest. Everybody is interested in these wonderful vases. There is a demand 

 for them everywhere. 



Just get a supply of vases and fill the orders that come pouring in. 

 Write for our special proposition to dealers, that enables you to secure 

 this business without investingf any money. Catalogue and full 

 information gladly furnished on request. • 



Don't delay — we only want one agent in your locality. 



The Sterling Emery Wheel Nfg. Co. 



TIFFIN, OHIO 



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The easiest to sell because made so well" 



MentloD The Rerlew whcp yon write 



Vegetable Forcing. 



ONIONS UNDER GLASS. 



Will you kindly inform me which is 

 the better way to force onions, in flats 

 or benches, and what are the methods 

 of culture t J. A. & S. 



It is not stated in your letter whether 

 you want to grow the onions under glass 

 until marketed or merely to get them 

 of a suitable size to plant outdoors. If 

 intended for transplanting outdoors in 

 spring, sow in flats of light soil; one 

 containing a fair proportion of well 

 rotted and pulverized manure, with 

 loam, is suitable. Let the onions germ- 

 inate in a house kept at 50 to 55 degrees 

 at night/ Do not sow too thickly, or 

 the plants will become drawn and weak. 

 This sowing can be done now. Later 

 prick out the seedlings moderately close- 

 ly in either flats or benches, and plant 

 outdoors in heavily manured gro\ind as 

 soon as*the weather is settled. I should 

 prefer flats to benches, as you could 

 then stand the flats in coldframes and 

 harden the plants off better. In plant- 

 ing out, set the onions four inches apart 

 in the rows, allowing eighteen inches 

 between the rows. This will give large 

 bulbs and is what is termed the "new 

 onion culture," a plan adopted, how- 

 ever, many years ago. 



If you want to grow your onions 

 under glass altogether, sow as suggested, 

 in flats, and later transplant to benches 

 containing compost heavily manured. If 

 the onions are to be pulled green and 

 sold in bunches, they can go quite close 

 together. If, on the other hand, they 

 are to be left to produce bulbs, they 

 must have more growing space. They 

 want a rich soil, abundant water sup- 

 ply and feeding with liquid manure. 

 Their greatest enemy is thrips. Keep 

 a fairly moist atmosphere and this pest 

 will not trouble you. In transplanting 

 the seedling onions, cut back the tops 

 balf their length and they will start 

 njiucb better. Good, varieties are Prize- 

 taker, which makes large bulbs. Yellow 

 Danvers and Red Globe. For a small 

 white, early onion. Queen is the best. 



WE HAVE 



1,000,000 Grand Rapids 

 Tennis Ball Lettuce 



Cold frame plants, at $1.00 per 1000; 

 5000 lots, for 90c; 10,000 lots, for 80c, 



We grow a general line of vegetable 

 plants for the trade only. 



Send for catalogue, now ready. 

 Franklin Plant Farm, Inc. 



Fkank Bkunton. Gen'l Manager 

 R. F. D. No. 2 NORFOLK, VA. 



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French and Palmetto 



ASPARAGUS 

 ROOTS 



We offer for immediate sale 260,000 

 Asparagus Roots, boxed for shipment, 

 f. 0. b. cars here, at $2.00 per 1000. 



Send your order today 



Crlnc Packing & Seed Co. 



MORQANVILLE, N. J. 



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850 BUSHELS 

 EARLIANA TOMATOES 



per acre. Early, funooth and lartre, by patient 

 selection. The Tomato that will ripen anywhere 

 in the United States. We have some seed to 

 spare this year at 2'*c per oz . Ihe per '4-lb., %1.50 

 per lb., postajre prepaid. Cash. 



CHERRY PARK GARDENS, Fredonia, N. Y. 



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Kansas City, Mo. — A. S. Elberfield, of 

 the Alpha Floral Co., has purchased 

 a four-story brick building, on a lot 

 with a frontage of twenty-five feet, at 

 1327 Main street. The price is said 

 to be $75,000. The Elberfield apart- 

 ment house at 910 East Tenth street 

 was taken as part payment, at a valua- 

 tion of $40,000. 



READY NOW FOR DELIVERY 

 2,000,000 Fine Two-year-old 



Early Giant Argenteuil 

 Asparagus Roots 



Grown from best French Im- 

 ported Seeds, at $2.50 per 

 1000, in lots of ten thousand 

 or more. 



Also Millions of Frost-Proof 

 Cabbage Plants 



of each of the following 

 varieties: Jersey Wakefield, 

 Charleston Wakefield, Early 

 Spring, Early Flat Dutch, All 

 Seasons, Succession, Late Flat 

 Dutch, at 75 cts. for 500; $1.00 

 per 1000; 85 cts. per 1000 for 

 60l0 or more. All delivered 

 at Charleston, Express, Rail- 

 roads or Steamship Lines. 



Cash with order. 



ALFRED JOUANNET 



Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark Stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pure Culture Nushroom Spawn 



Subetitution of cheaper (grades Is thus 

 easily expoee<l. Fresh sample brick. 

 ^„^^>>w^ with Illustrated book, mailed postpaid 

 ^Tf*. CT^ ^y manufacturers upon receipt of 40 

 ^^**^^0f^^ cents in postage. Address 



Trade Mark. Amcriciii Spawn Co., SL Paul, Minn. 



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We are BookinK Orders 



For Head Lettuce 



Write ns 



ABBINQDON FLORAL CO. 



Huntsvlll*, Alabama 



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