Dkcejibki! 10. 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



129 



variety grown. Boston Market and its 

 several variations are most generally em- 

 ployed. Glass House belongs to this class 

 and is the best vre have tried as a dis- 

 ease rtsister, Imt all the head varieties 

 are more or less subiect to tliis same 

 trouble and if it is not absolutely neces- 

 sary to have a head lettuce I ivould ad- 

 vise the inquirer to try Graoad Rapids. 

 This is the easiest grown and quickest 

 maturing lettuce that we have. 



W. S. Croydon. 



MUSHROOMS. 



After tlie bed is made up, as de- 

 scribed last week, it must be allowed to 

 stand until the heat recedes to below 90 

 ■degrees. It is not safe to insert the 

 spawn until it has come below that 

 £gure. It is of the utmost importance 

 that the spawn be thoroughly fresh. It 

 it very disappointing when, after all the 

 trouble spent on making up the bed, etc., 

 the spawn fails to run and no crop 

 j'esults. Spawn will keep its vitality for 

 a considerable time if kept perfectly dry, 

 but it does not take much damp to ren- 

 der it useless. So it is safest to procure 

 fresh spawn every season from some re- 

 Ea^ble dealer and avoid disappointment. 



The spawn cinnes in the form of bricks 

 and should be broken up into pieces 

 alBout two inches square. These pieces 

 should be inserted into the bed in holes 

 about three inches deep and five or six 

 incies apart, the holes being filled over 

 the spawn with the material composing 

 the bed. When the temperature has 

 faUen to about 75 degrees, which will be 

 in a, week or ten days, a covering of 

 abo\it two inches of good loam should 

 be given. This loam should be moist but 

 not w.et, and mil be all the better if it 

 has been kept in a warm place for a 

 day or two before using, so as not to 

 have it too cold. 



The -soil should be beaten, so as to 

 present an even surface, but not beaten 

 hard, especially if it should be a little 

 wet. Hard beating would have a ten- 

 dency to make the temperature of the 

 bed rise higher than desired. It will 

 rise a little in any case, but if it does 

 not exceed 80 degrees there should be no 

 danger of the spawn burning. A cover- 

 ing of clean straw should be given about 

 a week later to help conserve both heat 

 and moisture. 



If the proper temperature and suitable 

 atmospheric conditions are maintained, 

 mushrooms ought to show in about seven 

 weeks from time of spawning. When 

 they appear the straw covering should be 

 removed. Watering should be unneces- 

 Bary if the proper amount of atmos- 

 pheric moisture is being supplied, but if 

 the bed should become dry water will 

 have to be given and should be applied 

 at a temperature of 80 degrees; but the 

 grower should try if possible to get along 

 without needing to apply water. 



W. S. Ceotdon. 



Wausau, Wis. — M. Phillips has built 

 another house, 22x125, and put in a new 

 boiler. His brother, Peter, is here from 

 the old country, and will go to work 

 for Mr. PhilUps. 



New Castle, Ind. — Wm. Dittman has 

 recent!}' been to Chicago and it is re- 

 ported to have been for the purpose of 

 examining the latest styles of green- 

 house construction, preparatory to en- 

 larging his own plant. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Of NURSERYMEN. 



Pres N. W.Hale, KnoxvlUe.Tenn.: Vlce-Pres. 

 P A Weber, St. Loiia; Sec '.v. Geo. C. Seager, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; Treas., C. L. Yates, Rochester, 

 N Y The twenty-eighth annual convention 

 will be held at Atlanta, Ga., June, l'J04. 



KuBSERVMEN aro reported to be look- 

 ing for American elms in the larger 

 sizes. 



H. N. Albaugh, of Phoneton, O., has 

 been re-elected president of the Mont- 

 gomery County Horticultural Society. 



Wm. a. Peterson is now a director 

 in the State Bank of Chicago, one of 

 the city 's largest tmaneial institutions. 



.J.\s. McYlTTY, proprietor of the Kiver- 

 view Nursery, Geneva, O., has shipped 

 several carloads of stock to Rochester. 



Clarence Wedge, of Albert Lea, 

 Minn., has the sympathy of the trade iu 

 the loss of liis wife, who died Decem- 

 ber 2. 



Jas. Hartshorne, of Joliet, states 

 that he has a plantation of Peonia, 

 f estiva maxima on the St. Louis World 's 

 Fair grounds. 



A. Von Holderbecke, state commis- 

 sioner of horticulture of Washington, 

 has been destroying eastern nurserymen's 

 stock in such quajitities that he has prac- 

 tically driven them out of the state and 

 they are threatening suits for damages. 



Rebecca J. Pinkley, of Springfield, 

 111., has broxight action for damages 

 against the Spaulding Nursery and Or- 

 chard Co., to recover $5,000 for alleged 

 personal injuries. She claims to have 

 fallen on some defective steps on the 

 grounds of the nursery company. 



A MACHINE for wrapping oranges and 

 other fruits with paper has recently 

 been perfected, ancl is being installed 

 in some of the large orchards and pack- 

 ing-sheds of California and Florida. 

 The machine is run either by hand or 

 power, and lias a capacity of 25,000 to 

 40,000 oranges per day. The paper is 

 fed from a roll, and the machine will 

 wrap fruit from the size of marbles up- 

 wards. With such a machine the cost 

 of wrapping is much reduced. 



Frankfort, Ky. — Congleton Brothers' 

 greenhouse was destroyed by fire on the 

 morning of November 27. The loss was 

 total, no insurance. 



Leslie, N. J.— M. F. Smith and others 

 have incorporated the Dogwood Hardy 

 Gardens, to do a general florist and 

 nursery business here. 



Jerseyvili,e, III. — A. W. Warren took 

 possession of the place of the late F. 

 Bezner, in September, 1902, after it had 

 been closed a year. He has now built 

 up a good trade. A few weeks ago his 

 dwelling was destroyed by fire; no in- 

 surance. 



Anderson, Ind. — Stuart & Haugh have 

 fourteen greenhouses covering about 30,- 

 000 square feet. The business was es- 

 tablished by J. S. Stuart, sixteen years 

 ago, and Mr. Haugh became associated 

 with the firm in 1895. They are doing 

 a very nice business and reaching out in 

 new fields. 



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