The Weekly Florists' Review* 



77 



Plant of Carnation Jubilee, grown by Wietor Bros., Chicago. 



what is known as soft wooded, such as 

 geraniums and the usual run of bed- 

 ding plants, the pipes overhead are 

 both most unsatisfactory and unnatu- 

 ral. 



In the very cold days of winter you 

 are firing hard enough to cause a circu- 

 lation throughout the house, but in 

 milder weather when firing is resorted 

 to as much to keep out dampness as to 

 keep up temperature, the little heat 

 generated will be above the plants 

 or escaping out of the ventilators, 

 while the plants are standing cold 

 and damp. This experience I have 

 passed through and know it is so. 



When the overhead fad was first 

 started some 15 years ago, some mis- 

 guided but doubtless honest advocate 

 of the system said it was natural that 

 solar heat came from above, and that 

 was where our pipes ought to be. If 

 he had said that elevating the green- 

 house a mile in the air would save 

 heat, because we would be nearer the 

 sun, it would have been as rational. 

 For a commercial greenhouse, I be- 

 lieve there is only one place for the 

 pipes, and that is on the side walls. 

 WM. SCOTT. 



CARNATION JUBILEE. 



We present herewith an engraving of 

 a plant of Jubilee carnation, grown by 

 Wietor Bros., Chicago. This plant 

 was lifted from the bench and potted, 

 simply to facilitate the work of secur- 

 ing a photograph of an individual 

 plant. 



Their plants of Jubilee for the com- 

 ing season's bloom, are now in 3-inch 

 pots, and will soon be planted out on 

 the bench, being carried through the 

 summer under glass. A light shade 

 will be given during July and August, 

 and occasional syringings, together 

 with damping down the walks to keep 

 down red spider. 



Their method of supporting the 

 plants is to stretch wires in the same 

 manner as for roses, but only ten 

 inches above the surface of the bench. 

 Then stiff wire is run across the 

 bench at each side of the plant, and 

 tied in position with string. Later 

 another line of wire is stretched ten 

 or twelve inches above the other, and 

 across these string is carried instead 

 of wire. This same support is used 

 for Armazindy and Triumph. 



They find Jubilee a very profitable 

 variety, though it is inclined to be a 

 cropper, and they are often unable to 

 get the crops in when they want them. 

 But until a sort possessing the fine 

 flower and stem of Jubilee without its 

 faults comes along, that variety will 

 stand pretty near at the head. There 

 seems some tendency to rust but noth- 

 ing serious as yet, and this is their 

 third year's experience with the vari- 

 ety. 



The soil they use is a sandy loam to 

 which has been added a quantity of 

 the clay soil they use for roses. 



TORONTO. 



Trade Review. 



Weddings have been the order of the 

 day since June came in, and they have 

 helped considerably to work off the 

 large quantity of blooms which has 

 been coming in lately. Good carna- 

 tions have been selling at 75 cents, but 

 a great many are going at 60 cents. 

 Peaonies are very plentiful, some ver.v 

 good varieties among them. 



By the time this is published the 

 bedding plant trade will be in its dy- 

 ing throes, and by that time, also, ac- 

 cording to all accounts, most of the 

 growers will be pretty well cleaned out. 

 Much more has been done than before, 

 but stocks were much larger also. The 

 city is well decorated with window 

 boxes and hanging baskets this year, 

 and probably there will be a little 

 more of this to do yet. Some very 

 pretty boxes have been put up. 



The Annual Exhibition. 



The annual financial statements of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Associa- 

 tion and the Chrysanthemum Show of 

 1897, which were belated somewhere 

 between New Year's and now, have 

 been issued. The Chrysanthemum 

 Show shows a deficit of $214 (viz.; cash 

 from T. G. & F. A., $91.49, and 25 per 

 cent of prizes donated by prize win- 

 ners, $122.54). Will a ten-cent day 

 make up this deficiency in next year's 

 show? I believe it will, if the Pavilion 

 is large enough to hold the crowd. The 

 city council have donated $100 toward 

 prizes for the school children's show 

 and the Manufacturers' Association 

 have promised a silver and a bronze 

 medal. 



Horticultural Society. 



The show of flowers on the tables at 

 the last meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society was very fine, mostly hardy 

 perennials, on which subject a most 

 interesting paper was read by Mr. J. 

 McP. Ross, the president. Among those 

 things specially fine were a bunch of 

 hardy pyrethrums, from Manton Bros., 

 and some blooms of a magnificent 

 strain of single petunias, by Geo. Mills, 

 originating from the Giant of Califor- 

 nia, but improved by him for two or 

 three years. 



Notes. 



I notice a great reduction in the num- 

 ber of carpet beds about the city this 



