May 8, 1913. 



The Florists* Review 



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houses are kept exceedingly neat. At 

 the time of my visit two large houses of 

 sweet peas were in full crop, the stems 

 fifteen to eighteen inches long, with 

 three and four flowers to the stem. The 

 varieties are Florence Denzer, Christ- 

 mas Pink, Mrs. W. W. Smalley and 

 Watchung. The last named is a 

 dwarfer grower than the others, but 

 carried splendid stems. It is an excel- 

 lent white variety to grow where head- 

 room is limited. One house 400 feet 

 long was entirely devoted to Zvolanek's 

 new winter-flowering Spencers, fifty va- 

 rieties in all. These have the same 

 habit as the older winter-blooming 

 sweet peas and some were showing buds 

 wliile only eighteen inches high. 



Many of the best outdoor Spencer va- 

 rieties are planted, including a quantity 

 of novelties, and the houses should be 

 a grand sight later in the season. The 

 characteristics of the true winter- 

 bloomers and outdoor sweet peas were 

 plainly to be seen here. In one house 

 containing both types the winter-bloom- 

 ers were eighteen inches high, running 

 right up to flower with a single stem. 

 On the other hand, the outdoor types 

 were much branched close to the ground 

 and only four to five inches high. 



Princess of Wales violets are grown 

 between the sweet peas, being pulled 

 out as the latter shade them too much. 

 Some 75,000 plants of these are grown 

 and the work of picking and bunching 

 takes considerable time. Tomatoes are 

 grown to succeed the violets where no 

 sweet peas are planted and to take the 

 places of the earliest sweet peas, about 

 40,000 plants being grown, mostly of 

 Comet. One house contained piuisios of 

 superb quality. These were in evidence 

 at the recent New York show. The 

 flowers carried are simply immense. 

 To supplement the city water supply, 

 Mr. Sim some time ago sunk an ar- 

 tesian well 300 feet and gets a stream 

 of 100 gallons per minute. He keeps his 

 engine going night and day in the dry 

 season, using much of the water for 

 irrigating his outdoor crops in addition 

 to watering the greenhouses. Sweet 

 peas, earh- sweet corn and tomatoes are 

 specialties here outdoors. 



It is worthy of remark that Mr. Sim 

 has never changed the soil in any of 

 his houses. Everything is, of course, on 

 the ground and the soil was in the first 

 place deeply trenched and heavily 

 manured. Crops, far from showing any 

 deterioration, are better each year. Of 

 course cow manure is liberally applied 

 and worked in before violets are 

 planted, and top-ilressings and liquid 

 manure are freely applied whenever 

 necessary. The rotation of crops here 

 seems to keep the soil in perfect condi- 

 tion, as sweet peas, violets and toma- 

 toes are one and all as clean and vig- 

 orous as anyone could wish to see. 



Owing to the mildness of the winter, 

 Mr. Sim estimates he has saved .300 tons 

 of coal as compared with a year ago. 

 He has a battery of four 125 horse- 

 power boilers, but two of these have 

 been sufficient to provide the necessary 

 heat this season. W. N. Craig. 



New Brunswick, N. J. — The Middle- 

 bush Rosery has opened a branch store 

 in the new Jelin building, on George 

 street. 



Hinckley, 111.— Dr. F. E, Graves re- 

 r>orts his greenhouse stock in especially 

 good growth, flowering plants being in 

 bloom and early vegetables yielding for 

 the table. 



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Mo. April 38, 1913. 



We want to compliment you on the way 

 you have featured Uothera' Day. The Review baa put 

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 all over Anerloa by Ita auggeatlona how to booat Uothera' 

 Day bualneaa. It waa your exploitation of It that firat 

 called our attention to the poaalbllltlea of the Day. 



And how do you like our Uothera* Day 

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DAINTY TABLE DECORATION. 



Mrs. Patterson, with Walter Arma- 

 cost & Co., at Ocean Park, Cal., ar- 

 range! 1 the table decoration for the din- 

 ner given by Mr. German recentlj' at 

 the King Georjre hotel on the occasion 

 of his seventh wedding anniversary. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 how daintily and artistically Mrs. Pat- 

 terson executed the order. 



Sewell, N. J.— It is stated that while 

 •Tohn li. North was in Philadelphia re- 

 cently, he was relieved of $160 by a 

 [tickpocket. 



I Wedding Supper Decoration by Walter Armacost & Co., at Ocean Park, Cal, 



