Septbmber 8, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



11 



Establishment of C. D. Martindalet Caney, Kan. 



some plants for winter blooming. 

 Would plants raised now bloom in any 

 quantity by the new year? I wish to 

 grow them with sweet peas in a tem- 

 perature of 48 degrees. Should they 

 have a freeze before benching? 



F. W. 



Pausies do not require a heavy win- 

 ter mulch. Boards such as you suggest, 

 set on edge along the beds, would an- 

 swer well, and the plants should not 

 be mulched until the ground is firmly 

 frozen. Straw, hay, leaves and pine 

 needles are. all suitable for covering. 

 Use just sufficient mulch to cover the 

 plants. A heavy coating would keep 

 the plants too warm and, in the case of 

 open spells of weather, would probably 

 cause damping off. The covering is 

 given not so much as a winter protec- 

 tion as to prevent the heaving of the 

 ground during late winter and early 

 spring. 



Pansies sown early in August will 

 bloom moderately by January. A tem- 

 perature of 48 degrees is rather too 

 high for them. A violet house kept at 

 40 to 45 degrees would suit them much 

 better. It will be a benefit to have 

 them Jrozen before housing, as in the 

 case of single violets. C. W. 



AN UNHEATED HOUSE. 



I should like to know about how cold 

 it would have to be outside to produce 

 a freezing temperature in a glass apart- 

 ment which will be built along the 

 south side of a dwelling and will have 

 no fire heat. There will be two thick- 

 nesses of glass in the walls, with a 

 2-inch air space between. The glass 

 will consist of large panes, well puttied 

 in. Is not this the best plan for build- 

 ing a place in which to keep flowers 

 during the winter? I have been using 

 a pit with glass over the top. I am 

 located in southern Delaware. 



C. E. B. 



Fully as much will depend upon the 

 duration of the cold snap as upon the 

 intensity of the cold. If the adjoining 

 room is warmed, the temperature might 

 drop to zero outside for a short time 

 without getting below freezing in the 

 apartment a foot or so back from the 

 glass. This is supposing that there is 

 a tight floor and that the glass is con- 

 fined to the side walls. On the other 

 hand, if the cold spell lasts several 

 days and the thermometer outside does 

 not get above the freezing point during 

 the day, there would be danger of frost 

 in the glass apartment if there is fif- 



teen or even ten degrees of frost out- 

 side, unless it will be possible to permit 

 some heat to enter the apartment from 

 the adjoining room. 



If the apartment is not too large, it 

 should be possible in the climate of 

 Delaware to keep out frost if there is 

 a connecting door, or even a window 

 through which warm air could be al- 

 lowed to pass into the apartment. 



DBEEB'S NEW PLANT. 



The contract has now been awarded 

 for the new plant of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Riverton, N. J., described at some 

 length in The Review of July 28. The 

 plant will be built in blocks, the first 

 block to be erected this season. This 

 first block will be built with a service 

 building in the center, the service 

 building being 34x203 feet. On each 

 side of the service building will be one 

 lean-to 203 feet long and from each 

 lean-to will be built a range of ten 

 greenhouses, each 21x203 feet, making 

 a total of twenty greenhouses and two 

 lean-tos. A cross passageway will be 

 run through the whole block of green- 

 houses from side to side, this passage- 

 way being three feet wide and there 

 being 100 feet of greenhouse on each 

 side of the passageway. The service 

 building will be of iron frame construc- 

 tion and practically fireproof, and the 

 roof will be built with a clear span, so 

 that the interior will be free of posts. 

 Ten of the greenhouses will be open 

 under the gutters and will contain no 

 benches. These ten greenhouses are to 



be run at a low temperature. The 

 other ten houses will be divided by 

 glass partitions under the gutters and 

 will have three benches in each house. 

 These houses are to be run at a tempera- 

 ture of 60 to 65 degrees. 



For the heating plant a fireproof iron 

 frame and concrete boiler house will 

 be erected. There will be four 75 horse- 

 power return tube boilers for heating. 

 There is also to be one boiler for steam 

 power. The boilers will burn a low 

 grade of coal and to enable this to be 

 done a system of forced draft is to be 

 installed. The heating will be by hot 

 water, using 2-inch pipes for the radi- 

 ating surface. The boilers will be set 

 on the level and the water will be 

 circulated through the houses with 

 centrifugal pumps. The pumping plant 

 will be in duplicate, so that in case of 

 damage to one plant the other will be 

 ready for operation. 



The cost of the buildings and equip- 

 ment will be about $70,000. The con- 

 tract for the work has gone to the 

 King Construction Co. 



AS IT IS IN KANSAS. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 the character of establishment that is 

 springing up all over the great west far 

 faster than anyone can keep track of 

 them — except that the first thing they 

 all do on starting is to send a dollar 

 for The Review; they find us rather 

 than we them. 



The place illustrated is that of C. D. 

 Martindale, at Caney, Kan. — there's 

 nothing "the matter with Kansas" 

 any more. Caney is away down alinost 

 to the Indian Territory, just where the 

 Osages and the Cherokees join up, and 

 trade conditions and problems there are 

 not exactly like those on Fifth avenue 

 — of course, there's only one! — but 

 there is enough business in Caney to 

 support more than one florist — they 

 both get The Review — and they both 

 keep nice, neat, well-ordered places. 

 Their business will be better and better 

 as years go on, and after a while people 

 who don't go there will come to ap- 

 preciate how fast the great west is 

 growing and how wonderfully prosper- 

 ous its people are as compared with a 

 few years ago. 



Baraboo, Wis. — William Toole & Sons 

 are building an addition which will en- 

 able them to double their output. 



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