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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabcu 4, 1909. 



Ferns 



Galax 



Moss 



Southern Wild Smilax, always on hand, $5.00 



per 



case 



Hardy Fancy Fams 



Per 100 20c Per 1000 $1.75 



Oraan and Bronsa Galax Laavaa 



Per 1000 91.00 Per 10,000 $7.60 



Grean Lauoottaoa Sprays 



Per 100 50c Per 1000 $4.00 



Bronza L«uoottioa Spraya 



PerlOO ...50c Per 1000 $4.50 



Boxwood 



Per bunch 25c Case of 50 lbs $7.50 



Graan Shaat ISoaa 



Per bale 26c Bundle, 6 balei, $1.00 



Spbacnum Moaa 



Extra large bales, per bale 1.00 



SPBCIAL PRICKS ON LARGE QUANTinXS 



C. E. CRITCHELL,"'»"i^^Cr2''srrCincmnati, Ohio 



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shipments of less perishable stock by 

 freight — yet if this buyer had placed his 

 order with probably any one of the flo- 

 rist?' supply houses that handle fertil- 

 izers and advertise them in the Review, 

 he would not have found them so cold- 

 blooded about it. Strict business meth- 

 ods are to b© commended, but it is not 

 always good policy to deal with a house 

 that is so big it doesn't know you from 

 Adam and has no thought as to your sec- 

 ond order; you may save a dollar or two 

 now and then, but you will miss the help- 

 ful interest smaller concerns take in their 

 customers. 



SOME PROBLKMS IN RCX>TS. 



[Synopsis of a paper by G. D. Black, of Inde- 

 pendence, la., read at a Joint session of the 

 Society of Iowa Florists apd the Iowa Hortl- 

 cnltural Society, at Des Moines, December 0, 

 1908.] 



The word root, in botany, means that 

 part of a plant that is usually below the 

 surface of the ground, and includes 

 bulbs, tubers, corms and rhizomes, as 

 well as the roots proper with their root- 

 lets and fibrils. 



As we look upon the symmetrical plant 

 or tree and admire its beauty, as we 

 enjoy the fragrance and charm of its 

 flowers, and as we feast upon its deli- 

 cious fruits, how little thought do we 

 give to that part that is buried and out 

 of sight in the ground! The roots are 

 just as important and often greater in 

 extent than what we see above the sur- 

 face of the ground. 



The roots take from the great store- 

 house of nature the food elements neces- 

 sary for the nourishment and building 

 up of the plant. If the plant is rooted 

 in soil containing an abundance of its 

 particular kinds of food, it will flourish; 

 . if not, it will have a starved appearance. 



How Plants are Nourished. 



Plants obtain their nourishment in 

 much the same way as we do, except 

 '^ that we have in our system machinery 

 much more highly organized and intri- 

 cate. We have a pumping station, the 

 heart; the plant has to depend on capil- 

 lary attraction, absorption and some 

 other mysterious force which is one of 

 the unsolved problems. The air is drawn 

 into our lungs by respiration, and the 

 plant has its leaves or lungs spread out 

 in the open air. We have an alimentary 

 canal through which the food passes, and 

 the stomach of the plant, or place of 

 digestion, is the earth in which it is 

 rooted. 



We have something like a telegraphic 

 system of nerves, including sensation, 



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If Tou Are Wanting; Nice, Clean 



Sphagnum Moss 



For Design Work 



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Perlbaleof 5bblB $ 1.60 



Per 5 bales of 25 bbls 7.25 



Per 10 bales of 50 bbls 18.50 



Perlbaleof 7»fl bbls 2.25 



Per 5 bales of 37^ bbls 10.00 



Per 10 bales of 75 bbls 18.00 



Perlbaleof 10 bbls 3.00 



Per 2 ball s of 20 bbls 6.50 



Per 5 bahes of 50 bbls 12.50 



Brookville Moss & Peat Co. 



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G. F. BORNTRAEGER, Proprietor 



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Manufacture of Wire Work for florists has al- 

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memory, etc., which most of us have 

 been unable to discern in plants. Prof. 

 Francis Darwin, a son of the noted biol- 

 ogist, says he has discovered and solved 

 this problem, but his proof is not en- 

 tirely satisfactory to us. One of his ar- 

 guments is that roots w^ll travel long 

 distances in poor soil in search of food, 

 avoid stone walls, and descend deep wells 

 in order to obtain water, if I remember 

 correctly; but I think the initial cause 

 lies in the environments of the roots, and 

 not in the roots themselves. We fre- 

 quently find masses of roots penetrating 

 the mulching beneath fruit trees. To 

 my mind, it is more reasonable to think 

 that the abundance of food causes many 

 rootlets to grow, than that the tree grows 

 the mass of rootlets for the purpose of 



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SOUTHERN 



Wild Smilax 



LoK Moaaas— Natural and Perpetuated. 



Now ready in quantity. 



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12 to 80 inches long 



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 Adams, Mass. 



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appropriating the unusual amount of 

 nourishment. 



The fibrils, which are very small, hair- 

 like branches on the rootlets, absorb food 

 in a soluble state and send it by means 



