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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Al'KlI. 



I'.Mit;. 



evenly. I .lii-l ;i lic.l l;:.N(;n Ici't in two 



iniiuitcs. It i- \\;i-iir,| (iiV |iy the lir>t, 



toiicli i)t w.'ilri' :iii(|. wlitii plains mc 



dry :i|>|''y -'i;^:!!!!. 



.My ('\|iii |(l|.( i^ lli:il jctlllrr slllilllil 



iiiit, l)t' wiiliTcil (Mini. I. lit t liurniii^iily. 



'I'llC S(i-r;illf(i litlllrc inl is rlici ill r;i ^ri | 



]>y colli iniii'd il:i iii|iii.--v. Wiii-ii I (■.■iii 

 sec hill little I't till Lli'Mlih! I.rlwrni 

 tlic jilaril- Ihii.'- iiHliratii!^ ;|i;ii ihric i- 

 siillifiriit air i i riula ! inii In iiivm,' |ilaiits 

 drying', I water liinmu^lilv I'm the la^t 



tiniO. 'I'llis \\;i'-lir'^ nlV ll|r la^t .lll^l aihl 



;i (.'oujilc III liulil siiiukiii^^ will .answer 



lllitil lllf lettllei' IS elll. 'riiniiMJi w.ariied 



oi' tlic ra\.a;^es (if tl.is insect. \<\ this 



tro.'ltlllellt I iia\(' kept llle Led pelleitlv 



(dt'un willi no Inuilil,' and \ery lnile 

 expense. 



Lettuce Rot. 



Regardiii;; tlo' lelliiee mi. wiii.li li.as 

 lieen slud at .sn iniieli Irv the Iml: L;iins 

 tliat it .seeins idle lUr iiie tn .shiint al 

 nil; e\"eii the .^ns ei nm ha~. lired a\\.a\' 

 nnd ju'dini^ed a \ariei_\ >.i \ i;^iiriiii-- a- in 

 be iminuiie. 



I recall 1hat 'luring; 1 he war the sid- 

 (iiers Wire li-niililed with siuivy, eansed 

 \iy 11i(- hnd; lit' Seine in:;redieiit in their 

 very liniiled nieim. 'riien, ton, some of 

 our ''upper ti'ii."' w Im iia\e more cents 

 than sense, lia\(> the nout, caused liy 

 their unlimited menu. Alight it not he 

 that in luir anxiety to force our h'ttuci* 

 by means id' \(iy I'icii soils. iiitrat(> <if 

 soda and other concentrated fertilizers, 

 we Ri\e tliciii tiic ^out or sciirxy or liolli 

 and thus reader tliein susceptible to dis- 

 eases they would otherwise escape.' 



Jt is a ]irinci[de in medicine that a 

 liealthy ma n may ward nlT e\ en cniitanious 

 (li.sease.s; tlie deadl\' i:;eriiis imt Iteiii;^ 

 able to lind jjreeii pastuie, die of star- 

 vation. Wdiy is Hot tile same principle 

 true in jdant life.' .Mi^ht wi not escajie 

 many vt' the ills of plant life, if \ve 

 looked more to siicji fertilizers as \vould 

 produce a ]>erfei-t plant as nature in- 

 tended, rather than the uatiu'y, loose 

 tissued tliiutis wi' often lind.' And 

 again, tliere u.as much coinjdaint in this 

 market last winter about tiie lettuce be- 

 injj in snme cases iiisijdd in ll.avor :ind 

 in others of ]ironounc(>d flavor not usu- 

 ally J'oiiiid in lettuce. 'l"o sudi extent 

 \vere the^e manifest tliat many refused 

 to bu>' linthuusc lettuce, (daimiiier it to 

 lie unfit 1n cat. 



Should Seek Flavor Also. 



Now. I hohl there is somethinjx wronc; 

 somewhere. Is it in these scientific 

 remedies, or stimulants; which? \\c 

 of the ^lass-hou.ses sluHihi seek to pro- 

 iluce an artiide not only of size but of 



flavor. (! i hatter has tiiat which 



nuike- it e,,nd it- Ihnur. I'.ad butter 

 has its fla\nr. 'Die same is true of let- 



tuce. Nut .all lettuce is hdtuce. Some 

 i.s niily ._.ia'-s. 



I am a ' ' L^reeiiljy ' ' ;it ^row i uii left uce. 



hut by llle.aiis nf Llood jiottillL; Sldl, 1 



i!a\e h.ail iin rot. but ha\e produced 

 three i-inp-. that have been pi-(Uiounced 

 the ti'iest tl.iMiied. iiiust durable Icttuce 

 c\ I 1 siild ill till' markel s I lia\ e sup- 



I'lled. S. ('. 'J\ 



TOMATOES. 



'I'lie accninpauyinnr illustration shows 

 I he last plant iiij.; of the st'ason. on which 

 the lirst fruits are just sliowiiif:^ color. 

 The \ariety is Ijorillard, the old stand- 

 by, which we find the most reliable, as 

 it will succeed uiuler conditions where 

 others wiudd fail, or at least fail to give 

 really L;ood )-eHults. We find that it can 

 be ei-,,\\j|_ if dfsired, at a tiMni)erature 

 .at least ~) degrees lower than im)st of 

 the other varieties. Of course, at a 

 temper.ature of 55 degrees growth will 

 uaturally he slower than at (JO degrees, 

 but it will set freely and produce just 

 as go(»d fruit. If the higher tempera- 

 ture can l)e given it, so nnich the better, 

 liiit it sometimes happens that the com- 

 mand of heat is not so good a.s might 

 be desired, and in cold spells the house 

 is apt to run a bit low. L'nder such con- 

 ditions Lorillaril is the variety to grow. 

 We have seen it succeed wiiere Stirling 

 Castle, a free growing and free setting 

 variety under suitable conditions, has 

 failed to give a satisfactory crop. 



Tiorillard is sometimes inclined to 

 (Muue a hit rough in the fruit. Some at- 

 Irilmte this trouble to insullicicuit pol- 

 lination, but our observation leads us 

 to believe that it is due nuu'e to rank- 

 ness of growth. Most varieties of toma- 

 toes are rampant growers when allowed 

 free scope in regard to root space and 

 all are more or less inclined to come 

 rough in the flower. b'ough flowers 

 usually result in rough fruit, as the pis- 

 til, in place of being round, :is it would 

 be in a welbforined flower, comes more 

 or less flat shajieil, and unevenly formed 

 fruits inevitably IVdIow. I.oiallard jier- 

 iiaps is .as had an otfender in this re- 

 spect as any of them, but by confining 

 the idids to a limited space and checking 

 the rank growth, much can be accom- 

 plished in the way of jnoducing well- 

 sh.aped fruits. 



The ]il:ints here illustrated ai'e grown 

 in boxes thirty incdies long, nine inches 

 wide, and eight inches deep. These 

 boxes accommodate three plants nicely 

 wjien grown to single stems, and we very 

 seldom have mucli trouble with liadly 

 shaped fruits. 



In the sfdcction of seed also the 

 trouble may be eliminated to a great 

 ext(iit by selecting well-formed fruits 



for seed jtiirposes. As (juitc a numbo; 

 of seeds can be procured froni one wel' 

 lapeiicd tomato, it does not take s. 

 many fruits to give a supply of seed for 

 <]uite a large forcing establishment. W". 

 usually save the seed fr(un the hit. 

 sj^riug croj), ,as the weather condition- 

 \\lii(di jpi-eNail at the time tliey are set 

 ting are more congenial to the pi-opci 

 fertilizing (d' the llowers tliaii in ti.. 

 case of the (\arlier crojis. Hence a largei 

 ]iercentage of the seed is sure to be fei 

 tile and well develojK'd. 



W . S. (.liOYDOX. 



PIPES FOR HOT WATER. 



Will a boiler four feet long and thirty 

 inches in diameter, with eleven o-inc| 

 flues, 1)0 large enough to heat one green 

 house L'O.xtJd .' J'.y using an ex])ausioi,' 

 tank how shall 1 iiin the ]upes.' Tli' 

 house \\ill have glass in the east gabh 

 and none in tlu.' walls. It is sheltered or 

 the \\est by boihu- shed and is two feet 

 in the ground. I wisii to run the pipe- 

 under the outside benches. I wish te 

 use hot water. s. c. ('. 



If the boiler in qiiestiiui is an upright 

 tubular boiler with fire box built in the 

 shell, so that tho fire has a water jacket 

 .about it, the boiler pi'ob.aidy will carry 

 •KJU to 450 feet of radiation. The house 

 in qiu'slion, to lie iiin at tio degrees, will 

 require 40u feet of radiation and at 7'J 

 degrees will require^ 450 feet. If 2-inch 

 pipes are used, 040 lineal feet will sup- 

 ])ly 400 square feet of radiation. Thi°. 

 is equivalent to saying ele\eii lines ol 

 jiipe the length of the house. A 2-inch 

 fh)W can lie airanged under eaidi .side 

 bench, oii(> of flies.' flows to siipjily four 

 and the other to sii])ply fi\e 2-inch re 

 turns. The flow jiipes should be run 

 from the Ixdhu- 1n the far end of flu 

 house ami tlnu'e enter a manifold carry 

 ing the returns, Inui in one case aie 

 live in the other. TIk^ Imiler i- a jireity 

 close fit ami (lo(>s unt allnw miudi of > 

 marjiin fnj' sal'et^ . I.. ''. ( , 



SHADING A PALM HOUSE. 



I would beg leave in ask thrmigh tie 

 columns of your \alueil jiajier if any nl 

 your I'eatlers has had expei ieiice witi- 

 jiainting glass on the inside ni ji.aliu 

 liouses for the purposi' of shading thcui. 

 and if it can be recommended.' Alsn 

 what was used? Jf. I>. C. 



It is not a good practice to ]i;nnt the 

 inside of the glass on a palm house for 

 the purpose of shading, from the fact 

 that under su«di conditions the shading 

 would remain on the glass for the whoh 

 year, and the pl.ants would be likely to 



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