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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 9, 1903. 



add a tenth of its bulk of good bone 

 dust. 



Large palms, except the Minns, can 

 be put out of doors.but 1 am aware that 

 I am late in speaking oi that. If you 



the 



rough usage, then outside for three 

 months is the place. A soft growth of a 



kentia or latania will burn in the sun 



and quickly if the plants are neglected 

 for water,' but those that have grown 

 through one summer outside ami have 

 been kept moderately cool during the 

 winter will not burn, ami a feu months 

 in the open air gives them a hardy 

 growth. If the tubs can be plunged in. 

 or surrounded with some material to 

 keep the sun from drying them out, so 

 much the better, but faithful attention 

 to watering is the chief thing. 



William Scott. 



CARNATION NOTES-WEST. 



Early Planted Stock. 



Those carnations that yen planted 



from pots will need attention right 



along now. and you must look after 



new quarters. 



In hot, summer weather, you must 

 do all you can to keep the houses cool. 

 In tbe house where we have our Lawson 

 planted this year, we have side venti- 

 lators on one side and on the other side 

 there is a row of glass below the plate, 

 and out of this row we take every third 

 pane. You would be surprised what a 

 difference these side ventilators will 



n.p. 



mer months. 



After you weed the benehes.you should 

 stir the soil, and if it is rather light 

 it will be well to tramp it. down solid. 

 Our soil is heavy enough without it. 

 After tramping, level it, and put on a 

 mulch of some light material to help 

 keep the moisture in the soil. Sonii 



want for tin-, and put it on about a 



above these plant- at ail. but keep the 

 ventilators up and dampen the walks 

 during the day. 



Top the plants as they need it, just 

 the same as you do those in the field. 

 Mrs. Lawson will not produce a stem 

 that is worth considering before Octo- 

 ber, and so it is energy wasted to allow 

 it to bloom before then. Some other 

 varieties will throw longer stems, and 

 these may be allowed to bloom as soon 

 as vou have a fair sized plant, bul get 

 your plant first and the bloom will 

 surely follow. 



I do not. like putting on supports this 

 earlv. nor do I think it at all necessary 

 if you lock after the topping propel ly. 

 Every plant ought to be able to stand 

 up straight while there are no blooming 

 shoots, and it will. too. if you top it 

 before the -hoots become long enough 

 to lie over of their own weight. If yen 

 do want to put on supports, 1 would 

 advise usiiej some kind of a wire sup 

 port. There will yet be needed much 

 weeding, stirring and mulching, and 

 other work, and you can get bet i 



hem a little better than you can 

 ;h the string mesh. Many grow- 

 ers use these to support the body of the 

 plant and the string n esh to stipporl 

 the flower stems during winter, and it 

 is not a bad way, either. 



If any of the plants die out from 

 stem-rot, or some other disease, burn 

 them up as soon as you see them. Re- 

 move the soil they were planted in and 

 refill with fresh soil bef( re yi a set as- 

 other plant, of which you of course, 

 saved some after you finished planting. 

 Do not syringe the plants in the eve- 

 ning, as that will bring on rust; in fact, 

 any time when they would not dry off 

 readily it is ill advised to syringe them. 

 A. F. J. Bauk. 



CARNATION NOTES-EAST. 



Lime in Bench Sod. 



The value of lime, when intelligently 

 employed, can hardly be overestimated. 

 If we could afford to have our soil an- 

 alyzed, the matter of soil preparation, 

 as regards the proportion of fertilizing 

 elements to be added, would perhaps 

 be much simplified; but even then I 

 question tbe advantage, as constant 

 changes take place in the soil, both 

 ehemidally and mechanically, as soon as 

 the plants are benched. This would re- 

 quire an analysis at frequent intervals, 

 causing much extra labor. 



Looking into the lime question, we 

 find that it has the property of correct- 

 ing acidity of the soil which may per- 

 chance occur from the frequent water- 

 ing necessary in housing early. It has 

 also the property of rendering stiff soil 

 more friable, as well as making sandy 

 -oil more compact, and from this fact I 

 am inclined to the opinion that where we 

 see equally well grown plants in heavy, 

 clayey or light, sandy soils, it is due 

 to the presence or addition of lime. 



When a plant affected by stem-rot 



i es at the l.l-t -tai!r of I lie di-casc. 



or what I call the point of contauion. 

 there is present in the -tern at the rot- 

 ting point a condition of acidity which 

 can be easiiv proved by test with blue 

 litmus paper. Whether this acidity has 

 anything to do with the spreading of the 



disease . I an I prepared to state, but 



the prompt removal oi such plant- and 

 tbe immediate use of lime as advised 

 in my notes of last week, has in my 

 experience proved an advantage both in 

 field and bench. It- greatest value in 

 the bench is its effect on latent or un- 

 available nitrogen, potash and phosphor- 

 ic acid present in the soil. It- action 

 hastens the digestion or transformation 



of these ingredients into a form easily 

 taken up by the plants. 



Some soils contain more lime than 

 others, but with the addition of the 

 various fertilizers we employ and its 

 confinement under glass, heated and 

 watered artificially, the use of lime be- 

 comes practically an absolute necessity 

 for the production of up-to-date -lock. 

 I use the ordinal}- air-slaked lime, sprink- 

 ling a light coat over the soil as soon as 

 a bench is filled, afterwards raking it 

 in thoroughly. I would advise using a 

 less quantity on sandy than on heavy 



If you have not already shaded your 

 houses preparatory to planting in, try 

 the plan of using whiting and water 

 mixed to the consistency of milk and ap- 

 ply with syringe or brush. It will not 

 be washed off until you so desire and 

 then the hose will easily remove it 

 gradually, which is best for the plants; 

 it also looks neater and is cleaner than 

 mud wash besides being more in keep- 

 ing with present progressive methods. 

 Geo. S. Osborn. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Novelties. 



Some of the new varieties that were 

 benched early are making very fine 

 growth, and, from present indications, 

 some record breaking is under way for 

 this fall. The cool and moist weather 

 that we have been experiencing of late 

 i- very favorable to the rapid growth of 

 the plants, but it is well to keep the 

 roots on tbe dry side in such weather, 

 because a to6 rapid growth is not what 

 is wanted, but a slower, firmer, harder 

 growth. Still, we generally get plenty 

 of sun during July and August, and one 

 need not worry yet because his plants 

 are running up long jointed. 



It is a striking evidence of the renewed 

 popularity of the chrysanthemum, from 

 an exhibition standpoint, that there are 

 more novelties under trial this year tha" 

 ever before in the past ten years. It is 

 always the new things that people crave, 

 and the man who caters to this craving 

 is the man who makes the money. We 

 must keep raising and importing new 

 varieties anyway, because about two 

 years seems to be the average life of a 

 variety nowadays. 



Of the novelties disseminated this 

 spring, Liger, Columbia. Richardson and 

 Convention Hall are the best looking of 

 the American varieties. Liger can hard- 

 ly be called an American, since it was 

 rai-ed in France, but E. G. Hill .-alls 

 it an American by adoption, in which 

 respect it resembles so many of its 

 growers that we may let it go at that. 

 I don't know that I ever saw a more 

 even stand of plants than is a large 

 batch of this variety at the present time. 

 Clean, kind and healthy, it looks like 

 the ideal commercial pink. Columbia 

 and Richardson, two other new pink-. 

 are both exceedingly nice, but in growth 

 they cannot compare with Liger. Ilieh- 

 ardson is at present a little thin in the 

 foliage, but will doubtless harden up as 

 the weather gets hot. 



Of the imported novelties F. S. Vallis 

 is at present one of the best. Ii won 

 great fame in England last year and if 



