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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_5 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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FEBRUARY 15. 1900. The Weekly Florists^ Review* 3il ments to reopen on Summer street, near the South Station. We regret to record the death of Frank Becker, the venerable florist. He had been ailing for some time and during the past year his condition showed a gradual decline. His wife, his son Frank and several close friends were at his deathbed. Mr. Becker was a pioneer in the florists' business and his greenhouses in the vicinity of Memorial hall have long been regarded as landmarks. Services were held at the residence, 1716 Cambridge street, and the inter- ment took place at Mt. Auburn directly afterwards. Mr. Becker was 70 years old. What's this! Rebellion? Secession? No, peaceful revolution. Mr. Zinn's head man. Long, the young lady book- keeper and the plump errand boy de- clare a republic and go down to the Thorndlke floral rooms, on Boylston street, under the leadership of Pres. Long. "Long live the Republic!" B. T. PERMANENT CONSTRUCTION. It is not so many years ago that iron pipe supports under the purlins of greenhouses were the exception rather than the rule; now they are the rule rather than the exception. And the bases of these supports are now quite generally of cement, which is molded up around the pipe to keep moist soil away from the iron. An equally vulnerable part of a greenhouse is the gutter, and iron promises to soon take the place of wood here. Quite a number of at- tempts to make use of iron gutters have failed on account of their great expense, but this expense has been largely overcome by a gutter invented by Geo. M. Garland, Des Plaines, 111., which, while sufficiently heavy to carry several times the weight re- quired, can be made at a cost which makes its use profitable compared with wooden gutters. Those who have used this gutter several years say it has many advant- ages besides that of permanency. The iron being a good conductor of heat, the gutters that connect houses melt the snow and ice very rapidly, tho heat from inside the houses being im- mediately effecti^t Certainly an iron gutter reciting on iron posts set in concrete should make a greenhouse well nigh inde- structible, for cypress sash bars will serve almost indefinitely resting on iron at the bottom, and hardly any- one now thinks of using any other wood than cypress in a greenhouse roof, its great durability having been most thoroughly demonstrated. Tile benches inside the house are the next important item. Permanency here is as necessary as in the house, for the continual replacing of wood- en benches is a serious expense. Benches with bottoms of common round tile have been found to be not
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only more permanent but better for the plants than wooden benches, and one of the largest rose growers in the country has now all his benches with tile bottoms. A flat tile, though, would have some advantages over a round one for a bench bottom, and we present herewith an engraving showing a tile designed for the pur- pose by Mr. Garland, who is prepar- ing to manufacture them. As seen in the picture, the tiles are made of such a length that two will cover the width of the usual greenhouse bench, and the idea of permanency has been carried to its logical conclusion by supporting these bench bottom tiles by others placed on edge. We understand these tile benches can be erected at about the same cost as wooden ones, with 2-lnch plank bottoms, and in view of this we are inclined to think that the day of the wooden bench in rose and car- nation houses is about past. The picture also shows the way in which the Garland iron gutter is used on an outside wall. Mr. Garland, by the way, is a florist of an inventive turn of mind, and the iron gutter was first designed by him for use in his own houses, where it excited so much favorable comment by visitors that he finally decided to manufacture it and offer it to his brother florists. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—William Flan- nagan, the florist, died Feb. 3 of ca- tarrhal Inflammation of the stomach and malaria. He was born in this city in 1855 and for the past twenty years has conducted a succesful busi- ness at the corner of Brook and Mann- ing Sts. His mother, sister, and two brothers survive him.

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