AUaUST 4, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



237 



propagate, which is best done at the 

 end of this month, and for which I will 

 give hints later on. 



WM. SCOTT. 



THE EUCHARIS. 



Much has been written about this 

 plant as a florists' flower. We have 

 grown it largely for the past twenty 

 years and the treatment we have given 

 it, is so very different from any that 

 we have seen, we will give the readers 

 of The Florists' Review our way of 

 growing one of the most successful, 

 all-year-round pure white flowers, that 

 cannot be surpassed for fine funeral 

 work, bridal bouquets and flat bunches. 



We have a bed eighty feet long and 

 six feet wide, that has since last Sep- 

 tember produced five full crops of 

 bloom, that will run from four to five 

 weeks from first bloom until crop is 

 off, cutting as high as two hundred 

 and fifty blooms per day, when in the 

 height of the crop. The bed is now out 

 of bloom, but we can at any time cut 

 a dozen or so. The first crop came in 

 in September and again in December 

 of last .vear, in February, a small crop, 

 a very fine crop at Easter and it is 

 now sending up the flower scapes for 

 a new crop. 



The bed has not been disturbed as a 

 whole but twice in 20 years, and then 

 only to put a new bottom in the bench. 

 The last time it was moved we put in 

 cedar boards and they still last. The 

 bed has not been dried oft since start- 



or other manure. When the flower 

 stalks begin to show up, strong liquid 

 manure is given once a week until the 

 flowers begin to open. Shade is put on 

 by whitewashing the glass in summer 



goes off. The house runs from 62 to 65 

 degrees at night in winter. A four-inch 

 line (supply) runs under the bed. We 

 have found that they must be let 

 alone. Don't try to divide them until 



Washington Park, Chicago. 



ed. As the clumps of the bulbs spread 

 out, we lift out a clump or so to give 

 room. The bed is well watered every 

 day in summer with the hose, and top 

 dressed from time to time with sheep 



heavy and no air given them. The 

 house often goes up to 120 degrees in 

 summer until the leaves wilt with the 

 heat in the middle of the day, then 

 freshen up again as soon as the sun 



the clumps spread out. or dry them off. 

 Keep them growing all the time and 

 dust with tobacco dust under the 

 leaves or give tobacco water to keep 

 off the thrips. 



There is nothing, we find, equal to 

 the eucharis for fine white, and by put- 

 ting in a bench that will last, so they 

 will not have to be disturbed, in a 

 warm end of a shady house, you can 

 always depend on a flower that is 

 choice as an orchid and a better seller. 

 Our variety is the Eucharis grandi- 

 flora. Amazonica is a ishy bloomer un- 

 less great care is taken with it, and it 

 will only give at the best two crops a 

 year. Wc have some clumps of it in 

 our bed of grandiflora and we flnd it 

 likes the f.eaiment we give the others, 

 but the bloom only comes twice a year. 



We tried to present with this to the 

 readers of The Florists' Review a 

 photograph of the bed in bloom, but 

 on account of a few plants getting in 

 the way that moved, it blurred the 

 negative. 



The flowers will keep in water for a 

 week if kept in a cool place and they 

 do not bruise easily. A bunch of the 

 eucharis made up with the Asparagus 

 plumosus or adiantum will always win 

 in funeral work. 



Cincinnati, O. B. P. CRITCHELL. 



SAN FRANCISCO.— The State Board 

 of Trade has decided to send a repre- 

 sentative to the Hawaiian islands to 

 make a collection of their horticultur- 

 al, agricultural and manufactured pro- 

 ducts, to be added to the present per- 

 manent exhibit of the board. 



