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30 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Febbuaby 9, 1011. 



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reserve lest the centrifugal pump or 

 shafting get in trouble, and the vari- 

 ous mains and returns necessary to heat 

 two acres of glass and you have some 

 idea of the appearance of a light con- 

 crete building on the ground level, with 

 everything convenient. 



Science is playing an increasing part 

 in horticulture. The scientifically con- 

 structed place is more perfectly heated 

 ifi every corner and more easily run; 

 in short, more efficient than the un- 

 Hcientific place. Perhaps a clearer 

 idea may be given by an example. of 

 the part science plays in the hot water 

 heating by forced circulation at the 

 Riverview Nurseries. A one-quarter 

 turn of the flow valve wheel is suffi- 

 cient to raise or lower the temperature 

 ih the space that it controls. These 

 valves are set, the returns left open, 

 and the man in charge night or day 

 carries the wheel in his pocket to avoid 

 the system being thrown out of gear 

 by the hand of the curious passerby. 



The Riverview Nurseries have been 

 described twice before in the columns 

 of The Review, the first time in Sep- 

 tember, when the outline of the care- 

 fully planned ideas of J. D. Eisele was 

 roughly given; the second time in De- 

 cember, when the place was nearing 

 completion. These accounts may be 

 best supplemented by a few general 

 impressions of the place, now that it is 

 in perfect order. 



The service house is a feature. High, 

 well proportioned, with board roof and 

 greenhouse ventilator, it is admirably 

 adapted for the work its name implies: 

 Storing, receiving, shipping, potting, 

 whatever the hour may demand to add 

 to the efficiency of the other houses. 

 iText, partitioned off, is the office and, 

 io the left and right, the ranges in 

 ^)locks of ten, the one all tabled, the 

 other with ground beds and, unlike the 

 tabled range, several houses open be- 

 tween. The tabled range is filled with 

 Riverton overflow, chiefly the plants 

 for stock. Here are medium sizes of 

 Phoenix Roebelenii, there the younger 

 stock of variegated pineapple, Ananassa 

 sativa variegata, in numbers to be seen 

 nowhere else in the wide world. In 

 fact, the quantity of this plant afforded 

 opportunity for Mr. Eisele 's facetious 

 remark that they grew wild in the 

 woods near Riverview. Then there are 

 three houses planted out in stock of 

 Mr. Clark's nephrolepis; a bench of 

 dracsena canes, laid down in sand 

 for starting; another of dahlia roots, 

 varieties of CrSme de la Crfeme, start- 

 ing in soil; still another of Marguerite 

 Mrs. F. Sander, brought here to have 

 the best opportunity possible to furnish 

 the huge amount of stock required in 

 a few brief months. Then there are 



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geraniums galore and a pretty lot of 

 Dracaena Massangeana, with a brand 

 new variegation of this sterling variety 

 with central stripes of white instead of 

 the broad band of the older type. 



The ground bed range in the first 

 three houses is in kentias; then the 

 perennials that require early starting; 

 then the hardy roses. With 250,000 of 

 the latter it is not odd that some of 

 the overflow of Eiverton are at Eiver- 

 view. This brief description of the 

 stock, given from memory as the result 

 of a stroll over the concrete-covered 

 surface pipe that runs from end to 

 end, is simply to show that these two 

 acres of glass have been filled in a 

 night, as it were. Riverton does not 

 miss the plants, in spite of a splendid 

 shipping January; even wonders, Mr. 

 Eisele asserts, why those two acres of 

 glass at Riverview will not accommo- 

 date more. 



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E. H. Michel is in charge of 'the 

 Riverview Nurseries. They will be run 

 as an annex, so to speak, of the River- 

 ton Nurseries of the company. The 

 orders will be received at and sent 

 from Riverton. Riverview will grow 

 certain kinds of stock, probably in time 

 the sizes not ready for the market, 

 especially those sizes requiring par- 

 ticular processes and those that are 

 grown in quantity. 



St. Valentine's. 



It is rather a delicate matter to ap- 

 proach our leading floral artists before 

 February 14 to get the latest ideas for 

 that lovers' day. They like their nov- 

 elties to be exclusive, and while they 

 are all such good fellows that they hate 

 to refuse, it hardly seems fair to ask, 



A friend took a peek at the win- 

 dows at ' * The Sign of the Rose ' ' to see 

 what Charles Henry Fox had there dis- 



