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Dkcbmbek 28, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



15 



One Method of Plant Delhreryr on Long Island.— J. E. Weir, Jr., at the WheeL 



planting the crop. Fresh manure used 

 just before planting would have a tend- 

 ency to cause disease. I have had no 

 experience in treating seeds with for- 

 malin, but the mere fact that seeds 

 from diseased plants produced healthy 

 plants the following season would 

 rather indicate that the blight is not 

 inherited. In the same way, seeds from 

 melons which were practically de- 

 stroyed by blight have given perfectly 

 clean plants the next year. 



Qood aster seed is offered by many of 

 the leading seedsmen in the columns 

 of The Eeview. Excellent varieties to 

 grow are: For very early, Early Won- 

 der in white and pink; for early. Queen 

 of the Market in pink, pure white and 

 lavender; for main and late crops, 

 Vick's or American Branching and 

 Semple's. White is the most profitable 

 color to grow; next to that, pink, lav- 

 ender and deep purple. It is best not 

 to grow many of the last color. 



Hen manure is useful as a top-dress- 

 ing when the plants are in active 

 growth. It is better, however, to mix 

 the manure with fine loam sometime 



Erevious to using it. Drop it thinly 

 etween the rows and later run the hoe 

 or cultivator over the soil, to stir it 

 well. A light coating of wood ashes 

 before plowing will help the ground, 

 but should not be applied more fre- 

 quently than every third year. C. W. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Registration. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of Althaea Wm. R. Smith 

 by Henry A. Dreer, Inc., of Philadel- 

 phia, becomes complete. 



As no objections have been filed, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of Geraniums General 

 Wayne, Aviator Rodgers and Aviator 

 Atwood by P. H. De Witt, of Wooster, 

 O., becomes complete. 



Objection having been received to 

 the registration of Geranium Daybreak, 

 one by that name already being on the 

 market, the name has been changed to 

 Dr. Wylie and the registration hereby 

 becomes complete. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of Cannas Conowingo, 

 Splendour, Wabash, Beacon and Kate 



F. Deemer by the Conard & Jones Co., 

 of West Grove, Fa., becomes complete. 



Objections having been withdrawn, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of Rose Double Improved 

 White Killarney by S. J. Renter & Son, 

 Inc., of Westerly, R. I., becomes com- 

 plete. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



December 21, 1911. 



LONG ISLAND FLORICULTURK 



The proprietor of the Elklawn Green- 

 houses is J. Ebb Weir, who also is pro- 

 prietor of James Weir, Jr., & Son, 

 Brooklyn, and the two establishments, 

 while separate, are closely associated, 

 the greater part of the output of the 

 greenhouses going to the retail store. 



* ' We have erected this past summer, ' ' 

 writes J. E. Weir, Jr., manager of Elk- 

 lawn, "three more Hitchings & Co. 

 houses, material, painting, glazing and 

 heating being done by Hitchings men 

 and our own doing the erection of the 

 buildings proper. This makes the sev- 

 enth Hitchings house in three years. 

 At present we have two carnation 

 houses, each 30x200, one 200-foot propa- 

 gating house and five 100-foot houses 

 containing bedding stock and a general 

 trade line. The local trade, picked up 

 without running after, which we had 

 never believed amounted to anything, is 

 getting to be quite a factor and growing 



fast. The only trouble is delivery. We 

 have a machine for that and frequently 

 have to go thirty to forty miles with a 

 decoration. Am sending you under sepa- 

 rate cover a photograph of a hurry-up 

 order. This had to be delivered twenty- 

 five miles away with about twelve hours 

 given to pack and send it. The load 

 weighed just 1,150 pounds, partly sup- 

 ported by the sulky and the rest by the 

 machine. 



"We take a lot of stock in The Re- 

 view; we most generally find something 

 in it that squares up a diflScult point at 

 about the right time." 



A NEW CONNECTICUT RANGE. 



When utto Keser put up his range of 

 glass at Portland, Conn., he started with 

 the houses shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, which are surrounded by 

 several acres of choice land, planted 

 with trees, shrubs and a variety of 

 stock for his retail trado. A handsome 

 dwelling and storage house is situated 

 at the entrance and does not show in 

 the picture. The place is called the 

 Riverside Greenhouses. 



St. Clairsville, O.— Elizabeth A. Mel- 

 lor, who was formerly connected with 

 the florists ' trade, but withdrew from it 

 several years ago, has again engaged 

 in the business, with John E. Winters 

 as manager. 



Establishment of Otto Keser, Portland, G>on. 



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