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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



S. Kalb, Frank Hardy and Elvena. He 

 would grow more Mayflower, but It 

 does not propagate easily. It is two 

 weeks earlier than Jones. His plants 

 are now in pots plunged in an open 

 frame outside and would much rathei" 

 have them outside until they can be 

 planted out on the benches. Some five 

 or six hundred will remain in pots and 

 be grown on for pot plants, and will 

 be marketed when in 6 and 7-inch 

 pots. They will be kept dwarf and 

 grown on side benches or they 

 wouldn't pay at the price obtained, 

 which is $3 to |4 per dozen, and he 

 can't find a market for a greater num- 

 ber than above noted. 



He will have only one house of 

 roses, including Brides, Maids and 

 Perles. 



Of carnations he will have 4,000 

 Wave, 3,000 McGowan and 1,000 Scott. 

 Of the new sorts he is trying only 50 

 each of Evelina, Gold Nugget, Cerise 

 Queen, Argyle, White Cloud and Bon 

 Ton. He maintains a temperature of 

 50 to 52 degrees. 



In making his carnation soil he uses 

 half clay from the river bank and half 

 light soil and then adds one-fourth its 

 bulk of manure. 



He grows quite a stock of bedding 

 plants for wholesale trade. Geraniums 

 went well, but at low prices. His va- 

 rieties include S. A. Nutt, Bruant, Jas. 

 Vick, Centaur, Clifton, Pink Perfec- 

 tion, La Favorite, Mrs. E. G. Hill, Er- 

 nest Lauth, Atkinson, Mrs. Gaar, etc. 

 He has had some trouble with Bruant 

 coming blind, though he finds they 

 bloom all right after being planted 

 out. He has had less of it this year 

 than formerly by carefully selecting 

 the stock to propagate from. He has 



also had some trouble from the leaf 

 disease and find the plants grow out 

 of it when planted out in the field. 



He noted less call this year for 

 pelargoniums, ivy leaved geraniums 

 and echeverias. Cannas, heliotrope, 

 fuchsias (mainly Black Prince) and 

 alternantheras went as well as ever. In 

 alternantheras, paronychioides major 

 was decidedly in the lead as usual. 



As a market pot rose he has found 

 nothing to take the place of the old 

 Hermosa. He finds it a better bloom- 

 er and more satisfactory than Sou- 

 pert. 



He is now rebuilding two of his 

 houses, but will not add any new 

 glass. He has a total of about 1. 5.000 

 feet of glass. 



Joseph Lang's. 



Joseph Lang is going more largely 

 into ferns and has quite a stock of 

 Pteris tremula, P. serrulata, P. serru- 

 lata cristata, P. cretica albo-lineata, 

 Nephrolepis tuberosa, N. exaltata Bos- 

 toniensis, Nephrodium molle, and 

 others. He grew Nephrodium molle 

 for the first time last year and it sold 

 well. He sells almost entirely to re- 

 tail florists who have fern dishes to 

 fill. For this work he also finds Pep- 

 eromia Saundersli, and Isolepis gra- 

 cilis in good demand. He grows quite 

 a lot of Cyperus alternifolius, and as 

 he can't get up stock fast enough 

 by cuttings, he has several flats 

 of seedlings coming on. Dracaena 

 indivisa seems in good demand. 

 He grew 3,000 last season and cleaned 

 out. Begonias metallica and manicata 

 aurea maculata sold very well this sea- 

 son. He also grows bedding plants and 

 marketed 10,000 geraniums this year. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 



Stollery Bros., Argyle Park, Chi- 

 cago, Send excellent blooms of chry- 

 santhemums to the Chicago market. 

 Their place is moderate in size but 

 well handled, the two brothers taking 

 care of every detail in person. 



For the coming season they have 

 benched 300 Yellow Queen, 75 Elvina, 

 150 Geo. S. Kalb, 100 Mayflower, 500 

 Golden Wedding, 325 Mrs. H. Weeks, 

 100 Sunstone, 50 each of Pink Ivory 

 and Maud Adams, and 150 each of 

 Maud Dean, Viviand-Morel and West- 

 ern King. 



They grow nearly all their chrysan- 

 themums with two flowers to a plant 

 and find they get much better returns 

 per square foot of bench In this way 

 than when grown one flower to a 

 plant. Their rows are 10 inches apart 



and the plants 8 inches apart in the 

 rows. To get the same number of 

 flowers from an equal surface with 

 only one flower to a plant the plants 

 would have to be placed only five 

 inches apart and if set thus close of 

 course there would not be enough light 

 and circulation of air among them to 

 preserve the lower foliage. While 

 some varieties will not produce the 

 best results with two flowers to a 

 plant the great majority will. May- 

 flower, Bonnaffon and Ivory produce 

 better flowers where there is only one 

 to a plant. Viviand-Morel will pro- 

 duce three good flowers to a plant as 

 easily as one. The largest flowers of 

 Morel they ever had were grown three 

 to a plant. 



Mr. Stollery would not care to plant 

 closer even if he were growing but one 

 flower to a plant. And to say nothing 



of the increased production per square 

 foot of bench surface there is a very 

 great saving in plants. To get 4,000 

 flowers from 2,000 plants is a very 

 great advantage in saving the expense 

 and labor of propagating and growing 

 2,000 plants to a suitable size for 

 benching. 



Mr. Stollery considers Yellow Queen 

 decidedly the best early yellow, but 

 thinks Solar Queen may crowd it for 

 first place. 



Elvina is a very beautiful shell pink 

 that blooms with Yellow Queen. It is 

 a poor propagator, but grows well af- 

 ter it gets a start. 



He believes that Geo. S. Kalb has 

 no competitor as an early white. 



With him Mayflower still holds its 

 place as one of the best whites. He 

 sees no profit in Ivory. He can pro- 

 duce just as many Mayflower on an 

 equal space, and they will sell at $3 a 

 dozen while Ivory will bring only 

 $1.75 to $2. With them Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones has always been prone to drop 

 its petals and it is not so good a seller 

 as Mayflower. 



He believes Mrs. H. Weeks is a com- 

 ing midseason white if the flower 

 doesn't prove too soft. It has the ap- 

 pearance of being a poor shipper, but 

 he thinks this is in appearance only. 

 At the last exhibition he noted that 

 the flowers stood well to the last. He 

 believes this variety will give May- 

 flower a hard push for first place. 



Sunstone has a very nice habit with 

 fine stem and foliage. The color lacks 

 in positiveness, but it is pretty and 

 the plant Is a good grower. He has 

 dropped Modesto on account of its 

 weak stem . 



Golden Wedding is his banner yel- 

 low. It takes no more room than 

 Bonnafton, is as sure to come and the 

 blooms will bring $3.50 to $4 a dozen 

 while Bonnaffon brings only $2.50. He 

 has never had any disease among his 

 plants of Wedding. It is rather a tall 

 grower and needs head room. 



With him Pink Ivory (Miss Agnes 

 Dalskov) came pink the first year, but 

 after that it came white. He can't 

 understand it. The plants couldn t 

 have become mixed, as he never had a 

 plant of white Ivory on the place. 

 Mrs Perrin has a fine color, but he 

 can't get any size into it and don't 

 want any more. 



As a late yellow Maud Adams takes 

 a high place. It follows Wedding, and 

 the fiowers are similar to those of 

 Bonnaffon, but larger. One objection- 

 able feature is its height, as it will go 

 up six feet. 



With him Maud Dean is the best all 

 round midseason pink. Her only de- 

 fect is that she has an eye and keeps 

 it open. Viviand-Morel has been the 

 most profitable of the pinks, but of 

 late has been very erratic as to color. 



Western King was unsatisfactory 

 last year, but he will give it another 

 trial. It made buds fast in a small 

 state and he couldn't get it to make 

 a good growth. It was sent out very 



