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ROSE CORPORATION 
MEDINA: NEW YORK 
TELEPHONE 20 
SINCE 1897 
Here is a report on our automatic water 
ing of roses at Medina. 
Eight 200 ft., V-bottom concrete ground 
ae were planted to Lucile Supreme in May 
1945. 
One bench has a constant water level 
maintained with a float arrangement, the 
level of the water being practically at the 
bottom of the soil. Another bench has one 
and one-half quarts of water per square foot 
of bench area metered to it manually when the 
tensiometer shows one inch of vacuum, The 
balance of the benches are watered conven~ 
tionally. 
The only overhead watering that has been 
done to the two benches that are automatical= 
ly watered is when applying fertilizer. 
To date there is no significant differ- 
ence in production between any of the eight 
benches. 
Because the balance of our existing 
benches are of the raised concrete type, we 
are not going to build any more ground beds 
at the present time, However, we are experi= 
menting with the oonversion of the raised 
corcrete bench to make it adaptable for auto= 
matic watering and we intend to convert two 
of them this year. If the production on our 
automatically watered benches continues at 
its present rate, we will undoubtedly con- 
struct more benches of this type in the future. 
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WILLIAM PINCHBECK, Ine. 
Roses and Gardenias 
GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT 
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We have here at Wm. Pinchbeck Inc,, six 
three hundred foot V-bottom beds, standard 
L. & B. donstruction, which will be put into 
automatic watering immediately. We are 
awaiting the construction of six more beds, 

which will be on automatic watering from the 
beginning, and we plan to convert our exist- 
ing ground beds as we plant them, according to 
the sketch I have for automatic watering. 
From my experience with automatic water— 
Ang at Elliott Rose Co., there is no question 
as to its being practical; it is a question 
of how fast conversion can be accomplished. 
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H. H. REEVE & SONS 
FLORISTS 
MADTITUCK? NipY2 
You may be interested in what we think 
will be the cost of our benches: 
Welded reinforcing wire eek 
Expansion joint coppers 325.(placed 12 
" " fibre 75. to a bed) 
7OO bags of hi-early cement 6060, mix 1-2-3 
100 yards of gravel 300. )this may 
yards of sand 25. )be low 
labor in our own gang 
figuring 4 men 1 week for 
2 beds 1 A 
We think that for us about $2000 is what . 
4t will actually cost us extra because most 
of our labor we would have to have on the 
place anyway. This will build 18 — 120 ft. 
benches. 
We are planting our carnation cuttings 
4n the benches as we build them and although 
we haven't them piped up for automatic water 
ing we are very much pleased with the way they 
act after injecting water in the bottom, It 
was certainly a surprise to us how we could 
wet a powder dry bed and also how long one 
watering of 20 minutes lasts. 
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JERRY BROOKINS, INC. 
GREENHOUSES ao pepo Lbs 
ORCHARD PARK 
NEW YORK 
The beds we are building for automatio 
watering are of concrete and rest directly 
on the ground. We first grade the bed loca- 
tion level from end to end ani sloped 1 1/2 
inches from side to center. Then we set &* 
planks for the inside and 10" planks for the 
outside forms, It takes two men & hours to 
set the forms for a bed and remove them after 
the concrete has set, 
A bed 4 feet wide and 72 feet long takes 
