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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 27, 1906. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AHEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF NUBSEBTHEN. 



Pres., Orlando Harrison, Berlin, Md.; Vlce- 

 PreB., J. W. Hill, Des Moines, la.; Sec'y, Geo. C. 

 Seacrer, Rochester; Treas. C. L. Yates, Rochester. 

 The 32d annual convention will be held at De- 

 troit, Mich., June, \Wl. 



The American gooseberry mildew is 

 just now the subject of voluminous dis- 

 cussion in the British gardening papers. 



The Ben Davis apple crop this yeav 

 may show a great improvement in quan- 

 tity but the fruit is just as tasteless as 

 ever. 



It is the general prediction that next 

 spring's clean-up will be the closest since 

 the production of nursery stock became 

 so tremendous. 



The proposition of Wm. Smith, Gen- 

 eva, N. Y., to endow Hobart College with 

 a half a million for a women's annex, 

 has been accepted. 



Nurserymen in Germany make much 

 complaint that the prices of fruit trees, 

 as a result of overproduction, have fallen 

 to an unprofitable level. 



EicE Bros., of Geneva, N. Y., will 

 grow nursery stock, seeds, etc. The cap- 

 italization is $35,000, The incorporators 

 are: John F. Kice, Terrence W. Rice 

 and O. J. C. Rose. 



The nurserymen of the West Chester, 

 Pa., section are enjoying one of the 

 longest seasons in the history of the busi- 

 ness and are still busy planting trees 

 and shrubbery about the country, the 

 ground being in good condition for the 

 work. As long as the weather remains 

 partly open the work will go on. 



D. L. Viets, of Warren, O., died De- 

 cember 20, at the state hospital at Ma- 

 sillon. He had been in failing health 

 for more than a year past. Death was 

 attributed to paresis. Mr. Viets 's fa- 

 ther was Alonzo Viets, who left Con- 

 necticut and settled at Fowler, O. The 

 son was for a number of years engaged 

 in the nursery business at Warren. He 

 was a member of the Christian Church 

 at that place and was an honored citizen. 

 He leaves a widow, Mrs. Helen Viets, and 

 four sons. 



NEW NINNESOTA NURSERY. 



The Blue Earth County Nursery Co. 

 is an organization recently started at 

 Mankato, Minn. Ole Andengaard is the 

 president and treasurer and M. L. Gjes- 

 trum manager. The company has leased 

 sixty-two acres of land in East Man- 

 kato and will grow both fruit and orna- 

 mental stock. 



Mr. Anaengaard is one of the substan- 

 tial men of Blue Earth county, who is a 

 practical farmer. Mr. Gjestrum has made 

 the nursery business his life work. He is 

 a graduate of the agricultural college 

 at Ames, la., and was for eleven years 

 with the Sherman Nursery Co., at Charles 

 City, la. There ought to be a good field 

 at Mankato for a nursery, as several of 

 the smaller towns of the state with not 

 near the shipping facilities or territory 

 that Mankato has have thriving nurseries. 



VIOLATE PENNSYLVANIA LAW. 



State Inspector Surface, at Harris- 

 burg, has been working for months to 

 ascertain the truth of some charges that 



infected nursery stock is being shipped 

 into Pennsylvania, and has obtained evi- 

 dence that will probably lead to some 

 arrests under the law of 1905. The ship- 

 ment of trees into Pennsylvania without 

 fumigation and certificate is a flat vio- 

 lation of the law, and no railroad com- 

 pany can accept for shipment into Penn- 

 sylvania trees which have not the certifi- 

 cate of fumigation. In the face of this, 

 it is said at the capitol that the oflScers 

 of the division have obtained positive 

 evidence that trees have been shipped 

 from nurseries in Ohio and New York 

 into Pennsylvania without the process of 

 fumigation. It is probable that the rail- 

 road companies will be prosecuted. The 

 actions will be the first of the kind, and 

 if it is decided to prosecute the ship- 

 ment of non-certified trees will speedily 

 cease. 



SULPHUR. 



Sulphur has been known from the ear- 

 liest times, as it occurs in the free or 

 native state in the neighborhood of ex- 

 tinct as well as active volcanoes. It was 

 formerly termed brimstone, and was con- 

 sidered by the alchemists to be the prin- 

 ciple of combustibility and believed by 

 them to represent the alterability of 

 metals by fire. The compounds of this 

 element occur in nature in much larger 

 quantities and are much more widely dis- 

 tributed than sulphur itself. 



Until recently nearly all of the sul- 

 phur of commerce was derived from the 

 volcanic district of the Island of Sicily, 

 where it occurs in widespread masses, 

 being imbedded in a matrix of marl, 

 limestone, gypsum and celestine. 



The sulphur occurs partly in trans- 

 parent, yellow crystals termed virgin sul- 

 phur, and partly in opaque crystalline 

 masses, to which the name of volcanic 

 sulphur is given. Both of these varie- 

 ties are separated from the matrix by a 

 process of fusion. The general process 

 used is as follows: 



An excavation about ten meters in 

 diameter and about two and a half me- 

 ters in depth arranged with a slanting 

 bottom so an opening can be made from 

 the lowest portion, and the sulphur as it 

 melts may flow out. These holes are 

 built up with masses of gypsum and the 

 inside covered with a coating of plaster 

 of paris. The calcaroni, as these kilns 

 are termed, are then filled with the sul- 

 phur ore, which is built up on top in the 

 form of a cone. The whole heap is then 

 coated over with powdered ore, and this 

 again covered with a layer of burnt-out 

 ore, after which the sulphur is lighted 

 at the bottom. By permitting the heat 

 to penetrate very slowly into the mass 

 the sulphur is gradually melted, and, 

 running away by the opening at the 



bottom, it is caught in molds. This is 

 the ordinary brimstone of commerce. 



The sulphur obtained by liquation 

 from the calcaroni (brimstone) is not 

 sufficieniiy pure for all purposes and has 

 to be submitted to a process of refining; 

 this is termed subliming, and consists 

 in converting the sulphur into a vapor, 

 which is reconverted into solid sulphur in 

 a condensing chamber. This process may 

 be briefly described as follows: 



The sulphur is placed in a retort under 

 which a fire is built. When the retort 

 becomes sufficiently heated the sulphur 

 begins to pass as vapor into the con- 

 densing chamber. The vapor, immedi- 

 ately on coming into contact with the 

 cold chamber, is chilled and falls as a 

 minutely divided solid. These flowers, 

 as they are called, adhering to the walls 

 and top and bottom of the chamber, are 

 removed before the chamber gets hot, 

 Avhich is the case after a few days' 

 working, as the heat which the sulphur 

 has taken up in order to become vapor- 

 ized is given out to the walls of the 

 chamber, which thus acquire so high a 

 temperature as to fuse or melt sulphur, 

 so that it can no longer become solid on 

 the walls or the chamber, but condenses 

 on the walls in a liquid form and runs to 

 the bottom, where it collects. This dis- 

 tilled sulphur is run out through an 

 opening into molds and is called stick 

 or roll sulphur. The stick or roll sul- 

 phur is then ground into a very fine 

 powder, which is termed flour sulphur. 



From the above brief description it 

 will be seen that the grade of sulphur 

 known in the trade as flowers is formed 

 by sublimation and condensation in the 

 form of minute particles before the walls 

 of the chamber become greatly heated, 

 and that the flour sulphur is secured by 

 grinding the stick or roll brimstone, 

 which is formed by the sulphur fumes 

 being fused by the heated walls of the 

 chamber. 



In the process of subliming sulphur 



A SNAP! 



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