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The Florists' Review 



April 29, 1915. 



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I SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS I 

 I FOR SOUTHERN FLORISTS | 



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ROSE HOUSES FOB THE SOUTH. 



Should Be Specially Designed. 



In erecting houses for rose growing 

 in the south, there is too much of a 

 disposition to imitate closely the green- 

 houses designed to meet northern con- 

 ditions and not enough attention is 

 paid to the differences, especially the 

 climatic differences, between southern 

 and northern states. By all means use 

 the same good material in the houses 

 for the south that is used in the best 

 northern houses, but there, it seems to 

 me, the similarity should end. Here, 

 in the south, hot summer conditions 

 prevail from six to nine months in the 

 year, with winters that are a misnomer 

 compared with the same seasons in the 

 north. It is the summer season that 

 rose growers really have to fight in the 

 south; hence the need for houses de- 

 signed to be as cool as possible and yet 

 give the utmost light in winter. 



The coolest houses are those which 

 run north and south, and such houses 

 also get all the light necessary during 

 the winter months. Southern houses 

 should also be narrow rather than wide. 

 Two houses twenty feet wide, with iron 

 gutters seven or eight feet high, ven- 

 tilators on each side of the ridge and 

 side ventilation, are much better than 

 one house of the same style but forty 

 feet wide. The narrow style provides 

 double the amount of ventilation. The 

 houses may be of any practical length, 

 except in the extreme south, where 

 houses 100 feet in length are better 

 than longer ones, because every foot* 

 of the shorter houses will get the bene- 

 fit of the ventilation from the open 

 doors and windows at each end. A 

 variation of a point from exact north 

 and south will not matter. Such 

 houses may be a little longer in warm- 

 ing up in the morning during winter, but 

 they more than even this up by getting 

 the full benefit of the afternoon sun 

 until it disappears. 



Solid Beds Best for South. 



Solid beds, I find, are much superior 

 to raised benches in the south, pro- 

 ducing finer plants and flowers and 

 also lengthening the flowering season. 

 If the sides and ends of the beds are 

 made of concrete, three inches thick 

 and eighteen to twenty-four inches 

 high, they will last a lifetime and will 

 be of a convenient height to work over 

 easily. No drainage of bricks or 

 cinders is required in the beds. 



In two such houses, connected with 

 an iron gutter, there should be no diffi- 

 culty in providing a perfect circulation 

 of air. The gutter should have a fall 

 of twelve inches in every 100 feet, to 

 run off the heavy rainfall quickly, and 

 there should be a 4-inch opening every 

 ^fty feet into an underground drtun. 



During heavy rain storms I have 

 seen the water in the gutters reach 

 over the top of the bottom glass, and 

 of course much of it found a way 

 through. Houses of a length of 200 

 feet should have the high point at 

 the middle and should slope to each 



end. The inside drip conductors should 

 also have numerous outlets to under- 

 ground drainage. The overflow from 

 these conductors is one of the causes of 

 black spot on the foliage. 



In piping the houses, be sure to pro- 

 vide a single run of pipe in each house, 

 and make the remaining coils, neces- 

 sary to give the desired temperature, 

 as small as possible; that is, rather 

 have three coils of two pipes each 

 than two coils of three pipes each. 

 There are many nights, during the whole 

 season of fall, winter and spring, when 

 the outside temperature is too warm 

 for a coil of two pipes and when one 

 pipe and a little top ventilation will 

 make conditions ideal. L. 



PRIMULAS IN THE SOUTH. 



April, in the south, is a good month 

 in which to sow seeds of these useful 



plants, especially the obconica and 

 Chinese primulas. P. malacoides grows 

 much faster and may safely be left 

 until the end of May. The soil for the 

 seed boxes should be three parts leaf- 

 mold and one part loam, finely sifted, 

 the top being put through a mosquito 

 wire screen. The seeds of P. obconica 

 and malacoides should not be covered, 

 but merely pressed down with a board 

 or block. An excellent plan is to lay 

 a piece of cheesecloth on top of the 

 seed box, removing it only when the 

 seed has germinated. This prevents 

 the fine seeds from washing. 



Handle the young seedlings as soon 

 as possible, first pricking them off into 

 boxes until fit for small pots and shift- 

 ing them as required. In the south 

 they do best in a coldframe covered 

 with lath sashes during the summer and 

 will need a lot of water. A little 

 water on the foliage does no harm, 

 provided the plants are not crowded. 

 P. malacoides will do much better 

 planted out than grown in pots. They 

 can be potted just before bringing 

 them into the house in the fall and 

 will soon establish themselves. These 

 make beautiful specimens in 6-inch 

 pans, and when full of flowers they 

 sell on sight. Give this variety plenty 

 of room when growing. L. 



Reinbeck, la.— John McCullough & 

 Son are planning a range of three con- 

 nected houses, one for roses, one for 

 carnations and one for pot plants. 



Haddonfield, N. J. — A 5-aere tract 

 fronting on Spruce street has been sold 

 to Niels D. Fromm, of Philadelphia, 

 who will put up greenhouses on the 

 land. 



Middlebury, Mass. — William Ford has 

 resigned his position at the range of 

 E. G. Hunt, Jr., and will begin the erec- 

 tion of a greenhouse near his home, 'on 

 North street. 



Fremont, O. — Mr. and Mrs. F. P. 

 Hummel, of Garrison street, have pur- 

 chased a 12-acre tract of land from 

 Adam Spohn, in Green Creek township, 

 on which they expect to build a green- 

 house next fall or sooner. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — J. Balph Souder, 

 who not long ago sold out his share 

 in the Emporia Floral Co., at Emporia, 

 Kan., to his partner, E. M. Robinson, 

 has obtained a permit for the erection 

 of a $3,000 greenhouse on Tenth 

 avenue, east. 



Madison, Wis.— N. T. Dingman, a 

 dwelling house builder, is going into the 

 greenhouse business with a man ex- 

 perienced in this line from Sioux City, 

 la. The property on which he is to 

 build is in the southern part of the city. 

 Work will begin at once. 



Fnuiklinvllle, N. Y.— James A. God- 

 frey is erecting two large greenhouses 

 on Howard street on the lots re- 

 cently purchased of Fred Myrick. Mr. 

 Godfrey had charge of the Gardner 

 greenhouses, in East Aurora, for two 

 years before moving here. 



Wolcott, N. Y. — George Bousquet, for 

 several years in business at Glovers- 

 ville, has been in this village making 

 plans for the erection of a greenhouse 

 here. It will probably, be on the east 

 side of town. 



South Manchester, Conn. — H e n r y 

 Nettleton is planning to enlarge his 

 range and also his business. Up to 

 the present he has grown only violets, 

 but he now plans to grow other kinds 

 of stock, including vegetables. 



Cedar Rapids, la. — Bain Bros., who 

 are large owners in the Polland Floral 

 Co., with greenhouses at Twenty-seventh 

 street and First avenue, have organized 

 the Cedar Rapids Floral Co. and opened 

 a store in the corner room of the Mon- 

 trose Hotel building. Miss Marjorie 

 Dodge is in charge of the store. 



OleaJi, N. Y.— Dana R. Herron has 

 let a contract to the King Construction 

 Co., of North Tonawanda, for four 

 greenhouses, each 28x150 feet. They 

 will be located in the rear of the green- 

 houses on West State street and heated 

 from the plant which supplies the pres- 

 ent range. The houses will be devoted 

 to carnations, on which Mr. Herron is 

 planning to specialize. 



Xenia, O. — Edward J. Engle, pro- 

 prietor of the Engle Floral Co., is plan- 

 ning extensive changes in his range on 

 Dayton avenue. He will build a resi- 

 dence and greenhouse in the rear of 

 the present location; his house and 

 business establishment will then face 

 Woodland avenue. Nine lots fronting 

 on Dayton avenue will be platted and 

 sold, including the one on which his 

 present residence stands. 



