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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



429 



View in Center of Peter Reinberg's New Range of American Beauty Houses. 



houses and ranges of greenhouses ..iel 

 the balance of seventy-eight pages is do 

 voted to details of the various styles of 

 construction. It is stated that the cata- 

 logue cost in the neighborhood of 80 



cents a copy, but it will be sent f] 



to any one who is sufficiently interested 

 to send 6 cents to pay the postage. 



HOTELS OF MILWAUKEE. 



The following downtown hotels in 

 Milwaukee are within five or ten min- 

 utes' walk of the convention hall. Rooms 

 for convention week may be reserved at 

 any time: 



Aberdeen Hotel. Grand Aye.— Rates, $10 to $!■) 



p.T < 



i plan 



Hotel Atlas. Third and Sycamore Sts. — Rate, $2 



Hotel Blatz. City Hall Square — Rate, |1 per 

 day and upward, European plan. 



Globe Hotel, Wisconsin and Cas9 Sts. — Weekly 

 ates; American plan, $10 to $15; European plan. 



. $l(i. 



-Rates. 



Klrby House, E. Water and Mas 

 $2 to $2.50 per day. 



Hotel Pflster. Wisconsin and Jefferson Sts.— 

 Rates, American plan, $3 to $5 per day; Euro- 

 pean plan, $1.60 to $3.50 per day. 



Plankinton House. Grand Ave. — Rates, Amer- 

 ican plan. $2.50 and upward per day; European 

 plan, $1 and upward per day. 



Republican House. Third and Cedar Sts. — Rates, 

 American plan, $3 to $3 per day; European plan, 

 $1 and upward. 



Schlitz Hotel, Grand Ave. and Third St.— Rate. 

 European plan, $1 per day and upward. 



St. Charles Hotel. City Hall Square — Rates, 

 per day, one person, $2 to $3.50; two persons, 

 from $4 to $6. 



HEATING SURFACE. 



We have four houses, 20x80, three In 

 carnations and one in roses. The boiler 

 is of the horizontal, return flue, Scotch 

 marine high-pressure type, but we fear 

 a defect in piping, as it does not do the 

 work. We have 2-inch feed pipes, 1-ineh 

 in the coils and 1%-inch returns, two 

 going in on one side of the boiler and 

 one on the other. In all we have 2.500 

 to 3,000 feet of pipe. 



The boiler is twenty-three horse-power 

 and will carry 100 pounds pressure, but 

 by the time we turn on all the houses 

 we don't have more than five pounds of 

 steam and in cold weather we cannot 

 leave the boiler any length of time. 



f think a part of his trouble lies in a 

 shortage of heating surface iu the 

 houses, as if there is glass on the roof 

 only, there would be about 7,800 square 

 feet of glass exposure, which would call 

 t'oi about 1,100 feet of heating surface, 

 or roughly about 3,300 lineal feel of 

 1-inch pipe. If the correspondent is 

 able to hold five pounds pressure at the 

 boiler, with all pipes Hoiking, it Mould 

 indicate sufficient boiler capacity for Hie 

 present work. Henry W. Gibbons. 



"SUN FLOWER* 

 Please give me the c 



ASTERS. 



cause of so man} 

 asters showing the yellow centers, or, as 

 we call them, "sun flowers." I was 

 careful in buying what I thought was 

 the best seed. One stalk may be all 

 right, while the next to it will be all 

 ''sun flowers." Please explain in full. 

 H. H. G. 



In my opinion this is a case of the 

 aster, through some cultural defect, re- 

 \erting back to its original form, and 

 it is not at all uncommon. You may 

 save seed from the very finest double 

 flowers, but without good culture many 

 of them will come as our friend de- 

 scribes. Some five or six years ago we 

 had about a quarter acre of Semple's. 

 Thej grew finely until the middle of 

 July, when no more rain fell for two 

 months. Our great expectations took 

 flight and we did not pick one per cent 

 of good flowers. We had no means of 

 watering them and they were a complete 



house and ranges or greenhouses and 

 the balance of seventy-eight pages is de- 

 voted to details of the various ,'y|es of 

 construction. It is stated that the cata- 

 logue cost in the neighborhood of SO 

 cents a copy, but it will be sent free 

 to any one who is sufficiently interested 

 to send G cents to pay the postage. 



William Scott. 



MILWAUKEE. 



Convention Preparations. 



There is not much left to be said in 

 regard to the coming convention that 

 has not previously been told. The local 

 committee has completed its plans for 

 the reception of the visitors and it is 

 now up to the good graces of the weath- 

 er man and a large attendance to make 

 it a complete success. The trade ex- 

 hibit will be a great feature at the con- 

 vention. Our spacious hall is well filled 

 and it will be a grand display. 



Those interested in the bowling will 

 find hero excellent facilities, and the 

 prizes are numerous. A gold medal for 

 each man on the winning team may be 

 more satisfactory than cups, for every 

 man in the winning team will have 

 something to show for his skill. This, 

 prize is offered by the Milwaukee Flor- 

 ists' Club. The C. C. Pollwbrth I om- 

 pany offers six scarf pins for members 

 of the second high team. Sargeant's 

 restaurant offers a gold medal each for 

 the men making greatest number of 

 strikes and spares. John Evans offers 

 :i gold medal for high man in the indi- 

 \ -idu.-il class. J. P. Wilcox offers a fine 

 umbrella for highest single score made 

 during the tournament. The Citizens'. 

 Business League has voted $25 in prizes, 

 the awards to be designated by the 

 bowling committee. Henry Webei trill 



