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JULY 20, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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located near his greenhouses and his in- 

 teresting family consists of a wife, and 

 'five children. 



Williim Murphy. 



brown and appear polished or shiny. 

 This makes its appearance after the 

 plants are transferred from the green- 

 house to frames or field and this season 

 has almost disappeared, but last year 

 we lost an entire block of Queen of the 

 Market with it. G. J. B. 



The trouble seems to be a rust. If this 

 trouble develops after the plants are 

 transferred to the field t is more than 

 likely that it began when the plants were 

 crowded in the flats, under glass, and 

 were kept too close and damp. The ap- 

 pearance of the leaves is very much the 

 same as the rust on chrysanthemums, 

 which it is almost impossible to stop if 

 it once has a good start. We would ad- 

 vise, as a preventive another year, that 

 you do not crowd the asters in the flats, 

 giving them full light and plenty of 

 ventilation and soon after transplant- 

 ing from the seed pans to flats give them 

 a syringing with the copper carbonate 

 or Bordeaux mixture. W. S. 



WILLIAM MURPHY. 



There was a genuine though "safe 

 and sane" celebration of the Fourth of 

 July on a farm near Quincy, 111., in 1857, 

 for on that day the Murphy family, re- 

 siding there, welcomed to membership a 

 baby boy, subsequently named William. 

 Eight years later the parents removed to 

 their home near the present location of 

 ^Ir. Murphy's greenhouses, just outside 

 of Cincinnati. Here the boy worked in 

 his father's vegetable gardens, until, in 

 1883, he began growing bedding plants 

 and cut flowers for the Cincinnati mar- 

 ket. Three years later he determined to 

 'it'vote his interests exclusively to car- 

 "iitions, being at that time the only 

 iiorist there who made this flower a 

 specialty. He employed such varieties 

 as DeGraw, La Purite, Heinze's White, 



•race Wilder. and Portia and sold the 

 •'looms direct to the retail stores. 

 His plant steadily increasing, on Octo- 



'•^'^ 1, 1902, he opened a commission 



house at 128 East Third street, to pro- 

 vide an outlet for his cut. The combined 

 stock, furnished by many consignors add- 

 ing their cuts to his, makes him at pres- 

 ent the largest distributor of cut carna- 

 tions in the Cincinnati market. 



Mr. Murphy has just been elected 

 president of the Cincinnati Florists' So- 

 ciety for the third term, having also 

 served as secretary of the ^ame society. 

 He is a charter member of the Society of 

 American Florists and a member of the 

 American Carnation Society. Besides 

 the work devolving on him through the 

 care of his plant, commission house and 

 a couple of farms, he finds time to dis- 

 charge the duties of director and ap- 

 praiser of a building association, treas- 

 urer of a school district, treasurer of a 

 pike company, and clerk of an election 

 board. Mr. Murphy 's home is prettily 



FERTILIZER MIXTURES. 



In view of the growing interest in 

 the mixing of fertilizers and the en- 

 couragement which the practice has re- 

 ceived from the work of the experi- 

 ment stations, attention should be 

 called to the fact that the indis- 

 criminate mixing of fertilizing ma- 

 terials is not a safe practice, says a 

 bulletin of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. This is due plainly 

 to two facts: (1) When certain ma- 

 terials are mixed chemical changes 

 take place which result in the loss of 

 a valuable constituent, as when lime 

 is mixed with guano nitrogen escapes, 

 or in a change of a constituent to a 

 less available form, as when lime is 

 mixed with superphosphates the phos- 

 phoric acid is made less soluble, and 

 (2) mixtures of certain materials as, 

 for example, potash salts and Thomas 

 slag, are likely to harden or "cake" 

 and thus become difficult to distribute 

 if kept some time after mixing. 



A German investigator has suggested 

 a diagram, which indicates for a few of 

 the more common fertilizing materials 

 the combinations which may be safely 

 made. In this diagram the dark lines 

 unite materials which should never be 

 mixed, the double lines those which 

 should be applied immediately after 

 mixing and the single lines those which 

 may be mixed at any time. 



POINSETTIAS. 



Are poinsettias better planted on the 

 bench or grown in pots? If the former, 

 kindly give directions as to depth of soil, 

 distance to plant, etc. J. P. K. 



This will entirely depend on what your 

 demand is. If you want to sell the 

 plants, then you must grow them entirely 

 in pots, as they are the worst possible 

 plants to try and lift and pot. If you 

 grow them for cutting, then by all means 

 plant thorn on the bench. They are eas- 

 ier to manage in every way if planted 

 out on a bench on five inches of good, 

 strong soil. See that the bench will let 



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Diasram Indicating What Fertilizing Materials May and May Not be Safely Mixed. 



