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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



April 4, 1912. 



PROSPEROUS FLORISTS 



frequently owe their prosperity to foresight in making 

 use of up-to-date appliances for saving expense, labor, 

 time, etc., and at the same time increasing efficiency 

 and results. 



You know that a constant, steady water supply is 

 necessary if you want the best possible crops, whether 

 in the field or under glass We recognized this need 

 years ago, and to meet it properly we developed 



STANDARD PUMPING ENGINES. 



They are fully guaranteed. If in any way unsatis- 

 factory they may be returned at our expense and pur- 

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These engines are made in a variety of styles and are adapted to almost any conditions ordinarily 

 present, and will pump liquid fertilizers as easily as water, without any danger of clogging. Some are made 

 to pump from shallow wells, cisterns, lakes or rivers; others are adapted to pump from deep wells, but all 

 of them use either gaa or gasoline and are constructed with a view to reliability above everything else. 

 Let us send you Catalogue No. 12. It tells much of interest and is free, but we need your name and address. 



The Standard Pump & Engine Co., cuvd^'S 



BRAMPTON. ONT. 



Snow still covers the ground, and the 

 dreariest of winters, shows little dispo- 

 sition to give way gracefully to a spring- 

 like Easter — at present, anyhow. 



Eiehard Jennings will hardly be able 

 to notice Easter, as his carnations have 

 received so severe a cutting during the 

 last three months. His sweet peas and 

 marguerites are in evidence, however, 

 and will doubtless meet with a ready 

 sale. 



Walter Calvert is getting ready for 

 bedding out, and is much gratified with 

 the season 's turnover so far. 



Mark Henderson is growing some fine 

 sweet peas and lettuce, and intends en- 

 larging his premises this year. 



William Fendley is selling large quan- 

 tities of violets. 



A magnificent house of Cattleya 

 Schroederae is the chief attraction at 

 the Dale Estate Greenhouses this week; 

 it is, without exception, the finest dis- 

 play ever seen in the orchid section. 

 Special lines of ferns moved out as soon 

 as they were listed, anything good sell- 

 ing almost at sight in this country 

 today. Easter lilies have turned up 

 trumps, after all, and are proving con 

 siderably better, both in quantity and 

 quality, than anticipated. A cut of 60,- 

 000 violets per day is quite a common 

 occurrence, and a ready market awaits 

 this stock at 50 cents and 60 cents per 

 hundred. Tlie first carload of redwood 

 rafters has just arrived from California, 

 to be used in the erection of three new 

 houses for the Dale Estate. The houses 

 will be each 840 feet long, and should 

 be well advanced toward completion by 

 the end of June. The huge cold storage 

 premises for this firm were finished last 

 week, after nearly five months had been 

 spent in the work of construction. 



Frank Gilbert and Austin Vaile left 

 for P^dmonton, Alto., a few days ago. 



W. 0. P. 



Kansas City, Mo. — T. Xormann, gar- 

 dener for Mrs. A. R. Meyer, reports 

 that Mrs. Meyer has ordered from the 

 John C. Moninger Co.. the materials for 

 two iron-frame greenhouses, one of them 

 22x70 and the other 34x60. Under the 

 latter house there will be a reinforced 

 waterproof basement. The old houses 

 will be torn down. 



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And Works Almost as Automatically 



The Skinner System of Irritration is the last word in watering. 



The area one man can water is limited only by the extent of the 

 installation. All you have to do is to turn on the water and go about your 

 other work. Kvery fifteen or twenty minutes come back and, by means of 

 the Skinner Turning Device, throw the entire system over to the other side. 



This permits you to water twenty minutes, leave to soak in for 

 twenty minutes, then water again— the most successful method 

 known to scientific gardening. 



And with the Skinner System the water descends in a mist 

 form that cannot bruise the tenderest foliage nor cake the ground. 



Write today for these six books. Whether you are a florist 

 or a gardener, these books will show you where you can have a 

 dependable water supply at low cost— one that will eliminate all 



loss through drought, keep down insects and yield you dou- 



ble crops. Write today to 



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THE SKINNER CKINNER 

 IRRIGATION CO. OySTEM 



DepL H, 



Troy, Ohio 



OF IRRieATION. 



MARK 



The Skinner Irrltrmtion Company have recently purcha«ed all the patents 

 and good will in connection with the Wittbnid Watering System of Chicaso. 

 All buiiress connected with the Wittbold System should hereafter betrars- 

 acted with the Skinner irrigation Co. 



Mention The Review when you write. ^^^^^ 



SPLIT aRNATIONS 



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 No tools required. 



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