Apbil 29, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



13 



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



GOLDFISH. 



A nuinbor of florists have found gold- 

 flsb and aquarium supplies a profitable 

 eide line and it miglit 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 

 Batisfactory, and says that ten of each 

 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 three 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 fn,- 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 fisli 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. 



East Rochkster, K. II. — K. A. Cor- 

 son will build another greenhouse. 



PONTIAC, Mnii. — A. B. Lewis is re- 

 modeling and improving the interior of 

 his north Saginaw street store. 



HILLEGOM BULB SHOW. 



Exhibition of Bulbs in Flower. 



With a view to creating a wider (\v 

 man<l for bulbs for spring hctliling. tiic 

 Hillegom bulb growers some iiioiitiis ago 

 decided to o])en an exhibition to WiMnoii- 

 strato to Holland's visitors the merits 

 of hyacinths, tulips and narcissi fur 

 spring bedding in jmhiic and jiriv.itc 

 jiarks antl gardens. 



This exhibition was o|ii'iicd April s 

 and will continue until May s. Nothing 

 could be more natural. Ilillcgoni is for- 

 tuimte in having its town hall standing 

 within the jtrecincts of a small park, and 

 this \vas converted into a series of llowcr 

 gardens ami planted with Imliis in the 

 tall of I'.tits. The Hillegom bulb grow- 

 ers, to tiie number of fifty or there- 

 abouts, coiitril)uted the Ijuilis'. I'dn.dDo ot' 

 tliein. An organizing coinniittrc tonk tln' 

 work in hand and April S tiic inaynr ot' 

 ]iillfij;iiiii decdared tlic exhibit inn c>|iiii. 



Eighteen Miles of Flowers. 



Tlinnsands of \ isitors I'riun l']iirii|ie;Mi 

 countries jiiid finin America .mIso travel 

 in tiie bulb liistrict each year in April. 

 And it is .-t glorious siglit mile after 

 mile of fields of llowers. a gaily colored 

 carpet stretching from Haarlem to Lei- 

 den, .-1 distance of about eighteen miles, 

 with a width of four or five miles. Vis 

 itors, howeviM', unless they arc; trade buy 

 ers, rarely have an opi)ortnnity of walk 

 ing in the fiidds .and noting uiimes and 

 ])articulars. It is for the benefit of these 

 that the exhibition is planne<|, and the 

 ])urpose, as already mentioned, is to 

 stimulate a demand for bulbs, the dc- 



m.-ind to i-oine tlirnngh tli(> mer(diaiits to 

 whom tilt' bull) gr<iweis export. 



it is wiiitliy lit' noti^ that the annual 

 export of bulbs from Ibdinnd is l.'i.OOO,- 

 iiiiii kilograms, :ind the I'nited St;ites is 

 res|ii)nsible for only eighteen per cent 

 of the total. tJreat Britain takes forty 

 |ier cent and (lermany twenty-fix e per 

 cent. It is compute(| that tlu're ar(> 2,000 

 yio\\ei-< ,Mid about 150 exporters in Hol- 

 land. 



Arrangement of the Beds. 



(oming ag.ain to tht^ exhibition, hya- 

 cinths, tulips iind narcissi are the lead- 

 ing features, but other ilowering bulbs 

 are <mIso ;n evidence. ,\bo\it o50 varie- 

 ties are represeiiteil in beds ancl ])lots, 

 ranging from twenty five bulbs of a sort 

 ujiward. 



In the gener;il view of the gardens the 

 beds have been planteij to demonstrate 

 tiie best color schemes in spring bed- 

 iling. Tile iK^ds are of varied cjesigns 

 and si/es. I II long borders, varieties are 

 planti'd side by sicle foi' i-onv eideiii'c in 

 t.'ikiiii; notes; foi- instatKi. lit'tv v.irie- 

 ties of >iino|.. tulip-, twenty live buiiis of 

 eai li ; fiftv viirieties of double tnlips, 

 tweiitydive bulbs of each, and so on 

 v\itii liy;iciiitiis and the dilVerent se.'tions 

 of narcissi. 



In April next an exhibition on similar 

 lines, but on .a i-onsiilerably larger scale, 

 will b(> opened at H;iarlem, and the gen- 

 eral committee is now Imsily at work 

 preparing tiie |p]aiis. Bee. 



I'viucAii. Kv. C. I,, liruu-on >.V: Co. 

 will ayain this year siip|dy tiie plants 

 for tiie parking and st.'itioii grounds of 

 tile \., < . \ St. I,. r;iilroa'l. 



