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rules, as to temperature, airing, and 

 the prevention or destruction of in- 

 sects, which must be faithfully fol- 

 lowed. The soil should be a clay loam 

 enriched with well decomposed stable 

 manure, and I like to add a iibei'ai 

 sprinkling of bone dust and fine sheep 

 manure, the latter gives the foliage a 

 rich dark color. The plants should be 

 carefully and very firmly potted, using 

 a potting stick to pack the soil aboui 

 the roots. It is well to shade the 

 house either v.-jth slats or by white- 

 washing the glass with whiting and 

 coal oil. and sprinkle frequently with 

 water to keep the wood plump until 

 the young roots start: they should 

 never be allowed to shrivel. Keep lor 

 five or six weeks in a night tempera- 

 ture of 40 to -15 degrees; the plants 

 should b\ this time be well rooted and 

 the temperature may be gradually in- 

 creased, if necessary, to 60 or 65 de- 

 grees at night. When we have a late 

 Easter, as this year, it may be at no 

 time necessary to exceed 60 de.grees; 

 the lower the tem.perature at which 

 they (^n be flowered in time, the bet- 

 ter. Crimson Rambler and Wiohurai- 

 ana roses may be trained in various 

 shapes, globular, oval, or in the form 

 of fans, etc., or they may be cut back 

 to about one foot from the pots and 

 grown without any staking. In these 

 severely cut back plants the clusters 

 of flowers will be larger than where 

 more of the wood is retained and the 

 lighter branches allowed to bloom. 

 Use tobacco stems between the pots to 

 keep down Insects, cleaning out and 

 removing about once a month. Give 

 always plenty of air if weather per- ' 

 mits; if ihis is regularly attended to. 



mildew is not likely to appear, and 



when the buds are set an occasional 

 watering, say once in two weeks, with 

 raanui'e water is beneficial. Soot wa- 

 ter is also excellent to improve the 

 foliage and color of blooms and serves 

 also lo destroy worms. 



To recapitulate. I should say the 

 principal points to be observed are: 

 Lift carefully, pot promptly and firmly, 

 start at low temperature, always as 

 much air as possible, use tobacco 

 stems between the pots which should 

 have some space between them from 

 the very start. 



who ought to know. "Connected 

 houses opening together are all right 

 for teas," says Mr. Poehlmann. "but 

 the best for Beauty is the separate 

 house, not over 20 ft. wide." If you 

 want reasons, he can supply them. 



PICKED UP BY WIRELESS. 

 Poehlmann Bros, will discontinue 

 growing Perle and Sunrise roses and 

 give the space to asparagus and 

 Croweanuni fern for the Chicago mar- 

 ket. Peter Crowe says that outside of 

 his own place he has never seen 

 Croweanum so well done as at Poehl- 

 mann 's. Poehlmanus will not build 

 that proposed large addition thi.s 

 year, but will wait for more settled 

 "times" and the glass market has 

 thus got a big set-back. With a pay- 

 roll of 17,000 a month not including 

 store salaries, with .500.000 chrysanthe- 

 mums in the cutting bed. 236,000 young 

 carnations potted up and five acres of 

 carnation benches under one ridge-and- 

 furrow roof there'll still be "something 

 doing," however, at Poehlniann's. and 

 .lohn Evans' Challenge ventilator, 

 new pattern, is preferred to all others. 

 Speaking of Adiantum Croweanum, 

 Peter Crowe says it will stand all the 

 heat you can give it, and he's the man 



At this point the receiver picked up 

 a message from E. G. Hill who, by the 

 way. is geherally talking about roses 

 except when he is asleep or is per- 

 suading you to buy something. Mr. 

 Hill was calling attention to his new 

 pink seedling rose, a cross between 

 Beauty and another seedling which is 

 destined to make a sensation equal to 

 Richmond. The pink Testout seed- 

 ling to which the name of Princess 

 was first given is waiting for another 

 name, "Piincess" being alreadv in use. 

 Mr. Hill has a full bench of It 

 Among the new rose importations 

 Laurent Carle, one of Fernet Ducher's 

 introductions, is regarded as a fine 

 I^odding rose' by Mr. Hill. It bears a 

 large flower similar in color to Rhea 

 Reid. Lady Fair is a promising free- 

 blooming La France-colored rose from 

 England. The new English "Baby 

 Rambler," Phyllis, is pronounced by 

 Mr. Hill to be the best yet It is glow- 

 ing pink in color, and blooms abun- 

 dantly. Another handsome garden 

 rose is Konigen Carola. color Welles- 

 ley jiink. Watch out for some sensa- 

 tional surprises in seedling carnations 

 from Hill's shortly. He has them. 

 If you don't believe it you can go and 

 see and you'll doubt no more. And — 



Hello! — here communication is inter- 

 rupted bj' no less a person than Ed. 

 George, who wields authority over 



