June 17, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



La Cygne and Cranford White, three 

 excellent white varieties, which would 

 do splendidly. Chas. H. Totty. 



MUMS FOB GENERAL TRADE. 



I have nearly 1,000 square feet of 

 ground space in a house that I should 

 like to use for growing chrysanthe- 

 mums, as the space is idle all summer 

 up to the holidays and I must heat the 

 house in the fall on account of a few 

 stock plants for bedding stock. I have 

 had little experience with chrysanthe- 

 mums, but I grew some fine ones last 

 season. I should like to know whether 

 I still have time to get rooted cuttings 

 and grow them? What are the best six 

 varieties for ordinary sales? I have 

 had Major Bonnaffon and Pacific Su- 

 preme, How many blooms should be 

 grown to a plant? How close should 

 the plants be in the bed? Are they 

 best in pots or solid beds? I am send- 

 ing the leaves of some chrysanthe- 

 mums. They appear rusty and I find 

 small green lice on the under side. 

 What shall I do to prevent this? 



E. B.— Pa. 



Half a dozen good varieties of chrys- 

 anthemums for you to grow are: Polly 

 Eose and Ivory, white; Golden Glow 

 and Bonnaffon, yellow; Pacific Supreme 

 and Chieftain, pink. If you buy rooted 

 cuttings at once, or, better still, plants 

 from small pots, you can still have nice 

 blooms next fall. When they are 

 planted at this moderately late date I 

 would run only one bloom per plant. 

 Put the Ivory 6x6 inches apart, the 

 others 6x8. While you can produce just 

 as fine blooms on pot plants and have 

 them better finished than in solid beds, 

 the latter method of culture entails far 

 less labor and gives general satisfac- 

 tion. 



The foliage of some varieties is at- 

 tacked by rust more than others. Keep 

 the foliage dry at night; this tends to 

 prevent its spread. Discard badly at- 

 tacked stock. Green aphis can be con- 

 trolled by spraying with nicotine, soap 

 and other extracts. Fumigation also 

 keeps it in control. Other pests, such 

 as thrips, can be kept in check by 

 syringing if you use a spray nozzle and 

 carefully direct the pressure below the 

 leaves, not merely damping their upper 

 surfaces. C. W. 



LORD & BURNHAM IN CANADA. 



About two years ago the Lord & 

 Burnham Co., of New York, decided 

 to open an office in Canada. There 

 were several reasons for this: Canada 

 was expanding rapidly in all directions, 

 and as a natural result of her pros- 

 perity, as in the United States, the 

 demand for greenhouses increased. The 

 Lord & Burnham Co. believes that bet- 

 ter and quicker service can be given 

 by the establishment of a number of 

 sales offices, situated at convenient 

 points. Following out this policy, an 

 office was opened in Toronto. The suc- 

 cess attending the opening of this ofiice 

 led the company to organize under the 

 laws of Canada, and they immediately 

 began to look for a site for a factory. 



The company desired to manufacture 

 in Canada for the following reasons: 

 First, because they could sell their 

 goods at a lower price; second, they 

 could give quicker and better service 

 by so doing; and, third, they wanted 

 to be identified with Canada and be a 

 Canadian company as far as possible. 



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O. B. ECKHABT. 



FOR quite a number of years O. R. Eckhart has been a prominent figure in 

 the trade at the Twin Cities. He was a member of the old Kusik-Eckhart 

 Co., of Minneapolis, which was dissolved in 1910, at which time Mr. Eckhart 

 removed to St. Paul and established a wholesale house dealing in cut flowers and 

 florists' supplies under the name of the O. R. Eckhart Co. While giving clos»^ 

 attention to his business and building up good connections, both locally and 

 through the contiguous territory, he has found time for active participation in all 

 the cooperative activities of the craft — clubs, shows, etc, Mr. Eckhart is one of 

 those who believe most strongly in the value of exhibitions as a means of edu- 

 cating the public to use more flowers. 



To this end they put their Canadian 

 business in the hands of a Canadian, 

 David Warwick, who was born and 

 brought up in Toronto. Mr. Warwick 

 has had over fifteen years' experience 

 in greenhouse business, and most of 

 that time has been connected with the 

 Lord & Burnham companies of New 

 York and Illinois. When the company 

 erected a factory near Chicago, Mr. 

 Warwick was put in charge, and has 

 seen the business grow so that the 

 factory had to be doubled in size. 



After over twenty cities and towns 

 were visited and investigated, St. 

 Catharines was finally selected as 

 the place to build a factory. St. Cath- 

 arines offered better facilities as to 

 sewers, water power, homes for work- 

 men, railroad facilities, etc., than many 

 other places. It also had the advantage 

 of being in the Buffalo freight zone, 

 an important economical consideration. 

 Then, too, the various other manufac- 

 turing concerns already located there 

 gave the city a strong recommendation. 



After the site of some sixteen acres 

 was purchased, steps were immediately 

 taken to start work on a factory. About 

 one year ago building operations were 

 commenced, and today the machines are 

 turning out the material for over fifteen 

 greenhouses already contracted for. 



The factory is strictly fireproof, all 

 on one level and one story high. The 

 framework of the building is steel, with 

 brick walls. The buildings are what is 

 known as saw-tooth style. The north 

 slopes are of all glass, which makes 

 every foot of floor space equally well 

 lighted. 



A branch of the Grand Trunk railwav 

 enters the property. Two tracks aiV 

 laid, one on the north side for incoming 

 freight, an<l one on the south side for 

 outgoing shipments. The Welland canal 

 almost touches one end of the property. 



The sales department is under the 

 management of a Scotchman, C. C. Mc- 

 Dermott, who has had his schooling 

 with the Lord & Burnham Co. in the 

 United States, 



