June 11, 1003. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



101 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



■ CONTINUED.) 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Business since Easier lias kept up 

 fairly well, funeral work making up the 

 greater bulk of the amount done. The 

 weather since Easter lias been almost en- 

 tirely without rain and there has not 

 been any outdoot stock 1" amount t" 

 much and most of the indoor sleek is 

 vei v sin. ill and pinched. 



ith 



pinks 

 worse 



not always paid. The average price was 

 3 cents. ' Koses wore of all grades and 

 prices. Some lilies brought 6 to 8 cents. 

 It's too bad the poor florists have to 

 work so long and hard for so little at 

 this time. The public, wants something 

 large and showy for very small amount 

 and after making 150 per cent at Easter 

 it's hard to come down to 50 per cent 

 or less at- Decoration time and have to 

 handle about the same amount ..; -i.,, 



did not go as well 



sb will be school work, and 

 on our vacation. R. I. 



Chas. A. 

 Samuelson, 



FLORIST, 



lexing-ton Hotel, UlUUHuUl 



Long Distance Phone South 1600-1601. I 



Chapin Bros. 



so. Street, LINCOLN, NEB. I 



SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



This city is now a bower of roses. 

 the spring' season of bloom being at its 

 height. 



W. E. King recently had an order for 

 2,000 feet of Asparagus plumosus to be 

 used in a decoration at one of the 

 hotels. 



Thos. Thompson's carnations are a 

 credit to that gentleman's ability as a 

 grower. They rank with the best any- 

 where, lb' supplied several very at- 

 tractive floral arrangements for }lo- 

 niorial dav. cyclamen flowers living very 

 effectually used in addition to carna- 

 tions, rose-, tuberoses and adiantum. 



E. Leedham lias several acres of 

 dahlias that promise to be" very inter- 

 esting this summer. flower buds are 

 already showing on some oi the plant-'. 

 ]lis out oi daffodils was large this 

 spring and will be still larger another 

 season. His paper-roofed house ba- 

 been very helpful in bringing in some 

 of his bullions llower- early and ill 

 lengthening their -tern-. 



Geo. Butler & Son are preparing to 

 devote their glass entirely to cut flow- 

 ers and will make carnations a specialty. 



Dr. Parker has some gloxinias that 

 are remarkably well furnished with 

 foliage. Each pot i- placed in a saucer 

 and they are watered from the bot- 

 tom only. G-. 



THE MANUFACTURE OF PIPE. 



11V WAI.TEK WHETSTONE. 



Bead before the Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia June -J. 1903: 



I might say here that the process of 

 puddling by hand to make wrought Iron lias 

 never been improved upon ; that is, no me- 

 chanieal mean- has yet been invented to do 

 the wo-!. "I stirring that Land labor is now 

 employed in ■ I ■ . 1 1 1 -_- . A -treat many invent- 

 ors have tided 1,, s,,ive tJiis, problem, and the 

 latest report that we have on the solution 

 is thai a man is constructing a plant now 

 in Pottstown to experiment with mechanical 

 puddling devices and we trust that he in a 

 short time will have solved the problem, 



this mark-' \-iy much longer, aa most buy- 



il. are looking l',.r a cheap article. 

 and price, ratter than quality, is the thing 



in. in- with the buyer. Just the other 



da\ 1 had a talk with a large manufacturer 

 of' wrought iron pipe with whom I have 

 very close connect inn. and he told me that 

 if they had to sell iron pipe for the price 

 that steel pipe is quoted todav they would 

 have to go ,,iii of busines- inside of six 

 months ]r -com, ten -; range at the same 

 time thai there are not more people willing 

 to pi i tor a superior article of this kind, 



inasmuch as ; h,. best wrought iron pipe only 

 eosis in per cent more than what is termed 

 a good steel pipe. 



It has been said that iron pipe, to con- 

 form anywhere near to the price of steel 

 pipe, is diluted with setup iron. I do not 

 know h,,w all niannfaet mors make iron pipe, 

 bur 1 do know' from personal observation 

 product of 



Hied lha 



ipe. 



ought: 

 es by 



ce of 



sizes Of pipe that 



making. 



llight h.re eom 



cutting off the ragged edge of 

 pipe preparatory to its going to t lie ma- 

 chine for threading, and ihi- entire amount 

 of scrap amounts only to between 3 and 7 

 per cent of the output. 



I have never had a close Intimacy with a 

 manufacturer of steel pipe, so do not claim 

 that they use scrap, hut if they used a high 

 grade oi'e 1 would still contend, and right- 

 ful 1\ so. that their linished product would 

 I..,- :,. ,i - g .1 .is ii„ ii on product on ac- 

 i ,,iini ,,; : I,.. amount oi ■ arbon it must cou- 



noth- 

 vheels 

 other. 

 , only 

 . flat- 



pipe up side 



entire mass 

 If the blast 



tains i his amount of carbon it will not 

 weld V"ii will therefore see that a perfect 

 weld can be made with a substance con- 



talning arbon and that the degree of 



welding is dependent entirely upon the 

 amount of carbon the iron contains, so 

 that with no , arbon we have a pert,-, i e, ,1,1 

 and that anywhere from 1I1U point to 4 



steel pipe, this ingot is w 

 put through the rolls and 

 the same as in wrought ire 



This fur- 

 furnace and 



ufaetured in 

 lgh what is 

 r words, the 

 iape,I affair. 



i tight 

 ! pipe, 

 which 



■eaded. 



let- to its uses 

 I can only say 

 have had ex- 

 pipe, both as 



, of the oil field work 

 nil a man strikes oil 

 ,ipe Hi-- well with the 



