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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



JULY 28, 1898. 



than in this old variety just mentioned, 

 the edges are more deeply serrated and 

 the growth of the whole plant is 

 stronger and more spreading. Although 

 a later bloomer naturally, it only re- 

 quired very little more time to bring it 

 out in flower during the winter months 

 and when its many superior qualities 

 become better known, I believe we 

 shall see thousands of them forced 

 every winter. 



As yet they are not any too plenty,, 

 and plants command a rather high 

 price, especially fair-sized clumps, 

 though as they propagate quite fast by 

 division, we may reasonably expect a 

 reduction in prices in the near future. 

 A moist soil is most suitable for them 

 and when we can furnish a position 

 protected from the midday sun they 

 will be just in the right place, and the 

 flowers will continue in perfection for 

 a long time. J. B. KELLER. 



AMONG CHICAGO GROWERS. 



Philip Broadbeck's. 

 Philip Broadbeck has the old Sulzer 

 place near Graceland Cemetery. Many 

 of the houses are very old, but he 

 manages to make them produce good 

 stock just the same. His carnations 

 for the coming season will be cut from 

 3,000 plants of Daybreak and 2,000 of 

 McGowan, and he will try KH) Argyle. 

 In roses he will cut from 2,000 Maids, 

 1,600 Brides and 1,200 Meteors in ad- 



blooming. The Meteors were plants 

 that had been forced the year before, 

 then pulled out and heeled in outside. 

 They were chopped out of the frozen 

 ground in February, taken inside, 

 potted up, and when some growth had 

 been made they were planted out in 

 beds made where the carnation 

 benches had been. He has had two 

 crops from them and will cut flowers 

 from them until time to bench carna- 

 tions again. The flowers of the first 

 crop were rather short stemmed,' but 

 the plants are now breaking strongly 

 from the bottom. 



He carries over most of his roses, 

 replanting only about every third 

 year, and finds he gets better wood 

 and stem from the old plants. Often 

 he replants the old plants, lifting 

 them and placing them in the potting 

 shed until fresh soil can be put into 

 the beds or benches. He uses lime- 

 wash freely, giving a heavy coat to 

 the bottoms of benches before refill- 

 ing, and covers all woodwork that can 

 be reached. 



He is growing quite a batch of Cy- 

 perus alternifolius, for which there 

 seems to be an increasing call. 



Cbas. Hartwig's. 

 Of carnations Chas. Hartwig will 

 this season bench 1,500 each of Scott 

 and Uncle John and 1,000 each of 

 Daybreak, Tidal Wave and McGowan. 

 Uncle John is his banner white and 

 it does exceedingly well with him. It 



value as plant food. He uses sod and 

 manure for his roses and has never 

 been able to see any results from the 

 application of bone meal. Out of con- 

 sideration for the feelings of his 

 neighbors he tried to do away with the 

 use of animal manures, but after some 

 unfortunate experiences had to return 

 to them. As an example of the un- 

 certainties and danger of experiment- 

 ing with chemicals he relates an ex- 

 perience in the use of carbolic acid 

 for mildew on roses. He found that 

 this acid diluted to the proper degree 

 was a specific for mildew and all went 

 well for a while. Then, when used 

 in the same proportion, it took the 

 foliage off of all the roses treated. He 

 finally located the trouble in the fact 

 that prior to this time the carbolic 

 acid he had bought had been only an 

 SO per cent solution, while the last lot 

 had been a 95 per cent solution. The 

 honest druggist had worked ruin to 

 his roses, through his honesty. This 

 experience discouraged him from ex- 

 perimenting with chemicals. 



He used to grow considerable valley, 

 but does not grow any now. "Lost 

 money on my last valley. No money 

 in bulbs any more." This expresses 

 his feelings in the matter. Still he 

 will this year dally with 2,000 longi- 

 fiorum lilies. 



Anton T hen's. 

 Anton Then's greenhouses in Bcw- 

 manville are devoted wholly to the 



Greenhouses of Reinberg Bros., Sununerdale, Chicago. 



dition to a bench of Kaiserins. These 

 Kaiserins occupy a center bench and 

 there are carnations on the side 

 benches. The roses were dried out 

 last winter and carried semi-dormant 

 till March, when he began to water 

 them again and he has cut three crops 

 from the bench. When the roses be- 

 gan to come of fair size he gave the 

 house a rose temperature and he got 

 good flowers, but the carnations 

 didn't do so well then. 



He has followed some of his carna- 

 tions with Meteor roses for summer 



is never rusty, and he has never had 

 any trouble with rust on any of his 

 carnations. He once received a batch 

 of young plants of McGowan that 

 were rusty, but they soon grew out of 

 it, and he hasn't seen any rust on the 

 place since. He finds that McGowan 

 does best in a rose-house temperature. 

 He will try a hundred Jubilee and a 

 few hundred Flora Hill. 



In roses he will grow 3,000 each of 

 Brides and Maids. He thinks that the 

 "clay" used by Mr. Stielow is really 

 marl, which has of course a decided 



production of fiowers and plants to sell 

 at his city store and the stock is quite 

 varied in character. 



For early chrysanthemums he has 

 benched about equal numbers of Fitz- 

 wigram, Mrs. Geo. S. Kalb, Robinson. 

 Glory of the Pacific and Yellow 

 Queen. Other sorts to be grown this 

 season are Ivory, Mayflower, Wana- 

 maker, Jones, Bonnaffon, Widoner. 

 Golden Wedding, Maud Dean, Morel, 

 Perrin and Geo. W. Childs. He will 

 have 3,800 plants altogether. He has 

 dropped Pink Ivory as it wasn't pink 



