LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Frontispiece : A natural and artistic exhibition of chrysanthemums. 



FIG. PAGE 



1. A well-arranged, and attractively decorated retail store. 



(Courtesy of George M. Stiunpp) 17 



2. A window display and flower arrangement in a retail store . 19 



3. Interior and exterior of a commission house. (Courtesy of 



Pennock-Meehan Company) ...... 29 



4. Interior of a co-operative flower market . . . .33 



5. Interior of a modern greenhouse of large dimensions. (Cour- 



tesy of Lord & Burnham Company) .... 49 



6. A modern, well-arranged greenhouse establishment . . 50 



7. A hotbed on the south side of a greenhouse . . .59 



8. Concrete hotbeds and their arrangement ... 61 



9. Construction of a flat-rafter "giant" truss greenhouse . 67 



10. Greenhouse foundations and their construction ... 69 



11. Mixing cement and the removal of forms .... 71 



12. The finished foundations and the erection of the super- 



structure .......... 73 



13. Erecting the superstructure on a flat-rafter greenhouse . 77 



14. A cast-iron horizontal tubular boiler. (Photo by David 



Lumsden) 95 



15. Sectional boilers arranged in a battery. (Courtesy Tuthill 



Advertising Agency) ....... 97 



16. Arrangement of heating pipes ...... 99 



17. Repainting the greenhouses ....... 127 



18. Making carnation cuttings. (Photo by F. A. Waugh) . 163 



19. Inserting the cutting in the propagating bench and removing 



the rooted cutting from the sand. (Photo by F. A. 



Waugh) 169 



20. Rose grafting. (Photos by David Lumsden) . . . 173 



21. A compost heap 190 



22. Preparing rose soil by the field method . . . . .191 



23. A vase arrangement of carnations. (From Bailey collection 



of negatives) 227 



