jA.NUiisr 23. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



281 



A Bench of Carnation Lorna, at the Establishment of Mr. W. K. Partridge, Lockland, Ohio. 



present appearances he thinks it to be a 

 very good thing. Some plants of Pros- 

 perity were looking fine, but Mr. Part- 

 ridge says the blooms ought to bring $1 

 apiece to pay. It is certainly a fine 

 flower, with a very long, stiff stem. 

 They come with very deep color, almost 

 red in fact. 



Some other varieties grown are Gene- 

 vie\e Lord, V^hite Cloud, Joost, Flora 

 Hill. Enquirer, Glacier, Peru, Crane and 

 Estollc. (if which ilr. Partridge is mak- 

 ing all the cuttings he can. He says it 

 is all right. 



Besides carnations there are several 

 houses devoted to Brides, Bridesmaids 

 and Golden Gate. They are in fine con- 

 dition. Mr. Partridge contemplates 

 building some houses to grow Beauty 

 and Jlcteor in the spring. 



Don't fail to visit this place on the 

 way to Indianapolis, and you .will not 

 regret it. Cincinnati has a great future 

 in the carnation line, so just keep your 

 eyes open and watch the Cincinnati boys. 



C. J. 0. 



CARNATIONS. 



Varieties for Outdoor Blooming. 



I wish to plant a good white and a 

 good pink carnation outdoors for sum- 

 mer cut llowers, not expecting to lift 

 the plants in the fall. Can j'ou suggest 

 two suitable varieties and tell where 

 I can ))roducc good stock at once? 



New York. C. L. D. 



The best varieties fur summer bloom- 

 ing out of doors are Flora Hill for 

 white and E. Crocker for pink, accord- 

 ing to our experience. There ma.v be 

 other good varieties for that purpose 

 among the newer varieties, which we 

 have not tried yet for that purpose, but 

 it would he hard to beat the above two 

 varieties for summer blooming. The.v 

 are also far and away ahead of the old 

 Mrs. Fisher and William Scott, which 

 were for many years the leaders and 

 are grown in large quantities yet in some 

 sections. 



Cuttin.gs potted now and pinched 

 once before planting out will produce 

 a good many blooms to the plant dur- 

 ing late summer and fall clear up to 



lard freezing if they are not allowed 

 to suffer for want of w-ater. Of course, 

 cuttings propagated in December and 

 grown into bushy plants before planting 

 nut are the proper thing for summer 

 blooming, but it is not too late now to 

 liave good success if you look right after 

 them. 



There are a number of good concerns 

 advertising in the Keview who can sup- 

 ])l.y you good stock for that purpose at 

 moderate cost. 



The Best Carnations. 



I notice in last issue some criticism 

 on the varieties I recommend as the best 

 in their class, etc., in answer to "Conn," 

 who sent in that inquiry. Our good 

 friend Gano objects because I named 

 .Mrs. .Joost in preference to E. Crocker. 

 \ow I do not want to be understood as 

 >aying that Mrs. Joost is in every way 

 a better carnation than Crocker, but 

 judging by the nature of the inquiry 

 1 took it for granted that Conn is a 

 beainner and that what he wanted was 

 a list of varieties that can be depended 

 upon to give a fair return for fair treat- 

 ment without any attempt at a fancy 

 grade of bloom. A man who is capable 

 of growing fancy stock is not likely to 

 ask such a question, but will select his 

 varieties for himself, and he will be like- 

 ly to know the varieties well enough to 

 do so. 



That Mrs. Joost is easier to grow than 

 Crocker is proven by the fact that it is 

 doing well wherever it is grown, with 

 but very few exceptions, while of 

 Crocker we might easily say just the 

 reverse. In fact, as I said in my an- 

 swer to "Conn." wherever E. Crocker 

 does well it is one of the most profitable 

 varieties to be found and it is so on 

 our place. 



Jlr. Osborn objects because I said that 

 Mrs. Lawson requires skillftil handling 

 to make it pay. I admit that it takes 

 skill to grow high grade blooms of any 

 variety, Init there are varieties that 

 will produce a very fair grade of hloom 

 with very ordinary treatment, and Mrs. 

 Joost is one of these, while there is 

 another class that produces the very 

 highest grade of blooms if they are 

 handled just right, but if the treatment 

 is not ju.st right the blooms are worth- 



less, and Mrs. Lawson belongs to that 

 class. Can you imagine a poorer sample 

 of a carnation bloom than a badly 

 bursted, short-stemmed Lawson? One 

 grower remarked that it looked like a 

 rag tied on a stick. The grower who 

 does not thoroughly understand the car- 

 nation is likely to cut the latter class 

 of blooms. 



I may have been mistaken in my con- 

 struction of the meaning of the inquiry 

 and in that case I would certainly put 

 E. Crocker at the head of the list and 

 Mrs. Lawson a very close second. 



A. F. J. Bauk. 



PROPAGATING BAMBOOS. 



Wlien is the best time to put in root 

 cuttings of the giant bamboo and which 

 is the easiest way to root them? 



E. K. 



There are two or three ways of propa- 

 gating bamboos apart. from that of rais- 

 ing them from seeds, the latter method 

 being usually out of the question in con- 

 nection with the giant bamboo from the 

 fact that this plant only seeds at long 

 intervals, even when growing wild in 

 India. 



Division of the roots is the plan that 

 is most common, and the easiest method 

 for this operation is to wash out the 

 soil from the roots with a hose and 

 nozzle and then to separate the rhizomes 

 with a strong knife or hatchet, and at 

 the .same time to cut down the stems to 

 within a few inches of the ground. The 

 divisions should then be potted into as 

 small pots as they will go in convenient- 

 ly and placed in a warm greenhouse to 

 start anew. 



The second method is that of cuttings 

 of the culm or stem, and in that case 

 the stem is also cut down to about a 

 foot from the ground and is then cut off 

 the rhizome at the bottom, or in other 

 words a cutting is formed from the lower 

 portion of each stem, the underground 

 portion of these stems usually having 

 several dormant buds near the base. 

 These cuttings are then potted into small 

 pots, placed in a warm house and kept 

 moist, and may be expected to produce 

 a fair percentage of plants. 



In addition to this the rhizomes them- 

 selves may be cut into lengths of two 

 or three joints and planted in sandy 

 soil in flats or pans, and treated in the 

 same manner as the other cuttings, but 

 in this case only the rhizomes of the 

 preceding season's growth should be 

 used, as older rhizomes than these are 

 likely to be blind and thus to refuse to 

 grow. The best time to perform either 

 of these operations is in the spring, 

 April being a good month for the pur- 

 pose. W. H. Taplin. 



BEGONIA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE. 



I have not seen or heard it stated if the 

 above named begonia ever produces fe- 

 male flowers, and consequently seeds. I 

 would like to hear from anj' one through 

 the columns of the Review if they have 

 ever observed any female flowers amongst 

 the many thousands produced by this 

 handsome begonia. 



I was tying a plant up to go out on 

 Janijary 2, when I discovered a fine fe- 

 male bloom. I put the plant back on the 

 gieenhouse bench, and on January l.' I 

 found another on the same plant. I no- 

 tice they are produced at the extreme 

 end of the flowering chain, and conse- 



