OCTOBEtt 16, 11)02. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



673 



Funeral Bunches. No. 3. 



good supply on hand are indeed fmtii 

 nate. but we nm^t be t-aieful that we do 

 not waste any of it and firini,' will often 

 be dispensed witli when under ordinary 

 conditions we would like to have a little 

 steam on for a fe« houis toward morn- 

 ing. 



Keeping the ventilators up a couple 

 of inches will do a great deal of good 

 when the days are fair, but if a cold, 

 damp rain sets in you must start the 

 steam. Did you ever see a rain 

 that was not damp? Perhaps not, but 

 you have seen many a rain that seemed 

 to merely water and freshen up all veg- 

 etation thoroughly and after it was over 

 the atmosphere seemed bracing and 

 healthy. You have also experienced 

 those chilly, drizzling rains that chill 

 you clear to the bone. That kind of a 

 rain is particular!}' hard on your car- 

 nations, and although the rain does not 

 come into your houses the atmosphere 

 becomes charged with dampness and that 

 is just as bad. 



To keep the air moving is the best way 

 to dry it and a steam pipe in each house 

 will do that. You ean make it still 

 more effective by painting the pipe with 

 a mixture of sulphur, lime and water. 

 Use one i>art sulphur to three parts of 

 lime and mix about as thick as paint, 

 and paint a streak about an inch wide 

 the full length of the house. If this is 

 made too strong it will take the color 



out lit' the colored blooms and half open 

 l)\ids. so he careful. Some growers use 

 sulphur and linseed oil. making a stiff 

 paste and smearing a little on the 

 pipe here and there and it seems to 

 answer the purpose. 



The greater part of this article does 

 not deal directly with tlie eradication of 

 the spot disease, and yet it tells you just 

 exactly what you should do to prevent it 

 from making its appearance. Fiunigat- 

 ing with tobacco will not check the spot 

 in the least. A. F. .J. BAUii. 



CHR YSAN THEMUMS. 



Packing and Shipping. 



W'hen the crop is ready for nurrket, 

 the question of getting it to market in 

 good condition becomes the point at 

 issue. The chrysanthemum is a bulky 

 flower and the cost of shipping con- 

 siderable, and when one has gone to con- 

 siderable trouble to get his flowers 

 packed as he thinks just about right, it 

 is aggravating to receive word from 

 one"s wholesaler to say that flowers 

 arrived in bad condition, or something 

 to that effect. It is very funny, and 

 sometimes pathetic, to see the different 

 kinds of boxes that different kinds of 

 growers ship their flowers in. It is a 

 great mistake to use a deep box. 



and pile layer on layer, for by the 

 time such a box gets to its destination 

 the bottiuu layers are crushed into a 

 shapeless mass, and the flowers often 

 spoiled. After considerable trouble over 

 our shipping we finally figured out a 

 box that answers very well, and now 

 our troubles are reduced to a mini- 

 mum. 



We use a box about oi feet long, 20 

 inches wide and 10 inches deep. This 

 box will hold from 18 to 24 flowers of 

 extra special grade, and of course more 

 if the flowers are smaller. Such a box 

 is easily made. Y'^ou ean buy the pieces 

 already cut at a less price than you can 

 buy the lumber and cut it yourself. Use 

 white pine boards 10 inches wide, and 

 then six boards will make bottom, sides 

 and lid. Nail your box together and 

 put angle irons on the corners, and it 

 will be found that the lid is better if en- 

 tirely separate from the bo.x, because 

 if you hinge it on the box you will have 

 to fi.x it about every time you ship. 

 Half-inch lumber is plenty strong 

 enough if you reinforce tlu- box in the 

 center with another light piece, of wood 

 across the bottom and up the sides, 

 nailed, of course, inside the box. If 

 you use heavier lumber you will find 

 that a box will only last just about so 

 long, anyway, and you will have to pay 

 more expressage on a heavier box, to 

 say nothing of the anathemas you will 

 receive and the abuse your box will re- 

 ceive at the hands of the gentle express- 

 man. 



In packing your flowers, always put a 

 roll of paper under the neck of the flow- 

 ers in the bottom layer. Have the roll 

 thick enough so that the flowers can 

 rest in the box without crushing. Put 

 the second laj'er just back from the 

 first, so that the second row of heads 

 are not resting on the bottom row and 

 so on. We always put a small piece of 

 tissue paper between each flower to keep 

 them from rubbing, and this is impor- 

 tant in the case of Japanese varieties, as 

 the petals are apt to interlace, and the 

 flower liable to he pulled to pieces when 

 unpacking. 



When the box is full the foliage is 

 generally thick enough to keep the flow- 

 ers from moving, but where this is not 

 the case a couple of slats can be nailed 

 across to keep down the flowers. Pack 

 from each end of the bo.x to the center, 

 and then if you need slats put them on 

 each side just after the last layer of 

 flowers. I don't believe in packing 

 chrysanthemum flowers too tight, but 

 they must be sufliiciently .tight so that 

 they cannot move up and down every 

 time the box is in motion. It is perhaps 

 unnecessary to say that the flowers 

 should always be placed in water over 

 night, so that the stems can fill up with 

 water to keep the flower fresh until the 

 journey is completed. 



Always have a cou]>le of cords around 

 the box, one a foot or so from each end, 

 then the box can be picked up conven- 

 iently by one man and is not so likely to 

 be stood on end or lx> otherwise abused. 

 Brian Boru. 



CARNATIONS REGISTERED. 



I!y Giinnar Tfilmanu. Marion, Ind. : 

 "Jfarion Beauty.'' A dark velvety scar- 

 let, large fringed flower, a fine producer 

 and ffrower. Cross between Gen. Maeeo 

 and Flora Hill. 



Albert M. IIerr, Secretary, 



Lancaster, Pa. 

 For the American Carnation Society. 



