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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mabch 29, 1906. 



hotbed manure, with two inches of sand 

 over it. You can place the bulbs quite 

 thickly, about two-thirds their depth. 

 If placed a few inches above some mild 

 hot-water pipes they will soon start, and 

 must then be potted off singly. 



We have considerable demand in May 

 for tuberoses for the mixed border. For 

 this we pot the bulbs from the flats into 

 4-inch pots and plunge in a mild hotbed 

 or a light, warm house. About the first 

 of June they are planted out in the 

 open ground. 



If grown for cutting, a 4-inch pot is 

 scarcely large enough. They deserve 

 5-inch, or better still, can be planted 

 out on a bench in four or five inches of 

 fresh loam. I suppose in warmer regions 

 the mature bulbs can be planted out and 

 fine spikes result. We have always lived 

 too near the north pole to know of this 

 experience. 



America, or more correctly, the United 

 States of America, is the great pro- 

 ducing country of the tuberose. We can 

 remember well when British seedsmen 

 always sent to Italy for them, and it 

 was more fuss and trouble to procure a 

 hundred tuberose bulbs than it would 

 be nowadays to get a baby chimpanzee 

 from the Congo valley or an essay on 

 astronomy from one of the learned in- 

 habitants of Mars. 



Sowing Sweet Peas. 



Where frost and snow have passed 

 away and the ground can be ploughed 

 or dug, the very first job out of doors is 

 to sow sweet peas. Make the trench 

 deep and broad and sow thinly. You 

 need not at once fill in the trench full. 

 Future hoeing will do that. The ground 

 cannot be too rich for sweet peas. There 

 would be little gained by sowing any of 

 the early, winter-flowering kinds out- 

 doors. Blanche Burpee, Emily Hender- 

 son, Countess of Radnor, Lovely, Cath- 

 erine Tracy, or any of the good old 

 standard varieties will do. 



We are asked every spring at the bed- 

 ding season for clumps of sweet peas, 

 and the only way to fill the order is 

 to dig up clumps from the rows sown in 

 the garden. Last year we sowed sev- 

 eral hundred 4-inch pots with a dozen 

 seed?[ in each, and found use for them 

 to fill these orders, and charged as much 

 for them as for 4-inch geraniums and at 

 a greater profit. The middle of April 

 is early enough to sow in the north. 



William Scott. 



NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 



There is some talk of a society being 

 formed in Scotland similar to the Koyal 

 Horticultural Society of England, with 

 headquarters at Edinburgh. It is right- 

 ly asserted by the leading horticultural 

 authorities of Scotland that the once 



magnificent exhibitions of hoticultural 

 productions do not now pay in Scotland. 

 Something in the way of a society 

 planned on the lines of the R. H. S. is 

 required to revive interest in flowers and 

 fruit culture. It will probably surprise 

 our friends in America to learn that the 

 Royal Horticultural Society has now 

 reached a membership of nearly 10,000, 

 and that it has a reserve fund of about 

 £16,000. 



Ghent azaleas as decorative plants are 

 "off" in England this year, and grow- 

 ers are complaining bitterly of low 



Here is my dollar to pay for the 

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It arrives on Saturday, fust in time, 

 and I always look for it, as I can then 

 make my order for stuff for the next 

 week, besides getting; all the news. 

 JOHN T. TAYLOR. 

 Rome, Ga., 



March 12, 1906. 



prices. Much money must have been 

 lost. In many cases the plants, after 

 having been imported, potted, housed 

 and grown and forced into bloom, are 

 not realizing the actual first cost of 

 the plants on the continent. It is prob- 

 able orders for the importations of 

 azaleas will be cut down very consider- 

 ably by the English nurserymen the com- 

 ing season. 



Dutch daffodils and tulips have been 

 doing well on the market lately, a great 

 improvement having taken place in 

 prices. The last week or so both articles 

 have been making sufficient to leave a 

 good profit for the grower, which is very 

 different to what they did at the begin- 

 ning and towards the middle of the 

 season. 



Chrysanthemums during the past au- 

 tumn and winter have been a profitable 

 line, the blooms selling well throughout 

 the season. The mild autumn and win- 

 ter gave an excellent chance of getting 

 the bloom and growth well matured, 

 and in fine condition for housing, and 



Illustration of Method of Calculating Cubic Contents of Greenhouses. 



nearly all growers are well pleased with 

 the results. Considerable damage was 

 done in some nurseries by early frosts, 

 one Lancashire grower estimating his 

 loss in a single night from frost at over 

 £500. At one time it looked as if the 

 chrysanthemum would be hopelessly over- 

 done. Probably larger quantities than 

 ever before were grown for last winter's 

 trade. In some districts they were 

 grown by the acre. Armind Nottingham 

 especially it was no uncommon sight to 

 see five or «tx acres together in one 

 nursery for lifting, blooming under 

 glass. Next season probably will be a 

 record for quantity grown, I never re- 

 member seeing so many plants for cut 

 blooms being propagated as there are 

 this spring. B. J. 



HYDROCYANIC ACID GAS. 



Nearly every owner of a greenhouse is 

 interested in fumigation with hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas and many hundreds are 

 experimenting in its use. It is necessary 

 in every case to determine with great 

 care the cubic contents of the house, 

 frame or box in which the fumigation is 

 to be made. The illustration shows cross 

 sections of two styles of greenhouse 

 structures now in general use. At the 

 left is an even-span house 12x100 feet, 

 two feet on the sides, anu five feet six 

 inches from the surface of the beds to 

 the ridge, with a walk fourteen inches 

 wide and fifteen inches aeep. 



To determme accurately the number of 

 cubic feet in this or a house of similar 

 construction : First, make a rough draw- 

 ing showing a cross section Ox the house; 

 second, divide the space into triangles 

 and rectangles by drawing a line con- 

 necting the two wall plates ana one from 

 the ridge at right angles to this; mark 

 on each its respective length in feet and 

 inches. Compute the number of cubic 

 feet in each of the rectangles and tri- 

 angles in accordance witu the following 

 method : 



In the even span house shown at the 

 left the number of cubic feet of space in 

 the walk is found by multiplying the 

 width by the depth by tne length, thus: 

 Multiply one foot two inches by one 

 foot three inches by 100 feet. Reducing 

 to inches we have fourteen inches multi- 

 plied by fifteen inches by 1,200 inches 

 equals 252,000 cubic inches; dividing 

 this result by 1,728, the number of cubic 

 inches contained in a cubic foot, we have 

 145.83 cubic feet. The rectangle A D G 

 F is computed in the same way, except 

 that in this case it is not necessary to 

 reduce the feet to inches. It would be 

 twelve feet multiplied oy two feeft by 

 100 feet equals 2,400 cuuic leet. 



This brings us to the triangles. The 

 rule generally given for calculating the 

 area of a right-angle triangle is to mul- 

 tiply the base by the perpendicular and 

 divide the product by two. The result 

 multiplied by the length of the house 

 will give the number of cubic feet the 

 triangular portion contains. For ex- 

 ample, taking the triangle ACE; six 

 feet multiplied by three feet six inches, 

 equals twenty-one feet, divided by two 

 equals 10.5 feet, multiplied by 100 feet 

 equals 1,050 cubic feet. The area of the 

 triangle E C D and the cubic feet in this 

 part of the house are determined in the 

 same way; or, in this case, since the tri- 

 angles are equal, the desired result is 

 obtained by multiplying the number of 

 cubic feet in the triangle A C E by two; 

 1,050 multiplied by two equals 2,100 

 cubic feet. The contents of this house 

 is therefore 145.83 plus 2,400 plus 2,100 



