AUGUST 25, 189S. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



345 



In carnations he will bench 1,500 

 Daybreak, 1.000 Scott. 500 Tidal "Wave 

 and 500 Flora Hill. He likes Hill, 

 which he finds very free in bloom and 

 the flowers large. He will tiy Pingree 

 and a number of the newer sorts. He 

 uses the brush support seen at Mr. 

 Mundt's and likes it. For summer 

 flowers he grows Fisher and Scott. 

 With him Scott is far ahead of Cen- 

 tury for summer work. 



He will try a house of violets this 

 year, planting them in one of his old 

 houses formerly devoted to carnations. 

 He also has quite a lot of chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



On the posts of the steps to his fine 

 new residence, built last summer, are 

 large pans of Asparagus Sprengerii 

 that are wonderfully effective in this 

 position. 



Argyle, Evelina and Mrs. James Dean, 

 1,000 each of Empress and Mrs. Fran- 

 ces Joost. They will also grow several 

 seedlings of their own. Mr. Hartshorne 

 gives Daybreak a night temperature of 

 48 degrees, Mrs. Bradt 50 degrees and 

 the remainder about 52 degrees. 



While of course varieties differ Mr. 

 Hartshorne likes best carnatiun plants 

 propagated early in March. If propa- 

 gated much before that they become 

 too large and if propagated later they 

 are hardly large enough. Of course 

 weak growers have to be propagated 

 earlier, some as early as January. 

 When the cuttings are rjoted he 

 plants them out close together on 

 benches containing a depth of about 

 two inches of sandy soil, insuring 

 quick drainage, and carries them here 

 till planting out time, which is with 



manure there happens to follow a 

 week of cloudy- weather he fluds that 

 a large number of bursted calyces re- 

 sult, and therefore the mulch is safer. 



UTILIZIMG FORCED BULBS. 



I believe florists make a mistake in 

 throwing away theii- forced bulbs of 

 the narcissus tribe. If such bulbs were 

 planted out in some vacant spot in 

 the garden. 100 to the square yard, 

 the.v would undoubtedly pay big re- 

 turns after two years. I have found 

 the growing of such very profitable, 

 and now have no less than 500.000 

 bulbs, with a steadily increasing de- 

 mand. 



In growing jonquil bulbs do not dig 

 or disturb them until the fourth year 

 and then only in the months of July 

 and August. Replanting should be 



Night Effect at the Omaha Exposition. 



Photo by F. A. Rineliart, Umalu 



Chicago Carnation Company. 



The Chicago Carnation Company is 

 starting in this season at Joliet with 

 eight new houses each :;2x'J'Ji). James 

 Hartshorne is manager of the new 

 concern. The houses are now in course 

 of construction and are to be com- 

 pleted by September 15. They are all 

 equal span, connected together and 

 run east and west on level ground. 

 The houses are separated one from the 

 other but in the dividing walls just be- 

 neath the gutter is a row of 24 inch 

 glass. Each house has two rows of 

 continuous ventilators two feet deep, 

 one on each side of the ridge. The 

 houses are all of wood construction, 

 and the glass on the roofs is 16x18. 



Mr. James Hartshorne. the manager, 

 is well known in Chicago as an expert 

 grower of carnations, and the aim of 

 the new place is to produce only extra 

 quality blooms. The stock for the 

 coming season's work will consist of 

 8.000 Jubilee, 8,000 Daybreak, 4,000 

 each of Flora Hill, Gold Nugget and 

 Mrs. Bradt, 3,500 Victor, 2,<iO0 each of 



him about the middle of April. The 

 plants are set only about 4 inches 

 apart in beds, and treated in the usual 

 way till about July 1 when they are 

 planted in their blooming quarters in- 

 side. Of course he can't do this this 

 year as his houses are not rerdy. but 

 it is his usual procedure. He would 

 plant inside still earlier but wants to 

 get all the value possible from the old 

 plants and it is profitable to keep cut- 

 ting from them up to about July 1. 



Planting outside is not so good as 

 carrying the plants along in pots but 

 to carry the plants on this way takes 

 pots and room needed for other 

 purposes. About a month after bench- 

 ing the plants he gives a light mulch, 

 less than half an inch thick, of well 

 rotted cow manure, merely to keep tht 

 soil from baking. When he begins feed- 

 ing he uses a mulch of half sheep ma- 

 nure and half soil thoroughly mixed 

 and placed on thinly. He finds this re- 

 quires less labor and is more lasting 

 than applications of liquid manure. 

 Again, if after an application of liquid 



done as soon as possible after digging. 

 Have the ground well pulverized and 

 clear of roots, etc., lay a 6-inch fence 

 board for a guide, take your Planet, 

 Jr., moldboard plow and run it along 

 the edge of the board three inches 

 deep, press the bulbs firmly in the 

 bottom of this furrow, cover with a 

 hoe, turn the board once over and re- 

 peat the process. Cover with an inch 

 mulching of leaves or manure. 



In the spring pick your flowers but 

 do not hoe or in any way disturb them. 

 The following four years keep this bed 

 mowed short and if clover or blue- 

 grass get in take them out with the 

 hoe. After five years they must be 

 dug and divided as the number of flow- 

 ers will diminish when they get too 

 thick on the ground. 



I follow the same method with the 

 bulbs of the larger drooping flowered 

 snowdrop, except that owing to its 

 stronger growth it needs dividing of- 

 tener and a little more room at first 

 planting. I. L. GALLOWAY. 



Terrace Park, O. 



