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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Current Comment. 

 i we lia\ c escaped frost, and 3 et 



outside flowers are on the ragged edge 

 and will soon be all over. Dahlias are 

 little grown in this neighborhood. As- 

 ters are about over. Fine gladioli e,.mo 

 in from Rochester. That most brilliant, 

 fine keeping variety, 1900, seems une- 

 qualled in its class. Cosmos, that most 

 1 leant i t'ul decorative flower, is about 

 ready to give us its pretty blossoms 

 when Jack Frost appears. So we will 

 soon bo busy again with the same old 

 reliables that form our stork in trade 

 year after year. Roses are gaining in 

 quantity and quality and good ones find 

 a read} sale. A few violets are seen 

 occasionally, but they are as yet only an 

 .aims,- in] the sweei little blue gems. 

 Some very fair carnations are offered 

 and find a ready sale. The best we have 

 seen yet are Boston Market for white, 

 the Marquis and Joost for pink, and of 

 course the wonderful Enchantress in its 

 color. A bunch of this just now re- 

 minds you of the joyous time when you 

 first saw developing, day by day, the 

 vigor, habit and bursting buds of the 

 immortal Lawson. Later on we expect 

 to feast our vision on a much larger 

 bench of Prosperity, and perhaps Harlo- 

 warden will start us dancing the High- 

 laud Fling, but that is to come later. 



There are a good lot of 'mums in this 

 neighborhood. C. F. Christensen has a 

 fine house of useful varieties. J. H. Reb- 

 Btock, on Elmwood avenue, has several 

 benches in good order. Mrs. Schoenhut, 

 on William street, has a new house, 

 erected last spring, filled with good com- 

 mercial varieties, and William Eahman, 

 ■who rents the Troup establishment at 

 Corfu, has 12,000 very promising plants. 

 David .1. Scott, who runs papa's place at 

 the above village, has 1.500 single-stemmed 

 Robert Halliday. This fine yellow seems 

 very early this year. Buds the size of 

 silver dollars and showing color should 

 mean flowers to cut by October 10. D. J. 

 S. has also a very 'fine dark seedling, 

 to which he is very attentive and which 

 he has named Edith. It is his intention 

 eventually to discard all other varieties'. 



It has not been our good luck to meet 

 many of the visitors who have called o* 

 late, but we did not miss them all. J. 

 D. Eisele, of Riverton, and G. P. Clark. 

 of Henry A. Freer, both found their way 

 out to Corfu and we felt honored ; also 

 Mr. Miller and wife, of East New York. 

 L. I., just on a little holiday trip, and 

 Edward Fancourt, who talks ribbons -1 

 glibly and artistically for S. S. Pennock. 

 These were a feu of the visitors, and 

 there was another one, whom we are al- 

 ways glad to see, Phil Hauswirth, of 

 ■ k- since in- was 

 here, but we still recollect his remarks. 

 They did not seem to relate to wholesaler, 

 retailer or the grower. He said: "The 

 track was fine, especially for mud 

 horses;" "attenihimo poor;'' "odds 

 good;" "dope correct;" "talent off" 

 and much other technical phra-ool,,-\ 

 which was all Sanscrit to me. W. S. 



Wiiex a man 's advertising shows that 

 he is thoroughly interested in his busi- 

 ness, his business is sure to b. 

 foresting to others. 



Auburn, X. Y. Ernest A. Patrick, 

 who is interested with his father in Pat- 

 rick "s Greenhouses, was married Septem- 

 ber 16, to Miss Jennie May White, of 

 Kelloggsville. 



GARDENINGS" 



LASS 



Lincoln and Balmoral 

 is built five connected 

 planted them all to 

 range. 



Lett 



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LETTUCE, 

 seed should be sown at reg- 



ils, a< ding to requirements. 



r begin sowing for the first 

 indoor crop about the middle of Sep- 

 tember, so that we can have them ready 

 to succeed those grown in frames, which 

 we depend on to supply us until around 

 the holidays. Though we have had let- 

 tuce in eight weeks from time of sowing, 

 it is better to allow them about ten 

 weeks, as progress so much depends on 

 the brightness of the weather. Suitabil- 

 ity of the house and situation must also 

 have considerable influence on the length 

 of time required to mature, and the 

 grower can only judge for himself what 

 allowance he must make in his individ- 

 ual case. 



In sowing we prefer to use flats about 

 two inches in depth. This depth gives 

 the water a chance of quickly draining 

 off and obviates the danger of the soil 

 becoming sour. We prefer to use a light, 

 free soil rather than one that is too re- 

 tentive; the little plants not only do 

 better in this, but they are easier taken 

 out without damaging the roots when 

 pricking off. It is poor policy when 

 sowing the seeds to sow too thickly ; 

 rather sow a flat or two more and sow 

 thinly, so that there will be no danger 

 of the plants crowding one another un- 

 til they are large enough to prick off. 

 Pricking off should not be neglected, 

 but should be done just as soon as the 

 plants are large enough to handle, so 

 that their progress will receive as little 

 check as possible. One of the secrets of 

 lettuce forcing is to keep the plants 

 growing steadily from start to finish. 



A night temperature of from 45 to 50 

 degrees is quite high euough for young 

 plants, allowing a rise of about 15 de- 

 grees by sun heat. A light, airy situa- 

 tion will keep the plants stocky and 

 guard against thinness of texture in the 

 leaves. The most troublesome insect 

 enemy that the lettuce grower has to 

 tight is greenfly. This sometimes at- 

 tacks the plants in a small stage, and as 

 prevention is better than cure, it is a 

 good plan to have tobacco stems freely 

 distributed in the vicinity of the young 

 plants. W. S. Ckoydon. 



HEATING LETTUCE HOUSES. 



I have two houses 28x125 feet, twelve 

 feet to ridge, glass on one end only and 

 three feet in the south wall. Have a tub- 

 ular boiler with forty-three 3-inch flues 

 fourteen feet long. I would like to use 

 hot water without using 4-inch pipes and 

 the returns would better be on the side 

 walls as we want to use the houses for 

 lettuce. What size of chimney is re- 

 quired ! Can it be arranged to use steam 

 in severe weather? R. Z. 



louse si ill require fourteen lines 

 of 2-inch pipes to maintain 45 degrees to 

 50 degrees on the coldest nights, with 

 water circulation, open system, or if with 

 a pressure system, the tank being at least 

 ten or twelve feet above the coils, twelve 

 lines would answer. The arrangement 

 of pipes would be two flows and two re- 



turns on each side wall, two flows on 

 top of center column, with two returns 

 well up on each of the two side columns. 

 The smoke stack should be eighteen or 

 twenty inches in diameter and about 

 thirty to thirty-five feet high above the 

 top of the boiler. A combination steam 

 and water system can be arranged, but it 

 is better to stick to either one or the 

 other and have it perfectly planned. 

 Henry W. Gibbons. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



Horticultural Society Meets. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety met September IS, President Jo- 

 seph Steckler occupying the chair. A 

 communication was received from the 

 National Nut Growers' Association, 

 which is to meet in this city, at Audubon 

 park, October 28-31, requesting the New 

 Orleans horticulturists to take part in 

 the proceedings. It was decided to have 

 the association represented at the con- 

 vention, and the sum of $25 was voted 

 for entertainment purposes. 



Mr. Newsham, who has charge of the 

 preparations for the exhibit at the St. 

 Louis exposition, reported that he is get- 

 ting along in a very satisfactory manner. 

 Among the plants already on hand he 

 has twenty-four varieties of large-sized 

 palms, and he expects to have altogether 

 thirty-five to forty varieties. Mrs. Anna 

 S. Kouns, of No. 1218 St. Andrew street, 

 was the first non-member of the associa- 

 tion to send specimens for the exhibit. 

 She sent two splendid Boston ferns. 



Messrs. Valdejo, Chopin and Papworth, 

 of those who represented the asso- 

 ciation at the recent convention of 

 the national association of florists 

 held in Milwaukee, each gave an 

 account of his observations and ex- 

 periences, the gist of which was 

 that the florists of New Orleans have 

 much to learn in regard to the profitable 

 raising of flowers. The men of the north 

 know how to grow flowers, even if at 

 considerable expense, and they know just 

 what kinds to grow for the market, and 

 they get big prices. New Orleans ought 

 to control the market for palms, ferns 

 and even rubber plants, gardenias and' 

 carnations. The only essentials are 

 proper houses, proper men and proper 

 ground. The florists here could, by find- 

 ing a deboucho for their products, make 

 a fortune, because they can grow flowers, 

 palms and ferns fifty per cent cheaper 

 than the florists in the north. 



LAURELBRANCH, N. C. 



The trade in galax leaves this season 

 promises to be of considerable impor- 

 tance, as the demand is always good and 

 the season 's crop is above an average 

 in quality in this locality. But bronze 

 h-axes are likely to be from two to three 

 weeks later than usual owing to the ab- 

 sence of frost, which usually reaches 

 here by September 15. Were it not for 

 this trade many of the poorer classes 

 would suffer, as they depend on the 

 galax trade largely for a living. 



M. L. Henderson has gone out of 

 business. 



Woodruff & Miles, of Cherry Lane, 

 are preparing for the trade. 



Mrs. Alice Bryan has removed to 

 Trap Hill, where a new branch railroad 

 will soon be built. 



It now looks as if 2,000 cases will go 

 from this locality during the season. 

 Vegetation is still as green as in midsum- 

 mer. B. 



