Septkmbkk 15, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



47 



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The best strains in existence. Chinensis. large 

 lowering fringed. Obconica Hybrids, unrivaled 

 lionsdorfer and Lattraan strains, large flowering, 

 arge flowering fringeti and Gigintea. 



See plant adv. under classified. 

 J. L. 8CHILLBB, 929 Proity At«., Toledo, Okie 

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Full List Seeds, Bulbs, Plants. 



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bcrs being present. The committee in 

 charge of the flower show reported 

 satisfactory progress, with all inrliea- 

 tions pointing to a successful show. 

 ('. R. Green and Kd. Temperly were 

 elected to membership. After the 

 meeting the members were treated to a 

 lunch bv A. Wiegand and AVm. Lang- 

 staff. 



Fred Doruer, of Lafayette, is to be 

 the judge, and Herman Junge is to be 

 the superintendent of exhibits in the 

 floral department at the state fair this 

 week. Through the efforts of Secre- 

 tary Baur, of the State Florists' As- 

 sociation, the exhibits in the floral de- 

 l>artment of the state fair will far sur- 

 pass anything seen there in recent 

 years. The Florists' Association re- 

 vised the old jireniiuin list, a number 

 of premiums were added, and the board 

 granted considerable additional space. 



Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bieman have 

 returned from an extended trip through 

 Yellowstone Park and the west. Mr. 

 Kieman is enthusiastic over the trip 

 and hopes to take another soon. 



Vi.sitors last week were: Mr. Green, 

 with the H. Bayersdorfer Co.; George 

 (Jause, of Richmond; ,T. S. Stuart and 

 •T. A. K. Haugh, of Anderson, and 

 L. Vauglian, of Chicago. 



Herman Junge has been touring the 

 northern part of the state in an 

 automobile. 



A. "Wiegand & Sons are soon going to 

 have an automobile for delivery 

 purposes. 



Hartje & Elder have a fine lot of 

 mums coming on. Mr. Hartje says he 

 has some surprises among them. 



H. L. W. , 



Vegetable Forcing. 



MUSHBOOMS. 



Please give me some information 

 about the growing of mushrooms. I 

 can sell about five pounds every day, 

 though I have never handled them. 



A. C. 



If you have a cellar which can be 

 darkened and where an average winter 

 temperature of 55 to 60 degrees can be 

 kept up, yon can grow good mushrooms. 

 They can also be grown under green- 



Vegetable Plants 



CABBAGE- Wak^lield and Succession. $1.00 

 perlooO; auc perlOO. 



LSTTUCE— Grand Rapids, Big Koston. Boston 

 Market and Tennis Ball. tl.OO per 1000; 2Uc 

 per 100. 



PARSLEY— 30c per 100: $1.25 per 1000. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pure Culture Moshroom Spawn 



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Substitution of cheaper grades is 

 thus easily exposed. Fresh sample 

 brick, with lUustrated book, mailed 



postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 ceipt of 40 cents in postage. Address 



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house benches if protected from drip 

 and if light and air are excluded as 

 much as possible. Hot water or steam 

 ]>ipes and boilers, which wall &ause a 

 drying heat, are bad for mpphrooms. 

 Start any time by saving fresh horse 

 manure daily. If you do not keep 

 horses, probably you can secure it from 

 some livery stable every other day. 

 Throw it up in a heap outside, discard- 

 ing the I'ougher pieces of straw. Turn 

 the heap daily to prevent burning. Add 

 to it one-third as much screened pasture 

 loam as you have manure; this tempers 

 the heat and prevents burning. 



When the rank heat has sirbsided. 

 make your beds. Spread out a layer of 

 fermenting material and pound or 

 tramp it hard. Then add more, pound- 

 ing again, and so on until the material 

 is nine to ten inches thick. When the 

 heat of the be 1 has subsided to 85 or 

 90 degrees, put in the spawn, cither 

 Pure Culture or English Milltrack; the 

 former starts earlier, but I like the 

 mushrooms of the latter better. Chop 

 in pieces the size of a walnut, make 

 holes twelve inches apart each way and 

 put in one of the pieces of spawn. Cover 

 lightly with manure, but do not fill in 

 and pound until eight or ten days later, 

 when the mycelium will be running. 

 Cover the bed ten to fourteen days 

 after spawning with two inches of 

 loam; I like that from an old pasture, 

 passed through a 'Ji-inch screen, best. 

 Found this firmly, then cover the bed 

 or bench with hay, straw or excelsior 

 and leave this covering on until mush- 

 rooms appear, which is sometimes as 

 early as three weeks and at other times 

 as long as three months. If at any time 

 the beds appear very dry on the sur- 

 face, water at a temperature of 100 

 degrees can be a|)plied. Watering can 

 only be looked ujion, however, as a 

 necessary evil. '' 



In making up mushroom beds the 

 manure must be moist without being 

 mushy. If dry and burnt it is worthless 

 for mushroom production. W^hile it is 

 being prepared, moisten any dry ])or- 

 tions each day when turning. The 

 growing of mushrooms is something of 

 a lottery unless you have just the right 

 growing place for them. They are hard 

 to grow in the hot months unless a cold 

 cellar or underground dug-out of some 

 kind can be had; insect attacks ruin 

 many of the mushrooms in hot weather. 

 Start a bed so that you can spawn late 

 in September and it should give you 

 mushrooms early in November. When 

 apparently exhausted, mushroom beds 

 arc often renewed if water is given at a 

 temperature of 120 degrees after a top 



Water bill cut in lialf 



Wage bill cut $40 per month 

 $50 saved on hose 



ThiH i.s the result of a comparatively 

 small installation of the Skinner Syateni 

 of irrigation (covering only l>i acres), 

 owned by Wilfrid Wheeler, Concord, 

 >rass. With the 



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you can save -? on the cost of your 

 wat(Ting. The amount one man can take- 

 care of is liniit«>il only by the (extent of 

 the installation. 



The water from the sin-cial nozzles de- 

 scends in niist form, likt; a gentle rain, 

 covering the ground uniform- 

 ly, leaving no dry .spots. The 

 I ground is kept soft and jMjr- 

 ons, letting in the air nec- 

 'ssary to the rapid gri iwtl i 

 of i)lant"-. 



Get our inU-rcstlni; l«H)klets 



on indoor iind outdoor 



i nitration. Tliey arc 



five to ail floristn and 



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dressing of fresh loam has been applied, 

 covering the bed with hay in order to 

 warm it up as much as possible. Round- 

 ed beds give a greater spawning surface 

 than level ones. C. W. 



Portsmouth, O. — Win. C. Nolan and 

 Mrs. Caroline K. Kaufman were mar- 

 ried September J. 



Lancaster, Pa. — The firm of Hammond 

 & Gompf, at 24 West Orange street, has 

 dissolved partnership and Walter A. 

 Hammond is now conducting the busi- 

 ness in his own name. 



