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72 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Skptkmbeu 24, 1908. 



15, with beds in tho solid ground. I 

 intend to heat them with steam, using 

 2-inch risers and l^^-inch returns. How 

 many risers do I need, and how many 

 returns? As the weather here is very 

 changeable, I want plenty of valves, with 

 which to regulate tho amount of radia- 

 tion. How many valves are needed and 

 where should they be placed? The low- 

 est temperature in this part of West 

 A^irginia is about 10 degrees below zero. 



C. K. 



To maintain a satisfactory lettuce tem- 

 perature, about 50 degrees, during severe 

 weather, your houses should each be pro- 

 vided with a 3-inch flow under the ridge 

 and eighteen li/4,-inch returns. The re- 

 turns may be arranged on the outside 

 walls and upon the purlin supports, or 

 distributed uniformly over the surface of 

 the bench and about eighteen or twenty 

 inches above it. In either case it will be 

 well to place valves at each end of at 

 least six runs of pipe in each house. 



L. C. C. 



HOUGHTON, MICH. 



Houghton is to have another floral es- 

 tablishment. A. E. Lutey, until recently 

 manager of the Lakeside Floral Co., of 

 Houghton, Calumet and Chassell, an- 

 nounces that early next week he will open 

 a flower store in the Young block, on Shel- 

 don street. Mr. Lutey will be in charge, 

 and on October 1 expects to open a 

 branch office in Calumet. 



Air. Lutey will receive his flowers from 

 Milwaukee. He has leased the Charles H. 

 H. Johannsen greenhouses in that city, 

 and has placed his brother, Henry Lutey, 

 in charge. The latter was grower and 

 manager at the Chassell greenhouses of 

 the Lakeside company for a number of 

 years. Flowers from Milwaukee will be 

 received here every day, and the new con- 

 cern will be in a position, by virtue of 

 arrangements with a large commission 

 house, to supply any flowers they do not 

 grow themselves. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market 



Business is nothing to brag about. 

 One day it is pretty fair and the next 

 there is nothing doing. There is still 

 very little business, outside of funeral 

 work, and, of course, the demand in that 

 always comes in jerks. 



While there is not much of a surplus 

 of stock in any one line, still there is 

 considerable waste, all things taken into 

 consideration. Roses suffer the most, and 

 their poor keeping quality has much to 

 do with it. Carnations are in fair de- 

 mand and the supply is increasing daily, 

 but the quality does not show much im- 

 provement, and they keep so poorly that 

 they have to be sold as soon as they ar- 

 rive or it is all up with them. Asters are 

 still in good supply, especially the white 

 ones. The call has been principally for 

 purple, because purple are scarce. Lilies 

 of all kinds sell well and there is a good 

 call for gladioli, with the crop fast com- 

 ing to an end. Dahlias sell fairly well. 

 Altogether, Beauties sell better than any- 

 thing else, mainly because they are the 

 best flowers on the market. 



Mums are coming in and sell fairly 

 well for so early in the season. They 

 bring $3 to $4 per dozen, but were there 

 more of them the price would soon drop. 

 By the first of the month there will be 

 mums for everyone and at a reasonable 



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Lincoln, III., January 8, 1906. 

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