Februaiiv 20. 1!MJ2. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



421 



View in one of the Vegetable Plant Houses of Messrs. R. Vincent, Jr. & Son, White Marsh, Md. 



benches. I would like to know the rea- 

 son, as ro.ses are certainly ver.v fond of 

 sod and grow finely in benches that 

 have sod at the bottom. 



Will double rows of glass lessen the 

 amount of sunlight in a rose hoiise? 

 My employer intends to put double rows 

 of glass (inside and outside rows) on 

 all the houses with the idea of econo- 

 mizing in fuel. The houses are on high 

 land and exposed to very high winds. 



Is soft coal more economical than 

 hard coal? We have 8.000 feet of glass, 

 each hou.se disconnected, and from Sept. 

 1 up to date (Feb. 8) we have 

 burned 70 tons of hard coal in a No. 

 Furman boiler. The houses are all well 

 built. We have two men to run this 

 plant during winter without a fireman. 

 Could we do the same without a fireman 

 using soft coal for fuel ? C. G. 



The primary object in putting cither 

 straw or sods over the spaces in the 

 bottom of the bench is toi prevent the 

 soil from running through until it gets 

 settled. By using straw for this pur- 

 pose the soil can be made of a more 

 uniform depth than if sods are used, 

 unless they are cut ver.v thin and of 

 equal thickness. The sods will if chopped 

 up and incorporated with the soil be 

 of service in keeping the soil open and 

 porous. 



The writer has had the experience in 

 one of the cold provinces of Canada of 

 trying double glass in a house for trop- 

 ical plants. In theory it looks all right, 

 in practice it is all wrong. The air be- 

 tween the glass gets heated and blurs 

 it when the sun shines, and the con- 

 densation freezes on the outer glass im- 

 mediatel.v the outside temperature gets 

 down to 32 degrees. If the house is well 

 built and the glass properl_y laid, or- 

 dinary double thick .glass is all that is 

 needed. 



Where hot water is used, with no reg- 

 ular night man on duty, I should say 

 that hard coal would be best, as it re- 

 quires less attention and retains the 

 heat longer than soft coal. Should favor 

 using hard coal in a place of this size, 

 •using Furman boilers. RiBES. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



The supply has increasad and prices 

 have weakened since last report, as ex- 

 pected. The cream of the roses bring 

 •i-'S, with good stock selling at $4 to $'j 

 and tha poorer grades at $3 or even .$2 

 on clean up sales. Wliite stock has the 

 best of it at present, and this applies 

 to carnations as well as roses. Very 

 line carnations can be had for $3, and 

 the range on good stock is from $1.50 

 to $2.50, with the poorer grades at $1, 

 and we hear of clean up sales of poor 

 colored stock at as low as $0 a thou- 

 sand. At the same time some fancy 

 Law.sons, Red Bradts, Cranes, etc., arc 

 bringing $4 per 100, and the best I'ros- 

 perity reach as high as $S. There is 

 practically a glut of violets. The best 

 M. Louise still bring $1 a hundred, but 

 large quantities of medium and poor 

 grades are sold at very low figures, in 

 fact down to 10 cents a bunch. Bulbous 

 fiowers are even more plmitiful than 

 before and move still slower than last 

 week. 



Nevertheless the volume of business 

 is large and Lent seems to have had 

 little effect on it so far. Shipping trade 

 continues with little if any diminution. 



Various Items. 



At the meeting of the city council last 

 Monday evening an effort was made to 

 repeal the order removing all fruit and 

 flower stands from the streets and bar- 

 ring all the street men, but the formei- 

 action was upheld by a large vote and it 

 looks as though the street men would 

 have to seek some other occupation, for 

 the present at least. The order is so 

 drastic, however, and will be objection- 

 able to so many merchants as well as 

 the street men, that its enforcement 

 may bring about a reaction. Anyway, 

 it will be some little time before this 

 outlet for the poorer grades of stock 

 is reopened, and there is a likelihood 

 of some great gluts of this stock in the 

 near future. 



Recent visitors: William Clark, Col- 

 orado Springs, Colo. ; S. S. Skidelsky, 



Philadelphia; W. E. Kemble, Oskaloosa, 

 Iowa; J. C. Eennison, Siou.x City, Iowa. 



There was quite a large delegation 

 to the meeting of the American Carna- 

 tion Society at Indianapolis. A full list 

 will be found elsewhere in this issue. 



Fred Hills is building a new house for 

 chrysanthemums. 



John Zech is on the sick list this 

 week. 



Frank Garland is beginning to cut 

 from the advance guard of his armv of 

 300,000 tulips. 



Bowling. 



In the games last Tuesday night the 

 Retailers won three straight from the 

 Growers, and Wholesalers "did up" the 

 Miscellaneous crowd in the same way. 

 The scores are: 



RETAILERS. 

 J. Lambros 193 123 2fl!t 



B. B-nders 139 US 138 



E. Hauswirth 117 189 172 



Geo. Asmus 144 16S 154 



593 619 669 

 GROWERS. 



G. StoHery 147 ISO 191) 



F. Stollery 169 159 214 



J. P. Sinner 97 118 67 



L. Shaffer 147 149 129 



660 606 6(10 

 WHOLESALERS. 



.T. Foerster 182 149 169 



C. Hughes 127 15.i 142 



J. Sterrett 168 171 126 



Ed. Winterson 99 166 



4Vr 674 603 

 MISCELLANEOUS. 



C. Balluft 141 144 180 



C. A. Hunt 140 128 119 



J. Degnan 149 148 153 



Geo. H. Pieser 112 134 



430 432 586 

 Results to date: "n'on. Lost. 



Growers 29 19 



Wholesalers " 31 17 



Retailers 23 2.S 



Miscellaneous 13 35 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Since the publication of the list of 

 special prizes I learn from Mrs. Clar- 

 ence Mackay that she will offer a sil- 

 ver cup, value $100, for twenty-five 

 American Beauty, on stems not less 

 than five feet. Open to amateurs only. 

 Leonard Barron, Secy. 



