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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



of thi houses are being planted to roses 

 an<! t 1 , 1 • • • In . :■ mat ions. The roses are 

 p.. .-..,:\. Kdgoly. I.ilierty. I'.rido 

 and Maid, and 500 Mrs. Oliver Ames. 

 1 1 nations are mainly Lawson, 

 Prosperity, Estelle, Hill, Queen Louise, 

 Gov. Woicott and Roosevelt. Some or- 

 chids will also be grown. 



The houses are all three-qua i 't< 



mi facing a little west of south. 



.the three center 



ones being five feet wide and those 

 Ihe nails being two feet nine 

 The provision for filiin 



emptying the i ses is es] ial 



esting. There is a doable dooi 



end and the e< ntei bench is made 



tions so it can be easily removed and set 

 up again. A double learn can then be 

 driven right through the house and soil 

 for all the benches thrown into those on 

 eael „,|,. f the driveway. It seems to 

 be an excellent solution of the problem 

 of how to most economically empty and 

 refill benches. 



Two thousand Brunners are getting 

 ready to take the place of the chrysan- 

 themums when the latter are cut out, 

 and a batch of lilies will help in the 

 same direction. 



All the houses have front and back as 

 well as overhead ventilation. There is 

 about three feet of glass ventilation in 

 front and a foot board at the back. 

 Field-grown roses are being planted in 

 some houses and burlap shading is used 

 on these houses till the roses take hold 

 of the soil. 



A huge water tank is in place and the 

 space underneath is being closed in and 

 neatly ceiled, to be used as a dining 

 room for the men. Barns and other ac- 

 cessories are being constructed and the 

 big gang of carpenters and other work- 

 men are pushing the work at a rapid 

 gait. Crude oil will be used for fuel 

 and steam will be the heating medium. 

 The stock in the large establishment 

 of E. W. McLellan, located here, is in its 

 usual fine condition. The replanting of 

 the carnation houses is now being fin- 

 ished. Some of the roses were carried 

 over from last season and are starting 

 strong new growth in good shape. 



Henri De Coulon started in the cu"c 

 flower-growing line here last year and 

 has three houses, which are placed in a 

 rather novel wav. They form almost an 

 exact triangle. The stock looks well and 

 results are what count, so maybe a tri- 

 angular arrangement is a good thing. 



BOILER CAPACITY. 



I want to put in a boiler to heat a 

 greenhouse 26x75, with about 2,800 

 square feet of glass surface. A manu- 

 facturer tells me that a 16x30 boiler will 

 ■ I I see in a catalogue that this is 

 just the size for 6,000 cubic feet, only a 

 small part of the cubic contents of my 

 greenhouse. How will it work? The 

 ground is shallow and a deep pit cannot 

 be dug because of water. How will it do 

 to put the boiler on the level of the 

 greenhouse floor and hang the whole pipe 

 business in the air! 



A boiler having a rated capacity for 

 heating 5,000 cubic feet, presumably a 

 rating used for dwelling heating, would 

 not be capable of heating a greenhouse 

 26x75. containing about 2,800 square 

 feet of glass exposure. For the heating 

 of such a greenhouse a boiler having a 

 .[welling heating capacity of at least 30.- 

 000 cubic feet should be used. Regard- 

 ing the shallowness of the boiler cellar 

 referred to, it will pay to make a water- 



J. L. 



tight pit of concrete, sufficiently large to 



mmodate the boiler and deep 



enough to bring the top of the boiler 

 level with or below the greenhouse floor, 

 otherwise he will have to do as he says, 

 "hang the whole pipe business in the 

 air." When he has purchased his boiler, 

 if he will state the exact measurements 

 of same and give greatest depth he can 



make his pit, also s ! particulars as to 



bench arrangement of greenhouse, I will 

 be pleased to give him some points in 

 laying ou1 his ' ' pipe business." 



Henky W. Gibbons. 



ASPARAGUS MYRIOCLADUS. 

 One of the interesting plant novelties 



British writer should t interest 



••Attention has been called to the 

 d rative species of asparagus on sev- 

 eral occasions, but it apparently takes 

 a long time to establish a plant firmly 

 in the affection of cultivators, and es- 

 pecially those who grow for market pur- 

 poses. The now well-known Asparagus 

 Sprengeri was growing luxuriantly in 

 the French and Belgian nurseries several 

 years before the British growers would 

 take it up. Even when one or two tried 

 it, it did not catch on quickly, but grad- 

 ually its beauty and usefulness became 

 more apparent and were at last genera..} 

 recognized. 



"A. myriocladus, the species now 

 under notice, will probably go through 

 the same process before it becomes 

 thoroughly well-known. It is a distinct 

 and ornamental species, and, like many- 

 others, a native of South Africa. It 

 grows three to live feet high, and even 

 more, perhaps, the stems becoming 

 woody, and of a soft, pale brown hue. 

 with sturdy spines at the base, of the 

 branches. These latter are wiry look- 

 ing, and from them arise other wiry- 

 looking, but more slender branchlets, 

 from the joints of which spring dense 

 whorls of feathery, slender leaves or 

 cladodes. In a young state they are of 

 a soft, bright green and very attractive, 

 but become of a deeper and more sombre 

 hue with age. Small plants, in 5-inch 

 pots, are decidedly ornamental and 

 should prove useful for the table or con- 

 sen atorv. 



"The' cultivation of Asparagus myrio- 

 cladus presents no particular dif- 

 ficulty. It flourishes in a greenhouse 

 temperature and likes abundance of air 

 when well established. Sandy loam and 

 leaf soil, with good drainage, seems to 

 suit it well. Propagation is effected by- 

 cuttings of the fairly well ripened side 

 shoots with a heel of the old wood, in- 

 serted in a bell glass or under a close 

 frame. As numerous shoots spring ur> 

 from the root-stock, this species appar- 

 ently can also be increased by careful 

 division just as the season's growth is 

 about to begin." 



THE CYPRESS MARKET. 



Chicago dealers in cypress lumber re- 

 port the demand about as good as it has 

 been throughout the season. Lately 

 numerous orders have been received from 

 boat builders, while other consumers, 

 such as tank manufacturers, the manu- 

 facturers of interior finish, greenhouse 

 men and others, are calling for lumber in 

 reasonable quantities. Prices remain 

 about stationary. In fact says the Amer- 

 ican Lumberman, there is no motive for 



making any concessions on Louisiansi 

 stock, because the mill operators are 

 selling their product as fast as it is fit 

 to ship. One feature of demand com- 

 mented on by a local dealer is the call 

 for low grade common stock for box 

 manufacture. Consumers are trying all 

 kinds of lumber to make up for the lack 

 of soft pine, and in some instances 

 they are turning to cypress as a substi- 

 tute. Aside from greenhouse require- 

 ments a good deal of cypress is used in 

 car building and an occasional sizable 

 order for such material has been re- 

 ceived this season. Iu all respects the 

 cypress trade is in good condition, de- 

 mand and distribution being well ad- 

 justed to the amount and condition of 

 supplies at the mills. 



TROUBLE WITH CYPERUS. 



1 send a stem of an umbrella plant 

 which is affected by some kind of dis- 

 ease unknown to me. Please tell me 

 what it is and the cure for it. 



P. J. K. 



The specimen of Cyperus alternifolius 

 forwarded with this ' letter is evidently 

 suffering from a severe attack of insects 

 rather than from disease, there being de- 

 cided evidence of a plentiful crop of 

 both mealy bugs and red spiders. The 

 tips of the leaflets have probably turned 

 brown from the plant having ueen dry 

 at some time, though they w-ere also 

 weakened to some extent by the red 

 spider, it would be best to cut back the 

 old growths and allow the plants to 

 come up again from the bottom, giving 

 an abundance of water at all times. This 

 plant is a semi aquatic, and consequently 

 grows better in mud than in dry soil, 

 the latter condition also favoring the 

 attacks of red spider. 



W. H. Taplin. 



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A LOW PRESSURE TRAP. 



Two winters ago I only used one pump 

 to force the water back to the steam 

 boilers. Something went wrong and we 

 were about to be frozen up when luckily 

 I ueiii about the work myself and found 

 out what an expert could not and just 

 saved my place from frost 

 then that 1 began to rea 

 was running by having only one steam 

 pump. So I began to study the matter 

 and found that the pump I was using 

 required at least ten pounds of steam 

 to work it, and that often in fall and 

 spring we did not require this amount 

 of steam pressure to heat our place. Why 

 not get a pump to work with as little 

 pressure as I required? So it occurred 

 to my mind that if I reduced the water 

 plungers one half on the new pump, 1 

 would increase the power of the pump 

 one half. So this we had done and the 

 result is that we can get all the water 

 pumped into the boilers at less than 

 three pounds pressure and nothing could 

 give greater satisfaction. As my fireman 

 said last winter, "She works like a 

 watch," and the return water very hot 

 ai that. The pump is a Northey, but I 

 am satisfied that any pump can be made 

 to do the same by simply reducing the 

 water plungers one half. S. S. Bain. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 Peter Henderson & Co., New York, 

 bulbs, seeds, etc. ; Lake Erie Boiler Com- 

 pound Co.. Buffalo, boiler cleaner; South- 

 ern Floral Nursery Co., Fruitdale, Ala., 

 Stokesia cyanea; E. F. Winterson Co., 



