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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_15_1 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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■afwjpiii .i \v>nimmv'i*^y Decembbk 15, 1904. The Weekly Florists' Review* 199 ine the door on one end will give suf- ficient ventilation. The houses are heat- ed by hot water. What temperature should I keep at night? I am covering the benches, on top of the mulch, with soil, as they did not seem to have enough and I found it difficult to get the dead leaves out of the mulch. What causes the leaves to drop off in great numbers! H. B. S. The sample buds reached me in good condition and after carefully inspecting them in the light shed by the foregoing letter I would advise careful and ample ventilation on all favorable occasions, using the ventilators for the purpose for which they were intended and avoiding ventilating by the door-way. I am also of the opinion that the stock was not in proper condition to use the mulch when it was applied and would advise not to add any soil to it until the plants •are stronger aid the season a little far- ther advanced. This is undoubtedly the cause of the leaves continuing to drop. Horse manure, if fresh, contains more ammonia than rose foliage cares for and this also tends toward the shedding of leaves. The temperature for Bride, Maid, Chatenay and Golden Gate is 56 degrees at night, rising to 70 or 75 degrees, ac- cording to intensity of sunshine. For red spider keep the syringe going every bright day and manipulate the spray so that the under side of each leaf is thoroughly washed, using suf- ficient force to dislodge the spider and break up the web. Do this early in the day, so that the foliage may become dry before sundown. I have had about as good success with roses in houses running north and south as with those running east and west. I am aware that this statement is con- trary to the accepted theory as to the aspect of rose houses but it is based on facts and "facts are chiels that winna ding, an' daurna be disputed, and can also be substantiated by fairly good reasons. Ribes. THE BABY RAMBLER. When a buyer pays a good price for a foreign novelty he does not always get the full value of his money unless it is arranged that the novelty shall be sent out simultaneously in Europe and Amer- ica. To let a good thing loose in Eu- rope means that it is sure to find its way into the trade in the United States, perhaps even before the purchaser of the American rights is ready to send it out. A case in point is Rose Mme. Levavas- seur, which is popularly known as the Baby Rambler. There are seeral la rep and a number of smaller stocks of it in existence in this country, all obtained from perfectly legitimate sources, al though the raiser sold the American *' monopoly. Newbury, O.—Reinhold Hoffman asks $5,000 damages of the county because of the building of a new road in front of his place which left his greenhouses about four feet below grade. The county com- missioners contend that the damages asked are too near the original value of the property and offer $250 in settle- ment. I HAVB certainly been well pleased with the Review and would not like to be without it; I think every florist should take it.—C. L. Shanks, Newton, Kan.
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The E. G. Hill G).'s New Rose, Richmond. Vegetable Forcing. VEGETABLE MARKETS. Chicago, Dec. 14.—Cucumbers, 50c to $1.15 doz.; head lettuce, $3 to $4 bbl.; leaf lettuce, 30c to 40c case; toma- toes, $2.25 to $2.50 case. Boston, Dec. 13.—Cucumbers, $6 to $7 box; seconds, $2 to $4 box; tomatoes, 20c lb.; asparagus, $5 doz. bunches; mushrooms, 60c to 70c lb.; lettuce, 25c doz.; mint, $1 doz.; radishes, 25c doz. bunches; parsley 50c to 75c box. REGULATION OF TEMPERATURE. We are now in the middle of the dull, short days, when more common sense must be exercised in the regulation of temperature than at any season of the year. It is quite a simple matter to keep up a certain temperature, provided the houses are well supplied with pipes and ample heating power behind them, but the trouble is that a given tempera- ture is not what is necessary to pro- mote the most healthy growth. The lack of fresh air to strengthen the growth makes it imperative that the forcing process be limited according to the amount of fresh air that can be given, so that what growth the plants make will be sufficiently strengthened for the best development of the crop. Scientists could no doubt tell us just what component parts of th? air are missing in a house filled with plants, where fire heat is used to maintain a cer- tain temperature, but where the amount of fresh air is limited on account of the coldness of the atmosphere outdoors. But I must confess that I am no scien- tist, and I hardly think there are many employed in the forcing of vegetables. Wider and more remunerative fields are no doubt attracting their attention. Per- haps this is our misfortune, and perhaps if we could approach the matter from a scientific point of view we would not be a great deal better off than we are, and we might not bo able to produce any better results than we now can by keeping hammering away by rule of thumb, observing as closely as possible the requirements of our plants, and do- ing the best we can to strengthen their weak points under whatever circum- stances we find them. Tf we find that the nlants are making^ a weak growth, that they are losing the desired dark green color or the foliage getting thin in texture; if the conditions are so that we cannot admit sufficient fresh air to adequately strengthen the plants, it is better to begin at the other end and reduce the amount of growth by a reduction of the temperature until more favorable conditions prevail. To continue hard forcinjy against natural conditi^ins is not only a waste of fuel and energy but a serious detriment to the health of the plants, leaving them less fitted to respond to forcing when more favorabl'* conditions prevail, be-

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