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JULV 7, 1004. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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View of the Establishment oi S. J. Long, at Petoskey, Mich. 



date a lO-inch iron sill, the foundation 

 being deep enough to make it good and 

 solid. To make the boiler room fireproof, 

 it would have to be constructed with 

 brick and cement, with iron rafters, and 

 corrugated iron roof. 



Regarding the kind of boiler, I do not 

 care to recommend any special make. 

 There are many reliable boilers on the 

 market, several of them advertised in the 

 Eeyiew. To give sufficient fall to insure 

 good circulation, a pit should be dug for 

 the boiler room, as your boiler will stand 

 about eighteen inches above the floor 

 when space is given for ash pit, and the 

 top of your boiler should be at least 

 five feet from the floor level. This 

 would not give any too much fall. 



To give suitable temperatures for the 

 different subjects you intend to grow 

 you would have to make at least three- 

 divisions in the house. For roses, a mini- 

 mum temperature of 60 degrees would be 

 required; for carnations and general bed- 

 ding stock a minimum temperature of at 

 le&st 50 degrees is necessary; whereas 

 for cucumbers sufficient command of heat 

 should be supplied to insure the tempera- 

 ture not to run under 65 degrees in any 

 sort of weather. Regarding the piping. 

 For the warmer house, considering that 

 it is forty feet in width, about thirty 

 lines of 2 ^2 -inch piping would be neces- 

 sary to obtain the proper temperature. 

 These would be best arranged in coils of 

 six, making three flows and three re- 

 turns in each coil. This wannest section 

 I would have nearest the boiler, and to 

 insure a temperature of 60 degrees in the 

 second section about the same amount of 

 piping will probably be required. For 

 the cooler section four coils of the same 

 number of pipes might be sufficient. Con- 

 nections to the boiler should be made 

 with not less than 5-inch pipes. 



W. S. Crotdon. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



There is a fair amount of business 

 doing for July. Even on the glorious 

 Fourth, considered above all others as 

 the florists' holiday, there was some de- 

 mand. It might be more aptly termed 

 "search," as the local growers do not 

 cater to or stimulate summer business. 

 Some of them have tried it and say it 



does not pay, so beyond Kaiserins, val- 

 ley, sweet peas, a few carnations and 

 some miscellaneous flowers, the market 

 is rather bare of flne stock. Of course 

 there are some nice Beauties, Liberties, 

 Prosperities, cattleyas, etc., but when a 

 good order comes along the dealers get 

 desperate and draw on outside points 

 for their supplies. I believe in Phila- 

 delphia enterprise sufficiently to predict 

 that this state of affairs will not last 

 long and that in a year or two at the 

 farthest our growers will give us a few 

 fine flowers of the best varieties in July 

 and August, so produced as to earn 

 shekels and incidentally relieve the 

 spring and fall overproduction. , 



A Point of Interest. 



At the last meeting of the Pennsylva- 

 nia Horticultural Society several mem- 

 bers strongly advocated the use of hy- 

 brid tea in preference to other hybrid 

 roses for outdoor planting in this secition 

 of the country. While there is plenty 

 of room for all classes, there is no ques- 

 tion that the hybrid teas have a great 

 future before them and the sooner our 

 growers realize this and intelligently 

 meet the growing demand the better it 

 will be for them. 



Rural Doings. 



Martin Richardson caught a fellow the 

 other morning in his carnation patch, 

 picking the Hills and Joosts. Martin was 

 pretty mad and started with his prisoner 

 for Justice Sibel's. On the way the fel- 

 low explained that he was a fakir and 

 a gentleman, that he needed the flowers 

 early and didn't like to disturb Martin 

 and that he would have sent a check next 

 morning with only ten per cent off for 

 commission and no charge for picking. 

 Martin decided to let his prisoner go 

 with the flowers. The fellow has not been 

 heard of since. 



Thomas Flynn gave his boy a nice 

 chick-weedy bed of mignonette to clean. 

 The boy mistook the wishes of Thomas 

 and got every mignonette out in nice lit- 

 tle piles. His name is "Willie Robinson, 

 He is a bright, intelligent boy and 

 should certainly be given a trial by 

 some kind-hearted grower. 



George Howard was hoeing in the car- 

 nation patch. Frank "White left the 

 water bucket to join him. "George," 

 he sez, "I can sneeze whenever I want 



to." "Let's hear ye," sez George. 

 "I don't want to," sez Frank. George 

 kept on hoeing. 



George Pyle was taking a sweet pea 

 order around to a neighbor's when he 

 saw a little boy eyeing a cherry tart in 

 a baker's window. George is a kind- 

 hearted boy and felt in his pockets for 

 a penny. "You want that cookie, bubt" 

 he asked. "I could eat six o' them 

 bloody little tarts," came the answer. 

 The penny slipped back in George's 

 pocket. 



Sam Kennedy left the hot greenhouses 

 and had a glorious time on the Fourth. 

 He described it this way: "I went to 

 the house and put on me collar. Mary 

 must ha guessed, but she never said 

 nothin '. I went to the tavern at the 

 corner and didn't touch a thing — I 

 looked r.t the clock and sez to Bill 

 Jones, 'If I ain't back you'll know I'm 

 away!' An' he sez, 'AH right, Sam.' 

 Bill's a brick. I jumped on a car and 

 went to the park. It was pretty late 

 when I got back and Mary began to 

 ask questions, and I sez, 'Mary, don't, 

 I 'm too sleepy, ' an ' she stopped. In the 

 morning she started again an' I sez, 

 'Mary, don't; I'm too sick.' An' sho 

 stopped. ' ' 



Fred Raymond is fond of a good show 

 with plenty of soldiers arid shooting in 

 it. Fred had just left a bunch of roses 

 at the box office for the leading lady 

 when he met the program boy. "Is it a 

 melodrama!" Fred asked. "Naw, 

 nothin' mellow about it," sez the bov, 

 "it's rotten." 



Bobby Boyd was potting geraniums 

 when the foreman came along. Bobby is 

 proud of his potting and pi^t on a few 

 extra lugs. ' ' They ain 't dead yet, ' ' the 

 foreman growled, "don't bury 'em." 



Various Notes. 



Griffin Bros., of Frankford, have the 

 sympathy of their friends in the loss of 

 their father. 



Alfred Burton has the greenhouses 

 purchased by his father in May planted 

 in Beaiities, Brides and Maids. 



M. Rice & Co. received ninety cases bv 

 one steamer last Saturday, a very large 

 importation to arrive at once. 



J. A. Smith, with the H. F. Michell 

 Co., has just returned from his vaca- 

 tion. 



Edward Fancourt, with S. S. Pennock, 



