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Plant B of the Poehlmann Bros. G)., Morton Grove, III. 



bench about three inches apart and not 

 potted up until spring? F. W. S. 



No matter whether Icept in sand or 

 loam, the plan you suggest is a poor 

 one and will give unsatisfactory re- 

 sults. It is far too long a period to 

 leave cuttings without potting, and the 

 chances are that many plants would 

 damp off and others grow so robustly 

 that they would lose much of their foli- 

 age when lifted. If you want to carry 

 them over until, say, the early part of 

 February, you could do so in flats of 

 sand, keeping them just moist enough 

 to prevent shriveling and giving them 

 a shelf in a sunny house. Pot culture, 

 moving successively to 2-inch, 3-inch 

 and 4-inch pots, may mean some more 

 labor, but it is the plan which will 

 give you far the best plants in the 

 end, and wc would advise you to adopt 

 it. C. W. 



HALF-MILE FEONTS. 



Keproduced on this page are two of 

 the most interesting jjhotographs of 

 greenhouse establishments ever made. 

 The ])ictures show the two plants of 

 Foehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 

 ill. The photographing of a modern 

 range of greenhouses ]»resents many 

 difficulties which may not have occuried 

 to one who has not tried it. In the 

 first place, with hundreds of thousands 

 of feet of glass to be ])hotograplied. it 

 is difliicult to find a position from which 

 all the glass niay^be within range of 

 the camera at one time. Then, when 

 such a jwsition is found, either tlie dis- 

 tance is so great that the details are 

 lost, or else it is found that no lens 

 has a sufliciently wide angle to get the 

 entire establishment within its scope. 

 The photographing of the I'oehlmann 

 establishments has presented a j'ccu 



liarly difiicult task because of tiie great 

 distance to be covered; plant B is near- 

 ly half a mile long. Little could be done 

 towards showing all of either of the 

 ]dants until the revolving camera was 

 used. A great many florists have seen 

 these cameras employed in photograph- 

 ing convention groups. The macliine is 

 set pointing at one end of the grouj). 

 and, when it is started, revolves until 

 it points to the other end of the group, 

 in the meantime automatically exposing 

 difl'erent parts of the film as it revolves. 

 This get§ a fine picture, but if the line 

 to be photographed is a straight one 

 the camera produces the effect of a re- 

 versed curve, those standing nearest 

 appearing the largest in the picture. 

 To escape this distortion the photogra- 

 pher arranges his group of people in a 

 semicircle. Then the picture shows 

 them as standing in a straight line and 

 all the people of size in correct ])ropor- 

 tion. The revolving camera worked 

 finely on the two Poehlmann plants, but 

 as the greenhouses stand in a straight 

 line, the picture presents the efTect of 

 a reversed curve. This result is more 

 ;ipparent in plant B than in plant A. 

 Even with the revolving camera it was 

 not possible to get the entire number 

 of houses in plant B on the film, though 

 the original photographs were in this 

 instance thirty-two inches long. There 

 are some dozen or more houses at 

 the right that do not show. Build- 

 ing is a fairly continuous performance 

 with the Poclilmann Bros. Co.; usually 

 there are houses just being started, 

 others approaching completion, with 

 further additions contracted for. At 

 the time the pictures were taken the 

 establishment was as complete as at 

 any date in recent years. Practically 

 everything which had been started was 

 finislied uj), but there are thirteen addi 



tional houses arranged for, to be ready 

 for early ])lanting for next summer's 

 cut flower production. 



CROOKED GLADIOLUS STEMS. 



What is the reason for gladiolus flow 

 er stalks growing crooked, and is there 

 anv wav to ])re\<>nt it except staking 

 them? ■ .r. J. II. 



Some varieties of gladioli have an 

 inherent weakness and invariably pro 

 (hu'c crooked flower stems. l<'ew of the 

 really good named kinds have this fail- 

 ing, (irow the bulbs in an open, sunny 

 spot; in shade they are morti liable te 

 come weak-steinnu»<l. It is best to dis 

 card sorts that ]i(>rsist in coining with 

 creokcd stems; it hardly pays to stake 

 gla(li(di in connnercial culture. 



C. W. 



VARIEGATED VINCAS. 



Will you kindly tell me how to grow 

 \ariogated vincas.' I have a nice lot of 

 seedlings in tln> fiidd, but being a begin 

 ner in the luisiness 1 do not know what 

 to do with them now. They arc about 

 three inches in height. L. M. S. 



Leave the vincas where they are. 

 Keep them well cultivated. Lift and 

 pot them about the end of Sejitember. 

 The ]dan1s should require 4incli or 

 ") iiudi ]H)ts. Stand them along the 

 edges of tlH> benches in any cool green- 

 house for the winter. These will make 

 splendid stock for spring and Memorial 

 ilay sales. To incre.aso stock for an 

 other year, root cuttings any time dur- 

 ing the winter. Pot otf, plant outdoors 

 ami treat in the same way as suggested. 

 The cuttings, if soft, root easily, espe- 

 ciallv the sliort ones rubbed off with a 

 heel."^ W. C. 



Plant A of the Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, III. 



