FEBr.UARV G, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



349 



House of Stock Geraniums at the Establishment of the W. T. Buckley Plant Co., Springfield, 111. 



flowers will soon cause it to shrivel. 



Oneidiuni tigrinum is another splendid 

 species for cutting. It has a very faint 

 violet odor and will be grown more ex- 

 tensively in the near future. 



Oncidium Papilio, or the butterfly or- 

 ihid, is an old and well known species. 

 It cannot l>e said to have any value as a 

 commercial cut flower, but it is one of 

 the most singular of the species in its 

 striking resemblance to a butterfly. The 

 old spikes should not be cut away be- 

 cause one flower succeeds another on 

 tlie same stem and will continue to do so 

 for a long while. O. Papilio does best 

 when given a reasonable e.xposure to the 

 sun. 



0. ornithorhynchum is another well 

 known species. It is very free flowering, 

 though probab\v the price that could be 

 obtained would not be remunerative as 

 the individual flowers are so small. 

 This species has a delicate, delicious 

 heliotrope odor, and on that account 

 alone should te represented by a few 

 jilants in every collection. 



As previously stated there are many 

 more species other than the one or two 

 liere mentioned, and the list of those 

 used for commercial cut flower work will 

 doubtless increase when the plants can 

 be bought reasonably cheap and in suffi- 

 cient quantities. CuAS. H. ToTTy. 



plants are required for a shipping trade 

 such as done by the firm named. 



CABOMBA AND MYRIOPHYLLUM. 



Replying to the inquiry of 1'. & P., 

 both these aquatics are of ea.sy culture. 

 The cabomba will do well in an aquarium 

 with even a foot of water and with a 

 thin layer of loam in the bottom. The 

 plants can be weighted to carry them 

 down. They grow readily in ordinary 

 greenhouse temperature. They are propa- 

 gated by root division. The proper name 

 is Cabomba Caroliniana, though viridi- 

 folia is often used. 



Myriophyllum proserpinacoides (Par- 

 rot's Feather) is half hardy and grows 

 readily in shallow water with sqil at the 

 bottom in ordinary temperature. It is 

 readily increased bv division. 



FUNGiaOES. 



STOCK GERANIUMS. 



We present hercwitli an engraving 

 from a photograph of a house of stock 

 geraniums of the varieties Beaute Poite- 

 vine and Mrs. E. G. Hill at the estab- 

 lishment of the W. T. Buckley Plant 

 Co., Springfield, 111. 



The plants are all planted out in the 

 bench just as carnations and roses are 

 when grown for cut flowers But these 

 geraniums are being grown merely for 

 wood to supply cuttings. The house is 

 run cool, so as to make well seaSbned 

 growth that will produce good cuttings. 

 A crop of cuttings is taken off everj- two 

 weeks, and of course the plants are never 

 allowed to become drawn by permitting 

 too much growtli. 



It is an interesting part of the system 

 employed by what miglit be termed plant 

 manufactories, where large quantities of 



In a recent number of the Review. 

 \V. S., in discussing the management 

 of propagating beds, recommends a solu- 

 tion of copper carbonate in ammonia for 

 treating the lx>nch and sand to prevent 

 the growth of the fungi that cause damp- 

 ing off. At the same time he mentions 

 having forgotten another valuable for- 

 mula furnished to him by a friend. I 

 have no doubt this was potassium sul- 

 fide, commonl}' known as Liver-of-Sul- 

 phur. 



This is a valuable fungicide for gen- 

 eral use in the greenhovise and when dis- 

 solved in water at the rate of one-half 

 ounce to one gallon of water, may be 

 used on the cutting bench freely with- 

 out fear of injury to the cuttings. We 

 have frequently checked damping both in 

 the cutting bench and in seed boxes by a 

 liberal use of this fungicide. Potassium 

 sulfide may be purchased for 25 to 40 

 cents per pound, accoiding to the dealer, 

 and should be kept in an air-tight recept- 

 acle until used. 



Use only in copper, wooden or glass 

 vessels and apply as soon as dissolved, 

 as the solution rapidly loses strength. 

 For this reason it is recommended as a 

 cure, killing at once all spores and myce- 

 lium of fungi, but quickly losing its effi- 

 ciency. The copper compounds, am- 



moniacal copper carbonate, Bordeaux 

 mixture, etc., retain their efficiency un- 

 til removed, preventing the germination 

 and growth of the spores. 



Freueric Cranefield. 

 Wis. Exp. Station. 



VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS. 



I was very glad to see in last week's 

 number of the Review an article on the 

 forcing of lettuce. I have been in this 

 business in a small way for the past 

 three years. This year I have built four 

 houses 125x18 feet with one, a fifth, 

 running along the south end for toma- 

 toes. I have an eighty-horse power 

 boiler for heating which gives me plenty 

 of capacity for more glass which I ex- 

 pect to put up the coming summer. 

 When finished I will have in all about 

 17,000 feet of glass. In addition to the 

 glass I have about four acres of land all 

 under ditch, making it verj- easy to 

 cultivate. The coming season I will put 

 two of my houses in carnations, two 

 in violets and the balance in vegetables, 

 lettuce being the main crop. 



The growing of vegetables under glass 

 being a comparativeh- new thing, especi- 

 ally in the west, we who aie in the busi- 

 ness in this part of the country wnxild be 

 very glad to hear the experiences of 

 others in the same line of business, and 

 I am taking the liberty of writing you 

 to a?k if it would not be a good thing, 

 and of considerable interest to the read- 

 ers of your valuable paper, if we could 

 have a few articles on the subject from 

 some of our western growers. I will be 

 glad to add to the general knowledg" on 

 the subject anything that I may have 

 learned during my limited experience, 

 and I feel sure there are others who 

 would do so if they were asked. 



William H. Evans. 



Colorado Springs. Colo. - 



[We .shall be pleased to have such 

 communications from western growers 

 of vegetables under glass. — Ed.] 



Qdinct, III. — The Western Illinois 

 Seed Co. (D. M. Belt & Son) have 

 opened their new seed store at Thirtieth 

 and State streets and are ready for 

 business. 



