. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Fl oris t. 1281. RAILROAD GARDKNING. Flower Bcd> on the Reading Railroad at Lanehoi does no good, and in wet the blooms are soft and will not keep. Do not try to make a plant produce more flowers than it can properly nourish. Do not develop size at the expense of keeping qualities. Do everything in reason. Modifj^ what you think with what you know. Laurence K. Peacock. Fertilizers. Paper Read Before the Chicago Florists' Club by W. S. McGee, G, 1911. It seems to me that every florist sh
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Fl oris t. 1281. RAILROAD GARDKNING. Flower Bcd> on the Reading Railroad at Lanehoi does no good, and in wet the blooms are soft and will not keep. Do not try to make a plant produce more flowers than it can properly nourish. Do not develop size at the expense of keeping qualities. Do everything in reason. Modifj^ what you think with what you know. Laurence K. Peacock. Fertilizers. Paper Read Before the Chicago Florists' Club by W. S. McGee, G, 1911. It seems to me that every florist should have some knowledge of chem- istry. I am convinced, too, that he can easily acquire an amount sufficient to be of practical value. The more he knows of the science of chemistry, the more he will be able to learn from the published reports of investigations car- ried on at our experiment stations and by other growers. Theoretical knowl- edge, added to the grower's practical knowledge, will give him a degree of independence of thought and action impossible to the grower who merely follows custom without understanding why. Let us take the case of a florist who wishes to buy a ton of bone meal. He has before him catalogues from two equally reputable supply houses. Cat- alogue A shows a bone meal contain- ing, let us say, nitrogen '-i-'O to per cent and phosphoric acid 23 to 2b per cent, while catalogue B shows a bone meal containing, we will assume, ?, to per cent nitrogen and to 25 per cent of phosphoric acid. One brand runs higher in nitrogen, while the other runs higher in phosphoric acid, and there would be a natural tendency to choose the one with the higher total content. To make a fair comparison, how- ever, we should compute the value of the different ingredients of each fer- tilizer. For this purpose we will use the values assigned by the authorities at the Indiana State Agricultural Ex- periment Station. These are taken from their bulletin for 1910 and
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