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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 13, 1905. 



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All Your Needs 



B3|E shall have during the summer, as always, 

 everything to be found in any cut flower 

 market at the season. Send us your order, no 

 matter what you want. We have a reputation 

 for filling orders when others fail. 



On wire work we can discount our own 

 or any otiier list. Get our prices. 



Kennicott Bros. Co 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 

 40-42-44 Randolph Street, 



CHICAGO. 



WE HAVE 3000 



White 

 Peony 

 Plants 



such as we can recommend to be 

 grown for cot flowers. If you 

 want the right kind of plants 

 write to os about these* : : : 



Mention The Review when you write. 



lein, the contractor who supplied the 

 teams and men. 



A French journalist who "did" Chi- 

 cago a short time ago was so impressed 

 with what he saw that he wrote a se- 

 ries of letters for the Tribune, and 

 among the things which he recorded was 

 the fact that the great Pullman Pal- 

 ace Car Co., at its works employing thou- 

 sands of men, burns 75,000 tons of coal 

 a year! What would have been the 

 measure of his astonishment had he been 

 shown that one local greenhouse plant 

 burns just about that quantity of coal 

 ea-.h winter? 



Peter Eeinberg has increased his 

 Beauty planting about 40,000 plants for 

 next season, making a total around 

 110,000. 



E, E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bros, Co., 

 says that in his opinion the season's 

 peony crop, counting good, bad and in- 

 different, has averaged better than at any 

 time in recent years. 



Thomas Boulter, the Highland Park 

 florist who was assaulted by a robber last 

 week, died on Sunday as the result of a 

 facture of the skull. Neighbors on the 

 north shore are making up a purse for 

 his widow, who has a baby born since 

 the assault. 



Bassett & Washburn will not plant 

 carnations so early this year as in the 

 past two or three seasons. They thinB 

 early planting has been carried to an 

 extreme and will not begin until about 

 August 15 this year. 



W. J. Smyth is at Lake Marie, where 

 he has a summer home. 



Candidum lilies, which have been 

 grown more largely for this market than 

 in previous years, are holding out un- 

 usually well. Randall says his crop will 

 last at least through this week. 



Louis Wittbold, of the George Witt- 

 bold Co., celebrated the Fourth with ex- 

 ceptional ardor this year, because of the 

 arrival of a vigorous son the day be- 

 fore. This is his second. On July 9 

 Mike Rockliu, of E. H. Hunt 's, welcomed 

 a nine-pound boy, 



George Wienhoeber, of the E. Wein- 

 hoeber Co., started July 11 on a trip to 

 Philadelphia, New York and Boston. 



Fred Nelson, of the Wittbold Bucking- 



ham place store, has been visiting at his 

 old home in Galesburg. 



ROSES A SECOND YEAR. 



I have a bench of Golden Gate roses 

 planted last October. We have let them 

 dry out a little, cut them back to eight 

 inches, renovated the soil and think of 

 carrying them another year. Is it wise? 

 The buds are now breaking nicely. 



C. P. N. 



While not advising the carrying over 

 of stock, as I consider there is more 

 work entailed and more skill required 

 and with less certainty of success than 

 there is in planting young stock every 

 year, there are some expert growers who 

 continually practice this method with 

 good results. This enquirer has gone 

 the right way about it and, with care in 

 keeping off red spider, greenfly and 

 mildew, he ought to succeed. So soon 

 as the leaves begin to expand give plenty 

 of ventilation and syringe twice daily 

 during bright weather. Eibes. 



GRADING OF GLASS. 



I should be glad to have you tell us 

 how glass factories grade their product, 

 as I find that both double and single 

 strength glass varies considerably in 

 thickness in a lot recently bought. What 

 is the difference between A and B glass? 



H. O. 



The double strength glass runs about 

 eight to nine lights to an inch. The sin- 

 gle runs about twelve to thirteen lights. 

 Occasionally there are factories whose 

 double runs as thin as ten lights to an 

 inch, but the usual average is eight to 

 nine lights. 



Regarding grading, when the cutter at 

 the factory cuts up the large sheet from 

 which all glass is cut, as it comes from 

 the flattening ovens, he simply uses his 

 best judgment, putting the glass that 

 is free from blisters and cords in the 

 A grade and the poorer quality in the 

 B grade. No glass is absolutely free 

 from imperfeqtions, but the A grade is 

 supposed to be 'very free from large 

 blisters or stones that might burn plants. 



There is much B glass that is free 



from imperfections that in any way harm 

 plants and many of the best posted 

 greenhouse men are now using half of 

 their glass in B quality, using the poorer 

 lights on the north side of the houses, 

 or where there is no possibility of their 

 burning the plants. It is well in all 

 cases, when glazing greenhouses, to look 

 over the glass carefully and select the 

 best lights for the most exposed places. 

 It is a mistaken idea that B quality is 

 not as heavy as the A. The only differ- 

 ence between A and B is that the B has 

 more imperfections than the A. 



L. E. Partridge, 



POSITION OF FLOWS. 



I have a house 33x120, heated by hot 

 water. There is a coil under each bench 

 and one on each wall, consisting in the 

 latter case of one 2% -inch flow and two 

 2-inch returns. The coils under the 

 benches each consist of one 2 V^ -inch flow 

 and four 2-inch returns. I would like 

 to know if this is the best arrangement 

 for them, or whether it would be better 

 to have the flows overhead and divide 

 each coil into two coils. The main flow 

 and return run across the end of the 

 house in the cellar. H, H. G. 



If you get a satisfactory circula- 

 tion with the present arrangement 1 

 should not change the plan. If this is 

 not the case, it might be well to run a 

 flow pipe under the ridge, of sufficient 

 capacity (3-inch) to provide for the two 

 coils arranged beneath the benches, 

 leaving the side coils as they now are. 

 Arrange the expansion tank as far above 

 the highest point in the system as pos- 

 sible; ten to fifteen feet is not too 

 much. L. C. C, 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Alex. Dickson & Sons, Newtownards, 

 Ireland, new roses; Thos. Rochford & 

 Sons, Nr. Broxbourne, Herts, England, 

 plants; United States Nursery Co., Rich, 

 Miss., roses, etc. ; Wadley & Smythe, New 

 York and Newport, landscape architec- 

 ture; Martin Grate Co., Chicago, rocking 

 grates; H. F, Michell Co., Philadelphia, 

 bulbs and seeds; Theodosia B. Shep- 

 herd Co., Ventura, Cal., seeds. 



