SErTEMBER 8, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



11 



Establishment of C. D. MartindaJe, Cancy, Kan. 



some j)liiiits for winter hlooming. 

 Would jilaiits raised now lilooiu in any 

 <jnantity by tlie new year? I wisli to 

 ^row them witli sweet peas in a tem- 

 pera-ture of 4S de{:;rees. Should tliey 

 have a freeze befoie benching? 



F. W. 



J'ansies do iu)t require a heavy win- 

 ter mulch, lioards such as you suggest, 

 set on edge along the beds, would an- 

 swer Avell, and tlie ))lants shouhl not 

 be mulched until the ground is firmly 

 frozen. Straw, hay, leaves and pine 

 needles are all suitable for covering. 

 Tse 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 

 <'ause damping oft'. 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- 

 jierature of 48 degrees is rather too 

 high for them. A violet house kept, at 

 40 to 4') degrees would suit them much 

 better. It will be a benefit to have 

 them i'rozen 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 

 .'i freezing temperature in a glass apart- 

 ment which will lie built along tiie 

 south side of a dwelling and will have 

 no fire heat. There will be two thick- 

 nesses of glass in the walls, witli a 

 -inch air space between. Tlie glass 

 will consist of large panes, well puttied 

 in. Js not this the best \^]•.\n for build- 

 ing a place in wliich to keep (lowers 

 (luring the winter.' I have been using 

 a pit with glass over the toj). T am 

 located in soutliern Del.-iwarc. 



C. E. B. 



i'ully as miicli will depend upon the 



• luration of tlie cold snap as upon the 

 intensity of the cohl. If the adjoining 

 room is warmed, tlie temperature might 

 drop to zei'o outside for a short time 

 without g(>tting below freezing in the 

 ap;irtnieiit a foot or so back from tlie 

 glass. This is supjiosing that there is 

 a tight iloor and tiiat tlie glass is con- 

 fined to the side walls. On the other 

 hand, if the cold spell lasts several 



• lays and the thernionieter outsi<le does 

 not get above the freezing point <luring 

 the day, th(>re would be danger of frost 

 in the glass apartment if tliere 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. 



DKEEE'S NEW PLANT. 



The contract has now been awarded 

 for the new plant of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Kiverton, 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 .S4.\2U3 feet. On each 

 side of the service building will be one 

 lean-to 2(l.'> feet long and from eacii 

 lean-to will be built a riinge of ten 

 greenhouses, each 21x203 feet, making 

 a total of twenty greenhouses and two 

 lean-tos. A cross passageway will lie 

 run through the whole block of green- 

 houses from side to side, this passage- 

 way being three feet wide and there 

 being ]()0 feet of greenhouse on each 

 side of the passageway. The servic(> 

 building will be of iron frame construe 

 tion and jiractically 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 

 inider the gutters and will contain tio 

 benidies. These ten gr(>euhoiises are to 



be run at a low temperature. The 

 other ten houses will be divided by 

 glass ]>artitions under the gutters an<l 

 will ha\e three benches in each house. 

 These houses are to be run at a tempera 

 til re of CO to 6o degrees. 



For the heating plant a fireproof iron 

 frame and concrete boilei' liouse will 

 be erected. There will be four 75 hoisc- 

 liowcr return tube boilers for heating. 

 There is also to be one boiler for steam 

 [tower. The boilers will biini a low 

 grade of coal and to enable this to b<^ 

 done a system of foi'ced draft is to be 

 installed. 'I'iie heating will be by liol 

 water, using 2-inch jtipes 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 j)iiiu|)ing plant 

 will be in duplicate, so that in case of 

 damage to one plant the other will be 

 icady for operation. 



The cost of the buildings and e(|ui[i 

 ment will be about $70,000. The con 

 tract for the work has gone to the 

 King ( 'onstriictioii < 'o. 



AS IT IS IN KANSAS. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 the character of estal)lishmeiit that is 

 springing up all over the great west far 

 taster than anyone can l\ee|i track of 

 them — e.xccjit that the first thing they 

 all do on starting is to send a dollar 

 for The Eeview; 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 almost 

 to the Indian Territory, just where the 

 Osages and the Oher(d\ees join up, and 

 trade i-onditions and ]iroblems there are 

 not exactly like those on Fifth avenue 

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

 there is enough business in ('auey to 

 supjiort more than one tlorist — they 

 both get The Review — ^and they both 

 keep nice, neat, well-ordered jilaces. 

 Their business will be better and better 

 as years go on, and after a while ]ieoplt> 

 who don't go there will ciuue to ap- 

 ]U'eci;ite how fast the great west i^ 

 growing and how wonderfully prosper 

 oils its peo]ile are as compared with a 

 few years ago. 



Baraboo, Wis.— William Toole iSk; Sons 

 are building an addition which will en 

 ;il)le them to double their output. 



Stock Grounds of C. D. Martindale, Caney, Kan. 



