MAY 2, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



bedding Bouquets by Z. D. Blackutone, Washington, D. C 



WHAT TO GEOW. 



I wish to have your valuable advice 

 as to what to grow in the following: I 

 have four greenhouses, heated by hot 

 water, sizes as follows: Small green- 

 house, 10x38; center greenhouse, 20 x 

 "a; north house, 29x75, and west 

 house, 34x35. The small house faces 

 the south, then the center house, and 

 the north. These houses run east and 

 west. The west house is almost square. 

 This is new business for me, but I am 

 tend of the work. One of my green- 

 houses is well adapted for violets and 

 geraniums. In addition to the green- 

 houses I have a 3-acre farm which 

 '•fljoins same, which is good sandy loam. 

 1 want to use two-thirds of this for 

 vegetables and the remainder for 

 whatever you might suggest. The farm 

 's arranged under the Skinner system. 

 I also have 400 hotbed sashes. What 

 would you advise growing in them? 



E. S. 



You do not state what convenient 

 markets you have, but presuming that 

 you have one locally which can con- 

 sume anything you may produce, you 

 Would do well to restrict yourself to 

 one or two crops. Violets would be a 

 Rood crop to grow. Princess of Wales, 

 ^'ngle, and Lady Hume Campbell, dou- 

 '\le, are the best varieties. If you de- 

 C'de to grow the doubles, plant a fair 

 number of singles to provide sufficient 



leaves for bunching. Single violets 

 are over by the end of March, and 

 doubles a month later. You could, if 

 you wish, plant chrysanthemums to 

 follow them, in which ease it would be 

 necessary for you to reserve one house 

 for mum stock and propagating the 

 same. Cuttings for single stems should 

 go in during May or the early part of 

 June. If you grow early mums, or 

 even midseason ones, you could clean 

 them out in time for single violets, 

 which are benefited by one or two freez- 

 ings before housing. 



If, in lieu of chrysanthemums, you 

 preferred some vegetable crop to fol- 

 low violets you could bring along toma- 

 toes in pots and have these of good size 

 to plant in as soon as the violets were 

 pulled out, of course manuring the beds 

 liberally first. Use such tomatoes as 

 Comet, Lister's Prolific or Best of All 

 for this purpose. Cucumbers are an- 

 other vegetable crop you could grow, 

 but tomatoes you would find of easier 

 culture. The former require a warm, 

 moist atmosphere, the latter a warm, 

 dry and more airy house. 



Your hotbed sashes could be utilized, 

 if desired, for single violets, which 

 would give a heavy spring crop, or they 

 could be devoted to lettuce, radishes, 

 early beets, or such other vegetables 

 as .your local market calls for. 



If you preferred to grow geraniums 

 or other bedding plants, your houses 

 would be suitable for their culture, and 



the coldframes would make it possible 

 for you to grow an immense quantity of 

 asters and other annuals if desired. On 

 the ground outdoors sweet peas, asters 

 and gladioli are the three flowers for 

 which you would find the greatest call. 

 With the Skinner system in operation 

 you should be able to produce excellent 

 crops of any of these. 



Single violets want an average night 

 temperature of 40 degrees in winter; 

 double violets, 45 degrees. Geraniums 

 do well at 45 to 50 degrees. If such 

 bedding plants as coleus and alternan- 

 thera are grown, 60 degrees is neces- 

 sary. Tomatoes want 60 degrees at 

 night and cucumbers 5 degrees higher 

 for best results. C. W. 



BUSINESS EMBABRASSMENTS. 



New York, N. Y.— Samuel H. Lummis 

 has been appointed receiver for E. Ja- 

 cobs & Co., florists at 1114 Third ave- 

 nue, and will serve without compensa- 

 tion. The liabilities are $2,500; the 

 assets are valued at $1,000. 



Murphysboro, 111.— April 26 Claude 

 Wisley suffered a small loss of glass by 

 hail, some 300 panes of glass out of 

 some 35,000 square feet of glass being 

 broken. It seemed to hail in streaks, 

 the downtown plant suffering the most, 

 while the new plant just completed a 

 mile from town escaped with eighty- 

 two broken lights. 



