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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Kebkcary 11, 1904. 



setlias in the carnation houses. Glacier 

 looked very fancy. The decorative stock 

 and orchids are in excellent shape. A 

 tine crop of roses will soon be on. 



The Civic Improvement League has 

 prepared an ordinance. M'hich will be 

 laid before llie Board of Public Improve- 

 ments, ereatina the position of city for- 

 ester. This otiieial is to be under the di- 

 rection of the street commissioner, to 

 make the city beautiful by planting trees 

 throughout the residence district, lliis 

 is considered a good thing, providing 

 they give the position to an experienced 

 mail and not to a politician. 



George Waldbart is showing some ex- 

 ceptionally fine roses and carnations. 

 Blooming' plants are having quite a run 

 at this place. 



Jlr. Perry, who has charge of the 

 gieenhouses and landscape work at the 

 World's Fair, and George E. Kessler, 

 chief landscape architect, say that the 

 work of setting out the big stock of 

 plants will begin about March 1.5 and 

 continue until the fair opens April 30. 

 Everything promises to be in good shape 

 for the openinff. 



.J. r. Ammann, Henry Blixen and A. 

 Jablonsky have returned from their in- 

 spection trip and are much pleased with 

 their treatment in the hands of those 

 they visited and claim they saw and 

 learned a great deal. 



The club meeting this week Thursday 

 promises to be the largest of the year, 

 especially well attended by the carnation 

 growers, who are very much interested 

 in new varieties and carnation talk from 

 experienced growers. 



Bowline. 



Ou Jlonday evening team No. 1 again 

 suffered defeat at the hands of team 

 Ko. 2. During the evening Fi-ed Wor- 

 den, owner of the alleys, called th'e boys 

 together and invited them to have some- 

 thing at the expense of an old friend of 

 his in Chicago, who proved to also be 

 an old friend of ours, Walter Ivreitling. 

 The scores of the evening were as fol- 

 lows: 



Team No. 1— 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. 



J. J. Beueke 163 19S 203 564 



Theo Miller 165 167 139 471 



r. H. Meinhardt 132 124 IIS 374 



Jobn Yoiuig 139 131 101 371 



John Sturtz 154 195 172 521 



Totals 753 815 733 2301 



Team No. 2— 1st. 2nd. 3d. T'l. 



C. A. Kuehn 237 162 188 587 



Fred Weber 155 150 142 447 



O. R. Bent-ke 123 115 178 416 



Frank M. Ellis 145 107 134 386 



Fred Weber, Jr 123 105 109 337 



Totals 783 639 751 2173 



J. J. B. 



Alliance, O. — A. H. Gehman says 

 business is good with everybody in the 

 florists' line in this section of the coun- 

 try. ^McKinley day cleaned up every- 

 thing in the way of a carnation flower. 



The New York Herald prints a col- 

 umn article descriptive of the wonders of 

 the private greenhouses of Wm. A. Proc- 

 tor, at Glendale. near Cincinnati. The 

 article is headed ''Chrvsanthemums 

 Three Feet Broad." 



Boston, Mass. — The U. S. General 

 Appraisers have sustained the protest of 

 N. F. McCarthy & Co., who took excep- 

 tion to the assessment of duty on certain 

 importations of florists' baskets. The 

 Boston collector classed them as manu- 

 factures of willow instead of chip. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



THE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Feb. 10. — Radishes 20 to 

 40 cents dozen bunches ; lettuce, leaf, 20 

 to 2'2t/.! cents per case, heads. $1 to 

 $3.75 barrel; cucumbers, 30 cents to $1 

 dozen. 



New York, Feb. 8. — Cucumbers, 25 

 cents to $1.25 dozen: lettuce, 20 to 50 

 cents dozen: radishes. $1.50 to $3 per 

 100 bunches; mushrooms. 10 to 40 cents 

 pound; tomatoes. 10 to 20 cents pound; 

 asparagus. $3 to $6 dozen bunches; rhu- 

 barb. 50 to 75 cents dozen. 



WORK IN THE HOUSE?. 



Watering and Feeding. 



As the days begin to lengthen and 

 the strength of the sun 's rays increase, 

 tho benches will dry out faster and re- 

 quire watering more frequently. There 

 will also be less danger from over- 

 watering, as growth will be more rapid 

 and the plants will absorb moisture 

 faster. 



Liquid manure can also be applied 

 more frequently to assist in maturing 

 such crops as cauliflower and tomatoes 

 with less danger of running them into 

 soft growth. A little may also be ap- 

 plied to lettuce should the soil they are 

 in be of rather poor quality. 



As a good general liquid fertilizer we 

 do not find anything better than that 

 made from sheej) manure. We procure 

 the pulverized article and use about half 

 a bag to a large barrel of water. After 

 tying up the bag, we put bag and all 

 in the barrel. All the substance of the 

 manure will soak through the bag and 

 give a liquid free from sediment. Soaked 

 thus over night, the liquid ought to be 

 ready to use the next day and will re- 

 quire to be diluted to the proper strength. 

 Of this the operator will have to 

 judge, as no hard and fast rule can be 

 laid down. So much depends on the 

 quality of the manure procured, but it is 

 better to be on the safe side and make 

 it weak rather than too strong. A strong 

 dose is never advisable. It is better to 

 apply weak and often, as the plants can 

 only take up a limited quantity at a 

 time. Just what they can take can only 

 be decided by careful observation, as by 

 this alone can the operator tell when 

 they are getting enough or when they 

 are getting too much. 



Airing. 



This is one of the most important 

 parts of greenhouse work, and here again 

 careful study and observation is the only 

 teacher. It is all very well to say "keep 

 the house at a certain temperature," but 

 cold draughts must be avoided, and when 

 the air is cold and the sun bright it 

 is often better to let the temperature 

 of the house run up over the desired 

 degree rather than run the risk of getting 

 a dose of mildew through having a cold 

 draught beating down on the plants. 

 On such days the house should be shut 

 down early to conserve all the sun heat 

 possible. There will be little conden- 

 s.ation on account of the coldness of 

 the atmosphere. Again, when the day 

 may be rather dull and cloudy, if the 



air be warm, it won't do any harm if 

 the house is kept below the desired 

 figure. Ou such days we like to get 

 air on the house as early in the morn- 

 ing as possible to help dry up the con- 

 densation, which is usually pretty heavy 

 on such moruings, and on account of the 

 mildness of the atmosphere little heat 

 can be used. On such days the taking 

 off of the air can be delayed much 

 longer, and if the night is likely to be 

 mild, a little night air on the lettuce 

 houses will do no harm. 



Cleaning Up. 



Keep all decaying and yellow leaves 

 picked off the plants, as they appear; 

 if left around to decay fungus may be 

 generated, which is liable to spread and 

 may result in considerable trouble. 

 Cleanliness is one of the best agencies 

 in combating fungous diseases when the 

 plants are affected, as well as one of the 

 best preventives when the plants are 

 free from disease. 



Stirring the surface of the beds 

 should be attended to as frequently as 

 time will allow. This not only keeps 

 the surface clean and free from mosses 

 and weeds, but the keeping of the sur- 

 face open is of great assistance in pre- 

 serving the health of the plants, besides 

 assisting the beds to dry out by the 

 freer admission of air. Stirring should 

 not be done when the soil is wet, or 

 more harm than good may result, as then 

 it would close, rather than open the 

 surface. The best time for the operation 

 is when the soil is rather on the dry 

 side, or just before water is to be ap- 

 plied. With a loose surface, water 

 soaks into the bed more evenly than 

 when the surface is hard, as it is apt to 

 run off the drier parts of the bed and 

 soak through in patches, thus making 

 watering very unsatisfactory and in- 

 effective. W. S. Ckoydon. 



CAPACITY OF BOILER. 



I have a horizontal boiler forty-two 

 inches in diameter and ten feet long, 

 with sixty-eight 3-inch tubes. Used 

 for hot water, how many square feet of 

 glass will it heat? What will be the 

 necessary length of grate, supposing it 

 to be forty-two inches wide'? What the 

 size of the outlet and inlet pipe holes? 

 What should be the size and height of 

 the stack? W. K. G. 



The boiler has a capacity for about 

 5,000 feet of radiation, 5,400 to be ex- 

 act. It should have a fire box forty- 

 two inches long, if soft coal is to be 

 used and the boiler set to work as a re- 

 turn tubular, which I assume to be the 

 plan. If hard coal is to be used the 

 grates should be four feet long instead 

 of three and one-half, as for soft coal. 

 The smoke ]iii)e should be fourteen or 

 fifteen inches in diameter and twenty 

 feet or more in height, depending upon 

 surrounding objects. Size of opening 

 for both riser and return for hot water 

 should not be less than four inches. 



L. C. C. 



WAHwacK, E. I. — A fire starting in 

 the ventilator and fanned by a. fierce 

 wind totally destroyed the barn and 

 greenhouses of J. A. Foster, February 2, 

 entailing a loss of over $20,000. 



Enclosed you will find the best in- 

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 the Review. — H. P. Loding, Mobile, Ala. 



