. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 198 The American Florist. Axuj. 18, from houses on each side This heat pipe also helped to evaporate or dry up at least 50 percent of the conden- sation from, the iron gutter. Mr. Keimel has found it does not take any more pipes to heat their 34-foot houses than the 28: the,larger body of air appears to hold the heat better and the larger houses were lighter and more satisfactory. All the White Killarney are to be discarded and there is quite a block. Reason? It does not sell. When it was one of the fotir leading
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 198 The American Florist. Axuj. 18, from houses on each side This heat pipe also helped to evaporate or dry up at least 50 percent of the conden- sation from, the iron gutter. Mr. Keimel has found it does not take any more pipes to heat their 34-foot houses than the 28: the,larger body of air appears to hold the heat better and the larger houses were lighter and more satisfactory. All the White Killarney are to be discarded and there is quite a block. Reason? It does not sell. When it was one of the fotir leading sorts it was a 4 to 1 risk, now it is about 12 to 1. Dealers now make their cus- tomers take some whites with other colors; have to, in fact, to get rid of it. A number are going out of it, and I suppose it will soon come to its level. The plants had done very well this season. They had cut a splendid crop for Christmas and New Year, sending in over 130,000 for that pe- riod. They had also been able to get another crop in for St. Valentine's day, having for that time 52,000. This was' the first season they had ever been able to do this, which Mr. Kei- mel attributed to the unusually bright weather of this period. Long-stemmed roses are found to be most in demand in the fall and spring when they were preferred to the short stock, while in the winter, the short roses are in demand on account of their price. Then the longer stock was thought to be too expensive and often had to be sacrificed to get rid of it. In speaking of failures and successes of new varieties, Mr. Keimel said over- propagation often caused the sending out of weak plants. It is best to give a new thing, if not at first sat- isfactory, another trial. Russell was at first discarded by many, as was Milady, but these now lead the list of roses in the west. Cook's New Roses. The newest creation of this famous Baltimore grower, which somehow got into the general press last summer as an $18,000 rose, is worth every ce
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