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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March \i>. I'.kh. 



No. 1 to No. 2 to allow the water to 

 flow from No. 1 into No. 2. In about 

 oue minute you have the surplus water 

 from No. I'in No. 2. Close the valve 

 and open the flow and return valves on 

 No. 1 it will immediately fill up from 

 the return. It requires no more atten- 

 tion than a steam trap does. .1. J. 1'- 



A CASE FOR THE COURTS. 



Ed. Review:— I herewith send you 

 several pieces of glass, also some branches 

 of roses. The glass is of a house 22x100 

 feet. The center bed is ten feet wide 

 and there are two side benches, three 

 feet each. The house runs east and west 

 and has the sun from morning till night. 

 The south bench does not shade the bed 

 of Brides and Bridesmaids, as the bed 

 is eighteen inches high. It contains 350 

 roses two vears old next June, and 160 

 one year old in June. Last fall we were 

 getting a good cut of roses daily. In 

 the house described I have Brides and 

 Bridesmaids for four years, the sani 

 plants in solid beds and they always 

 did fine. I remember one winter the 

 plants, three years old then, made a won- 

 derful growth of three and four shoots 

 to the plant from the roots, some as 

 thick as mv thumb. They had a night 

 temperature of 56 to 60 degrees and 65 

 to 70 degrees in the daytime if cloudy, 

 with sunshine 70 to 75 degrees. With 

 such treatment I had always success un- 

 til this winter. 



There is a power house of an electric 

 street railway about 500 feet east of my 

 place, which was put up two years ago. 

 1 have been in this place since 1903. The 

 plant has a steam exhaust that carries 

 with the steam an oily substance. Quite 

 frequently, if we have an east wind, it 

 comes over the greenhouses and settles 

 on the glass. One can \isually feel it 

 in the face and on the bare hands as it 

 comes down. In the last three months 

 it has covered the glass of my green- 

 houses with a black substance of an 

 oily nature that water does not touch. 

 1 find it necessary to get on the roof 

 with a rag and rub hard to clean the 

 glass. I cleaned six rows of glass, then 

 1 placed a thermometer under the cleaned 

 glass in the sun and it indicated 80 de- 

 grees. I placed it under the dirty glass 

 the same distance from the ground as 

 before and it showed only 74 degrees. 

 The glass being covered, shaded the 

 roses to such an extent that they are 

 worthless. The growth is yellow an' 

 small. I will have to plant the house 

 with young roses this spring. 



In the other house, 30x100 feet, I have 

 callas that do not come out white; the 

 flowers stay green. The Harrisii are 

 also affected. The stock plants of chrys- 

 anthemums make long, weak, spindly 

 growths, no good to use as cuttings. The 

 geraniums and other bedding plants are 

 also growing spindly and soft. The 

 temperature at night runs from 54 to 

 5S degrees, in the daytime 60 to 70 



degrees if cloudy and 70 to 75 degrees 

 with sunshine. 



I would like to have the opinion of 

 some of, the leading growers, telling me 

 what I am entitled to from the street 

 railway company for damages, not hav- 

 ing cut more than one dozen roses daily 

 •and these of no value, for the last three 

 months, finding it necessary to replant 

 the house with young roses this spring, 

 consequently not having any roses to cut 

 before September also the buying of 3,- 

 000 chrysanthemums, 2-inch, the lilies 

 not blooming and all the 10,000 4-inch 

 pot plants being affected by the coating 

 on the roof. 



Besides the exhaust, they have a pile 

 of hot ashes outside smoking continual- 

 ly and throwing off sulphurous fumes, 

 whicdi affect a person 's throat 500 feet 

 away. The fumes certainly have a bad 

 effect on the soft growth. The pile of 

 ashes is at least 40x40 feet square and 

 six feet deep. The main part of it is 

 continually burning and smoking. 



I invited several florists to see the 

 roofs and they all say they never saw 

 anything like it before. Different par- 

 ties tell me that the street railway com- 

 pany is putting a certain oil in the steam 

 cylinders, which is carried off with the 

 exhaust. Fresh fallen snow around their 

 building turns yellow in a few hours 

 and their own slate roof is full of the 

 same substance. 



I would like to hear from florists who 

 have had damage suits similar to my 

 case. Chas. Lindacher. 



John Cook's New Pink Rose, Enchantress. 



TROUBLE WITH BULBS. 



My hyacinths and bulbs are att'ected 

 by mealy luigs and some other kind of 

 Inigs that look like the woodtick. It is 

 t he size of a radish seed, color pinkish. 

 Tlie flower pot is also full of thin, white 

 worms. What is the cause of them; also 

 wlmt can I do to get rid of them? 



G. W. K. 



I cannot account for the presence of 

 mealy bugs on your hyacinths and other 

 liullis, unless vou have other plants in 

 the same house infested with this dirty 

 insect, ajid then it would be strange 

 that the bugs would travel to the hya- 

 cinths in the few weeks they have been 

 in the greenhouse. From the description 

 of the other creature, "the size of a rad- 

 ish seed," I can t determine what it is. 

 The "thin, white worms" also add to 

 these distressing circumstances. 



.\s soon as spring trade is over and 

 vouv houses can be temporarily emptied, 

 liiirn sulphur in the house, paint the in- 

 terior, remove every particile of soil and 

 liegin with a fresh supply and you must 

 get rid of these pests. For immediate 

 lielp syringe the hyacinths hard and 

 that will remove the mealy bug. For 

 the worms in the soil put a piece of 

 quick lime the size of your fist in 

 twenty gallons of water and when dis- 

 solved and the water is clear, give the 

 idants one watering with this lime wa- 

 ter. This will bring angle worms to the 

 surface to perish and it will most likely 

 kill vour white worms. W. S. 



Frankfort, Ind. — H. M. Humfeld lost 

 528 panes of glass and Emil Knabe 250 

 ]ianes in the first hail storm of the sea- 

 son, February 29. 



El Eeno, Okla.— J. W. Perry has 

 only one house, 16x175, but reports a 

 fine trade in cut flowers, and will add 

 to it for next season. 



