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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



561 



The Growers' Sectional Plant Box. 

 [Patented by A. H. Ewing and H. McNaughton, Berlin, Ont.J 



and fuchsias. In geraniums the best 

 call is for S. A. Nutt, Beaute Poitevine, 

 A. Riccard, Le Contable and Harmine. 

 In fuchsias Phenomenal holds first 

 place in demand. The coleus seems to 

 be regaining its popularity and quite 

 a number of varieties are carried. 



Carnations. 



Carnations are an important special- 

 ty and large numbers of rooted cut- 

 tings are grown. He has selected the 

 following sorts to propagate in quan- 

 tity this season: Mary Wood, white; 

 Argyle, pink; G. H. Crane, scarlet; 

 Melba, light pink; Maud Adams, pink; 

 Gold Nugget, yellow; Sandusky and 

 Mrs. Bradt. variegated; and he still 

 retains Daybreak for shell pink. 



He has discarded both White Cloud 

 and Flora Hill in favor of Mary Wood. 

 White Cloud makes too much grass 

 and is not as productive as Wood. 

 Flora Hill makes less grass than 

 White Cloud and is more productive 

 but not equal to Wood. The only 

 drawback to Wood is that it comes 

 with a pink tinge during dark days in 

 winter but not enough to be an injury. 



America has also been dropped. He 

 likes Crane better. It is a fuller 

 flower and a deeper scarlet and so far 

 has been more productive. Crane has 

 the best habit of any carnation he has 

 had. It is the Bradt type carried a few 

 degrees further, and that is what we 

 want — more flowers and less grass and 

 more plants to the square foot on the 

 benches, and flower stems so strong 

 that they need little support. 



Evelina is the best summer bloomer 

 he has ever had, away ahead of Fisher, 

 but of no value whatever for winter 

 blooming. He takes cuttings from 

 plants outside after the first frost but 

 doesn't bench a single plant for winter 

 work. 



John Young he finds one of the 

 finest whites but too shy a bloomer. 



He found Mrs. Joost a good pink 

 carnation but with him Argyle is 

 superior. And with Argyle in the field 

 he finds no place for Triumph, which 

 with him fades somewhat in dark 

 weather and is more grassy in habit. 



Pingree he found to be an excellent 

 carnation but not free enough to be 

 profitable. Gold Nugget is much 

 more productive. 



He is very much taken with San- 

 dusky and thinks the flower a prettier 

 one than Bradt. So far he has found 

 it a free bloomer but has not yet had 

 it a full season. 



GROWERS' SECTIONAL PLANT 

 BOX (PATENTED). 



The accompanying engraving shows 

 the plant box in four sizes, in one of 

 which chrysanthemums have been 

 grown, some of the plants having been 

 taken out and stood around to show 

 the root ball. The large boxes were 

 specially designed for carnations from 

 the cutting bed, for which purpose 

 they have proved to be more handy 

 and far cheaper than planting in the 

 bench or potting. 



They have all the advantages of 



pots and none of the disadvantages, 

 such as drying out, time taken in pot- 

 ting and handling, etc., and being 

 made of veneer they practically take 

 up no bench space. There is no cut- 

 ting out necessary as when the plants 

 are in benches or ordinary flats, they 

 are simply carried to the field, the 

 band torn off (or it may be left on 

 and the box used for other purposes), 

 the partitions pulled out and each 

 plant is separate with its own ball of 

 earth and roots uninjured. This box 

 holds 72 plants (2-inch sections) and 

 is made very cheaply — about 7 or 8 

 cents. 



Of course they can be used with just 

 as much advantage for other plants 

 as for carnations. I used them for 

 chrysanthemums last spring and I 

 may mention that when planting them 

 on the benches it was a treat not to 

 have to pick up and pack pots. The 

 plants did remarkably well both in 

 the boxes and after planting. The box 

 with 3-inch sections I used for ger- 

 aniums and was enabled to sell good 

 bedding plants at a very low figure. 

 The small box with twelve 2-inch sec- 

 tions is the box par excellence for 

 marketing annuals, tomatoes, celery, 

 etc., for small consumers. Other 

 sizes are made suitable for various 

 plants and varieties and for the re- 

 quirements of various growers. 



The more this box is used the more 

 useful it will be found, the more good 

 points will appear, and the more the 

 grower will find that he can grow in 

 it, and all the sizes are so cheap that 

 he will find his annual pot bill reduced 

 to a minimum. They should be a 

 godsend to growers, general florists, 

 market gardeners, catalogue men and 

 park men. The boxes in the photo 

 were all hand made, the machine made 

 boxes are better in many ways. 



The box has been patented by 

 Messrs. A. H. Ewing and H. Mc- 

 Naughton, Berlin, Ont. 



THE AMERICAN CARNATION SO- 

 CIETY. 



This society is getting ready to is- 

 sue its premium list for the show to 

 be held in conjunction with the meet- 

 ing Feb. 15th and 16th, at Buffalo, N. 

 Y. Any member of the florist trad? 

 desiring to offer special premiums for 

 this show can have the opportunity to 

 do so if they write the secretary at 

 once for information. 



All members of the society will re- 

 ceive this list and anyone not a mem- 

 ber can obtain it by writing to the 

 secretary. A good round sum is offer- 

 ed in money premiums and there are 

 already a nice lot of special prizes 

 and no doubt more to come, so that it 

 will be an interesting booklet for car- 

 nation growers. 



The Lawson medal will be an object 

 of great interest at this meeting and 

 the indications are that it will super- 

 sede all of the preceding ones. 



ALBERT M. HERR, Secretary, 



Lancaster, Pa. 



