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The Florists' Review 



March 6, 1913. 



My Original SILVER PINK SNAPDRAGON 



is a money-maker, being a grand variety iadoors and out. Aside from a possible 

 sport, it has never varied from the soft, silvery pink which is best in full sunshine, 

 making it an ideal bedder. Plants like cut can be grown in three months, which, in 

 2^ or 3^-in. pots, will make double the money that geraniums or any other bedding 

 plant will, from the fact that you can grow 16 plants to the square foot in 2^-in. pots and 9 plants In 

 i>^-in. pots. Use pencil and flgUTe profit at 75c to $L.5u per dozen. It requires 9 montbb for guranlums 

 to do half so well, and a year of good growing for carnations and many other plants to equal it. 

 Clean up a comer anywhere and All with SILVER PINK. You can't keep it from growing. 



Price of seed— my own growing— $1.00 per packet of over 600 seeds; 8 packets, |2.50, delirered. 

 Can still supply plants for MEhORIAL DAY flowering at $4.00 per 100. $35.00 per 1000, by express. 

 Cash must accompany all orders. 



Raport off Judc**, Nov«lty Nlsht, Cl«v*land Florists' Club, Fob. 10. 1S13: 

 "O. S. BamBburv, Somersworth, N. H., a vase of Sllrer Pink snapdragon, 

 a beautiful variety and highly recommended by the committee." 



Soo my larsor display ad In this waok's Issuo. 



Q. S. RAMSBURQ, 



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Somersworth, N. H- 



ness with a seed department and land- 

 scape work. The best wishes of the 

 trade go with Mr. Isselee in his new 

 field of labor. 



E. B. Seals is growing good bulbous 

 stock and has set out about 3,000 stock 

 plants for Memorial day. He has a 

 fine lot of cinerarias, cyclamens and 

 Murillo tulips coming on for Easter. 



Nelson F. Higgins has a new Ford 

 delivery car, which was put into serv- 

 ice February 26. 



T. F. Sheehan reports that his trade 

 is growing and that business was espe- 

 cially good during January and 

 February. 



Mark Aitken is growing some fine 

 Harrisii lilies, which he is cutting at 

 present. Business during January and 

 February was good with him. 



The subject of early closing has been 

 agitated by some of the leading florists. 

 The employees are in hopes that the 

 measure will go into effect soon. 



Visitors: Mr. Dykes, representing 

 Ed. Jansen, New York city; M. Adler, 

 New York city; Julius Dilloff, of 

 Schloss Bros., New York city; Mr. 

 Snyder, of the Edwards Folding Box 

 Co., Philadelphia; Mr. Smith, of Wm. 

 J. Boas & Co., Philadelphia. 



The street venders, the department 

 stores and the markets all had a big 

 sale of daffodils on Saturday, March 

 1, as the growers had an oversupply of 

 them. They sold well, too. Violets, 

 also, were sold cheaply. E. C. A. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



BLOSSOM-END BOT. 



Can you tell me what my outdoor 

 tomatoes suffered from last season? A 

 small black spot started at the eye and 

 spread all over the fruit. It was a 

 kind of black rot. I have been told 

 that it is caused by the decaying wood 

 in the soil. Can you say whether this 

 is correct, and what remedy would you 

 advise? W. D. 



The trouble you have had on your 

 tomatoes is commonly called blossom- 

 end rot. Little is known of the cause 

 of this trouble, which affects plants 

 both under glass and outdoors. It is 

 worse outdoors during a spell of damp 

 weather. It seems to be superinduced 

 indoors by a too close and stuffy at- 

 mosphere and an overabundance of 

 moisture, both at the root and in the 

 atmosphere. Perfect cleanliness is neces- 

 sary, including whitewashing of the 

 walls, keeping floors and spaces below 

 benches clear of rubbish and removal 

 of dead or decaying foliage. 



Avoid using the same soil again for 



French and Palmetto 



ASPARAGUS 

 ROOTS 



We oflFer for immediate sale 260,000 

 Asparagus Roots, boxed for shipment, 

 f. 0. b. cars here, at $2.00 per lUOO. 



Send your order today 



Crinc Packing & Seed Co. 



MORQANVILLB, N. J. 



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WE HAVE 



1,000,000 Grand Rapids 

 Tennis Ball Lettuce 



Cold frame plants, at $1.00 per 1000; 

 5000 lots, for 90c; 10,000 lots, for 80c. 



We srrow a general line of vegetable 

 plants for the trade only. 



Send for catalogue, now ready. 

 Franklin Plant Farm, Inc. 



Frank Brunton. Qen'l Manager 

 R. F. D. No. 2 NORFOLK. VA. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark Stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pur Cahnre Nushroom Spawn 



Snbstltation of cheaper Krades ie thns 



easily exposed. Fresh sample biick. 



^^^">s^^ with Illustrated book, mailed postpaid 



^p C*^ ^y manufacturers upon receipt of 40 



^^*Z,,0^^*^ cents in postage. Address 



Trade Mark. AncncM Spawn Co., SL Paul, Minn. 



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tomatoes when your fruit has been 

 badly affected. Do not save and sow 

 your own seed, but secure it from a dis- 

 tance, where climatic conditions are not 

 congenial to the disease in question. 

 Pick off and destroy spotted fruit as 

 fast as it appears. Keep a dry atmos- 

 phere and a night temperature of 60 to 

 65 degrees. Ventilate on all possible oc- 

 casions, always avoiding draughts. In 

 winter keep the plaots a little on the 

 dry side for best results. Perfect clean- 

 liness will do much toward getting rid 

 of this disease. C. W. 



Omaha, Neb. — Jules Serleth, who for 

 the last three years has been in the flo- 

 rists ' trade at 2450 St. Mary's avenue, 

 expects to build an addition during the 

 coming summer. 



Sound Bulbs 



FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 



"Worth WhUe" Qualitr 



LILY BULBS 



Immediate or later shipment. 

 Order now and we will hold 

 them for you if desired. 



Our "Monay-Makar" Price List of Spring 

 Bulbs. Bay Trees, Boxwood, etc.. is being 

 mailed to our customers. If you are not 

 on our mailing list, a postal card will start 

 it moving. 



Winterson's Seed Store 



166 N. Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, OL 



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GLADIOLI 



America Planting Stocic 



■trons plump bulbs of 

 bait quality 



Write your needs and let us quote low prices. 



A. H. AUSTIN CO., Wayland, Ohio 



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We are Booking Orders 



For Head Lettuce 



Write us 



ABBINGDON FLORAL CO. 

 Huntsvllla, Alabama 



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Evansville, Ind. — Karl Zeidler, of the 

 Zeidler Floral Co., has been appointed 

 by the mayor as trustee of Locust Hill 

 cemetery, to succeed Trustee Schrader, 

 who recently died. 



Oneonta, N. Y. — Burton Ackley, pro- 

 prietor of the Elm Street Greenhouses^ 

 has ordered materials for the erection 

 of another house, 30x100. The work of 

 construction, however, will probably not 

 begin until the early spring trade is 

 over. 



