July 5, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



413 



GREENHOUSE 

 WHITE PAINT 



Twemlow*s Old 

 English Putty 



ANTI-RUST 

 PAINT 



A Building Boom 



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ROM continued reports, indications are that this will be a 

 record season in Greenhouse construction. To meet the 

 necessary demands annually made upon us for supplies in this 

 line we have again increased our stock to fill all orders with 

 the least possible delay. We are growing only through trans- 

 actions that make pleased and permanent customers. 



PAINT AND 

 WHITEWASH BRUSHES 



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this life can be enjoyed without the 

 help of your friends. The greatest 

 achievement will fall flat without the 

 approbation of your friends. 



We consider a well conducted private 

 establishment a great boon in any lo- 

 cality. Here we can see how the newest 

 and most popular plants can be grown 

 to perfection. We can learn much, 

 among other things tlie possibilities of 

 plants where time and expense are not 

 too strictly observed, and what a joy a 

 well-ordered garden is where order and 

 cleanliness are observed and dirt, untidi- 

 ness, slovenliness find general disorder 

 are banished. Some pin-headed or pig- 

 headed men of all ages will say, ' ' Oh, 

 that is all very well; he has all the help 

 he wants and all me means he wants. ' ' 

 That has little to do with it. It's the 

 man at the helm wlio must be given the 

 credit. 



The new range of glass only finished 

 about Xew Year's is very complete. 

 Steel and cement are used everyw here ; 

 nothing to rot. The houses are 20x100. 

 They are models of the best work of 

 tlie Lord & Burnham Co. A narrow, 

 equal-span house is very interesting, for 

 it contains in one compartment Tele- 

 graph cucumbers hanging from the roof 

 by the hundreds. Next is a house of 

 Rocky Ford melons looking like green 

 swans ' eggs, a very interesting sight 

 and one that took me back over fifty 

 years, to the days of short clothes and 

 dirty paws. Eoses, carnations, orchids; 

 in fact, everything that is attempted, is 

 done to perfection. Just now there is 

 a grand lot of gloxinias and a hou.se 

 full of cattleyas looking as vigorous as 

 healthy cabbaget!. 



The old range, where Mr. Sandiford 

 achieved such marked success with 

 flowering plants, has been converted into 

 fruit houses. Here you will see thrifty 

 young espalier peaches, nectarines, apri- 

 cots and farther on two compartments 

 of grapes of half a dozen of the most 

 a[)proved varieties, including a large por- 

 tion of that most delicious grape, Muscat 

 of Alexandria, and the good old Black 

 Hamburg. The vine borders, all inside, 

 are three feet deep and thoroughly 

 < I rained and the young vines are grow- 

 ing as only plants can where all their 

 desires are supplied. 



I could mention many things of in- 

 terest about this model garden, but my 

 remarks are long, so I will go no fur- 

 ther and conclude by saying that it is 

 a place that not only is a delight to a 

 florist but still more so to the gardener. 

 Success in every department and splendid 

 arrangement in lawn and trees, vegeta- 

 bles, fruit and flowers are all due to 

 tiie executive ability and thorough gar- 

 dening knowledge of Charles Sandiford. 

 .Tu«t one remark will show the man: 

 "Why, ]\rr. S., 1 don't consider attend- 

 ing to these grapevines work; it is only 

 a pleasure. I love to be with them. " 

 That is the sj)irit that makes a gardener. 

 W. S. 



HiCHMOXD. IxD.— Chas. Knopf has 

 l)0(>n trying Louis Wittbold 's rose noz- 

 zle and thinks higlily of it. With it he 

 finds the operator is able to get any 

 kind of spray he needs to do best work. 

 Mr. Knopf says he thinks there is hard- 

 ly a place where some man on the force 

 (ioes not get the benches too wet while 

 "vrhiging, but with this nozzle he finds 

 tills difficulty overcome. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



Tlie improvement in the cut flower 

 market during the last ten days of June 

 held encouragingly until Saturday, when 

 the bottom fell out with a thud. Im- 

 mense shipments arrived; prices receded; 

 the market was flooded and the ice-boxes 

 felt the strain. But there was no com- 

 plaint up to that time and wholesaler and 

 retailer shared alike in the general satis- 

 faction. Commencements, weddings and 

 steamer sailings passed all previous 

 records. Stock up to Friday was at no 

 time overabundant. From now on the 

 yearly summer depression will continue. 

 Nothing out of the ordinary stagnation 

 of July and August need be expected. 



As an evidence of this the wholesale 

 cut flower establishments all will close 

 at 3 p. m. until September 1. An agree- 

 ment to this effect had been signed by 

 every wholesale florist and supply man 

 with the exception of two at 3 o'clock 

 on Saturday and these can be depended 

 upon to support the humanitarian de- 

 cision. It is a wise movement, worthy 

 of the generous employers, and will add 

 without a doubt to the host of faithful 

 employees who in busy times know no 

 stated hours and often work through the 

 night when necessity demands it. 



(Jrand Japanese irises are in the mar- 

 ket. Several of the leading wholesalers 

 have stock on exhibition that has never 

 been ex(;elled. Lilies are still abundant. 

 Immense quantities are used in some of 

 the big wedding decorations. Donohoe 

 had one in Jersey last week that utilized 

 many hundreds of them and with home 

 and tent embellishments dozens of cases 



