APBIL 24, 1618. 



The Florists' Review 



99 



SPHAQNUM MOSS. 



""vVehave a surplus of 12 barrel bale New Jer- 

 sey U1088, clean, fresh and burlapped, and will 

 deliver anywhere In Chicago, express prepaid, at 

 JB 00 per bale, 2 or more bales, $4.75. By freight 

 coileft, at 25c per bale less. 



K lehm's Nurseries, Arlington Heights, III. 

 ""Spliagnum moss, standard western size bur- 

 laped bales, clean, live stock, ^1.35 per bale; 10 

 bales, $12.00. Cash with order, please. Ref- 

 ereuce given. 



L. Amundson & Son, City Point. Wis. 



Tl'nAGNDM MOSS, 10 bbl. bales, burlapped, 

 USJ per bale; 5 bale lots, |4.00 ea.; 10 bale lots, 

 J8 75 ea.; 25 bale lots, $3.50 each. 

 *^ S. S. PENNOCK-MBBHAN CO., 



16 08-20 Ludlow St., Philadelphia, Pa . 



"^pliagnum moss, clean stock, 6-bbl. bales, $1.60 

 eacli; 10-bbl. bales, $3.00 each. Neatly bur- 

 lapii'd, 20c per bale extra. 



h terllgg Moss & Peat Co., Bamegat, N. J. 



Good selected moss, 5 bbl. bale, burlapped, 

 $1.35; 20 bales, $25.00. 

 J. K. Jewett & Co., Sparta, Wis. 



' Sphagnum moss, clean stock; 12 bbl. bale, 

 $4.50. Green moss, In bbls., $1.00 per bbl. 



James Day, Mllford, New Hampshire. 



Fine selected eastern moss, large 5 barrel 

 bales, burlapped, $2.50 each. 

 Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, Detroit, Mich. 



10 bales sphagnum moss, $10.00. Cash with 

 order. C. L. Jepson & Co., City Point, Wis. 



Sphagnum moss, burlap bales, $1.50 per bale. 

 A. Henderson & Co.. Box 125. Chicago. 



TOBACCO. 



Tobacco waste, rich in nicotine, kills aphis and 

 all sucking insects, cut worms, etc., used for 

 dusting, spraying or as a fertilizer. We have 

 about 5 tons, made up of stems, slftlngs and 

 waste. State what you can use and we will give 

 you price. 

 Deutsch Bros., 1399 Avenue A. New York. N. Y. 



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

 500 lbs., $3.50; 1000 lbs., $6.50; ton, ^12.00. 

 ScharfT Bros., Van Wert, Ohio. 



Strong, clean tobacco dust that will burn. 



Frank Shearer & Son. Blnghamton, N. Y. 

 Tobacco stems, fresh, 60c per cwt.; $10.00 per 

 ton f. o. b. N. D. Mills. Mlddletown, N^Y^^ 



WIWB WORK. 



Special prices on florists' wire designs. Send 

 for illustrated catalogue. W. C. Smith, Whole- 

 gale Floral Co., 1316 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. 



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. E. F. Wlnterson Co., 

 166 North Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



The best hanging basket on the market for 8c. 

 Atlanta Commission Florists' Co., Atlanta, Ga. 



William E. Hlelscher's Wire Works. 

 _^ 38 and 40 Broadway, Detroit, Mich. 



Falls City Wire Works, G. F. Borntraeger, 

 Prop., 451 S. Third St., Louisville, Ky. 



Wm. H. Woerner, 2852 Pratt, Omaha, Neb. 



LEAPBOLLEB MOTHS. 



Will you please inform me how to 

 get rid of the butterflies or moths that 

 bring on the leaf-rollers, with which 

 we are troubled a great deal? Would 

 cyanide kill the moths, or is there 

 something safer? J. B. 



Cyaniding, carefully done, would be 

 the surest remedy for the moths in 

 question. You must give a light dose, 

 however, and choose as cool an even- 

 ing as possible for the operation, or 

 the plants are likely to suffer some 

 damage. The gas will also kill the 

 rollers themselves, if any are on the 

 plants. An exposure of twenty to 

 thirty minutes will suffice if you have 

 facilities for opening your ventilators 

 from outside. If not, a light all-night 

 exposure can be given. To get the 

 exact dimensions of your house, mul- 

 tiply the length by the breadth and this 

 ijy the average height. Use stone jars 

 tor the acid and water. Be sure that 

 all ventilators are shut tight. Start at 

 one end of the house and drop the cy- 

 anide into the jars, walking away rap- 

 xlly. Lock the house securely and 

 post a sign stating the danger in- 

 "iirred by entering. 



I would suggest for an all-night ex- 

 posure three and one-half ounces of 

 ^vater, two and one-fourth ounces of 



Two-year-old 



ASPARAGnS ROOTS 



k fine lot of strong 2-year-old roots of 

 Barr'a Mammoth, Columbia 

 Mammoth White, Conover's Co- 

 lossal, Olant Arsenteull and 

 Ureer's Scllpse. neatly put up In 

 bundles of twenty-five, SOc per 100; $4.00 

 per 1000. 



Special prices for lots of 6000 or more. 



HENRY A. DREER, Inc. 

 714 Chestnut St., Phihdelfhii, Pt. 



Asparagus Root 



THE ABOVX PBI0K8 ABK IKTEIOJED 

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Get Interested, Nr. Florist; This Is For Yon 



If you contemplate painting your houses this year it will be well for you to 



investifirate the merits of 



NY SPECIAL GREENHOUSE WHFTE LEAD PAINT 



which I use exclusively in the erection of the large ranges of glass that I erect on private 

 estates and public parks. I have increased my plant to take care of the d emands made 

 upon me for this paint by florists in all parts of the country. The LUTTON reputation 

 for high-class material is back of this product. Send for a sample free of cost, and then 

 you will send your order. We also furnish materials for the complete erection of modem 

 Iron Frame Greenlious**. Some of the largest growers In the country will testify 

 to tills fact. 



WILLIAM H. LUTTON, West Side Ave. Station, Jersey City, N. J. 



sulphuric acid and one and one-fourth 

 ounces of cyanide of potassium, ninety- 

 eight per cent pure, for each 3,000 cu- 

 bic feet of space. The gas usually 

 takes a good deal of the color out of 

 pink and red roses and may scorch 

 some of the tender leaves. Give a 

 good syringing beiore the sun strikes 

 the plants in the morning. Sticky fly 

 papers, stood here and there, will catch 

 some moths, but these are at best only 

 a partial remedy. C. W. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



DISEASED LETTUCE. 



I am sending you a few plants of my 

 lettuce and some of the soil. The let- 

 tuce is badly diseased. My first crop 

 came at Thanksgiving. It was in good 

 condition, but the second crop was af- 

 fected as badly as the third crop. I 

 put in new soil in the fall for the first 

 and second crop. I mixed in a 4-inch 

 potful of bone meal to about twenty- 

 five square feet, with a little air- 

 slaked lime -on top of it. As the sec- 

 ond crop was badly diseased, I threw 

 it out and T)ut in the third crop, using 

 an inch of rotted horse manure. I 

 have also one whole house of lettuce 

 in the same soil in which I had mums 

 last season. They are in the same con- 

 dition. I hope to receive advice 

 through The Keview. J. P. M. 



Your soil seems to be about right for 

 lettuce culture. The fact that your 

 first crop was good goes to show that 

 there is nothing seriously wrong with 

 the compost. The most successful let- 

 tuce growers now sterilize their soil 



Watch for oar Trade Mark Stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pnre Coltnre Nnshroom Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper Krades Is thus 

 easily exposed. Fresh sample brick, 

 ^,^^x^^ with Illustrated book, mailed postpaid 

 ^p_ CT^ hy manufacturers upon receipt of 40 

 ^^*^,^,0^'^^ cents In postage. Address ^ 



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



We are Booking Orders 



For Head Lettuce 



Write ns 



ABBINQDON FLORAL CO. 

 Huntevllla, Alabama 



each season, or they are sure to get more 

 or less of the disease known as scald. 

 The affected plants will be found to 

 have diseased roots, and the trouble is 

 worst during spells of sunless weather. 

 I should say this has been your trouble. 

 In new soil the crop is tolerably 

 sure to be clean, but successive batches 

 will come poorer unless the soil has 

 been sterilized. At Arlington and Bel- 

 mont, Mass., where perhaps a greater 

 number of houses are devoted to let- 

 tuce forcing than in any other part of 

 the United States, all lettuce soil is 

 sterilized each season, and if you will 

 do the same with your soil you should 

 have equally fine crops. Instead of 

 adding bone meal, use two or inree 

 inches of horse manure and work it 

 down well into the soil by spading, or 

 by plowing if the houses are of suffi- 

 cient size to allow it. C. W. 



Keyport, N. J. — Julius Kalma, land- 

 scape gardener and florist, has started 

 in business for himself, having rented 

 a small farm at Phillips ' Mill. 



