MXroh 10. 1903. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



655 



but my idea is to adopt the method now 

 used extensively in this state for the 

 trrowing of tobacco. Jlany vegetables 

 and flowering plants have been tried 

 under these so-called tents with great 

 success. 



Grasshoppers, bees and other insects 

 can be completely shut out. and from 

 what I have seen in the tobacco growing 

 district, where other plants were tried, 

 I believe the plan worth trying. Tlie 

 tobacco tents are, of course, flat on the 

 top. but my plan is to make the shape 

 correspond to an even span hou.se. 



Geo. S. Osborn. 



Bench of Cyclamen grown by Arthur E, Chilman, Gardener 

 for F. S. Moseley, Newburyport, Mass, 



can spare now. I would advise you to 

 plant the young plants right where they 

 are to remain; it will pay you well. 

 They will liave a good hold on the soil 

 when the hot weather strikes \ou and 

 you will lose less of them during tlie 

 summer. The same hohis good willi 

 any variety you nuiy wish to grow in- 

 side. We used to grow Jubilee insiilc 

 altogetlier and the best we ever had 

 were a bench that was planted about 

 April 1st. Mrs. Bradt also always did 

 best grown inside with us. 



A. F. J. Bai-I!, 



CARNATION NOTES— EAST. 



Shading. 



Different styles of houses require dif- 

 ferent methods and times of shading. 

 also tlie latitude and surroundings have 

 to be taken into consideration, and last, 

 but not least, some varieties need it 

 sooner than others. 



The practice of shading is, of course, 

 unnatural, or perhaps it is better to 

 say it is a violation of the laws of 

 nature in so far as excluding light is 

 concerned, but carnation growers are 

 looked to for a supply of blooms in and 

 out of season; and it is for their interest 

 to furnish as good quality as possible, 

 so then we must resort to shading for 

 the double purpose of keeping the tem- 

 perature down and to prevent fading the 

 color of the blooms. 



We always delay shading as long as 

 possible, especially if it is to be of a 

 permanent nature, for should a cloudy 

 spell come on, a soft gro«-th is produi-p<l. 

 Many experiments have been tried, with 

 the result that we now use a combina- 

 tion of cheap, open cheese cloth, whiting 

 mixed witli weak soap water and 

 naphtha mixed with lead. 



The cheese cloth is employed early in 

 the spring to shade varieties of delicate 

 color and put up in such a way that 

 it can be easily removed during a stormy 

 or cloudy period. Whiting and soap 

 water, the soap being added to make 

 the wash adhere more readily, is put on 

 the inside with a brush. Naphtha and 

 lead is used last on the outside and ap- 

 plied either with a brush or syringe. 



Our plan is to arrange varieties so 

 that when using cheese cloth it can be 

 suspended high over the middle benches, 

 where, of course, we have placed those 

 varieties most liable to fade. By this 

 metliod tlie strong light is greatly tem- 

 pered during the midday hours. 



I^ater the whiting wash is applied 

 thinly on the lower lights of glass, cov- 

 ering ])crhaps one-half of each light at 

 tlie lirst time going over. Wliiting has 

 the advantage of being easily removed 

 and Ix'ing put on the inside one can 

 judge better what he is doing as he pro-' 

 ceeds. 



When the sun gets very strong, the 

 cloth is taken down, the whiting re- 

 moved and the whole outside is treated 

 with naplitha and lead and what re- 

 turns come in after that is almost all 

 velvet. Tlie one thing to observe above 

 all in shading is not to overdo it. Do 

 not (Hit it olf too long, hut proceed with 

 caution. The above applies to even span 

 hijusi's niuiiiiig north and south. With 

 liousps running east and west it is ob- 

 vious tliat the plan will have to be modi- 

 lied somewhat. 



Summer Bloom Outside. 



Speaking about cheese cloth brings to 

 my mind that I promised to give you 

 my plan for growing a supply of blooms 

 for summer. 



I trust you have kept your plants 

 topped as occasion demanded and that 

 they are now in 3i or 4-inch pots. As 

 soon as safe to plant out prepare a bed 

 about four feet wide, or two beds three 

 feet wide, and as long as will accommo- 

 date the number of plants you desire to 

 experiment with as follows: 



After the plants are well established 

 set a row of light posts about six feet 

 apart on each side of the bed or beds, 

 calculating for a path or paths, posts to 

 1)6 six or seven feet above ground when 

 set. Another row of posts might be set 

 same distance apart through center of 

 space eight or nine feet above ground 

 level. Stout galvanized wire run along 

 each line of posts stapled on top of each 

 forms the frame work of a cheese cloth 

 covered house. 



This can be modified in many ways. 



CYCLAMEN. 



The accompanying eiigr.iving is from 

 a photograph of a beucli of cyclamen, 

 grown by Arthur E. Chilman. gardener 

 for F. S. Moseley. Esq.. Newburyport, 

 M.ass. Kegarding his methods of cul- 

 ture, Mr. Chilman says: 



"We sowed our cyclamen about the 

 middle of September in soil the same as 

 we used for primulas and in a tempera- 

 ture of 53 degrees at night. As soon 

 as large enough they were pricked off 

 into Hats in "practically all leaf soil 

 and allowed to remain until February 

 in the same temperature. They make 

 sturdy little ])laiits if given plenty of 

 light and kept moist, and come away 

 from the flats with a little bulb as large 

 as a marble and nicely rooted. We pot 

 off singly into small pots and grow on 

 in a temperature of 60 degrees at night 

 until the season is far enough advanced 

 and we have a cold frame vacant. There 

 they are grown all summer, plunged in 

 ashes and lightly sprayed with clear 

 water two or three times a day, shaded 

 with cheese clotli tacked on laths. 



"Each plant is repotted as needed, giv- 

 ing just a small shift each time, with 

 more loam added to the soil at each pot- 

 ting, until they reach their final potting 

 in a good rose soil. They did well so 

 treated until up to August S, when w-e 

 were visited by the most severe hail 

 storm I have ever seen. The morning 

 had been dull, so the shading had been 

 taken from the cyclamen. The storm 

 came over quite suddenly, and by the 

 time the ventilators of the houses were 

 :ill closed the poor cyclamen got a bat- 

 tering that I thought they would have 

 been better without. When I first saw 

 them after it my heart went down to 

 where T usually keep my rubbers. How- 

 ever, the most of them recovered all 

 right. 



'•Some of our plants we carried over 

 from last year. They were planted out 

 in the kitchen garden in June in the 

 full sun. where they gradually went to 

 rest. When they began to throw up 

 their leaves we lifted them and potted 

 thein in good soil and grew them with 

 the others in their present quarters and 

 in a night temperature of 55 degrees. 

 We fumigate about once every two 

 weeks. Some of the plants were doing 

 a turn in Boston for Christmas, and to- 

 day, Jfarcli .S. are carrying from sev- 

 enty to one hundred and sis fully ex- 

 panded flowers in 8-inch pots." 



DISEASED CARNATIONS. 



We send a Flcua Hill carnation plant 

 taken from a Ix-nch of about 1.000 in 

 similar condition. The.se plants were 

 grown in the field and were in fine shape 

 when taken into the house. They did 

 finely up to the holidays, at which time 



