. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Apbil 30, 1914. The Florists'Review 19 - m ' PP^^^H M^^^^* ^^^^^^^ ^^-'-^..^i '? • ' Wiv ^ ^^^^^Br^s_^ .j^^. ? ^' " — ? ^^^^fll^RSlBn^^S -^-t^ P' ^^^ ^£ "Pi' r *r?rya^^^*°™ •-«. ,1. r-— The Establhhment of Arthur Moll, the Largest Grower of Carnations in Germany. since it was placed in the yard. Would lime help to sweeten it? P. 0. M. I do not think that I would care to use the soil in question for planting this season. From what I have seen of chicken yards, I would not use the soil without first having sown it in grass for a cou


. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Apbil 30, 1914. The Florists'Review 19 - m ' PP^^^H M^^^^* ^^^^^^^ ^^-'-^..^i '? • ' Wiv ^ ^^^^^Br^s_^ .j^^. ? ^' " — ? ^^^^fll^RSlBn^^S -^-t^ P' ^^^ ^£ "Pi' r *r?rya^^^*°™ •-«. ,1. r-— The Establhhment of Arthur Moll, the Largest Grower of Carnations in Germany. since it was placed in the yard. Would lime help to sweeten it? P. 0. M. I do not think that I would care to use the soil in question for planting this season. From what I have seen of chicken yards, I would not use the soil without first having sown it in grass for a couple of years. Do not use it if you can possibly avoid it. A. F. J. B. KEEPING CABNATION BLOOMS. Please inform me whether carna- tions can be kept better elsewhere than in the ice-box. Our cooler is new and up-to-date in construction and is kept ?day and night at a temperature of 38 to 40 degrees. After a day or two the carnation^ become black at the edges and close up. Is a temperature of 40 degrees too cool for carnations? B. C. B. A temperature of 38 to 40 degrees is too cool for carnation blooms and the ice-box is not the place in which to keep them. Out in the open room, in a temperature of 45 to 50 degrees, is the proper place, providing there are no strong drafts. Under such circum- stances the blooms will keep in salable condition for several days and give good satisfaction after they reach your customers. A. F. J. B. AMERICAN METHODS ABROAD. How Our Ways Work in Oermany. When a foreigner spends a long enough time in this country to learn our American methods and then returns to his native land he invariably ap- plies the knowledge he has gained here to old-world conditions with successful results. This is true in the florists' trade as well as in other lines of work, and has proved equally profitable. The application of American ideas in car- nation growing at the plant of Arthur Moll, at Soden am Taunus, Germany, by Otto Bellinger has produced remark- able


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