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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



FEBRUARY 17. 1838. 



tion to make a cutting. It must not 

 be soft and brittle, as ,vou would take 

 a verbena, nor yet hard and vvoodv. 

 When the bud is alicmt to open the 

 wood is in the right condition, and 

 blind wood can be judged accordingly. 



It water passes freely throu??h your 

 propagating bed you can water daily, 

 but in dull weather, and fire heat, not 

 excessive, once in two days will be 

 ample. When you do water the bed do 

 it thoroughly. WM SCOTT. 



EARLY PROPAGATED CARNA- 

 TIONS. 



In the fall I recommend the taking 

 of a thousand or two carnation cut- 

 tings, either from plants in the field 

 or from those lifted. We have two 

 uses for these early struck cuttin.gs. 

 A thousand, say in four varieties, 

 which with me are Daybreak, Scott, 

 Portia and Alaska, panted out early 

 and pinched but once, will begin to 

 flower the latter part of .Inly, and from 

 that on till hard frost kills them, and 

 you can Vt'ell afford to lose them, for 

 you will pick great quantities of .t^ood 

 flowers from the field, and they are 

 worth disbudding and trying as much 

 as those indoors. You may think you 

 can get a better variety than Portia, 

 but you could not for the purpose. 

 Small as it comes inside, it is ve.y 

 early and a fine flower outside. 



The other puipose is that no ,5lant 

 is more asked for l)y your oat'- nm 

 every spring than a carnation that will 

 flower during the summer. People aie 

 tired of asking for such an article, for 

 the great majority of florists have 

 nothing satisfactory to offer. If you 

 propagated these in September, they 

 should now be sturdy little plants and 

 want a 3-inch pot, and be topped once. 

 Another style of carnation plants that 

 suits your custiimei's finely is the 

 small one left in the field after the 

 houses are filled. A few hundred of 

 these in variety, lifted at the end of 

 September, well pinched back, potted 

 into 5-inch pots and plunged into a 

 cold frame, are wintering finely. It has 

 been such a strange and largely open 

 winter that there has never been a 

 week that you could not freely venti- 

 late one or more days a week, which 

 has been of the greatest benefit to 

 them, and when the weather will ad- 

 mit of it, ventilation should be given 

 in abundance, not only to those, but 

 to all plants that are wintering in 

 frames. 



Dahlias. 



There seems a revival of interest in 

 dahlias, and they are deserving of it. 

 Too many people, even alleged florists. 



plant them out with no more care than 

 they would a salvia. Their summer 

 growth and culture I will endeavor to 

 tell you about later. To increase your 

 stock is now of most importance. If 

 you have any roots lifted last fall and 

 stored in a cellar where you could keep 

 potatoes (which suits them admirably: 

 cool, but not half a degree of frost ), 

 bring them up. place an inch of soil 

 on the bench and put the entire roots 

 on it. scattering some earth over the 

 roots, but not covering deeply. They 

 will send up a number of shoots, which, 

 when three or four inches long, root 

 freely. You can put them in 2-inch 

 pots singly with a iittle soil at tlie 

 bottom of the pot and plunge in ])rop- 

 agating bed, or you can insert them in 

 the sand in the ordinary wa.v. Be sure 

 to cut these dahlia cuttings just below 

 and very near a joint. In most cut- 

 tings this is of no consequence, al- 

 though just as well with all. but in 

 dahlias it is most important. 



Geranium; for Easter. 



All kinds of plants, both cheap and 

 expensive, are called for at Easter, 

 and among them a few zonal gerani- 

 ums in 4-inch pots. Select a few hun- 

 dred of the early flowering ones, put 

 them into a 4-inch pot and give them 

 a light, warm house, and they will have 

 a flower or two by Easter. Give them 

 a much warmer place than you do your 

 main stock of these useful plants, and 

 near the glass, which means as mu;:h 

 light as possible. 



Easter Stock. 



How do we look for Easter? I can't 

 see yours, but I have studied ray stock 

 quite anxiously the past twenty-four 

 hours. As remarked a month or two 

 ago. cytisus must be kept near the 

 Jfreezing point for a few weeks or it 

 will be too early. 



If the lilies are showing clearing 

 their buds when you read these lines, 

 you are safe in a terperature of 60 

 degrees at night, but nothing to spare. 

 Much will depend on the weather, but 

 be safe, oh! be safe. Running it so 

 close is nonsense. Have a good week 



to spare, and don't forget your pat- 

 rons want the lilies full out. Save all 

 the diseased ones to feed the next 

 drummer who wants to sell you 

 sound ( ?) liulbs. 



The Bottle Brush plant (metroside- 

 ros) is coming on nicely at a tempera- 

 ture of 50 degrees. You can't get them 

 to flower all at once, and it does not 

 like sudden forcing. 



Azaleas are going to be full early, 

 excepting late sorts, like Emperor of 

 Brazil, You can do much to retard 

 them by a temporary shade of cloth 

 or paper on sunny days and opening 

 the ventilators above whenever pos- 

 sible. The azalea is a plant that the 

 public exercises a little brains over, 

 and prefer them not too full out. 



WM. SCOTT. 



OUR GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



No. 6. 

 Every subscriber is requested to send 

 his photograph (cabinet size preferred) 

 for use in our general introduction, but 

 please do not send us photos that must 

 be returned, as we have to cut them in 

 arranging the groups, 



168. A. H. Hews. No. Cambridge. Mass. 



169. Emil Buettner, Park Ridge, 111. 



170. Wm. N. Reed, of Reed & Keller, 



New York. 



171. S. Keller, of Reed & Keller. New 



York. 



172. W. J. Vesey. Ft. Wayne, Ind. 



173. Chas. A. Samuelson, Chicago. 



174. Mrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd, Ven- 



tura, Cal, 



175. Mrs. Arthur Lee, Riverhead. N. Y. 

 ITIj. Mrs, Kliza A. Cooper. Maroa, 111. 

 177. A. Miffing, Sec. and Manager Mor- 

 ris Floral Co., Morris, 111, 



17S. James Morton, Clarksville, Tenn, 

 179. Chas. T. Siebert, Pittsbur,:. Pa. 

 ISO. W. J. Palmer. Sr., Buffalo, N. Y. 



181. Chas. Krombach, Brooklyn, N. Y, 



182. Wm. Tricker. Riverton, N. J. 



183. John Dowsett. Roslyn. N. Y. 



184. B. Banyard. Sr.. Clementon, N. J. 



185. E. Nagel. of E. Nagel & Co., Min- 



neapolis, Minn. 



186. C. Humfeld, Clay Center, Kan, 



187. Thos. Johnston. Providence, R. I. 



188. Robert F. Tessou, St. Louis. 



189. Geo. W. Pool. Jr.. Glovers", ille. N, 



Y, 



190. Peter De Pew. of De Pew Bros.. 



successors to Tunis DePew, Ny- 

 ack, N. Y. 



191. G. Indermuhle, Portland, Oregon. 



192. E. Wienhoeber, Chicago. 



193. Denys Zirngiebel, Needhain, Mass. 



194. W, L. Morris, Dec Moines, la. 



195. Geo. Smith, Fall River, Mass. 

 19G. Wesley B. Leach, of J. & W. Leach, 



Borough of Queens, New York 

 City, 



197. C. B. Tremaiu. Oconomowoc, Wis, 



198. Wm. Warner Harper, Chestnut 



Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 



199. Felix Gonzalez, of F. Gonz.-ilez & 



Co., San Francisco, Cal. 



200. J. A. Raiptuuger, Great Barring- 



ton, Mass. 



201. S. Williams, Montreal, Canada. 



202. B. Willig, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



203. W. Bay, Titusville, Pa. 



