NOVEMBER 24, 1898. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



681 



•cut flowers for florists only John Al- 

 len was first for 12 Japanese and S. S. 

 Peckham for 6 Japanese. 



In chrysanthemum plants for ama- 

 teurs only John W. Frazier was first 

 for 6 single flowered and M. McCar- 

 thy for 3 of same. In cut flowers for 

 amateurs Mr. Frazier was first for 6 

 Japanese and 3 of same. 



In miscellaneous plants Wm. Keith 

 was first for 6 foliage plants, 6 ferns, 

 specimen stove plant, specimen fern, 

 banana in fruit and specimen lycopo- 

 dium; C. H. Waite for 6 cacti and 

 specimen cycas; Peter Priault for 6 

 pots violets and one pot same; A. J. 

 Fish for 3 begonias and one Rex bego- 

 nia; James Garthley for specimen 

 paim and specimen rubber plant. 



la miscellaneous plants for florists 

 only C. H. Waite was first for 3 palms 

 and 3 cacti; Jahn Bros, for 3 ferns; S. 

 S. Peckham for C carnations; Peter 

 Priault for 3 pots violets. 



S. S. Peckham was first for best 

 booth display, and Jahn Bros, for best 

 booth display of palms and ferns. 



Diplomas were awarded to Samuel 

 S. Peckham, Robert Woodhouse and 

 Jahn Bros., also to all amateurs ex- 

 hibiting worthy plants, over seventy 

 being awarded. 



Out of town visitors and exhibitors 

 were Robert Laurie and John Allen of 

 Newport, James Farquhar and Thos. 

 J. Grey of Boston, C. J. Wood of Beach 

 Bluff, Mass., and Samuel Burns of 

 New York. 



OTHER EXHIBITIONS. 



A number of other exhibition re- 

 ports are unavoidably laid over till 

 next week. 



ROSE NOTES. 



Thanksgiving day will be a thing 

 of the past when these notes reach 

 the reader. Our chief concern will 

 now be how to get a full crop of roses 

 for the coming holidays. It seems 

 rather unfortunate that Thanksgiv- 

 ing day and Christmas should follow 

 one another so closely, hardly allow- 

 ing time enough for the plants to 

 catch their second wind, before they 

 are again called upon for another 

 large supply of fiowers. The high 

 prices obtained during this brief pe- 

 riod are quite an inducement to be in 

 the market with a full crop of roses 

 to meet the demand. 



For the next few weeks, unless all 

 previous signs fail, we will have to 

 get along with very little sunshine. 

 Artificial means must supply the con- 

 ditions most favorable to the contin- 

 ual welfare of our plants. Cleanliness, 

 above all things, should be insisted 

 upon. No matter how well the plants 

 have been growing, they will need 

 going over regularly; here and there 

 a few yellow leaves will appear, 

 which should be picked off at once. 

 Don't wait until mey fall on the 

 soil before removing them. New 

 shoots will be breaking out in all 



directions, keep right after them, ty- 

 ing them into shape, which not only 

 adds to the appearance of the plants, 

 but also insures good, erect stems for 

 the next crop of fiowers. As the 

 buds begin to form, much lateral 

 growth will appear on the stems, 

 which robs the young bud of its in- 

 tended nourishment. This growth 

 should be carefully rubbed out for at 

 least five or six eyes below the buds, 

 thus giving the bud a better chance 

 for development, and aiding material- 

 ly in the length and strength of the 

 stem. 



Good judgment will be necessary 

 in watering and syringing during this 

 uncertain weather. Some growers 

 make it a rule to syringe their roses 

 every day unmindful of the weather, 

 relying on artificial heat to dry them 

 off. This may do for a while, but I 

 have heard these same growers com- 

 plain about having so much blind 

 wood on their plants during a pro- 

 longed spell of cloudy weather, which 

 can only be accounted for by this 

 over-abundance of moisture. A safer 



plan will be to syringe and water well 

 on every bright day, and while it may 

 be necessary to syringe even on 

 cloudy days during times of heavy 

 firing, you will find it advisable to 

 defer syringing for a day or even two 

 or three days, confining yourself to 

 wetting down the walks and under 

 the benches, at the same time water- 

 ing up the dry places on the benches, 

 as they appear from time to time. 

 Treated in this way, you will not in- 

 cite your plants into a premature 

 soft growth, which can only result in 

 an inferior grade of stock, besides 

 producing blind growth in abundance. 

 — What about red spider? the reader 

 will ask. Of this I will treat in a 

 separate article, in the near future. 

 Greenfiy is a troublesome fellow 

 during these cloudy days. This 

 means, don't neglect your fumigating. 

 Attend to it every week. It may even 

 be necessary to keep it up twice a 

 week for a while, but be sure and 

 don't get it too strong. Light appli- 

 cations, attended to regularly, are 

 safest and very effective. S. A. B. 



Mignonette. 



If you are growing mignonette for 

 Easter to sell in pots, be sure and 

 don't force it; give it the ligntest and 

 coolest house you have. Heat will 

 only draw it up and spoil it; 40 de- 

 grees at night is right, and let no 

 shoots run up to fiower. Mine are in 

 3-inch pots at present and will do in 

 those tor another month. My idea is 

 to give them a M-inch about the turn 

 of the year, and end of February a 5- 

 inch. This seems a good deal of shitt- 

 ing, but is necessary, for the mignon- 

 ette is a strong rooter, and unless 

 kept replenished with some new feed- 

 ing material it soon gets yellow-leafed, 

 and then its beauty is gone. 



Cytisus. 

 I will just mention to those who 

 grow this popular Easter plant that it 

 wants some attention this time of 

 year. As a good keeping house plant 

 it is a perfect fraud, 'but, as the late 

 P. T. Barnum said, "the American 

 people liked to be humbugged," so 

 they are humbugged by the cytisus 

 (often called genista). Its color is at- 

 tractive and it sells at a good profit 

 to the market peddler, whose custom- 



ers expect nothing from his recom- 

 mendations further than his voice can 

 reach, and return to him the next 

 week, having forgotten the fraud 

 which, if perpetrated at a reputable 

 greenhouse, would be a mortal offense. 

 I am paid for cultural points and not 

 philosophy, so if, reader, I stray, it is 

 merely to remark that your young 

 plants of cytisus must be handled pro- 

 perly. What an obsolete remark this 

 word is. What was proper forty years 

 ago is now obsolete. In "cutting, 

 pinching or shearing them back," you 

 need not shear them as a shepherd 

 does his sheep, taking off all their 

 beauty, but just cut off the budding 

 growths. About the end of January 

 give them a close clipping, and that 

 will give them time to make a growth 

 and flowering inclination. This is one 

 of the few plants so easily grown, so 

 easily flowered that it is likely to ap- 

 pear in our public markets for years 

 to come. When men talk of cattleyas, 

 it's all very well, but what the people 

 want nowadays is something cheap 

 and popular, as it is in Hoyt's plays. 

 They may be little better than a vau- 

 deville show, but the bright witticisms 

 in them make them popular, so a 



