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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Junk 22, 1911. 



MB. BAUB'S PLANS. 



A large proportion of the members 

 of the trade have by this time been 

 informed, through the announcements 

 in The Review and otherwise, of the 

 dissolution of the firm of Baur & Smith, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. The firm was com- 

 posed of A. F. J. Baur and F. S. 

 Smith. Mr. Baur will hereafter con- 

 duct a wholesale business only, with 

 his office at 3800 Bockwood avenue, In- 

 dianapolis. Mr. Smith will continue in 

 the retail business at 330 West Thirty- 

 eighth street. 



Mr. Baur is so well known, both in 

 this country and abroad, as a carnation 

 specialist and as secretary of the 

 American Carnation Society, that hosts 

 of readers will be greatly interested in 

 his plans for the future. He says: 



"I have taken over the entire prop- 

 erty known as Baur & Smith's new 

 place and will carry on a wholesale 

 business along the same lines as the 

 old firm has been doing, except that 

 the list of plants carried will be more 

 restricted. I will specialize in carna- 

 tions, chrysanthemums, geraniums and 

 poinsettias. The raising of new car- 

 nations will continue to be a leading 

 feature with me. I am propagating 

 large quantities of poinsettias and am 

 preparing a big stock of geraniums for 

 next fall and winter. Only a few va- 

 rieties of geraniums will be grown, but 

 they will be the best in the various 

 colors for bedding. 



"I have always held that no medi- 

 um sized place can carry on both 

 wholesale and retail business satisfac- 

 torily, and I intend to confine my busi- 

 ness to the wholesale end. I have all 

 the stock of new carnations formerly 

 owned by the old firm, and will dis- 

 seminate those which are worthy. 



"No new glass will be put up this 

 season, but I have glass enough on the 

 place, bought last winter, to nearly 

 double the place in 1912. I intend to 

 push the business more than it has been 

 in the past." 



Vegetable Forcing. 



BUIItDING A LETTUCE HOUSE. 



We should like to know how to con- 

 struct, plant and heat an up-to-date 

 greenhouse for the growing of lettuce 

 for market. We wish especially to 

 get information relative to the heating. 



A. L. W. C. 



Many lettuce houses are now built 

 without any benches for the plants, 

 and the lettuce is grown on the ground, 

 just as in the garden. Hot water heat 

 is used quite generally by lettuce grow- 

 ers and I believe is the most satisfac- 

 tory heat for the purpose. The pipes 

 are huug on the walls. Where raised 

 benches are used, however, the pipes 

 are usually hung underneath the Jjench- 

 es. Considering everything, I would 

 advise houses without benches, but 

 with good, high eave plates or gutters. 

 I would not recommend low houses for 

 anything. 



The style or size of house does not 

 matter much, but I consider an equal- 

 span house, running east and west, a 

 little the best. The width should be 

 in proportion to the length, etc. For 

 instance, if the length is to be only 100 

 feet, I would not make an extremely 



TO EXHIBITORS 

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 In limited collections, packing and shipping for 

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Forcing of all vegetables under glass, tempera- 

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 collections are Mr. Beckett's own Inventions, and 

 all illastratlons are actual photographs taken on the 

 show bench. The special methods of cultivation 

 for exhibition as contained In this work are per- 

 fectly adaptable to this country, but intending 

 purchasers Please Note, the monthly calendar of 

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VEGETABLE PLANTS 



Cabbage— Wakefield, All Head, Succession and 

 other varieties $1.001000; 10,000 and over, 86c 1000. 



Liettnce — Qrand Rapids, Big Boston, Boston Mar- 

 ket and Tennis Ball. $1.00 1000; 10,000 and over. 86c 

 1000. 



Beet— Orosby, Egyptian and Eclipse, $1.26 1000. 



Oash with order. 



R. ViKUt. Jr.. & Sons Co., WhiU Miisb, Md. 



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SWEET POTATO PLANTS 



Yellow NanBemond, Big Stem Jersey 

 and other varieties. Single— 1000, $1,50; 

 10,000, 1112.50. 



H. AUSTIN CO., Felton, Del. 



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 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pun Cultun Miislirooin Spawn 



if cheaper erades Is 

 tsed. Fresh sample 



Substitatlon of cheaper erades Is 



Uyfocposed. Fresh sampl. 



brick, with ulostrated book, mailed 



ttaoseasUs 



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■wide house — say, about twenty-five 

 feet. If it is to be 200 feet long, it 

 might be thirty feet wide, and so on. 

 The arrangement of the piping could 

 be better determined after the size 

 and general plan of the house are de- 

 cided upon. The greenhouse material 

 companies often furnish valuable sug- 

 gestions to those who wish to build. 



H. G. 



ASPABAOUS IN THE OAEDEN. 



I wish to plant some asparagus in 

 the garden and should like to get a 

 good valriety. Please give me some 

 idea, also, of how and when to plant it. 



R. P. 



Palmetto and Bonvallet's Giant are 

 both fine varieties of asparagus. I do 

 not know of any that can excel them. 



It is too late now to transplant the 

 plants. This should be done early in 

 the spring. Get one-year-old roots and 

 plant them deep, say three or four 

 inches below the surface. You could 

 plant seed now and have your own 

 yearling plants next spring, but it is 

 getting late and they would need water 

 frequently to get them to do well. For 



CANE 

 STAKES 



The Fresh Green Kind 

 $7.00 per 1000 



WN. ELUOn & SONS 



42 Veiey Stitet, NEW YORK 



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Cattle Manure in Ba^ 



Shredded or Pulvertzed 



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Pure— dry— uniform and reliable. 



The best of all manures for the 

 rpk greenhouse. Florists all over the 

 S| country are using it instead ci 



rough manure. 



Pulverized 

 Sheep Manure 



Absolutely the best Sheep Manure 

 .on the market. Pure manure and 

 ^nothing else. The best fertilizer for 

 carnations and for liquid top-dressing. Unequaled 

 for all field use. Write for circulars and prices. 



The Pulverized Manure Company 

 88 Union Stock Yards CHICAGO 



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Nature's Best Fertilizer 

 is Slieep Manure 



Sheep's Head Brand furnishes the 

 valuable organic matter and humus 

 necessary to grow crops. It improves 

 the mechanical conditions of the soil. 

 Makes compact clay more open and por- 

 ^ous, makes liRht, sandy soils more retentive 

 of moisture, keeps soluble plant 

 foods within reach of rootlets 

 of growing vpRPtatlon. 

 Farniers, orobardists, florists, 

 truf^k and market gardeners 

 |,u> should send for our book 

 "Fertile Facts" to learn how 

 properly and most effectively 

 to fertilize the soil. 



NATURAL GUANO CO. 



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a small bed, put them 2x3 feet apart. 

 In my large fields I plant them four 

 feet each way. H. G. 



EABLT CASBAGE PLANTS. 



Please give directions for starting 

 and wintering early cabbage plants in 

 coldframes, for sale or for planting out 

 in the spring. F. E. S. 



I never wintered cabbage over in 

 coldframes and do not believe in it. 

 They come up quickly in the spring and 

 are perfectly healthy and not stunted 

 or hard; consequently they go far ahead 

 of the fall planted seedlings. In South 

 Carolina they are left outside all win- 

 ter, and one year I bought a lot of 

 these plants, but do not want any more. 

 They were stunted and hard. My own 

 plants did much better. H. G. 



De Land, Fla. — Wm. B. Currey, the 

 Indiana street florist, is building sev- 

 eral greenhouses on Oakland court. 



