Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . e, of 100 feet long by 11 feet wide, is wateredthoroughly in 15 minutes; the changing of the hose fromone house to another re-lieves the workman fromthe labor of pumping fora few minutes, so thatwlien the change is madeof the hose to anotherhouse, he is ready tostart afresh again. Bythis mode of w^atering,we not only give theplants a thorough drench-ing, but we save at leastthree-fourths of the laborthat is usually spent insvatering with the water-ing-pot. Some may ob-j
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . e, of 100 feet long by 11 feet wide, is wateredthoroughly in 15 minutes; the changing of the hose fromone house to another re-lieves the workman fromthe labor of pumping fora few minutes, so thatwlien the change is madeof the hose to anotherhouse, he is ready tostart afresh again. Bythis mode of w^atering,we not only give theplants a thorough drench-ing, but we save at leastthree-fourths of the laborthat is usually spent insvatering with the water-ing-pot. Some may ob-ject to this rough-look-ing way of wateringplants; to such we say,even with the danger ofbeinsr thougjht to bepuffing our own wares, come and look at the results ofsuch rough work. We have now practised it for the pastfour years, and have lost thousands of dollars by nothaving done so from the beginning. Two rules are laid down by nearly all writers that Ihave read on floriculture, in reference to the water to beused for plants; one, that it must be rain, or at least soft water; the other, that the water should be of the. Fig. 11.—wests force pump. 40 PRACTICAX FLORICTTLTURE. same temperature as the atmosphere in which the plant*are growing. To both these dogmas, I beg to respectfully enter myprotest. Such dogmas are handed down from one toanother, without one in a hundred of those who holdthem having either the opportunity or inclination to testtheir truth by experiment. My green-houses, at JerseyCity, for a dozen years, were entirely watered from a deepwell of hard water, winter and summer, which mightaverage in temperature 40° ; most of my green-houses,now at Bergen City, are watered from cisterns inside thegreen-houses, from rain-water caught by the roof; yet wehave never been able to see that our plants have been anybetter grown or healthier in one place than in the any one will take the trouble to reason for a minute,he will understand why there is no necessity
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