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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



April 13, lOOS. 



ANNOUNCEMENT! 



FfUE desire to announce to the Trade that we have purchased the Michael Winandy 

 1^ Wholesale Store and shall do a y 



General Commission Business 



with a full line of Cut Flowers and "Greens," backed by fourteen years' experience 

 in this line. Every attention paid to shipping business. 



ZECH & MANN, 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Mf. TLech hopes that the many friends who have favored him in the past will give the new firm an 

 opportunity to show what it can do. 



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 lllE^ TWOIII^ Wri\M^t%\^EL 5th Ave., Coruer 38th »t.,New Yorl<: City. 



THE LARGEST 

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From LEO N I ESSEN CO. 



1217 Arch St., 



PHILADELPHIS 



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GERANIUMS. 



I have a greenhouse 22x60 running 

 northeast and southwest, built three- 

 quarters span, long side facing south- 

 east, size glass 16x24. In the house we 

 have some geraniums which up to the 

 first of March were doing well. Then the 

 leaves began to fade and the plants all 

 run to flower, making no leaf growth 

 whatever. When they began to go back 

 I gave the glass a light shading with 

 whitewash, so they got very little bright 

 sun. They have not changed much and 

 I do not understand why they do not 

 grow. I put them in different kinds of 

 soil, so I do not think that has anything 

 to do with it. The house is heated by a 

 Furnam boiler (hot water) and I have 

 run the house at about 55 degrees night 

 temperature. If from what I have writ- 

 ten you can tell me wherein the trouble 



lies and how I can grow geraniums in a 

 house like this I would be greatly 

 obliged. S. W. P. 



It is not easy to say just what is the 

 matter with your zonal geraniums. Your 

 greenhouse as described would grow any- 

 thing. We do know, however, that you 

 are or have been keeping them too warm 

 at night. Forty-five degrees is high 

 enough for winter nights. Now, when 

 you can leave on ventilation at night, it 

 may be 50 to 55 degrees. The shading 

 is all wrong, especially so early in the 

 season. Bedding zonal geraniums should 

 now begin. 3% or 4-inch pots need no 

 shade whatever and all the ventilation 

 you can give them. W. S. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — Carlson & Sand- 

 berg will build four houses, 18x120. 



ORANGE, N. J. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society was 

 held on April 7. There was the usual 

 floral display and William Bead, head 

 gardener to the Colgates, read a paper 

 on ' ' Herbaceous Perennials for the Open 

 Border," which impressed his hearers 

 so favorably that it was decided by the 

 society to publish it in its transactions 

 for the year. Two new members were 

 elected and M. J. McKernan was made 

 an honorary member. 



The retirement was noted of John Far- 

 rell, gardener for William Barr for 

 thirty years, a gardener for fifty 

 and an honorary member of this so- 

 ciety. Mr. Farrell has received between 

 seventy and eighty first certificates dur- 

 ing this time. J, B. D. 



