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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw24amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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O^CTUS BEDDINQ IN FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADELPHIA. of that fact will be ample compensation. I thank you very much for your kind attention and courtesy, and am ready to submit to the ordeal which I have been informed is awaiting me. Cactus Bedding. The bedding which attracted the great- est attention in Fairmount Park, Phila- delphia last summer wan the cactus bedding at the east end of Horticultural Hall. There were four beds around a larger, nearly circular one in the center. The tall specimens were placed rather close together, but sufficiently far apart so that each retained its individuality. They were set in a mosaic of alternan- theras, echeveiias and sedums. Agaves and aloes were also used and gave a variety that added greatly to the general effect. The popularity of this bedding was such that the vicinity was so crowded on all fair davs, particularly on Sunday, that police officers were required to keep the people moving. K. Successful Rose Growing. U-I paper by Gusiave Emtl Anderson, read be/ore the Chicago Florists' Ctub, April z;, i^oj.) To grow good roses we must start with good yoang stock and good soil. The soil, I believe, should be prepared dur- ing the fall, put up in heaps, say about eighteen inches high, then six inches of cow manure and then another twelve to eight een inches of soil, with a layer of manure on top, then left during the winter until the frost is out, when it should be turned over and broken up. Then the soil is ready for use. When throwing out the old plants the benches should be cleaned oflf and a good coat of hot lime wash applied to the boards, unless tile is used in the benches. Then all dirt and rubbish should be cleaned from underneath the benches. Then we are ready for wheeling in the soil, which is quite a tiresome job (but we may live to see the automobile used for that purpose). The soil should be well chopped up when leveled off on the benches, and then comes the planting. The plants should be well watered in the morning, so that every plant is wet through; in case a few should be dry they should be set aside or dipped in a bucket of water. Then plant fifteen inches apart for Brides, Bridesmaids, Meteors, Golden process of to-day has simply changed the manufacture of the raw material from hand labortoamechanical manipulation of the original melting stock, the only difference being that the steel ingot is cast and consequently devoid of the fiber which you find in iron. The stetl pipe, owing to this process, has much more tensilestrengththaniron, and is, therefore, much more suitable for high pressure work. Iron pipe, when made as it should be, is undoubtedly more ductile than steel as made at pres- ent, but if, as claimed, there is at least two-thirds scrap placed in the puddling furnace, the result must be a bar which is hard and nnuniform, in consequence of which the skelp of which this pipe is madedois not possess the ductile and welding qualities which formerly distin- fiuished tte iron p'pe. I have not touched on the matter of coirosion because that becomes at times a matter largely of local conditions. I have seen cases where iron pipe did not give as good satisfaction as steel, and others where the reverse was the case, to that I think it is only fair to leave that
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CACTUS BEDS AT FAIRMOUNT PARK. PHILADELPHIA.

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