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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_45_2 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Ammann, Ed- Washburn, lEETING in the afternoon following the closing of the American C:u nation So- ciety's sessions, January 22, in the Eed room of Hotel La Salle, the Illinois State Florists' Association trans- acted its annual business, chiefly the election of officers and the hearing of reports from the society's foster-child, the experiment station at Urbana. The officers chosen for the coming year were as follows: President—William J. Hembreiker, Springfield. Vice-president—Joseph Kohout, Lib- ertyville. Secretary—J. Fred wardsville. Treasurer — Frank L, Bloomington. Mr. Ammann's wish to be relieved of the job of secretary was overruled by the members of the society. His state- ment that the work was slight and any man could do it with little effort was taken by the society as good reason why he should reconsider his desire to yield the position to someone else. The work at the University of Hli- nois was reported upon by Dr. P. A. Lehenbauer, who is in charge of the ex- perimental work there. In addition, Prof. H. B. Dorner told of the instruc- tional work in the division of floricul- ture, the students of which come from many other states outside Illinois. Mr. Ammann gave a slight account of how the Illinois State Flerists' As- sociation worked to get the experiment station established nearly fifteen years ago. Experimental Work. The report of Dr. Lehenbauer, which created considerable interesting discus- 8 i 0 n on growers' problems, was as follows: The experimen- tal work in floricul- ture at Urbana is being continued along the lines of the previous two years. ' U.. The experi- ment on the rela- tion of selection to flower production, when the vegetative method of propaga- tion is employed, is still in progress. This being only the second year of se- lection, the experi- ment has not gone far enough to state any conclusions. Several important facts have been brought to light—to be sure only tentatively, for the evidence is by no means complete. " (a) By knowing the number of flow- ers which a plant has produced by the last of January, and then counting the buds on the plant at this time, we have a fairly accurate figure of production of that plant for the year. "(b) The condition of the crimping of the petals seems to be inherent in the plant and is not dependent upon growing conditions. " (c) The splitting of the calyx seems to be due to the nitrogen relation of the plant. Sudden, rapid growth seems to be instrumental in producing split calyxes. Phosphate Increases Production. "2. It has been found previously that by the liberal use of acid phosphate flower production can be increased, about two flowers per plant for roses, five per cent for carnations. We have evidence that much of this phosphorus is not used by the plant during the first year, but reverts in the soil. We are attempting to find if this phosphorus in
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Wtn. J. Hembreiker. (President-elect, Illinois State Florists' Association.) reverted form is as efficient in produc- ing increased production as is a new supply of acid phosphate. "3. We have begun an experiment to test the effect of using the same soil in the benches continuously for several years. Most growers discard the soil after one year and refill the benches with new soil each year. This involves much labor and expense and possibly a loss of fertilizers. "4. Several apparently new and im- portant diseases have come to our no- tice recently and we are attempting to follow up these diseases and determine methods of control. " 5. A study is being made of the ger- mination of orchid seed and the condi- tions involved. "6. We are collecting data and fol- lowing up the drop of buds on sweet peas. The statement has been made by writers that the trouble takes its origin in the soil. There is a theory to the effect that it is a phosphorus problem; others claim that it is a nitro- gen problem. We are not following up this phase, for another experiment sta- tion is doing this, but we expect to at- tack the problem from another angle, namely, temperature and moisture. "7. Much time is being devoted to the devising and construction of ap- paratus by means of which we hope to control certain con- ditions, such as tem- perature, moisture, etc., so that we maj take np more accu- rately a study of certain problems of greenhouse plants. Restore Committee. Since the men in charge of the work at Urbana had ex- pressed a desire for it, the society re- vived the old ad- visory committee, which had, until late years, served as a connecting link between the trade and the experiment station. In the im- poverished situation in which the univer- sity finds itself, there seems strong indication that the state association may have to do lob- bying again at Springfield in order to insure the ad- vancement of the study of the trade's problems at Ur- bana. So it was voted that an ad- visory committee of five be r e e s t a b- lished, two mem- bers being appoint-

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