XOVEMBER 15, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



709 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Lilies. 



As elirysantlieiiiuiiis go out lilies will 

 occupj' the bfiK/hfs. I have never seen 

 any reason to alter my opinion about 

 starting: the 7 to 9 bulbs in 4inch pots 

 and at this time shifting them into and 

 7-inch. It should be done before they 

 are more than 3 or 4 inches high. For 

 the last shift we use good loam without 

 any manure, but we put a crock in the 

 bottom of the pot and a covering of some 

 rotten manure. There is not yet much 

 disease showing. Let us hope it may 

 keep off, but we remember with sorrow 

 that a batch of Bermuda longillonun 

 that looked splendid up to middle of 

 last January began alx)ut that date to 

 look as if they were scalded, and not 

 one out of 500 escaped. I can only say 

 that when once showing the disease it 

 is useless and a waste of room to keep 

 them a day on the bench. 



The Japan longilloruras are up to date 

 free of the disease and are now largely 

 depended on for Kaster. They can be 

 keiit in a temperature of 4.5 to 50 de- 

 grees till Dec. 1st. After that they should 

 go into a night temperature of GO de- 

 grees, which can be gradually increased 

 to 05 or 70 if necessary, but never check 

 them when once growing by lowering the 

 temperature more than a few degrees 

 or it will seriously impair their chance 

 of blooming in time. 



Lilies suffer very much from greenfly 

 and fumigation scarcely reaches the 

 aphis, which are deep down in the crown 

 of leaves. A weak solution of one of the 

 tobacco extracts sprayed into them will 

 keep the fly down and a weekly fumigat- 

 ing will do the rest. To sum up "the 

 method of forcing lilies I should say, 

 keep them cool till you are ready to give 

 them a good heat; after that keep them 

 steadily going, with no setback. 



Chrysanthemums. 



Up to present time chrysanthemums 

 have sold about as well as in the past 

 two or three years. Monster blooms are 

 no longer asked for or desired. From .$2 

 to .$4 per dozen retail is our limit. The 

 list of varieties is much curtailed and 

 white, yellow and pink will cover 95 per 

 cent of all that are sold. We lift a few 

 plants or a few dozen of the varieties 

 we want and plant them in 3 inches of 

 soil in flats and keep them in a cool, 

 light house till we want to begin opera- 

 tic pus again next February or March. If 

 we wanted to greatly increase any one 

 variety we would put into the propagat- 

 ing bed all available cuttings. When well 

 rooted we would plant them out in 4 or 

 5 inches of good soil on a bench, 12 

 inches apart. From these plants we 

 would get an immense quantity of cut- 

 tings and of the very best quality. 



When calling on Mr. Dailledonze re- 

 cently he remarked that we could not 

 get along yet without old W. H. Lincoln 

 and Maud Dean, and so we say, all of 

 us. They also spoke most highly of 

 Trainer L. Park, "the best mid-season 

 yellow," and Walter Molatsch. which 

 can be described as an early Lincoln. 

 Ivory is still unsurpassed and Jerome 

 Jones is still a grand late white. Don't 

 forget Polly Rose, the white sport of 

 Glory of the Pacific; it comes in just 

 after Fitzwvgram. W. K. Harris, the 

 deacon and poet, raised Ivory, and Robert 

 Craig raised Maud Dean, and if these 

 gentlemen never did anything else meri- 

 torious they deserve that all their sins 

 should be forgiven. 



The petals of late chrysanthemums of- 

 ten damp and decay. This is caused by 

 moisture resting on the petals, so keejp 

 a little fire heat and ventilation when- 

 ever it is dark and rainy, even if it is 

 not cold. 



There seems to be a lot of labor wast- 

 ed in some places in giving mums more 



veiy interesting story could be told as to 

 why roses are grown in 2} or 3 inches 

 of soil. No one thought of trying it pur- 

 jiosely. It was purely an accident, and 

 then we all followed the leader. We have 

 tn thank accident more than design for 

 many of our most valuable methods. 



Poinsettias. 



I shall probably have nothing more to 

 say about these Christmas flowers again 

 this winter. I will remind you once more 

 not to attempt to shift them or put them 

 in pans. If you want to make up pans 

 wait till the bracts are fully developed, 

 or rather wait till the very day you want 

 to sell them. For some reason not at 

 present understood our plants in 6-inch 

 pots have gone up a great height. This 

 is quite undesirable and would be serious 

 had we not a lot in 5-ineh that are from 

 24 to 30 inches. It may have been too 

 rich a soil or maybe the warm autumn. 

 There are just two well known pests 

 that you have to look out for. The 

 mealy bug infests the real flowers or 

 nectar cups. They can be washed off 

 with the hose, and greenfly can be kept 

 down by smokiijg. 



Bulbs. 



I hope you got in a good. Lot -of Paper 

 White for the holidays. Then is when it 

 pays and it should be grown cool and 

 light. Romans should be brought in ev- 

 ery week and an extra lot about now 

 for Christmas. Don't attempt to force 



Display of John Mangel at the Chicago Show. 



soil than is necessary. We have just now 

 a bench of Lincolns just opening. They 

 have much the strongest stems and fin- 

 est foliage and largest flowers we have 

 ever grown, and on measuring the depth 

 of soil on the bench today we found that 

 they had just two inches. There were 

 three inches when they started in July, 

 but it has shrunk aiid evaporated till 

 there is barely two, and it's enough. A 



tulips till the first week in December, 

 and then it is hard work to get good 

 flowers by Christmas. There are 'plenty 

 of other flowers and unless there is a 

 special order it is much wiser to leave 

 the tulips out in the beds till after New 

 Year's. 



Palms. 



When at Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, 



