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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEK 5, 1005. 



nary business man in thr city. My sys- 

 tem of economy was not calculated to 

 eliminate everything desirable — to get 

 down to a mere existence — but to have 

 a fair share of sensible luxuries without 

 waste of resources. And J want to say 

 right here that up to the time I went to 

 college (at the age of 22) I never rj- 

 ceived over $7.50 per week and that k11 

 the money I received from home duriug 

 my first two years in college was $120. 

 The rest I earned and saved myself. Ne- 

 cessity reduced my fare to crackers, milk 

 and bread for a whole year, that 1 

 might make erds meet. At the end of 

 the two years my father, who was a well- 

 to-do merchant, considered that I had 

 learned my lessons in economics suffi- 

 ciently well to justify him in seeing me 

 through to graiduation without further 

 outside work. But before I went to col- 

 lege I had earned a musical education 

 and a fair understanding of art, the ex- 

 penditures for these accomplishments be- 

 ing nearly $700. By playing or singing 

 in churches I made my musical education 

 pay for itself after the first few hun- 

 dred dollars had been spent. I attended 

 the opera and drama when anything par- 

 ticularly good came along, but I was 

 mighty choice about spendirg hard-earned 

 cash on mediocre plays. I was also a 

 smoker but only used tobacco when I 

 could afford it. At one time it was found 

 necesary to ' ' cut out ' ' smoking, so I 

 consumed a dozen green Pittsburg stogies 

 that set me against the habit so strongly 

 that it lasted two years. 



You will pardon me for dwelling at 

 length on a subject that is so personal. 

 *ut it is done to show young men that 

 opportunities are still to be had for the 



grasping, as they were years ago. At the 

 time our present rich men seized their 

 opportunities there was as much chance 

 for waste or economy as there is today. 

 Look about you and figure out the per- 

 centage of men over fifty years that 

 are well-to-do in any vocation! And yet 

 this large majority of poor men failed 

 for the same reason you are failing — be- 



cause they could see no opportunities. 

 Young men, buckle yourself right down 

 to business. Save all you can wherever 

 you can, for yourself and for your em- 

 ployer, and if he doesn 't eventually make 

 you a member of the firm he's a man 

 who doesn 't know how to get rich, and 

 some other man will profit by your abili- 

 ties. An Employee. 



CARNATION NOTEa-WEST. 



< Ventilation and Heat. 



The treatment you give your carna- 

 tion plants during the next few weeks 

 will have a very noticeable effect on 

 your crop of blooms during at least the 

 first half of the season, and possibly 

 longer. Some growers think that with 

 the plants safely established on the 

 benches the battle is won and that there- 

 after any kind of care will do. But to 

 grow high grade flowers you will find 

 that, while the housing time is a critical 

 time, there are other times that are just 

 as dangerous. Perhaps the plants are 

 not so apt to die outright, but they would 

 better do that than to get into such a 

 condition as may result from poor judg- 



A Casket Cover for a Military Funeral. 



ment and at a time when the weather ia 

 the least favorable for them to recover. 



Such a time is coming now, during the 

 next few weeks of irregular firing. Most 

 growers are loath to begin firing until 

 they are driven to it, especially those who 

 grow carnations and such plants that do 

 not show harm quickly from low tem- 

 perature, etc. It is well to be as saving 

 as is consistent, but there is a limit which 

 the grower with good judgment will ' 

 readily recognize and always heed. On 

 the other hand, there is no need to put 

 on your night man the first cool night 

 and have him raise steam every night, 

 warm or cold, and have the ventilators 

 open full to keep the houses cool. 



Those who grow roses or other plants 

 needing fire right along now have easy 

 sailing. The night man watches the 

 houses and when the temperature in the 

 carnation houses drops below 50 degrees 

 he turns on the steam in one pipe and 

 leaves the ventilators up a couple of 

 inches. Have him close the ventilators 

 only in case one pipe will not keep the 

 temperature up to 50 degrees. If it takes 

 more than one pipe to do that, then he 

 would better close them a few hours, 

 until it warms up a little, when he can 

 raise them again. 



A crack of air is always desirablo but 

 there are times when it is too exprii»^i»f>. 

 If you do not grow any plants i- eding 

 more heat than carnations, by usitii- cfK-e 

 and good judgment you can get ah)ng 

 without firing a few days or weeks yet, 

 according to your locality. 



This year has been an exceptional one 

 in many ways. For several years we have 

 had light frosts about the third week in 

 September ai.d toward the last of the 

 month fire heat was needed. This fall 

 we have had no frosts and only two or 

 three mornings below 45 degrees. On 

 the morning of September 30 the ther- 

 mometer stood at 68 degrees at seven 

 o'clock. While it is warm like this you 

 need not be told to keep the ventilators 

 up, but when the mornings are cool, 

 low in the forties or the upper thirties, 

 then is when your fine work comes into 

 play. The novice is inclined to close the 

 ventilators to keep in the warmth, the 

 worst mistake he can make. Better 

 leave the ventilators up two inches, so the 

 air can circulate. It is better for the 

 plants to have the temperature below 50 

 degrees, with a little air on, than above 

 50 degrees with no air on. When the 

 house is closed tight the atmosphere 

 quickly becomes stuffy and foul and the 

 plants make a soft growth that will pro- 

 duce soft blooms, and if you start into 

 the winter with your plants in that con- 

 I dition they will give you trouble when 



