964 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



\ andei bill 's estate i here was, in front of 

 le, a hall acre in carpet bed d< 

 i j tastefully at ranged for color 

 Ret inospi ra, tendi r i edrus 

 ■ i amids and o1 ber Eorms, 

 i borders and plenl j oi 

 dendrons, made a beautiful < iew. lly- 

 Otaksa me ii 



■ nbs, tlj blue, six feet high, 



are plentiful. The soil contains some 



iron, and I am told that Hydrangea 



i rtaksa can be wintered out of doors by 



the »-'' of barrels filled pi itn soil. I lac 



tus ihiliii nowhere 



this country. In fact, 1 have 



never sei ei of per- 



i plants such as has be< n 



I :it New port. 



The i mi, Ii i |i!.i. , is ao1 laj t 



beautiful. The elaborate buildings are 



surrounded with nice lawns l •■ • r . I . ■ > . .I 



v, nil i alifornia privet, close trimmed. 



The grei al ses are substantially made, 



with iron frames. Herein are grown 

 re plants, palms, ruses and carna- 

 tions. Roses ui i - er, are 

 i,mi a success here. Mta< ks of mildew 

 are apparent, doubtless owing to heavy 

 fogs from the nmm. The high sea 

 winds also interfere with the successfifl 



of deciduous t - and shrubs. 



Mr. Berwin's place is famed for rho- 

 dodendronsj and conifers line the tei 

 race. At the farther end of an Italian 



garden is a fountain in whii h - • 



nympha-as are planted, presenting a *e$y" 

 charming appeara m ■■■ 



I i e hon f Charles Roebling, at 



dition to re 



charge. 



In Philadelpl 

 famous orchid e 



to the 



ho will n 



Perricot, the gap 



l 50 fei 



But the rest w 

 ether paper. 



aiiethei 

 mixed varii 

 5. What interested 

 ls a house for seed- 



OUR LOUISVILLE FRIENDS. 



|, ,., Jos. Coenen, 

 Jacob Schulz, Henry Lichtefeld, J. E. 

 Marr.-t and T. B. Rudy. The n 



who are 



II. Kuu/.innn. W'm. -Mann. Jno. Bohrman 

 Imlz. 



HT. LaCHTEPELD. 



Albany. X. Y.— Ti 



: ■ i o., of 3S 

 i deal in & 



h : mi, \rtliur i '. Dacre 



i - 



H!Z^H^^HfNf' 



Veterans of the Craft 



ille, Ky. 



ETHER FOR PLANT FORCING. 



Tn make plants bl n brim, the in .1 



al bloss ng period or when this pe- 



od has pa I to produce them at the 



■ al that has been sought in recent years 



is la 



II. .I.ihanns, 11 . ■■ , ■ m 1 . ■■ I by an- 

 esthetizing the differ, nt organs nf plant's. 



a ml 1 hosi si lie h are in a state of repose. 

 believing that it \\011M be possible by 



the 



t ,n mg organs, 

 the plant orgai 

 fects of the i 



ot 



the /each 



of all, since it is 



cle, with a dose 

 centimeter of ■ 



ize.l brai 1 ert. These ex- 



perimen \ugust to Xo- 



rember, after which, the willow leaving 

 tin slate of repose, ether has no acceler- 



at ing -I, 



Anesthetics, we belii 



earl} forcing meth 

 in use. sinci > 



-- main s lion, rs b Julj 



flowering pe- 

 ril,, 1 takes plan- ,,nly in thi spi g. I'nr- 

 • thud makes p,,--il,l, tin flow - 



ering of these plants four or five months 

 i arlier than by the ordinary met ttuds of 

 forcing, it -I, ,11 ten- by from fifteen to 

 t \i i-ntx day s the duration of the fen i ej 

 period in the first m';i-,,h- of Xovembei 

 December and January, and by several 



■ lays in the later seasons, and it makes 

 all of the buds develop and bloom, while 

 if the plant is treated by the ordinal-- 

 procedure many of the buds are failures. 



Iii employing anesthetics on a lartre 

 Si ale the shrubs destined to be treated 

 ■I t'n in ■ be mi Minnl unless tin i 

 be grown in poti — and are put for some 

 tim, in a shi d, in eid.r that the ball 

 sha 11 become dry. The etherizing 



fo id iii a ■ losed plai e, a wooden case 



with joints plugged with cement and 

 painted all over being suitable. The 

 plants are placed near each other and the 

 ball is covered with sand, the ease bein" 

 i hen placed above tin m and surrounded 

 by a padding of sand at the base, in or- 

 der to prevent the loss of the ether va- 

 por. As this is much heavier than tin- 

 air it must always be placed in the top 

 of ih, box, or whatever receptacle '■■■ 

 used. The percentage of ether used is 

 .",."> to 4u grams per hectoliter of air, at 

 age temperature of 17 to 19 de- 

 grei - I . The shrubs remain in the re- 



■ eptai le for 48 hours in ordinary I imes, 

 although it is necessary to have them re- 

 main 7. hours in September and I leto 



ber. 



The results of this process are the 

 following: If the shrubs are still co\ 

 ered with leaves these fall as they would 

 do at the first touch of frost or under a 

 prolonged drought, the buds swell and 

 -1 i- condition progresses if I he plants 

 ,i ,• d.i. , and treated im- 



ai, oiai. ii by ordinary methods. The 

 swelling of the buds is all the more no 

 ticeable if the shrubs are denuded of 



ih. ir I. aves, tl ther vapor causing the 



plant-, to bud with remarkable rapblm. 

 1 1 the operation be performed on lilai s. 

 the tin rsus is developed in ten 

 the blooming is completed in a period 

 of 1 1 ,,iii ti-. e to ■ lulu da> s. It requires 



i n t'" i lilacs 



etherized to obtain the same di 



advi 



and tlom ring of the latter are g alh 



much more incomplete, because of the 

 fading of -a lai ge number of the buds. 

 Tims not only have we economy in la- 

 bor, in fuel, and in material, but the Re 



lies of shrubs -" I eacl oth 



regularly, the forcing may bi 

 nienced earlier, and at the same time the 



