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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jur.Y 8, 1909. 



CARBOLINEUM IN GREENHOUSES. 



In tlu> Eeview i)f .lime 17 1 luitcil :ui 

 article on "Croosotc in (Ircciilioust: 

 Wood." What (liffcrfiict' is tlioro be- 

 tween creosote and ( arlxdiMeiini .' J u 

 building recently, \ve treated the j)osts 

 in the walls witii ('arbolineiini and, in 

 error, we have the C'arbolineinn two feet 

 above the ground on some ])osts. Alsd 

 tlie 'Ax',\ ]iosts to support the root were 

 treated with C'arbolinciini to a height of 

 three inches above the gi'ound. Tiiesr 

 were set on brick piers. Tliis was, done 

 last sunnner, and we wish to know if it 

 would create a gas, (hiring the hea\y 

 weather in the winter, wliicii might be 

 detrimental to carnations. Jn an adjoin- 

 ing house the posts were treated the same 

 way and we hav(» had more or less trou- 

 ble with our carnations in tlus house, but 

 this may have lieen caused by tiie tlue 

 not being in gooil woiking ordei', allow- 

 ing ;in odoi' to csi-aiic ('rum it. 



Could you inform us if concentrated 

 lye or muriatic acid cnuld lie used in ile- 

 stroying the Carbolineurn <in Ihe ]iosts, 

 above tile ground, or are there any (ither 

 acids or chemicals which wduld ihi this 

 work? A great many growers. ho\vever, 

 in this vicinity, treat the jiarts of the 

 Jiosts under the ;;iii\iii(| with C'ar- 

 bdlincum. W. !•". ( '. 



I The J\'kvik\\ will be ghnl \n hear from 

 any reader whusc ('X|iciiencc might be 

 hel]iful tu the writer of the foregciing 

 iiKiiiirv.— -lu). I 



VARIETIES OF SINGLE TULIPS. 



^Vill you ad\ise iiic as tu ;in assort- 

 ment of named single tulijis which can 

 be i>lanted together and be uniform in 

 height and of the same llowering period.' 

 I lind Artus much dwarfer than Chry- 

 solora, and Kose (irisdeliii later than 

 either. 1 should like a good white, pink, 

 yellow and two shades of red, yet not 

 of the most e.\pensi\c \arieties. 



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Among the early tulips the fullowing 

 Tarieties will liower together and be 

 fairly uniform in height: White, White 

 Pott(>bakker ; yellow, ('hrysolora or 

 Opliir d'Or; rose, Proserpine; jiink. 

 <"ottage .Maiil; orange red, I'rince of 

 Austria; Crimson. Couleiir Cardinal. 

 All the foregoing are inexpensive. 

 Somewhat higher priced sorts are: 

 .Foost Van Vondel, white, the liiiest white 

 tulip in cultivation; (.^ueen of the Neth- 

 erlands, soft pink; I'ink Heauty, rose- 

 jiink tlusheil white; (leiieral (iuihl (Sir 

 Thomas Lipton), deep scarlet. Cottage 

 -Maid will be somewhat shorter than the 

 other sorts named. The light pink 

 tulijis, with the exception of (.^iieen of 

 the Netherlaiiils, ;ire rtitlier small and 

 low growing. 



Late tuli])S for bedding are rapidlv 

 coming to the front. The f(dlowiiig are 

 inexpensive and splendid for becUling: 

 Scarlet, (lesneriana inajoi-; yellow, Hon 

 ton d'Or and (iesiieriana bitea ; white. 

 White Swan; bright rose, Shandon lielN 

 (Isabell.-i ) ; blush pink, (iretcheii iDar 

 win variety). Ainmig the named Dar- 

 wiiis are many n|,iiii,||>; \arii'ties, which 

 far outclass the early ones in lieaut\'. 

 These grow iiiiirh talh-r Ihaii the ordi- 

 nary beilding tulips, are spleiejid f(U- 

 cutting and no one once giuwiiig them 

 will be without them. Try one or two 

 sorts and be coininced, as they are on 

 the .-rest of a big lioinn in America. 



W. X. ( i;ai.;. 



Calla, O. — Sidney Bennett has sold 

 his interest in the gi-eeiilious(>s here and 

 will go to Akr(Ui. 



DdVi.ESTOWX, (). — C. A. Musser, of the 

 Chestnut Hill (ireenliouses, is busy build- 

 ing aiiotlier greenhouse, JlJxSG. 



.\ME.siiUKV, .Mass. — At the Whittier 

 Club liower show, held at the grounds 

 of the association on Pleasant street, 

 .Inn.' 1'4, T. C. Thurlow & Co. ha. I a fine 

 exhibit of ]ieoni(>s. 



Ci.EVEi.AM), O. — 11. H. Jones and 

 Charles K. IJussell have organized the 

 .lo;-.es-Kussell Co., and October 1 will 

 open a retail tlowcr store at Euclid ave- 

 nue and Huron road. 



K'ocKvii.LE Center, X. Y. — Three boys, 

 all about 15 years of age, were arrestetl 

 recently for breaking into the green- 

 house at the rear of Cla reduce Ankers' 

 store, in Merrick road. 



-Mekide.V. CdX.X. — h'. C. HIatcldey. a 

 member of the HIatcldey ( o., and .Miss 

 I'annie C. Ihil'lessis were married .lime 

 -'.\. After a trij) to Xew York state and 

 Canada, they will live in I'laiitsville. 



liaixiiEtn'oiT, X. V. — I'ursell & Cragg 

 < o. has been incoi'])orated to do a gen- 

 I'ral llorists' business, with .+ S.(ltii) cajiital 

 stock. The incorjiorators are l'"rank A. 

 Pmsell. of K'ochester. .loseph W. Cragg 

 and others. 



Ci.ixToxvii.i.E. (). — Conkliii Hros., who 

 ha\e grown lettuce, cucumbers and toma- 

 toes under glass for a number of years, 

 ha\(' concluded to put a ))art of their 

 establishment in cut flowers for the ap- 

 juoaching season. 



Lvxx, Mass.— K. I-". Dwyer .&; Sons 

 had a large displ.ay of choice peonies at 

 the exhibition held by the Houghton Hor- 

 ticultural Society in the lecture room of 

 tli<' iiubiic library. Saturd.ay afternoon 

 and ex'ening. .Iiiiie '_'(). 



PiiOEBfs, Va. — Mrs. (ariie M. Terry, 

 who now has a greenhouse and liower 

 store here, twenty-live years ago was in 

 business at L'l' Avenue A, Xew Y''ork 

 city. She says the business has advanced 

 a thousand ])er ci'ut since then, 



I'KAXKi.ix, I'A.— The P(dl Floral Co. 

 i-ecenlly went to Oil City to put U]i one 

 of the largest wc.lding decoiations ever 

 i-e<|iiired ihei-e. It imduded the decora- 

 tiiui of ('hrist church .'ind the large resi- 

 d<'nce of Samuel Y. K'a.mage. The dec- 

 oratiiui receixcd a half column notice in 

 the Oil City Denick. 



< 1111,1. KdTiiK. .Mo,- -A lecent storm de- 

 sli-oyeil ihe laiyi smokestack at the 

 greenhouses of b". 1,. Islierwood aiul lie 

 inleiids to build another of brick. He 

 also sulfered a loss id' *l.")it by brok(Mi 

 glass. lie h;is had a splendid business 

 this season, l')esi<|es his greenhouses, he 

 owns nine aciis of land. 



.\Kiaix. (). -Trade here seems to ha\e 

 been good this season. There has been a 

 gicat deal of comidaint about the water 

 furnisheil by the city waterw<irks. There 

 is something in it that is injurious to 

 pi.'inls; il seems to stunt the growth and 

 injure the toliagi'. There has been (piite 

 a li^~ among tliosi' nsiiig city water. 



Memphis, Tenx. — The Buseck Floral 

 Co. has been incorporated, with a cap- 

 ital stock of $1'5,00(J. The incorporators 

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

 Ball, J. (ioldsmith, 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 2-5 and 2G. Most of the stock 

 came from amateurs, but the Jewell Nur- 

 sery Co., Lake City, and other trade 

 growers were represented. 



Ke.vkxey, NEB.^Outdoor roses here 

 are sullering more thaii usuatiifrom the 

 depredations of the rose bug, wdiich is 

 literally eating up the buds and flowers. 

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

 has been kiiully gi\ing suggestions to the 

 I)ublic as to the extermination of the 

 pest. 



FiiEMoXT, X'Kii. — C . H. Green h:is com- 

 jdetcd 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. WMien completed there 

 will be 28,000 square feet of glass, an 

 incTease of about 10,000 square feet over 

 Avhat was in the old buildings. 



IMiXNEAPOLis, Mixx. — 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 comniittee of arrange- 

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

 C. X. Ruedlingcr and E. P. Holm. 



(iKEEXvii.i.E, [ll. — D. H. Zbinden, 

 .senior jiartner of the firm of Zbinden & 

 Corboz. has sold his half interest to Mr. 

 ( 'orboz, on account of ill health. Mr. 

 Zbinden, however, has bought the W. D. 

 iJonnell 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 ]\lartin property. 



Maxciiestek, Mass. — The ro.se garden 

 on the Spalding estate has been open to 

 the public for several days and attracted 

 large numbers of visitors. It includes 

 .'{,000 plants in over ,500 varieties, a large 

 |)roportion being hybrid teas. Mrs. H. 

 L. Foote, of Marblehead, ^lass., laid out 

 and plantetl the garden and has charge 

 of the same. She makes a sj)ecialty of 

 planting and caring for rose ganlens, 

 importing the bulk of her stock. 



CAiinEX Statiox, Kv. — "We have had 

 the most prosperous year in our times," 

 said (leorge O. Klein, manager of the 

 Sunnymount Xursery tS*: I'loral Co. ' ' We 

 sold out of every blooming thing.'" (le- 

 raniums were in such large demand that 

 they sold out so closely thi'v ha\e no 

 stock plants left, and many ordeis had 

 to be refused. The season has been so 

 wet that jieople have kept right on plant- 

 ing long after the season usually ends. 

 This has been an exceptional year for 

 ciuilifiower in the gardens, for it does not 

 usually do well here. Shrubbery has 

 bloomed more jierfectly than for many 

 years and it will go a long way toward 

 making business for the fall jdanfeis. 



