Fkukuary 14, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



347 



Shading. 



You must now li!(il< nflcr tlie >liiuliug of 

 your carnation c-uttings closely on bright 

 days. The sun is gaining in strength 

 and an hour's neglect may cause tiie loss 

 of many cuttings. Jlost of us have a 

 busy time for an hour or two each morn- 

 ing! but you must not negleot the cut- 

 tings, foron their health will largely de- 

 pend your success next sia-mr. The 

 whole "secret in rooted caniation cut- 



witliout causing damping oil' from too 

 much spraying. If you see the day is 

 going to be bright spray the cuttings 

 early in the morning and let down the 

 curtains or put on the shading before 

 the sun strikes them. They will then 

 start in the day in good fresh condition 

 and will be better able to stand the warm, 

 dry atmosphere during the day than if the 

 sun is allowed to shine on them and dry 

 them otl' for an hour, or even a half hour. 

 But in the evening if they are nice and 

 fresh take away the shade and let them 

 have the weak sunshine for an hour to al- 

 low some of the dampness on the foliage 

 to evaporate, and to help keep the cut- 

 ting sturdy. 



I do not like to have the foliage damp 

 over night, as it causes rust to start on 

 some varieties, and damping-off is usu- 

 ally started the same way. Keep the 

 sand well saturated with water. Exam- 

 ine the sand in the evening, because it 



ing; Inn iln nul \\j\r, r\.v|il in i lir morn- 

 ing. In ilii' inini;' il \^ill !"■ k moist 



unless it is ijuiir dry, wliirh i( should 

 never be from the time the cuttings are 

 put in until they are taken out again. I 

 see that there are some growers who are 

 just commencing to- make cuttings and 

 that there are others who have not as 

 yet made any. They will be just that 

 much late next fall when the blooming 

 season opens up. The early bird catches 

 the worm, you know. 



Exhibition Blooms. 



When you get to Baltimore and see 

 some of those fine blooms on long and 

 strong stems you will be tempted to in- 

 vest heavily in some of the varieties that 

 "show up" best. But do not let the sight 

 of those fine blooms carry you oflf your 

 feet. With average weather this is, per- 

 haps, the best time for fine carnation 

 blooms, and a variety is likely to show 

 up now if it ever does. 



Such varieties as The Marquis, Em- 

 press and Pingree can be had in tine 

 shape at this date and will often sho\? 

 up better than other varieties which are 

 earlier and therefore much more prolU- 

 able. When McGowan was a novelty it 

 was beaten in New York (I think in 

 March) by a variety named Sea Gull, 

 raised by Mr. Dorner. McGowan is 

 grown today, while Sea Gull was never 

 disseminated on account of its lateness. 

 Jubilee was beaten in this city (Indiatr- 



been able to compete. So unless you 

 kno^y that a variety blooms early you are 

 not safe in judging it as a commercial 

 variety by the way it is shown at this 

 date. 



A plan that I have found to be a good 

 one is to begin with fall shows and no- 

 tirc wlial varieties are staged in good 

 re ndilion. and tlien watch them tlirough- 

 oiit (lie sr!\>cni, and if the reports are 

 unifonuly ,i;o,id you may feel safe in in- 

 vesting in them, ])roviding the colors are 



ness, fine as their blooms may be in Feb- 

 ruary and March. 



The growers have been accepting these 

 certificates as a recommendation from 

 ihe society as to the value of a variety 

 I onnnercially, which is qiiite natural, but 

 at the same lime it i- a im.mI nii^lakc. 



\aiielv will ].i ■ Ini. 1,1^ . ,i - .-i ,, c-rtain 

 i|ualitv in Feinnaiv. luii II, al j- not, by a 

 long way. .saying that it will he profitable 

 to the commercial grower, and after all 

 is said and done, that is what we want to 



It seems to me that the society could 

 have a committee in each of several large 

 cilii's to judge seedlings aljont oivce each 

 monll, -'say al Ihe r.^^ular rinl, meting) 



.lul\ Ihe lonL'ii yu mil,,. I In -eason 

 the heliir. .Scene jii-t a~ ynu do now 

 and at the end of the sea>on figure up the 

 total and require them to figure up so 

 high in order to gain a certificate, just 

 as you do now. 



An early and steady blooming variety 

 that produces blooms of good average 

 quality would be likely to gain a certifi- 

 cate while those very late ones would 

 stand little chance even if they produced 



New Carnation Governor Wolcott. 



what you want. Steer clear of those that 

 are not exhibited until along toward 

 spring. They are usually late varieties, 

 therefore unprofitable. 



Is Judging Blooms in Fefcruary Fair? 



Caniation Society has 

 1 Hink in liclping to im- 

 alicni and deserves all 

 nit wc cair olTcr it; hut it 

 it its present method of 

 ■ il' - in February is not 

 ^i Ml 111 earl\--bloomiug 



II laiercial variety 



ell I li. ate because it docs 

 uilh some of those large 

 at are making their first 



and are of little com- 

 it of their late- 



done some giaiii 

 prove the eain 

 the encouragemi 

 seems to me lli. 

 awarding - i i i:i 

 exactly im 

 and niniii - n .i 

 fails to ,^.i)n a , 

 not "show up" 

 late bloomers th 

 crop of blooms 

 mercial value o 



ever so fine blooms. A variety like White 

 Cloud, which comes in in fair time and 

 produces extra fine blooms, would score 

 high each time it was shown and would 

 make up what it lost in earliness. 



Perhap this could be improved upon in 

 some ways, but the idea is to get at the 

 earliness and steadiness of a variety as 

 well as the quality of its blooms, and 

 that is what interests the growers, and 

 a certificate gained under those condi- 

 tions would mean something to us. 



A. F. J. Bauk. 



NEW CARNATIONS. 



of several new eaiiialiuii-, -. rdlings 

 grown by Mr. Peter Fislier, h;ilis, Mass., 



