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The Florists' Review 



Jdlt 4, 1912. 



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CAWNATION STAPLKS. 



BOPBRIOR CABNATION STAFL^ 

 Moid your split carnatlona. Flneit article for 

 carnation growers Introduced so far, GOc per 1000, 

 poatage oald. 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER BXCHANOB, 

 88-40 Broadway, Detroit. Mich. 



PUlBbory'B carnation sUpIea, 50c per 1000. 

 Poetpald. I. L. PllUbnry, Galeabarg, 111. 



DKCOWATIVK MATKWIAL. 



Write for our special price on a special lot of 

 dagger ferns. 



Try oar lanrel festooning for your decorations, 

 only Sc per yd. ; 10 yds. free with first order. 

 Crowl Fern Co., MllUngton, Mass. 



All kinds of evergreens. Let as have your 

 cash order, or book for future delivery. We will 

 treat you right. 

 J. J. Cable & Son, Butler, Tenn. 



FLOWKW COLOmNQS. 



THE NATURAL CTACEINB flower coloring, 

 yellow, blue, orange, pink, green or American 

 Beauty, 20c per qt. Sent to you by mall. 

 C. R. Cranston. 146 Orchard St., Auburn. R. I. 



PLANT STAKES. 



Cane stakes. Green Japanese, 2 ft., $4.00 per 

 1000; 2% ft., $4.50 per 1000; 4 ft., $6.00 per 

 1000. Natural, 6 ft., $6.00 per 1000. A. Hender- 

 eon & Co.. 3B2 N. Michigan Are., Chicago. 



POTS. 



Standard Flower Pots. If your greenhouses 

 are within 50 miles of the Capital, write us; we 

 can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 28th and M 

 fits., N. E., Washington, D. C. 



We make Standard Flower Pots, etc. 



Write us when in need. 



Wilmer Cope & Bro., 



Lincoln Unlyersity, Chester Co., Pa. 



"NUF SED." Best red pots are made by 

 Geo. E. FeiiBtel. Falrport. Iowa. 



WAFFIA. 



Raflla. Red Star and 3 other grades. Bale 

 lots or less. Colored Raffia, 20 colors. Write for 

 i)rices. 



McHutchlson & Co., 17 Murray St.. New York. 



Raffia (colored), 20 beautiful shades. Samples 

 free. R. H. Comey Co., Camden, N. J. 

 Or 2440-2454 Wastiburne Ave., Chicago. 



SPHAOWUM MOSS. ^ 



Sphagnum moss, 10 bbl. bales, burlapped, $4.00 

 per bale; 6 bale lots, $3.75 each; 10 bale lots, 

 $3.50 each. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 1608-20 Ludlow St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Sphagnum moss, the genuine article from the 

 big woods of the north, $1.50 per bbl. 

 Star Groenhouse, Big Rapids, Mich. 



Best sphagnum $1.00 per bale; 10 bales, $8.00. 

 Cash. L. Amundson & Son. City Point, Wis. 



TOBACCO. 



Fresh tobacco stems, in bales, 200 lbs., $1.50; 

 500 lbs., $3.50; luOO lbs., $6.50; ton, $12.00. 

 Scharft Bros.. Van Wert, Ohio. 



Tobacco dust for dusting, 100-lb. sack, $1.75; 

 200 lbs., $3.00. G. H. Hunkel, Milwsukee. Wis. 



WIRE WORK. __^ 



Florists' wire designs and hanging baskets. 

 Wyandotte Wire Works Co., 

 700-702 Ferry St., Kansas City, Kan. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire work 

 In the west. B. F. WInterson Co., 

 166 North Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



FALLS CITY WIRE WORKS, 

 451 S. Third St., Louisville, Ky. 



William E. Hielscher's Wire Works, 

 38 and 40 Broadway, Detroit, Mich. 



Wm. H. Woerner, 520 N. 16th St., Omaha, Neb. 



BBEEDING COBN. 



[Continued from page 60.] 



flowers are produced separately and on 

 different parts of the plant. 



The male flower appears at the upper 

 ■end of the stalk in the form of a 

 panicle, the tassel. The anthers are 

 the little pod-shaped affairs that dan- 

 gle from the tassel and contain the 

 pollen. When the pollen is ripe the 

 anther bursts lengthwise and the pollen 

 becomes subject to the influence of 

 gravity and such agents as wind, bees, 



birds, etc., and by them is carried to 

 the female flowers on its own and ad- 

 jacent plants, and often, to our sorrow, 

 to other fields to stamp its imprint on 

 our carefully selected stock of other 

 varieties. This imprint is sometimes 

 hard to reckon with and hard to get 

 rid of. 



The female flowers spring from one 

 of the nodes, or joints, about midway 

 of the stalk, usually in our ordinary 

 western field varieties at the seventh 

 node. But from the uppermost flower 

 clear to the ground a miniature flower 

 will usually be found at every joint; 

 but the lower ones are nearly always 

 rudimentary and a magnifying glass is 

 necessary to distinguish their form, 

 which may not be more than one-eighth 

 to one-fourth of an inch in length. 



The female flower is really a cluster 

 of flowers borne on a spike — the cob. 

 These tiny florets are ranged in pairs 

 of rows running lengthwise of the cob. 

 The florets differ from most flowers in 

 that the ovule (which afterward be- 

 comes the kernel) is proportionately 

 very large; in fact, so large that the 

 petals are scarcely noticeable. The 

 chaff on the dried cob is composed sim- 

 ply of the dry petals of these little 

 flowers. 



To each ovule is attached the pistil, 

 which extends out through the ends of 

 the husks, and these collectively form 

 what we call the silk. The silk is what 

 we may call hairy toward the outer ex- 

 tremity, and is usually slightly split at 

 the end. It also secretes a slightly 

 sticky substance, which, with the hairs, 

 holds the pollen grain in place when it 

 has fallen upon it. 



Millions of Pollen Grains. 



The pollen grain contains the sperm 

 cell, the male element of fecundation; 

 in fact, it contains two such cells, but 

 the office of the second has not yet been 

 completely defined. Shortly after the 

 pollen grain falls upon the silk, it ger- 

 minates; that is, on the side next the 

 silk a protuberance appears which pene- 

 trates the silk and continues to grow 

 rapidly down its interior toward the 

 ovule. It is then known as the pollen 

 tube and carries at its point one of 

 the sperm cells. Upon its reaching the 

 interior of the ovule it penetrates the 

 egg sack which contains the female 

 reproductive, or germ cell, with which" 

 the sperm cell unites to form a single 

 cell, and the process of fertilization is 

 then complete. 



You will therefore see that each 

 ovule, or, as we may say, each kernel 

 of corn, is fertilized by a single pollen 

 grain, that no two ovules can be fer- 

 tilized by the same grain of pollen, 

 and that it is possible for each kernel 

 on the ear to have a different male 

 parent. 



[To be continued.] 



Long Island City, N. Y. — Henry 

 Pritchard, the Astoria florist, has pur- 

 chased a five-passenger Ford touring 

 car, for his private use. 



Destroy 

 Mildew 



by using the 



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Peerless 



Powdar Blower to dlstrlMMo Jjvlpliur, 

 Umo, Slutr Shot, ttrapo Dust, Tobacco 

 Dust, Paris %roon, otc. 



Emll Buettner, ¥lu-k Ridge. 

 111., says: "I have used your 

 Powder Blower and find It a 

 great Improvement over the bel- 

 lows. It does the work better, 

 quicker and more even." 



Prico 

 $4.00 

 F. O. B. 

 Chlcaso 



Ask Your Jobbor for It or 

 Ordor DIroct From Us 



Edw. E. McMorran C Co. 



1 62-166 N. Qintoa Street CHICAGO 



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Vegetable Plants 



CABBAGE 



Wakefield, Succession, All Head, Early and Late 

 Drumhead, Early Summer, Winnlgstadt, Sure- 

 head, etc.. at $1.00 per 1000; 10,000 and over, 85c 

 per 1000. 



LETTUCE 



Big Boston, Boston Market, Tennis Ball and 

 Grand Rapids. $1.00 per 1000. 



BEET 



Eclipse. Crosby and Egyptian, $1.25 per 1000. 

 Cash with order. 



R. VINCENT. JR., t SONS CO. 



Whito Marsh, Md. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pan Cattnre Mushroom Spawn 



iiPer rrades is 

 Fresh sample 



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Substitution of cheaper srrades is 



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brick, with illustrated book, mailed 



tbtiB easily exposed. 



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postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 ceipt of 40 cents in postare. Addrest 



TradeMark. Amcricu Spawn Co,. St PauI.MInii. 



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WIRED TOOTHPICKS 



Manufactured by 



W. J. COWEE, ".??• 



10,000 $1.75 60,000 $7.60 



Samtle Free. For sale by tealera. 



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