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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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John Breitmeyer's Sons' Very Interesting Set of Chrysanthemum Novelties. 



LIFTING BULBS. 



I have a large lot of bulbs bedded, 

 such as hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, Span- 

 ish iris, crocus, etc., which, after they 

 flower in the spring, I deem it best to 

 lift so as to use the ground for other 

 purposes. How can I tell by the tops 

 after they have flowered the proper 

 time to lift the bulbs, as I desire to 

 again plant them in the fall and want 

 them in a proper condition before tak- 

 ing them up? H, L. W. 



If lifted the tops should be about 

 ripe before the bulbs are disturbed. If 

 lifted as soon as the flower is faded you 

 arrest the process of storing up strength 

 for the following year. 



-SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR.'* 



We serve the public, but is that any 

 reason why we should work seven days 

 for a weekf "Six days shalt thou labor 

 and do all thy work, ' ' was the Divine 

 command, which goes on enumerating 

 every member of the family and the 

 stranger within thy gates, also thy cat- 

 tle. Why should we as florists be com- 

 pelled to break this command, rising 

 early and working late? Can we be ex- 

 pected to give our best service when 

 every nerve and fibre of our being has 

 been taxed to its utmost capacity? For- 

 merly the banks kept open until 10 

 o'clock Saturday nights, but they have 

 learned a better way. The same amount 

 of business can be accomplished in less 

 time. Our young people hesitate to en- 

 gage in a business whK;h permits no re- 

 spite. The Sunday closing laws are not 

 enforced, yet every florist knows he would 

 be better off physically, mentally and 

 morally if he kept closed doors one day 

 of the seven. Other cities do it, why 

 not in St. Louis? Occasionally there is 

 an order that cannot be given during the 

 week, but once let your patrons know 

 you must have time to rest and breathe 

 outside of your business and they will 

 soon fall in line. M. S. N. 



The Review is all right, the best 

 paper. — C. L. Baum, Knoxville, Tenn. 



FARTHEST NORTH. 



In answer to E. O. L., who wants to 

 know how far north cut flowers can be 

 grown, I would like to say that I don't 

 think the distance north has anything 

 to do with the growing of roses and 

 carnations. Cost of growing may be 

 greater; on the other hand prices are 

 higher. I am not an expert. The fact 

 is I don't pretend to be a florist in the 

 real sense, but my carnations compare 

 very favorably with those of Chicago 

 growers, stems not ouite as long, and 

 as for roses, James River valley of the 

 north is the home of the finest roses 

 grown in the open air; why not in the 

 greenhouse? The trouble with the green- 

 houses in North Dakota has been they 

 have been operated by men with neither 

 experience nor sufficient capital. 



D. C. Walter. 



HEATING VIOLET HOUSES. 



In answer to the qaerf of P. W., who 

 wishes to know if violefn can be grown 

 in houses where steam heat is employed, 

 I would say that wo have grown them 

 equally well in hous^ heated by steam as 

 by hot water. In either case you must 

 have your beating system so arranged 

 that you can control the heat and keep 

 the house or houses at the desired tem- 

 perature. To accomplish this the grower 

 who uses steam entirely should have his 

 houses piped with several coils so that 

 he can have little or much heat, as the 

 weather calls for. Otherwise, if he has to 

 turn on a large coil in order to have anv 

 heat at all it will be too much in mild 



weather. Really it is the best to have a 

 valve at each end of ^ach run of pipe. so 

 that one pipe at a time can be added as 

 it grows colder HVd this is easily ar- 

 ranged if, when String the house, you 

 make up your edlls with headers or 

 branch tees. In itiAt, every house should 

 be equipped -with ttt least one such coil, as 

 in this way yot? ehn graduate your heat 

 to a nicety, i>6 it either steam or hot 

 water, especiaJfy the former, and there 

 is then no tndffme for the fireman giving 

 a house a io^ high temperature, which he 

 is liable td OO otherwise. 



R. E. Shuphelt. 



FUMIGATING VIOLETS. 



Please tell me how to kill tlie little 

 buji{8 on my violets with this hydrocyanic 

 acid gas. I have used tobacco in every 

 form without result, and smoking hurts 

 the sales. J. K. P. 



The formula for fumigating with 

 hydrocyanic acid gas is as follows: 

 Water, one quart ; cyanide of potassium, 

 five ounces; sulphuric acid, one quart. 

 This is the quantity for 1,000 cubic feet 

 of space. The correspondent will have 

 to compute the space in the house and 

 use a corresponding amount of the for- 

 mula. 



Any deep earthen jar will answer the 

 purpose and the water and acid should 

 be mixed first and so placed that the 

 package of cyanide can be lowered into 

 the jar by a string from the outside of 

 the house. Have the jars located in the 

 lowest places in the house, as the gas is 

 so light that it rises fast and under 

 no circumstance attempt to drop the 

 packages otherwise than from the out- 

 side, as the gas forms so quickly and is 

 so deadly that it would kill one before 

 he could get out of the house; in fact, 

 I never like to tell anyone to use it 

 for fear that some accident will happen. 

 Do not allow anyone to go near the 

 houses till they have been aired, and you 

 should have the ventilators so that they 

 can be opened without entering the house. 



R. E. Shuphelt.. 



