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The Florists' Review 



Januauy 10. VJ22 



(if thr flciwcr lends l>i'li('1' to the iilf.'i 

 tliat it \v()>ilil be .'in ;ii((ii;sit ioii to re- 

 tailcrs for t'orsayc wmk. If it iivos iiji 

 to oxpt'ctutidiis, Mr. Ki'iiiiol expects to 

 jilatit part of a hciicli with tlio variety 

 latiT on. 



Heating Eeiuipment. 



-Mr. l^ciniil's adopt i(in of pnij^rcs 

 sive ideas i.s evident both in iiis inetlioils 

 of fjrowinjjj and in the e(pii|)nient oi' the 

 ran<4e. Jle \v;ls ainonLr tiie first to ex- 

 periment witli i>re])and cheniieal fer- 

 tilizers in tlie !j;reeiilionses, and because 

 of liis intimate hno\vled};e and eareful 

 observation cd' the h:ibits of rose pl.-ints, 

 lie \\;is aide tn determine ways ol' iisinj; 

 sueh jireparat ions to ailvantaj;e. This 

 ran<;e \\;is also amonj; tli(> lirst to install 

 labor-saN in;; i'ipiil>nieiit , jiarticularly in 

 the boiler rooms. I''i w r;iiie;es ol' tliis 

 si/e ;ire so well e<piipped. .\t the out- 

 set of tlie reeiMit w.ar, JMr. ]\eimel saw 

 the ilaii^MT whi(di mi<,'lit result from the 

 ]al)or shorta}:;e ami from .a diminish(>d 

 siipiply of find. At an exjuMisi' of se\'- 

 eral tlioiisaml dollars, aiitom;itie stokers 

 were iiist.alleil, as well as a forced draft 

 sy.stem. The devices inst.'iUed reduced 

 the work of the boiler room to the low- 

 est decree. Durinjj the w.-ir, tlie e(|iii]i- 

 nient demonstrated its value. As tlie 

 labor short aire becomes less and less 

 acute, .'ind the rpi.-ility of coal becomes 

 better !ind tli(^ price declines, the work 

 ot' smdi equipment, of courst^, also 

 diminishes in jirojiortion. But now that 

 the ('(piijiment is in-;talled, there are no 

 rejjrets. 



Keimel's Career. 



The jiositioii which !Mr. Keimcl has 



won ;is ;in exi)ert grower of roses and a 

 successful ".greenhouse ni.ana^^T has been 

 reai lied by a Ion;; and ar<luous career of 

 work and more work. Born in 1872, at 

 Stettin, ficrniany, he started as an ap- 

 ]jreiitic(> wdien lie was 14 years old. Two 

 years later ho came to this country. 

 After two years in the west, lie came 

 to Chii'a^'o, working three years for 

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

 len^'lh of time for Bassett- & Washburn. 

 Ill l'^!t(> he went east, workin<j there for 

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

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

 turninjif west via Clevcdand, where he 

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

 year. In I'.tOO lie was back in Chicago, 

 working for Po(dilmanii Bros. Co. at 

 Morton (lro\e. 



In 1908 the Wendland & Keimel Co. 

 was or<;anized. In 19115 ]\Ir. Keimel be- 

 came treasiir(>r and {jeneral manager of 

 the firm, whicdi positions lie now holds. 

 H. (J. Weudland, the president of the 

 i-oinpany, is a memlier of the importing 

 firm of Wendland Bros, and has ;ilso real 

 est;ite and other interests. The vice- 

 president is O. \V. Balgmann, and the 

 secretary, 11. C. Schumacher. ]Mr. 

 Kidmel has serve<l as president of tlie 

 (,'liicago Florists' Club and as a director 

 of the Society of American Florists, of 

 whicdi he is a life member, lending sup- 

 I'ort to the National Flower Growers' 

 Association by accepting the presidency 

 of tliat organization, which will hold its 

 annual meeting at Hartford, Conn., at 

 the time of the exhildtion of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society, the Last week of 

 this month. 



DUTCH BULBS FOR EASTER. 



How Lite can hyacinths and tulijis be 

 put in j)ots .and stored in a cold c(dlar 

 and flowered for Easter? Will those 

 potted as late as Christm.as be all right 

 this year? How long before J'^aster 

 should they be brought to light and heat 

 .and at what temperature should they be 

 run for best results? D. A. M. — I 'a. 



Christmas is too late for the potting 

 of bulbs of either tulips or hy.'icinths to 

 flower at Easter, even though this fes- 

 ti\al comes inoderatidy late, Ajiril 16. 

 Bulbs kept as latt! as DiM-ember i!.") lose 

 mmdi of their vitality and will not grow 

 and flower nearly so widl as those started 

 in October or even November. It is 

 ])referable to get bulbs into the soil 

 sometime in October. It takes a con- 

 siderable number of weeks to get the 

 [Kits or flats filled with roots and, of 

 course, a cool {)l;ice is necess.ary for this. 

 Jf you allow a cou[de of we(d<s for hya- 

 cinths and a few days longer for tulips 

 in a greenhouse kept at about HO degrees 

 ;it night, your plants should be in flower 

 for an Easter coming as late as it does 

 this ve.ar. C. W. 



DOUBLE CYCLAMENS. 



Win n my cyclamens came into bloom 

 this winter 1 found a deej) crimson dou- 

 bl(^ 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 jilant 

 now and about a dozen more l)uds are 

 coming, wlii(di all are markedly double. 

 Do you know of anyone who has tried 

 to jiollenize a double cyclamen? When 

 is the proper time to transfer the pollen? 

 The flowers arc so beautiful that I 

 should like to projiagate more like them 

 if possible. I write assuming these are 

 r.are, 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 Hed. 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 

 .') inch jiots from a grower last Septem- 

 ber. When these jilants 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 

 jdants. there is not one which is sal.able. 

 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, ]>ut is rapidly dying 

 out. There is little advantage in carry- 

 ing over plants when specimens in lb- 

 inch pots and even small tubs can be 

 produced in sixteen and seventeen 

 months from the seed. I should advise 

 against attemjiting to carry over your 

 jdants, particularly when your stock is 

 affected with mite. If your plants were 

 value less 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 



