AnUL 29, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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Goldfish Breeding Basins on the Grounds of 'W. E. Dwight, Oak Park, III. 



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GOLDFISH. 



A number of florists have found gold- 

 fish and aquarium supplies a profitable 

 Bide line and it might pay others to add 

 these items to their business. 



The accompanying views show the 

 ponds in which goldfish are bred by W. 

 E. Dwight, Oak Park, 111. He finds the 

 Comet, Japanese Fringe Tail and Japan- 

 ese Fan Tail the most profitable and 

 satisfactory, and says that ten of ea<^ 

 of these sorts should be sufficient to start 

 a stock. 



The fish spawn about June 10, on the 

 roots of the water hyacinths. When the 

 spawn is deposited he removes the plants 

 to an aquarium, in which the fish hatch 

 in thre^ to five days. Mud from the 

 pond is placed in the bottom of the 

 aquarium and this generates the micro- 

 scopic organisms upon which the minute 

 fish feed. Additional food is given in 

 the form of imported dried ox heart. 

 After ten days or two weeks in the 

 aquarium the fry are removed to one of 

 the small ponds. By September 15 they 

 are salable at 15 cents each. As they 

 attain size they are shifted to other 

 ponds, it being unwise to keep the large 

 and very small fish together. At 2 

 years old the fish retail at $1 each. As 

 a dollar's worth of feed will carry a 

 thousand fish through a season, there is 

 a satisfactory return for the slight ex- 

 pense and trouble involved. 



HILLEGOM BULB SHOV. 



Cor- 



East Eochester, N. H. — E. A. 

 son will build another greenhouse. 



PONTIAC, Mich. — A. B. Lewis is re- 

 modeling and improving the interior of 

 his north Saginaw street store. 



Exhibition of Bulbs in Flower. 



With a view to creating a wider de- 

 mand for bulbs for spring bedding, the 

 Hillegom bulb growers some months ago 

 decided to open an exhibition to demon- 

 strate to Holland's visitors the merits 

 of hyacinths, tulips and narcissi for 

 spring bedding in public and private 

 parks and gardens. 



This exhibition was opened April 8 

 and will continue until May 8. Nothing 

 could be more natural. Hillegom is for- 

 tunate in having its town hall standing 

 within the precincts of a small park, and 

 this was converted into a series of flower 

 gardens and planted with bulbs in the 

 fall of 1908. The Hillegom bulb grow- 

 ers, to the number of fifty or there- 

 abouts, contributed the bulbs, 200,000 of 

 them. An organizing committee took the 

 work in hand and April 8 the mayor of 

 Hillegom declared the exhibition open. 



Eighteen Miles of Flowers. 



Thousands of visitors from European 

 countries and from America also travel 

 in the bulb district each year in April. 

 And it is a glorious sight — mile after 

 mile of flelds of flowers, a gaily colored 

 carpet stretching from Haarlem to Lei- 

 den, a distance of about eighteen miles, 

 with a width of four or five miles. Vis- 

 itors, however, unless they are trade buy- 

 ers, rarely have an opportunity of walk- 

 ing in the fields and noting names and 

 particulars. It is for the benefit of these 

 that the exhibition is planned, and the 

 purpose, as already mentioned, is to 

 stimulate a demand for bulbs, the de- 



mand to come through the merchants to 

 whom the bulb growers export. 



It is worthy of note that the annual 

 export of bulbs from Holland is 15,000,- 

 000 kilograms, and the United States is 

 responsible for only eighteen per cent 

 of the total. Great Britain takes forty 

 per cent and Germany twenty-five per 

 cent. It is computed that there are 2,000 

 growers and about 150 exporters in Hol- 

 land. 



Arrangement of the Beds. 



Coming again to the exhibition, hya- 

 cinths, tulips and narcissi are the lead- 

 ing features, but other flowering bulbs 

 are also in evidence. About 350 varie- 

 ties are represented in beds and plots, 

 ranging from twenty-five bulbs of a sort 

 upward. 



In the general view of the gardens the 

 beds have been planted to demonstrate 

 tue best color schemes in spring bed- 

 ding. The beds are of varied designs 

 and sizes. In long borders, varieties are 

 planted side by side for convenience in 

 taking notes; for instance, fifty varie- 

 ties of single tulips, twenty-five bulbs of 

 each; fifty varieties of double tulips, 

 twenty-five bulbs of each, and so on 

 with hyacinths and the different sections 

 of narcissi. 



In April next an exhibition on similar 

 lines, but on a considerably larger scale, 

 will be opened at Haarlem, and the gen- 

 eral committee is now busily at work 

 preparing the plans. Bee. 



Paducah, Ky. — C. L. Brunson & Co. 

 will again this year supply the plants 

 for the parking and station grounds of 

 the N., C. & St. L. railroad, 



