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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SEPTEMBER 29, 1S98. 



and retail in smaller cities, are ex- 

 pected to know all about trees, shrubs 

 and when and how to plant them, and 

 there is no reason why they should 

 not know all the leading and best 

 kinds as well as when, where and how 

 to plant. Nearly all deciduous trees 

 and shrubs can be transplanted in fall 

 with perfect safety providing they 

 were lit to be moved at any time. Too 

 many of our nurserymen transplant 

 less frequently than they should and 

 when a young tree, shrub and partic- 

 ularly a conifer has been growing ."> 

 or 6 years without a move the trans- 

 planting is difBcult to do with success. 

 Don't attempt to sell and plant in the 

 fall any so-called evergreens, prop- 

 erly known as conifers, such as pines, 

 spruces or junipers. Just say, "I as- 

 sure you, sir, you will run a great 

 risk if you transplant them now; wait 

 till spring and then there is no risk. 

 When the young growth is starting in 

 May or end of August and beginning 

 of September are the two seasons to 

 transplant evergreens." Talk like that 

 and you will not only gain the confi- 

 dence of your patron, but incidentally 

 tell the truth. 



Chrysanthemunu. 



It is a very busy time with chrysan- 

 themums, the way they are shoving 

 out buds is terrific and to look at a 

 bench to-day you would hardly believe 

 that they were gone over but a few 

 days since. Yet the aggregate of the 

 cost of labor is not so great. You can 

 disbud many hundred plants in a day 

 and mind you do it. Tobacco smoke 

 does the plants no harm, but it does 

 the green, yellow and black aphis 

 much harm, so it should be regularly 

 applied. 



The buds are all now selected, at 

 least on the great majority of varie- 

 ties, and now is the time feeding can 

 begin in earnest. A compost of equal 

 parts of loam and cow manure with 

 a quart of bone flour to every bushel 

 of the compost spread over the sur- 

 face of bench to a depth of one inch 

 will do much good if the bench soil 

 is shallow, say 4 inches, but one-half 

 an inch of rotten manure on the soil 

 more as a mulch than a stimulant is 

 better, and then depend on liquid 

 manure. Few of us have the appli- 

 ance to distribute the liquid as we do 

 our city or cistern water through 

 pipes, and to apply it from a barrel 

 with the watering pot is laborious and 

 expensive, yet if we will think back 

 35 years, or in many cases less, all the 

 watering was done with the watering 

 pot and surely once a week you can 

 afford to give the plants, from which 

 you expect fine flowers, a good feed. 



Some authorities tell us that it is 

 proper and essential that in feeding 

 with liquid manure a change is neces- 

 sary and draw a simile on the diet of 

 beings of a higher organism, ourselves 

 for instance. We don't believe in any 

 such theory. The greatest race of 

 men have lived largely on oatmeal. 



Another branch, physically the 

 strongest in Europe, subsisted for 

 centuries almost entirely on fish and 

 potatoes. Fried oysters, pie, ice 

 cream and cigarettes may produce pre- 

 cociousness, but are not essential for 

 producing size and substance. I have 

 never found any liquid from animal 

 manure better than that made from 

 putting about a bushel of cow manure 

 in 50 gallons of water. The first draw- 

 ing as you may call it will be strong 

 and when using you can dilute it two- 

 thirds. The next can be used pure 

 and then you must brew again. All 

 agree that when first beginning to 

 apply it must neither be too strong or 

 too frequent, but by the time the 

 chrysanths show color they could be 

 watered every time with liquid ma- 

 nure. An occasional, say 4 times 

 from now till flowers are developed, 

 watering with nitrate of soda will 

 help to give color both to foliage and 

 petal. One lb. to 30 gallons of water 

 is strong enough. 



Primroses. 



Don't forget just now to shift your 

 primulas into their flowering pots. 

 Good plants deserve a good sized pot. 

 They will take up no more room and 

 the plant will be so much better. A 

 5-inch is the right size for a good 

 primula and the difference in cost be- 

 tween that and a 4-inch is in the 

 neighborhood of half a cent. It may 

 make ten cents difference in price of 

 plant when sold. Two-thirds of good 

 liglit loam with one-third of thorough- 

 ly rotten cow manure is a fine com- 

 post for primroses. 



Cytisus Racemosus. 



If you grow Cytisus racemosus (we 

 do because it sells well at Easter) you 

 should not neglect to clip it every 

 month or so. No plant will stand the 

 shearing it does and without it, it is 

 not such a salable plant. 



To the small rose grower I cannot 

 give better advice just now than say, 

 don't shut up your houses at night. 

 Keep a little fire heat and a little ven- 

 tilation, and warm days as well as 

 nights lots of air on. but don't neglect 

 a little fire heat on all occasions when 

 the thermometer goes below .50 de- 

 grees. WILLIAM SCOTT. 



EXPOSITION IN RUSSIA. 



The Imperial Russian Horticultural 

 Society will hold an international hor- 

 ticultural exposition at St. Petersburg 

 in May, 1899. Privy Councilor Fischer 

 von Waldheim, director of the impe- 

 rial botanical garden at St. Petersburg, 

 has charge of the foreign sections of 

 the exposition, with the functions of 

 president, and all inquiries relative to 

 the exposition should be addressed to 

 him. 



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NEW YORK. 



KEOKUK, lA.— The flower parade, 

 which took place here Sept. 7, was a 

 decided success and given columns of 

 description in the local press. 



Business Gonditions. 



The condition of business, and the 

 prices of flowers are about the same 

 as reported in last week's issue. Stci'es 

 are becoming stocked with palms and 

 ferns, and everybody seems ready for 

 the rush. Flowers are improving 

 somewhat in quality. Outdoor stock 

 still hangs on. Tuberoses are coming 

 in by tiie thousands. A good frost, 

 which is nightly expected, will settle 

 a lot of poor stock and leave the mar- 

 ket open to roses and mums. 



Commission stores are still spring- 

 ing into existence, though all the 

 others are complaining. Howard 

 Blauvelt will open up next door to 

 Traendly & Schenck, on West 28th 

 street. 



Various Notes. 



Old John Yetter, a well known flow- 

 er vender, died Sept. 22. Yetter was 

 one of the floral landmarks of New 

 York. We remember him over twelve 

 years ago when his shabby basket on 

 the corner of 22nd street and Broad- 

 way lield flowers that many a Broad- 

 way florist envied; he was famous in 

 those days for Russian violets and 

 afterwards red carnations; he was a 

 good, inoffensive old soul and any 

 florist was welcome to what he had. 



A scientific expedition will shortly 

 leave New York to study the botany 

 of Porto Rico. It will be under the 

 direction of Dr. N. Britton, director- 

 in-chief of the New York Botanical 

 Garden at Bronx Park. Cornelius 

 Vanderbilt is supposed to be support- 

 ing the expedition. It is therefore ex- 

 pected that the New York gardens will 

 be greatly enriched by interesting 

 specimens of the flora of these 

 islands, and for this, and the fact that 

 New York will soon have the largest 

 and most interesting botanical gar- 

 dens on this continent, credit is due 

 to Dr. Britton. 



The auction sale of decorative plants 

 at Julius Roehr's, Carlton Hill. N. J., 

 Sept. 21st, was fairly successful; that 

 is, medium stock sold fair, but there 

 were scarcely enough buyers present 

 to dispose of all the finer specimens; 

 this was, we believe, owing to the fact 



