Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-16
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 GROWING PLANTS Only Florist To Use Ether and ChlorofoHn to Force
 Growth

NEW YORK, Oct. 12-Miss Julia H. | Schnelling of Oneida County, New
 York, believes herself to be the only florists in the country who uses chlo-
 rofnrm and ether in forcing plants for
 sale. The discovery of the benefit
 done plants by drugging them was
 made by Doctor Johannsen, of Copen-
 hagen, in the early 'nsneties. but, ac'
 cording to Miss Schnelling, she is the | only person who has taken advantge
 of it commercially.
 My experiment began two win ters ago with half a dozen lilac bush, l es,' Miss Schnelling said the other I day. Knowing that some persons l take ether better than chloroform, l fancied there might be the same dif- ference in plants.
 | Three of thel ilacs I put under the
 influence of chloroform and three I etherized All were a success, but | those treated with ether gave the | quickest and best results. 1 made more experiments with other lilaCs, then with azaleas and with several kinds of bulbs.
 The greatest difference was in li- lies of the valley. Under chloroform the results were wonderful, while ether seemed to have almost no eff feet.
 'As my experiments were success ful I set to work to use the discovery another season in my business. I had several a.rtight boxes built, and when EIr I I1A f q an assured fact, not as in an eXpeTi-
 ment. Because did go into it so fearlessly and made such T success feel that I have earned the right to talk and tell others how # can L. done.
 Tn the first place. the box must be large enough to hold the plants with the bottom is a bed of dry twigs. Then it must be absolutely air-tisht. At the bittom is a bed of dry sand on which the plants are laid, and let me say that they should be as dry as pos sibie. The temperature Of the bcN
 should be about 62 degrees.
 After the anaesthetic has been in troduced the box must be left un- touched for at least foTty-eight hours.
 After this the plants should be taken out. planted in a cool greenhouse and
 receive the usual garden treatment.
 "They will begin at once to put forth buds, and do it so rapidly that they may almost be seen to grow. Last season I had lilacs and aZaleas in full bloom eighteen days after I had put them into the anaesthetic
 box as dry shrubs. I was almost as successful with deutzias, spiraeas, vii burnums and several kinds of bulbs.
 "As to the expense of the anaes- thetics, it is paid for dozen times over by Ehe added beauty and luxur- lance Of the plants, to say nothing or the saving of time and room n the greenhouse. It may be, as several florists who saw my plants last year suggested that if sden treatment is persisted in several successive years the plant will deteriorate from ex- haustion This point 1 have not had experience enough to dss;1e, and te- sides, why should consider it at ali? I mean from a business stanepOintf Few persons buy h )uss plants with the thought of keeping them more than a season.
 As I have said, some plants, like some persons prefer chloroform. while others show a preference for ether. For that reason I use both drugs. "To both drugs there are draw backs, about which an amateur should {. be warned While ether Is much the cheaper, t is so inflsnnable as to require great caution q in handling. Chloroform is more expensive, but a less quantity is required.
 Again, some plants require stronger solution than others. For instance. tulips, hyacsnths and lilies need stronger doses than lilacs and azaleas. It may be a question of temperament. That is the reason giv- en by doctors for the same peculiarity in animals. and We know so little
 about plants that I would never in- sist on a different reason.
 Tn spite of the many experiments
 that are always going on, very little Is really known about planat life. Un- like animal doctors. plant doctors are
 seldom learned. It is unusual to finn
 florist who knows or cares anything
 beyond producing salable plants.
 Why, when my first drngged plants proved a success l made 1t my
 business to go to several other flor 1 ists and invite them to come to see the plants. They thought they were
 handsome plants; that much they had
 to admit but there wasn't one in the
 lot who cared b think out reason
 Some said they might try 1t them selves. but the majority of them. am sure looked apon 1t as an aecident ! ,,, s,,,,,. now variety of ferfflizW that