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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



JULY 21, 1898. 



Chrysanthemums Supports and Diseases. 



There may be some of us, and likely 

 is, who have not yet tied up the ohrys- 

 anthemums. You still see used in some 

 places the old fashioned stakes. It is 

 a great mistake and even if not more 

 expensive than string does not an- 

 swer the purpose nearly so well. On 

 side benches, where dwarf kinds are 

 grown, the stake will do, but with va- 

 rieties that grow 4 and ."> feat high 

 there is only one satisfactory way to 

 support them. Near each row and an 

 incli or so above the soil a wire .should 

 be stretched across the bed and ti or 7 

 feet above the plants a similar wire. 

 If you have a one-inch iron pipe for 

 purlin on each side of house then the 

 top wire is easily arranged, but if not, 

 there is always some way of irranging 

 it. From the bottom wire to '.he top 

 one at every plant run a coarse string. 

 There is a cheap loose string sold that 

 is just right for the purpose. It is 

 the color and somewhat the texture of 

 the farmer's ordinary binding twine, 

 but not nearly so strong and less than 

 half the price. 



I said a string for every plant, and 

 I wish to emphasize that, no matter 

 whether you grow 1 flower or 3 to a 

 plant. Last year an attempt to be 

 economical was made at my expense 

 and was much regretted before the 

 crop was cut. Every plant deserves 

 and should have a string. 



The black fly, which is almost or 

 quite peculiar to the chrysanthemum, 

 is as much in evidence as ever. Three 

 successive fumigations will rid the 

 plants of them for several weeks and is 

 much the best plan, but if not handy 

 to do, the extract of tobacco diluted 

 to one part in .50 of water will clear 

 them out for a time. 



The rust that attacks several varie- 

 ties and prevents many a grower from 

 cultivating that king of yellows. Gol- 

 den Wedding, is not well understood. 

 It is a fungus no doubt, and when it 

 attacks a plant, if let alone, will creep 

 up and up till the petals are affected 

 and the flowers useless. I am certain 

 that it can be arrested by the use of 

 the liquid Bordeaux Mixture or what 

 is more easily made, the ammoniacal 

 mixture. This disease troubled but 

 a very few varieties some years ago, 

 but last year I saw it on Philadelphia, 

 Yellow Queen, Mrs. E. G. Hill and even 



on that robust and good growing varie- 

 ty Lincoln. Now, if these sulphate of 

 copper mixtures will arrest the spread 

 of the disease on plants affected it 

 surely must- be a good plan to use it 

 as a preventive, which I am doing now 

 and would advise all to do who are 

 troubled with the rust. 



Carnations. 



In the spring I advised you to plant 

 out a thousand or two carnations of 

 half a dozen of the best varieties of de- 

 cided colors and let them run up to 

 flower for they would come in very 

 useful between the time that your old 

 crop was thrown out and the new be- 

 gan to produce. In a climate wliere 

 no frost appeared before November 

 they would be of the greatest use as I 

 have proved and where frost .loes oc- 

 cur, say end of September, which un- 

 fortunately is the case where the 

 writer grows his carnations, they are 

 well worth some slight protection 

 against the early frosts. I speak of 

 them to remind you that although you 

 will be stopping your winter flowering 

 carnations for another montJi these 

 that are intended to flower out of doors 

 should be pinched no more and they 

 deserve a stake to keep heavy rains 

 from beating down the shoors and 

 flowers. 



The Bermuda Lily. 



The Bermuda lily will soon arrive. 

 They are already arriving at our sea- 

 ports. You have most likely ordered 

 .") to 7 for winter flowering and 7 to 

 for later crops. It is poor policy to let 

 the bulbs lay round in the shed dry- 

 ing out. If well packed in sand they 

 will suffer less harm, but if possible 

 get them potted as soon as They ar- 

 rive. There is no hurry about the 

 larger size bulbs arriving; if they are 

 here in a month it will be plenty of 

 time, but if shipped you had far better 

 have them than for them to be lying 

 round some warehouse. The llermuda 

 lily is grown during late fall and win- 

 ter much more for the cut sterns than 

 ■ as a pot plant and even if we do 

 lose 2.") or :'•<) per cent they are still 

 much more profitable than many 

 plants we grow. I tried one year to 

 grow a number of bulbs in boxes, 18 

 inches square and 4 or 5 inches deep, 

 but will never do so again. They do 

 not all flower within a month of the 



same time, and altogether, it i.s a very 

 unsatisfactory way to handle them, 

 particularly nowadays when half of 

 them may never produce a flower. 



It is desirable to get some in as early 

 as you can. So pot the ') to 7 bulbs at 

 once in 3-inch pots. If you have a 

 shady bench it is just as well to place 

 the pots there as ovit of doors, .\fter 

 one good watering, keep moderately 

 dry till you see evidence of growth. 

 The 3-inch pot is large enough to start 

 them and when they have grown an 

 inch or two and appear healthy shift 

 them into a .5-inch, as small a pat as 

 a good lily should have. 



WM. SCOTT. 



AMONG PHILADELPHIA GROWERS. 



The following notes are taken from 

 about a dozen of the largest growers, 

 arranged alphabetically. The places 

 are all in good condition; quality is 

 therefore not considered. 



Geo. Anderson's. 



George Anderson has IS houses con- 

 taining some 3."),(>*>o feet of glass at 

 ."ioth street and Woodland avenue. 

 West F'hiladelphia. He has six house.s 

 of Beauties, three of Brunners. two of 

 Kaiserins, two of Meteors, one -^ach of 

 Brides, Maids, La France and Carnots. 

 and one north side propagating house. 

 His houses are three-quarter span to 

 . the south and are heated by steain 

 with two .">0-horse power horizontal 

 boilers. Coke from the gas works is 

 burned, together with "breeze." which 

 is considered a great saving in ex- 

 pense when heavy firing is not need- 

 ed. Brunner lias been Mr. Anderson's 

 most profitable rose, but he .Inds the 

 increased quantity of Beauty on the 

 market depreciates the price of Brun- 

 ners. Meteor improved as the season 

 advanced and was in great shape when 

 thrown out two weeks ago. 



Brides and Maids are being tried 

 grafted, about one half this way and 

 one half on their own roots. Mr. An- 

 derson thinks a comparisoa unfair at 

 present, the grafted stock being about 

 twice as big as the own root stock. 

 La France, which was largely grown 

 formerly, is hard to sell. Kaiserin. on 

 own roots, is grown in a ground bed 

 for a summer rose, which, as Mr. An- 

 derson puts it, means nine months' 

 flowering out of the twelve. The plants 

 are not rested enough to allow the fol- 

 iage to drop. The houses have been 

 in two and three years respectively. 

 Carnot is being lifted for replanting in 

 a ground bed in another house; 2,()0(> 

 Longiflorium lilies and L.'JOO Hydran- 

 gea Otaksa, two thirds of them 8-inch, 

 replace a house of hybrids and are 

 forced for Easter. 



Chas. D. BaU's. 



Charles D. Ball has 00,000 feet of 

 glass at Holmesburg. There are twen- 

 ty houses devoted exclusively to palms. 

 Areca lutescens is here in large quan- 

 tities, then come Latania borbonica, 



