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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 1, 1009. 



GLASS 



GET BUSY 



Buy now for whatever you will need this Spring, but don't buy until you 

 have written us. No order too large or too small to have our special attention. 

 We have some SNAPS, particularly on 8x10 double for hotbed use. 



SHARP, PARTRIDQE&CO 



2260-2268 Lumber Street, CHICAGO 



liOHO DISTANOE PHOME, CANAI. 880. 



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PECKY CYPRESS. 



In the last few years there has been 

 a tremendous increase in the use of 

 pecky cypress for greenhouse bench 

 material. John Schillo, of the Adam 

 Schillo Lumber Co., Chicago, who was as 

 largely responsible as any other person 

 for bringing this lumber to the attention 

 of florists, says pecky cypress this year 

 is costing the trade about ten per cent 

 less than in previous seasons, largely due 

 to conditions in the general lumber mar- 

 ket, but Mr. Schillo adds that since pecky 

 has come into such universal use for 

 benches, the competition which has 

 sprung up is a safeguard against the 

 price ever going up unreasonably. He 

 says pecky cypress is being sold closer 

 than any other lumber he knows of, al- 

 though it would be no more than justice 

 to the dealers to allow them a good 

 margin of profit, because pecky cypress 

 lasts at least four times as long as hem- 

 lock, and the lumberman gets only one 

 chance in four to make a sale, as com- 

 pared to the days when hemlock was used. 



NEPHROLEPIS WHITMANL 



One of the horticultural trades' publi- 

 cations in England says: 



"One cannot write enough in praise 

 of Nephrolepis Whitmani, for it is one 

 of the best ferns, and its uses in deco- 

 ration are many and various. As afford- 

 ing a material for use in jardinieres, it 

 cannot be excelled, and as large speci- 

 mens for the decoration of apartments 

 its value cannot be gainsaid; it is en- 

 during as such, and the plant finds ready 

 sale among town dwellers. Moreover, the 

 light green fronds form valuable material 

 for florists' work, and it is easy of cul- 

 ture and extraordinary in regard to its 

 rapidity of growth. Other species of 

 nephrolepis have to be raised, in the 

 majority" of cases, from spores, but in 

 that of N. Whitmani the propagation is 

 quicker if offsets, of which a strong 

 plant affords great numbers, are taken 

 off and potted, a method that cannot 

 be followed with such varieties as N. 

 Todeaoides, N. Amerpohlii or N. Bos- 

 toniensis Piersoni, and N. Whitmani 

 pays the wholesale cultivator the best 

 of all. It is likewise the hardiest of 

 those named." 



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DIbert, Stark A Brown Cypress Co. 



DONNER, LA. 



LOUISIANA CYPRESS LUMBER 



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