jANUABy 11, 1006. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



489 



Rose Range at New Plant of G. Van Bochove & Bro., Kalamazoo, Mich. 



growing strong and healthy. Your tem- 

 peratures are right. All you can do is 

 to promote a sturdy growth and in time 

 they will come with a crop of buds and 

 bloom. I would run a little on the dry 

 side for a week or ten days. That will 

 encourage them to make buds, but you 

 cannot induce them to go right to bloom- 

 ing. If you are willing to sacrifice half 

 of a later crop in order to get a crop 

 sooner, then cut back about half of the 

 shoots that are on the plants. That will 

 cause the rest to grow more rapidly and 

 you will get a crop sooner, though it will 

 be only half as large. Sometimes run- 

 ning a knife through the soil between 

 the rows across the bench will help, as 

 it causes a slight check by cutting the 

 long roots. It is at such times that the 

 grower is tempted to adopt radical meas- 

 ures to get results, but it will pay you 

 to go carefully. As the days get longer 

 and the sun gets stronger, they will come 

 along faster and the crop will come. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



McKINLEY DAY. 



It is time to begin to advertise McKin- 

 ley day to the public. The date is Janu- 

 ary 29 and its near approach should be 

 'ailed to the attention of every local 

 newspaper man. Put a neat card in your 

 window announcing the date. There 

 promise to be large supplies of carna- 

 tions this year and a good business can 

 be done. Eaising prices for this occa- 

 sion will be against the best interests of 

 'ho trade, so long as the observance of 

 the day is not a thoroughly established 

 'ustom. 



January 24 and 25. The exhibits must 

 be staged by 1 p. m. on the opening day. 

 The principal competition will be for the 

 Lawson gold medal, but there are a num- 

 ber of very attractive special premiums. 

 The judges are W. N. Rudd, Mt. Green- 

 wood, 111.; Wm. Micholson, i''Taming- 

 ham, Mass.; Eugene Dailledouze, Flat- 

 bush, N. Y. 



Aside from the routine business of the 

 society the new by-laws will be up for 

 adoption and there will be papers as 

 follows: "Carnations from a Retailer's 

 Point of View," by Thomas F. Galvin, 

 Boston ; * * Carnation Breeding, ' ' by 

 Prof. H. F. Hall, Durham College, 

 N. H. ; ' * Carnations in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, " by J. A. Valentine, Denver. A 

 paper will also be read by a wholesale 

 man, giving his point of view. 



The Copley Square hotel will be head- 

 quarters during the week, and every in- 

 dication points to one of the most suc- 

 cessful meetings the society has ever 

 held. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The complete schedule for the fifteenth 

 annual exhibition of the American Car- 

 nation Society has been mailed to mem- 

 bers. The meeting and exhibition will 

 be held in Horticultural hall, Boston, 



A MICHIGAN PLANT. 



The n^w plant of G. Van Bochove & 

 Bro., Kalamazoo, Mich., is located on 

 South Portage street, within the city 

 limits, on a thirty-acre tract of land that 

 is admirably suited for the business. The 

 greenhouses are connected with a 6-inch 

 pipe to the city water main and by the 

 system installed a steady pressure of 

 sixty pounds is maintained. 



Roses and carnations are the only 

 crops grown on the new place, bulbs, 

 mums and other miscellaneous stock be- 

 ing grown at their old plant on Third 

 street. With the addition of this new 

 plant this firm now has about 100,000 

 feet of glass. 



The new houses are 300 feet long and 

 twenty-seven feet wide, with gutters 

 seven feet high, and sloping from the 

 center to each end. There are four 

 benches five feet wide to each house. The 



photographs reproduced give a very good 

 view of the manner of construction. 



The heating plant is contained in a 

 brick boiler room, which is large enough 

 for additional boilers. There is now in- 

 stalled two 125-horse power horizontal 

 tubular boilers, connected to an 8-inch 

 main steam feed pipe with a 6-inch regu- 

 lating valve, giving perfect control of the 

 steam pressure in the houses. The heat- 

 ing plant and houses are planned so 

 that in future additions nothing need be 

 changed. 



Stock is doing very well in these houses 

 and the owners are well satisfied with 

 them. The Richmond rose is well thought 

 of, and plantings of this variety will be 

 increased and Meteor correspondingly di- 

 minished. Other roses will be planted in 

 about the usual amounts. 



In carnations the following varieties 

 will be dropped: F. Burki, Glacier, Her 

 Majesty, Indianapolis, Fair Maid, Pros- 

 perity, Bradt, Armazindy, Harry Fenn, 

 Joost, and possibly Fiancee, The promis- 

 ing new varieties will be given a trial. 

 Plantings of Lady Bountiful, Queen, 

 White Lawson and Enchantress will be 

 increased, 



MR. HARTSHORNE'S VIEW. 



Considerable free advertising has been 

 given to Carnation Aristocrat by the 

 daily press all over the country. AVe flo- 

 rists at one time used to figure such 

 stories of $30,000 and $40,000 for a new 

 carnation as absurd and hurtful, and 

 were ashamed of them when questioned 

 by the public regarding their reliability. 

 But of late years we have come to re- 

 alize that those same stories have adver- 

 tised and helped our business to a con- 

 siderable extent, and have huift no one in 

 the least. Let me state, however, that 

 neither the originator, Mr. Witterstaetter, 

 nor the Chicago Carnation Co, is seeking 

 notoriety by these methods. The price 

 my company has paid for Aristocrat has 



