August 2, 1906. 



ThcWcdkly Florists* Review. 



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667 



Plant Now LILIUM HARRISII for Early Forcing 



We offer some extra choice Lllium Harrisli which has been grown for us from the original, pure stock. This is the kind 

 of stock that you want for the very earllcBt forcing, as It Is tht true, original Harrisli. The small sizes— 6-78 anil 6-78— 

 are particularly desirable for this purpose, as they will flower more quickly than the larger bulbs. If you want to get 

 a little of the original, pure Harrisli, try a case or two of this. As our stock of this is limited, we can ofler only a few 

 ' ' , cares to a single buyer. If you have been dissatisfied with the Harrisii that yon have forced heretofore, try a case or 

 two of this and see if it is not moie than worth the difference in price over the iitock that you have been buying. In 

 ordering ask for the puie selected strain of original Harrisii, which we offer as follows: 



...f,.: 5 to 7>lnoli bulbs, 400 to tbe oaa*» $17.00 per case. 



6 to 7-lnoli bulba, 8S0 to tbe oasot 17.50 per oaae. V , 



7 to O'lncli bulbs, tOO to the case, 18.00 per case. 

 9 to 11-incli bulbs, 100 to tbe case, 18.00 per case. 



EASTER COMES EARLY THIS YEAR-MARCH 31 



and a great many growers will want to use Harrisii instead of Longiflorum so as to be sure and have the plants in 

 flower in time, as the season is going to be short for Japan Longiflorum. The crop of Harrisii this year is tbe ibortest 

 it has been in years, and in view of the extra demand, we advise those who have not already covered their require- 

 ments to lose no time doing so. 



For very earliest forcing— Christmas and later— we recommend the pure Harrisii offered above, but for later 

 forcing for Easter, our customers will And the regular stock offered below first-class stock— much better than the aver- 

 age stock usually offered. We can quote the regular stock as follows: 



to 7>incb bulbs, 850 to the case, $14.00 per case. 



7 to 9-incli bulbs, 200 to tbe case, 15.00 per case. 

 9 to 11-inob bulbs, 100 to the case, 15.00 per case. 



FRKKSIA RXFRACTA ALBA, tbe true white variety. Now ready. 

 BKRMDDA BDTTERCUP OZAUS, $1.00 per 100; r.50 per 1000. 



Finest Bermuda-grown stock. $1.00 per 100; f7.60 per 1000. 



¥. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, fi. Y. 



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Field-Gro^n uARNATIDN PLANTS 



The foUowinK -varietiea: 



lUO 1000 

 Boston 



Market 14 00 tBO.OO 



EuchantresB 6.00 40.0] 



lOO 1000 

 White Cloud I3.U0 $35.0t) 



Ine 3.00 26.00 



Sports 8.00 26.00 



Lawson. 8.00 25.00 ' Flora Hill... 300 26.00 



U/ll nCPV DOnC I^IS Oakton Ave.. 



IVALUCbK DnUOi, kvamston. ill. 



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 J. A. Nelson and 6. KLOPrEB, Proprietors 



THE CATION GREENHOUSE CO. 



Wholesale Growers of 



FERNS and BEDDING PLANTS 



OF ALL KINDS 



1101-03 Fifth Avenue, PEORIA. ILL. 



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SMILAX 



Large plants, 8-inch, 93.00 per 100. Finest 

 CANNA8, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, $4.00 100. 

 Browallia Speclosa Major, 2-inch, $4.00 per 100. 



P. A. BAKER, Media, Pa. 



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plants and bulbs, many of which have 

 never before been seen in California, has 

 been shipped already to the experiment- 

 al station. G. 



fireeahonse Beating. 



COAL OIL AS FUEL. 



Can you give mo any information in 

 regard to heating a greenhouse with coal 

 oil? "We have pulled down our old house 

 and are building two new ones, which 

 will make the total area of glass 6,000 

 or 6,500 feet. The intention is to heat 

 with hot water. Has coal oil been tried 

 for heating greenhouses? R. M. 



Coal oil in the crude state is ex- 

 tensively used for fuel purposes in Texas 

 and Indian Territory, where it is abun- 

 dant and cheap. It works best in steam 

 generating plants, where lae oil can be 

 forced with a jet of steam through the 

 burners into the fire-box of the boilers. 

 In some cases where steam is not used, 



CARNATIONS 



MY SPECIALTY 



Princess off Wales Violet 



R. Plants. $7.00 per 1000. Cash or 0. O. D. 



SOL. 6ARUND, DES PLAINES, ILL. 



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ROSE PLANTS 



Remnant of surplus American Beauty, 

 3 to 3>i2-ln.. $20.00 per 1000. Have dropped some 

 leaves. Worth more but desire qnick sale. Un- 

 less known, cash with ocder. These Beauty plants 

 are a money-maker for some one to pot for 

 holidays. Bridesmaid, 8>^-ln., 3Sc. Fine plants. 



BRUNT ft NOB FLORAL CO. 



W. Petenon and M. 48tk Avea., CHICAGO 



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air is pumped into reservoirs and drawn 

 upon to spray the oil into ^he burners ; 

 in other cases the oil flows by gravity 

 into the burners. If the oil can be ob- 

 tained at small cost it can be success- 

 fully employed for heating purposes. 

 Kerosene is too expensive for greenhouse 

 heating. During the winter of the coal 

 famine crude oil was used for greenhouse 

 heating to a considerable extent, but it 

 is too expensive in the east, where the 

 price of coal is normal. L. C. C. 



HEATING FOR HOUSES. 



I have four greenhouses, and wish 

 to know how many runs of 1^/4 -inch pipe 

 it will take for each. They are as fol- 

 lows: One house 15x60, 11-foot ridge, 

 for geraniums; one for carnations, 

 20x60, 10-foot ridge; one for palms, 

 20x60 feet, 10-foot ridge; and another 

 for carnations, 15x25, 10-foot ridge. 



E. W. 



I presume that you will want to run 

 your geranium and palm houses about 

 56 to 60 degrees. You will be safe in 

 allowing one l^-inch pipe to every two 

 , feet of the width of your bouse. Put 

 eight runs in the 15-foot house, and ten 

 runs in the 20-foot house. In the carna- 

 tion houses allow about two and one- 

 half feet of the width of the house for 

 each run of 1^4 -inch pipe. This is 

 figuring on steam heating. 



If you install hot water, then you 



must put in at least half as many more 

 pipes. Arrange for adding more pipes 

 if it should be found necessary, one or 

 two in each house. We find that the 

 height of tlTe house has very little 

 to do with the amount 9f piping re- 

 quired, unless it goes to the extreme. 

 For instance, we have one house forty- 

 five feet wide and fourteen feet high at 

 the ridge, and it takes just as many 

 pipes in proportion to its width as an- 

 other house which is thirty feet wide 

 and seventeen feet high at the ridge. 



A. F. J. B. 



HEATING SMALL HOUSE. 



I have a greenhouse 18x35 feet, 4-foot 

 sides, 9- foot ridge. I want to heat it 

 with hot water, with 3-inch return bends. 

 Will four on a side heat it at 15 degrees 

 below zero to a temperature of 60 de- 

 grees? H. B. 



If I understand the question correctly, 

 you wish to use four 3-inch hot water 

 pipes on each side of your greenhouse 

 18x35 feet. Four 3-inch pipes on each 

 side, or eight 3-inch pipes in all, will 

 provide almost the exact amount of 

 radiation necessary to maintain a tem- 

 perature of 60 degrees in the house. It 

 would not be wise to use return bends, 

 however, as the four pipes would thus 

 make the water travel 140 feet, while 

 by the use of a riser and three returns 

 on a side, the flow can be reduced to 

 thirty-five feet. Use a manifold for the 

 three returns and supply it from one 

 3-inch riser or flow on each side. 



L. C. C. 



LuMBERTON, N. J.— C. S. Ridgway has 

 returned from a trip to Japan. 



Here is my dollar; I couldn't run a 

 greenhouse without the Review. — M. H. 

 Lewis & Co., Strong City, Kan. 



Urbana, O.— R. H. Murphey & Son 

 are installing a new boiler and heating 

 plant in their greenhouses on Oakland 

 street. 



FiNDLAY, O.— S. J. McMichael has 

 taken out a permit to erect a $1,500 

 greenhouse, to be built on his property 

 on Larkins Streett 



