i^BDARX 12, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



plants across a 5-foot bed would make 

 960 plants to the bed. 



The number of blooms you will cut 

 from such a house will depend entirely 

 on your success as a grower. A good 

 average cut would be about twenty 

 blooms per square foot of bench space. 

 White Wonder will make that many 

 easily. Enchantress should do it with- 

 out much trouble, while Mrs. Ward and 

 Victory might fall a little below. 



A. r. J. B. 



PLANTINa IN UNOIiAZED HOUSE. 



Which would be the best red, white 

 and pink carnations for outside bloom- 

 ing in the fall in this New Jersey 

 climate f I am building a greenhouse 

 for carnations and I wish to put the 

 plants right in the soil, before glazing, 

 and glaze the house in September. Will 

 the plants bloom profitably without 

 benches! The soil is clay. I have read 

 in The Eeview about the owners of 

 movable houses planting in that way. 

 Which would be the best varieties of 

 carnations for such a purpose! 



E. C. M. 



We have built several houses in the 

 way you are planning to build yours. 

 If your soil is good and the drainage is 

 ample, you need have no fear of the 

 plants not doing well. In fact, you will 

 cut flowers of far better quality during 

 October and November than you would 

 from transplanted stock. The work of 

 caring for the plants will, of course, be 

 more tedious than if the plants were on 

 elevated beds. Set the plants in beds, 

 leaving walks, just the same as if you 

 had raised beds. 



Any of the standard varieties will 

 thrive under this treatment. For out- 

 side blooming, you will find the "ISn- 

 chantress varieties. White Wonder, 

 Shasta and Dorothy Gordon are all 

 good. None of the standard reds is 

 good for this purpose, unless it be 

 Scarlet Glow. We grow a variety of 

 our own, which we have found satisfac- 

 tory for this purpose. A. F. J. B. 



BUSINESS EMBABRASSMEITTS. 



Chicago, ni. — February 6 a petition 

 in voluntary bankruptcy was filed in 

 the U. S. District court by Arthur B. 

 Weeks, attorney at 19 South La Salle 

 street, on behalf of Julia A. Wratkow- 

 sky, better known to the trade as Julia 

 .Tegen. The schedule of liabilities 

 showed $2,338.04 unsecured, with assets 

 nominally $660. The claims of those 

 in the trade, as shown by the schedule, 

 are as follows: 



Poehlmann Bros. Co $1,012. 3!S 



A. L. Randall Co 77.86 



Kennlcott Bros. Co 120.00 



Frank Oechslln 82.55 



Raedlein Basket Co 8.65 



W. D. Messlnger & Co 7.25 



J. B. Deamud Co 50.20 



Bellerue Place Co 246.25 



Adam Zlska & Co 27 »9 



W. W. Barnard Co 3.75 



Wm. Kalous 10.50 



Geo. Wlttbold Co 30.20 



Jos. Zlska 34.00 



Hnmmel & Downing 44.81 



Slngler Bros (about) 300.00 



Batavla Greenhouse Oo 76.25 



The schedule of assets shows $64.18 



cash on hand and $2.66 in bank; stock 



on hand, $700; household fixtures, $65; 



due on book accounts, $660.70. Claim is 



made for an exemption of $400. The 



liabilities include $3,700 due Foreman 



Bros. Banking Co., secured by a trust 



deed covering property owned and dated 



August 23, 1911. The business is 



among the oldest in Chicago. It was 



established by the late J. A. Jegen more 



than a quarter of a century ago and 



Men You Ought to Know 



S. A. ANDERSON. 



THE principal duty of the vice-president of a trade society ordinarily is to take 

 charge of the local arrangements for the next convention, the vice-president 

 usually being chosen from the city that is to be the next meeting place. S. A. 

 Anderson's selection as vice-president of the American Carnation Society for the 

 year of the convention at Buffalo insures another fine retailers' department — Mr. 

 Anderson not only is one of Buffalo's leading retailers, but he is so affable and full 

 of energy that he will be sure to get the retailers there to take complete advantage 

 of the opportunity to show the flower buyers of their town not only good carnations, 

 but how effectively good carnations can be used in decorations. No better man could 

 have been found to carry along the work inaugurated by the retail florists at Cleveland 

 this year. 



was for many years a landmark at 55 

 Washington street. In those days the 

 Jegens, father and daughters, did a 

 large volume and were among the most 

 prosperous florists in Chicago. Follow- 

 ing Mr. Jegen 's death a number of 

 years ago, the business was continued 

 by the daughters, one of whom is Mrs. 

 Ida Jegen Bitters, the death of whose 

 son under the wheels of an Illinois Cen- 

 tral train at Windsor Park February 1 

 was chronicled in last week's issue of 

 The Eeview. Julia A. Jegen continued 

 the business after her marriage, remov- 

 ing the store a few years ago to 27 

 North Dearborn street. 



BAYERSDORFER WINS CASE. 



In the U. S. Customs court January 

 22, H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, 

 won their case with regard to the duty 

 on immortelle wreaths. The official re- 

 port of the case is as follows: 



"No. 1215. United States vs. H. 



Bayersdorfer & Co.; opinion by Mont- 

 gomery, presiding judge; in an importa- 

 tion of immortelle wreaths the collector 

 assessed additional duties on account 

 of undervaluation, to which the import- 

 ers protested; the board of general ap- 

 praisers sustained the protest of the im- 

 porters and the decision of the board is 

 reversed. ' ' 



NEED HIGHER TEMPERATURE. 



I am enclosing some fern leaves for 

 examination. As soon as the leaves 

 have grown to any size they turn brown. 

 The plants keep sending out new leaves, 

 but these do not amount to anything. 

 E. C. F. 



The ferns appear to have been grown 

 in too low a temperature. If the plants 

 keep pushing up^numerous young fronds, 

 there is nothing wrong with the roots. 

 A low temperature and overhead water- 

 ing along with it would produce just 

 the results you describe. 



