The Weekly Florists' Review, 



589 



period, for if ;ill are called off, water- 

 ing ami syringing will have to !■• done 

 in a hurried manm i , tying will lie en- 

 tirely neglected and disbudding, which 

 just ii'iu is one "i' the most bnportanl 

 duties, »iH be pi stp< 

 ej i, however ni - iite< 

 ■a thicket "l weak, -u 



Crushsr and Elevator on Soil Carrying Machine. 



is it goes up 

 tied on the I 



Another picture shows the men empty- 

 ing a house and shoveling the soil into 

 I he hopper, depositing it on the belt on 

 which it is carried very rapidly out and 

 into the wagons. The hopper also runs 

 on the railroad and is moved along as 

 desired. It is twelve feet long and five 

 men are used on each side, taking the 

 .•hi ire house as they go. Houses 300 i'eet 

 long and thirty-three feet wide, with 

 five beds each five feet wide, can be 



take it when- it is to go. 



One of the many good points of this 

 ma. l is its hopper, fitted with grind- 

 er and mixer us used when filling the 

 houses. This is a roller four feet long, 

 east solid, with heavy, dull teeth. Ordi- 

 nary stones do not affect it; they are 

 brokei and ground up. while if a big 

 Btone nets in. the sides of the hopper 

 are fitted with springs that readily re- 

 lease it. the soil cat. be had in any de- 

 sired way, fine or coarse, by setting the 

 springs on each side of the hopper. It 

 is ih. a: carried into the buckets, up the 

 elevator and dumped down the chute on 

 the belt, which carries it on to the trip- 

 per. 



Another good point is the reversible 

 elevator which both fills and empties the 

 houses and ran be reversed in ten min- 

 utes. Pictures show this in both posi 

 tions and it is quite important, for, after 

 the machine is set up in a house, it is 

 never changed until the house is fin- 

 ish.'.!, and the quickness in changing the 

 ohwntor from emptying to refilling keeps 

 our teams busy till the time, foi 

 as the last load of soil is out of the 

 house, they commence bringing the new 

 soil back, so that not a minute is lost. 



The machine is a decided advantage 

 over wheelbarrows or any other eontriv- 

 ance in the florists' world today, both in 



i my aid as a time saver, besides the 



advantages gained in early planting. It 

 is a twentieth century idea and for large 

 plants something besides the old-fash- 

 ioned way must be adopted. Large con- 



cerns cannot get along without a ma- 

 don, of this kind; besides the machine 

 will sue its cost in one year. 



The Lake View Rose Gardens has no 



that is claimed for it. 



Seasonable Hints. 



By reason of the press of work during 

 carnation benching, roses will be liable 

 to be somewhat neglected, and as this is 

 the time when they really demand con- 

 stant care and attention in such mat- 

 ters as tying, disbudding and cultivating, 

 it is well to be on our guard, and to re- 

 member that neglect at this season means 

 fewer buds and very likely of an inferior 

 quality for first cut, and the plants are 

 likely to lose a part of the best growing 

 season. 



In order to get carnations benched as 

 quickly as possible all hands are usuallv 

 called on for aid, but where the rose crop 

 is of equal importance with carnations. 

 it is wise to leave a few of the most 

 experienced hands to at least keep things 

 straight in the rose section during this 



owing every 

 iak, forming 

 wood which 

 approaching 



I am urged to -an. il.n- strongly on 

 this - abject bei au se i ear after year we 

 see the same neglected conditions in rose 

 houses mi places where we would expect 

 something better, and whole houses of 

 ros. s where the plants ».re otherwise 

 strong and healthy simply spoiled as 

 in -i crop i- com erned. The 

 same old o\on-i- ..II. aid to each visiting 

 grower. The injury done to rose plants 

 by this neglect is incalculable and even 



the wisest course of treatment fails to 

 place them on their former footing until 

 the season is so far advanced that there 

 is often a loss instead of a good profit, 

 as the 

 prices 



best. 



ason of best demand and g I 



past before they attain their 



neglected than most other roses, and care 

 should he taken to have these varieties 



neatly tied up at all times and the dis- 

 budding attended to at least twice a 

 week, till it is determined to develop a 

 crop. The extra care and attention be 

 slewed on them w-ill bring its reward 

 before many weeks are over. 



Grafted stock should be looked over 

 carefully and all the suckers from the 

 stock removed with* care. This should b° 

 done by cutting them neatly off with 

 a sharp knife and not by the slovenly 

 method so often put in practice by the 

 inexperienced, of pulling them off by 

 sheer force. ED3ES. 



THE LEAF ROLLER. 



We -end you -ome branches from our 

 rose plants, infested with a worm which 

 ha- don., much damage in oui rose hous- 

 es I he pa -I 1 hire Wed,-. \- Wl> dO not 



know the worm we do no1 know how to 

 get rid of it. We have been picking 



the IV everj morning, I nt thej are gi I 



ting so numerous we must find some oth- 



ei l . inch . C. S. 



These caterpillars are the larvae of a 

 moth of the Tortrict.la- family, common- 

 ly known as leaf rollers, and are very 



Soil is Deposited on Beaches. 



the brick bottomed bench ) 



