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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mav 21. 1903. 



growers to plant nice young stock, that 

 had been rooted in ilarch or April, on 

 the tarnrttion benches when the carna- 

 tions were thrown out in May or June. 

 KowadayS, with the ever-increasing im- 

 portance oi the carnation crop and the 

 fact that the carnations are benched 

 earlier every year, the poor old nunn 

 is crowded out and several growers of 

 my acquaintance have discontinued 

 growing them altogether. 



If one 'has a piece of waste ground 

 within reiasonable distance of the water 

 supply, it can be utilized to good ad- 

 vantage Ity planting the mums on it, and 

 these plants, if lifted carefully at the 

 end of AXigust and potted up. will give 

 a lot of useful flowers. The florist with 

 a home trade Avho handles his plants in 

 lliis manner and does not disbud much 

 will find the sprays of flowers very use- 

 ful in funeral work and sucli like de- 

 signs. Brian Bori'. 



TROUBLE WITH CYCLAMEN. 



Will someone please tell me through 

 the Eeview what causes the leaves of 

 my cyclamens to wilt, then dry up and 

 die? The new leaves keep starting. If 

 someone can tell me how to prevent it I 

 will appreciate it. Subscriber. 



It is most likely young plants from 

 seed sown last fall that are being 

 troubled with this leaf disease, whatever 

 it is. Under ordinarily good treatment 

 I never saw cyclamen, particularly young 

 plants, lose any leaves. Therefore, it is 

 impossible for me to guess at the cause. 



.Just a few remarks on what their 

 treatment should be at this time of 

 year. Perhaps they are in 3-inch or 

 possibly 4-inch pots. They vshould have 

 tobacco stems between the pots, for it 

 helps greatly to keep down aphis. They 

 should be finely sjirayed every bright 

 morning. The cyclamen should never 

 be allowed to get killing dry. neither 

 does it want to be kept in a state of 

 soak. The siui is powerful now. and 

 from 10 a. m. until 4 p. ui. a lattice or 

 thin cloth sliade should protect them. 

 Other hours and dull days they should 

 not have any shade. Under these con- 

 ditions you sluiuld have no trouble of 

 anj' kind with your cyclamen. 



WiLUASi Scott. 



PAINTING HEATING PIPES. 



I would like to ask Jlr. Gibbons if 

 there is any danger from using lamp 

 black, linseed oil, drier and turpentine 

 as a covering for pipes in greenhouses'; 

 Is there any danger that there would be 

 fumes sent ofl' during heavy firing which 

 would be injurious to plants? Also, 

 would there be any gases or fumes which 

 would not be perceptible to a person in 

 the house at the time when the pipes 

 are heated? Inquirer. 



There is very great danger in using 

 the preparation Inquirer describes for 

 painting heating pipes in greenhouses. 

 as the fumes thrown off by the coating 

 when the pipes are heated is poisonous 

 to most of our greenhouse plants if not 

 to all. The effect varies with different 

 plants, a. smooth liard coated leaf being 

 less subject to injury than a soft hairv 

 leaf. 



The duration of the danger depends 

 largely on the temperature to which the 

 pipes have been exposed. Thus, if ster.m 

 heat is used the evaporation is quick 

 and complete and most fatal to the 

 plants during such process of evaporii- 

 tion, but when the process is complete 



no further injury will be done; but if a 

 moderate heat only is applied to the 

 pipes, as in the case of water heated 

 pipes, the danger period would be o.k- 

 teuded. 



Difl'erent persons have different power 

 of the sense of smell and it would be 

 diflicult to make definite statement as to 

 the condition referred lo in the last para- 

 graph of Inquirer's letter. 



Henry W. Gibbons. 



Miami. Fla. 



A FLOWER GARDEN. 



We have a plot of ground 1G0.\'210 

 feet that we want to de\'Ote to a flower 

 garden. It slopes slightly to the east. 

 We desire to use the general assortment 

 of bedding plants, filling the entire space 

 except for good walks for the public 

 to use in examining the garden. 



If some of the expert gardeners among 

 the readers of your v.iluable journal Avill 

 tell nie how to lay out this land to best 

 advantage I shall esteem it a favor. 



Gardenebsonii. 



EXPRESS RATES. 



A reader says lie is having difficulty 

 in getting the single merchandise rate 

 on cut flowers sent by express. Some- 

 times the package comes billed at the 

 extra rate formerly prevailing and the 

 agent says he can not correct it when 

 it has been billed wrongly. 



Our reader should protest to the su- 

 perintendent of the com|iany. and should 

 ]iay all such overcharges under protest 

 only until the matter has l>een corrected. 

 If the matter is followed up all over- 

 charges will be refunded to him. 



PIPING. 



How many rows of 1 j inch pipe will it 

 require to heat with hot water four 

 houses, joined on a hill side? Size of 

 houses 19x56, 11 feet to the ridge, glass 

 at east end. and south lights small. Tem- 

 perature required, 5.3 degrees, where the 

 glass is down for a short time to zero, 

 but most of the winter about 10 above 

 zero. ■ J. L. 



.\s ,T. L. does not give the pitch or rise 

 of the side hill on which his connected 

 houses stand. I can not determine the 

 glass area of the roofs accurately enough 

 to advise as to number of lines of IJ-inch 

 pipe to I* used in each house. He will 

 require one line of IJ-inch pipe for every 

 41 inches of glass, meaning across the 

 houses, roofs and exposed glass side all 

 to be included. 



Henry W. Gibbons. 



]\liami. Fla. 



MILWAUKEE CLUB MEETING. 



Quite a lively club niei'ting was held 

 May 12. C. B. Whitnall was elected 

 treasurer to succeed \\'ni. Currie, who 

 has resigned, as he intends to leave for 

 Scotland sliortly. The club has also or- 

 ganized two rival bowling teams. Wm. 

 Edlefsen Is captain of one team and 

 Alexander Klokner of the other. Draw- 

 ings were made for the best bowlers 

 among the, craft by each captain alter- 

 nately, and the teams are very evenly 

 matched. They will howl from now on 

 until convention week and then six of 

 the best men will be selected to capture 

 some of the convention prizes. At our 

 next club meeting C. B. Whitnall will 

 tell the boys all about his California 

 trip and Robt. Zepnick will read a pa- 

 per on "Success in Growing Violets." 

 Refreshments will also be served. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Those who had hoped for improvement 

 in the market this week have thus far 

 been disappointed. Receipts continue 

 never heavier, and qualitj- is, of course, 

 going down grade as a result of the 

 sudden change to siuumer weather. But 

 really there has been more cause for 

 complaint. It is still possible to move 

 the stock, even if at unmentionable fig- 

 ures, and the wholesale houses continue 

 to find the aggregate of sales footing 

 up to a very respectable total, whatever 

 the local store men may say. 



Naturally it is only a small part of 

 the supply which attains to anything 

 like top quotations. Beauties are sell- 

 ing well, although at low rates. The 

 receipts of long-stemmed buds are par- 

 ticularly heavy just now and some of 

 the best selling at .$2 per dozen in quan- 

 tity. Brides are soft and small and 

 "Maids losing color. Liberty still sells 

 well, also Chatenay. 



There has been a deluge of carna- 

 tions, most of them pretty fair, and 

 prices have held up better in this de- 

 partment than on ro.ses, although Tues- 

 day saw quite an accumulation in cer- 

 tain (Quarters. Sweet peas were never 

 better and rarely more plentiful. Pe- 

 onies have been coming along slowly and 

 selling well, where carefully rebuiiehed. 

 One of Kennieott's growers sent in a lot 

 of peonies by freight, arriving Monday. 

 He was from JSIissouri and needed to be 

 shown. Miscellaneous items are in full 

 supply and little demand. 



Decoration Day. 



Wliat Decoration day will bring forth 

 is problematical. The wholesalers re- 

 port many inquiries for prices on large 

 lots, and all expect big business. If the 

 weather stays warm there is likely to be 

 large supplies of rather low grade stock 

 at cheap prices, but a change to cool and 

 cloudy might mean a scarcity and prices 

 going up. Better oiiier early. 



Club Meeting. 



There was a slim attendance, never- 

 theless a packed house, at the special 

 club meeting Jlonday evening, and 

 action Mas deferred in the matter of ar- 

 ranging for a new meeting place, the 

 only question permitted to come up, 

 unanimous consent b'eing denied on P. 

 J. Hauswirth's motion to admit of a gen- 

 eral discussion of the all'airs of the club. 

 There was only one objection to the 

 proposition to change the meeting night 

 to Jlonday. but the debate on the report 

 of the trustees was enlivened by a slip 

 of the tongue which, should many such 

 occur, would necessitate the larger hall 

 against which the speaker was at the 

 moment arguing. 



In opening the meeting President 

 Thompson e.x])ressed his regrets that the 

 attendance at recent very interesting 

 meetings should have been so small, and 

 admonished his committees that it is 

 liigh time they took action on the mat- 

 ters in their charge. He stated that 

 there are eighty-six delinquent members 

 on the list, whom he argues should be 

 dropped if they do not pay up. 



After adjournment rcfi-eshments were 

 served and a splendid entertainment pro- 

 vided by professional talent whose pres- 

 ence was due to Walter Kreitling. than 

 whom there is no more indefatigable 

 worker in the club's behalf. He had 

 .■^childkret's orchestra: Professor W, W. 

 Games, elocutionist, and Professor 

 Hutchin.son, pianist, whose work was 



