The Weekly Florists' Review. 



285 



In the rear of the store is a balcony 

 and here was stationed an orchestra of 

 three pieces. The attendance and appre- 

 ciation shown and the subsequent results 

 have convinced Mr. Rock that such dis- 

 ])liiys pay. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY AND 

 DEUTZIA. 



A subscriber wishes to know when to 

 start lily of the valley for Easter, and 

 at what heat the bed should be kept. 



Uavinj 

 season 



;itnient for Kas- 

 o present time. 

 tul for the past 

 jf the valley, 1 



degrees. Now to make sure of having 

 them in in good time you should allow 

 twenty-one days from the time you put 

 the pips in the sand until j'ou cut them. 

 They should not be cut and immedi- 

 ately sold or they will wilt. They should 

 have at least twenty-four hours with 

 their stems in cold water before selling. 

 I have jKisscd through some experience 

 with P(iil7i:i LTiirMlis, having one year 

 allowcii I'M -li-ii .1 time. Wc will sup- 

 pose th;ii iIm. pi, lilts have been grown 

 ill pills; ili,\ :il,\:iyH force much b'ct- 

 in wli.ri iliiN aio, still they will force 

 r\.n ii liiir.l from the ground. They 

 :iir nil '11 s.rviccable if brought along 

 riin.li ralrly mol and not rushed with 

 great heat From the time you bring 

 them into the greenhouse allow eight 

 weeks and then you will be sure to be 

 in time. The idval temperature for them 



Store Display by W. L. Rock, Kansas City, Mo., last November. 



might as well briefly state our method. 

 The same will do identically for Easter 

 crops. 



We have four 4-inch hot water pip'es 

 boxed in tightly so that all the heat is 

 confined beneath the bed. The bottom 

 of the bed is roofing slates on which is 

 placed six inches of sand. The boards 

 project abore the sand about a foot, but 

 the top board is hinged at a level with 

 the top of the bed so that when water- 

 ing we lay that board down and can 

 run the hose between the rows of valley 

 without wetting the bells, because wet- 

 ting the bells after they once show color 

 is a serious matter and must not be done. 

 The bed is soaked every day the first ten 

 days. The bed is covered with shutters 

 made of half-inch boards in four-foot 

 lengths, that are light and convenient 

 to handle. By this time the growth is 

 pretty well up and then we cover with 

 similar sized frames on which is tacked 

 cheese cloth. We keep them on till the 

 buds are pretty well developed, but for 

 two or three days before cutting if not 

 sunnv we remove these and give them 

 the full daylight. 



I would add here that the sand keeps 

 constantly at a temperature of about 80 



would be about the first four weeks in a 

 temperature of 45 to 50 and the last 

 four weeks 50 to 55 degrees. 



WiLLi.\M Scott. 



CARNATION RECORDS. 



I do not know but that it is customary 

 for carnation growers to keep an exact 

 record of the daily cut of each variety, 

 but I know of quite a number that do 

 not do so. After following the plan for 

 two seasons we have come to the con- 

 clusion that it is the only correct way 

 to do if wc desire to know exactly which 

 varieties are paying and which are not. 



We found last season that the old 

 starrd-by, Wra. Scott, was not giving us 

 as large an average number of blooms 

 per plant as some other varieties, though 

 a person going through the houses any 

 day would say exactly the reverse from 

 just looking at them. I will admit that 

 it is a little more trouble to keep such 

 a record and yet with a proper book 

 it does not take so very much more time 

 and we consider it well spent. As a re- 

 sult we can turn to our record book 

 and tell just how many were cut any 

 day through the season, also the weekly 



and monihly totals and the total to date 

 for the season, all of which is exceed- 

 ingly satisfactory from all standpoints. 

 You will find in this way the kinds 

 that do the best at the holiday time, 

 when, of course, you want the most and 

 also the kinds that "crop," which are 

 never as satisfactory to us as those that 

 average more evenly. As the result of 

 this record we annually reject a number 

 of kinds, and often it is a kiml that you 

 would not otherwise discard. 



I think someone would like to know 

 what our average per plant has been on 

 a few varieties from Sept. 29 up to Jan. 

 1 Of course the fraction does not al- 

 ways come out exactly, so when it is 

 .1 little over we mark it plus and when 

 a little under, minus. 



Blooms. 



Gen'. Maceo 12 1-3 



Morning Glory 10 3-4 



New York 8 3-4 



Daybreak 7 2-3 



Wm. Scott 7 + 



Gen. Gomez 7 — 



Glacier 6 2-3 



Flora Hill 44 -f 



Victor 4 1-3— 



Cianr .■5 1-4— 



M^",,ui„ 3- 



Ulviiipia 3 1-2 



Bi'adt 3 — 



Now I have not any idea if they have 

 averaged what specialists make them do 

 or not (I wish I did) and I wish that 

 others who keep such records would let 

 us hear from them. It is very interest- 

 ing to look over the records and see how 

 each kind is doing month by month. One 

 result of keeping them, too, is the im- 

 provement in quantity and quality that 

 we cut from year to year. 



I presume all growers that have a local 

 trade will retain some varieties that on 

 the whole are not entirely satisfactory 

 because of some special demand that they 

 may have, at least, until they test some 

 new variety that fills the bill and has 

 the additional virtue of making a good 

 record. E. E. Shuphelt. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOQETY. 

 New Carnations. 



Kegistered by Geo. W. Binstead, Sum- 

 mit, N. J. — "Maid of Honor": Color 

 soft blush pink a little deeper than Day- 

 break, exceedingly free flowering with 

 good strong stems averaging 24 inch'es. 

 Size of flower, 2 J to 3 inches; grown 

 under same conditions as Scott and Mc- 

 Gowan it has for two seasons produced 

 more flowers than either from an equal 

 space. 



Special Notice. 



Mi-. Douglas H. Thomas, Park Com- 

 missioner of Baltimore, Md., has kindly 

 olfered a cash pri^e of $25.00 for the best 

 unnamed seedling carnation raised in 

 Baltimore, to be exhibited at the coming 

 show of the American Carnation Society 

 in that city. 



Albert M. Hekr, Secy., 



Lancaster, Pa. 



ROOTED CUTTINGS. 



We read the carnation number of the 

 Review with a great deal of pleasure. It 

 is one of your best and it will be care- 

 fully preserved for reference. 



Friend Scott gives, it seems to me, 

 some of the best hints on what to expect 

 when we pay money for cuttings of nov- 

 elties. Insist on No. 1 stock or return 

 the cuttings. This trying to doctor up 



