OCTOBEK 8, 1914J 



The Florists^ Review 



19 



: A. N. PIEBSON'S NEW BANaE. 



Nearly 150,000 square feet of glass 

 were added to the establishment of A. 

 N. Pierson, Inc., at Cromwell, Conn., 

 with the erection of the range shown 

 in the accompanying illustration. The 

 entire work, which has just been com- 

 pleted, was done by the concern's own 

 employees, under the personal super- 

 vision of A. N. Pierson, The ventilating 

 apparatus, glass, and gutters complete 

 with the posts were the only finished 

 materials bought. The lumber for the 

 sashbars was shipped direct from the 

 south in the rough and dressed in the 

 firm's' own mill. The iron was bought 

 at the mills and worked up in A. N. 

 Pierson 's own shops. 



There are five houses 33x500, one 

 40x500, . one 53x500 and a connecting 

 house 40x400, fiot shown in the illus- 

 tration, through which the steam main 

 is carried from the power house. The 

 power plant has also been increased; 

 five small boilers were taken out and 

 replaced with four larger ones, having 

 a total capacity of 1,100 horse-power. 



The late spring retarded building 

 operations, so that it was necessary to 

 change the plans for planting somewhat. 

 It was originally planned to plant all 

 the houses to roses. There are six 

 houses of roses; the varieties planted 

 are American Beauty, Killarney Bril- 

 liant, Shawyer, Milady, D'Arenberg, 

 Ward, Hadley and Cecile Brunner. The 

 call for greens has always greatly ex- 

 ceeded the firm's supply, and so 6,000 

 Croweanum, 7,000 smilax and 1,000 

 asparagus have been planted to meet 

 that, demand. About 30,000 Formosa 

 lilies are bedded out for cut flowers 

 (luring the winter. K, C. S. 



HAETUNG'S HAPPY HOME. 



Happy is the lot of the rural florist! 

 Take, for instance, the case of Louis 

 Hartung, at Two Rivers, Wis. With a 

 town large enough to afford all the com- 

 forts and conveniences, he still is able 

 to enjoy the pleasures of country life. 

 Business always is good in such a place. 

 Most of the trade is in the spring, a 

 big business being done for Memorial 

 day, but there is funeral work all the 

 year around, and more or less regular 

 call for plants and flowers, enough to 

 keep things going nicely. Mr. Hartung 

 has 6,000 feet of glass. Carnations are 

 his principal cut flower crops, but he 

 grows a general line of pot plants. An 

 office building and workroom will be 

 hig next improvements. 



SCHOOL OABDENING. 



With a special appropriation from 

 Congress, the United States Bureau of 

 Education has just begun the work of 

 investigation and promotion of home 

 and school gardens. The new division 

 will be under the direction of a special- 

 ist in school gardening. Miss Ethel 

 Gowans, a graduate of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, 

 is temporarily in charge of the work. 

 Eventually it is hoped that every city 

 school in the United States will have a 

 teacher employed twelve months in the 

 year who knows gardening both theo- 

 retically and practically. 



In announcing the new work. Dr. 

 Claxton declares: "School 'gardening 

 will develop habits of industry, an ap- 

 preciation of the value of money as 

 measured in terms of labor, and a reali- 

 zation that every man and woman must 



New Range of Home-Made Greenhouses of A. N. Pierson, Inc., Croniweil> Conn. 



make his or her own living, and con- 

 tribute to the welfare of the commu- 

 nity." 



WAE RISK INSURANCE. 



The United States government is 

 ready to write war risk insurance for 

 florists, seedsmen or nurserymen and the 

 Bureau of War Eisk Insurance at Wash- 

 ington has issued regulations that pro- 

 vide in part: 



' ' Cargo and freight policies are issued 

 for voyages only, and insurance may be 

 placed through the collectors of customs 

 at the various ports or by applying 

 direct to the bureau at Washington. 



"Applications for cargo insurance 

 require the name of the applicant, de- 

 scription of the merchandise, giving 

 marks and numbers, the vessel, her line 

 or owner, and not only the amount of 

 insurance required, but also the value 

 of the goods to be insured. It is neces- 

 sary that the applicants have marine 

 insurance on each shipment and a state- 

 ment as to the company and the amount 

 of insurance carried is required. 



"The amount insured against war 

 risks cannot, in any circumstances, ex- 

 cede the amount insured against marine 

 risks. 



"It is also warranted by the assured 

 that the vessel will sail within fifteen 

 days from the date on which this insur- 

 ance is effected, but in the event of the 

 vessel sailing after that time it is 

 agreed to hold the insured covered on 

 notice to and payment of the additional 



premium required by the Bureau of War 

 Risk Insurance, based on rates current 

 at the time of sailing. 



"It is quite impossible, with the con- 

 ditions changing so rapidly, to quote 

 rates to apply for more than fifteen 

 days. ' ' 



IRIS FOR FORcma. 



Can irises be forced profitably? If 

 so, please give cultural directions. 

 J. G. 



Spanish irises now are quite largely 

 grown under glass. They succeed well 

 in benches or in flats containing five 

 inches of soil. They need a cool house, 

 not over 50 degrees at night. Plant the 

 bulbs as soon as received. Keep in a 

 coldframe. Do not cover with coal 

 ashes or other material, as they start 

 into growth quickly. House the first 

 batch early in December to flower about 

 the middle of March, and later batches 

 at intervals. Good sorts are Blanche 

 Fleur, British Queen, Louise, Chrysolora 

 and Thunderbolt. C. W. 



Kirkwood, Mo. — This is the Rhine- 

 beck of the west, great quantities of 

 violets having been grown here, mostly 

 for the St. Louis market. But this 

 season there will be few violets from 

 Kirkwood. In their place sweet peas 

 and snapdragons have been planted. 

 The switch has been so general that 

 there begin to be forebodings, many be- 

 lieving the new crops will be as seri- 

 ously overdone as the old one was. 



The G>mfortabIe Establishment of L. Hartung, Two Rivers, Wis. 



