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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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Hydrangea Paniculata Grandiflora. 



ways is warmer than one in which there 

 is no concrete — the coolest cellar I ever 

 knew was dug in clay and had earth 

 walls, for the building over it extended 

 far beyond the pit. Unless your situa- 

 tion is peculiar, you ought to get a 

 natural circulation sufficient to keep the 

 air sweet; you don't want a draft. If 

 you require an air change, the American 

 Blower Co., Detroit, makes a little elec- 

 trically driven affair that will pump the 

 old air out of any room, in which case 

 nature puts fresh air in again without 

 creating a draft. 



The reference to a salesroom makes it 

 appear likely that both a cellar and a 

 refrigerator are what would be best in 

 this case. If stock is not on display 

 in the salesroom it isn't likely that cus- 

 tomers will ever care to go into the 

 cellar to look at it, and I know by ex- 

 perience that people won 't care to wait 

 while the stock is brought up for in- 

 spection, one pot at a time. If you are 

 retailing in your salesroom, by all means 

 get a good display refrigerator and 

 keep your best stock in it; the surplus 

 and the seconds can go to the cellar. 



A PLEA FOB MORE BOOM. 



A common mistake made by planters 

 is to set plants too close together, thus 

 preventing their proper development. 

 Tomatoes, for instance, are frequently 

 planted less than eighteen inches apart, 

 when there should be a space of at least 

 four feet between the plants. And in 

 this city, and many others, there are 

 trees on the public streets, and in pri- 

 vate grounds, that have attained a di- 

 ameter of more than ten inches, that 

 are standing less than eight feet from 

 each other, while the interval should be 

 thirty-five feet or more, which would 

 give them room for symmetrical growth. 



The illustration on this page, repro- 

 duced from a photograph, shows a plant 

 of Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora 

 that measures eighteen and one-half 

 feet across, while the writer recently 

 noticed a bed six feet in diameter, on 

 a lawn here, in which twenty-three 

 plants of the same variety had been set, 

 no doubt with the expectation that they 

 would grow and do well. 



In planting trees and shrubs, it is 

 best to use young and small specimens; 



but those who do or direct the work 

 should realize that at maturity they 

 will be much larger, and should allow 

 them a liberal amount of room in which 

 to develop. W, T. Bell. 



PLANTS FOB FLOODED GBOUND. 



What tree, vegetable or flower will 

 grow on ground that overflows six or 

 seven feet every two or three years? 

 The water stays on it a week or less. 



8. G. 



Much would depend on whether the 

 flooding occurs in winter or summer. 

 Few trees would be killed or even seri- 

 ously injured by a flooding in winter 

 and many would not mind a similar 

 flood in summer. Shrubs would be 

 likely to suffer severely from summer 

 floods, but if they come when the plants 

 have no foliage little damage will be 

 likely to result. There are few vege- 

 tables which would survive a week's 

 flooding. If in growth at the time, all 

 would probably be destroyed. Few of 

 the hardy herbaceous plants would be 

 killed by even a week's flood if it came 

 in winter and the ground dried out well 

 afterwards. Of course, if the ground 



after being flooded had a, thick deposit 

 of mud left on it, the likelihood of dam- 

 age would be greatly increased, 



C. W. 



SOIL FOB PALMS AND FEBNS. 



I am a retail florist and have a small 

 conservatory in the rear of my store. 

 I have quite a few ferns and palms 

 jeft over from last season and should 

 like to grow them on for next fall. 

 One of Philadelphia's leading growers, 

 advised me to use the following com- 

 post: Two and one-half barrows of 

 soil, one barrow of cow manure, one 

 bucket of sheep manure, one bucket of 

 bone, one barrow of horse manure and 

 oue bucket of blood. I should mu«h 

 like to know whether these propor- 

 tions are correct. M. J. C. 



Such a compost as that suggested 

 might be vised for a top-dressing on 

 palms that are much potbound, but 

 would not be quite a safe preparation 

 to use as a potting soil for palms and 

 ferns, for the reason that the propor- 

 tion of nitrogen is too large. It would 

 be better to leave out the dried blood 

 entirely and to use half the quantity 

 of the other fertilizers. You would 

 thus have a compost that would be 

 abundantly rich for all ordinary pur- 

 poses. W. H. T. 



THEBE ABE MANY UKE IT. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the establishment of Henry Daut, at 

 Decatur, 111., which is typical of a large 

 class of florists' places. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Daut are shown in the picture. The} 

 do a large part of the work themselves 

 and a good part of the stock Mr. Daut 

 personally plants on the grounds of his 

 customers. He handles practically 

 everything in the plant line, including 

 nursery stock, and the tree beneath 

 which Mrs. Daut stands is one he 

 planted himself and which he cites as 

 an evidence that his trees grow. The 

 picture is further characteristic of 

 establishments of this class in that at 

 the time the photograph was made 

 there were piled up back of the fence, 

 where just one corner of the stack 

 shows, 3,000 feet of 16x24 glass for use 

 in an addition to the houses. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — The Kalamazoo 

 Floral Co. has been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of $20,000. 



Establithment of H. Daut, Decatur, lU. 



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