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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



A MODERN PLANT. 



h is unfortunate that the S. A. F. 



onvention eomes a1 a time when green- 



stablishments in its vicinity 

 iire at the low tide of the year, but, 

 while this is true, thure is much to ex- 

 cite the interest of practical men in 

 Such a place as i'eter Keinberg's, -where 

 i in i, will 1"' many visitors, passing 



Chicago, next week. Building 

 and rebuilding have delayed replanting 

 operations, but the place is now all 

 planted; although a good deal of the 

 .hied off rose stock has not yet been 

 started up. It is worth noting] 

 that there are 230,000 rose plants on 

 the place, as follows: 60,000 

 Beauty, 30,000 Maid, 25,000 Bride, 12,- 



I'.rle, 20,000 Golden Gate, 30,000 



Liberty, 30,000 Chatenay, 12,000 Sun- 

 rise, 5,000 Kaiserin, 5,000 Ivory, 1,000 

 La France. There are 175,000 carna- 

 T i i .ii plants, a good many of them 

 beni bed long enough to have got a good 

 start in the new soil. Mr. Reinberg 

 says he never had better plants at this 

 season. 



The whole north end of the place, the 

 houses in which Golden Gate was grown 

 the first year they had it, when it was 

 such a winner', is given to Mrs. Law- 

 son. It ought to be a sight about 

 Thanksgiving time. Then comes the 

 range, which was rebuilt this year. 

 'Nine old houses were pulled down and 

 replaced by eight 27^2x136. By build- 

 ing with the latest pattern of Garland's 

 iron gutter, with iron posts, it was pos- 

 sible to economize two feet of space in 

 each house, making a gain in bench 

 room of eighteen feet, or a bench lSx 

 136. With the gutter cast in eight-foot 

 lengths there is also a saving of one- 

 third the posts as compared with the 

 use of the five-foot gutters. The white 

 carnations are in this range, and be- 

 yond them is a splendid lot of Mrs. Nel- 



The new range put up this season is 

 mi the other side of Robey street, and 

 it is a model of the new style construc- 

 tion, nine houses 27 1 /2x304, eight and 

 one-half feet to gutters, fifteen feet to 

 ridge. There are five four and one half 

 foot benches in the outside houses, and 

 four five-foot benches in the other sev- 

 en. There arc fifty-six ventilators, 3x4 

 feet, in each house, twenty-eight on 

 each side of each ridge. The Evans 

 lifter is used throughout the placet The 



new style iron gutter in eight-foot 

 lengths is used in these houses. It is 

 only four inches wide at the bottom, by 

 three deep. The picture of the interior 

 of the houses shows the gutter perfect- 

 ly, the posts being so high that the 

 camera caught nearly a full view of the 

 under side of the gutter. It is notable 

 that the purlins are about as much ob- 

 struction to the light as are the gutters. 

 Mr. Reinberg says that recent heavy 

 rains show that amide waterway is pro- 

 vided by outlets every sixty feet, 

 through the posts and into the sewer. 

 Belgian glass was used in part this 

 year, but the saving in price is fully off- 

 set by the greater breakage. 



Mr. Reinberg built his first house 

 seventeen vears ago, four small struc- 

 tures glazed with 10x12 glass. The 

 first two years he grew lettuce, then 

 tried a bench or two of carnations, and 

 after two years more built four more 

 houses 137 feet long. Since then he has 

 added to the place pretty nearly every 

 year, but he has always put in a wall 

 plate, not a gutter, on the last house, 

 being fully convinced he would never 

 build again, but the wall plate has gen- 

 erally had to come out the next spring. 

 However, it went in as usual this year. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



W. A. Manda, So. Orange. N. J., sub- 

 mits for registration Manda 's Golden 

 privet, a strikingly variegated sport from 

 the California privet, Ligustrum ovalifo- 

 lium. 



E. Worden, Jamestown, N. Y., offers 

 for registration geranium The Mascotte. 

 Color delicate light rose without any 

 salmon or magenta tint. Flowers semi- 

 double; center blooms remain till clus- 

 ter is fully developed. Habit, bedder. 

 Wm. J. Stewart, Secretary. 



CYCLAMEN. 



Please tell me through the Review if 

 cyclamen should be set with buds this 

 early in the season, and if they continue 

 to throw up leaves after the buds begin 

 to form. Subscriber. 



This will depend on when they were 



-.mil It tin' s 1 was sown last October, 



or even November, and they have been 

 grown wit li good care, they should now be 



in 6-inch pots and would most certainly 

 show the flowers nestling on the corm. As 

 they would be expected to flower by No- 

 vember, this would not be too soon to see 

 the flower showing. It takes two or 

 three months from the time you first see 

 the flower signs until they are fully ex- 

 panded. If a few stray flowers are 

 showing up, then it is a bad sign, indi- 

 cating that the plants have had a check 

 in some way. The cyclamen makes a few 

 leaves at the same time that its flower 

 stems show above the foliage. 



I can't resist adding that a continu- 

 ous shade or too bright sunshine are 

 both bad for the cyclamen. Shade when 

 the sun shines and remove it when it 

 does not shine, and keep tobacco beneath 

 them and syringe every bright morning. 

 There is more in growing cyclamen than 

 orchids. William Scott. 



THAT LITTLE WHITE FLY. 



Again comes a communication from S. 

 ('. C, asking for some death dealing 

 blow to that small white fly or moth that 

 deposits its eggs on the under side of a 

 leaf; which they soon eat up. This time 

 it is fuchsias that it is preying on, but 

 it is often seen in houses where cucum- 

 bers, melons or tomatoes are forced. To- 

 bacco has no effect on it. Fortunately it 

 is many years since we have seen any 

 of them, but I feel sure that they would 

 succumb to the hydrocyanic acid gas, the 

 formula for which has been very recently 

 published in the pages of the Review. 



The same subscriber also asks: "Tell 

 me the best remedy for mealy bug. 

 which is so fatal to coleus. ' ' If this 

 troublesome insect gets on palms, cro- 

 tons, a fine stephanotis or plants of value, 

 then syringe, or still better, sponge with 

 kerosene emulsion. If it badly infests 

 coleus, then the most expeditious and in- 

 expensive cure is to throw away the co- 

 leus, or better still, burn them. 



William Scott. 



A GOOD CATALOGUE. 



One of the best printed catalogues of 

 the season is the new and greatly en- 

 larged edition by the John C. Moninger 

 Company, Chicago, entitled "Perfect 

 Greenhouse Construction." The cover 

 is printed in three colors and presents 

 a view of the establishment of Bassett 

 \; Washburn, at nhisdale, 111. The body 

 pages show thirty-five half-tones of gr< len- 



Peter Reinberg's 1903 Addition, Nine Houses. 27'.-x304, Eight and One-half Feet to Gutters. 



