October 20, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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ONIONS FOB EABLY SPSINa. 



Please let me know when the best 

 time is to plant onion sets to get them 

 very early in the spring, in the climate 

 of Kansas. What would be the best 

 kind, and should they be covered? 



L. V. 



The earliest of green onions in the 

 spring are the winter onions, which live 

 outside without any protection all win- 

 ter. They should be planted in August, 

 so as to get started into growth before 

 cold .weather. It is too late now to 

 put out a bed of them. Many people 

 have a bed of this variety in their 

 home gardens, from which they pull all 

 they want to use in the spring and leave 

 a portion to multiply from the roots 

 and fill up the bed again. The better 

 way is to plant a new bed every August 

 and leave only enough unsold to grow 

 the sets on for the August planting, or 

 pull and sell them all and use the 

 ground for another summer crop, buy- 

 ing new top sets to plant when the 

 time comes in August. 



A great many people think these win- 

 ter onions of poor quality, but this is not 

 the case, except late in the spring, when 

 they get too large, strong and tough. 

 Early in the spring, almost as soon as 

 the frost is out of the ground, they are 

 ready to sell, and no nicer green onions 

 can be grown, but, as already stated, 

 they get poor in quality a few weeks 

 later, if not all sold. Then the green 

 onions from common bottom sets — sim- 

 ply small onions, set out very early in 

 the spring — begin to come into the mar- 

 ket and are so much nicer then that 

 there is an end to the winter onion 

 pulling season. A good way for gar- 

 deners to manage is to grow both kinds, 

 and thus have green onions of good 

 quality all the time. Any kind of bot- 

 tom sets or small onions make good 

 green onions for early spring planting, 

 but the white or yellow are preferred. 

 The larger they are the sooner they 

 make a salable onion, but the smaller 

 they are the more you get in a bushel. 



Last winter I had a lot of them that 

 lived over in the ground outside, as 

 there were some small ones that were 

 not harvested last fall and there was 

 plenty of snow all winter for protection, 

 and I harvested a good lot of them un- 

 expectedly. I have also grown this kind 

 in coldframes, by planting them late in 

 the fall and placing glass sashes over 

 them, covering the sashes with manure 

 and taking the manure off early in the 

 spring. 



I beUeve they would winter satisfac- 

 torily outside in your latitude, with only 

 a straw or manure covering. You 

 might try some this way, and some 

 again as soon as the frost is sufficiently 

 out of the ground in the spring to get 

 them in. Small onions culled out of the 

 crop are cheap in the fall, and since it 

 is too late to put out winter onions, you 



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must depend upon common bottom sets 

 for next spring. H. D. 



Norristown, Pa. — On a recent evening 

 Wm. Yeager had a window display that 

 attracted a big crowd, though the store 

 was closed and the proprietor wholly 

 unaware. A vase of fine carnations 

 was left in the show window and under 

 the spot light a large, fat rat was mak- 

 ing a meal of the flowers. 



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SITUATION WANTED— By all-round florist; Al 

 rose, carnation and mum grower; single. Ad- 

 dress No. Zi.9, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By Nov. 1, as night 

 fireman; sober and reliable; handy with 

 carpenter and steamfltter tools. Address No. 264, 

 care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— In up-to-date florist 

 store by young man with 15 years' experience ; 

 can furnisli good credentials from former places. 

 Address No. 831, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By young man, age 27, 

 4 years' experience, as an assistant; strictly 

 sober, intelligent and steady worker; Iowa or 

 Illinois preferred; give particulars. Address No. 

 246, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By a young lady in a 

 retail store, thoroughly experienced in han- 

 dling the best of trade; am twenty-one years old 

 and can give the best of references. Address 

 No. 266, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



OITUATION WANTED— As foreman or manager, 

 O by a practical grower of cut flowers and 

 plants, capable of managing a large plant; has 

 had over 30 years' experience in leading places; 

 single; references; please state wages. Address 

 Florist, S Bulfinch St., Boston, Mass. 



SITUATION WANTED— As a grower of cut 

 flowers and potted plants, etc. ; life experience 

 in the business; 15 years in this country; would 

 like to get a position in an up-to-date place in 

 middle or southwestern state if possible; middle- 

 aged; German; single man. Address No. 246, care 

 Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— As foreman by reliable, 

 practically experienced and successful grower 

 of cut flowers and potted stock; first-class de- 

 signer and propagator; American, single, age 29; 

 can furnish the best of references; please state 

 wages and full particulars in first letter. Address 

 No. 244, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— As working foreman, 

 German, 34 years of age, married, 14 years 

 in this country; IS years' experience in growing 

 roses, carnations, mums, ferns, palms and general 

 slock; also good designer and decorator; can 

 take full charge of any place; sober and honest, 

 and good worker; have the best of references; 

 state wages in first letter. Address Frank W. 

 Florist, Hinsdale, 111. 



SITUATION WANTED— By thoroughly experi- 

 enced florist, on private or commercial place; 

 single; 29 years of age; best references from 

 former employees. Address C, Ira, Ohio. 



SITUATION WANTED— By single man, age 26; 

 commercial and private experience; grower 

 of roses, carnations, mums, orchids, pot plants, 

 etc.; please state wages. Address No. 248, care 

 Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED — As carnation grower or 

 to manage a small retail place; 34 years old, 

 single; 16 years' experience; state wages per 

 week. Address No. 219, care Florists' Review, 

 Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By an np-to-date de- 

 signer and decorator; can take charge of any 

 branch of the business; twenty years' experience; 

 35 years of age; married; sober. Address No. 

 234, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By a grower of 23 

 years' experience who can produce first-class 

 carnations, roses, mums, bedding and pot plants; 

 competent to take full charge, and if given It, 

 will get rosultp. Address No. 163, care Florists' 

 Review, Chicago. 



HELP WANTED — At once, first-class rose and 

 carnation grower to work under foreman; 

 strictly temperate. C. H. Frey, Lincoln, Neb. 



HELP WANTED — Good all-round florist for up- 

 to-date retail place; $15.00 per week and 

 room; must be a bustler. John Stamm, Hutchin- 

 son, Kan. 



HELP WANTED — At once; first-class rose and 

 carnation grower to work under foreman; 

 salary sixty dcHlars per month. Haentze Co., 

 Fond du Lac, Wis. 



HELP WANTED — Grower of pot plants; must 

 also understand propagating; married man 

 preferred. Holton & Hunkel Greenhouse Co., 

 Brown Deer, Wis. 



HELP WANTED — Married man for rose and 

 carnation grower, to work under foreman; 

 salary $60.00 a month with house rent free. Idle- 

 Hour Nurseries, Macon, Georgia. 



HELP WANTED — For commercial greenhouses, 

 a gardener to assist foreman; state wages 

 and experience. Address No. 247, care Florists' 

 Review, Chicago. 



HELP WANTED — Florist for commercial place, 

 who understands the growing of general pot 

 plants; must be good propagator; do not answer 

 unless qualified. R. F. Gloede, Evanston, 111. 



HELP WANTED — A good experienced fiorlst, 

 one who is up in store work, a good de- 

 signer and buyer; to same I will give good posi- 

 tion. The Rosary, 214 Clarendon St., Boston, 

 Mass. 



HELP WANTED — Plant grower with commer- 

 cial experience; wages, $15.00 per week; 

 English or Scotch preferred; send copy of refer- 

 ences and particulars in first letter. Address 

 No. 180, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



HELP WANTED— A good man, experienced in 

 growing lettuce and bedding plants, to work 

 on share or will sell Mi interest in greenhouses; 

 four thousand dollar business a year; do not an- 

 swer unless you mean business. Wm. Currier, 

 Elkhart, Ind. 



HELP WANTED — Thoroughly competent, ex- 

 perienced vegetable grower to take charge 

 of greenhouses and outside; only sober, steady and 

 reliable men need apply; give references, if mar- 

 ried and wages expected. Address No. 216, care 

 Florists' Review, Chicago. 



HELP WANTED— A competent and reliable 

 florist to take charge of 6000 ft. of glass 

 where general line of plants and flowers are 

 grown for retail market; also competent fireman 

 for steam boiler; must have some knowledge of 

 greenhouse work. Address No. 266, care Florists' 

 Review, Chicago. 



HELP WANTED — First-class grower of pot 

 plants, one who thoroughly understands 

 growing ferns, cyclamen, azaleas, pot roses, all 

 kinds of bulbous stock and general line of bed- 

 ding plants; single man preferred; references re- 

 quired; state wages. Address The Livingston 

 Seed Co., Columbus, Ohio. 



HELP WANTED — A sober, industrious young 

 man, of good habits, with a general knowl- 

 edge of greenhouse work and an ambition to 

 advance; $12.00 per week and room to befln; 

 board can be had at reasonable rates; retail 

 place, 10,000 ft. of glass, in town of 5000 in 

 middle west. Address No. 268, care Florists' 

 Review, Chicago. 



ELP WANTED — First-class designer, decora- 

 tor and storeman to manage retail store U 

 city of 150,000 population; to proper party will 

 pay thirty dollars per week and give opportunity 

 to obtain Interest in business if desired; give 

 fall details of experience, references, and stat» 

 when at liberty in first letter. Address No. 231, 

 care riorlits' Review, Chicago. 



