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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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DKCEMBEIt 15, 1910. 



GREENHOUSE AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



This is an exsmpis of Foley Green houss Construction 



k9^ M#%%A# ^{rV^A ^ f\ ^'*'"^ ■''out your repslrs, improvemsnts antf buildTng 

 9 now LllTIC LU for 19n. Send us yttur sketehos. Wm will mmkm 

 eomplsts plans and offer valuable suggestions that will be sure to SAVE YOU MONEY. 



The wise florists are buying early. We have just made shipment of flf>st car- 

 load of roof material for POCHLMANN BROS.' new range, 13 houses, each 

 27 X 250 fact. 



POEHLMANN BROS, realize the neoessity of getting their buildings done early. 



Any florist who visits the POCHLMANN plant would do weH te look at 

 FOLEY'S NEW VENTILATING MACHINE juat set up and In o|»erfttlen Ia one of 

 POEHLMANN'S houses. 



A test of this maohlne ahows that IT DOES THE WORK EASIER AND IN 

 LESS THAN HALF THE TIME that It takes the kind of machine they have been 

 uaing heretofore. 



Our catalogue of Materiala, Hotbed Sash, Pscky Cxpvesa (for benchea), 

 Ventilating Apparatus, etc., Is YOURS FOR THE ASKING. 



THE FOLEY MANUFACTURING CO. 



Wsstera Avenue, 25th and Z6th StreM^ CfOCIUBO 



Mention The RevieTr vrhen tou write. 



PANDANUS TOO COLD AND WET. 



Will you kindly tell us what is the 

 trouble with our Pandanus utilis? They 

 did nicely all summer, but now are 

 dying. We keep them in a temperature 

 of 50 degrees and in a shady place, 

 and we water them three times a week. 

 A customer, to whom we sold a nice 

 one, reports to us that she kept hers 

 in a light, sunny place, in a tempera- 

 ture of 70 to 76 degrees iu the daytime 

 and 60 degrees at night, and kept it 

 quite wet. Hers, too, is nearly all 

 dead. Should they be run on the dry 

 side! Any information on the culture 

 of pandanus will be greatly appreciated. 



L. M. S. & C. 



The pandanus in question have evi- 

 dently been kept too cold and wet. A 

 night temperature of 60 to 65 degrees 

 is the best for these plants, and full 

 sunshine should be given them through 

 the greater part of the year. If un- 

 able to maintain such a temperature at 

 night, then keep the plants on the dry 

 side. The combination of low tempera- 



ture and excessive moisture is injurious 

 to pandanus in general. W. H. T. 



PEOPAOATINO ECHEVEBIAS. 



I have thirty-four Echeveria metal- 

 lica which are growing nicely, but they 

 have all gone to seed. They are grown 

 from cuttings started in September. I 

 know they are of no account as they 

 are, but they have a good base «f roots 

 and I am hoping they may send forth 

 more shoots or main stalks later. I am 

 anxious to get a start, as they are 

 scarce. W. H. S. 



Echeveria metallica can be increased 

 by cuttings taken at this season. One 

 plan is to cut off the top of the plants, 

 dress the bottom part and stand them on 

 the top of empty 3-inch or 4-inch pots 

 until they are well dried out and roots 

 have started to form. Give no water at 

 all. Then pot off singly in quite sandy 

 soil. Do not water for some days and 

 always in small quantities. Old stems, 

 cut off and placed closely in fl&ts of. 



sandy soil, will make small growths- 

 along the stems if kept warm and dry. 

 These can be pricked off in flats or 

 potted singly. 



When there are no cuttings and stock 

 is scarce, l6af propagation is the best. 

 Pull off the leaves by hand. Lay these 

 on flats of dry sand in a warm propa- 

 gating house. Do not water at all. In 

 time small plants will form at the ends- 

 of 'the leaves and these can be dibbled 

 in flats of sandy soil or potted off. 

 Always use great care in watering; 

 anything like a soaking must never be 

 given, or the little plants will assuredly 

 rot. These succulents need a light water 

 supplj' and it is better to err on the 

 dry, rather than the wet side, with them^ 

 especially dtiring winter. C. W. 



Connellsville, Pa. — George Schemer 

 has completed the erection of an addi- 

 tion to his greenhouses on East Fair- 

 view avenue. The new buildings- 

 cover an area of 7,000 square feet. 

 He will also open a downtown store in. 

 the Wynian hotel. 



