April 17, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



737 



View in Jackson Park, Chicago. 



house and plant them out in some loose 

 soil till August. Then dig them and al- 

 low them to lay exposed to tlie air in the 

 shade for two hours. Then place them 

 close together and cover with some loose 

 soil, leaving them there for about ten 

 days. Then it is time to take them in 

 aud keep them in a dry, shady place un- 

 til time to plant again in the 'fall. 



Some varieties are much more subject 

 to this trouble than others. Those most 

 linble to it are Grand Vainceur. Mina, 

 -Mme. Van der Hnop. Leonidas and a few 

 others, though other varieties are trou- 

 bled more or less, 



A. B. Van Heinsbergen. 



Kansas City, ]\Io. 



JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO. 



Tliis view of part of Jackson Park, 

 Chicago, the site of the World's Fair, 

 presents a decided change from four 

 years ago, for at that time all of the 

 planting material shown was in its in- 

 fancy. Hardly any of the plants were 

 then over two years old. Over 300,000 

 young trees and shrubs were propagated 

 and raised in the South Park nurseries 

 and planted in Jackson Park since the 

 World's Fair, and many of these are now 

 fine specimens. 



In the foreground of the picture, run- 

 ning along Stony Island avenue, the en- 

 tire length of Jackson Park, are two 

 rows of Carolina poplars, now about 

 eight inches in diameter. These are per- 

 haps the finest lines of Carolina poplars 

 in the United States, if not in the world. 

 .All have been kept carefully pruned and 

 are beautiful and symmetrical in form. 

 Anyone visiting Jackson Park would be 

 glad to have his attention called to these 

 two rows of trees. All the new planting 

 was done under the superintendeney of 

 Mr. Fred Kanst. 



The large building in the distance, now 

 the Field Museum, was the Art Building 

 during the fair, and the smaller build" 

 ing at the extreme right, now a re- 

 fectory, was the German building. These 

 are all of the World's Fair buildin<rs 

 still standing. ' 



J. L. H., WiXDSOR, Ont. — Please send 

 us your full name and address. 



VIOLETS. 



Wherever you have to fill in plants 

 from the fi?ld take care to lift them with 

 all the roots jiossible, handle as little as 

 possible and plant with as large a ball 

 of earth as will remain without tearing 

 the roots. Only take up a few at a time, 

 so as to have them wilt as little as you 

 can; take care not to break leaves and 

 steni.s, aud give one good soaking at 

 once; then water sparingly until they 

 again take hold of soil. Give tliem plenty 

 of air without a strong draft and shade 

 lightly from the sun in the middle of 

 the day, if you have bsen unable to 

 strike two or three cloudy, cool, dry days 

 for this operation. 



Now, supposing you hav(! grown your 

 violets successfully and have got a nice 

 crop on ready to j)ick; there are other 

 things to take into consideration. The 

 bord?r or house that you expect to pick 

 today you should not have watered yes- 

 terday, as the flowers should be dry when 

 gathered, for any water on the 'blooms 

 will not only destroy all the fragrance 

 (and they are worthless without it), but 

 will ruin th?in quickly when packed. 

 They should be picked early in the morn- 

 ing, if possible, bunched as picked and 

 the stems put in water to fill, in a cool 

 room (not an icebox). If for wholesale, 

 bunches of fifty each are preferred, and 

 the flowers so arranged that the top of 

 the bunch presents a smooth, oval sur- 

 face. Let me say right here that this is 

 very inartistic. If you have good retail 

 customers that appreciate flowers prop- 

 erly arranged to show them off at their 

 best, just persuade them to allow y(m to 

 tie a bunch, taking them with the stems 

 the natural length, making the lower ends 

 of same even, so that the flowers stand 

 up at different heights, with a few" 

 leaves among them besides tlie usual bor- 

 der of leaves, and I will leave it to any 

 lady of taste and independence if it i's 

 not far ahead of the stereotyped trade 

 bunch. 



Aft:r having picked, bunched and filled 

 the flowers with water, if they are to be 

 shipped take them out, taking care not 

 to wet blooms, and spread them on a 

 cloth to drain out surplus water from 



between the stems to prevent wetting af- 

 ter packing, which would undo all of 

 your previous care. Some markets will 

 require that each bunch be wrapped in 

 waxed paper; others will not. While very 

 sweet themselves, they are very suscep"- 

 tible to foreign odors, and great care 

 should be taken that they do not come 

 into contact with other things, which 

 would quickly contaminate them. They 

 should be packed in new boxes, and in- 

 side of all other packing they should 

 be surrounded by waxed paper aiid should 

 also have waxed paper between them 

 and any other flowers that may be packed 

 in the same box. If you are sendino- 

 many give them a separate box when iios"- 

 sible. 



To return to the house aud growing 

 proper, never fumigate with tobacco 

 .smoke; the liquid forms, evaporated, are 

 far preferable; and this should alway.s 

 be done several days previous to picking'- 

 in fact, the proper time is just after you 

 have picked over a house. It is also "our 

 practice to water thoroughly after pick- 

 ing, providing the weather permits. Of 

 course, when the dark and cloudy days 

 are over you will hardly ever have any 

 trouble about this. E. E. Shcphelt 



LETTUCE FORCING. 



^ In a number of years' experience grow- 

 ing lettuce in the greenhouse I have 

 found there are two very important points 

 often overlooked by growers, especially 

 beginners. Both are equally important, 

 but we will take first that of allowing 

 the soil to become dry. 



Your correspondent, J. W N (in 

 your issue of April 3); is suffering' from 

 the inroads of the fungous disease Sclero- 

 tinia Libertiana, a very common one and 

 which has been pretty thoroughly investi- 

 gated by the Hatch Experiment Station 

 Amherst, Mass., recorded in bulletin 69 

 A moment's reflection as to the habits of 

 fungi will perhaps enable one to grasp 

 the facts better. The common field 

 mushroom (Agaricus campestris) needs 

 exactly the right conditions to enable the 

 roots or mycelium to run through the 

 soil. The conditions are warmth aud 

 dryness, and afterwards a few rainy 



