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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



March 28. 1912. 



the imported plants not only were dis- 

 eased in many cases, but many of them 

 failed to flower. 



The agricultural chief draws a pleas- 

 ant picture of future tulip shows in 

 America which shall rival those which 

 now draw annually thousands of vis- 

 itors to the land of dikes and ditches. 

 Uncle Jim believes firmly that America 

 can produce anything if Americans are 

 only taught to do the necessary culti- 

 vation. Somewhere the soil is all right, 

 and both in vegetables and flowers the 

 word of authority is that America 

 can compete with the nations. — Chicago 

 Evening Post. 



VegetableForcmg. 



STUNTED LETTUCE PLANTS. 



We today shipped to you by express 

 a box containing lettuce, with the 

 roots and soil. Will you please exam- 

 ine them and tell us what was wrong 

 with the conditions? The lettuce was 

 transplanted twice and stood for eight 

 weeks on the bench from which the 

 specimens have 'just been taken. We 

 kept the night temperature at 50 to 60 

 degrees, with steam heat. On bright 

 days, with air on, the temperature was 

 about 70 or 75 degrees. Our soil is 

 heavy and black and runs together 

 easily when watered. When transplant- 

 ing, we manured the soil with good, 

 short stable manure, well worked into 

 the soil. Our two houses are each 28x 

 200 and fourteen feet to the peak of 

 the roof, with three feet of glass on 

 each side. The houses contain sixteen 

 benches, each 5M>x95 feet, and there 

 was good lettuce on all of them except 

 four, in which they are like the 

 samples sent you. All of them received 

 the same care. Please let us know what 

 is wrong and what is the remedy. 



S. B. 



The sample plants arrived in good 

 shape and were not diseased. I hesi- 

 tate to say just what I think the 

 trouble is with them, as it may be 

 from one or two of several unsatisfac- 

 tory conditions, but I am inclined to 

 think the soil is not as rich or well 

 prepared as it might be. The fact that 

 other benches in the same houses are 

 doing well would indicate that the 

 trouble is not due to the temperature 

 or ventilation of the greenhouse. Per- 

 haps the soil from these two beds came 

 from a different place outside or was 

 manured differently inside. Were these 

 two benches filled with the last plants 

 that were set out? It is usually the 

 case that the healthiest and best plants 

 are planted first and all sickly or poor 

 ones are put in the last bench if the 

 grower is short of plants. If they were 

 stunted when quite small, they could 

 not be expected to do as well as 

 healthy ones, that had never been 

 checked or held back in any way. 



I would advise watering these beds 

 with a solution of nitrate of soda fer- 

 tilizer. Take about a 3-inch potful to 

 a barrel of water and give them a good 

 watering, that will go well down into 

 the soil, to the depth of the roots. Do 

 not run your houses quite so hot. Ven- 

 tilate every day. Dig down in differ- 

 ent spots and note the different degrees 

 of moisture in some beds where the 

 plants are doing well or not doing well. 



THE CREGO ASTER 



Buy your seed dirpct from the oritrinator, who grows no seed of any kind except the Crego Aster 

 If you want the OKNUINB Crego Asters, "the best in the market." 1 can furnish the f>eed. White 

 ghell pink, ro.se pink and violet, at $1.00 per k oz. ; $2.00 per ^ ot. : $4.00 per oz. ; full weight. 



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Do not water too often, but soak well 

 when you do'. If there is any chance 

 to get salable lettuce from these beds, 

 the nitrate will help wonderfully. 



H. G. 



Glen Olden, Pa. — M. Bogan ships con- 

 siderable quantities of carnations, 

 sweet peas and other stock to Phila- 

 delphia. 



Johnstown, Pa. — T. Malbranc is plan- 

 ning to sell his eighteen greenhouses on 

 Barron avenue, Morrellville, and to 

 build about eight large houses near the 

 four he now has in Upper Yoder town- 

 ship, just back of Westmont. He has 

 no more room for the extension of his 

 greenhouses on his property on Barron 

 avenue and additional ground in that 

 vicinity is too expensive to permit the 

 locating of all his houses there. So he 

 has determined upon the other alter- 

 native, removing to the vicinity of 

 Westmont, if he can sell his Morrell- 

 ville property. 



RELIABLE SEEDS 



SOW NOW 



Tr. 

 Oa. Pkt. 

 Asparagus Flumosus Nanus, per 



1000 seeds, $4.00 fl.OO 



Asparagus Seflezua Boandens, per 



1000 se«dB, $10.000 ; 1.00 



Asparagus Bprengerl, IQOO seeds, 



$1.00 ;. .... .80 



Aster Early HohensoUem, In col- 

 ors, separate $ 1.76 .80 



Aster Triumph, finest for pots. In 



colors, separate 4.00 .60 



Celosia Ostrloh Plumed Thomp- 



soni, crimson and golden yel- 

 low, each separate 1.60 .28 



Ohrysanthamum, annual. Bridal 



Robe, finest for bouquets and 



funeral work ....:.... 1.00 .18 



Ooleus Hybrldus Mitc. Omatns, 



most beautiful for pot culture, 



6 tr. pkts.. $2.80 80 



Dracaena Indivisa, clean seed.... 1.60 .28 

 Eoheverla Woodlawn, finest for 



carpet bedding 80 



Orevlllea Robusta, decorative pot 



plant 1.00 .20 



Looelia Hybrlda Hambnrgia, best 



trailing sort 6.00 .20 



Matrloaiia, double white Fever- 

 few 40 .10 



Mignonette Maohet, fine strain 



for pots 1.00 .20 



Primula Oboonioa Orandlflora, 



carmine, lilac, pink, purple, 



white or mixed nybrtds, each 



separate, 6 tr. pkts., $2.60 80 



Primula Oooonlca Oraadliflora Oem- 



paota, mixed. 6 tr. pkts., $2.60 60 



Primula Oboonioa Oigantea, car- 

 mine, lilac, purple, pink or 



mixed, each separate, 6 tr. 



pkts., $2.60 80 



Salvia Jewel, finest for pots 10.00 .80 



Salvia Zurich, early fiowerlng 



dwarf, fine 6.00 .80 



Bohisanthtti, new dwarf hybrids 



for pots 2.00 .80 



My catalogue will guide you through Reliable 



Florists' Flower Seeds. Ask for the same. 



O.V.ZANGEN, Seedsman 



HOBOKEN, N. J. 



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