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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



CARNATION NOTES. 



Carnations for Easter. 



It is not too early to be thinking about 

 yoMT Easter crop of carnations. Easter 

 will be only about six weeks away when 

 these notes reach j^ou, and if you begin 

 :it once yovi can do a great deal toward 

 improving your cut for that day both in 

 <|iiality and in quantity. The plants will 

 lie makinir a slrcin;; growth now and to 

 lu'lji fli.-m til lini-h off with ^inul, large 

 l.li,i.iii> th.-v will iiccl innri- iir lr>s feed- 

 iii'j. ncciniin- In the ooiulitioii of the 

 siiil. :inii I -|M'.i,illy if they have bloomed 

 a Li.K.I Mr.il iliiiiTi;,' the winter. 



Till -In ill- that are to produce the 

 Ka-liT bliiiiriis >li(nild be lengthening out 

 ]irettv lively now, in order to be in bloom 

 liy that time. Varieties that are in full 

 criip now will likely be off-crop by that 

 tiiiie, but those that are just between 

 I nips now can he depended on for a good 

 cut by that time. For instance, our 

 White C'lotid. which is in full crop now, 

 will not give us many Easter blooms, but 

 our Flora Hill, which is just between 

 crops, will be in full bloom again by 

 that time. 



That reminds me of how well these 

 1«o varieties work together. Each is at 

 its best wIh'm the other is at its poorest 

 >tiv^r. ;,M.l if II, rv aiv iMIliIlnl ].roperIv 



Villi I, III li.ixr ;, Mr.lil\ -lip|il\ ■ . t lllgliest 



gr.iil.' 'A liiir I III' \ r;i j 1 , ,\iu I w il li Only 

 111.-, m . x.ii 1,1 i. ., It' H.- .■..iiM com- 



liiiii- til J 1 ,|ii:ilitics of these two va- 



ri.ii. - intiiiii. Miriety we would surely 

 liiur .1 III I .nhv niiiiT. If in a week or two 



wiicii ynu c'lniiot give some air during a 

 part of the day, and by being liberal 

 with air and food you can kefp the 

 growth strong and solid. 



Hetter begin a mild form of forcing a 

 month before Easter rather than to crowd 

 them too hard during the last week or 

 two and i.im1,m|.- luii, M.ur plants for 

 future bin,,,,,,,,., i:,i-i,, is your last 

 ili.iiii-i' fill liijl, |.i,.i-. ,11, iI vou can hard- 

 ly allonl to lir III! I ii.|, 111, '11. but it does 

 not pay to ruin the plants even then, be- 

 cause good carnations are priililahb^ way 

 lip to .luiie and later. 



Watch the Supports. 



Keep them well supporlcil. S ,1 



them may lie growing too tall for the 

 support? and will irecd another, a taller 

 support of i-ome kind, or perhaps the 

 numerous shoots will be growing up out- 

 side of the supports and you will need 

 to go over them occasionally tind put 

 them back into the proper jiliiees. You 

 cannot e.xpect to cut blooms with long 

 straight stems if thev are not supported 

 upright. Thev are' bound to .'row 



crooked if they lie all over the bench. 

 Do not neglect disbudding, however busy 

 you may be with other work, and do it 



handle s:ifih . I kimu ili,it in.iih iM'rv 

 grower i- .ri.H.l.a uilli wmk imu with 

 his spring stuck and nfi.i, ».■ ihmk wit 

 can let such jobs, as ili-l.iii|,liiij wiii a 

 few days while we do :i l-i ..i 1 1 |"ii i mj. 

 etc. The few days run int.. i ..iii|i!i ,if 



order to put in your tiin,' .m -,., Ilicr 



crop on w'hich you exp.-.l 1., i.ali/.' at 

 some future time. We tin. I lliat il pays 

 to keep the quality right up to the high- 

 est possible point until we are ready to 

 throw them out, or, in other words, it 

 pays to throw them out as soon as they 

 cease being profitable. Then you will not 

 be wasting any time w-atering and mere- 

 ly keeping alive a lot of plants that are 

 bringing in no money. 



Those who grow spring bedding stock 

 can use all the room they can get hold 

 of from now on, and any bench that is 

 in poor shape now might just as well be 

 thrown out and used for more profitable 

 crops. If you grow no spring bedding 

 stock you can make good use of the room 

 for your young carnation plants. If you 

 can plant out of .3 and 3* inch pots, in- 

 stead of 2 and 2i inch, it wiU pay you 

 w'ell to do so, esiiecially if you want to 

 house them early in the siimmer. 



•You will find lots of yoimg weeds 

 springing up now, and you must keep 

 the benches clear of theni. Jlost weeds 

 aie laiilv growers and strong feeders, 

 and it does not take them long to im- 

 poverish the soil and leave little food for 

 llie lilooiiiiirs; slock. A. F. .T. liAVIL 



THE MARQUIS. 



Y'our correspondent, A. F. J. Baui;, 

 speaks of the Marquis as a late variety. 

 We have been iiiekiiig .Mtirquis since 

 Septemliei- will, ;i lon-lanl tiiid increas- 

 ing crop I,, .lair ami wliiili will con'tinue 

 to increa-c till i:a>lir when we shall 

 have simply an immense crop with plen- 

 ty of Howcrs thereafter until the plants 

 are thrown out. 



The ilarquis makes absolutely nothing 

 but flowering wood: therefore if it grows 

 it flowers. It will flower as early as 

 the grower permits. Of course this pre- 

 supposes proper soil and other condi- 

 tion's as well as proper care. If Mr. B., 

 or anyone else, Inis found the Marquis 

 late it is because of improper treatment 

 or conditions. 



I will add that we finished idanting 

 111,' liist house of Maninis Aug. 18th. 

 Had thev been housed by Aug. 1, we 

 would have had flowers still earlier. 

 After filling our orders for about 170.000 

 rijoted cuttings we took what were left — 

 practically the culls — were late in plant- 

 ing o\it. experienced Ihe driest season for 

 tell years, aivd consequently housed 

 plants only about half size. Our Jlar- 

 iiiiis have been earlier and more prolific 



NEW CARNATIONS. 



We present herewith engravings from 

 photogra])hs of two more seedlings 

 grown by Mr. Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass. 

 These two. in addition to the three il- 

 hi-iiairil last week, will be 'shown at 

 ita It ,i,,.ii e. making five new sorts of 

 ji, ,1 |iioiiiise. Mr. Fisher's descrip- 



Mo. 130 is a white ground penciled 

 with pink: very chaste. A free, vigor- 

 ous grower and bloomer: 3i-ineh flowers 

 on long, wii\ -tiin-: pitiiit exceedinglv 

 healthy and '.d line lialiit. 



No. 270 i- iiiiiil I lie dull days of win- 

 ter one of tlie \ ir\ 111 -I pure white sorts. 

 In the dark .season lli,' lenter is markeil 

 aivd shaded with |iiiik: very ilia-te and 

 a ready seller. 'J be liloiim> run from 

 3 to 3* inches, are of tine form and 

 borne on stiff stems. Jt is very early 

 and free and promises to be a summer 

 bloomer. 



MY EXPERIENCE WITH CARNA- 

 TIONS DISSEMINATED IN 1900. 



[Read before the New York Florists' Chib, 

 The century closes with a distinct 

 vanccraent in the quality of the car 

 tion ; in fact, the new . . i,iiir\ i- In rab 

 in by what may jihim t., !,.■ an eiitir 

 new class of the di\iiii llnu. a, approa 



.thing 



size. >lKipe. vigor, constitution, and with 

 it all freedom of bloom. Seedlings from 

 this carnation alrcadv show in a marked 



md 



due 



Ume 



as I have seen it very fine in the fall in 

 Boston. For a large flower it is very pro- 

 lific, a good keeper and a very popular 

 variety with the flower-loving public. 

 It requires very little tying, as the stems 

 are very stiff and strong and are now of 

 good average length. These two carna- 

 tions mark a period of great advance- 

 ment in carnation culture and come up 

 very nearly to .John Thorpe's prophecy 

 of the four-inch flower. 



W^e now come to four carnations which, 

 although they cannot be classed with the 

 two just mentioned, have great individ- 

 ual merits and may prove good paying 

 varieties. The only one so far to show 

 itself a winner is Genevieve Lord. Like 

 one of its parents, William Scott, it is a 

 strong grower, a free bloomer, with 

 strong, long stems requiring but little 

 support, in color a most delicate pink. 

 As a market bloom it finds instant favor, 

 showing- the public appreciate its good 



