JANUARY 5, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



131 



Store and Conservatory of Mr. Thomas Galvin, Boston. 



[Erected by Lord & Burnham Co.] 



plants are in the right condition to 

 separate. Small or medium sized 

 plants give rather the best flowers 

 and if divided at once before any 

 growth is advanced, it will make no 

 difference to your next fall's crop of 

 flowers. 



Ordinary pots are to be preferred to 

 pans, for the roots go down deep 

 among the broken crocks which are 

 used for drainage. If you desire to get 

 as many plants as possible, divide the 

 old plants into 3 or 4 leads. Fill the 

 pots (a 6-inch) at least half full of 

 clean broken up flower pots. For a 

 compost for the plants use % each of 

 turfy loam and peat, adding another 

 fourth of chopped up sphagnum and 

 broken crocks. I have very recently 

 seen such grand results from the use 

 of Jadoo with several genera of orchids 

 that I am not afraid to say, add about 

 a fourth of Jadoo to the whole compost 

 mixture. Firm the compost well I'ound 

 the roots and keep the plants well ele- 

 vated. Surface the soil with half an 

 inch of live sphagnum. It is good for 

 appearance and beneficial to the 

 plants. Water rather sparingly for the 

 first few weeks till growth is assured, 

 but frequently give a light syringing 

 and keep in a night temperature of 55 

 to 60 degrees. Remember that during 

 the period of growth (the spring 



months) this cypripedium must have 

 plenty of light, air and water. 



WM. SCOTT. 



A BOSTON STORE. 



We present herewith a view of the 

 store and conservatory of Mr. Thomas 

 Galvin, Boston, erected for him by the 

 L/ord &. Burnham Company, Irvington- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



The total length of the store and 

 conservatory is 97 feet. The store is 

 31 feet wide, being 2 feet wider than 

 the conservatory, and extends beyond 

 it 27 feet. The height is 32 feet from 

 the sidewalk to the top of the balus- 

 trade. The conservatoiT proper is 70x 

 27 feet at base, the ridge section being 

 53 feet over all, with 9x9 end cupolas. 

 The height of the conservatory is 32 

 feet from the sidewflk to the top of 

 the finial on the small cupolas. Th3 

 heating is by two of the Lord & Burn- 

 ham No. 4 Standard water heaters. 



CARNATIONS-CAMELLIAS. 

 "W. & L. R." says, "We have a 

 bench of carnations that have been 

 planted inside more than a year, and 

 are in a fair condition. Now how long 

 will they bloom? Expect we will keep 

 them two months longer anyway. 

 Then we want the room for other 



things. Daybreak, Scott and McGowan 

 are the varieties." As W. & L. R. 

 live in British Columbia and we are 

 not intimately acquainted with its cli- 

 mate the conditions may be different 

 from the northern eastern states. We 

 were once so tempted by the wealth 

 and prospective crop of a bed of car- 

 nations that had flourished all the pre- 

 vious winter and summer, that on the 

 first of September we decided to leave 

 it in for another winter which we did, 

 to our subsequent regret, and we won't 

 do it any more. As you are now too 

 late to renew the bed from outside you 

 can't do any better than leave them 

 and get all the flowers you can up to 

 Easter and then throw them out to 

 make room for other plants. 



"Would like to know a good time to 

 take cuttings of camellia and if ripe 

 wood or new." It is only the common- 

 er kinds of camellias that are propa- 

 gated by cuttings and these cuttings 

 make good stocks on which to graft 

 choicer varieties, the operation of 

 grafting being done in spring when 

 growth commences. Cuttings should 

 be made from wood that is fairly rip- 

 ened in August or September, wood 

 that has been grown that summer. 

 Take shoots with 4 or 5 eyes. They 

 take some time to root and will not 

 show signs of growth till the follow- 



