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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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May Sugpestions. No. 3. 



lime over the eimiers or other drainage 

 material before filling. 



Have the frame within reach of the 

 hose, as artificial watering will, as a 

 rule, be required. A.s the plants are 

 to remain outside but a month or 

 six weeks, they can be stood practically 

 pot to pot, but it will be well to go 

 through the whole batch about three 

 weeks after putting out, standing them 

 over, placing the plants originally in 

 the center to stand on the outer edge, 

 at the same time loosening the surface 

 soil in the pots and spreading if plants 

 are in the least crowded. Cutting back 

 as occasion requires will demand the 

 same attention as when grown in the 

 field. 



While on the subject there comes to 

 mind the matter of having at hand soil 

 for filling benches to receive this potted 

 stock. Soil prepared last fall by laying 

 up sod and manure is to be preferred. It 

 is none too soon to have enough turned 

 over to fill the benches you intend for 

 trial of indoor culture. Will endeavor 

 to enlarge on the question of soil prep- 

 aration in this connection next week. 

 Geo. S. Osboen. 



SNAILS EATING CARNATIONS. 



Please tell me the best way to destroy 

 snails that get on my carnations at 

 night and eat the heart out of the 

 Mowers. H- ^^■ 



I know of no better way of gettinsr 

 rid of snails than to give them a tight 

 squeeze between vour heel and the 

 sround. If vou can put some poison 

 where thev will eat it you can kill tbem 

 that way." but it is not always so easy. 



They like the young, tender growth of 

 many plants and by sowing some seed 

 of these and dusting them lightly with 

 Paris green or some other poison after 

 the young seedlings have come up you 

 can get rid of a great many. They are 

 very fond of young begonias and asters 

 and carnations, and in fact they will go 

 for most any young, tender plant. When 

 you replant your houses this summer 

 you should whitewash all the benches 

 thoroughly and scatter lime all over the 

 ground and under the benches. If you 

 do tJiis thoroughly you will rid your 

 place of them. ' " A. F. ,T. B.\lk. 



RAISED SOLID BEDS. 



Will Mr. Baur kindly explain how- he 

 would use cement in the construction of 

 raised solid benches for growing tea 

 roses or Beauties and give details of 

 construction. How should the heating 

 pipes be distributed relative to the beds, 

 steam being used for heating? 



If benches are 18 inches above level 

 of walks how could the under side of 

 the leaves be best sprayed? Will Beau 

 ties grow well in a solid bench on north 

 side of gutter which gives considerable 

 shade most of the year? 



Can cinders from boiler be mixed with 

 cement and make good, durable con- 

 crete? The article in issue of March 20 

 instigates these questions and more de- 

 tail in construction is desired. 



A. L. W. 



This lot of questions really ought to 

 have been assigned to a rose grower, 

 but since most of the questions are con- 

 cerning construction of solid beds I will 



undertake the answering of ll i.i 



will take them in rotation. 



You can use either cinders or gravel 

 or sand in constructing the sides of your 

 beds. You will have to make a sort of 

 mold to hold the mortar in shape until 

 it sets. Take two boards 18 inches wide 

 and set them on edge, leaving a space 

 between as wide as you want your walls 

 to be thick, fastening them to stakes 

 driven in the giound or some oilier way 

 if you like. Do the molding right where 

 the wall is to stay. Shovel in the mor- 

 tar and leave it until the mortar is 

 hard enough to stand alone, when you 

 can take the boards away and start the 

 next section, and so on until you reai'h 

 the other end. I would leave a hole 

 about every foot or so. large enough to 

 hold a three-inch tile, as you would 

 perhaps want it for roses. Fill in with 

 cinders up to the bottom of these holes, 

 lay in your tiles, and then fill lietween 

 them with cinders again, level with the 

 top of the tiles. You may be able to 

 improve on the above described, method 

 of procedure, but it will answer admir- 

 ably. 



You can put part of your healing 

 pines in the walk and part of them 

 overhead, just as you may choose, but 

 I would prefer to have most of them 

 below in the walks. Your judgnient will 

 tell you just how to arrange (hem. 



Tliere is no better way to spray than 

 to hold your finger over the end of the 

 nozzle, turning the spray up or down 

 or sideways or in fact doing whatever 

 you see is required. With a spraying 

 nozzle you can produce only one kind 

 of a spray, while sometimes ymi will 

 want a fine spray, then again a heavy 

 rain, and still again a stream with ex- 

 tra force, etc.. and this can liest be done 

 with the finger. 



Neither Beauties nor any other kind 

 of rose should be grown on a bench that 

 is shaded much: they will not do well. 

 Roses must have sunlight. 



Yes. you can tise the cinders from 

 your boilers to make your walls, and 

 i believe that about four parts of cin- 

 ders to one part of cement is the pro- 

 portion usually used. Of course the 

 more cement you use the letter will 

 your wall be. but you can find out from 

 some stone mason or some cement side- 

 walk maker what proportion is liest. 

 A. F. J. B.vi-B. 



CROMWELL NOTES. 



Tlie month of April has brought a 

 good many changes in the place. With 

 the finish of the lilies there conies the 

 starting of the chrysanthemums and 

 about lOn.onn are to be benched. The 

 work of preparing the houses for mums 

 is under way and the majority will be 

 benched within a few weeks. The major- 

 ity of last year's varieties will be grown 

 and less changes than usual in the num- 

 ber. Col. Appleton will be planted light- 

 ly, however, while BonnafTon. Cliadwick, 

 Maud Dean. Kale Brooinhead and the 

 White and Yellow Eaton will be leaders. 



Now that tiie lilies have gone it may 

 not be out of place to make a few com- 

 ments on the llarrisiis we have grown. 

 The percentage of culls was large, and 

 from some experiments which we have 

 made we feel convinced that the cause of 

 this loss is the cutting of the bloom by 

 the Bermuda growers. I read, but have 

 forgotten the exact figures, how many 

 blooms were shipped to this country at 

 Easter by the srrowers in Bermuda. It is 

 certainly not justice for them to put on 



