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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



MARCH 24, 1898. 



on what you are going to do with these 

 plants. If for vase or ve.anda boxes 

 I would just pinch the top off at once. 

 It you intend to l<eep them over as a 

 decorative plant, cut off four or five 

 inches of the top and give them a lar- 

 ger pot and room to grow when they 

 maXe lateral growth. This grevillea 

 is a pretty useful tree when quite 

 small, but when large is coarse and not 

 worth room in the greenhouse. 



W. S. 



LYCHNIS SEMPERFLORENS 

 PLENISSIMA. 



I send a photo of a few sprays of 

 Lychnis semperfloreus plenissima in a 

 small vase. The flowers were gath- 

 ered from little plants, divided into 

 single crowns in the second half of 

 January and not yet faii'ly established 

 at the time of writing (Feb. 22). On 

 older plants sprays are much longer 

 and more branchy. Our stock out 

 doors was nearly all disposed of in 

 fall and we had to divide the housed 

 plants to supply us with plants for an- 

 other season. When I wrote the ar- 

 ticle published in The Review (Feb. 

 101 we had no flowers on them, else I 

 would have furnished the print at that 

 time, but the fact that the weak, little 

 crowns are now again in flower is an- 

 other evidence of how persistently this 

 plant will send up flower stems and 

 how readily it responds to a little 

 care, though the same bench and soil 

 was used where the old plants had 

 flowered up to January, only a small 

 quantity of well decayed manure hav- 

 ing been added to the soil. In another 

 month when all the plants will have 

 gained their normal vigor, we may ex- 

 pect sprays twice the size of those 

 shown here and I would perhaps have 

 been able to furnish then a much bet- 

 ter picture, but the general appear- 

 ance and the size of the flower itself 

 would not be any different. As I was 

 requested to send in the photo at the 

 earliest possible date. I did not want 

 to wait until they were really at their 

 best: at some other time we may ba 

 able to furnish a better picture. K. 



VIOLET NOTES. 



It is to be supposed that all persons 

 •who grow violets to any extent are 

 exerting themselves now to hold them 

 in good shape for Easter; after that 

 they are practically valueless, anyway. 



March, with us, has reversed the or- 

 der of her usual behavior, and we 

 liave come unceremoniously from our 

 cloudy, cold weather into such weath- 

 er as we ordinarily expect in late 

 spring. As a consequence we hnve had 

 to shade again heavily, and in addition 

 to that have had to run with the doors 

 and ventilators wide open; in fact, 

 have left them so quite a good many 

 nights, even though the thermometer 

 reached the freezing point about morn- 

 ing. However, this is the only way 

 possible to keep the plants blooming 

 MS they should till Easter; by this I 

 mean large, full blooms. Of the small 



semi-double there will be no lack for 

 the balance of the season. Our flres 

 have been out for some time, and the 

 probability is that they will not have 

 to be started many more times, unless 

 we pay heavily for this spring weather 

 a little later. 



There is one paint to be avoided at 

 this time of the year that does not 

 come so prominently into notice ear- 

 lier, and that is having the sun com? 

 out on the flowers when there is any 

 water standing on them: the resu't is 

 faded, worthless, bleached flowers. We 

 consider the best time to water, to 

 avoid this, is after the sun gets low in 

 the afternoon, and yet early enough so 



that they are pretty well dried off by 

 dark. Of course, the houses which 

 have just been gone over for shipment 

 are where we do the heavy watering, 

 still all the houses require a great deal 

 now. with the evaporation that natur- 

 ally comes from the sun and wind with 

 the houses open. 



The natural course, at this season of 

 the year, is for the plants to turn their 

 attention to making new growth and 

 runners, and if allowed to do so you 

 can bid good bye to flowers at once, 

 and for the season. For this reason 

 run as cool as is possible. Remove all 

 good runners for stock, if you have not 

 already worked up a sufficient supply, 

 and keep all the small and poor run- 

 ners trimmed off closely. 



R. E. SHUPHELT. 



OUR GENERAL INTRODUCTION. 



No. 7 



Every subscriber is requested to send 

 his photograph (cabinet sze preferred) 

 for use in our general introduction, but 

 please dn not send us pko'.os that must 

 be returned, as we have to cut them in 

 arranging the groups, and do not send 

 tintypes, as these are not avai'able. In 

 sending photos please be sure to write 

 your name and addre=s on the back. 

 204. Wm. Nicholson. Framingham, 



Mass., President-elect American 



Carnation Society. 



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R. Witterstaetter. Sedarasville. O. 



J. M. Hunter, Supt. of Parks. Pat- 

 erson. N. J. 



J. G. Hancock, Grand Hav^n, 

 Mich. 



W. C. Rockwell, Bradford, Pa. 



J. T. D. Fu mer, Sec'y Flor.sts' 

 Club. Des Moines, la. 



John G. Esler. Saddle River, N. J., 

 Secretary Florists' Hail Associ- 

 ation. 



N. B. Stover, of Stover Floral Co., 

 Grandville, Mich., President 

 Grand Rapids Florists' Club. 



W. T. Bell. Franklin. Pa. 



W. W. Tailby. Wellesley, Mass. 



W. C. Krick. Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. J. Dean, Moneta, Cal. 



Alexander Whittet, senior mem- 

 ber of the firm of Whittet & Co., 

 Lowell, Mass. 



Ansel H. Whitcomb. of A. Whit- 

 comb & Son, Lawrence, Kans. 



H. W, Smith. Mittineague. Mass., 

 proprietor of Pansy Dell. 



Fred Rafferty, Hermosa Gardens, 

 Santa Ana, Cal. 



W. G. Newell, foreman for W. L. 

 Morris, Des Moines, la. 



H. D. Caldwell. Paris, III. 



Mrs. C. A. Starr, Pine Bluffs. Aik. 



Mrs. H. Rehder. Wilmington. N. C. 



Jno. W. Furrow, Mgr. Furrow 

 Bros., Guthrie, Okla. 



P. Vos. Oegstgeest. Holland, rep- 

 resentative in the U. S. of the 

 Holland Bulb Co. 



E. T. Affleck. Jr.. Co-umbus, O. 



A. A. Penn, Garfield Park, Indian- 

 apolis, Ind. 



Wm. H. Hall, of Hall Bros., Osage, 

 la. 



Walter S. Hall, of Hall B;-os., 

 Osage, la. 



H. D. Hemenway, Mass. Agricul- 

 tural College Greenhouses, Am- 

 herst, Mass. 



R. F. Thornton, with Gesler ' & 

 Robbins. Gales'nirg. III. 



Ed. Bradley. Manchester, O. 



Lewis C. Dane. Graniteville, Mass.' 



G. C. Vanderhoef, of the Holland 

 Bulb Co., Oegstgeest, Ho' land. 



Jac. Kop, of the Holland Bulb Co.. 

 Oegstgeest, Holland. 



I. A. Barnes. El Paso. Tex. 



F. W. Emery. Brookfield. Mo. 

 Mrs. Maud M. Briggs. El Paso, 



Tex. 

 Edw. Winkler, with C. A. Gard- 

 ner. Wakefield. Mass. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The executive committee of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists held its session 

 in Washington, D. C. on March 15th 

 and IBth. Many matters of importance 

 concerning the future policy of the so- 

 ciety and the management of its vari- 

 ous departments were taken up and 

 carefully discussed. 



It is not the purpose of this com- 

 munication to give in detail all the 

 matters which occupied the commit- 

 tee's time, but merely to give briefly 

 the conclusions arrived at in some of 

 the matters of special interest to the 



