April 5, 1913 



llOETICULTUKE 



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Less Ice With Better Results 



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 fect circulation of cool, dry air, will not only reduce your ice 

 bills, but will keep your stock in the best condition — fresh, 

 fragrant and attractive. 



McCray Refrigerators 



Are made so as to display your flowers to the best advantage. 

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of Clay's fertilizer, for the old way so 

 often recommended is the best, viz., 

 a change little and often. As an all- 

 round food for the carnation, I con- 

 sider bone meal the ideal food. 

 From now on the surface soil must be 

 lightly cultivated, but not deep. Con- 

 tinue stopping the growth when a 

 fair-sized plant is secured and a safe 

 date to cease all stopping operations 

 is around the third week in August. 

 Each grower should use his own dis- 

 cretion, as weather conditions some- 

 times warrant a little earlier or later 

 date. 



When the flower stems push up, 

 green fly usually makes its appear- 

 ance and a light fumigating with Nico- 

 ticide will destroy this and help to 

 keep away many other insects most 

 injurious to the carnation. The plants 

 will now receive great benefit by giv- 

 ing a little top dressing of wood ashes 

 and the next time of feeding soot, both 

 of these being so beneficial to the for- 

 mation of a vigorous flower stem, and 

 the latter is a preventive of disease. 



When the flower buds begin to ex- 

 pand be careful to avoid extremes in 

 temperature in order to prevent split- 

 ting of the blooms. Syringing must 

 be discontinued and only done on 

 bright days and if you have sprayed 

 and find that the plants have not dried 

 off before closing time turn on a little 

 heat. 



Daily operations from now on will 

 be in supporting the plants with wires 

 and attending to disbudding and also 

 to see that no dust is "allowed to get 

 on the blooms. If the foregoing in- 

 structions have been faithfully car- 

 ried out, we can hope for a fair mea- 

 sure of success. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



P. L. McKee has the sympathy of 

 the trade in the loss of his father. 



Mrs. Peter Olsen recently submitted 

 to an operation for appendicitis and 

 is doing well. 



W. J. Neissen had his house dam- 

 aged by fire when a neighbor's house 

 was blown over on it. 



Fred Lautenschlager left for New 

 York. April Ist, to take charge of the 

 exhibit of "The Kroeschell Boiler" at 

 the International Flower Show. 



A. E. Hunt at Evanston expected to 

 see his houses leveled when five dwell- 

 ings on the opposite side of the street 



blew down, but his loss was but a 

 few panes of glass. 



Just after a shipment of greenhouse 

 material left Chicago for Dayton, O., a 

 telegram was received by the J. C. 

 lloninger Co. to hold it as the place 

 was destroyed by the floods. 



J. F. Kidwell says he thinks the 

 type of smoke stack built for his range 

 can stand any storm. It is built with 

 36-inch flue all the way and has a base 

 16 feet wide. It is 85 feet high. 



John F. Kidwell, president of the 

 Flower Growers' Association, was 

 probably the first man to begin re- 

 pairs after the storm. At 6 A. M., four 

 hours after the storm broke, he had 

 Michael Winandy engaged for the 

 work. 



One of the freaks of the first storm 

 was the falling of two telephone poles 

 at the Hunt Bros.' place at Park 

 Ridge, one of them causing some dam- 

 age and the other falling free of the 

 house. About forty wires crossed one 

 of the houses and during the second 

 storm held the house secure. 



Petition was made by Clifford 

 Pruner and A. F. Longren, former 

 salesmen for E. H. Hunt, that a re- 

 ceiver be appointed by the court to 

 take charge of that company's affairs. 

 No opposition was made by the com- 

 pany, which consists of Charles M. 

 Dickinson and his mother, Katherine 

 Hunt, and T. T. Clark, their book- 

 keeper, was appointed receiver on 

 March 24th. Under date of March 



22nd, Albert T. Bacon, certified public 

 accountant, issued the following 

 statement of conditions: Liabilities, 

 $12,065.49; assets, $18,163.15. The firm 

 is negotiating for a new three-years' 

 lease and expects now to continue the 

 business. 



E. S. Kurowski of thfi J. C. Monin- 

 ger Co., returned Sunday from Council 

 Bluffs, la., where he went to make an 

 estimate on the loss to the green- 

 house plant of J. F. Wilcox & Sons. 

 The two large new houses, each 65 by 

 1000 feet, he says, are practically de- 

 molished and the loss will be from 

 fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars. 

 When asked his opinion as to the en- 

 durance of the large greenhouses as 

 compared to that of the smaller ones, 

 Mr. Kurowski said: "No house of any 

 size could stand up under such a cy- 

 clone, but smaller houses may be 

 easier to repair." Mr. Kurowski saw 

 Mr. J. J. Hess of Omaha who said that 

 city escaped most of the storm. 



Jefferson Thomas, vice-president and 

 manager of The McParland Publicity 

 Service, from its organization six 

 years ago, has resigned this position 

 and in the future will be connected 

 with the Eugene McGuckin Company, 

 Philadelphia, as manager of their 

 sales promotion department. E. Fred 

 Rowe, who has been Mr. Thomas' con- 

 fidential assistant for the past two 

 years succeeds him with the McFar- 

 land people. 



HART MAKES HANDLES EOR POTS 



With Paper or Porto Rican Mats They Mate Baskets. These 

 are the Weil-Known HART'S HANDY HANDLES. 



Shipments are being made daily eastward to Boston, 

 westward to San Francisco — and everywhere else. 

 Once used always used, because they are SO HANDY. 



Prices per dozen— No. I. S2.S0; No. 2, S3.S0 ; No. 3. &4.00 ; 



No. 4, S5.00: Na. 5, &6.0O. 



GEORGE B. HART, 24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y. 



