. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Rmerica is "the Prow of t'tiB UbsseI; thBre may be mare cam fart Mmidships, but we are the ffrst to touch Unknown Seas.' Vol. XXIV. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JULY 8, 1905. No. 892 JFikfiBJ^f Twentieth Year. Copyright 1905, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published everi Satcrdat bt AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 324 Dearborn Chicaiio. Eastern Office: 429 Sixth Ave., New York. Subscription, $ .-i year. To Europe, $, Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. Volumes half-


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Rmerica is "the Prow of t'tiB UbsseI; thBre may be mare cam fart Mmidships, but we are the ffrst to touch Unknown Seas.' Vol. XXIV. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JULY 8, 1905. No. 892 JFikfiBJ^f Twentieth Year. Copyright 1905, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published everi Satcrdat bt AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 324 Dearborn Chicaiio. Eastern Office: 429 Sixth Ave., New York. Subscription, $ .-i year. To Europe, $, Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. Volumes half-yearly from August, 1901. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS. OFFICERS—J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, president; J. R. Freeman, Washington, D. C., vice-presi- dent; Wm. J. Stewart, U Hamilton Place, Room II, Boston, Mass., secretary; H. B. Beattt, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. Twenty-first annual meeting at Washington, D. C, August 15-18, 1905. THE AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. Annual convention and exhibition at Boston, 1906. Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass., president; Albert M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa., secretary. AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Annual meeting and exhibition, Boston, Mass., March, 1906. Alex. Montqomebt, Natick, Mass., president; Wm. J. Stewart, 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass., secretary. CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Annual convention and exhibition, November, 1905. Fred. H. Lemon, Richmond, Ind., secretary. Ready Reference Advertising Page 1093. J FLORISTS' FERTILIZERS. By J. A. VOORHEES. (Copyriglit 1905 by the American Flurist Company.) GOVERNING THEIR USE. By long series of experiments the fol- lowing facts have been proven true of the growth and development of plants: 1. That during their growth they re- move from the soil and air varying quantities of the following elements: Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur, potassium, chlorine, phos- phorus, calcium, iron, magnesium, so- dium and possibly manganese, of which all except carbon


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