AUGUST 31, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



345 



Violets and Carnations growing in the same temperature at establishment of Mr. James 

 Taylor, Mt. Clemens, Mich. 



We never have too many of the ivy- 

 leaf section, they are used so large- 

 ly for vases, etc. There is no hurry 

 about them as we always put them in 

 the sand. The variegated and bronze 

 varieties we treat as we do the zona- 

 les. Mt. of Snow will always be in 

 great demand, and Mme. Salleroi, the 

 little compact variegated, fills a decid- 

 ed place of its own. This useful sort 

 we don't trouble about till near frost 

 time, when we lift a number of plants 

 and pot them, and propagate in Janu- 

 ary. 



Lilies. 



We have all our lilies potted of all 

 sizes except the Japan longiflorum 



which don't arrive till later. Don't 

 let lilies lay around, their loose 

 scaly bulbs dry out and this much 

 weakens their strength. The 5 to 7 we 

 put at once into their flowering pot, a 

 5-inch, but the 7 to 9 we pot now into 

 4-inch and when they are brought into 

 the houses in November they are shift- 

 ed into the 6 or 7-inch, or with the 

 Bermuda longiflorum three bulbs of 

 equal strength into an 8 or 9. 



A neighbor said last spring that he 

 believed the shifting process retarded 

 the lilies two weeks. We beg to differ, 

 we don't believe it, even if it should 

 put them back a week there are so 

 many advantages in giving them only 



the 4-inch pot now. You are not dump- 

 ing a lot of 6 or 7-inch pots with dis- 

 eased lilies later and you save much 

 room and labor. 



We believe in putting top of bulb 

 close to the surface, placing them out- 

 side and after a good watering cover 

 with an inch or two of hay or^traw. 

 You won't want to be continually 

 watering and it is better for the bulb 

 than continually alternating between 

 a soak and a roast. 



Romans and Narcissus. 



Look out for your Romans and paper 

 white narcissus that are boxed and 

 covered with soil outside; they need 

 watering, a good soaking twice a week. 

 Remember they are not in the ground, 

 the bottom of the box stops all benefit 

 that way. 



Alternantheras. 



If you have not done so already you 

 should put in your alternanthera3. A 

 flat two inches deep of sandy loam will 

 do for them and the cuttings put in 

 thickly. They root so easily now, and 

 before cold weather make fine little 

 plants and the flats are easy to handle 

 during the winter, doing finely on a 

 shelf with little water. 



WILLIAM SCOTT. 



VIOLETS AND CARNATIONS. 



We present herewith two views in 

 the greenhouses of Mr. James Taylor, 

 Mt. Clemens, Mich., who has been very 

 successful in growing violets and car- 

 nations in one and the same tempera- 

 ture. Mr. Taylor has, a'.together, 12,- 

 000 feet of glass, consisting of three 

 houses 20x150 feet each, a violet house 

 16x130 and propagating houses 7x130. 

 All the p'ants are in solid benches, and 

 it is practically all one large house, as 

 there are no partitions. 



Daybreak is his leading carnation, 

 and as this likes a lower temperature 

 than many other carnations he finds 

 they do well in the same temperature 

 as the violets, namely, 40 to 45 de- 

 grees at night, and he runs closer to 

 45 than to 40. Both the violets and the 

 Daybreak carnations do exceedingly 

 well grown together in this way. 



OBITUARY. 



Henri de Vilmorin. 



Henri de Vilmorin, of the firm of 

 Vilmorin Andrieux & Co., seedsmen, 

 Paris, France, died suddenly the night 

 of Tuesday, August 22. 



Mr. Vilmorin occupied an exalted 

 position in the seed trade and was 

 made an officer of the Legion of Honor 

 for scientific research in connection 

 with plant life. 



When in the United States at the 

 time of the World's Fair he met a 

 large number of those in the trade 

 here, and al] remember with pleasure 

 their meeting with him. 



The paper read by him at the 

 World's Fair Horticultural Congress 



