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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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Basket of Roses. No. 3. 



tliat \wiiilil act on that pailiciilar vari- 

 ety. J I iliii's not make any (litVi'icnco 

 uluil I 111' temperature is in tlic lionsc 

 next to yuur earnatidn liiiusc if ymi Uci-|i 

 your (■arnatiun house u|i to wliere it 

 sliouhl he. If there is no [lartition l)e- 

 tweeii the nvo houses and llu' muin liouse 

 is as hiw as 40, your earnatinn house i.s 

 ^ur<' lo be too cold. 



Tlie V. Hill are altlietcil with hacter- 

 iosis and I do not know of ai^y cure for 

 it. You can cheek its spread to some 

 extent hy keeping your jjlants on the dry 

 side and do not feed them nuuh. An oc- 

 casional sprinkling- of slaked lime will 

 keep the soil sweet and help to check the 

 disease. This variety is badly all'ected 

 N\ith this disease on manj' places all 

 'Vei- the country and unless it is taken 

 in hand soon it will destroy the variety. 

 II gets its tendency to that disease from 

 its ])arent. Uncle John, which was des- 

 iroyed by that disease after it had been 

 iHit a few years. Do not propagate from 

 |ilants that show those yellow .spots, and 

 do not over-wat.cr nor overfeed and you 

 lan keep your stock comparatively free 

 ircni it. 



The llrs. Lawson have the fnsarium 

 stem-rot, or dry rot. and I am sorry to 

 say that we are hearing of a great nmny 

 cixses among that variety in all sections 

 of the country. I fear it may get away 

 with it, as the other steni- 

 lot is destroying Crane in some sections 

 of the country. A recent visitor told me 

 that in his neighborhood whole benches 

 of Crane liave been throwni out on ac- 

 count of it. We are not troubled that 

 way here and we would hate to lose that 

 fine variety just yet. 



As 1 ha\-e said before in these notes, 

 it will pay you to pull up and burn all 



the alTet^tetl plants as soon as you sec 

 them. Spray the plants with the copper 

 and ammonia solution and give all the 

 ail- ymi can at all times. 



A. F. J. B.\L-i!. 



FEEDING CARNATIONS, 



Am I fertilizing my carnations riglif? 

 Have not given am' mulch yet. hut liave 

 used 12 pounds of bonemeal to 1.000 

 plants t\nce, once a month, and com- 

 menced last week to n.se two ounces of 

 jjhosphate of ammonia, one and three- 

 quarter ounces of nitrate of soda and, 

 one and three-quarter ounces of sulphate 

 of ammonia in fifty gallons of water to 

 1,000 plants everv two weeks. Ought 

 I to keep using bonemeal onee a month, 

 or would it be better to iLse more at a 

 time and not so often? Subscriber. 



Ynur nicthcid of feeding your carnation 

 ]>lants is somewhat difl'erent from what 

 I would recommend. Of course, you 

 know your soil and you have your plants 

 before you and you can see whether yon 

 are doing them good or harm better 

 than I can judge. You do not complain 

 of any harm having come to your plants, 

 so I will take it for granted that they 

 are still in good shape. 



Wo usually mix enough bonemeal into 

 the soil to supply the plants until to- 

 ward spring, when they start into that 

 strong S])ring g-rowth. We consider a 

 mulch of rotted cow manure applied in 

 September far snjierior to any other fer- 

 tilizer and it usually is enough with a 

 couple of sprinklings of lime or wood 

 ashes to i-un the plants through the dark 

 weather. 



If your plants seem to thrive under 

 ;\nur treatiucnt yon should keep it up. 



lint always kee]) your eyes open and be 

 sure it is not made too .strong during 

 the dark days of December, Januan- 

 aiid February. I Avonld discontinue the 

 l>i>iic feeding after commencing with the 

 li'liiid chemical solution. 



A. F. J. B.4.UR. 



NOTES OF A WAYFARER. 



Starting at Indianapolis with a de- 

 termination to catch a certain train for 

 Kichmond in order to do these two towns, 

 Moriculturally speaking, in one day was, 

 to say the least, a mighty task. 



At Indianapolis the first thought, of 

 cour.se, was Bertermann Bros. Well, 

 what's the use, we must make time and 

 we can picture that place in our mind, 

 as can anyone who has had the good 

 fortune to enjoy tlie hospitality of these 

 people. Their place.is always spick and 

 span, their carnations and pot plants the 

 same. Tlie same genial greeting, whether 

 at the store or greenhouses, always 

 awaits the pilgrim to Indianapolis, 

 therefore to save time and being inter- 

 ested in a different line we journeyed to 

 till' woods north of town. Here we found 

 J5aur. We don't know what happened 

 lo Jones, or Smith, rather, hut we missed 

 him. 



There was Baur on his knees. It's -i 

 fact. W(e stootl in the gloaming of the 

 l)otting shed rmtil that gentleman came 

 hack to tlie world, when one of our party 

 remarked, "How often do you do that, 

 Mr. Baur'?" "Oh, about six times a day, 

 six days in the week, and about six 

 more months for this season. Then we 

 siiall fire 'em out and plant on raised 

 benches like other civilized florists." The 

 fact of the matter was that the carna- 

 tions in this particular house had been 

 ]ilanted in beds in the open field last 

 spring and the gieenhouse built over 

 them, thus doing away with transplant- 

 ing. If you want to work a new consti- 

 tution into your stock, that's the idea. 

 We never saw a finer batch of Crane — 

 large rtowers on strong steins in abund- 

 ance, and from the appearance of the 

 stubs a big crop had been jiicked. Crock- 

 er also was doing well, as is usual here. 

 El ma and Roosevelt were among the 

 good ones, while one or two others came 

 in the class of "also rans." looking 

 yearningly towards the glass, occasion 

 ally a fine bloom looking up at us i i 

 much as to saj', "Use your influence with 

 this man towards giving us another 

 chance next year on benches, when we 

 think we can hold our own with the 

 best of them." Naturally our hearts 

 went out to them, and while our tongues 

 sort of clove to Jhe V'.iof of our mouths, 

 nudging each other, we managed to sug- 

 gest the idea to Mr. Baur. who informed 

 us that it had been their intention ever 

 since they built the house to put in 

 l>enches the second season. W^e could 

 readily see. taking into consideration the 

 fact mat their trade calls for carna- 

 tions every month in the year, that fo/ 

 the first season the method followed waS 

 a paying one. 



The older houses are planted on 

 benches, and we understand the majority 

 of the plants had been grown in pots un- 

 til ]danting time. 'Ilicrc were seedlings 

 in quantity from indifl'erent to extra 

 good, and none bad. That pink — well, 

 look out; we saw it last year. It comes 

 in the class of darker than Scott, and in 

 our opinion will take that cake when 

 put on the market. .John Mitchell, a 

 white, is nearly on a par with above. 



It's a toss up between Cloud and Lorna 

 as seen here, with the chances favoring 



