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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 14, 1901. 



night for New York, where he will act 

 as one of the judges at the exhibition 

 of the American Eose Society. 



George Asmus, E. F. Winterson, H. 

 Coulson, P. Hurson and W. L. McLaugh- 

 lin have been bowling as a team in the 

 Union League of West Chicago and they 

 stood at the head of the list at the end 

 of the series. As a result, they will di- 

 vide among themselves the juicy first 

 prize of $75. 



B. D. Kaptcyn, representing Gt. van 

 Waveren & Kruijtf, Sassenheim, Holland, 

 was a recent visitor. 



George Scott is again on duty at Ken- 

 nicott Bros. Co., after several weeks' ill- 

 ness with typhoid fever. 



There is some little guessing being done 

 on the question of lilies for Easter. It 

 is said that the disease has been more 

 virulent than ever and that as a result 

 the supply of first-class flowers will be 

 short. Others hold that there will be 

 plenty of lilies when they are wanted. 



Sinner & Co., Ridge avenue, near Adam 

 Zender, who have grown vegetables un- 

 der glass for some years, will this year 

 turn their houses into plants for cut 

 flowers and have purchased a big stock of 

 carnation cuttings from Wietor Bros. 



Mr. E. E. Pieser, of Kennicptt Bros. 

 Co., says it has been a most peculiar sea- 

 son, and the market has been a difficult 

 one to keep the run of. While their 

 business has been equal in volume to 

 previous seasons it has changed some lit- 

 tle in character, violets and bulbous 

 stock cutting much less of a figure than 

 formerly. Roses and carnations are 

 more than ever the mainstays, and the 

 "variety" that is reported to be "so much 

 needed" has met with less call than in 

 previous years. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, held, on Monday night last, was 

 again most interesting, roses being the 

 chief topic. It was expected that many 

 new roses and a goodly display of others 

 would be shown, but somehow or other, 

 perhaps because every icebox was full, 

 none appeared in the club rooms, except 

 a vase of the grand new rose, "Robert 

 Scott." These blooms represented the 

 rose in every stage of development; some 

 of them were five or six inches in diam- 

 eter and of remarkable substance. By 

 a special vote the rose was awarded the 

 club's silver medal. 



Mr. E. G. Hill, of Indiana, was to have 

 been present to open a discussion on 

 roses, but sent his opinions instead, 

 which were read by Mr. O'Mara. This 

 paper opened up a very interesting dis- 

 cussion. Mr. Robert Scott, of Philadel- 

 phia, who was present, said he had seen 

 nothing in Europe last summer worth 

 considering as an American forcing rose. 

 He had had one or two supposedly good 

 new varieties sent over to him, but they 

 were only now showing bloom and their 

 slowness made them useless. He was 

 under the impression that Liberty would 

 be better in three years ; overpropagation 

 exhausted the vitality of any plant al- 

 though he had not seen Liberty any- 

 where so fine as they were at Mr. As- 

 mus' place. He thought when the rose 

 was better understood it would give more 

 satisfaction. One thing, the rose, like 

 others, conld not stand a check, and he 

 found it did better in light soil. 



Mr. O'Mara reviewed the roses intro' 

 duced the past twenty years, and said 



from a study of the matter he con.sidered 

 roses raised in the south of France did 

 better in the United States than those 

 from any other part of Europe. The cli- 

 mate there was similar to ours, and he 

 thought this a powerful element; he was 

 under the impression that America needed 

 a race of roses of her own, and this was 

 rapidly being accomplished by the few 

 hybridizers we have here. He thought 

 many of the old varieties, such as Corne- 

 lia Cook, Puritan, etc., would again 

 come into popularity, and John Cook, of 

 Baltimore, had some new varieties now 

 that would, he thought, prove very val- 

 uable. 



Mr. Scott said the white Mme. Cochet 

 was one of the best outdoor roses. Mr. 

 Stewart said Burbank proved to be hardy 

 in his garden. Mr. Atkins said they were 

 making several experiments in the mat- 

 ter of grafting stock; they got best re- 

 sults from wood of their own planting 

 grafted on to dormant imported stocks; 

 eyes taken from imported roses most 

 often proved useless on account of their 

 being started with them. Mme. Van 

 Houtte, Mme. Cochet and Kaiserin proved 

 great successes, but they grew a large 

 collection of bedding roses which proved 

 more than satisfactory. 



There was quite a discussion on the 

 proposed interstate laws regarding the 

 fumigation of nursery stock. Mr. Kel- 

 sey asked for information on the plants 

 commonly called "Florists' stock," and 

 was sorry, as he understood it, that the 

 florists did not help the nurserymen in 

 having portions of their stock exempt 

 from the law. Mr. O'Mara explained why 

 and said the nurserymen had been given 

 every opportunity to accomplish great 

 good to themselves. The florists had 

 succeeded in having everything grown 

 under glass exempt from the stringent 

 laws and the nurserymen had only them- 

 selves to blame for the condition of af- 

 fairs. 



A vote of thanks was sent to W. R. 

 Smith, of Washington, for his valuable 

 services towards procuring a charter for 

 the S. A. F. O. H. Mr. Wallace reported 

 that the national society had placed one 

 silver and one bronze modal for competi- 

 tion at the chill's show in October. The 

 several committees reported progress. 

 Mr. O'Mara said he had delivered the 

 club's engrossed resoliition to Mr. Starin 

 and that gentleman was very grateful for 

 the club's action. ''^ J. I. D. 



HEATING. 



Our present plant consists of five 20x 

 100 feet houses, heated by two small 

 steam boilers. We are going to build 

 three new houses 27x100 feet for grow- 

 ing roses and the capacity of our present 

 boilers is not sufficient to heat the entire 

 plant when completed. Would it be 

 economy to put in a separate boiler for 

 the new houses? If so. would you ad- 

 vise steam or hot water? Or should we 

 replace the two old boilers with one large 

 enough to heat the whole plant, and 

 would you advise .steam or hot water? 

 The old houses are piped with l-in. pipes, 

 which are, of course, too small for water, 

 and we don't want to go to the expense 

 of repiping this season. If you could 

 give us a little light on this subject you 

 would greatly oblige. G. & D. 



In reply to the inquiry of "G. & D.," 

 one of either of the following methods 

 should be adopted: 



The first suggestion would be, assum- 

 ing the boilers now in use are in good 



working order, to install a 30 H. P. 

 wrought iron tubular boiler, and if pos- 

 sible connect it in batterv form to the 

 present boilers. The 30" H. P. boiler 

 would have a liberal surplus of capacity 

 over the immediate requirements, which 

 would tend to relieve the older boilers, 

 then when the old boilers give out a 

 second 30 H. P. boiler could be installed, 

 which in connection with the first would 

 have a surplus of capacity sufficient to 

 enable you to build three more 27x100 

 foot houses. If it is not your intention 

 to increase your glass area, and the old 

 boilers are pretty well worn out it would 

 be better to remove them, and substi- 

 tute one 50 H. P. wrought iron tubular 

 boiler. I would not consider the replac- 

 ing of the steam plant in the present 

 houses by hot water, and the new houses 

 should also be heated by steam in con- 

 nection with the old ones. 



If the heating of the old houses by 

 steam is not perfectly satisfactorj^ it is 

 the result of an imperfectly installed 

 system, and not the nature of the heat- 

 ing medium. Henry W. Gibbons. 



CARNATION IRENE. 



Messrs. Crabb & Hunter, Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich., send us some blooms of their 

 new pink carnation Irene. While it can- 

 not be classed as a fancy, the flowers are 

 of good size and form, a fine, clear pink, 

 and are borne on first-class stems with 

 good foliage. If it proves as free with 

 others as it has with them it should cer- 

 tainly make good their claim that it is a 

 most profitable commercial pink carna- 

 tion. It is certainly worthy of a trial, 

 especially by those who have not the 

 facilities for growing extra fancy flowers, 

 but want an abundance of good blooms 

 in return for a minimum amount of care 

 and attention. 



BUTTE, MONT. 



The Lenten season is having its effect 

 here; trade is at a standstill, except 

 funeral work, which comes as regular 

 as ever. We expect quite an increase 

 in the flower business this vp.ir over last, 

 as the town is taking on quite a boom, 

 many large blocks and buildings being 

 now under construction. 



We now have three retail florist stores 

 in the city, against two last year. 



Law Bros.' books show an increase of 

 25 per cent for the months of January 

 and February over the same months last 

 year. 



Five years ago a traveling salesman 

 for bulbs and florjsts' supplies was sel- 

 dom seen in Butte, but now they all seem 

 to make it a point to come here while 

 on their Western tours. 



We have been having a run of drum- 

 mers this spring and the last to arrive 

 was Arnold Ringier, general agent for 

 W. W. Barnard & Co., and although he 

 came late there had been orders reserved 

 for him and he got his share. Mr. Rin- 

 gier has been in Butte before, so did not 

 care to see the town. lie confined him- 

 self closely to the florists' shops until the 

 curfew bell tolled, when he promptly re- 

 tired. L. 



Syracuse, N. Y.— John P. Bell, for 

 the last eleven years with Henry Burt, 

 died Feb. 27, aged 53 years. He was 

 born in England and came to America 

 thirty-one years ago. He was widely 

 known and had a host of friends. He 

 leaves a widow and one child. 



