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Decembeb 19, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



House of ^. H. Chadwick and Goldea Chadwick Grown by Peter Morgen, Huntingfxirg, IncU 



four inches apart each way in the rows. 

 Use an ounce of seed to twenty-five 

 feet of drill. This will give you all the 

 plants needed. Sweet pea seed will be 

 scarce the coming season and it would 

 be well to purchase your supply early. 

 In order to get an extra early crop, in 

 advance of the outdoor sown ones, you 

 can start some in pots, using three 

 seeds to a 4-inch pot. Stand these in 

 a coldframe. Sow them about a month 

 ahead of your outdoor ones. When 

 three or four inches high, plant them 

 out a foot apart in the rows. This may 

 seem thin at the outset, but you will 

 find that they will branch out. surpris- 

 ingly and soon fill the rows. The 

 secrets of successful sweet pea culture 

 are: Thorough preparation of the 

 ground, early sowing, getting supports 

 in quickly, liberal mulching, watering 

 in dry weather and careful removal 

 of flowers and seed pods. C. W. 



BUFJALO. 



Justice Louis W. Marcus in Supreme 

 Court December 13 directed the jury 

 to find in favor of the plaintiff in the 

 action brought by William J. Palmer 

 •S. Son, to compel the state nursery 

 authorities to make an appraisal of and 

 payment for a consignment of azaleas 

 flestroyed last year by state inspectors, 

 alleging they were infested with gypsy 

 and brown-tail moths. Appeal will be 

 taken by the state, according to Attor- 

 ney Henry W. Killeen, appearing as 

 special council for the attorney-general. 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



At the December meeting of the 

 Minneapolis Florists' Club Theodore 

 •^irth was appointed by President W. D. 

 tJosmond as chairman of the executive 

 ^ommittee for the convention of the 

 '• A. F., to be held here next August. 

 Qs Mr. Wirth is vice-president of the 

 ^- A. F., the selection of his committee 



was left to his choice, resulting in the 

 following members being appointed: 

 Theodore Wirth, chairman; Hugh Will, 

 C. N. Ruedlinger, W. D. Desmond, C. F. 

 Rice. The first meeting was held De- 

 cember 10 at Mr. Wirth 's residence and 

 subsidiary committees were appointed. 

 A second meeting was held December 15 

 at the same place and this meeting saw 

 good headway made for caring for this 

 great coming event. 



C. F. Rice, Sec'y. 



MOBOEN AND HIS MUMS. 



Peter Morgen, of Huntingburg, Ind., 

 is one of those growers who simply de- 

 lights in his work, and of course, as in 

 all such cases, success attends his every 

 effort. Beauties are his specialty and 

 he never fails to have good quality and 

 a steady cut. This year his Christmas 

 crop is even a little better than usual. 

 He also grows carnations and Killarneys 

 with equal success. The accompanying 

 illustration shows him standing in a 

 house of W. H. Chadwick and Golden 

 Chadwick that was cut out for Thanks- 

 giving. 



Mr. Morgen is his own builder and 

 steam-fitter; he thinks it is almost as 

 much fun to build and pipe a greenhouse 

 as to run one. His special pride is his 

 heating plant, installed with the More- 

 head double trap system; he asserts his 

 belief that for eflScient and economical 

 heating his outfit is not to be beaten. 



OLEN COVE, N. Y. 



The annual meeting of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society was held 

 at Pembroke hall, Glen Cove, Wednes- 

 day, December 11, with a large attend- 

 ance. President Johnston in the chair. 

 The most important business transacted 

 was the election of oflBcers for the 

 coming year. E. J. Brown, who has 

 been treasurer of this society for a 



number of years, was unanimously 

 elected president. Other oflBcers are as 

 follows: Vice-president, James Mac- 

 Carthy; recording secretary, E. West- 

 lake; corresponding secretary, J. Mac- 

 Donald; treasurer, S. J. Trepess; trus- 

 tee, J. F. Johnston. It was decided to 

 hold the annual dinner January 23. 

 The committee of arrangements con- 

 sists of Messrs. Trepess, Everett and 

 Johnston. Mrs. H. M. Adams, Glen 

 Cove, was elected an honorary member. 

 Four were elected to active membership 

 and three petitions received. The treas- 

 urer's report showed a good financial 

 standing. 



Prizes were oflfered for poinsettias, 

 carnations and violets. The winners 

 were O. Bjorkgreen, V. Cleres and Alex. 

 MacKenzie. H. Gaut was awarded a 

 certificate of culture for a fine collec- 

 tion of vegetables and V. Cleres a cer- 

 tificate of culture for seedling toma- 

 toes. Prizes are offered for eighteen 

 carnations, twenty-five sprays of 

 freesias, fifty violets, and six tomatoes 

 at the January meeting. J. M. 



OOLXTMBUS, 0. 



The Market. 



Trade has been heavy, with stock 

 rather scarce in most cases. There has 

 been an abundance of funeral work of 

 late, which has used up a great deal of 

 stock. Christmas stock is coming on 

 finely and the indications are that there 

 will be a fair cut of carnations in most 

 of the houses. Roses are fine and have 

 met with ready sale. The crop of car- 

 nations thus far has been lighter than 

 last season, even with all the bright 

 weather we have had, and the growers 

 can not account for it. Last season 

 was quite cloudy the greater part 

 of the early winter and still there was 

 considerably more stock cut. 



Mums are no more, with still quiU» 



