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The Florists^ Review 



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which has been supplied to us in dry 

 form! We wish to use it as a spray 

 on carnations to prevent stem-rot. We 

 do not know the right proportion of 

 water to use with the dry Bordeaux 

 mixture. O. G. — Okla. 



We have had no experience with Bor- 

 deaux in dry form, preferring to apply 

 it as a spray. You should be able to 

 obtain instructions as to proportions 

 from your source of supply, and that 

 would be the safest plan. In the ordi- 

 nary liquid Bordeaux mixture there are 

 supposed to be four pounds of stone lime 

 and four pounds of sulphate of copper 

 to fifty gallons of water. If you know 

 the ingredients of the dry material, 

 you wiU know how to mix it with the 

 water. A. F. J. B. 



THE GOLDEN MEAN IN FEEDING. 



Please tell me how often to feed car- 

 nations. Is there anything more effect- 

 ive for this purpose than bone meal? 

 W. B. M. 



If your soil was good when the car- 

 nations were benched, not a great deal 

 of feeding will be needed. At this time 

 of the year the sun has little strength 

 and the growth is liable to be soft, so 

 any kind of feed that contains much 

 nitrogen might cause the blooms to be- 

 come soft and lacking in keeping qual- 

 ity. Bone contains a good deal of lime, 

 which would act rather as a deterrent. 

 An application now should be sufficient 

 until late in January, when the sun will 

 be gaining strength, and sheep manure, 

 dried blood or a light mulch of rotted 

 manure then will be in order. Avoid 

 heavy applications of fertilizer while a 

 heavy crop of blooms is being cut, or 

 splitting of the calyx may result. 



A. F. J. B. 



MUMS AT FAISVIEW. 



While there was an exceptionally 

 large production of mums for Thanks- 

 giving this year, the scarcity of other 

 stock held prices up to figures double 

 those of a year ago and the growers 

 reaped a harvest. The large supply 

 was due principally to the fuel restric- 

 tion order, which led greenhousemen 

 to stock the houses they intended to 

 close with mums. The wiseacres in the 

 trade predicted a glut and were pleas- 

 antly disappointed. 



One of those who got in on this mum 

 prosperity was W. Bruce Clinger, pro- 

 prietor of the Fairview Greenhouses, 

 Milton, Pa. Mr, Clinger had a house 

 38x200 planted to white and yellow Wil- 

 liam Turner mums exclusively and had 

 a wonderful crop. The accompanying 

 illustration shows the house after some 

 of the blooms had been cut. They were 

 produced by James Oberdorf, superin- 

 tendent of the Fairview range. The 

 mums were grown two and three blooma 

 to the plant in second-year soil. Mr. 

 Clinger says he finds that the yellow 

 Turner is a much stronger grower than 

 the white, is more admired and finds 

 a ready sal© at good prices, both whole- 

 sale and retail. 



♦ vv® Fairview Greenhouses were es- 

 tablished in 1914 with 15,000 feet of 

 glass. During the four years the range 

 nas been doubled in area, showing that 

 Dusiness has been excellent. A general 

 line of cut flowers and plants is grown. 

 P» p"°?ei* is one of the fortunate 

 i-ennsylvanians who burn soft coal, so 

 mat He was benefited by the recent order 



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Clarence Craythorn's Success with Chrysanthemum Jeanne Nonin. 



of the U. S. Fuel Administration, which 

 lifted the ban from the consumption 

 of bituminous coal in greenhouses. The 

 Fairview Greenhouses will be run at 

 capacity this winter. Mr. Clinger says 

 business has held up well during the 

 war and he predicts a profitable future 

 for the trade. 



A HOUSE OF JEANNE NONIN. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 a house of Jeanne Nonin chrysanthe- 

 mums grown by Clarence F. Craythorn, 

 at Maple Shade, N. J. The crop was 

 cut from November 26 to December 

 6 and was marketed by the Philadelphia 

 Cut Flower Co., Philadelphia. Phil. 



A HOTHOUSE POLITICIAN. 



A Chicago newspaper sketches in 

 brief detail the life of Peter Reinberg, 

 recently reelected president of the 

 Board of County Commissioners of Cook 

 county, in which Chicago is located, re- 

 calling the days of his boyhood labors 

 as a salesman of garden truck, when 

 he was up with the sun and worked till 

 all hours of the night. Mr. Reinberg 's 



father's establishment was on the site 

 of his own greenhouses, at Robey street 

 and Foster avenue. After the youth 

 had been a truck gardener for himself 

 for some time he built three greenhouses 

 for lettuce and cucumbers. He saw the 

 commercial future of flowers and made 

 additions to his range for the floricul- 

 tural branch. He continued to add to 

 his range for a matter of twenty years, 

 until he had glass covering more than 

 twenty-five acres. By this time lettuce 

 and cucumbers had made way for roses 

 and carnations and at one time Mr. 

 Reinberg was the happy possessor of 

 125,000 American Beauties. A rose 

 which he originated was named Mrs. 

 Marshall Field. The paragrapher con- 

 cludes his little skit by remarking: 



"You have heard of pothouse politi- 

 cians, but of only one hothouse poli- 

 tician. He is Peter Reinberg, recently 

 reelected president of the County 

 Board." 



Westerville, O. — Glen-Lee place is the 

 name of a concern which deals in gar- 

 den, flower and farm seeds, fruit trees 

 and plants and fertilizers. 



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White and Yellow Turners for Thanksgiving at Fairview Greenhouses, Milton, Pa. 



