JUNE 30, ISSIS. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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KJehm's Paeonies in Cold Storage. 



to be now out of the question. He 

 tried Harrison's White (said to be re- 

 ally Puritan) and has dropped it. In 

 fall, it produced a good crop, but the 

 flowers were only semi-double. In 

 winter it stood almost dormant, but 

 in spring produced another large crop, 

 and curiously the flowers of the spring 

 crop were remarkably double, being so 

 full as to be almost as round as a ball. 

 It was a healthy and good grower, but 

 he is well convinced that it couldn't 

 possibly have been a sport from Scott. 

 Emma Wocher has also been dropped. 

 The color was good, but the flowers 

 were too single and too small in size. 



In preparing his soil for carnations 

 he adds wood ashes and bone meal as 

 well as animal manure. But in mak- 

 ing his compost pile he keeps the lay- 

 ers of wood, ashes and bones separate. 

 If they came in contact the wood ashes 

 would liberate the ammonia from the 

 bone. He uses another hundred pounds 

 of bone meal to each house when put 

 ting the soil in the bench. That mixed 

 with the compost is available as soon 

 as the plants begin to grow, while that 

 added when filling the bench is for la- 

 ter use. The potash in the wood ashes 

 strengthens the stem and helps to pro- 

 duce more flowers. He believes the 

 use of chemical manures will be large- 

 ly increased when we know better how 

 to use them. 



He sets the plants quite closely to- 

 gether on the bench, rarely more 

 than ten inches apart, and when 

 benched in the fall the plants touch 

 each other, while by January or Feb- 

 ruary they are such a mass of growth 

 that individual plants cannot very 

 well be distinguished. As a suppoTt 



he runs a wire between each row the 

 long way of the bench and runs string 

 across these, making a square around 

 each plant. There are two tiers of 

 wire and string, the first eight inches 

 above the soil and the second sixteen 

 inches above it. He never sprinkles 

 the plants overhead except for a few 

 weeks after planting and sometimes 

 a little in the spring to keep down red 

 spider. Water is applied to the soil 

 under the plants. He aims to keep his 

 carnation houses dry and cool. He 

 does not mulch the beds or disturb the 

 soil in any way. He feeds liquid ma- 

 nure beginning the latter part of Jan- 

 uary and regularly every two weeks 

 afterward. His liquid is made from 

 sheep or cow manure, with occasion- 

 ally a little nitrate of soda or muriate 

 of potash added. When mixing his 

 first lot of liquid he puts 2o or 30 lbs. 

 of horn shavings in the tank. These 

 dissolve slowly and give value all 

 winter. 



COLD STORAGE PAEONIES. 



We present herewith a view of the 

 compartment in a Chicago cold storage 

 warehouse where the Klehm brothers 

 carry their paeonies in cold storage. 

 The blooms are cut when in the bud. 

 but not till the top petals start to sep- 

 arate, making what is called "the 

 split." The buds are then wrapped 

 up in bundles of 14 each, to make a 

 generous dozen, and placed in buckets 

 about half full of water in the cold 

 storage room, which is maintained at 

 about the freezing point. The water 

 is not changed and will remain sweet 

 as long as the flowers are kept there. 

 The paper is placed around the buds 



only and not around the lower stems, 

 and different colored paper is used to 

 designate the different varieties they 

 contain, which is preferable to label- 

 ling the bundles. The paper is to 

 keep the buds from being touched by 

 frost. Care is taken to never wet the 

 blooms. 



In this way a number of varieties 

 may be held from six to eight weeks 

 and come out apparently as fresh as 

 when put in. When taken out for use 

 a little piece is cut off the end of the 

 stems and the buds placed in water, 

 when they open gradually. If the bud 

 is cut a little too tight when it does 

 open it will pop wide open and drop. 

 And not all varieties will respond ta 

 the cold storage treatment. The white 

 sorts seem to be the best keepers, 

 though the fine sort known here as 

 "Drop White" is one of the poor keep- 

 ers. The early sort known here as 

 "Old Red" will not keep at all in cold 

 storage, while the common pink sort 

 will keep only ten days or two weeks. 



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