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The FlofisV Review 



May 8, 1913. 



A Few Memorial Day Necessaries 



Brown Pottary Cemetery Vases 



lO-inch $1.36 per doz.; $ 8.00 per 100 



12-inch 1.60 per doz.; 10.00 per 100 



Green Tin Cemetery Vases 



10-inch 75c per doz.; $5.50 per 100 



Magnolia Leaves 



Red, Green, Bronze $1.60 per carton 



Qreen Moss Wreaths 



10-inch $1.00 per doz. 



12-inch 1.26 per doz. 



14-inch 1.50 per doz. 



imported Oak Sprays 



Per hamper $2.00 



Ruscus 



Per lb 75c 



Yazoo Green Thread 



8 2-oz. spools to a box 76c 



Green Cut Flower Boxes 



18 X 6x3^ $ 2.75 per 100 



2^4 X 5 X 3I2 :^00 per 100 



28 X 0x8 5.00 per 100 



24x 8x4 6.00 per 100 



.36 X 8x6 7.00 per H'O 



40x10x6 10,00 per 100 



WILLIAM MURPHY, 



Who|«sal« Commission 

 nortst. 



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immortelles 



Red, Blue, Purple $4.00 per do7 



White. Yellow 3.00 per doz. 



Cycas Leaves, Assorted Sizes 



8 to 12 ..$ 3.00 



lUo 16 3.76 



16 to 20 4.51 



20 to 24 6.2o 



2S to 28 6.00 



5^9 to 32 6.50 



33 to 36 7.00 



37 to 40 8.00 



41 to 44 9.50 



44 to 48 10.50 



309 Ihiii Street. CINCINNATI, O. 



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\ Will have NEW FANCY AND DAGGER CUT FERNS, NATIVE STOCK, MAY 20, S2.00 per lOOO 



Old crop, sprinfr pick $1.00 per 1000, immediate delivery. Cold storage fema $2.00 per 1000, immediate delivery. 



Fern plants— 6 or more varieties— for sun or shade locations, $3.00 per case— 36 by 24 by 12 inches. June delivery. 

 OREfiN SHEET MOSS, fresh from the Ioks, delivered by express, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois. Miehisrao, $2.00 per large bag. 



E. H. HITCHCOCK, 



GLENWOOD, MICH. 



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pr steam in his heating apparatus, as 

 well as the circulation of air currents 

 in his greenhouse and the possibilities 

 of stagnation in certain parts of it. 



The Dew Point in Oreenhouses. 



Physics is a subject worthy of his 

 careful study. In 'connection with this 

 I was talking some few years ago with 

 one of your members, a prominent rose 

 grower, on the desirability of finding 

 some easy way of getting at the dew 

 point in greenhouses, as we were both 

 of the opinion that cutting-bed fungus 

 and some other diseases are the re- 

 sult of an overcharge of atmospheric 

 moisture, but on my own part I failed 

 to find means to this end, until a year 

 or so ago 1 ran across an instrument 

 called Lloyd's .hygrodeik, designed in 

 Boston and manufactured in Rochester, 

 N. Y. This hygrodeik is nothing more 

 than the old wet and dry bulb ther- 

 mometer, with this important difference, 

 that it is fitted with a chart and a 

 pointer, whereby, with a few movements 

 and readings, the dew point is easily dis- 

 covered. It appears from some records 

 which I kept during the month of May 

 in a rose house, with ideal growing 

 weather, that a diflference of four de- 

 grees between the wet and dry bulb 

 (the wet bulb, of course, being lowest) 

 is about the correct amount of moisture 

 for good growing. This gives a rela- 

 tive humidity of about eighty-five per 

 cent of saturation. Comparing this with 

 a steam-heated dwelling house, I found 

 there the humidity was from thirty to 

 forty per cent, which I believe is too low 

 for good health. 



Scientific Breeding. 



After this slight digression, let me 

 enumerate a few more of the advantages 

 to be gained by scientific training. Take 

 the. matter of scientific breeding, an art 

 of the greatest potential possibilities 

 and better known of late as Mendelism. 

 How many thousand carnations, for in- 

 stance, have been discarded because 

 they were single or overdouble bursters 

 from the first cross! Yet, had these 

 two worthless types been bred together 

 they would have produced in a definite 



Great Disaster in Ferns 

 But Ail for Your Benefit 



NEW CROP FANCY OR DAGGER FERNS 

 Only $1.00 per lOOO 



Never before have Ferns been sold at this price at this time of the year. Send in your 

 orders at once— first come, first served— but we hope me have enough for all. 



Fin* Bronx* Qalax 10,000 lots, $5 00 



ar**n Qalax 75c per 1000 



Laur*l FaatoenlnKf made fresh 4c, 5c. *'>c per yard 



Laural Wr*atha $3.00 per dozen 



Pin* Wr*ath* $2 50 to $3.00 per dozen 



Sphasnum Moaa, 12-bbl. bales, only $5 00. Try a bale and you will 

 buy and buy and buy again. 



Yours for business. 



NEW SALEM FERN CO. 



TaUvraph Offflca: 



NEW SALEM, MASS. 



P. O. Addr***: 



MILUNQTON. MASS. 



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ratio a good proportion of the inter- 

 mediate type, or florists' carilation. The 

 same holds good in the breeding of many 

 other kinds of plants. 



Much more might be said on this over- 

 whelmingly interesting subject of Men- 

 del's law and the benefits that I think 

 might be obtained from a more scien- 

 tific training for gardeners and florists, 

 but I must pass on to another phase of 

 the subject, namely: How is this de- 

 sired end to be reached? My answer is, 

 through the horticultural colleges, but 

 first they must be brought up to a much 

 higher state of eflSciency than at present. 



Suggested Beforms in Teaching. 



The first radical reform that I would 

 suggest is, that no student should be 

 admitted for training who has not pre- 

 viously had three years of practical 

 experience, and then, having reached 

 college, his training should take a mure 

 strictly scientific course than at present. 

 Students should not go to colleges sup- 

 ported by the state to learn to prick out 



NEW STOCK SPHAGNUM 



\jOHK and clean from sticks, and It cannot be ex- 

 celled for florlft*' uses. 



1 large lObbl. bale, burlao $3 JO each 



6 lar^elO-bbl. bales, burlap S.26 each 



10 large 10-bbl. bales, burlap 3.00 each 



ROTTISI) PEAT AND LUMP MOSS 



Isack $1.28 



6 sacks 6.00 



10 sacks 7.60 



OceiaCMatyMssit Peat Ci.. LsckBax II.Wircttws.N.J. 

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^ Budlong's 



E Bhe Ribbon VaDey 



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a flat of cauliflower or lettuce; this, the 

 A-B-C of the business, should be acquired 

 elsewhere, and not under the guidance- 

 of a professor. Next I would have the- 

 teachers trained in the same way, as- 

 soon as the right material could be 



