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January 14, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Frank Jolinson. 



^Financial Secretary, Otaicago Florists' Club.) 



quickly cooled by contact with the glass 

 and thereby became heavier than the at- 

 mosphere. The result was that the 

 fumes settled, just as one sees a fog 

 settle upon the ground. In this way 

 the house was filled evenly full of vapor, 

 <;lear down to the ground, completely en- 

 veloping the benches and the plants on 

 them. 



Mr. Lautenschlager is sure that in 

 this method he has found a way of 

 greatly increasing the effectiveness of 

 «very form of fumigant and there is no 

 patent on this idea, as there is on the 

 Lauten fumigator. Every grower is in- 

 vited to try it for himself. Whatever 

 jou use for fumigating, hang the ap- 

 paratus up in the peak of the house and 

 watch results. 



The Lauten fumigator is one of the 

 simplest of devices. It is merely a 

 cylinder of extra heavy wire net. It is 

 packed full of wet tobacco stems, stood 

 tip in the greenhouse (or hung up, under 



the "down draft". system) and the stems 

 are set afire at the bottom. The result 

 is that instead of giving off smoke, the 

 fumigator gives off steam. The steam 

 is emitted from the point of combustion, 

 as shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion. The only point necessary to watch 

 is to see that the tobacco stems are proi)- 

 erly moistened. Alois Frey, head gar- 

 dener at Lincoln park, Chicago, uses the 

 fumigator and likes it well. The quan- 

 tity of stems used for each fumigator 

 is a half bushel. These are simply 

 spread out on the floor and moistened 

 with a watering can. A little experience 

 will tell when they are moist enough, 

 and not too moist. They must be tightly 

 packed in the fumigator to get the right 

 results. Mr. Frey uses one fumigator for 

 each 100 feet of the length of the house 

 to be fumigated. The fumes are given 

 off slowly and the fumigation is kept up 

 for several hours. 



Mr. Lautenschlager recently made an 

 arrangement with the Wilson Plant Oil 

 & Fertilizer Co., Chatham, N. J., to put 



J. H. Pepper. 



<Recordlng; Secretary, Chicago Florists' Club,) 



George Atmus. 



(President, Cbicago Florists' Club.) 



the fumigator on the market. Its sim- 

 plicity should commend it to those who 

 have found fumigating something of a 

 task where the complicated systems are 

 used. 



Speaking of fumigators leads to 

 sprayers. At the big plant of Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 111., use 

 is made of a device called the Unit 

 sprayer, which consists of a hose nozzle 

 on the top of which a brass globe is 

 attached, with a small pipe leading into 

 the water channel through the nozzle. 

 Insecticides or fertilizers can be placed 

 in the globe and the suction of the 

 passing water causes its mixture with 

 the water flowing out through the noz- 

 zle. The sprayer is made by the J. F. 

 Cass Mfg. Co., Detroit, and seedsmen 

 have taken it up as affording their cus- 

 tomers an easy way of applying nitrates 

 to the lawn. 



CHICAGO CLUB OFnCEHS. 



The portraits of the new officers of 

 the Chicago Florists ' ' Club adorn this 

 page. The word "adorn" is used ad- 

 visedly, as all readers will agree. George 

 Asmus rightly is at the head of the 



E. F. Winterson. 



, (Treasurer, Cbicago Florists' Club.) 



quintette, for "handsome is as hand- 

 some does," and Mr. Asmus has a repu- 

 tation as a doer. The vice-presidency 

 will this year be eyen more of an hon- 

 orary office than usual, for Mr. Asmus is 

 on record as stating that the only time 

 Mr. Waters will have the opportunity to 

 preside is when the president relinquishes 

 the chair in order to take the floor in 

 behalf of some motion he wishes to see 

 go through. E. F. Winterson, the new 

 treasurer, requires no introduction; he 

 has held the office before, has been the 

 club 's president, and is known as a good 

 fellow wherever florists gather. The re- 

 cording secretary, J. H. Pepper, and the 

 financial secretary, Frank Johnson, are 

 comparatively new recruits, Mr. Pepper 

 having taken a transfer from the New 

 York Florists' Club a year or two ago. 

 Mr. Johnson, as well as the vice-presi- 

 dent, is a member of the staff of the 

 A. L. Kandall Co., and a young man who 

 is making a reputation as a worker. It 

 is his job to keep the club in funds. 



T. c. Waters. 



(Vice-President, Chicago Florists' Club.) 



