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OCTOBEB 25, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



1487 



ROSES 



are improving every day and we are now 

 ' getting in a fine lot of Kaiserins^ Brides, 

 Bridesmaids and Chatenays. The Rich- 

 mond are a little short in stem, but the 

 flowers are fine. 



CARNATIONS 



I ... ... 



are good, and Dahlias are the finest coming 

 into this market. ' 



The Cleveland Cut Flower Co. 



Long Distance Phones CLEVELAND, OHIO 



Kenneth Finlayson asked when houses 

 went beyond reason in width. The lec- 

 turer considered forty feet the extreme 

 economical width. He was aware there 

 are a good many larger and wider 

 houses, but nothing is saved in per 

 square foot of cost. As to the limits 

 in height for economy, no bouse with 

 the ordinary pitch of roof will be too 

 high. Lofty houses are not hard to 

 heat, rather the reverse. Alexander 

 Montgomery stated that he considered 

 high houses easier to heat and more 

 uniform in temperature. He instanced 

 a house of Beauty roses, 40x700, in 

 which he placed five thermometers at 

 equal distances. All recorded 59 de- 

 grees on a night when outside tempera- 

 ture was 20 degrees below zero. He also 

 proved that it is a fallacy to suppose 

 that the upper part of the house is hot- 

 ter than the lower. On this particular 

 severe night the thermometers, being five 

 feet from the ridge, showed a reading 

 of 58 degrees. 



In regard to length, Mr. Montgomery 

 well put the ease when he said it de- 

 pends on the length of one's field, in 

 which the lecturer coincided. As to 

 houses without gutters being better than 

 those containing them, a diversity of 

 opinion exists. The absence of gutters 

 takes away some shade, but the gutters 

 protect the masonry walls, although, of 

 course, they catch some snow. 



In reply to Mr. Iliffe the 'speaker said 

 that solid concrete walls are not so good 

 as those with air spaces. In the case 

 of brick, however, unless the wall is 

 solid it will speedily disintegrate. 

 Asked if the iron furnished today is 

 equal to that of twenty years ago, Mr. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Velie said decidedly it is not. Little 

 wrought-iron is now on the market, and 

 it is necessary either to galvanize the 

 iron before using it, or use steel. Mr. 

 Iliffe said galvanizing burns away forty- 

 five per cent of the iron. 



Questioned as to the comparative ad- 

 vantages of the curvilinear over the 

 straight roof, he has found no differ- 

 ence, although it might have been ex- 

 pected that some advantage would lay 

 with the former. In regard to ventila- 

 tion, continuous on both sides is best; 

 alternating sashes will cause draughts. 

 Mr. Montgomery said in low houses ven- 

 tilators should always lift from the 

 ridge; dead air pockets cause mildew on 

 roses. He would, in the future, set his 

 glass the wide way. There is no more 

 breakage than when the glass is set the 

 narrow way, and there is a great gain in 

 light. The only trouble he had found 

 is that when the panes break they fall 

 in. To prevent this, he uses zinc straps 

 to hold them. 



Various Notes. 



The following is the report of the 

 nominating committee of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society for the an- 

 nual election of oflBcers on November 

 17 next: President, Stephen M. Weld, 

 of Dedham; vice-president for two 

 years, Charles S. Sargent, of Brookline; 

 trustees for three years, W. N, Cra'ig, 

 of North Easton; A. F. Estabrook, J. 

 K. M. L. Farquhar and Arthur D. Hills, 

 of Boston. Nominating committee for 

 1907, A. F. Estabrook, Boston; W. H. 

 Heustis, Belmont; Wm. Nicholson, 

 Framingham; Loring Underwood, Bel- 

 mont, and E. B. Wilder, Boston. The 



nominating committee for 1906 are 

 James H. Bowditch, Robert Cameron, 

 F. O. Hatfield, C. W. Parker and W. H. 

 Spooner. 



Entries are coming in satisfactorily 

 for the chrysanthemum show on Novem- 

 ber 2 to 4, and an excellent display is 

 assured. Music will be furnished each 

 day by the Brookline band. The deco- 

 rated dinner-tables must be ready for 

 the lady judges by noon on November 

 3. This latter class premises to be one 

 of the star features of the show. 



Eecent frosts were followed by ab- 

 normally mild weather. Samuel H. War- 

 ren, of Weston, daily picks a good 

 many quarts of his Pan-American or 

 ever-bearing strawberry, of excellent 

 quality for the season. Strawberries 

 and chrysanthemums are not usually in 

 season together. 



H. M. Robinson & Co. hope to do a 

 large cut flower commission trade at 15 

 Province street at an early date. 



Thomas Roland's new automobile for 

 carrying plants is the first one built ex- 

 pressly for this purpose for the Boston 

 trade. It will prove of great value to 

 Mr. Roland in his increasing business. 

 At present he is cutting fine Ivory and 

 Ardel chrysanthemums. The latter is a 

 pretty, silvery pink, incurved variety. 



Thomas Pegler, of WoUaston, has a 

 grand lot of douoie violets, as usual, 

 which sell well. Mr. Pegler, formerly 

 salesman for Oscar L. Dorr, of East 

 Foxboro, has now discontinued violet 

 growing, devoting the whole of his 

 extensive houses to vegetables. 



Peter Fisher's new scarlet carnation, 

 Beacon, is showirtg up finely and prom- 



