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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



May 13, 1909. 



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white roses to their customers on May 8, 

 announcing in a card that each purchaser 

 after 11 a. m. would receive a white rose. 

 The bedding plant season has begun 

 in earnest, the landscape and jobbing 

 gardeners having their hands full. The 

 warm wave makes everybody feel that 

 his beds must be planted at once. 



Phil. 



AKRON, OHIO. 



Salt Makes Water Hannf ul. 



The failure and disappointment that 

 accompanied the effort of Heepe Bros, 

 to engage in rose growing in Akron on 

 a large scale last year is attributed by 

 them directly to the condition of the 

 city water. The story is one of the most 

 remarkable that has grown out of the 

 local water situation. 



After careful planning, the Heepes 

 built an extensive greenhouse and started 

 into the rose business on an exten.sive 

 and expensive basis. They benched some 

 thousands of American Beauty plants, 

 but in spite of all they could do the roses 

 refused to thrive. Chemists and experts 

 were called in, the soil and the tempera- 

 ture and all the circumstances surround- 

 ing the rose venture were carefully in- 

 vestigated, but no satisfactory solution 

 of the rose problem was found, and the 

 plants continued to fail. The result 

 cost the Heepes a considerable amount 

 of money. 



Finally, in making some changes about 

 the steam heating plant, it was noticed 

 that there was a strong incrustation of 

 salt about the pipes, and this gave the 

 suggestion of salt in the water, which 

 they believed might explain the trouble 

 they had with the roses. 



A careful analysis was made of the 

 city water that had been used on the rose 

 bushes, and the chemist reported the as- 

 tounding proportion of an ounce of salt 

 to a gallon of water in some of the sam- 

 ples. He also stated that there was no 

 doubt that the strong presence of salt 

 in the water used for the roses was di- 

 rectly responsible for the trouble with 

 the roses. 



The Erie Railway Co. will not permit 

 the use of Akron city water in the boil- 



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ers of its locomotives because of the salt, 

 which has a disastrous effect on its 

 boilers. 



STATE STUDIES FOR FLORISTS. 



At the Illinois State Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Herman B. Dorner is in charge of 

 the greenhouses built for work in the 

 interests of the florists of the state. 

 During the last winter these houses have 

 been devoted to an experiment on carna- 

 tions with chemical fertilizers supple- 

 menting stable manures. The object of 

 the experiment is to determine what 

 chemical fertilizers used with manure 

 are best for carnation growing. The re- 

 sults from this experiment will form the 

 foundation for future work on the 

 amount to use for best results. 



In this work eight benches, each 4x100 

 feet, were available. Each bench was 

 divided into sixteen sections, 4x6 feet 



inside measurement, this leaving some 

 three feet over, which was divided into 

 two small sections, one at each end of 

 the bench. The object of this was to 

 have sections protecting the exposed 

 ends of the experimental sections. 



Two benches, with thirty-two sections 

 in all, were used in each experiment, thus 

 repeating the work four times. Each set 

 of benches was planted to a different 

 variety. The sections were numbered 1 

 to 32, each number standing for a defin- 

 ite fertilizer combination. As a further 

 precaution, the location of the numbers 

 on the benches, in the various experi- 

 ments, were changed so that each of the 

 numbers appears at different places in 

 the houses. Thus sections occurring at 

 the exposed ends of the house also occur 

 in the center and at the protected end. 



The varieties selected for the work 

 were Enchantress, "White Perfection, 

 Beacon and Winsor, as representing a 



