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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



turns will be ample to heat the houses 

 described. 1 In- evict arrangement or 

 grouping of the pipes will depend upon 

 the grade of the Imu-,- and width and 

 arrangement of benches and paths. 



II. W. Gibbons. 



SOCIALISM THAT PINCHES. 

 I see thai one of the state colleges 

 has let the contract for a range of new 



greenhouses and note that some of them 

 are to be used foi forcing purposes. That 

 looks as though the institution would 

 enter into competition with the legiti- 

 mate florists on a larger scale than in 

 the past. Now, 1 never believed it right 

 that a public institution should enter 



into c | • 1 1 1 1 ■ > i '.i il b I he i a paj i i 



who help support it. even if they do it 

 fairly, but in many such cases the state 



pays the bills and the product is sold at 

 a price with which no business man can 



ete 



There is one florist near the college 

 I have in mind, who in starting there 

 pinned his hopes of success on the pat- 

 ronage from the school. He is a hard- 

 working man and he has complained to 

 me bitterly about the competition which 

 he and I think unfair. If they go on 

 building greenhouses for growing com- 

 mercial stock 1 am afraid others will 



feel tl fleets. If a student really 



wants to learn the inside of the florists' 

 trade and vegetable growing there are 

 plenty of good chances in commercial 

 places. If the state should take a hand 

 that way in all trades and operations of 

 life it would be a socialistic millennium 

 pure and simple. 



f hope my bigger brethren will in- 

 to that and help the little ones all they 

 can, for this is a tight for a principle. 

 John Loeiiker. 



CARNATION NOTES-EAST. 



Spraying Plants in the Field. 



Although not considered n ssarj bj 



many growers, it has proven with me 

 t,, be of benefit to spray field plants 

 with Bordeaux mixture. The principal 

 object is to prevent disease of any kind 

 getting a foothold. 



As the use of Bordeaux is generallj 

 known to keep plant foliage in a 

 healthy condition it can but follow 

 that its use is to be commended. Apply 

 every other week or after each rain di- 

 rectly the field has undergone cultiva- 

 tion. No arbitrary rule can be laid 

 down, but several applications during 

 their stay in the field will repay for the 

 time spent. When spraying, an excel- 

 lent opportunity is afforded to examine 

 each plant as to its needs regarding top- 

 ping, etc. 



Plants Indoors. 



Memorial day being now past, a g 1 



number of plants can Ik' dispensed with, 

 but careful examination -hould be made 

 in arriving at a decision as to which 

 sorts to continue. Everj grower must 

 be his own judge in the matter, taking 

 into consideration what his patrons de- 

 mand, condition of plants, also weigh- 

 ing well the advisability of keeping a 

 promising bench well into the summer, 

 t bcri l,\ prevent ing e.irh planting. 



If you decide to throw out the ma- 

 jority, thus giving you plenty of space, 

 or a new house is in process of con- 

 struction, a decision can be soon made, 

 but in any event, make up your mind 

 to plant early, even at the loss of the 

 sale of a few blooms during July and 

 August, especially so when prices arc 

 bound to be low. 



With us one bench of I.avvson and 

 Floriana will continue, also a smaller 

 quantity of Queen Louise, Kstelle and 

 Potter " Palmer. Nelson promises ex- 

 ceedingly well but. as repairs to 

 U'liches must be made, we cannot hold 

 it as we would desire. Potter Palmer 



been given no shade whatever this 

 spring as a test, and it is remarkable 

 how the color has held. 



We start the general clean out the 

 first week in June, remove old soil, re- 

 pair and whitewash benches, fumigate 

 and paint, refilling very soon with new 

 soil, the soil pile outside should al- 

 ready have been turned, then in tilling 

 it will receive another thorough mix- 

 ing. Next week I hope to give you my 

 ideas on filling benches. 



Geo. S. Osbobn. 



CARNATION NOTES-WEST. 



During the past two weeks we have 

 been having enough rain to satisfy our 

 needs for a month if it were distributed 

 properly. During such spells it keeps 

 one guessing how to keep things in good 



rapidly that it is hard to keep them 

 down and you must, get into your carna- 

 tion pat ih every chance you have. Dur- 

 ing the spring bedding season many 

 growers are prone to let the young car- 

 nations take care of themselves and in 

 such a season as this they will have to 

 put on their specs to find the young 

 plants, if they are still alive. How much 

 time and work it would save them if 

 they would go through the patch a cou- 

 ple of times with the hoe and cut the 

 weeds out while they are vet small and 

 the carnation plants can !«■ readily seen. 

 "A stitch in time saves nine," you know. 

 Don't think that because it rains 

 often enough to keep the soil fairly 

 moist you need not cultivate. You could 

 make no greater mistake. The soil will 

 need all the more loosening up and you 

 should get out your cultivator after 

 everj rain-, as soon as the soil is work- 

 able, and loosen it up so that the next 

 rain can soak down into the soil for 

 future use. A hard packing rain or a 

 few good heavy showers will pack the 

 soil down and level it off so that the 

 wafer will nearly all run away, instead 

 of soaking in. and in a short time the 

 soil will l»e quite dry several inches 

 down, instead of being only dry right 

 on top and nice and moist an inch from 



the surface. When you cultivate, culti- 

 vate deeply, at least two inches, and 

 three inches is better. 



Topping h ill have to be looked after 

 from now on, and some of the varieties 

 will have to be gone over frequently to 

 keep the plants shapely. Such varie- 

 ties as are inclined to bloom in crops 

 should be gone over more frequently 

 than the steady bloomers. Especially 

 will this be found beneficial in case of 

 early housing. In planting late you lose 

 much of the effectiveness of this practice, 

 because the plants vvill be full of shoots 

 of nearly the same size, and when the 

 plants begin to -row after the check in 

 transplanting the shoots will all throw 

 then buds about the same time. Those 

 that were longer at transplanting time 

 will grow a little taller than the others, 

 but the appearance of the bud vvill 

 seeminglv dale from the time of trans- 

 planting and the checking of the growth 

 rather than from the time the break was 

 made. That is why a house planted 

 from pots in June or earlier or from the 

 field in July will bloom more continu- 

 ously through the next winter and crop 

 less than a house that is planted in 



Now that Decoration day is over you 

 will In- able to -pan- some of your car- 

 nation benches and thoSe varieties that 

 are producing only what we term trash 

 should be thrown out. They will bring 

 you in no money — and they will be tak- 

 ing time and water to keep the plants 

 alive. 1 would not advise you to take 

 the soil off the benches unless you can 

 refill them with new soil, a- it vvill pro- 

 tect the wood from the hot sun. You 

 can allow the soil to dry out and it will 

 be lighter to handle when it is taken 

 out. If there are any benches that need 

 renewing you can do that to advantage 

 now before you begin refilling your 

 houses, and. by the way. just try one 

 of our solid beds with a bottom of cin- 

 ders and see if you don't like it. 



There are many of these things that 

 you can do now. when you are not so 

 busy, which will help you wonderfully 

 next winter, when you begin the refilling 

 of your benches in earnest. You will 

 appreciate the fact then. Give your soil 

 pile a final turning over now and break 

 up all the lumps and see that it gets 

 thoroughly mixed, and keep the weeds 

 from growing on it from now on. What 

 weeds are growing on the pile now you 

 can turn under when you turn the pile 

 over and they will soon rot and enrich 

 the soil. A. F. J. Baur. 



I a 

 tions. 

 about 

 been 



since 

 look . 



DRYING OUT IN FIELD. 



n having trouble with my carna- 

 They were planted in the field 

 the middle of April and have 

 vatered and cultivated regularly 

 hen. Thev are now beginning to 

 ry. and a 'few of the plants have 

 ot. I- this disease contagious, 

 hat is the best thing to do for 

 A I -o tell me what could have 

 it. SUBSCRfBER. 



I can hardly give a definite answer 

 to your query as I have nothing to base 

 an opinion on. There are many things 

 that may cause the young plants to 

 turn dry and. in fact, anything that will 

 seriously injure Hie growth may cause 

 it to dry up and die. Y'ou say they were 

 planted about the middle of April and 

 watered and cultivated regularly since 

 then. Any time in April or the first 

 of May is all right and a good watering 



