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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Skptember 18, 1902. 



View in the Establishment of Kennicott Bros. Co., Chicago. 



ry lilt witli any satisf.iction to either 

 party. 



The only aiiangement yuu fan make 

 would be to propagate plants from those 

 in the cemetery and give them credit 

 for what the cuttings are worth now. 

 For instance, the canna roots should be 

 lifted as soon as the tops are injured by 

 frost and stored beneath a greenliouse 

 bench where there is little drip. All 

 you can allow the cemetery in their next 

 spring's account would be what j'ou 

 would have to pay for these clumps if 

 you had to buy them. 



Geraniums should not be lifted. Cut- 

 tings put in now make far lietter plants, 

 and if you credited the cemetery with 

 $1.00 per 100 for the cuttings it" would 

 be all they are worth, unless it was some 

 new variety. A few cuttings of each vari- 

 ety of coleus should be put in the sand at 

 once and from these you can propagate 

 any number next March and April. There 

 is no value at all to coleus cuttings dur- 

 ing the summer and fall months and to 

 lift old plants is out of the question. 

 Mme. Salleroi geranium is best lifted 

 and potted, and after New Year's they 

 can be divided and propagated. 



I may be mistaken in the inquiry, but 

 if I am not. would say there is little 

 value in bedding plants in the fall. It 

 is growing them in the spring months 

 that is expensive and that gives them 

 value. William Scott. 



stems, but your facilities for starting 

 them might be considered. If good, 

 sound stems can be obtained in February 

 it would be a favorable time, as you 

 would have a month or two of fire heat 

 to start them. 



They should be put into pots only a 

 little lai'ger than the stems. After they 

 are well rooted they can be given a 

 shift. Keep the pots plunge', in some 

 material that has a temperature of 7.5 

 or 80 degrees. Keep them only moder- 

 ately moist at the roots till they have 

 made a growth. They will often make 

 a fine whorl of leaves before they have 

 made many roots. They should never 

 be sold, or rented for decorations while 

 \r. tl is stale. In f;'Ct. tiicy should m-ver 

 be sold to any customers for use in their 



houses or to stand on the lawn or veran- 

 da till they are thoroughly well rooted, 

 and that will be t'vo years from lime 

 of starting. 



I don't know that there is more than 

 one form of Cycas revoliita. Ihe length 

 of the leaf is, I think, dependent upon 

 the conditions under which the plants 

 are grown. 



Japanese fern balls are usually bought 

 in the spring and started into growth 

 in JIarch. They want lots of moisture 

 when growing. If not convenient to 

 syringe them copiously, then take them 

 down and dip them into a tub of water 

 at least once every day, but don't let 

 them soak in it for ten minutes as I 

 have seen done. It drowns them. If 

 you have any unsold in the fall, grad- 

 ually withhold water in October or No- 

 vemlwr, and during December, January 

 and /''ebruary jou can let them hang up 

 in your palm house and they will re- 

 main dormant and be none the worse 

 for it. • 



I can't say where a good stock of 

 Echeveria metallica is now offered. It 

 is not so often seen since carpet bedding 

 has been less in favor. Most all our 

 leading plant growers catalogue it. It 

 can be raised from seed and that is the 

 cheapest way of getting up a large stock 

 of it. The seed is very minute and needs 

 care in sowing. 



William Scott. 



A CHICAGO WHOLESALE HOUSE. 



We present in this issue several views 

 from photographs taken in the estao- 

 lishment of Kennicott Bros. Co., Chi- 

 cago, since the numerous changes and 

 improvements made this summer were 

 completed. The firm now has certainly 

 a model place for the handling of the 

 large business transacted. 



President Flint Kennicott is seen at 

 the telephone in one picture; G. H. 

 Pieser. the secretary, is concealed behind 

 the glass in the cashier's cage in an- 

 other, and E. E. Pieser, the treasurer 

 and general manager, is at the end of 

 the long ice-box in still another. The 



CYCAS— FERN BALLS. 



G. 0. K. asks: "Which is the best 

 way to treat or start Cyca.s revoluta and 

 Japan fern balls? Is the long-leaved 

 cycas the best? And when is the best 

 time to lay in a stock of cycas? Where 

 can I get a supply of Echeveria metal- 

 lica?" 



The Cycas revoluta is not at all a dii- 

 ficult plant to grow. It should have a 

 temperature of at least 60 degrees in 

 the wintei-. Any house that will grow 

 the kentia or latania palms will grow 

 cycas perfectly. I don't know that it 

 makes much difference when you start 

 them or lav in a stock of dormant 



Storage Cellai[at the Establishment of Kennicott Bros. Co., Cliicago. 



