October 6, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



951 



can start from the main body of the 

 plant and are in position to draw their 

 strength through the main channels, 

 providing, of course, that the plant is 

 well established and the roots are in 

 good working condition and well fed. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



JOOST AND QUEEN LOUISE. 



I enclose some foliage from my Joost 

 and Queen Louise carnations. They 

 were housed from the field July 26 in 

 apparently good condition. Just pre- 

 vious to benching 1 shaded the glass 

 with whitewash, which I scrubbed off 

 about three weeks later. Do you think 

 1 shaded too heavily? I noticed some 

 rust and have given three applications 

 of blue stone through a syringe, diluted 

 to one one-thousandth. Can you tell 

 the trouble with these plants and the 

 remedy? J. P. K. 



There is nothing to be alarmed about. 

 Perhaps you left your shade too dense 

 for a few days longer than was advisa- 

 ble, but I am inclined to think that you 

 watered a little too liberally before they 

 had the full sun and before the roots 

 were in good working order. Mrs. 

 Joost is one of the quickest varieties to 

 show it in this way; in fact, it is in- 

 clined to make this kind of growth after 

 any kind of a severe check unless they 

 are handled carefully after the check 

 occurs. The Queen Louise seems to be 

 affected less, but in the same way. 

 Keep them a little on the dry side and 

 give all the air and sunshine you can 

 and you will find the trouble will dis- 

 appear in a short time. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



MAKING LIQUID MANURE. 



This is the time of year that liquid 

 manure begins to be something of a 

 problem to chrysanthemum growers and 

 later on the rose growers will be con- 

 cerned with the question of making and 

 properly applying liquid stimulant. 

 Therefore I think many growers will be 

 interested in the system we have in use 

 on our place and which we find to be 

 the best of which we know. Nothing is, 

 to my mind, more unsightly than to come 

 into an otherwise well-kept greenhouse 

 and see several barrels of liquid manure 

 standing at the ends of the walks. There 

 is almost sure to be some leakage and 

 anyway more or less odor, which is very 

 bad business for one who sells his prod- 

 uct at the greenhouses and therefore has 

 numerous lady visitors. But to cut this 

 rather lengthy introduction short and get 

 down to business: 



At the rear end of our range of eight 

 bouses we dug a pit ten feet long, six 

 feet wide and eight feet deep. Right 

 beside this, or rather at one end and 

 connected with it, we dug another pit 

 eight feet long and six feet wide, but 

 only four feet deep. We bricked up both 

 pits and finished the walls and bottoms 

 with the best Portland cement. At the 

 same time we built a brick wall nine 

 inches thick, up to the ground level to 

 divide the shallow pit from the deep 

 one. At the bottom of the smaller pit, 

 and communicating with the large one, 

 four holes each four inches square were 

 left. These were covered with wire cloth, 

 the heavy kind that is jised for coal 

 screens. The water pipe from the green- 

 house was run out over the small pit. 

 By putting a wagon load of good cow 



E. J. Vawter. 



manure in the small pit and turning on 

 the water we soon had a fine article of 

 liquid fertilizer in the deeper pit, free 

 from all straw, etc. 



I then bought a good second-hand, 

 double-action force pump with a 1-inch 

 discharge. The feed pipe is at the bot- 

 tom of the tank of fertilizer. The dis- 

 charge is connected with the regular wa- 

 ter pipes. Now, for applying the liquid, 

 I go to the valve and turn the water off 

 from the houses; then I open the cock 

 connecting the pump with the water pip- 

 ing. The usual, hoiie is attached to the 

 ordinary hydrants around the houses, a 

 man is put at the pump and we go ahead. 

 The result is that with two men you can 

 apply liquid manure to twice the bench 

 space in half the time and do it thor- 

 oughly, giving an even amount and with- 

 out slopping. You can have the ferti- 

 lizer in any house where you have water. 

 When through, we close the valve be- 

 tween the pump and the piping, turn on 

 the city water again and open the spigot 

 over the smaller pit, which flushes out 

 the pipes and replenishes the supply of 

 fertilizer. If water was expensive we 

 could wait to catch rain in the gutters 

 and so fill the tank. 



The system could be made any size, 

 to suit any range of glass. We have our 

 pits covered with a shed large enough 

 to permit of storing several loads of 

 manure. There are also a couple of 

 steam pipes to prevent freezing in win- 

 ter. This system is worth to any florist 

 more than the small amount or money it 

 costs. We would as soon think of giving 

 up our steam plant and going back to 

 brick flues as to give up our liquid ma- 



nure apparatus and go back to the bar- 

 rel system. F. E. Crembr. 



IRON VS. WOODEN GREENHOUSES. 



[An abstract of a paper by Robert W. Kins, 

 of Toronto, Ont., and North Tonawanda, N. X., 

 read at the convention of the CanadUn Horti- 

 cultural Association, at Ottawa, Ont.] 



All improvements are accessories to 

 the best success, but if a man is so built 

 that he cannot grasp them, they are of 

 no benefit. This applies to more than the 

 houses: For instance, improved systems 

 of heating; boilers and economizers 

 placed above ground instead of in a 

 cellar; a pump to return the condensed 

 water rather than gravity; ventilating 

 machinery rather than a stick, or auto- 

 matic ventilation rather than hand ma- 

 chines; automatic stokers and coal and 

 ash handling machinery rather than the 

 old muscles and a shovel. As to the 

 benefit of all these, one may as well ask 

 what use a piano is in the house of a 

 man where nobody can play it. Some 

 may look upon it as an ornament and 

 with pride, and in this way it adds to 

 the sum total of human happiness. 

 After all, of what use is your mone^, 

 if you are blessed with having any, if 

 you cannot buy things you fancy and 

 you like and take a pride in having 

 themt The very pride you take in your 

 up-to-date greenhouses and equipment is 

 a stimulant to your success. Pride is a 

 good thing; it helps to keep a man 

 clean. Pride in your houses will help 

 you to keep them clean, too, and clean 

 houses are a benefit to the florist. 



Let us take another view: Why in a 

 greenhouse is iron better than wood? 

 Because iron harbors no insects, and 



