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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



15 



New^ Houses of Dobbs & Son, Auburn, N. Y. 



: .led. as in our experioiici! with Bea- 

 ' , II this season. We have a part of a 

 ': . .i, about GOO plants, phantoil to this 

 \ rictv. We let them come in with a 

 I! idwinter crop of blooms, and they 

 :i.!\o l)een blooming since early Dccem- 

 !. r. About January 1 we went through 

 tliiii and robbed them of all the good 



ijttiiijis they carried. This has been 

 !r|ioateil every time a good crop came 

 in sight. Inasmuch as Beacon has al- 

 ways heretofore split a considerable 

 ;.>icentage of the calyxes with us dur- 

 mu' midwinter, we expected that they 

 u.iuld nearly all do the same act under 

 tins treatment. To our great satisfac- 

 tion and surprise, we have tliis winter 



ut a smaller percentage of splits from 

 iin'si' plants than we ever did from 

 I'.' aion in other years — less, even, than 

 >\.' have from Enchantress. 1 merely 

 ; ito this instance to show that a case 

 (il splitting can be brougiit on easily 

 .Mild the grower frequently finds it dif- 

 'i< lilt to explain the reason. 



A. F. ,1. B. 



A BIG CARNATION HOUSE. 



\V. G. Dobbs, of the firm of Dobbs 

 .V Son, ut Auburn, N. Y., has been try- 

 ing his skill in the operation of a re- 

 i>l\ing-lens camera, and as a result he 

 lias ]iictures of the Dobbs establishment 

 irom various points of view. Two of 

 t!ie photographs are here reproduced. 

 ■'lie of them shows part of the range of 

 'L1S03, with the big new carnation 

 '"'Use in the foreground; tlu' other 

 • ows the interior of the same carna- 

 m house. 



I'his house was built by the Geo. M. 

 ■ rland Co., of Des Plaines, 111. It is 

 xl'GO and is said to be one of the 



finest greenhouses in the stati;. lilspe- 

 cially noteworthy is the fact that a 

 house forty-two f(>et wide can be built 

 without i)Osfs or sujiports of any kind. 

 Truss construction accomplishes this, 

 and J\lr. Doblis says he believes the 

 houses thus built art> as strong as those 

 on 2)osts. \i' this is true, it is C(>rtain 

 that much less shade is cast, and with 

 sunlight at a premium, as it is during 

 the winter, the truss method naturally 

 holds great interest for the grower. The 

 sides of the housi^ are built of pressed 

 concrete blo('l<s, witli rock faci', and the 

 oflices, boiler rooms, stacks, etc., all 

 ha\e the same finisii. There are ten 

 beds in tin? house, each Gx 120 feet and 

 six inches deej), and all of concrete con- 

 struction. Th(^ posts, sides and bottoms 

 were ])Oured in oim continuous mass. 

 These beds are all planted with carna- 

 tions — about 13,500 plants. The boiler 

 room and coal cellars are all fireproof, 

 being entirely of concrete; even the 

 roofs are concrete, with expanded metal 

 reinforcing. 



Dobbs & Son state that they are 

 thinking seriously of incorporating dur- 

 ing this coming season, as they believe 

 that a corporation has many advan- 

 tages for the transaction of a business 

 of any size. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



Ilayward Mathias, Lucerne, Stub- 

 bington, England, one of the founders 

 and the first secretary of the Per- 

 ]>etual Flowering Carnation Society, 

 died suddenly from heart failure, Feb- 

 ruary 10. His end was not unexpected, 

 as he had been in failing healtli for a 

 year and had resigned his secretarial 

 duties on that account. By all who 

 knew him he was held in tlie highest 



esteem for his unfailing courtesy and 

 dex'otion to his duties. 



('arnation British Trium|ih, raised by 

 ( '. i'lngidmann, Sall'ron W'aldeii, has re- 

 (■(Mved an award of merit from the 

 Koyal Horticultural Society. 



The total nu'inbersliiji of tin; Koyal 

 Horticultural Society, Fnglaiid, l)ec(!m- 

 ber ;!!, Jitll, was 12, S.!!), an increase 

 of 7!)() as compared with the same date 

 in 1!M0. 'Phe subscriiil ions paid 

 amounted to £17, !)().'». The animal 

 meeting of the iN'ational Clirysanthe 

 mum Soci(d,y showed a year of good 

 progress also. 



The annual trip and congress of th(> 

 Federation of I'^reiicii iXurseiyiiieii, re 

 cently referred to in The Ki'\ieu, 

 ])assed off with great e(dat. For nine 

 days at the end of Jjinuary the Fr(!iicli 

 nurserymen made merry under the azure 

 skies of southern France and Italy, 

 while I'iurofie generally was shivering 

 in sleet and rain. They discuissed rail- 

 way freights, the export flower trade 

 and other subjects pertaining to their 

 calling. They were in a joyous mood 

 and introduced much humor into their 

 discussions. But Frenchmen are a! 

 ways vi\acious, and their (-(jnfreres in 

 th(! south entertained them with vin- 

 d'honneur, ajteritifs <l'honneur, cham 

 I>agne d'honneur and banquets amid 

 the i)alm groves of Ilyt-res, the mimosa, 

 ros(; ami carnation jilains of <'annes and 

 \ice. So there is excuse for their 

 joviality, and — tell it not in Gath!-- 

 the Casino of ^fonto Carlo had attrac 

 tioiis for a few after the strenuous dis 

 cu-^sions on railway freights, etc. There 

 is an enormous acreage <le voted to flow 

 er growing around Cannes and Nice, 

 and \ isitors saw the fields in tie' /enith 

 ol' their flowerinir season. j'.ee. 



Carnation House Forty-two Feet Wide, Built by Dobbs & Son, Auburn, N. Y. 



