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Decembbk 15, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



199 



ine the door on one end will give suf- 

 ficient ventilation. The houses are heat- 

 ed by hot water. What temperature 

 should I keep at night? I am covering 

 the benches, on top of the mulch, with 

 soil, as they did not seem to have enough 

 and I found it difficult to get the dead 

 leaves out of the mulch. What causes 

 the leaves to drop off in great numbers! 

 H. B. S. 



The sample buds reached me in good 

 condition and after carefully inspecting 

 them in the light shed by the foregoing 

 letter I would advise careful and ample 

 ventilation on all favorable occasions, 

 using the ventilators for the purpose for 

 which they were intended and avoiding 

 ventilating by the door-way. I am also 

 of the opinion that the stock was not 

 in proper condition to use the mulch 

 when it was applied and would advise 

 not to add any soil to it until the plants 

 •are stronger aid the season a little far- 

 ther advanced. This is undoubtedly the 

 cause of the leaves continuing to drop. 

 Horse manure, if fresh, contains more 

 ammonia than rose foliage cares for and 

 this also tends toward the shedding of 

 leaves. 



The temperature for Bride, Maid, 

 Chatenay and Golden Gate is 56 degrees 

 at night, rising to 70 or 75 degrees, ac- 

 cording to intensity of sunshine. 



For red spider keep the syringe going 

 every bright day and manipulate the 

 spray so that the under side of each 

 leaf is thoroughly washed, using suf- 

 ficient force to dislodge the spider and 

 break up the web. Do this early in the 

 day, so that the foliage may become dry 

 before sundown. 



I have had about as good success with 

 roses in houses running north and south 

 as with those running east and west. 

 I am aware that this statement is con- 

 trary to the accepted theory as to the 

 aspect of rose houses but it is based 

 on facts and "facts are chiels that 

 winna ding, an ' daurna be disputed, ' ' 

 and can also be substantiated by fairly 

 good reasons. Ribes. 



THE BABY RAMBLER. 



When a buyer pays a good price for a 

 foreign novelty he does not always get 

 the full value of his money unless it is 

 arranged that the novelty shall be sent 

 out simultaneously in Europe and Amer- 

 ica. To let a good thing loose in Eu- 

 rope means that it is sure to find its 

 way into the trade in the United States, 

 perhaps even before the purchaser of the 

 American rights is ready to send it out. 

 A case in point is Rose Mme. Levavas- 

 seur, which is popularly known as the 

 Baby Rambler. There are seeral la rep 

 and a number of smaller stocks of it in 

 existence in this country, all obtained 

 from perfectly legitimate sources, al 

 though the raiser sold the American 

 * ' monopoly. ' ' 



Newbury, O. — Reinhold Hoffman asks 

 $5,000 damages of the county because of 

 the building of a new road in front of 

 his place which left his greenhouses about 

 four feet below grade. The county com- 

 missioners contend that the damages 

 asked are too near the original value of 

 the property and offer $250 in settle- 

 ment. 



I HAVB certainly been well pleased 

 with the Review and would not like to 

 be without it ; I think every florist should 

 take it. — C. L. Shanks, Newton, Kan. 



The E. G. Hill G).'s New Rose, Richmond. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Dec. 14. — Cucumbers, 50c 

 to $1.15 doz. ; head lettuce, $3 to $4 

 bbl. ; leaf lettuce, 30c to 40c case; toma- 

 toes, $2.25 to $2.50 case. 



Boston, Dec. 13. — Cucumbers, $6 to 

 $7 box; seconds, $2 to $4 box; tomatoes, 

 20c lb.; asparagus, $5 doz. bunches; 

 mushrooms, 60c to 70c lb. ; lettuce, 25c 

 doz. ; mint, $1 doz. ; radishes, 25c doz. 

 bunches; parsley 50c to 75c box. 



REGULATION OF TEMPERATURE. 



We are now in the middle of the dull, 

 short days, when more common sense 

 must be exercised in the regulation of 

 temperature than at any season of the 

 year. It is quite a simple matter to 

 keep up a certain temperature, provided 

 the houses are well supplied with pipes 

 and ample heating power behind them, 

 but the trouble is that a given tempera- 

 ture is not what is necessary to pro- 

 mote the most healthy growth. The lack 

 of fresh air to strengthen the growth 

 makes it imperative that the forcing 

 process be limited according to the 

 amount of fresh air that can be given, so 

 that what growth the plants make will 

 be sufficiently strengthened for the best 

 development of the crop. 



Scientists could no doubt tell us just 

 what component parts of th? air are 



missing in a house filled with plants, 

 where fire heat is used to maintain a cer- 

 tain temperature, but where the amount 

 of fresh air is limited on account of 

 the coldness of the atmosphere outdoors. 

 But I must confess that I am no scien- 

 tist, and I hardly think there are many 

 employed in the forcing of vegetables. 

 Wider and more remunerative fields are 

 no doubt attracting their attention. Per- 

 haps this is our misfortune, and perhaps 

 if we could approach the matter from 

 a scientific point of view we would not 

 be a great deal better off than we are, 

 and we might not bo able to produce 

 any better results than we now can by 

 keeping hammering away by rule of 

 thumb, observing as closely as possible 

 the requirements of our plants, and do- 

 ing the best we can to strengthen their 

 weak points under whatever circum- 

 stances we find them. 



Tf we find that the nlants are making^ 

 a weak growth, that they are losing the 

 desired dark green color or the foliage 

 getting thin in texture; if the conditions 

 are so that we cannot admit sufficient 

 fresh air to adequately strengthen the 

 plants, it is better to begin at the other 

 end and reduce the amount of growth 

 by a reduction of the temperature until 

 more favorable conditions prevail. To 

 continue hard forcinjy against natural 

 conditi^ins is not only a waste of fuel 

 and energy but a serious detriment to 

 the health of the plants, leaving them 

 less fitted to respond to forcing when 

 more favorabl'* conditions prevail, be- 



