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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_23_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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AnUL 29, 1009. The Weekly Florists* Review. 13
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Goldfish Breeding Basins on the Grounds of 'W. E. Dwight, Oak Park, III. 1 GOLDFISH. A number of florists have found gold- fish and aquarium supplies a profitable Bide line and it might pay others to add these items to their business. The accompanying views show the ponds in which goldfish are bred by W. E. Dwight, Oak Park, 111. He finds the Comet, Japanese Fringe Tail and Japan- ese Fan Tail the most profitable and satisfactory, and says that ten of ea<^ of these sorts should be sufficient to start a stock. The fish spawn about June 10, on the roots of the water hyacinths. When the spawn is deposited he removes the plants to an aquarium, in which the fish hatch in thre^ to five days. Mud from the pond is placed in the bottom of the aquarium and this generates the micro- scopic organisms upon which the minute fish feed. Additional food is given in the form of imported dried ox heart. After ten days or two weeks in the aquarium the fry are removed to one of the small ponds. By September 15 they are salable at 15 cents each. As they attain size they are shifted to other ponds, it being unwise to keep the large and very small fish together. At 2 years old the fish retail at $1 each. As a dollar's worth of feed will carry a thousand fish through a season, there is a satisfactory return for the slight ex- pense and trouble involved. HILLEGOM BULB SHOV. Cor- East Eochester, N. H.—E. A. son will build another greenhouse. PONTIAC, Mich.—A. B. Lewis is re- modeling and improving the interior of his north Saginaw street store. Exhibition of Bulbs in Flower. With a view to creating a wider de- mand for bulbs for spring bedding, the Hillegom bulb growers some months ago decided to open an exhibition to demon- strate to Holland's visitors the merits of hyacinths, tulips and narcissi for spring bedding in public and private parks and gardens. This exhibition was opened April 8 and will continue until May 8. Nothing could be more natural. Hillegom is for- tunate in having its town hall standing within the precincts of a small park, and this was converted into a series of flower gardens and planted with bulbs in the fall of 1908. The Hillegom bulb grow- ers, to the number of fifty or there- abouts, contributed the bulbs, 200,000 of them. An organizing committee took the work in hand and April 8 the mayor of Hillegom declared the exhibition open. Eighteen Miles of Flowers. Thousands of visitors from European countries and from America also travel in the bulb district each year in April. And it is a glorious sight—mile after mile of flelds of flowers, a gaily colored carpet stretching from Haarlem to Lei- den, a distance of about eighteen miles, with a width of four or five miles. Vis- itors, however, unless they are trade buy- ers, rarely have an opportunity of walk- ing in the fields and noting names and particulars. It is for the benefit of these that the exhibition is planned, and the purpose, as already mentioned, is to stimulate a demand for bulbs, the de- mand to come through the merchants to whom the bulb growers export. It is worthy of note that the annual export of bulbs from Holland is 15,000,- 000 kilograms, and the United States is responsible for only eighteen per cent of the total. Great Britain takes forty per cent and Germany twenty-five per cent. It is computed that there are 2,000 growers and about 150 exporters in Hol- land. Arrangement of the Beds. Coming again to the exhibition, hya- cinths, tulips and narcissi are the lead- ing features, but other flowering bulbs are also in evidence. About 350 varie- ties are represented in beds and plots, ranging from twenty-five bulbs of a sort upward. In the general view of the gardens the beds have been planted to demonstrate tue best color schemes in spring bed- ding. The beds are of varied designs and sizes. In long borders, varieties are planted side by side for convenience in taking notes; for instance, fifty varie- ties of single tulips, twenty-five bulbs of each; fifty varieties of double tulips, twenty-five bulbs of each, and so on with hyacinths and the different sections of narcissi. In April next an exhibition on similar lines, but on a considerably larger scale, will be opened at Haarlem, and the gen- eral committee is now busily at work preparing the plans. Bee. Paducah, Ky.—C. L. Brunson & Co. will again this year supply the plants for the parking and station grounds of the N., C. & St. L. railroad,

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