SEPTEMBER ], 189S. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



367 



Philip Breitmcyer, Vid-Prc'sidcnt-Elect Society of American Florists. 



design, or the cross can be made of 

 valley or white roses with a cluster of 

 Meteors. Tie a bow of ribbon on the 

 cycas. Any of the above can be made 

 for from $20 to $50. 



Don't attempt or suggest crossed 

 swords and guns, cannon or ships and 

 such things. Simple artistic designs 

 will give you more credit. Finish your 

 work well. Wires, sticks, moss or tin- 

 foil should never be visible on a well- 

 made piece. D. 



AMONG WASHINGTON GROWERS. 



F. H. Kramer. 



F. H. Kramer has 50,000 feet of glass 

 devoted wholly to the production of 

 cut flowers, practically all roses and 

 carnations. His varieties of the former 

 are Meteor, Bride. Maid, LaFrance and 

 Kaiserin. He grows twice as many 

 Meteors as of any other variety, hav- 

 ing been very successful with it. His 

 soil is a sandy loam and he gives the 

 Meteor a night temperature of 65 to 70 

 degrees, while the other roses have 

 about 60 degrees. 



Kaiserin is grown for summer bloom 

 only. The plants are on benches and 

 are carried over several years. He has 

 some in solid beds and from these he 

 gets better flowers when the plants are 

 several years old, but not so many of 

 them, and they come more in crops. 

 He is now tying down and drying off 

 the plants, and will give no water at 

 all till they are started up again in 

 eight or nine weeks. He finds that the 

 Kaiserin will come in crop quicker 



than any other rose that has been 

 rested, and by starting them up the 

 latter part of October the first crop 

 should be in by Christmas. After cut- 

 ting the Christmas crop he dries them 

 off again, prunes out undesirable wood 

 and starts them up again in only two 

 or three weeks, and if the weather is 

 favorable he may get the next crop in 

 for Easter, but it is apt to come later. 

 They are then kept blooming till dried 

 off again in the latter part of August. 



La France is still an important rose 

 in Washington and is always in de- 

 mand when the flowers are good. The 

 variety is treated about the same as 

 the Brides and Maids, though more apt 

 to come in crops. Mr. Kramer has 

 been successful in getting Christmas 

 and Easter crops by giving treatment 

 similar to that accorded the Kaiserin. 

 but it doesn't come as fast as the Kais- 

 erin and must be started up a couple of 

 weeks earlier to get in by the same 

 date. The first crop will have short 

 stems, but there will be another crop 

 only a week behind and these will 

 have fine long stems, often three or 

 more feet long. 



In carnations he grows Scott, Mc- 

 Gowan and Fisher. The latter is a 

 poor winter bloomer but it gives a 

 good crop of bloom in the field and he 

 doesn't bench any carnations till af- 

 ter his chrysanthemums are gone. 

 Of course this wouldn't do farther 

 north, but in Washington it is usually 

 safe. When Fisher drops off blooming 

 McGowan is ready to begin. Fisher 

 comes in again after Easter and it 

 blooms very heavily till July. Scott 



blooms continuously and not so much 

 in crops. McG-owan works well all win- 

 ter and is somewhat played out when 

 Fisher takes hold in the spring. 



Mr. Kramer is growing about 20,000 

 chrysanthemums this year, and his 

 leading sorts are Bonnaffon, Pink and 

 White Ivory and Mrs. Jerome Jones. 

 Other varieties are Marion Henderson, 

 Dailledouze, H. McK. Twomljly, E. G. 

 Hill, Robinson, Montmort and The 

 Queen. The Pink Ivory comes a fine 

 l)ink with him if the flowers are left 

 on the plants long enough. As regards 

 The Queen it is true that it drops its 

 petals rather quickly, but he finds it a 

 good seller just the same. 



He will this year have a house of 

 Crimson Rambler roses in 6-inch pots 

 for Easter sales. The plants are now 

 in the field and are growing like 

 weeds. 



C. Schellhorn. 



C. Schellhorn has about 23,000 feet 

 of glass, also devoted wholly to the 

 production of cut flowers. His soil is 

 a clayey loam with some gravel. His 

 roses are La France. Bride. Maid, 

 Kaiserin, Perle and Meteor. This will 

 be his first year's experience with Me- 

 teor. La France is a leader with him. 

 For winter work he grows it in raised 

 benches. These are dried off in July, 

 being careful not to allow the wood to 

 shrivel, and the canes bent over. About 

 September 20 they are started up and 

 a thin mulch of rotted cow manure ap- 

 plied about an inch thick. He gets his 

 flrst crop in from six to eight weeks,, 

 according to weather. Then a second 

 crop comes in naturally for Christmas. 

 The roses are then treated just the 

 same as the tea sorts till July comes 

 round again. 



He is sometimes obliged to use a 

 mulch of fresh cow manure and in 

 such a case he applies it on a cloudy 

 day and scatters a little soil over it, 

 and is careful to give free ventilation 

 both night and day to insure the es- 

 cape of the ammonia, otherwise the 

 foliage may be burned. 



For summer flowers of the La France 

 he uses both benches and solid beds. 

 The plants on benches supply more 

 flowers and they are easier handled. 

 He dries them off the latter jiart of 

 August and starts them up about ten 

 or eleven weeks before Christmas and" 

 after the Christmas crop is cut he gives 

 them tea rose treatment till August 

 again arrives. 



His treatment of the Kaiserin is the 

 same as that given by Mr. Kramer. 



He still grows some Perles but is 

 continually lessening the space de- 

 voted to it, as he gets too many bull 

 heads and the flowers sell le.ss and less 

 freely. 



He will this season grow 2,600 chrys- 

 anthemums, including Bergman. Bon- 

 naffon and Pink and White Ivory He 

 will also have a few lilies. 



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