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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



JANUARY IS. 1900. 



have a few degrees more heat (63 de- 

 grees), and Meteor should have 70 de- 

 grees at night, so "Subscriber" can see 

 that the available roses of colors 

 named are not likely to attain their 

 full protection in same house. 



I would advise him to run a parti- 

 tion across his house and plant Maid 

 and Bride in one division, and Perle 

 and Meteor in the one which may more 

 easily have enough pipe added to raise 



it to the right temperature for Meteor, 

 and plant the Perles with them, as 

 they will suffer less from the high tem- 

 perature than Meteor will from a lower 

 one. 



The new rose Liberty is said to do 

 well in a low temperature. When it 

 is disseminated. "Subscriber" may find 

 in it a rose that will suit his available 

 conditions. A. O. T. 



Cyclimen. 



This is not the time of year that cy- 

 clamens are usually neglected. It is 

 later when the rush of spring is on. 

 Just now if they are early they will be 

 in 2-inch pots, and if later some per- 

 haps in flats. Kemember that they 

 should be kept growing along in a 

 warmer temperature than you would 

 give the flowering plants; about 60 de- 

 grees at night is right, with full light 

 and regular fumigating. Never let 

 them get parched for want of water, 

 and the soil should be a good loam 

 with at least one-third of leaf-mould. 

 Chrysanthemu ens. 



You too often see the stock plants of 

 chrysanthemums stood down beneath 

 a bench and allowed to make a weak, 

 spindling growth. If you don't want 

 to begin propagating yet. the plants, if 

 they are expected to make good cut- 

 tings, should be given a light, cool cor- 

 ner somewhere on the place. 



It short of any good variety begin to 

 propagate at once. Cuttings rooted 

 now and grown on with liberal treat- 

 ment will give you several cuttings be- 

 tween now and June, and if there is 

 any standard variety that you have to 

 buy do so at once and then you can 

 much increase your stock. Above all. 

 don't discard any variety that has done 

 well with you and paid you simply be- 

 cause you have seen finer flowers of 

 other varieties at so i e show. If Mrs. 

 Bergman, Ivory, Yellow Queen, Gold- 

 en Wedding, Jerome Jones, Maud 

 Dean, or any other good one. is easily 

 grown by you. stick to it and try new 

 varieties in limited quantities. 

 Col'us, etc. 



Coleus and achyranthes are easily 

 and quickly propagated. In fact, noth- 

 ing so easy, providing you have the 

 heat for the coleus, but you cannot 

 propagate them all in the month of 

 April, so you should begin to put in 



batches of cuttings whenever you have 

 them. That splendid variety that is 

 invaluable to our foliage beds. Golden 

 Bedder, has been struck with a disease 

 in my locality, and it is ruination to 

 them. I don't know yet what it is and 

 have made no attempt at a cure. The 

 shoots and midribs of the leaf are at- 

 tacked with a rust and the plant dwin- 

 dles away. Whole beds were destroyed 

 by it last summer, and plants that 

 showed no sign of it last tall have de- 

 veloped it in the greenhouse. Misery 

 loves company, perhaps, but I hope this 

 is quite local. 



Don't bother with coleus cuttings 

 that are either diseased or infested 

 with mealy bug; it is too cheap a 

 plant. Buy a clean stock of some cut- 

 ting specialist. 



Acalyphas. 



It is a good time now to cut down 

 the old plants of acalypha that you 

 lifted in the fall. These, like the co- 

 leus, are tropical plants and must have 

 a warm sand if you want a quick 

 growth; and after the acalyphas are 

 rooted they should have a war.n, light 

 house, a rich soil and plenty of syring- 

 ing. When well and quickly grown the 

 acalypha is a most ornamental plant, 

 but when starved and runts they are 

 anything but attractive. 



Santolina. 

 If you lifted any santolina (a most 

 useful carpet bedding plant) and 

 sheared off the tops, they will now 

 give you any amount of cuttings, 

 which root in any cool sand. It is 

 time to propagate, as they take some 

 time to make useful sized plants. It is 

 worth adding here that when April 

 comes there is no place equal to the 

 hotbed for the santolina. A month in 

 there, as with the echeveria. is worth 

 four months in the greenhouse, al- 

 though they are a widely different 

 plant. 



Lophospermum. 



I meant last week to mention the 

 lophospermum. If you put in cuttings 

 in the fall you are all right and can 

 keep on increasing, but if you did not 

 you should sow seed, as it takes a 

 long time to make a plant that will be 

 effective in a vase or veranda box. 

 There are few of our summer cliaibers 

 that are so effective and free growing 

 as the lophospermum. The species 

 that is known as maurandya is only 

 useful for baskets and can be sown a 

 month later; it is always raised from 

 seed. 



Petunias. 



By the end of the month it will be 

 time to sow petunias. There is always 

 a good demand for these showy plants 

 and with a yearly increased supply we 

 always run short. Kemember that for 

 a bed the single is quite as fine as the 

 double and much freer to flower. Buy 

 the best strain you can and if you buy 

 that sold as double you will get 60 per 

 cent, single, and some strains even 

 more. People like to see them in flower 

 even if they are buying a hundred 

 plants tor one bed. 



As the petunia is a cold-blooded 

 plant at all times they should be 

 grown cool. This is a plant I do not 

 approve of putting in a hotbed; it pro- 

 duces a rank, soft growth; a cool, light 

 house is what they want. 



Any particular fine double variety 

 that you are propagating by cuttings 

 should be increased now and grown 

 right along. I'ine double varieties 

 make nice pot plants in 4-inch pots 

 and many are sold in our markets at 

 10 and 15 cents each, but I am more 

 interested in the sturdy little plants 

 that we sell in May at $6 or $7 per 

 hundred for bedding. 



Fuchsias. 



This month is the latest that you can 

 propagate the beautiful old fuchsia and 

 make a good plant. Time was when 

 we had varietit-s that we allowed to 

 run straight up and they made shapely 

 plants, but most all varieties are now 

 best with one pinch of the leader so 

 that they make several leads and are 

 more compact. About .jO to 55 degrees 

 at night grows fuchsias well, and at 

 this time of year a light bench and 

 syringing on fine days. 



A fuchsia must be grown quickly or 

 it is not worth growing at all. and the 

 soil should lie rich; two parts loam and 

 one part leaf mould or well decayed 

 refuse hops. The latter suits fuchsias 

 admirably, and if the loam is not of 

 the best and freshest add some bone 

 flour to the compost. 



WM. SCOTT. 



CARNATIONS REGISTERED. 



By H. B. McKnight. Jersey City. N. 

 J.: Sir Thomas Lipton. color same as 

 Scott, flowers measuring from three 

 and one-half to three and three-quarter 

 inches across, and with a calyx that 



