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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 2, 1911. 



headway before it was discovered that 

 it was impossible to save the boiler- 

 shed, and the ends of the houses open- 

 ing into it were badly burned. Two- 

 thirds of Mr. Mortensen's fine plants 

 were ruined. There is no insurance. 

 Neighbors helped board up the ends of 

 the houses. The big houses last built 

 were uninjured. The boilers are work- 

 ing. Mr. Mortensen will rebuild. 



M. Eice and Mrs. Kiee left February 

 25 for a two months' vacation. 



Joseph Beavis & Son, Limekiln pike 

 and Chelten avenue, Pittville, Pa., will 

 build two houses, 35x100, to be planted 

 with roses. The order has been placed 

 with the King Construction Co. 



Samuel F. Lilley reports an excellent 

 demand for the beautiful Mexican ivy. 



The Michell lecture on hardy plants 

 February 27 was well attended. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. are unloading 

 heavy shipments from incoming steam- 

 ers this week. 



Stockton & Howe, Princeton, N. J., 

 will plant three houses of their new 

 rose, Princeton, this season. It has been 

 having a great run. 



Edward Eeid spent two days this 

 week in Norfolk, Va., at the bedside of 

 his friend, L. G. Blick. 



Fred Ehret has been having a brisk 

 month with his double-header, as the 

 boys of baseball proclivities style his 

 two stores. 



B. Eschner, of M. Eice & Co., reports 

 increased demand for Easter, with a 

 leaning toward hampers, requiring 

 night work half of each week. 



Paul Berkowitz, of H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., is home again, looking sunnier 

 than ever. 



Henry M. Weiss & Sons, of Hatboro, 

 Pa., will plant their two new houses in 

 the Ward carnations, pink and white, 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward and Alma Ward. 



Grip is prevalent. Benedict Gibbs 

 and William A. Leonard are down with 

 it — two good men — for but a brief time, 

 it is hoped. Phil. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



Spring weather, increasing shipments 

 and the beginning of Lent have all 

 proved adverse influences. Prices are 

 receding and before the end of the 

 week there probably will be enougb 

 and to spare of everything. If there 

 is a shortage of anything it is in the 

 highest grade of American Beauties. 

 Carnations are abundant and 3 cents 

 was top for all but the specialties Feb- 

 ruary 27. Orchids hold at 50 cents, but 

 there is no shortage. Lilies and valley 

 hold at last week's quotations and gar- 

 denias lose none of their popularity, 

 the selected stock holding steadily at 

 $5 per dozen. There is no lack of sweet 

 peas, with a wide range in quality and 

 length of stem. For violets 50 cents 

 per hundred is the top price, and likely 

 to be during the forty days of Lent. 

 Bulbous stock is never scarce and prices 

 have been unsatisfactory to the grow- 

 ers. Soon the southern daffodils will be 

 here, and already the robins and the 

 budding trees are harbingers of an early 

 spring. A visit to any of the seeds- 

 men's headquarters emphasizes this 

 most practically, for already every one 

 of them is busy with fast accumulat- 

 ing orders. 



Various Notes. 



Anton Schultheis, at College Point, 

 has everything apparently timed just 



FUNGINE 



The newly discovered FUNGiaDE 



An Invaluable remedy for MIIiDEW. 

 BUHT and other funeons diaeases. 



Lenox, Mass., Feb. 24, 1911. 



IT KRADICATES RUST 



"Blantyre" Gardens. 



Thomas Proctor, Supt. 

 Aphine Manufacturing Company, Madison, N. J. 



Dear Sirs: — Eeplying to your letter of the 21st, in which you request me to 

 advise you as to the results of my trials with your Fungine, I have not had an oppor- 

 tunity of testing its merits on mildew, but I can, however, unqualifiedly recommend 

 it as being a very effective remedy for carnation rust. I brought in some new car- 

 nations some time ago that were in a bad state with rust; on their arrival their 

 leaves were completely covered, and after two applications, at proportions of one part 

 Fungine to forty parts water, I found it had the desired effect. For this reason I 

 gladly endorse it. / Yours very truly, THOMAS PEOOTOE. 



DESTROYS MILDEW 



Farmington, Conn., Feb. 23, 1911. 

 Aphine Manufacturing Compain^, Madison, N. J. 



Dear Sirs: — In reply to^^urs of the 21st inst., I would say that my experience 

 with Fungine for mildewc^-Ms been very satisfactory. I think it is much better and 

 easier than the old way of dusting the plants and painting steam pipes. 



The first time I used it I was rather disappointed, as it turned the woodwork in 

 the houses^ wherever the spray hit it, a dir ty yellow, but this all disappeared la a 

 few days. 



I have not tried it for rust, but cannot see why Fungine is not going to be to the 

 florists and gardeners what the lime and sulphur wash is to the pomologists. 



For black, green and white fly, mealy bug and thrips, I have not used any- 

 thing this season but Aphine. The greenhouses have not been fumigated and 

 plants are in a fine healthy condition. Yours respectfully, 



WAREEN S. MASON, Grd. to A. A. Pope. 



IT CURES ROOT ROT 



Zieger & Sons, 



Growers of Decorative Greens 

 and Flowers, 

 Palms — Ferns — Novelties. Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 23, 1911. 



Aphine Manufacturing Company, Madison, N. J. 



Gentlemen: — Concerning the Fungine: we may say that we have not had much 

 occasion to use it; however, we had one delightful experience with it. We had quite 

 a few thousand chrysanthemum cuttings inserted in old sand which had been left in 

 one of our cold houses. As our propagator is accustomed to do, he saturated the sand 

 and kept the cuttings very wet, which caused rot and fungus. The writer, noticing 

 this apparent loss, went for the Fungine purchased from you. We used it one part 

 to twenty-five parts water and sprayed the entire lot of dampened and partly rotted 

 cuttings, thinking that these cuttings (of which there were several thousand) might 

 as well die one way as another, but to our great surprise these cuttings after the 

 single application, a thorough one at that, turned the cuttings to a light green color 

 and seemed to extract the fungus, which sort of foamed up and separated from the 

 decay (similar to peroxide on a healing wound). 



Now these cuttings at this writing have nearly all made good healthy roots, 

 although a few cuttings rotted in the sand but made roots above the decayed part, 

 which seems remarkable to us. It is not necessary to say that for this experience 

 alone we are highly pleased with the results obtained with Fungine used as above, 

 which is far more than we had ever expected. 



We beg to take the liberty to state that Aphine does all it is recommended to do 

 in a very satisfactory manner. Yours very truly, 



ZIEGEE & SONS, Ernest J. F. Zieger, Sec'y. 



FUNGINE, $2.00 per grallon; 75c per quart. 



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 Garden 



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Entebbe, Uganda (Central Africa), 16th January, 1911. 



Sirs: — Kindly supply me with suflBcient Aphine to ensure a fair trial. I should 

 be glad to experiment with this insecticide. 



W. GOWDEY, Government Entomologist. 

 Fritz Bahr says in his article on Lilies in the Florists' Exchange of Feb. 18, 1911: 



"We have given our lilies a weak dose of Aphine once a week since they have 

 occupied space on top of the bench, and thus far we haven't noticed even a trace of 

 the pests; 'that ought to prove that green flies are not very fond of the stuff, for if 

 there's anything they do like it is to get into the tops of the lilies, and it takes an 

 awful lot of coaxing to get them out." 



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