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The Florists' Review 



Januart 19. 1922 



of the flower lends belief to the idea 

 that it would be an acquisition to re- 

 tailers for corsage work. If it lives up 

 to expectations, Mr. Keimel expects to 

 plant part of a bench with the Tariety 

 later on. 



Heating Equipment. 



Mr. Keimel 's adoption of progres- 

 sive ideas is evident both in his methods 

 of growing and in the equipment of the 

 range. He was among the first to ex- 

 periment with prepared chemical fer- 

 tilizers in the greenhouses, and because 

 of his intimate knowledge and careful 

 observation of the liabits of rose plants, 

 he was able to determine ways of using 

 such preparations to advantage. This 

 range was also among the first to install 

 labor-saving equipment, particularly in 

 the boiler rooms. Few ranges of this 

 size are so well equipped. At the out- 

 set of the recent war, Mr. Keimel saw 

 the danger which might result from the 

 labor shortage and from a diminished 

 supply of fuel. At an expense of sev- 

 eral thousand dollars, automatic stokers 

 were installed, as well as a forced draft 

 system. The devices installed reduced 

 the work of the boiler room to the low- 

 est degree. During the war, the equip- 

 ment demonstrated its value. As the 

 labor shortage becomes less and less 

 acute, and the quality of coal becomes 

 better and the price declines, the work 

 of such equipment, of course, also 

 diminishes in proportion. But now that 

 the equipment is installed, there are no 

 regrets. 



Keimel 's Career. 



The position which Mr. Keimel has 



won as an expert grower of roses and a 

 successful greenhouse manager has been 

 reached by a long and arduous career of 

 work and more work. Born in 1872, at 

 Stettin, Germany, he started as an ap- 

 prentice when he was 14 years old. Two 

 years later he came to this country. 

 After two years in the west, he came 

 to Chicago, working three years for 

 W. L. Smith, at Aurora, and an equal 

 length of time for Bassett & Washburn. 

 In 1896 he went east, working there for 

 L. A. Noe, at Madison, N. J., and for 

 Dean & Co., at Little Silver, N. J., re- 

 turning west via Cleveland, where he 

 worked for the J. M. Gasser Co. for a 

 year. In 1900 he was back in Chicago, 

 working for Poehlmann Bros. Co. at 

 Morton Grove. 



In 1908 the Wendland & Keimel Co. 

 was organized. In 1913 Mr. Keimel be- 

 came treasurer and general manager of 

 the firm, which positions he now holds. 

 H. C. Wendland, the president of the 

 company, is a member of the importing 

 firm of Wendland Bros, and has also real 

 estate and other interests. The vice- 

 president is 0. W. Balgmann, and the 

 secretary, H. C. Schumacher. Mr. 

 Keimel has served as president of the 

 Chicago Florists ' Club and as a director 

 of the Society of American Florists, of 

 which he is a life member, lending sup- 

 port to the National Flower Growers' 

 Association by accepting the presidency 

 of that organization, which will hold its 

 annual meeting at Hartford, Conn., at 

 the time of the exhibition of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society, the last week of 

 this month. 



DUTCH BULBS FOB EASTER. 



How late can hyacinths and tulips be 

 put in pots and stored in a cold cellar 

 and flowered for Easter? Will those 

 potted as late as Christmas be all right 

 this yearf How long before Easter 

 should they be brought to light and heat 

 and at what temperature should they be 

 run for best results? D. A. M. — Pa. 



Christmas is too late for the potting 

 of bulbs of either tulips or hyacinths to 

 flower at Easter, even though this fes- 

 tival comes moderately late, April 16. 

 Bulbs kept as late as December 25 lose 

 much of their vitality and will not grow 

 and flower nearly so well as those started 

 in October or even November. It is 

 preferable to get bulbs into the soil 

 sometime in October. It takes a con- 

 siderable number of weeks to get the 

 pots or flats filled with roots and, of 

 course, a cool place is necessary for this. 

 If you allow a couple of weeks for hya- 

 cinths and a few days longer for tulips 

 in a greenhouse kept at about 50 degrees 

 at night, your plants should be in flower 

 for an Easter coming as late as it does 

 this year. C. W. 



DOUBLE CYCLAMENS. 



When my cyclamens came into bloom 

 this winter I found a deep crimson dou- 

 ble one among them. The blooms are 

 four and four and one-half inches in 

 diameter and as double as a peony. 

 There are three blooms on the plant 

 now and about a dozen more buds are 

 coming, which all are markedly double. 

 Do you know of anyone who has tried 

 to pollenize a double cyclamen? When 

 is the proper time to transfer the pollen? 

 The flowers are so beautiful that I 

 should like to propagate more like them 

 if possible. I write assuming these are 

 rare, having never seen or heard of a 

 double one before. W. D. M. — Wis. 



Double cyclamen flowers have been no 

 uncommon occurrence here for the last 

 few years, in the variety we call Bril- 

 liant Red. They may be pollenized at 

 any time when in flower. 



J. A. Peterson. 



MITE ON CYCLAMENS. 



Does it pay to grow left-over cycla- 

 men plants year after year? We bought 

 a bench of cyclamen plants in 4-inch and 

 5-inch pots from a grower last Septem- 

 ber. When these plants came into bloom 

 they were all affected with mite. The 

 flowers were all spotted and the buds 

 seem to be decayed and, out of the 300 

 plants, there is not one which is salable. 

 Would it pay to grow these same plants 

 another year? F. & F. — Wis. 



This Main Aisle Runs Along the East End of All the Houses. 



Some growers — mainly, however, on 

 private estates — carry some cyclamens 

 over a second season. This practice was 

 once quite common, but is rapidly dying 

 out. There is little advantage in carry- 

 ing over plants when specimens in 10- 

 inch pots and even small tubs can be 

 produced in sixteen and seventeen 

 months from the seed. I should advise 

 against attempting to carry over your 

 plants, particularly when your stock is 

 affected with mite. If your plants were 

 valueless this season, they will certainly 

 not be one whit better another year, and 

 my advice to you would be to throw 

 them away at once and start anew. 



It is a big task to keep cyclamen 



