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The Florists^ Review 



December 5, 1912. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Business during Thanksgiving week 

 ■was highly satisfactory to everybody. 

 There was plenty of good stock and 

 good prices prevailed, -everybody clean- 

 ing up practically everything in stock. 

 Chrysanthemums held the public favor, 

 although a larger number of orchids 

 were sold than ever before. Nearly 

 fifty weddings during the week, with a 

 large number of funerals, kept everyone 

 on the jump. 



Various Notes. 



T. O 'Connor has been extremely busy 

 during the last few weeks, the number 

 of wedding decorations being especially 

 large. 



George Hunt, father of Charles H. 

 Hunt, with whom he is associated, is 

 favorably spoken of as fire commis- 

 eioner to succeed himself. 



Morris Miller, who has been with 

 Hoffman, at Pawtucket, for several 

 months, is preparing to open a retail 

 store on Westminster street, not far 

 from the one he closed last spring. 



William Appleton and Thomas Curley 

 had the larger number of pieces for the 

 funeral of William E. Joslyn. 



T. J. Johnston & Co. have received 

 a new delivery car, which is extremely 

 attractive. 



William Cohen, with .J. Kopelman & 

 Co., is suffering from blood poison in 

 his left hand, caused by rose thorns. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 the representatives of Eeed & Keller, 

 New York; Henry A. Dreer, M. Eice & 

 Co., and the Edwards Folding Box Co., 

 of Philadelphia. 



Benjamin Cull, for the last seventeen 

 years gardener on the Zabriskie estate 

 at Newport, has resigned to engage in 

 business for himself at Galveston, Tex. 



Miss M. F. Appleton, formerly of 

 Seattle, now is manager of the cut 

 flower department at Chipman's green- 

 houses, Woonsocket. 



A. J. Johnson is putting in a large 

 new boiler. 



William I. Brown, of the Providence 

 Seed Co., is secretary of the poultry 

 show at Infantry hall this week. 



The display of flowers at the funeral 

 of Robert Knight, November 27, was 

 the largest seen in Providence in a 

 long time. While the orders were well 

 distributed, O'Connor, Johnston Bros., 

 and T. J. Johnston & Co. had the ma- 

 jority. 



William Hay's houses of roses are off 

 crop at present, although he is cutting 

 some fine Marylands from a small house. 

 He expects a large cut for Christmas. 



James Hacking, of Central Falls, has 

 been unusually busy the last two weeks, 

 largely on decorations, weddings and 

 funerals. 



The new greenhouses of Ernest How- 

 ard, at Auburn, are awaiting the boil- 

 ers. 



Frederick Dietz has been working 

 nights on account of the rush of orders. 

 Last week he had over sixty funeral 

 pieces in five days. 



F. Macrae & Sons have placed an 

 order for an automobile for delivery. 



The election of officers for the Bhode 

 Island Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 resulted as follows: President, Eugene 

 Appleton ; vice-president, Cornelius 

 Harstra; secretary, William E. Chap- 

 pell; treasurer, James Hockey; libra- 

 rian, James Dillon; executive commit- 



Watoh for our Trade Mark Stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pure Culture Nushroom Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper grades is thus 



easily exposed. Fresh sample brick. 



^^^"V^^ with Illustrated book, mailed postpaid 



^^p, cl^ ''y manufacturers upon receipt of 40 



^^^^^^^ cents In postage. Address 



Trade Mark. American Spawn Co., SL Paul/Minn. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



tee, H. C. Newbrand, James Dillon and 

 Cornelius Harstra. 



Gardeners in and about this city have 

 organized the Providence Market Gar- 

 deners' Association. The officers are: 

 President, Harold F. Thompson, of At- 

 tleboro; first vice-president, H. Evans 

 West, of Seekonk; second vice-presi- 

 dent, F. L. Gardner, of Swansea; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, Everett C. Potter, of 

 Auburn. W. H. M. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



CUCUMBER PLANTS DIED. 



October 1 we planted a vacant bench 

 in a rose house with Davis' Perfect 

 cucumbers. We planted them in five 

 inches of good, rich soil. They grew 

 to the fourth leaf and then began to 

 die, a few at a time, until all were 

 gone. The trouble started with yellow 

 specks on the leaves, and soon the 

 leaves began to dry up around the 

 edges. There was red spider on the 

 plants, but, owing to their tenderness 

 and their closeness to the ground, we 

 could not use the hose under them. 

 They had plenty of air and cultivation 

 and were grown in a rose temperature. 



Did the red spider kill themf How 

 can we save our crop if we plant again? 

 Did we plant at the wrong time of the 

 year? We have nothing else that we 

 can grow in this temperature. Can 

 mildew be kept down on roses by the 

 use of a sulphur blower alone? If so, 

 in what quantity and how often should 

 the sulphur be used? Would sulphur 

 on hot water pipes kill young cucumber 

 plants in a rose house? If we cannot 

 grow cucumbers in the rose bench, can 

 we grow tomatoes in six inches of soil, 

 and how close together? J. T. 



It is hard to tell just what killed the 

 cucumber plants, but it is difficult to 

 get cukes to start well at this season 

 of the year. Along toward spring there 

 is less difficulty. I have a suspicion 

 that sulphur on the pipes did the dam- 

 age. Cukes will not stand much of it 

 without a drying up of the leaves. Bed 

 spider is also quite harmful and would 

 soon have taken the crop anyhow, if 

 the plants had not died when young. 



Tomatoes would do better in a rose 

 temperature than cukes, and will grow 

 in the same depth of soil. Single-stem 

 plants are placed about fifteen to eigh- 

 teen inches apart each way. 



You can keep mildew in check with 

 sulphur by blowing it on wherever you 

 see any mildew, at least once a week, 

 but you should also paint a little daub 

 on one pipe in each house about every 

 twenty feet. Use paint oil and sulphur 

 and an old paint brush. .Tust a few 

 little spots will keep enough fumes in 

 the house all the time to kill mildew 

 without injury to cukes or roses. 



You might get some lettuce or rad- 

 ishes from this bench that is idle, but 

 the temperature would be warmer than 

 they like. However, I have seen them 



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Copenhagen Market Cabbage. As early 

 as Charleston Wakefield. Produced over 

 five tons per acre against Wakefield two 

 and a half tons. Oz., bOe; ^4-lb., $1.75; 

 lb., $6.00. 



Big Boston and Grand Rapids Lettuce. 

 Fine forcing strains for greenhouse use. 

 Oz., 15c; 14-lb.. 35c; lb., $1.25. 



WALTER P. STOKES, Seedsman, 

 Philadelphia, Pannsylvania 



both do fairly well in a rose house, if 

 not planted too thickly. Perhaps you 

 will need the bench soon for geraniums 

 or other pot plants for spring. H. G. 



Newton Center, Mass. — Kobert Eod- 

 den reports that business has increased 

 greatly since the arrival of November, 

 and gives it as his opinion that this 

 will be an extremely prosperous season, 

 everything pointing that way now. 



Want uA For Sale Department 



^r~AclTertl0ement8 nnder this head 10 cent* 

 per line, cash with order from aU who do not do 

 other advertislDK. In sending; remittance coant 

 ■even words to the line. 



Display advertisements In this department fl.SO 

 for one Inch space. 



When answers are to be sent In our care, add 10 

 cents for forwarding. 



Plant advertisements not admitted under this head. 



SITUATION WANTED— By young boy, 17 

 years, 6 months' experience; want to learn; 

 in Wis. Address Stanley Evans, New Lisbon, 

 Wis. 



SITtlATION WANTED— By sober, young man, 

 26, experienced grower of cut flowers and 

 plants; capable of taking charge; references; 

 state wages. Address No. 312, care Florists' 

 Review. Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By young woman with 

 fifteen years' experience as stenographer and 

 general office assistant with a large wholesale 

 and retail seed firm. Address No. 816, care 

 Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By flrst-class florist as 

 decorator and storeman, or grower; am well 

 trained and fully capable of filling any position 

 pertaining to the trade. Address F. G. Tulin, 

 29 Shields Ave., Buffalo. N. Y. 



SITUATION WANTED— By neat young man, 21 

 years old, as salesman in a good up-to-date 

 store; am a good designer and have had life ex- 

 perience In the business and with first-class trade; 

 state wages. Address E. W. Siebrecht, Winona, 

 Minn. 



ITUATION WANTED— Middle-aged working 

 foreman, experienced grower of roses, carna- 

 tions, mums, bulbs and general stock: designer, 

 decorator; strictly temperate; hustler; good 

 wages; best references. G. Foreman, 268 Myrtle 

 St., Detroit. Mich. 



SITUATION WANTED— By first-class aU-round 

 grower; married; many years' practical ex- 

 perience; can handle men to best advantage; 

 references; state salary and fnll particulars in 

 first letter. Address Morltz Zschau, 1421 Wash- 

 ington St., Evanston, 111. 



