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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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GARDENING"™" 



GLASS 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — Charles Chad- 

 wick is building :i new greenhouse 450 

 feet long, which will be used for forcing 

 lettuce. 



FORCING ASPARAGUS. 



As Ear a- the Juicing uf iliis vegetable 

 I n.. I. it is quiti a simple matter, 

 as it is well adapted as a forcing sub 

 jeet, requiring only about three weeks 

 from time of starting until it is fit to 

 cut if the proper conditions are pro- 

 vided. The procuring of suitable plants 

 is often the most troublesome part, un 

 less the plants are home-grown, and 

 when it is intended to go into asparagus 

 forcing to any great extent it will pay 

 to grow them at home. Here they can 

 be lifted and placed in the forcing quar- 

 ters without any check through the 

 roots being exposed to the drying in- 

 fluence of the air, but when shipped 

 from a distance more or less drying and 

 consequent loss of vitality is bound to 

 occur through the soil being all shaken 

 from the roots. We like to get them, if 

 possible, with soil adhering. We have 

 used two-year-old crowns where they 

 were very strong, but find as a general 

 rule that those three years old are more 

 profitable, the stalks produced being not 

 only more numerous but considerably 

 stronger. 



We have seen asparagus foieed under 

 greenhouse benches and such places, but 

 in such situations it is hard to pro- 

 duce a first-class article. We have ob- 

 tained the best results in pits. Our pits 

 are about four feet deep and built of 

 brick, heated by one 4-inch hot water 

 pipe, which runs right around the pit 

 about one foot from the top. We begin 

 operations by putting about two feet of 

 stable litter in the bottom of the pit. 

 This we pack as firmly as possible. Clean 

 sand is then added to a depth of three 

 inches. As the manure generates more 

 heat than the roots will stand, time is 

 allowed for the surplus heat to work 



off. ] 



When the temperature has fallen to 60 

 degrees we consider it safe to set the 

 plants. We set them just as close as the 

 adhering soil will allow, then cover with 

 from three to four inches of sand. 

 Enough water is then given to settle the 

 sand around the roots, but not enough 

 to soak the manure. The heat is regu- 

 lated by air to 75 degrees in the day 

 time and enough air is left on over night 

 to allow surplus vapor to escape while 

 the manure is still fresh. Later on 

 enough fire heat is supplied to maintain 

 a top night temperature of from 55 to 

 60 degrees. Frequent waterings are nec- 

 essary and should be given whenever 

 the sand shows signs of dryness. Cut- 

 ing should begin in from three to four 

 weeks and should be attended to every 

 morning after the points begin to ap- 

 pear. When the crop is over the roots 

 can be thrown out and replaced by fresh 

 ones. The same "hotbed will retain heat 

 long enough to force several batches. 

 W. S. Croydon. 



Marinette, Wis. — George Vatter has 

 2,000 chrysanthemum plants this season 

 and a nice trade. He added 4,000 feet 

 of glass last summer, making a total of 

 18,000 feet. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMLRICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pros., S. P. Wlllard. Wethersneld. Conn.: First 

 Viee-Pres., J. Chas. McCnll.iut.-li. Cincinnati. (.).. 

 svc'v anil Trcas.. C. E. KruuVl, Cleveland. CI 

 The'22d annual meetlni? "ill be held at St. Louis 



The early wholesale lists quote Ever- 

 green corn at $4.40 to $4.50 per bushel. 



I in cactus dahlia Florence M. Stred- 

 wick is a while variety of great prom- 

 isi to be introduced next season by an 

 English grower. 



i ii LS; P. Br \si \- . of the Braslan 

 Seed Growers Co., San Jose, Cal., ex- 

 pects to start on his annual eastern busi 

 ncss trip shortly. 



Visited Philadeli 



ich. Paris: .lames 

 Dunnett & Heal, Li 

 will sail for home til 



Alfred Km. 



Visited < Chicago: 1. ester i . VEorse, 



C. !.'. Kimlierlin and W. .1. Posgate 

 Santa Clara, Cal.; D. S. Sloan, of D. S. 

 Sloan & Son, Palo Alto, Cal.; Joe L. 

 ninth. irne. of Ullathorne Seed Co., 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



The A. J. Brown Seed Co., of Grand 

 Rapids, has leased an adjoining double 

 store and is installing bean picking ma 

 chines which will give a capacity of two 

 carloads of beans a day. 



Several shipments of s Is in bond 



from Europe to Chicago have arrived 

 this week. It is thought that this year 

 the importers viiii not have as much trou- 

 ble clearing seeds as they had last v.ui 

 and year before. 



John Scheepers, of Hillegom, Hol- 

 land, will exhibit a new tuberous rooted 

 begonia at the St. Louis World's Fair, 

 it being his intention to offer it to the 

 American trade next year. Mr. Sehee- 

 pers is now in New York. 



Five dollars per bushel seems to be 

 the prevailing value placed upon the 

 canners' varieties of sweet corn. No 

 sales of any account have been made at 

 this price, but some owners of the ar- 

 ticle .are holding stiff for it. 



I\ Chicago the past week some of the 

 pickle men expressed a willingness to 

 |.ii -I. r.n per pound for Chicago Pick- 

 ling cucumber seed; $2.50 per pound was 

 asked for 200 pounds of this variety, 

 but the deal was not closed. 



It is stated that D. V. Buirell, tho 

 Rocky Ford, Colo., seedsman who went 

 t.i Chicago a week or two back to be 

 i naie. I at the Pasteur Institute for a 

 bite from a mad dog, has returned home 

 and that the treatment was successful. 



Philadelphia. — There has been quite 

 a perceptible lull in business the past 

 week. All lines, with the exception of 

 bulbs, have been very quiet. Traveling 

 men report very little doing and some of 

 ne been as far west as Denver, 

 Col. With the uncertainties of being 

 able to secure stock of many kinds of 

 melons, cucumbers, beans and sweet corn, 

 together without any definite idea as to 

 the probable prices that are likely to rule 

 later, buyers do not seem inclined to. or- 

 der until the last minute. 



C. P. Coy & son, Waterloo, Neb., have 

 sent out the following: "As our cucum- 

 ber crops are now being harvested aud 

 received, we are meeting with serious 

 disappointments. In fact, some varieties 

 that promised fairly good results are giv- 

 ing us very little seed indeed. We had 

 sufficient fruits in sight on the grouud 

 to make previous estimates good, or near- 

 ly so, but are now finding that from one- 

 half to two-thirds of the seed in the 

 fruits is of unmerchantable quality, be- 

 ing light, chaffy, and undeveloped. Some 



is that we hoped to make a small 



showing on we will not be able to make 

 any delivery whatever, while indications 

 cow point to a decrease of thirty to fifty 

 i .i cent below former estimates all along 

 the line. The situation at present is 

 such that it is impossible to make an in- 

 telligent estimate until the crops are ac- 

 tually in the warehouse and milled up. 

 We regret that we cannot give something 

 definite as to deliveries, but be prepared 

 for e\t reme shortages. 



THE LANDRETH FAILURE. 

 On November 6 Bayard Henry was ap- 

 pointed receiver for the firm of D. Land- 

 reth & Sons, Philadelphia, the oldest seed 

 house in America. A meeting of the 

 creditors was held on July 20 and a 

 committee appointed to investigate the 

 affairs of the firm in hopes that 

 a way out of its financial troubles might 

 be found. This committee found the mi 

 secured liabilities to be $123,946.64. 

 I.'.al -Mir i- iiwnod subject to mortgages 

 of $155,000, which leaves little equity. 

 The assets were estimated at $134,197.36 

 as a going concern or at $53,545.98 at 

 forced' sale. It was recommended that 

 the creditors accept settlement at fifty 

 per cent of their claims in notes matur- 

 ing in installments up to July 15, 1905, 

 but this was not acceptable to some of 

 the banks involved, and the bankruptcy 

 proceedings have resulted. The business 

 was established in 17S4, by David Land- 

 reth, and has since been conducted by 

 members of the family. 



Remember that the 



Enchantress 



Is of the "Daybreak" shade, 

 the color most in favor with 

 the general public. 



Rooted Cuttings Now Ready. 



$6.00 per 10D; $50.00 per 1OO0. 



Lillian Pond, 



THE GRAND WHITE. 



$5.00 per 100; S40.00 per 10O0. 

 READY NOW. 



The Queen, 



$5.00 per 100 ; $40.00 per 1000. 



S5.00 per 1000. 



1 » $25.00 per 1000. 

 STRICTLY CASH WITH ORDER 



Larchmont Nurseries, 



LARCHMONT, N. Y. 



Mention Rerlew when yon write. 



