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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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November 23, 1U05. 



they have been grown in too high a tem- 

 perature and with an insufficiency of 

 ventilation at night. The scalding of 

 the leaves is the result of the high and 

 dry temperature, which forces the fo- 

 liage to give off moisture more rapidly 

 tlms->the roots can supply it. 



Kgfluce the i?ight temperature to 56 

 degrees and keep the air sweet by ade- 

 quate ventilation ; also keep the paths 

 wet to help maintain a moist atmos- 

 phere. 



I also find evidence of the presence of 

 red spider. By keeping the syringe go- 

 ing this may easily be overcome, and the 

 very fact of using water in this manner 

 vtill charge the atmosphere with a suffi- 

 ciency of moisture to keep the foliage in 

 good condition. The most of these 

 leaves are so far enfeebled that they are 

 of little use to the plant, and the main 

 object should be to take care of the 

 young foliage as it develops. Ribes. 



A NEW ILLINOIS PLANT. 



The accompanying illustration gives 

 an idea of the character of the new es- 

 tablishment of W. B. Davis & Co., at 

 Aurora, 111. There are seven houses 27x 

 200 feet. The gutters are seven feet 

 from the ground. An interesting feature 

 is that hollow bricks were used for the 

 walls, set in concrete foundations. The 

 boiler house is 40x65 feet, in addition 

 to which there is a frame building for 

 the office and packing shed. Two large 



SUPPORTING FREESIAS. 



We have 60,000 freesias growing in 

 flats four inches deep. Would it be 

 good to top-dress them with sheep 

 manure? They lop down quite some. 

 Will it hurt them? If so, how can I 

 tie them up? A. R. 



The freesias should be supported by 

 some arrangement so that they can con- 

 tinue growing without falling over. I 

 frequently see an arrangement of poul- 

 try netting supported some four or five 

 inches above the bed, and this seems to 

 meet the requirement. The mulching of 

 sheep manure should be diluted with 

 three times its bulk of soil before being 

 applied, as the soil will absorb and re- 

 tain the released gases for future use. 



R. 



TOBACCO EXTRACT. 



Would like to know if tobacco extract, 

 taken from tobacco stems, steamed 

 through the houses will have the same 

 effect in killing insects as smoking has. 

 Tobacco stems do not cost us anything 

 and I thought of taking a pan and let- 

 ting the steam pipe run through it so 

 that when filled with juice it would 

 steam through the house. W. A. S. 



Evaporating tobacco or some nicotine 

 extract was very much in vogue some 

 ten years ago, especially in rose houses, 

 where tobacco smoke is an undoubted in- 



The New W. B. Davis & Co. Plant at Aurora, Ul 



jury. The objection to that method was 

 that the moisture made the growth soft. 

 The usual plan was a joti of steam into 

 an iron vessel filled with a bushel of 

 chopped tobacco stems. Another plan 

 was to have small tin troughs made to 

 fit on 1^4 -inch steam pipes and keep 

 them filled with tobacco, which would be 

 continually evaporating. You can run 

 a steam pipe through your tobacco liquid 

 and it will do all that smoke will do and 

 will be less hurtful to many plants. 



W. S. 



EFFECT OF FROST. 



Would frost damage a range of green- 

 houses consisting of four houses each 

 14x70, built on the Dietsch short-roof 

 plan? The houses have 7-foot walls and 

 li^-inch supporting posts. The posts are 

 well set in concrete. The houses have 

 no partition walls. The temperature sel- 

 dom falls to 20 decrees below zero. These 

 houses will be entirely completed by 

 January 1. The owner does not wish 

 to plant until next spring, and does not 

 wish to heat these houses. Will the frost 

 raise the concrete posts enough to crack 

 the glass and do other damage to the 

 houses? L. A. R. 



It depends a good deal on the charac- 

 ter of the foundation or subsoil whether 

 the frost will affect the walls. If the 

 subsoil is of a gravelly nature the frost 

 will have little or no effect upon it. I 

 think you will be safe enough to go 

 ahead and get the house ready, so as to 

 be ready for spring. The writer has had 

 houses under his care in Canada where 

 the thermometer would run to 46 degrees 

 below zero and these houses have for 

 years withstood the frost without heaving 

 and without being heated. It roigrht, 

 however, be advisable to spread some 

 litter or leaves along the walls as a 



protection. 



R. 



RED TUBEROSE. 



I mail under separate cover a red tube- 

 rose. This is one of three produced from 

 the same bulb and, although this one is 

 not so perfect or so large as the former 

 ones, it may answer to show you the 

 freak. This bulb was planted with 

 others on clay soil, where the ground 

 had been graded off and, although the 

 first bloom was pure white, the top of 

 the stalk produced variegated flowers, 



steam boilers are employed for heating, 

 with a brick chimney ninety feet high. 

 They have a switch running past the 

 boiler shed and the ends of the houses, 

 which greatly cheapens the handling of 

 coal and fertilizer. 



An idea of the celerity with which this 

 plant was put up may be gained from 

 the fact that the photograph was taken 

 on November 8, just nine weeks from 

 the day work was begun. 



IxDEPENDENCE, Ia. — E. M. Bissell has 

 taken R. D. Backus into partnership, the 

 firm to be known as Bissell & Backus. 



Racine, Wis. — Bourgaise & Olsen dis- 

 solved partnership November 20, the for- 

 mer continuing the business. They have 

 had some especially fine chrysanthemums 

 this season. Mrs. T. Hinehliffe attended 

 both the Chicago and Milwaukee shows 

 and says that while Chicago was a won- 

 derful affair, still Milwaukee did very 

 well indeed considering that it was the 

 first attempt. 



Won by R. D. Foote. Morrlstown, N. J. Won by Fred Potter. Osslning, N. Y. 



for (5 fcloomn, « varietleB mums. for T5 Lawsons In three colors. 



The F. R. Pierson Company's Silver Caps. 



