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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Skptemuek 2U, lUOl. 



plaiils, and 1 repeated tlic dose of I'aiis 

 green at once. This tiiiif il killiii lluui. 



I have found this an ;ili-..lMir u- ly 



for these'pests; that is, i.|i..ii ili, ,!.>-,• 

 the next day ai'ter the lir.^l, a|iiilitatiuii. 

 1 have so far reduced the number of 

 aster bugs here that this year there 

 were very few. W. W. 



Massac"hu.setls. 



CARNATION NOTES. 



We liave been liaving fine urowinj,' 

 weather hitelj' for carnations, and tlie 

 plants are rapidly rounding into guoil 

 shape for the work that is before llieui. 

 Most all the varieties are throwing up 

 flowering shoots and some of the ear- 

 lier ones are loaded with buds and 

 blooms. The mercury drn|,|H(I liclow |1k> 

 freezing point on two iii.iiiiiirj- nl ilio 

 past week, but no fire was mi.ird to 

 keep the house up to 4.'i ilcnircs. As 

 long as the days remain warm and 

 bright it will not be necessary to start 

 the fires unless the temperature outside 

 drops considerably below freezing. Dur- 



(if September and early October as long 

 as no rainy spell sets in. In case a 

 idld rain sets in, such as we are liable 

 U> have in the fall, you must start the 

 lires and run one jiipe in each house to 

 help keep the air dry, and a little sul- 

 phur sprinkled here and there on the 

 pipe will help to puiif\ the ah. but 

 do not make it slrnni: .nc ii-li id take 

 the color out of the bl ii-. li ilic tem- 

 perature runs up you iiiii-t i>|i(ii the ven- 

 tilators, and, in fact, you should have 

 I lieni up an inch or two on all possible 

 suasions to keep the air fresh. The 

 jilanls will bear both a higher or a 

 iiiw.T tiiii|M'raturc than the regular win- 

 ler liiiipiialure if the ventilators are 

 kepi (i|ii]i, and in fact they are much 

 better olf than they are if the ventila- 

 tors are kept closed and the temperature 

 kept at just a certain point while they 

 are luakiiiL' their tall growth. Later on 



wlicii tn. Ill 1- are developing you 



iiiii-i k. i|i ili.in iiicue regular to keep 

 llie calvM- hum splitting. 



I'm on uh,itc\er supports are needed 

 to keep the growth upiiglit and the 



Gates Ajar for the President's Funeral. By Z. D. Blackistone, Washington. 

 Ordered by Emperor of Corea, 



and the soil, which in turn keep the 

 house warm over night, but do not 

 under any circumstances close up the 

 ventilators to get out of firing, as the 

 atmosphere will become stntt'y and foul 

 over night if there is nothing to keep it 

 moving. A good way to start disease, 

 too. 



What your p'ants want now is to thor- 

 oughly ripen the growth, and there is 

 nothing that will do it better than 



stems .straight, Such varieties as White 

 Cloud and a few otln is will lay over 

 on the bench and gruw .iiMiknl ;i^ soon 

 as they get a little liciw . n i..p, and 

 need to be looked ati.i' rl,,.,rly right 

 along, \o\i_ k.inu ilii> as well as I do, 

 but 1 iii-l want to roiiiind you SO you 

 do iiMf |.nl if (ill until -nine day when 

 the wealkir i^ tuo liail lo> work outside. 

 All tho-e benches that were planted 

 in .\ugust or earlier will stand a mulch- 



ing now, and it should be put on while 

 the weather is still briglit and the 

 plants will commence to feed on it 

 while the growth is strong and rapid. 

 He sure the manure is well rotted, and 

 if at all possible use cow manure and 

 put it on about one inch thick. If you 

 liave only green cow manure mix it with 

 soil half and half, and let it lay a few 

 days, when it can be used with safety. 

 Give a good watering after it is put on 

 and then examine carefully each time 

 you water thereafter. 



There is another thing you should at- 

 tend to before wet weather sets in un- 

 less you have already done so, and that 

 is to provide for next M-ai'^ ~iM'r'> "' 



soil. If you can get some i; I -ml linm 



an old pasture with aboiil lime inrlu's 

 of soil to it you can pile it up with one- 

 sixth of manure added to it and let it 

 rot over winter, when it should be 

 turned over. Some of us find it quite 

 difficult to get good sod anywhere near 

 the city and to haul it fiom way out 

 in the country makes it too expensive, 

 so we must find some other way of get- 

 ting good soil to plant in. Take a strip 

 of good soil and after manuring it well 

 plow it under and sow it down in rye, 

 and in the spring when the rye is about 

 a foot high take the soil about six 

 inches deep with the rye and all and 

 stack it up to rot just as you would 

 sod, mixing in the same proportion of 

 manure. By keeping the soil worked up 

 well you can make a comparatively 

 small piece of ground supply you with 

 all the soil you need, and you will have 

 the advantage of knowing just what 

 needs to be added to grow good stuti' 

 afiei a season or two. A. F. J. Bauh. 



GLADIOLUS THE BRIDE. 



Can gladiolus The Bride be success- 

 fully forced each successive year or 

 should they be rested every other year? 



I had a batch of them and planted 

 some among carnations inside and some 

 in the field. The ones among the car- 

 nations forced finely, but those planted 

 in the field never came up. Can some 

 one suggest the cause? S. S. P. 



In answer to S. S. P. would say that 

 he should by no means try to force 

 Gladiolus The Bride two successive 

 years. Perhaps he does not realize that 

 it is not the same corm he was forcing, 

 but one that has been produced while 

 the other bulb was flowering, and there- 

 fore it has not been produced under nat- 

 ural and proper conditions. Buy them 

 fresh every year if forcing is proposed. 

 Grown out of doors those produced in 

 the field are all right. 



If S. S. P. has been uniformly success- 

 ful in forcing this beautiful little glad- 

 iolus he is fortunate. Some years ago 

 I planted them in flats, put them in a 

 cold frame and later brought them in 

 as you would tulips, but got no flowers, 

 or very few. I tried them afterwards in 

 some carnation benches, not amongst the 

 carnations, but along the edge. That 

 method was fairly successful. 



I believe the best way is to give them 

 a light, sunny bench. Plant about five 

 inches apart between rows and two or 

 three inches between plants, but not with 

 anything else. They deserve and want 

 the full light and sun. At starting a 

 temperature of 50 is all right, but later 

 they will stand 60 or even 65 degi'ees. 

 Wm. Scott. 



