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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_29_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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MAY 2, 1912. The Weekly Florists^ Review* 15
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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.

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