The Weekly Florists' Review. 





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Tulip Beds at Humboldt Park, Chicago, in 1903. A Departure from the Usual Forms of Beds 



Now about the Paper White n.u. 1--11- 

 We have never tried to keep them after 

 the winter months and will candidly say 

 that I don't evei expa i to, bei ausi ii 

 would never pay. It's entirely different 

 with these true bulbs, like hyacinths, 

 nan-i-su- and tulips, liecausc they must 

 be rooted before they will flower. Some 

 years ago we had a" fancy that a batch 

 ■ i Von Sion narcissus would be very- 

 useful for Memorial day. and so tiny 

 proved, but somehow we seem to have 

 more flowers at our disposal nowaday- 

 and can do without them. 



Here is how I managed to have the 

 Von Sion on May 30. They were put 

 in Hats in October jus! tin- same as those 

 \\.' forced during winter. About the 

 first of April, or before they had felt the 

 influence of spring and tin- growth of 

 the 1 >i 1 1 1 >— was perhaps two inches above 

 the soil, the fiats were removed to a 

 neighbor's ice house. The temperature 

 was about 36 degrees. There they re- 

 mained until seven or eight davs before 

 we wanted the flowers. ' By thai time 

 they looked like third ola-- celery, well 

 bleached, and bad grown four or rive 

 inches, but seemed none the worse foi it. 

 They opened up into flower almost in 

 forty-eight hour-, but with shading we 

 kept them in good order. I would not 

 think of trying to keep any of these 

 bulbs beyond their natural flowering 

 time unless it was for some special oc- 

 casion that they were desired, bin if it 

 mii-i In- done, it can be done a- de- 

 scribed, only the Paper White at no time 

 should be quite down t.. the freezing 

 point. William Si on 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The exhibition of the Chrysanthemum 



v '"i'M of A rica will lie held in the 



Herald Square Exhibition Hall. Herald 

 Square. New York. This is a new hall 

 with an abundance of space, and magnifi- 

 cent light, and most centrally located. 

 Intending exhibitors will please note 

 change in the place of holding the exhi- 

 bition. Fred H. Lemon, Scc'v. 



Victoria. B. C. — A. J. Woodward 



1'iiildiiiL' six additional bouses 25x175. 



WESTWARD HO! 



Or How to Go to Milwaukee. 



When 1 bad the pleasure of spending a 

 day in Detroit recently the subjeei came 

 up among the craft of how the eastern 

 men were going to travel to the fair city 

 on the western shore of Lake Michigan, 

 and 1 think Brother Raekham said he 

 intended to do all in the informing line 

 lie could. 



A New Yorker or Boston man has the 

 idea that when lie is as far we-t as 

 Poughkeepsie or Springfield, respective- 

 ly, he i- "out west." As Gurney Hill 

 -aid at Pittsburg, a few years ago, when 

 the Carnation Society decided to go to 

 the beautiful city of Indianapolis, "We 

 are not west, but we are a very good 

 place t" rail at when you're •_: ■ ■ i 1 1 u west." 

 So Buffalo is very much east, ami so is 

 Detroit. 



Chicago and Milwaukee are on the 

 eastern edge of the middle west. All 

 these and many more arc potts of the 

 inland fresh water sea-, but you must 

 have plenty of time to go by an all- 

 water route from Buffalo to Milwaukee 

 — about three days — and it's mure than 

 the busy florist can afford. Mr. Rack- 

 ham will tell you of the manv railroad- 

 that will carry you to Detroit and thru 

 across Michigan to a point on Pake 

 Michigan, and then a boat ride across 

 the lake will land you in Milwaukee. 

 Ml thai I will have to Mr. Raekham. 



Here is what can be done from Buf- 

 falo, which will take in a lake ride. 

 rhei ■ i- a magnificenf -tenner leaving 

 Buffalo every day at 5:30 p. m. and ar- 

 il ins al Detroit at aboul S a. m. From 

 1 i.i i "it there i- a choice of ra ilroads to 

 Milwaukee, either day or night. To take 

 tbi- trin von would have to lie in Buf- 

 falo before 5:30 n. m. on the Sunday 

 before the convention, and that is slight- 

 ly awkward, i- mi -t of the fast trains 

 on the Yew York Central Lackawanna. 

 I.ehidi Valley and Pennsvlvania leave 

 the large eastern cities in the oarlv 

 morning and do not arrive in Buffalo 

 in time to take that boat. 



S - now. ladies and gentlemen, to enjoy 

 the midsummer ride on Lake Frie from 

 Buffalo to Detroit it would be best to 



leave your homes on Saturday evening. 



arriving in Buffalo Sunday* m : 



ie-t luring the day in our beautiful 

 city, and start awaj on Sunday evening 

 for Detroit. For the benefit' of John 

 Westeott or P. Welch I will inform you 

 on request of the most fashionable places 

 of worship, or give you any other infor- 

 mation thai will assist you to enjoy 

 your visit. A Sunday in Buffalo will 

 not be .wasted time, as it is quiet and 

 the most beautiful residence city in this 

 wide land. ' W. S. 



SMOKE FOR BUTTERFLIES. 



I note in a t. nt issue that A. O. D. 



a-k- ho«- to .jet rid of a small butterfly, 

 which infest- lii — chrysanthemum house. 

 If it is fin- same little pest which goes 

 after my roses, I will tell him "my 

 remedy. After getting tired of crush- 

 ing them with mj fingers, I began to 

 smoke them early in the morning, about 

 three or four o'clock, which is when 

 they begin to fly. It finished them. 



Arthur Doebel. 



TUBULAR VS. SECTIONAL BOILERS. 



Can you tell us why. when all rail- 

 way-, factoric-. etc.. u-e tubular boil- 

 ers for their steam power, nearly all 

 green! se construction companies ad- 

 vise iron -ert ions I boilet ■ 0. F. t 



Answering the query of "O. F. C." 

 until recent years the areas of individual 

 greenhouse- oi ranges of greenhouse:' 

 were too small to admit of a standard 

 tubular steam boilet being used. This 

 fa t caused the manufacture of -mall 

 cast inii boilers oi sectional and other 

 fi i in- arid n w .i- quite natural for the 

 manufacturers of such boilers ti 

 their ware- wherever a market offered. 

 The claim i- made that east iron cor- 

 rodes less in an average florist's cellar 

 and with the abuse which a up 

 boih - i- frequently subject to, than a 

 wrought iron boiler, but u>\ experience 

 -bow - t bat . given reasonable trea 

 each will last equally as long in 

 working ci ndition. The small cast iron 

 boiler has served it- purpos. ell. and 

 will continue to do so, but 



