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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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Apbil 29, 1909. The Weekly Florists^ Review* 13
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Goldfish Breeding Basins on the Grounds of W. E. Dwight, Oak Park, III. GOLDFISH. A nuinbor of florists have found gold- flsb and aquarium supplies a profitable eide line and it miglit 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 Batisfactory, and says that ten of each 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 three 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 fn,- 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 fisli 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. East Rochkster, K. II.—K. A. Cor- son will build another greenhouse. PONTIAC, Mnii.—A. B. Lewis is re- modeling and improving the interior of his north Saginaw street store. HILLEGOM BULB SHOW. Exhibition of Bulbs in Flower. With a view to creating a wider (\v man;iiii. Eighteen Miles of Flowers. Tlinnsands of \ isitors I'riun l')iirii;ie;Mi countries jiiid finin America .mIso travel in tiie bulb liistrict each year in April. And it is .-t glorious siglit mile after mile of fields of llowers. a gaily colored carpet stretching from Haarlem to Lei- den, .-1 distance of about eighteen miles, with a width of four or five miles. Vis itors, howeviM', unless they arc; trade buy ers, rarely have an opi)ortnnity of walk ing in the fiidds .and noting uiimes and ))articulars. It is for the benefit of these that the exhibition is planne mer(diaiits to whom tilt' bull) gr 2,000 yio\\ei-< ,Mid about 150 exporters in Hol- land. Arrangement of the Beds. (oming ag.ain to tht^ exhibition, hya- cinths, tulips iind narcissi are the lead- ing features, but other ilowering bulbs are iino;.. tulip-, twenty live buiiis of eai li ; fiftv viirieties of double tnlips, tweiitydive bulbs of each, and so on v\itii liy;iciiitiis and the dilVerent se.'tions of narcissi. In April next an exhibition on similar lines, but on .a i-onsiilerably larger scale, will b(> opened at H;iarlem, and the gen- eral committee is now Imsily at work preparing tiie ;p)aiis. Bee. I'viucAii. Kv.C. I,, liruu-on >.V: Co. will ayain this year siip;dy tiie plants for tiie parking and st.'itioii grounds of tile \., < . \ St. I,. r;iilroa'l.

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