<UAHT 10, 1001. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



175 



in pots and 



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A bloom of Gov. Roosevelt, life 



cutting that suits you without at all 

 studying the growth or flowering qual- 

 ities of the individual plant. Now like 

 begets like, broadly speaking, and if 

 thei'e is a plant that has a perfectly 

 healthy gi-owth but has given scarcely 

 any flowers and shows littl'e for the fu- 

 ture, why propagate from that when 

 perhaps by its side or throughout the 

 bench thei'e are a lot of plants send- 

 ing up numerous flowering stems, 

 a plant that pleases you in ev- 

 ery way, with equal health ? I be- 

 lieve that many of us in this respect 

 have been woefully careless and that by 

 propagating from selected plants we 

 could have a much better strain (if I 

 may use the term) than we now have. 

 I am sure careless selection of cuttings 

 has been the caus'e of much dissatisfac- 

 tion with a number of good varieties 

 wliioh we have become dissatisfied with 

 and discarded for some newer and no 

 better. It is absolutely necessary that 

 some of the new varieties be acquired 

 and grown, but not any more necessary, 

 or even as much, as it is to grow what 

 we have well at its very best. 



The care and treatment of the rooted 

 cuttings until the planting out time 

 also has much to do with their future 

 success and we all too often incline to 

 give them indilTerent care. (Inc of the 

 drawbacks to early rooted cuttings when 

 kept in pots is "that unless they are 

 shifted in March or have been given am- 

 ple room in flats or on the bench they 

 get stunted and lose their roots. Cut- 

 tings that come from the sand by mid- 

 dle of February will do very well in 2i- 

 inch pots till the planting out tinv.'. They 

 do very well in fiats, "but each plant 

 should have at least 2* inches of 

 space. In depth 2 inches will do. Where 

 you have the convenience of a vacant 



bench with a few inehvs of soil the 

 young plants can be planted on it three 

 inches apart and with the greater uni- 

 formity of moisture will make larger 

 plants than those in pots, and with a 

 little cMir .Mil lir lifli'd and taken to 

 tire tirl,l uhh ri.n |,iM,,,ise of suc- 

 cess. ^ ri Mil I hr wli \r l pii-fcr havlug 

 the ynuiii: [itmi- in JJ iiirli pots, for 

 then if planted and not watered they 

 endure a dry spell much better than 

 those from the flats or bench. 



Young carnations, whatever they are 

 in, want the fullest light, and when they 

 have once taken root after removal from 

 cutting bed they should be light and 

 cool ; 45 degi'ees at night is plenty for 

 them. We consider that if possibly 

 large enough all j'oung carnations should 

 have one "stopping" before they are 

 planted out and only the very latest 

 struck will not need it. Start the plant 

 off right. You can "stop" it just in 

 the right place and do it in half the 

 time that you can in the field, and if 

 planted in the field and the plants should 

 be drawn up long and you suddenly de- 

 capitate them they stand still a long 

 time. If you can put out by the first 

 of May, or before, a sturdy little plant 

 that has been once "stopped," with 

 three or four ~\Ar -li lut-. miu are up to 

 date on the m^nl i<i -iiir,--iiil carnation 

 growing. In i lin- Iii-k.ii. a^k for your 

 carnation cuttin^^ Inmi llu' .sand and see 

 that they are well rooted or don't accept 

 them. William Scott. 



SYRINGING CARNATIONS. 



We feel like entering a protest against 

 the continual syringing of carnations, 

 which is said to prevent or kill red spid- 

 er. Twenty-five years ago when every- 

 thing about the greenhouse was new to 



li ;jhl\ -\iiir.M-l I'l.Mi. but the more 



\i- ~\ 1 iii;;i ■! Ill' III I Ih' H- the red spider 



limi'i^hcd; finally the leaves were curled 

 lid they looked so bad we set them away 



die, or if they lived to plant in 

 he open' ground. The unexpected hap- 

 iiiicd, and after a few weeks we noticed 

 bat the young shoots were growing out 



1 rung and hcalthv ami entirely free 

 1 icil Miiilor. \'\".- lli.n iiiiiii- to the 



vale 



,!l III tlic Inliii'j.'. 'A 111. li iii.i.li- it soft, 

 mil let tlir li:i\r- ■_■! 1 I'iiiL'li ami hard, 

 [•'iir twrnlv ll^• v.ii- we have given 



nations e.\c(|ii wlii:ii lirsi, planted, and 

 uitli the exception of Daybreak we have 

 never had red spider to speak of and 

 ue grow and bloom carnations from the 



time to go in (In li.m-.- iiiilil ur throw 

 Ihrni out III I'liiiii iiLMiii. Willi Day- 



lireak we sninr \ ral - ll:n.- 1i:mI tl'Ouble 



Ir.iiii red spiiliT ;' tlir -n.wlli i- so rank 

 uul soft that the spider just revels on 

 il. We find that a heavy syringing 

 Iwiee a week about four o'clock in the 

 ifternoon for two or three weeks en- 

 tirely banished them. The fact that we 

 liave never been troubled with rust to 

 I mount to anything we credit to the dry 



\\ I' have found the best nozzle for 

 -\ 1 iiii.'iiig is made of one-half inch pipe 

 I wo ami one-half feet long, a socket on 

 me end to connect it with the hose, aR 

 I'lbow on tlie other end with a piece ol 

 perf.Hated tin soldered over it for the 

 ^pray. With this you can get up close 

 under the leaves and with a good force 

 wash every insect oft'. 



J. L. Dillon. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The program and schedule of premi- 

 ums of the tenth annual meeting of the 

 American Carnation Society, to be held 

 at Baltimore, Md., Thursday and Friday, 

 Feb. 21st and 22d next, has been issued. 



The meetings will be held in Leh- 

 man's hall, Howard street, Baltimore, 

 and the exhibition will b'e held in the 

 same hall, the space being 71x53 feet. 

 The hall will have electric light only. 



The program includes a paper on 

 "The Carnation in Health and Disease," 

 by Prof. Albert F. Woods, of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, which will 

 be illustrated by stereopticon views, and 

 one on "Hybridizing the Carnation," by 

 Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass. And there 

 will be discussions on "Stem Rot," 

 "Sub-watering" and other subjects, in 

 addition to the usual question box. 



The exhibition promises to be an es- 

 pecially attractive feature, as usual. In 

 addition to the usual certificates and 

 special prizes for new varieties that show 

 an advance on existing sorts there are 

 general premiums in which cash prizes 

 arc offered by the society. In class A 

 first prizes of $12 each and second prizes 

 of $0 each are offered for vases of 100 

 blooms each of white, light pink, dark 

 pink, scarlet, crimson, yellow variegated, 

 white variegated and any other color. 

 In class B prizes of .$6 and $3 are of- 

 fcn.l for va-r~ .if ."il blooms each in 

 111.' -.III!,' rl,i--ih, ,ii i ,11 nf colors. Class 

 r .all- hii j:. Ill, Mill- rach and is eon- 

 liiii.l I., iiiin .lii.ti..ii- ..I lilOO, the prizes 

 Ijcing .«3 for first and .$1.50 for second in 

 each cas'e. Quite a number of silver 

 cups and other special prizes are of- 



