FSlBBUARY 25, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



649 



YOUNG ROSE STOCK. 



Cnn I keep my rose plants growing 

 by shifting them regularly, or when- 

 ever they need it? I am building a 

 house, but cannot get it up before July 

 1. Can I keep the plants in the carna- 

 tion house until the rose house is ready! 



L. H. W. 



The young stock can be kept grow- 

 ing and in perfect condition till July by 

 giving the plants half-inch shifts when 

 necessary and never allowing them to 

 become pot-bound, particularly after hot 

 weather commences. For best results 

 the temperature should not be allowed 

 to drop below 55 degrees, which may in 

 the meantime be a little high for carna- 

 tions. Day temperature should be at 

 least 70 degrees during sunshine. 



ElBES. 



VALUES OF FERTILIZERS. 



What is the relative value of sheep 

 manure at $28 per ton and cow manure 

 at $2 per ton? I would like to know 

 what would be the most profitable to 

 use at above prices for either garden or 

 greenhouse? S. S. P. 



From experiments conducted by M. 

 Schubler, a noted French agriculturist, 

 and others, the following results were ob- 

 tained: If a given area of land planted 

 ■with seed without using manure yields 

 nine times the quantity of seed employed, 

 the same area, if cow manure is used, 

 will yield twenty-one times, and if sheep 

 manure is used the yield will be thirty- 

 six times the quantity used. 



Of course a good deal depends on the 

 ■quality of manure used, which is in a 

 great measure regulated by the class of 

 food given to the stock and by the after 

 care of the manure. Also it must be 

 taken into consideration that when ma- 

 nure is used on the farm little danger is 

 to be apprehended from excess of gases 

 released during decomposition, whereas 

 in a greenhouse, these gases accumulate 

 and often have a very deleterious effect 

 on the foliage. 



For economy, safety and satisfactory 

 results in the greenhouse cow manure is 

 best, and unless for some special crops 

 it is also better, and at the prices stated 

 more economical for the garden also. 



RiBES. 



DUTCH BULBS. 



Will you kindly give me some infor- 

 mation regarding forcing daffodils, hya- 

 cinths and tulips for Easter in a house 

 of 50 degrees at night and 70 in the 

 daytime. This is my first year in the busi- 

 ness and I would like to know when to 

 bring them in. I am a subscriber to your 

 paper and have gotten some very valuable 

 information from it. Kindly let me know 

 so I will not get them in too late. L. S. 



This has often been written up in the 

 columns of the Eeview, yet as the date 

 of Easter varies so greatly and our fickle 

 climate changes her mood without our 

 orders, there is no definite number of 

 days to allow for these bulbs to be 

 brought into flower. As I intend to com- 

 ment on this subject under the head of 

 Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints for this 

 week, I will refer L. S. to those notes 

 and will simply say that Easter being so 

 early there is not much danger of your 

 being too early if you give all these bulbs 

 from twenty-five to twenty-eight days in 



your night temperature of 50 degrees. 

 For a fuller answer to the question "to 

 the best of my ability" look to another 

 column. W. S. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



John Cook, Baltimore, Md., submits for 

 registration two seedling roses, described 

 as follows: 



Cardinal, a cross between Liberty and 

 an unnamed seedling; color, crimson ma- 

 roon; growth very strong; flowers large, 

 full double and delieiously fragrant; a 

 continuous bloomer. 



Enchantress, a cross between Mme. Car- 

 oline Testout and an unnamed seedling; 

 color pink; growth rapid and continuous, 

 never resting and flowering at every 

 shoot. Wm. J. Stewart, Secy. 



CARNATIONS REGISTERED. 



Jerome A. Suydam, Flatbush, N. T., 

 registers Alarm, pure white, without any 

 tint of color at any season of the year; 

 a cross between Flora Hill and Day- 

 break, in size three and one-half inches, 

 on an excellent stem, well formed flow- 

 ers and nicely fringed. 



There will be a number of new can- 

 didates at Detroit March 2, and any 

 grower who wants to get some idea of 

 the novelties should attend the meeting. 

 There are plenty of good hotels. Noth- 

 ing has been said about any certain one, 

 but it is likely that the Cadillac wUl be 

 a sort of headquarters. There will be 

 a committee having this matter in charge 

 and they can help all arrivals out, both 

 on hotel matters and how to get to the 

 meeting hall. Albert M. Herr, Secy. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



A few days of bright and warmer 

 weather liave been felt in increasing re- 

 ceipts in the market and by Saturday of 

 last week there was a small accumulation, 

 even in roses, something which has not 

 been seen for many weeks. But Monday 

 saw a brisk shipping demand and every- 

 thing was cleaned up. Tuesday was 

 quiet,- as is almost always the case, and 

 stock again dragged, with little prospect 

 of more active demand before the end of 

 the week. 



Beauties are the shortest item, but 

 enough to go around. Brides and Maids 

 are of very fine quality and should there 

 be a little more bright weather, very large 

 cuts will be in, large, at least, by com- 

 parison with those of the past couple of 

 months. Not many Liberty are seen, most 

 of them very short. Prices are weakening 

 in the rose department, not materially 

 on the better grades, but enough on small 

 stock to make the fact apparent in grow- 

 ers ' averages. 



Carnations are in large supply, but are 

 cleaning up well, for requirements are 

 heavy and there is always a place for 

 stock of the good grade now at hand 

 when it can be offered in quantity at 

 what the buyers call reasonable prices, 

 say $15 per 1,000. The call for white 

 has lagged a little in the past few days. 

 CaUas and Harrisii have also become 

 abundant. There is a fair sale for the 

 fancy qualities in tulips, but the common 

 stock is going slow. Other bulbous stock 

 is in the same way. Violets are again 

 in large supply and hard to move. Con- 

 siderable quantities of the eastern pro- 



duet are received, but do not sell any 

 better than the singles grown locally. 

 Campbell is out of the running. Green 

 goods are equal to all requirements. 



Various Notes. 



Poehlmann Bros, have recently acquired 

 about four acres of land contiguous to 

 their original plant at Morton Grove and 

 are contemplating a few more houses, but 

 have not yet fuUy decided what they 

 vrill do. 



George P. Ball has made a three-year 

 lease on the A. C. Harms greenhouses at 

 Berteau and Oakley avenues and will de- 

 vote them to carnations for the whole- 

 sale market. The houses are empty at 

 present, having been frozen up some 

 months ago while in the hands of A. B. 

 Everett. 



L. Coatsworth went to New Castle ou 

 Tuesday, accompanied by J. A. Budlong 

 and A. H. Budlong. 



Phil Hauswirth would like to be noti- 

 fied by those who wiU go to Detroit in 

 order that adequate accommodations may 

 be assured. Call him up on Harrison 585 

 or drop a postal to 227 Michigan avenue. 

 There will be a parlor car for the party 

 on the 3 o'clock Wabash next Tuesday 

 afternoon. 



The Washington 's birthday business 

 was a disappointment to the retailers. 

 A. Lange says that for Valentine's day 

 he could not wait on the people in his 

 two stores, but for Washington's anni- 

 versary there was nothing doing, either 

 in transient trade or decorations for so- 

 cial affairs. John Mangel had the decora- 

 tion for the dinner at the Union League 

 Club, .about the only affair of any im- 

 portance. He used 600 Lawson carna- 

 tions, a few hundred short Beauties and 

 some green. 



Peter Eeinberg 's exhibit at last week 's 

 flower show was sold to the Consumers' 

 Flower store and made a fine window dis- 

 play for several days. The Chatenay was 

 a wonderful vase of flowers when fully 

 developed. A shipment of their Uncle 

 John rose was sent to J. H. Small & 

 Sons, Now York, one day this week. 



The Anderson Floral Co. will retire 

 from business shortly after Easter. It 

 is reported that the fixtures have been 

 sold. The building is to be torn down 

 May 1. 



C. M. Thomas, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., says it looks to him as though the 

 supplies of Harrisii may be short at Eas- 

 ter, owing to the inability of many of the 

 growers to get their stock in by April I. 



Wietor Bros, are cutting fancy carna- 

 tions in large quantities. They have 

 never had better success in this depart- 

 ment and the cut aU grades high. 



E. F. Winterson Co. vrill handle Reed 

 & Keller's folding Christmas bell next 

 season. 



The wholesale houses are being 

 equipped with the new automatic tele- 

 phone. 



John Thorpe says that a flower show 

 is assured for Kansas City this year. It 

 is now only a question of dates. 



Bassett & Washburn will take 1,200 

 or more carnations to Detroit for the 

 A. C. S. show. 



Sam Pearce cuts his Romans in a man- 

 ner which might well be generally adopt- 

 ed. He pulls up the whole plant and 

 merely cuts the bulb through the middle, 

 leaving enough of it tt> retain all the 

 foliage with the flower spike. 



C. A. Samuelson wiil take in the De- 

 troit carnation convention. 



On Tuesday night fire ih an adjoining 

 store caused a smoke and water loss of 



