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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Jung 2, 1904. 



must be any amount of second quality 

 stuff in cutting up these logs that can 

 be bought as cheaply as our fast rotting 

 white pine or hemlock, and the cypress 

 ■will outlast the former seven times. You 

 will notice in your benches, when repair- 

 ing, that it is where the plank or board 

 lay on your crosspiece or joist that the 

 rotting took place. Of all processes to 

 rot wood, our use of it as benches is 

 the most successful. 



I have proved that a heavy coating of 

 new board with hydraulic cement will 

 add two or three years to the use of the 

 soft hemlock or pine. This costs com- 

 paratively nothing. Just mix the pure 

 cement in a pail with enough water so 

 that it can be spread or smeared over 

 the boards with a brush. Where wood 

 lies on wood is where the decay begins, 

 and ends with a board falling down and 

 taking down with it a dozen carnations 

 or twenty 4-inch geraniums. With this 

 cement, plaster the top of the crosspiece, 

 the 2x6 that is to support your boards, 

 and be sure to put a. heavy lot of cement 

 on the underside of the board where it 

 lies on the crosspiece. 



Beds Versus Benches. 



Next week, if I am spared, as devout 

 people of the last century used to say, I 

 want to illuminate some ideas that are 

 revolving in my coco anent benches ver- 

 sus beds on the ground, etc. The great 

 majority of houses built for the past 

 twenty- five years, up to within two or 

 three years ago, were not intended, nor 

 can they be used, with beds near the 

 groimd surface, but nowadays immense 

 ranges of glass are erected especially de- 

 signed for these low beds, and depend 



THE WEILAND ESTABLISHMENT. 



Few young men have had a fairer 

 start in the trade than has been the 

 good fortune of Peter Weiland, son of 

 M. Weiland, of Evanston, 111., and neph- 

 ew of Peter Reinberg, with whom he has 

 until recently been in partnership at the 

 plant at New Castle, Ind. Mr. Weiland 

 was 27 years of age only last Saturday 

 and yesterday came into full control of 

 the greenhouses shown in the accompa- 

 nying illustrations, the deal for the pur- 

 chase having been made last fall. To 

 sell the product, which has heretofore 

 gone to Chicago, Mr. Weiland has opened 

 a wholesale store at 128 East Third 

 street in Cincinnati, where it is his aim 

 to do a shipping business. He has ten 

 houses, 30x300, covering a space of 90,- 

 000 square feet. The space is now all 

 in roses, except some benches of aspara- 

 gus and sweet peas, but next season 

 there will be two houses of carnations-- 

 and two benches of smilax and aspara- 

 gus, leaving seven and one-half houses 

 for roses, principally Beauties, Brides 

 and Maids. As shown in one of the ac- 

 companying illustrations, there is a big 

 field of peonies on the place, about 4,000 

 plants, which will give a big cut this 

 month. 



TEMPERATURE FOR CARNATIONa 



I have three connected houses, 30x75 

 feet, the grade of the land being a sharp 

 slope. As there are no partition walls, 

 the upper house runs 8 to 10 degrees 

 warmer than the lower one. I expect to 

 grow Lawson, Lord, Crocker, Joost, Har- 

 lowarden, Adonis, Crane, Hill and Queen 

 Louise. At least these are the kinds I 



One of Peter Weiland's Houses of Young Beauties at New Castle, Ind. 



upon it, that is the system that is com- 

 ing to stay. 



In conclusion, if you have to use wood- 

 en benches, buy cypress. Noah's Ark 

 was made of cypress and a piece of it 

 can still be seen at the foot of Mt. 

 Ararat. It is a piece of the partition 

 that separated the giraffe from the 

 skunk and the giraffe's curiosity to know 

 where the odor came from was the cause 

 of his neck growing so long. 



William Scott. 



Mt. Carmel, III. — The greenhouses 

 and business of the Mt. Carmel Floral 

 Co. have been sold to Jacob Knupp, of 

 Colera, Ala., consideration $4,000. 



have propagated and planted in the field. 

 And I want to try some of the new 

 ones on a small scale, as I never want to 

 be behind the other fellows. I have 

 solid beds and would like to know what 

 varieties to plant on the cold side and 

 on the warm side. H. G. F. 



I believe the best thing you can do is 

 to put some kind of a partition between 

 either the two lower houses or between 

 the upper two. The difference in the tem- 

 perature between the lower and the upper 

 houses is too great. If you keep the 

 coldest house up to 48 to 50 degrees 

 it would run the warmest house up 

 close to 60 degrees, which is too warm 



for any carnation I know of. By 

 having only two connected there would 

 be a difference of perhaps 6 degrees, 

 which would be all right. The separate 

 house you could then keep at whatever 

 temperature you wished. In deciding 

 where to put the partition, you should 

 bear in mind where you will add on when 

 you build some more. If you expect to 

 add on at the upper side, I would have 

 the lower two open, or the reverse in 

 case you will add at the bottom. 



The varieties you name will need about 

 the following temperatures, and you wilJ 

 have no trouble in planting them in the 

 temperatures they want: Lawson and 

 Crocker, 56 degrees; Mrs. Joost and 

 Flora Hill, 54; the others, 50 to 52, with 

 Adonis and Queen Louise at the warmer 

 end. A. F. J. Baur. 



ROSES. 



Culture for Meteor. 



That red roses still command a ready 

 and profitable market is evidenced by 

 the many efforts to grow that erratic 

 favorite. Liberty. That this gem can 

 be grown profitably is an established 

 fact, as several growers have during 

 the past season apparently solved the 

 problem. Many growers of good repute, 

 however, have failed in getting profitable 

 returns from this variety, and are hunt- 

 ing for some reliable red rose that can 

 be grown in Bridesmaid temperature. 

 A good red that will succeed under these 

 conditions will fill a long felt want. 



The new rose. General MacArthur, 

 which is now being put on the market, 

 is recommended to fill just such a want, 

 but as the price is rather steep for the 

 ordinary grower and the risks too great 

 to warrant large plantations this year, 

 the majority of us will still have to 

 depend on Meteor for our red crops for 

 at least the coming season. The great- 

 est drawback to this rose as felt by the 

 smaller growers is that it requires for 

 its successful culture conditions pecu- 

 liar to itself, which cannot be obtained 

 in a house where other roses are grown. 

 Requiring a much higher temperature 

 than other standard sorts, and more 

 moisture, both in the atmosphere and at 

 the roots, to obtain the best results a 

 house must be entirely devoted to it. 



Planting early to give it the full ben- 

 efit of the growing season is also advan- 

 tageous, so that by the time for begin- 

 ning to take the crop the plants may he 

 large and stocky. If it is well handled 

 during the winter every shoot will pro- 

 duce a bloom and the cutting of these 

 will prevent the plant from increasing 

 very much in size during these months. 



As they require copious supplies of 

 water during the growing season and, 

 indeed, at all times requiring more wa- 

 ter than the ordinary rose crops, extra 

 drainage ought to be provided. More 

 frequent cultivation will also be nec- 

 essary to keep the surface of the soil 

 open and porous. Spider being one of 

 its most persistent enemies, careful 

 watching will be absolutely necessary to 

 secure success, as the higher tempera- 

 ture to which it is exposed is very con- 

 ducive to the rapid reproductio<h of 

 these pests. The peculiar hump-backed 

 shape of the mature leaves makes it 

 difficult to reach the under sides of these 

 and renders watchfulness all the more 

 necessary, for if spider once secures a 

 good foothold in a Meteor house the 

 work of eradicating it, or even keeping 



