June 4, 1003. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



45 



comes to taking out and removing your 

 soil it is not nearly so pleasant " and 

 satisfactory a job. These hollow bricks, 

 which are thirteen inches long, five 

 inches wide and four inches high, are 

 laid as close as we can get them, mak- 

 ing a solid floor. Roots do get down 

 between, no doubt, but find nothing un- 

 congenial in the moist tile, any more 

 than do the roots of our pot plants 

 around the sides of the pots. 



Some people may attach great impor- 

 tance to the free passage of air through 

 these hollow bricks, or 3-inch tile which 

 many use. I humbly beg to say that 

 it does not amount to anything, and if 

 the ends of the tile were sealed up the 

 result would be the same. It is the 

 absolutely perfect drainage of the brick 

 or tile that makes success, far better 

 drainage than any board or plank bench 

 can possibly have. I will just mention 

 that these hollow bricks cost about the 

 same per surface foot as 2-inch com- 

 mon pine lumber, and, it is near enough 

 to say, are everlasting, because in any 

 alteration you may make you need not 

 lose one. 



Mr. Baur's brick wall, say one foot 

 high, with six or seven inches of rubble 

 stone and then the soil, is excellent for 

 carnations and needs no tile run 

 through the beds. How can they with 

 such drainage? If the surface of your 

 house is naturally dry, then I can not 

 see any better bed for roses than to lay 

 the hollow bricks on the properly 

 graded floor. Have an edge of cement 

 four and one-half or five inches high, 

 two inches at base, tapering to one and 

 one-half inches. This is an everlasting 

 edge to your bed, but a 2x4 scantling 

 run along the edge and held in place 

 by some pieces of 1-inch pipe driven 



into the ground, is quickly done and 

 will last a long time. 



I saw at the Dale Estate last fall 

 a most excellent method of making" a 

 bench for roses and carnations, and 

 where stone or clinkers could not be had 

 it is fine, but rather expensive. It was 

 a wall of only five or six inches, on 

 the outside of the beds, merely two 

 bricks high. Then old sod was firmly 

 trodden in to the level of top of the 

 bricks; then a floor of 3-inch tile was 

 laid, the tile projecting to the outside 

 of the bricks; a cement edge of four 

 and one-half inches was put on, and 

 there you have the bed. This brought 

 the surface of the bed almost a foot 

 above the walks in the house. 



I would not be presumptuous enough 

 to so strongly advocate these beds in 

 place of benches on any experience of 

 my own. although that has been con- 

 vincing enough for me ; but I have seer, 

 crops of roses on them surpassing any 

 I have seen on the raised benches. And 

 think, brethren, what comfort and sav- 

 ing is in store for you. 



William Scott. 



THE C. S. A. PREMIUM LIST. 



The premium list has been issued for 

 the exhibition of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America, to open at Herald 

 Square, New York, November 10. Fifty- 

 sewn regular classes are provided, be- 

 sides many special classes, which are 

 steadily being added to. 



Classes 1 to 8 are open only to com- 

 mercial growers. Class 1 is for 50 

 blooms, one variety, 1st $30, 2d $20. Class 

 2 is for 50 blooms not less than 3 or 

 more than 5 varieties. 1st $30. 2d $20. 

 Class 3 is for 30 varieties, one bloom of 

 each, stems to be not less than 10 or 



more than 15 inches, 1st $20, 2d $12. 

 Classes 1 to 7 are for 25 blooms, yellow, 

 white, pink and "any other coin]," 1st 

 $15, 2d $10. I lass 8 is for 25 blooms 

 of any 1903 novelty, 1st $15, 2nd $10. 



Classes 9 to 13 are for 10 blooms of 

 the several colors, class I l for 10 blooms 

 in variety, artifii ial supports all wed, 

 1st $8, 2.1 $4. ( lasses 15 to 25 are for 

 G blooms of the several colors and named 

 varieties, competition being open to pri- 

 vate gardeners only. Artificial supports 

 are allowed on Mme. Carnot. 



Classes 26, 27 and 28 are for varieties 

 of 1903, respectively 18 blooms in 6 var- 

 ieties, 12 blooms in 4 varieties and ti 

 blooms in :; varieties, exhibitors allowed 

 to compete in one class only. There are 

 also classes for :!ti blooms in 6 varieties, 

 IS blooms in (i varieties, 18 blooms in 3 

 varieties and 5 blooms of any variety 

 in commerce, with liberal premiums. 



Classes 33 to 36 are for 6 blooms of 

 any one of the following varieties cer- 

 tificated by the C. S. A. in 1902: Al- 

 goma, Amorita, Columbia, Convention 

 Hall, Globosa Alba, H. W. Buckbee, 

 Henry Sinclair, Minnie Bailey, Mile. 

 Marie Liger. Mrs. Harry V. Casey, Mrs. 

 J. J. Mitchell, Miss Stella T. Klk'ins. R. 

 E. Richardson, Sephia, Uwanta and Yel- 

 low Eaton. Classes 37 to 40 are for six 

 blooms seedlings, and there are four 

 classes for anemone, pompon, hairy and 

 single sorts. 



In the plant classes there are liberal 

 premiums for standard and bush plants, 

 also for single stem and bloom, $350 in 

 13 classes. 



Among the special prizes are the C. S. 

 A. cup for 10 blooms of any one variety, 

 the E, G. Hill Co. premiums for 10 

 blooms of seedling or foreign variety not 

 in commerce, the N. Smith & Son pre- 

 miums for 10 blooms of any undis- 

 seminated American seedling and uie J. 

 N. May premiums for 12 blooms, 12 

 varieties, with 2-foot stems, artificial 

 supports permitted where necessary. 

 The Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 offers $25 for the best vase of 25 bloom's 

 of one variety, to be judged for all- 

 round excellence of culture. 



The New York Florists' Club, Tarry- 

 town Horticultural Society, Morris Coun- 

 ty Gardeners' and Florists' Club, Mon- 

 mouth County and Tuxedo Horticultural 

 Societies offer classes, open only to their 

 own members, and for the best 25 

 blooms of 25 varieties and the best 12 

 blooms of 12 varieties exhibited in these 

 classes The F. R. Pierson Co., Tarry- 

 town, N. Y., offers silver cups valued 

 at $50 and $25 respectively. 



Printed copies of the list will be ready 

 in a few days and may be had by ad- 

 dressing Fred H. Lemon, secretary, Rich- 

 mond, Ind. 



HEATING IN GEORGIA. 



I have two connected houses where 

 the temperature rarely gets as low as 

 16 degrees above zero. The houses run 

 east and west, one 13x50, the other 

 9x50, without partition wall; three- 

 quarter span, wide house 8$ feet to 

 ridge, narrow house 7i feet. The wider 

 house has two feet of glass in the side 

 wall for 25 feet of the west end. The 

 office is at the west end. The north 

 benches are raised, the balance on the 

 ground or raised only a few inches, for 

 carnations and asparagus. How many 

 pipes will it require to heat with hot 

 water, using 2-inch flow pipes and 1J- 

 inch returns? J. T. 



Four 2-inch flows and ten H-inch re- 



