The Weekly Florists' Review, 



829 



cut of blooms before spring ami as prices 

 then would be on the decline he would 

 not be able to realize enough from them 

 ta pay for his winter's work. If you 

 want to plant carnations and you have 

 only these young plants it will pay you 

 to buy good field-grown plants from 

 some reliable grower, of whom there are 

 several advertising in the Review. Lose 

 no time in getting I hem planted, as it is 

 getting very late and it will take skill- 

 ful handling to get a fair crop of good 

 blooms by Christmas. You need not 

 throw those young plants away, however. 

 Set them in a cool house or in a pit wher? 

 they »ill live over winter and in the early 

 spring plant them out for summer bloom- 

 ing. Repot into 3-inch if necessary, but 

 keep them growing slowly and top them 

 close right along to keep the plants com- 

 pact. If S. W. C. wants directions re- 

 garding planting his carnations on the 

 benches from pots in the spring, he will 

 likely find them in these articles towards 

 spring. I would advise him to propagate 

 and grow his stock along much the same, 

 at the beginning at least, as he would 

 for planting in the field. The most up- 

 to-date method (except for one or two 

 varieties) is to plant out in open as 

 early as possible and lift early in July. 

 This gives the plants that strong, sturdy 

 growth as a base to work on, while all 

 the blooming shoots are grown inside 

 and there is no cheek to the growth after 

 the rapid fall growth commences. 



A. F. J. Batjr. 



PROFITABLE BUSINESS. 



Do your customers know that you can 

 execute orders for the prompt delivery 

 of cut flowers or floral designs for any 

 occasion, anywhere in the United States? 

 Why not let them know"? Such business 

 is easily handled and affords a fair profit. 



Many leading retailers display neat 

 signs in their windows announcing that 

 they can deliver flowers in any city in 

 the United States for funerals or any 

 other purpose. Another way would be to 

 print such a sentence on bills and let- 

 ter heads, or a neatly printed card 

 might be enclosed in each package where 

 the proprieties would permit, or it might 

 be mailed to your list of customers in 

 the form of an announcement. As soon 

 as it becomes known that you can de- 

 liver funeral pieces a thousand miles 

 away at a few hours' notice you will 

 have a steady call for such service. 



The page of "Leading Retail Flor- 

 ists'" which appears regularly in this 

 paper affords the means of filling or- 

 ders in every principal city in the United 

 States. This page is open only to firms 

 of known standing and whose equip- 

 ment is adequate to meet any calls of 

 this character. Most of them already 

 do a considerable amount of business 

 on mail or telegraphic orders. 



WORK WITH VIOLETS. 



There are several things that are con- 

 ducive to good violets. In fact, the right 

 conditions are necessary for success with 

 all kinds of flowers, but especially so 

 with violets, as they are more suscepti- 

 ble to poor surroundings than many 

 other plants. Ono thing that we refer 

 to is cleanliness. You may have heard 

 me mention this before, but there is 

 nothing aside from unfavorable weather 

 conditions that is much worse for violets. 

 A house with more or less weeds, dirt, 

 rubbish and with only an occasional 

 clearing out will surely develop diseased 



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ragged and small. Yen should com 

 mence at one end of the house and go 

 along regularly and systematically in or- 

 der to find out where they are eating and 

 their nearest refuge, so as to be able to 

 apply your remedies where mosl needed, 

 and while yen will find thai they hide- 

 in the roots at the crown of the plants, 

 they also congregate more largely aboui 

 any woodwork which is ne rby. 



There are a variety of remedies foi 

 their destruction, bu1 on the whole, if 

 used with care, we find that Paris green 

 is the best. Take dry, coarse granulated 

 sugar and mix just enough Paris green 

 with it to color it nicely. Then put it 

 in small piles where the bugs run and 

 in little rings about the plants, and 

 along near the woodwork that has to be 

 in the house. Of course, you want to 

 plan this so that you scatter it when the 

 ground is fluite dry and when the at- 

 mosphere is likely to be dry and clear 

 for some time, for at the best the sugar 



. in order for 

 II generally find 

 in their tracks 

 les those that 

 to cover. You 

 the centipedes, 

 rd shelled ones, 



eaters and are costly live stock to house 

 and feed on violets. 



With the weather that we have had, 

 the violets from the field that I spoke 

 of in my last notes have taken hold in 

 nice shape and need no more shading, 

 and would like to throw some blooms if 

 we would let them. As I have remarked 

 bet', re, keep the houses well aired, night 

 as well as day. no matter if you have 

 quite a heavy frost outside. They will 

 be much better in the long run. I do 



