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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Ju.N£ a, 1908. 



I'itlier lit'fdiiK's liak^ti on tlie surface or 

 gets in tlic Jnnipv state ictVrred to — two 

 conditions ispecially ileti'iniental to 

 plants wliich lia\(' mitleiyoiie a ]ong 

 peiioil of rain and eloudv weather. 



In the case of lieavy elay or inijier- 

 fectly drained fiehls, it miylit lie ad\is- 

 al)le to assist exajioration liy hroakinff up 

 thf spac«» lietwtM'H tlie rows directly after 

 a rain, liut a space of at least four 

 inches sho~id<l be left on each side of the 

 rows, for cultivation later. This is, how- 

 ever, an e.xtreiiif case. ;ind the niethnd 

 recoininende(| is not olfered as a prete.xt 

 for jilantinji' in unsuitalile locations. 



During the iie.xt few weeks, growth 

 sliouhl tie lapid. and every means must he 

 enipleyed to forward the jdants as nuudi 

 as possildc lii'forc hot weather sets in. 



(iKO. S. • O.SBOKX. 



THE LARGEST PRIVATE RANGE. 



Whfit is said will he the largest ;iud 

 finest loivale yreenhouse estahlishment in 



the I'liited Slates will he erecteil this 

 season hy ,l(ihn l'>. Duke, president of the 

 Anu'rican Toiiacco ( o., at JSonierville, 

 X. .1. Jt \\ill consist t)f twenty-four 

 conijiartments, hesides ser\i(-e huildings, 

 and will cost in the neighhorhuod of $70,- 

 (HMI. The contract has Ijeen .secured hy 

 Lioil iV Buridiam (_'o., tieorge Sykos, man- 

 ager of the new Chicago office, having 

 spent three weeks in the east for the pur- 

 {)Ose of (dosing the ileal. 



The new range will include the follow- 

 ing separate compartments: One Amer- 

 ican Jieauty house, two tea rose Inuises, 

 two carnation houses, two gardenia 

 houses, four melon houses, two orchid 

 hou.ses, two fern houses, two vineries, one 

 jieach house, one nectarine house, one 

 tomato house, one orangery, two jo-tipa- 

 gating houses, one chrysanthemum house. 

 It wiir be built with curved eaves; m> 

 gutter or eave-plates will he used. Many 

 other Lo^t}^ Burnham special styles of 

 construction also will l)e employe<l, iii- 



chidin!; the cast iron benches, sclf-oilini' 

 \eutilators and the .shadeless ridge type 

 of construciion in the rose and carnation 

 houses. Whei'c side M'ntilators are re 

 (juired L(o-d iV Hiu'nham 's improved wall 

 \cntilat(Os will be used, made of iron 

 frames am! iitted with galvanized wire to 

 keep out birds, s(|uirrels, etc. A special 

 feature will be a fruit room iitted up 

 after the English style. 



A work-room 2,1x00 feet will be built 

 in the center of the range, fitted w'ith a 

 private office, etc. All foundation walls 

 iielow grade will be of stone concrete, 

 the outside walls above grade of field 

 stone to match the present huildings. The 

 cellar will be large enough to hold about 

 150 tons of coal, besides boilers, cool 

 storage and mushroom cellars. The 

 liouses will be heated hy hot water with 

 a combination of 3J/o-inch cast-iron pipes 

 and li iiudi wrought iron. 



Lord & Burnham Co. built /Mr. Duke a 

 l.'irge show range about eight years ago. 



LATE PROPAGATION. 



'J'here is still time to propagate, if one 

 wi.shes to grfiw late varieties or figure on 

 a later cut of the midseason kinds. It is 

 not so easy to root i-ut tings now as it 

 was two months ago. luit it can be done. 



Shade the glass heavily if the cuttings 

 T<' exposed to the sun. and let them lie 

 /-n a jiosition where the wind will not 

 catch them, as a draft of warm air on 

 thes(; "rare June ihiys'' is fatal, since 

 tlie cuttings, if they wilt and get hard, 

 rarely come ufi again. Cuttings }iut in 

 now should be juit close together, and 

 by o^frhead spraying, several times a 

 day, if need he, they can be kept from 

 wilting and -the greater jiart can Ite 

 rooted easily enough. 



There is still time, too, for the rooting 

 of stock ^Jiti'ii'lf'l to he grown in (J inch 

 jiots. iind siM^ stock, grown along with- 

 out any (duyk and caught on the first 

 Imd tliaC^^TiTiws, often produces remark- 

 able re/ults. <''HAK[,ES H. TOTTV. 



MUMS FOR NOVEMBER 1. 



1 slionhl like to have a little informa- 

 tinii ill regai'd to growing mums. I have 

 the fdllowing \arieties: Estclle, Eosiere, 

 Monrovi:i. Pacific and Polly Ko.^ic. Can 

 these be yrow ii so as to gi\'e me the main 

 Hj-u)! ot' ld<p(ims by XoveiiibiT 1 .' 



I wan! to ^r.iw siune in <i inch |iots and 

 ^iiiie on the hemdi. When will he the 

 jircijier time to liench them, ami when to 

 ♦ake 1h( hud.' My stock is now in L"j- 

 inch jiots. ;iiid I am shifting them to -1- 

 incli, as my compost pile is too wt^t to 

 haiolle. 



Ts it a g 1 ]iolicy to h;i\e the compost 



pile fwti or more years old? A year ago 

 T procured sod ;ind addecj manure, ac- 

 rording to the suggestion.^ in the Kk.VIEW. 

 t»i)d ha\(' enough to last tne three years. 

 ( ca7i continue to pile it up if there 



would be any advantage in doing so. 

 The compost piles have been turned over 

 about three times. 



('an Pacific Sujireine and Golden Glow 

 be brought into bloom by November 1 .' 

 If I cannot use the varii'ties I have men 



The Kdltor is pleatsed 

 'When a Reader 

 presents his ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



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As experience is the bent 

 teacher, so do ^e 

 learn fastest by axi 

 exchange of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are broueht out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and gram- 

 mar, ihoutrh desirable, are not neces- 

 sary- Write as you would talk when 

 doing your '^"st. 



WE SHALL. BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR rROM)YOU. 



lioiied. please ailvise me as to what va 

 rieties I can use, to have tin- main crop 

 by Noveudier 1. J. V. & S. 



While all the kinds mentioned by J. \' . 

 iV S. caTi he yrown to produce their 

 flowers bv .\o\ ember 1, it wduhl he far 



more satisfactory to get midseason kinds 

 for the general crop and let the early 

 ones come in as they naturally would, 

 from October 1 to 15. Early kinds, if 

 they arc planted about the end of June 

 and the terminal bud is taken, can be 

 kept to November 1, but the flowers 

 from terminal buds arc small, and what 

 is the use of trying to keep back these 

 varieties when a small expenditure will 

 give you all the midseason kinds you 

 want? And the difference in the quality 

 of the product will ])ay ten times over 

 for tlM^ jilants bought. 



The kinds mentioned by J. V. & S. are 

 all good, early varieties, generally 

 classed as money-makers, and he might 

 do wdrse than jiLant these, but for No- 

 vetnher 1 I Avould suggest the fiillowiiig 

 kinds; there are lots of others, but these 

 are good with us: Yellow — Cheltoni, 

 Apfileton, Bonnaffon. White — Beatrice 

 -May. Clay Frick. Lynnwood Hall. Pink— 

 Diickhani. Enguehaid. INfary M;inn. Liger. 



li'egiiriliug th" compost heap. I do not 

 consider it good jiractice to use soil that 

 has been stackeil up for o\-er two years. 

 As 1 remarked recently in my notes on 

 Soil, the mum loxcs a ''lixc'" soil; that 

 is to say, a soil that has in it lots of dr 

 composing fiber. When the sod is all 

 rotted and the soil settles (dosidy lo 

 getliei-. the air does not enter the soil 

 nearly so I'cadily as when the fiber is 

 present, and the plants do not do so well. 

 J. V. & S. can easily jirove this by using 

 old soil in one section of a heiudi and 

 coiiiparati\'ely new soil in .•mother, and 

 coinjiaring the croyi. 



CilAKi.K.s n. ToiTV. 



CUTTINGS FAILED TO ROOT. 



Kindly ailvise 7ne as to what caused 

 the following trouble with my mum cut 

 tings. The stock jilants were housed in 

 a liothed, whi(di was heated with hot 



