The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



35 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Begonias, 



licfjoiiia (iloire de Loiraiiii' lia- Ijpi'n 

 liii'd MilluMcntly to prove tliat il drops 

 its lluwcrs when removed to a living 

 lociiii. ulicic !10 percent of all our plants 

 f^ii. Tlii;- Wdu'l stop its sale at Christ- 

 mas tiiiic, fcir it will last as long as a 

 1 nnch 111 llowi-is and is so beautiful, 

 hut I will say unce more that we can 

 lielp -it some by giving it an airy, light 

 house for a couple of weeks before the 

 lime of sale. 



Iltm't forget along about now or even 

 later to SOW some seed of Begonia Ver- 

 min. It is a most useful plant and 

 makes a fine bedding as well as a vase 

 iir vciiiihia II. \ |ilaiii. 'ihi' double form 



nf llil- Imi.iiiii;i 1- nil :i.-.|ilisition. All 

 lliiwri- .III' iini inhiiiiiril In being doub- 

 led (~ii imIIiM I .mil llu- 1- line. 



tum cuneatum) is one of the shortest 

 lived of all, but there is another adian- 

 tuni that is extra good for the purpose. 

 It is Adiantum O'Brianii. For a long 

 time I was afriad of its name, thinking 

 it might be merely a local name, but I 

 find the best authorities in the coun- 

 trj' know it as O'Brianii. It is of 

 the Capillus-veneris type but much 

 freer and handsomer. It spreads quick- 

 ly with rhizomes. 



It is excellent for fern dishes and still 

 better when planted in a G or 7-inch 

 pan. We filled a number of these in 

 August and they are now most at- 

 tractive, far handsomer for a table than 

 a dish filled with a dozen diflferent spe- 

 cies, and much more lasting. It is a 

 real good thing and besides its hardy, 

 easy to grow qualities it is well worth 

 planting out to cut from as you do 

 cuneatum. From a few plants you can 

 (piiekly work up a large stock. 



Hydrangeas. 



\ow that chrysanthemums are about 

 gone you will have plenty of room for 

 your Easter stufT, among which are hy- 

 drangeas. Start them very slowly. If 

 they were grown in pots all sunrmer, as 

 they should be, they may want a shift. 

 Do that directly you put them on the 

 bench. 



There is a frnuviiiL; taste for large 

 iiydrangcas in tubs im l:iwu decoration, 

 but to have tlnsr -atislailury they can- 

 not be kept ill a grcenliouse, even if 

 down tn -III ibnir,.,. They will make a 

 start ill tlir -luiiii; and then suffer when 

 viiu [Hit tliciii ciiit. A light, cool cellar 

 iir routhuiise is the only place for them 

 and they will stand it to be verv dry 

 if cool. 



What to do with sweet bavs, olean- 



n.l 



i.i-ninmg 

 II III n;; us. 



]||;lrc for 



1-r what 



lliese plants to our cus- 

 •nt heat to just keep 

 ■ould do for this store 



Geraniums. 



This past month and Uceember are 

 unfavorable for geraniuins of the zonal 

 type. You don't want tliein to grow 

 and a very little fire heat makes it too 

 warm ami tliiic i> lililo sun to eneour- 

 au'' Mill II L'lM' 111- but you should on 

 all iH.a~i.iii-, wli.ii |.ii-sibie, and in the 

 daik tiii.iiih-- Willi :i low temperature, 



i;vr.llillllil-. :ll-.i |irl:i I L'.:lliuinS, Want to 



li|. .l..i.ii..|lN Mil ili<. iliy side. No harm 

 ill ihrii linn.- .iliiiii.-i dormant for a 

 moiiLli 111 twii. Tliiy quickly make up 

 for it when spring conies. Of course I 

 am alluding to the small fall struck 

 plants, which are not wanted till bed- 

 diiiL; liim- Ziimil linaiiiums are not 

 mil. li .jiiiwii li\ ilic I iiiiimercial florist 



till \\nii.'i lili.nl L' lull they make the 



I'.iii-i I \.il..iy \.i> :ja\. To flower well 

 tliry waiil ill.' liuhlc^l limise and a tem- 

 pera Inn- nf ;i| l.axl .".."i ilc^'rees at night. 



Show Pelargoniums. 



We have given up growing the show 

 pelargoniums, simply because they do 

 not sell well. The people prefer the 

 zonal L;ivniiiiiiii-. wliiili are much more 

 sal i-f,ii III \ III .-v.iv way. To those 



»1 !!■ ui. mnrj iliriii for a spring 



Iilaiil I uniilil -a> llial from now till the 

 liisl .1 I'.lii iiaiy the jiclargoniums want 

 vri\ liiilr walci'. Unless you want 

 til. in .ally liny will do in a cool house 

 ami -liniilil 11.. kept quite on the dry side. 

 Till- -i\i- ill. Ill a stout, hardy growth 

 ami ilii \ will make all the better plants 

 wbi'ii ^mwtli lii'jiins in the spring. Those 

 you tVii.-e for I'^astcr (although it hard- 

 ly pays) must have the fullest light and 

 will do in a night temperature of 50 

 degrees. One of the worst qualities of 

 the pelargonium is its need of continu- 

 ous smoking to keep down greenfly, but 

 to have them healthy it must be done. 

 Wm. Scott. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 



The season has once more passed and 

 we can again sum up our gains and 

 losses, financially and in experience, for 

 the past year. "Of the introductions of 

 1900 Col. D. Appleton seems to have 

 given the most satisfaction. It is indeed 

 a grand yellow. I would not go so far 

 as some have and say it beats Golden 

 Wedding, but I will say that it is a 

 worthy companion for it." The two vari- 

 eties are of difTerent types and Appleton 

 comes in before Wedding, so I think 

 there is ample room for both. Gold 

 Mine was not so good but perhaps it 

 will make a better showing next year. 



White Bonnaflfon, while of lovely form, 

 seems pretty small. Souci was distinct- 

 ly disappointing. It was described as 

 similar to Modesto in form, but all the 



not at all of the loose, graceful form 

 that made Modesto popular. Molatsch, 

 as an early yellow, cannot in our humble 

 opinion come near either Sunderbrueh or 

 S.ileil d'Oetobre. 



Till- lie-l .■ i.ieial varieties at the 



|.ie-enl lim.. ill inn opinion are given 

 l.ebm III I III. II ni.l.n of llowcring. 



White; l;.iliiii-.iii, .Mrs. J. Lewis, 

 .\ler/.a, .Jeruiii.- Imi.-. ( liadwick. 



Yellow: Suii.l,-i In m li, T. I,. Park, 

 .\ppleton, B.iiiii.iilnii, W.il.luig. 



Pink: Gloiy ol Ihu Pacific, Morel. 

 .Maud Dean. 



These are all good tested varieties 

 and seem to do well throughout the 

 country generally. There are of course 

 very many others which different grow- 

 ers can handle with greater or less sue- 



Theic an -.x.ral newer varieties that 

 stan.l . ill iiinniiii..iitly as exhibition 

 sorts. Ilk. 111. l.illnwing: Mme. Carnot, 

 and its yill.nv -"port, G. .1. Warren. 

 These are now well known and are splen- 

 did varieties. Peter Kay or Jeannie 

 Falconer is a very fine pale" yellow. Kate 

 Hroomhead showed up well; this is gold- 

 en brown in color. Timothy Eaton, as 

 everybody knows, has swept the country 

 as an exhibition white. Mme. Deis i"s 

 also a fine exhibition white. Perhaps a 

 little slender in stem but quite strong 

 enough to hold itself upright. A new- 

 variety that will undoubtedly be shown 

 fine next year is Mrs. Barkley. It is a 

 lovely shade of pink and a fine grower. 

 Nellie Pockett, an Australian seedling. 

 is a particularly fine, creamy white. 



1 notice the C. S. A. has this year 

 eeitificated Mrs. Ritson, the white "Mo- 

 rel. I think I spoke of this variety 

 in my notes last year. I venture to say 

 that about one grower in ten will get 

 it anywhere near as good as its parent. 

 It is certainly a hard thing to handle 

 satisfactorily. Mrs. Weeks is a fine ex- 

 hibition white but soft in the petals and 

 not very sure. 



The standard of exhibition flowers was 

 higher this year than ever, both in re- 

 gard to size and finish. Who can pre- 

 dict what we will be exhibiting in ten 

 years' time? One thing is certain, as I 

 remarked last year, the private gardener 

 is crowding the commercial man to the 

 wall in growing exhibition flowers. 1 

 suppose it is only natural. Yet the 

 commercial man on the other side is 

 holding his end up pretty well. 



The mum tide of popularity is higher 

 than ever in England and France this 

 year, judging by the reports. Many of 

 the varieties suffered this year consider- 

 ably from the unseasonably warm spell 

 we got during the end of October, but on 

 the whole it has been a much better sea- 

 son than last year. when some growers 

 could not market fifty per cent of their 

 P'flnpt. Brian Boru. 



CARNATION NOTES. 



Treatment During Cloudy Weather. 



During the past week we have had 

 just such weather as I wrote about in 

 my last notes. Cloudy for several days 

 and then a very bright, warm day. "in 

 spite of abiimlaiil m iitilaiinn and careful 

 waterim; -nm.. ..| i In -..fter varieties 

 willed -.nil... Inn m tliin- like thev would 

 have d.juc if we hud nut, kept "them a 

 little dry and kept up steam with the 

 ventilators open, both day and night. 



If your carnations ha've made a soft 

 growth and wilt badly on bright days vou 

 can do nothing but .laiupen the"w,ilks 



