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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 13, 1905. 



TOBACCO. 



The Fumigating Kind tobacco powder, a flve- 

 pouiid trial bag free, you pay express. It kills 



H. A. Stoothoff Co., lie Weat St.. New York. 



Tobacco stems by the bale or carload. Write 

 for price on quantity you can use. 

 F. G. Borden, Milton. Wis. 



Tobacco dust. It will pay large users to get 

 our samples aud prices. 

 E. L. Koppelman & Co., 81 Pine St., New York, 



Tobacco stems for fertilizer. Car load lots. 

 Maxwell Mfg. Co., Louisville, Ky. 



Fresh tobacco stems, bale of 300 lbs., $1.50. 

 W. C. Beckert, Allegheny, Pa. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



wired toothpicks, 10,000, $1.50; fiO,000, |6.26. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 



W. J. COWBB, Berlin, N. Y. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



WIRE STAKES. 

 Bplnier'B galvanized steel stakes f or roees, car- 

 natloiiB, mums— no bufrs—last forever. 



2 ft. 8 ft. 4 ft. Tei ms : 

 No. 8 wire... per 1000, 14.85 17.15 19.50 Cash 

 No. 9 wire... " 4.00 6.0U 8 00 with 



No. 10 wire... " 3.56 6.36 7.10 order. 



Wecau furnish any size and length. 



H. BELMER & CO., Cincinnati. Ohio. 



Tbaden's wire tendrils and twin stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



II. Thaden & Co., 472 W. Hunter St., At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying wire. 

 Uop Bros.. 226 North 0th St., Brooklyn. N. Y. 



Galvanised rose stakes. Any length and size 

 of wire. Write 



H. F. Mlchell Co.. 1018 Market St.. Phlla. 



Model Extension carnation supports. 



Parker-Bruen Mfg. Co., Harrison, N. J. 



Advertisers have learned from experience that 

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WIRE WORK. 



Wire work. As manufacturers we eliminate 

 the middleman. None other made as good at 

 our prices. 



C. C. Pollworth Co., Milwaukee, Wl«. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work in the west. E. F. Winterson Co., 



46, 47, 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



Emll Steffens, Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs. 335 East 2l8t St.. New York. 



Reed & Keller. 122 W. 26th St., New York, 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Ajnrpby, Wholesale Florist. Cincinnati, O. 



Wire work, all kinds. 



C. E. Crltchell, 36 E. 3rd St., Cincinnati, O. 



E. H. Hunt, 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Cultivation and Hodng. 



It is strange that so level headed a 

 man as W. S., and such a close observer, 

 should get mixed up on the subject of 

 capillary attraction. W. S. states that 

 hoeing, by loosening the surface, en- 

 ables the moisture to escape and draws 

 up more moisture from below. The very 

 reverse is true. The sun's rays draw up 

 moisture by means of capillary attrac- 

 tion. That is, minute passages are 

 formed to the surface, by means of 

 which moisture rises and escapes into 

 the air. Hoeing and cultivation break 

 up these water tubes and thus retain the 

 moisture below. These tubes form again 

 in a week or so. Bain or watering also 

 pack the ground and conduce to their 

 rapid formation. Hence the necessity 

 for frequent stirring of the surface. 



This principle is well understood in 

 California. T once worked on an orchard 

 there where no rain fell from May to 

 October. The surface soil was reduced 

 to dust for a thickness of four inches 

 and regularly cultivated once a week. 

 Below this dust blanket moist soil was 

 always to be found. Just outside the 

 orchard and on the same kind of soil, a 



sandy loam, was a brick field. Here 

 one could see soil dug out twenty feet 

 deep and as dry as possible. In the 

 brick field the rain which had fallen in 

 the winter had all escaped into the air 

 by means of capillary attraction. In 

 the orchard it was unable to get through 

 the dust blanket and remained in the 

 soil to benefit the trees. 



Edw. Alex. Wallace. 



HAIL INSURANCE. 



During its eighteen years of practical 

 operation the Florists' Hail Association 

 of America has paid, up to the begin- 

 ning of the present season, 870 losses, 

 aggregating a little more than $81,000. It 

 has been found that the average cost of 

 insurance per annum on single thick glass 

 is 6% cents per square foot and on double 

 thick glass 5 cents per square foot. The 

 first assessment on single thick glass is 

 8 cents per 100 square feet and on double 

 strength 6 cents per 100 square feet. 

 Subsequent assessments are levied as 

 needed and 5 cents per square foot for 

 single thick and 7 cents per square foot 

 on double thick paid to members for 

 glass broken by hail. The cost of man- 

 agement is nominal, so that the associa- 

 tion has a reserve fund of $13,500, in- 

 suring over 22,000,000 square feet of 

 glass for more than 1,400 members. E. 

 G. Hill^ Richmond, Ind., is president of 

 the association and J. G. Esler, Saddle 

 Eiver, N. J., has been secretary since 

 its organization. In writing to Mr. Esler 

 as to the cost of insurance, give not only 

 the length of the several houses but the 

 length of the sash bars on each side, also 

 state whether single or double strength 

 glass is used. 



SEEDS. 



In raising any seeds, some considera- 

 tion should be given to natural condi- 

 tions. Take the Clematis vitalba as an 

 instance. It ripens and falls on moist 

 ground in the autumn, and there it re- 

 mains until we get the warm sunshine 

 in spring, when it is ready to start; and 

 when it is collected for commercial pur- 

 poses it is probably kept dry with the 

 result that when it is sown in spring 

 the hard shells do not get sufficiently 

 softened before we get dry hot weather; 

 but if the seed is put into moist sand 

 and kept in a cool place, it will germin- 

 ate freely when sown. Much the same 

 thing may be said of rose seed; they 



should never get thoroughly dried. 

 There are other seeds which ripen early 

 in the summer, and lie on the ground 

 for a long period; these cannot be kept 

 too dry after they are collected, yet 

 with these, germination may be assisted 

 by soaking them for a short time be- 

 fore sowing. — Horticultural Advertiser. 



THE OLD-FASHIONED FLOWS. 



I have a greenhouse 12x16 that I want 

 to heat in the old-fashioned way, with a 

 brick furnace and tile piping under the 

 middle bench. How large a furnace will 

 be needed to keep 60 to 65 degrees in 

 the winter weather in the latitude ol 

 Cincinnati? C. E. E. 



It is not possible to accurately calcu- 

 late the size of a furnace necessary to 

 heat a house by means of a flue, as is 

 the case with hot water or steam. While 

 a furnace of moderate size will undoubt- 

 edly do the work satisfactorily, the size 

 of the furnace should be governed by 

 the kind of fuel to be used. If hard 

 or soft coal is the fuel, a furnace twelve 

 inches wide by two feet deep and fifteen 

 inches high, with an adequate ash-pit 

 should answer the purpose. If cord-wood 

 is to be the fuel, I should make the fire- 

 box about two and one-half to three feet 

 long, so as to use half-length cord-wood. 



A grate three feet by eighteen inches 

 with a firebox eighteen inches high and 

 an adequate ash-pit will be ample and 

 will be more economical to fire than a 

 smaller furnace requiring finer wood. 

 The efficiency of this plan of heating 

 will depend quite as much upon the ar- 

 rangement of the flue as upon the size 

 of the furnace. If instead of arranging 

 the flue through the center of the house 

 it can be carried around the house and 

 discharged into a chimney constructed on 

 top of the furnace, the most efficient ar- 

 arrangement will be secured. L. C. C. 



PIPING TVO HOUSES. 



We are building two greenhouses, and 

 would like to know how to pipe them 

 with 2-inch pipes, there being four 

 benches in the wider house, which is 

 26x120, eleven feet to the ridge. The 

 other house is 10x120 and eight feet to 

 the ridge. In the larger house it re- 

 quires 65 degrees and in the smaller 60 

 degrees in the most severe weather in 

 northern Illinois. How should the pipes 



The S. A. F. Convention is close 

 at liand and everyone is inter- 

 ested in Icnowing all about 



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