. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 116 The American Florist. I-eb. 22, The preceding shows that we are working under difficulties and that our tests are liable to error, for I have no way of knowing what percentage of my plants were already attacked by rot when they were benched, but I will give yon as accurately as I can the facts as they really are and you may judge from them whether there was sufficient gain to warrant the expense. We have this year four houses, each 300 feet in length, devoted to carnations. These differ in width, being thirty-
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 116 The American Florist. I-eb. 22, The preceding shows that we are working under difficulties and that our tests are liable to error, for I have no way of knowing what percentage of my plants were already attacked by rot when they were benched, but I will give yon as accurately as I can the facts as they really are and you may judge from them whether there was sufficient gain to warrant the expense. We have this year four houses, each 300 feet in length, devoted to carnations. These differ in width, being thirty-six, thirty, sixteen and sixteen feet respect- ively. The first house planted was one of the sixteen-foot houses and in this there are two benches, four feet four inches in width, running the length of the house, a cross-walk at the center divid- ing these, making practically four benches, each a trifle less than 150 feet in length. Let us follow the method of handling a house, and for the sake of con- venience call the benches by numbers. Let us designate the right-hand benches No. 1 and No. 2 and the left-hand benches No. 3 and No. 4. The soil is wheeled in on the left-hand benches and we fill the right-hand benches as we would fill them with no reference to ster ilizing, filling each bench even with soil after putting about an inch of well rotted cow manure in the bottom. We then lay our system of coils and after putting on 8-inch side boards we fill the soil for bench No. 3 and bench No. 4 into No. 1 and No. 2, or rather No. 1 and No. 2 extended, but in reverse order; that is, with the manure which is to go into the bottom of the other benches on top. This is now ready for the steam, which is gotten up and turned on by the night man, as we usually do this work at night, and when steam at a pressure of from thirty to forty pounds has been forced through the soil for a couple of hours, complete destruction of all animal and vegetable life is assured. Now to describe the coils
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