August 15, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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ing eighteen pots to the miuutc. Or, 

 putting it comparatively, a man today 

 with one of these modern machines can 

 produce just seventy-five times as many 

 pots of a given size, say 6-inch, in ten 

 working hours as he could produce with 

 the machine of fifty years ago. 



I am indebted for these pictures and 

 these data to J. G. Whilldin, treasurer 

 of the Whilldin Pottery Co., originator 

 of the standard flower pot, which was 

 adopted by the Society of American Flo- 

 rists in convention at New York in 1888, 

 and one of our most successful business 

 men. Phil. 



BUD ON DUCKHAM. 



What is the proper bud to take on 

 William Duckham chrysanthemum? 



F. B. 



The proper bud to take on William 

 Duckham is a crown bud taken from 

 August 18 to 30. If a bud is taken much 

 earlier the ^ower is short-^etaled and 

 the individual petals are green at the 

 tips, making the flower unattractive. If 

 the later bud is taken, in September, 

 while the petal is large and of good 

 color, the flower comes hollow in the cen- 

 ter and in some cases drops its petals. 

 If F. B. gets it as near as j)ossible to 

 the dates I have mentioned he will have 

 little cause to complain of the size or 

 finish of this variety. <'. H. T. 



Michiae for Making Pots Up to (be 8-inch She. 



stand still where the ground is hard* and 

 baked. 



Do not forget a batch of myosotis cut- 

 tings to plant around the edges of the 

 benches. 



Take advantage of any leisure time 

 you may have to glaze and paint cold- 

 frame sashes requiring an overhauling. 



Give more light to Coelogyne cristata 

 as the growths develop. Syringe the 

 ])lants on warm afternoons. 



Gardenias now grow rapidly in the 

 benches. Be sure to keep them pinched 

 and you will have bushy, stocky plants. 



Keep transplanting biennials and 

 perennials as weather permits, choosing 

 cloudy days for the operation. 



If you have not sown pansies, do so 

 without delay, also any other biennials 

 or perennials you may have overlooked. 



Look closely after smilax and Aspara- 

 gus plumosus and see that they do not 

 become entangled. They should all be 

 provided with strings by this time. 



Pot on the little Lorraine begonias, 

 j)inch out the tops of the leading shoots 

 and remove all flowers. 



Keep late tuberous begonias and glox- 

 inias in frames under lath shadings. Give 

 air both top and bottom. They will keep 

 better there than in the greenhouses. 



Do not allow primroses to become pot- 

 bound. They should go into their flower- 

 ing pots as soon as |)ossible. 



THE ART OF POT MAKING. 



Wc publish in this number of the Re- 

 view reproductions of three photographs, 

 one illustrating the ancient, two the mod- 

 ern art of pot making. The first pic- 

 ture shows the method of making pots as 

 practiced in 18ol, when the Whilldin 

 Pottery Co. started in business — the slow^ 

 and laborious pedal working machine, 

 capable of turning out twelve dozen 

 6-inch pots in a day, and no more. The 



second and third pictures show the ma- 

 chines now in use, the former for all 

 sizes up to 8-inch, the latter for sizes 

 from 9-inch to 18-inch. 



These machines are capable of produc- 



Calla, O. — The Templin Co. has a 

 two-acre field of irises, the collection 

 embracing some fifteen of the best sorts. 



Elyria, O. — L. ('. Hecock has pur- 

 chased nine acres of land near stop 8 

 and will locate his greenhouses there, as 

 his j)roperty on Lodi street will be cut 

 up into lots and sold. His store will be 

 in a fine new building on Broad street. 



Machine for Making Pots from 9-inch to 18-inch. 



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