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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 8, 1909. 



CARBOUNEUM IN GREENHOUSES. 



In the Keview of June 17 I noted an 

 article on "Creosote in Greenhouse 

 Wood." "What difference is there be- 

 tween creosote and Carbolineum? In 

 building recently, we treated the posts 

 in the walls with Carbolineum and, in 

 error, we have the Carbolineum two feet 

 above the ground on some posts. Also 

 the 3x3 posts to support the roof were 

 treated with Carbolineum to a height of 

 three inches above the ground. These 

 were set on brick piers. This was done 

 last summer, and we wish to know if it 

 would create a gas, during the heavy 

 weathet in the winter, which might be 

 detrimental to carnations. In an adjoin- 

 ing house the posts were treated the same 

 way and we have had more or less trou- 

 ble with our carnations in this house, but 

 this may have been caused by the flue 

 not being in good working order, allow- 

 ing an odor to escape from it. 



Could you inform us if concentrated 

 lye or muriatic acid could be used in de- 

 stroying the Carbolineum on the posts, 

 above the ground, or are there any other 

 acids or chemicals which would do this 

 work? A great many growers, however, 

 in this vicinity, treat the parts of the 

 posts under the ground with Car- 

 bolineum. W. F. C. 



[The Eeview will be glad to hear from 

 any reader whose experience might be 

 helpful to the writer of the foregoing 

 inquiry. — Ed.] 



VARIETIES OF SINGLE TULIPS. 



Will you advise me as to an assort- 

 ment of named single tulips which can 

 be planted together and be uniform in 

 height and of the same flowering period? 

 I find Artus much dwarfer than Chry- 

 solora, and Rose Grisdelin later than 

 either. I should like a good white, pink, 

 yellow and two shades of red, yet not 

 of the most expensive varieties. 



H. H. G. 



Among the early tulips the following 

 Tarieties will flower together and be 

 fairly uniform in height: White, White 

 Pottebakker; yellow, Chrysolora or 

 Ophir d'Or; rose, Proserpine; pink. 

 Cottage Maid; orange red. Prince of 

 Austria; Crimson, Couleur Cardinal. 

 All the foregoing are inexpensive. 

 Somewhat higher priced sorts are: 

 Joost Van Vondel, white, the finest white 

 tulip in cultivation; Queen of the Neth- 

 erlands, soft pink; Pink Beauty, rose- 

 pink flushed white; General Guild (Sir 

 Thomas Lipton), deep scarlet. Cottage 

 Maid will be somewhat shorter than the 

 other sorts named. The light pink 

 tulips, with the exception of Queen of 

 the Netherlands, are rather small and 

 low growing. 



Late tulips for bedding are rapidly 

 coming to the front. The following are 

 inexpensive and splendid for bedding: 

 Scarlet, Gesneriana major; yellow, Bou- 

 ton d'Or and Gesneriana lutea; white, 

 White Swan; bright rose, Shandon Bells 

 (Isabella); blush pink, Gretchen (Dar- 

 win variety). Among the named Dar- 

 wins are many glorious varieties, which 

 far outclass the early ones in beauty. 

 These grow much taller than the ordi- 

 nary bedding tulips, are splendid for 

 cutting and no one once growing them 

 will be, without them. Try one or two 

 sorts and be convinced, as they are on 

 the crest of a big boom in America. 



W. N. Craig. 



Calla, O. — Sidney Bennett has sold 

 his interest in the greenhouses here and 

 will go to Akron. 



DoYLESTOWN, O. — C. A. Musser, of the 

 Chestnut Hill Greenhouses, is busy build- 

 ing another greenhouse, 16x86. 



Amesbury, Mass. — At the Whittier 

 Club flower show, held at the grounds 

 of the association on Pleasant street, 

 June 24, T. C. Thurlow & Co. had a fine 

 exhibit of peonies. 



Cleveland, 0. — H. B. Jones and 

 Charles E. Bussell have organized the 

 JoECs-Bussell Co., and October 1 will 

 open a retail flower store at Euclid ave- 

 nue and Huron road. 



EocKviLLE Center, N. Y. — Three boys, 

 all about 15 years of age, were arrested 

 recently for breaking into the green- 

 house at the rear of Clarence Ankers' 

 store, in Merrick road. 



Meriden, Conn. — R. C. Blatchley, a 

 member of the Blatchley Co., and Miss 

 Fannie C. DuPlessis were married June 

 23. After a trip to New York state and 

 Canada, they will live in Plantsville. 



Irondequoit, N. Y. — Pursell & Cragg 

 Co. has been incorporated to do a gen- 

 eral florists' business, with $8,000 capital 

 stock. The incorporators are Frank A. 

 Pursell, of Rochester, Joseph W. Cragg 

 and others. 



Clintonville, 0. — Conklin Bros., who 

 have grown lettuce, cucumbers and toma- 

 toes under glass for a number of years, 

 have concluded to put a part of their 

 establishment in cut flowers for the ap- 

 proaching season. 



Lynn, Mass. — E. F. Dvvyer & Sons 

 had a large display of choice peonies at 

 the exhibition held by the Houghton Hor- 

 ticultural Society in the lecture room of 

 the public library, Saturday afternoon 

 and evening, June 26. 



Phoebus, Va. — Mrs. Carrie M. Terry, 

 who now has a greenhouse and flower 

 store here, twenty-five years ago was in 

 business at 22 Avenue A, New York 

 city. She says the business has advanced 

 a thousand per cent since then. 



Franklin, Pa.— The Bell Floral Co. 

 recently went to Oil City to put up one 

 of the largest wedding decorations ever 

 required there. It included the decora- 

 tion of Christ church and the large resi- 

 dence of Samuel Y. Eamage. The dec- 

 oration received a half column notice in 

 the Oil City Derrick. 



Chillicothe, Mo. — A recent storm de- 

 stroyed the large smokestack at the 

 greenhouses of R. L. Isherwood and lie 

 intends to build another of brick. He 

 also suffered a loss of $150 by broken 

 glass. He has had a splendid business 

 this season. Besides his greenhouses, he 

 owns nine acres of land. 



Akron, O. — Trade here seems to have 

 been good this season. There has been a 

 great deal of complaint about the water 

 furnished by the city waterworks. There 

 is something in it that is injurious to 

 plants; it seems to stunt the growth and 

 injure the foliage. There has been quite 

 a los-i among those using city water. 



Memphis, Tenn. — The Buseck Floral 

 Co. has been incorporated, with a cap- 

 ital stock of $25,000. The incorporators 

 are J. W. Proudfit, W. E. Gage, W. M. 

 Ball, J. Goldsmith, L. N. Starke, W. B. 

 McLean, W. E. Pipkin and Otto Buseck. 



St. Paul, Minn. — There were 227 en- 

 tries at the rose and peony show of the 

 exhibition of the Minnesota Floral So- 

 ciety June 25 and 26. Most of the stock 

 came from amateurs, but the Jewell Nur- 

 sery Co., Lake City, and other trade 

 growers were represented. 



Kearney, Neb. — Outdoor roses here 

 are suffering more than usual from the 

 depredations of the rose bug, which is 

 literally eating up the buds and flowers. 

 H. L. Hunt, of the Kearney Floral Co., 

 has been kindly giving suggestions to the 

 public as to the extermination of the 

 pest. 



Fremont, Neb. — C. H. Green has com- 

 pleted the work of tearing down the old 

 greenhouses and has begun the erection 

 of the new ones. Larger ones will be 

 put up, with modern devices for heating 

 and ventilating. When completed there 

 will be 28,000 square feet of glass, an 

 increase of about 10,000 square feet over 

 what was in the old buildings. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The Minnesota 

 State Florists' Association will hold its 

 first annual picnic at Big Island park. 

 Lake Minnetonka, July 15. An invita- 

 tion has been sent to every florist in the 

 state. There will be a complete pro- 

 gram of sports, the committee of arrange- 

 ments being A. S. Swanson, E. Nagel, 

 C. N. Ruedlinger and E. P. Holm. 



Greenville, III. — D. H. Zbinden, 

 senior partner of the firm of Zbinden & 

 Corboz, has sold his half interest to Mr. 

 Corboz, on account of ill health. Mr. 

 Zbinden, however, has bought the W. D. 

 Donnell property, on East South street, 

 where he will erect a greenhouse alone, 

 for begonias, lettuce, mushrooms and 

 carnations. Mr. Corboz will also con- 

 tinue on the Martin property. 



Manchester, Mass. — The rose garden 

 on the Spalding estate has been open to 

 the public for several days and attracted 

 large numbers of visitors. It includes 

 3,000 plants in over 500 varieties, a large 

 proportion being hybrid teas. Mrs. H. 

 L. Foote, of Marblehead, Mass., laid out 

 and planted the garden and has charge 

 of the same. She makes a specialty of 

 planting and caring for rose gardens, 

 importing the bulk of her stock. 



Camden Station, Ky. — ' ' We have had 

 the most prosperous year in our times," 

 said George O. Klein, manager of the 

 Sunnymount Nursery & Floral Co. ' ' We 

 sold out of every blooming thing. ' ' Ge- 

 raniums were in such large demand that 

 they sold out so closely they have no 

 stock plants left, and many orders had 

 to be refused. The season has been so 

 wet that people have kept right on plant- 

 ing long after the season usually ends. 

 This has been an exceptional year for 

 cauliflower in the gardens, for it does not 

 usually do well herel Shrubbery ' has 

 bloomed more perfectly than for many 

 years and it will go a long way toward 

 making business for the fall planters. 



