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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



July 30, 1908, 



reinforced with expanded metal, which 

 is an article known to the concrete trades 

 and is nothing more than sheet steel 

 which has been slashed by machinery and 

 drawn out until it resembles the shape 

 of chicken wire. 



No. 2 in the illustration is the cross- 

 piece, also reinforced with this expand- 

 ed metal. The width is eight inches 

 and the thickness one inch. The length 

 is whatever width it is desired to make 

 the bench. At the Wittbold establish- 

 ment it is five feet eight inches. • 



No. 3 and No. 4 show the post. The 

 side next the walk is perpendicular. 

 The other three sides incline, so that the 

 top of the post is four inches square 

 and the bottom eight inches. The post 

 is two feet high. 



No. 5 shows how the parts go together. 

 Mr. Wittbold says that with the soil 

 and plants the weight serves to hold 



the side pieces so firmly that an ordinary 

 man has not strength enough to pull 

 one of the pieces out. Of course, if 

 one did come out, that section of the 

 bench would fall, as there are no other 

 carriers. 



Otto Wittbold claims economy in the 

 construction of this bench. The quantity 

 of cement consumed is not great, because 

 all the parts except the posts are light. 

 The expanded metal is cheap. The parts 

 are made in a metal mold which Mr. 

 Wittbold bought of the Noth-Sharp-Sail- 

 or Co., in the Monadnock, block, Chicago, 

 for making concrete blocks for other 

 purposes. He also bought of this firm 

 a concrete mixer which makes great 

 economy in time. It was after using 

 the outfit in other work that he discov- 

 ered that the mold could be adjusted to 

 make the several shapes required in 

 bench construction. 



LEAF RUST ON KILLARNEY. 



Enclosed please find Killarney rose 

 leaves. Is this leaf spot or black spot? 

 All other roses in the same house are 

 doing fine. I spray them with copper so- 

 lution to get rid of this. Is this right? 

 If not, kindly advise a better remedy. 

 My house is a three-quarter-span, with 

 top and side ventilation, facing south. I 

 ke^p both open day and night. Is that 

 all right? ,A. S. 



This trouble is not black spot, but one 

 of the forms of leaf rust, and not es- 

 pecially dangerous. Copper solution is 

 the best remedy known. This should be 

 applied with a nozzle having a fine spray 

 and every part of the leaves and stems 

 should receive the spray. Once a week 

 is often enough. Ribes. 



REMEDY FOR MILDEV. 



I would like to know of some inex- 

 pensive solution that I could procure at 

 any drug store and which, when united 

 with water and sprayed on the plants, 

 would keep down mildew on roses under 

 glass in summer. I do not want to use 

 sulphur, as it spoils the color of the 

 buds. L. N. 



After a good deal of research and in- 

 quiries I cannot find a better remedy for 

 mildew than the fumes of sulphur. Nor 

 have I been able to find any agent that 

 can be applied in the form of a spray 

 that would be effective. This question 

 has been so frequently discussed that 

 if there had been any effective remedy 

 of this nature it would not long remain 

 unknown. Ribes. 



OLD PLANTS AS AN ADV. 



F. H. Kramer, Washington, D. C, 

 made good use of the old bench plants 

 from his greenhouses by giving them 

 away at his retail store. The follow- 

 ing notice handed out to the Washing- 

 ton papers brought a big crowd: 



' * Ten thousand rose bushes will be 

 given away next Friday morning by F. 

 H. Kramer, at his main store, 916 E 

 street northwest. Included in the lot 

 will be Golden Gate, Richmond, Brides- 

 maid, Byde and Ivory. Ten thousand 

 of these bushes will be brought over 

 from Mr. Kramer's hothouses in Ana- 

 costia, and at 7:30 o'clock Friday morn- 

 ing the distribution will begin. 



"The rose bushes will be given to 

 callers just for the asking — that is the 

 only price Mr. Kramer has set on his 

 roses. Children who come must have a 

 note from their parents, because Mr. 



Kramer does not feel that ha can other- 

 wise accommodate the younger ele- 

 ment." ' 



SHREDDED CATTLE MANURE. 



I would like the opinion of some of 

 the large growers near Chicago as to 

 the manurial value of shredded cattle 

 manure. It is not much known here in 

 the east, but we have trouble in han- 

 dling natural fertilizers in the summer 

 and are interested in the odorless prod- 

 uct, "which we understand is largely 

 used by some of the growers in Chi- 

 cago. A. D. 



The pioneer user, and still probably 

 the largest consumer, of shredded cattle 

 manure for greenhouse use was Bassett 

 & Washburn, Hinsdale, 111. In October 

 of last year the manufacturers of this 

 product asked Bassett & Washburn for 

 an expression of their opinion of the 

 product and received the following re- 

 ply: 



"We took one car as a trial, then we 

 gave you an order for two cars more 

 and now we have just bought of you 300 

 tons. We gave your manure a good 

 trial test as follows: We put 900 

 pounds on a bench 300 feet long and 

 five and one-half feet wide, as a mulch 

 on Beauties, and on the next bench, of 

 exactly the same size, planted also with 

 Beauties, we put 2,000 pounds of rough 

 cattle manure. 



After three days the rough manure 

 had become all washed out, nothing be- 

 ing left but straw and dirt, while your 

 shredded manure lasted ten to twelve 

 days and is still doing work. In making 

 manure water it is fully three to four 

 times as strong as the rough manure. 

 The advantages of its even quality and 

 the easy and unobjectionable way of 

 handling the manure, not a pound being 

 wasted, makes it cheaper, in our opin- 

 ion, than the rough manure which we 

 can get for simply the cost of freight 

 and loading. ' ' 



Upon receipt of the above inquiry the 

 Review asked Mr. Washburn if he had 

 anything to add, from further experi- 

 ence. His reply follows: 



"We find it holds up to our letter 

 given the Pulverized Manure Co. The 

 main value lies in the use of this manure 

 as a mulch. We are now using it in 

 mixing up our soil and later on can tell 

 better how it acts and also give some 

 details regarding its cost in mixing with 

 soil, compared to rough cattle manure."' 



OUTDOOR MUMS IN TENNESSEE. 



I have a fine selection of chrysanthe- 

 mum plants, growing in the garden un- 

 der a frame. The frame will be boxed 

 up on the north and west sides with 

 matched flooring, and the south and east 

 sides will be closed up with heavy duck 

 curtains. The top will have an awn- 

 ing over it, attached so as to roll up 

 and down and made of the same heavy 

 ducking. I do not intend to box it up 

 or do anything to it until cool nights ap- 



pear. I have lately put about four 

 inclies of well rotted leaf-mold over the 

 beds as a mulching, to keep the plants 

 cool and damp during the hot weather of 

 July and August. Do you think this 

 would likely cause the plants to take 

 mildew or rustf C, F. P. 



Such a box as C. F. P. proposes should 

 grow fairly good flowers, as I imagine 

 there is little heavy frost in Tennessee 

 until the mums are through flowering. 



