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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



January 25, 1906. 



them extonding above the wall two feet 

 to rest and fasten my angle iron on — I 

 have two feet of glass from the wall to 

 the roof bars — making a perfectly solid 

 foundation for my roof to rest on. 



As to recommending the wall to any 

 one, I found that when the thermometer 

 was down to 10 degrees below zero, the 

 coldest we had this winter, it proved per- 

 fectly satisfactory. In my opinion it 

 is an ideal wall in every respect. It is 

 as firm and hard as rock. I took a thin 

 coating of sand and cement and smoothed 

 up the outside, which filled up all small 

 crevices, and made a very attractive wall. 

 My coal shed, which I built the same way, 

 has also been very satisfactory. The 

 secret of a good wall is enough of good 

 tamping. I do not believe any one 

 using sand will have the same results. 



D. E. Gorman. 



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THE GLASS MARKET. 



The report from practically all job- 

 bers in window glass is that the demand 

 for greenhouse sizes is something en- 

 tirely unprecedented for so early in the 

 season. The jobbers find that the larger 

 ranges of greenhouses are those first to 

 be planned and that the first call is al- 

 ways for large lots, with the demand 

 steadily increasing in point of number 

 of orders, but the size of the orders 

 steadily decreasing until late in the fall, 

 when freezing weather comes. 



The glass market has had many ups 

 and downs during the past summer. 

 Prices have fluctuated violently and the 

 jobbers have been and are unable to 

 make quotations except for prompt ac- 

 ceptance. At present, prices are low, 

 but there is reported to be considerable 

 difficulty in procuring large lots of one 

 size of greenhouse glass. The 16x16, 

 16x18, 16x20 and 16x24 sizes are hard 

 to pick up when one wants a thousand 

 boxes or more of one size. The job- 

 bers explain this by the statement that 



the glass factories will not cut the small 

 sizes except at an extra payment. As is 

 well known, the larger sizes of glass 

 command a relatively higher price per 

 square foot than do the greenhouse 

 sizes. Consequently the factories cut as 

 much of their glass to the larger sizes as 

 circumstances will allow. The jobbers 

 are all scrambling to get all the green- 

 house glass possible, for they feel confi- 

 dent that this season's greenhouse build- 

 ing operations will considerably eclipse 

 anything heretofore known. 



Low priced offerings are being made 

 on large lots of machine-made glass. It 

 looks exceedingly good, but jobbers say 

 it is so very brittle that it is useless for 

 many purposes, especially for greenhouse 

 use. One grower ordered a car of it, on 

 price, but when he came to look into it 

 further he canceled his order. However, 

 if the glass-blowing machines are a suc- 

 cess in other ways it should not be a dif- 

 ficult task to overcome the brittleness, 

 and this objection will doubtless not long 

 obtain. 



CARNATION NOTES.-EAST. 



Unrooted Cuttings. 



It was in 1902 that I first advised, in 

 these notes, the purchase of unrooted 

 cuttings and from time to time have 

 briefly referred to my preference for this 

 method of procuring stock. Owing to 

 recent inquiries for information regard- 

 ing the result of its continued practice, 

 I take this opportunity to again give 

 my views on the subject with the relation 

 of such added experience as may have 

 been gained. 



It is claimed that carnation cuttings 

 as taken from the plants are better able 

 to withstand a journey than those lifted 

 from the cutting bench with roots and 

 this would seem to be supported by the 

 arrival of a lot of unrooted cuttings in 

 good condition after a trip of 3,500 

 miles and return, while a similar lot. 



Carnation Pocahontas. 



taken from the sand, packed with equal 

 care and shipped with the others, re- 

 turned worthless. All will agree that the 

 sooner a rooted cutting can be gotten 

 into soil after being taken from the 

 sand the better; if rooted and shipped 

 there is considerable delay, not to men- 

 tion injury to delicate roots from hand- 

 ling in packing and unpacking. 



Why is it that some varieties disap- 

 point us the first year sent out but 

 improve the second season? 



The disposition is to lay the cause of 

 all trouble to overpropagation, as if it 

 were not possible to be due to some other 

 cause. There being so many conditions 

 beyond the control of the disseminator 

 after stock leaves his hands and upon 

 which depend the future success of a 

 variety, it is obviously unfair to so 

 magnify the evils of overpropagation as 

 to lose sight of all other adverse condi- 

 tions, slight perhaps in their influence, 

 but likely to be met with. A new 

 variety born and brought up under the 

 care of one who anticipates every re- 

 quirement has every advantage in its 

 favor and it is but natural that prefer- 

 ence for the conditions which have 

 brought about its superior qualities 

 should be strong. Eemoved to a dis- 

 tance where soil, climate and other con- 

 ditions are different, it must first adapt 

 itself to these before getting down to 

 actual business. 



Becoming Acclimated* 



Under the method of procuring cut- 

 tings already rooted this process of be- 

 coming acclimated in many cases does 

 not make much headway until cuttings 

 can be obtained from the mature plants; 

 this will be apparent in the marked dif- 

 ference between the stock originally 

 purchased and that rooted the following 

 year. 



Now, instead of waiting for a variety 

 to become acclimated, why not begin to 

 acclimatize it at the outset by starting 

 with unrooted cuttings? 



You may call this theory but having 

 for several years purchased rooted cut- 

 tings of new varieties and the first sea- 

 son 's showing always being unsatisfac- 

 tory, the plan of obtaining cuttings 

 unrooted was tried with the result that 

 the young stock when rooted and potted 

 took hold at once; they seemed to feel 

 at home and acted like those made from 

 cuttings taken oflf our own plants. Their 

 behavior in the field, after housing and 

 at blooming time was evidence enough 

 for me to decide in favor of the plan, 

 and frara continued experience with nu- 



