Fdbruabt 8, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



17 





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John Walkers New Range at Boardman, O. 



treated thera for red spider and now 

 it seems to mo that this trouble has 

 disappeared. About the middle of No- 

 vember I used a thin dressing of pulver- 

 ized sheep manure, and a month later 

 a dressing of wood ashes. The temper- 

 ature has been from 55 to 65 degrees, 

 but four or five times during the season 

 it went down as low as 40 degrees. The 

 plants I am sending are two of the 

 worst I can find, but about all of them 

 are affected more or less. J. H. C. 



The plants forwarded are literally 

 covered with spider. There is a little 

 rust on them, too, but there can be no 

 doubt that the spider is what is doing 

 the damage to your crop. If you have 

 been treating them for that pest, your 

 treatment has not been successful and 

 you will have to double your efforts or 

 else there will soon be no carnations 

 at all. Go after them with the hose 

 on every bright day and let them have 

 all the force at your command. After 

 you have syringed them a few times, 

 give them a good syraying with Bor- 

 deaux mixture. This will not do much 

 toward killing the spider, but it will 

 prevent an attack of leaf-spot, from 

 which there is danger at this time of the 

 year if much syringing is done. 



A. F. J. B. 



WAIiKES'S NEW RANQE. 



In the summer of 1911, John Walker, 

 of Youngstown, O., having found that 

 his city greenhouses were entirely in- 

 adequate, erected a number of first- 

 class houses at Boardman, O., about 

 five miles south of Toungstown. The 

 new range of houses is shown in one 

 c|f the ' photographs here reproduced; 

 t!he other picture shows the interior of 

 one of the carnation houses. 



The range is located on high land, 

 overlooking the valley of Mill Creek, 

 and comprises seven houses, with the 

 boiler house at the northeast corner, so 

 that the whole establishment may be 

 said, in a sense, to be under one roof. 

 Four of the houses are each 281^x200; 

 one is 18x200, and the two which are 

 cut short by the boiler house are each 

 18x100. The houses are all equal-span 

 and are glazed with 16x24 glass, set in 

 the 24-inch way, thus making the best 

 possible provision for light. The walls 

 are seven feet high to the gutters, 

 which gives ample head room. The 

 heat is provided by a large return tubu- 

 lar boiler. 



The first, or south, house is filled with 



roses, including Killarney, White Kil- 

 larney, Eichmond, Perle and Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward, all of which are looking fine. 

 The next three large houses are planted 

 with carnations. Here are seen Vic- 

 tory, the three varieties of Enchantress, 

 White Perfection, Winsor, Lawson, Har- 

 lowarden, Beacon, Pink Delight, Mrs. 

 C. W. Ward, May Day, Scarlet Glow, 

 Dorothy Gordon, etc. The majority of 

 these varieties have done remarkably 

 well and all give great promise for the 

 future. The rest of the range is used 

 for violets, sweet peas and smilax, with 

 the north house for propagating pur- 

 poses. 



Mr. Walker is still conducting the 

 old place, which is located a mile and a 

 half north of town. This place is de- 

 voted to the growing of pot plants and 

 decorative stock for his store in the 

 eity. He also grows here a large quan- 

 tity of bedding plants for the spring. 

 Here, too, he forces all his bulb stock 

 for the winter months and Easter. 



His intention is, eventually, to move 

 everything to the new plant at Board- 

 man, where he has seventeen acres of 

 land. The city site is becoming too 

 valuable for the growing of flowers, 

 and is also too smoky and dirty, owing 



to the encroachment of mills, railroads, 

 etc. After looking over the new place, 

 one can not fail to arrive at the con- 

 clusion that Mr. Walker's long expe- 

 rience in the growing of flowers has 

 taught him how to erect a practical 

 range, for it would be difficult to find 

 a more conveniently arranged place 

 than the one at Boardman. The mate- 

 rials for the new houses were furnished 

 by the Foley Mfg. Co., Chicago. 



A. M. 



NEW ENGLAND DAHLIA SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the New Eng- 

 land Dahlia Society took place in Horti- 

 cultural hall, Boston, Mass., January 

 24. The meeting was well attended and 

 many interesting subjects were dis- 

 cussed. The reports of the secretary 

 and treasurer showed a good balance in 

 the treasury. 



The following officers were elected 

 for the year 1912: President, J. K. 

 Alexander, East Bridgewater, Mass 

 vice-president, W. C. Brady, Wollaston 

 Mass.; secretary, Irving W. Holbrook 

 Braintree, Mass.; treasurer, H. L. Win 

 ters, Medford, Mass. Executive com 

 mittee, Loring M. Bates, West Bridge 



Interior of One of John Walker's New Gtmation Houses. 



