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January 15, 1910 



New Offers in This lttu>. 



CUT FLOWER DELIVERIES, 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 



Shepard's Garden C'aniatiou Co., Lowell, 



Mass. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



EVERGREEN BRAND FERTILIZER. 



D. D. Johnson Co., Chicago, 111. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLY CATALOGUE 



OFFER. 



M. Rice & Co., rhiladelphia. Pa. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



NEW BERRIES. 



Berrydale Experiment Gardens, Holland, 



Mich. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



POTASH. 



German Kali Works, Baltimore, Md. 

 For pa ge see List of Ad vertisers. 



SULFOCIDE. 



B. G. Pratt Co., Now York, N. T. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



TEMPERATURE ALARMS. 



National Clock & Electric Mfg. Co., 



St. Louis, Mo. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



OBITUARY. 



Hermann Kuhley. 



Hermann Kuhley, one of the largest 



wholesale florists in Berlin, died on 



November 26, in the 51st year of his 



age. 



James Stocksill. 

 This old-time nurseryman died on 

 December 25, at Baltimore, Md., at 

 the age of 78 years. He was formerly 

 in business at Geneva, N. Y. 



J. D. Chamberlin. 

 James Dale Chamberlin, 95 years old, 

 veteran and pioneer resident of To- 

 ledo, 0., died January 4 at 1363 Miami 

 street. East Side, where he had lived 

 for 50 years. Mr. Chamberlin is said 

 to have been the originator of the idea 

 of preserving fruit by hermetic seal- 

 ing, and was the first to introduce 

 evaporated fruit, both of which indus- 

 tries now occupy a large place in 

 America. He was a native of Union 

 county. Pa. 



Mrs. Josephine Garland. 

 Mrs. Josephine Garland, whose se- 

 vere illness we noted last week, passed 

 away January 6th at the home of her 

 daughter, Mrs. Fred Wittbold. Mrs. 

 Garland was the mother of the Garland 

 Bros, at Desplaines and of Mrs. Percy 

 Jones and Mrs. Fred Wittbold, and 

 was a woman of splendid character. 

 Mrs. Garland was deeply affected by 

 the death of her son-in-law, Percy 

 Jones, and her granddaughter last 

 summer, coming but one day apart, 

 and has not been in her usual good 

 health since. 



FLORIST'S ESTABLISHMENT 

 WRECKED. 



The store of Chas. R. Tuson and ad- 

 joining greenhouse, in Windsor, Ont., 

 ■was wrecVced by an explosion of natur- 

 al gas, January 12. The leak had been 

 susnected for some days and an em- 

 ploye looked for it with a lighted 

 match with above result. No one was 

 injured. The property damage was 

 $2,000. Fully insured. 



THE CULTIVATION OF THE 

 CYCLAMEN. 



Paper read before the Gardeners' and 



Florists' Club of Pittsburgh, Jan. 4, 

 1910, by George Cruickshank. 



The best time to sow Cyclamen 

 seed is from the middle to the end 

 of August. Sow thinly. Cyclamens 

 should never be crowded, even in the 

 seed boxes. Sow the seed in a good 

 mixture of light loam, leaf mould, sand 

 and crushed charcoal, in about equal 

 proportions. Cover the seed very 

 sparingly and place glass over the 

 boxes to prevent evaporation, setting 

 in a temperature of 60 degrees to 65 

 degrees. 



As soon as the seedlings appear 

 above ground, place the boxes well up 

 to the light to prevent the first leaf 

 from becoming leggy. When the sec- 

 ond or third leaf is shown the young 

 seedlings should be pricked into other 

 boxes about two or three inches apart, 

 leaving them there until they are ready 

 for 3 or 3%-inch pots. We think this 

 a better method of handling than pot- 

 ting them into thumb pots, as they are 

 liable to go dry at times, a condition 

 very detrimental to Cyclamens at any 

 stage of their growth. They trans- 

 plant into 3%-inch pots without suf- 

 fering any setback whatever. 



When shifting into the first pots a 

 little less leaf mould and sand should 

 be used than is used in the seedling 

 boxes, adding a small quantity of well- 

 rotted manure, and in re-potting into 

 larger sized pots a mixture of equal 

 parts — fibry loam and manure, with 

 leaf mould, charcoal, sand and a good 

 sprinkling of crushed oyster shell to 

 keep the compost open, using plenty of 

 drainage. The larger pieces of oyster 

 shell can also be used along with 

 pieces of broken pots for drainage. Pot 

 moderately firm; never use fresh 

 manure for potting, nor quick-acting 

 fertilizer for feeding. We have known 

 grand exhibition plants to be grown In 

 this compost without the aid of any 

 fertilizer whatever; too much feeding 

 towards the flowering stage tends to 

 soften the flower stems. During win- 

 ter a temperature of from 56 degrees 

 to 60 degrees with plenty of moisture 

 will suit them, and in spring they 

 ought to be transferred to a more airy 

 house, still keeping them on the 

 warm side, well up to the glass. In 

 summer they can be grown in the 

 coolest house possible, with cheese- 

 cloth shading when the sun is shining, 

 but the atmosphere should never be as 

 dry as that in which chrysanthemums 

 or carnatfons are grown. 



When the nights begin to grow cool 

 in autumn, the temperature should not 

 be allowed to drop below 54 degrees or 

 55 degrees at nights, or the plants will 

 get a check at the very height of their 

 growing season. Not until the flowers 

 are pretty well up should the tempera- 

 ture be lowered to 46 degrees or 50 

 degrees at night, and as they come into 

 full flower, the ventilator should never 

 be closed tight except in the very 

 coldest weather, taking care to raise 

 It before the sun strikes the house in 

 the morning. Due attention to this 



will keep the flowers a long time fresh 

 and clean, preserving a larger number 

 of flowers on the plants at the same 

 time. 



The benches where Cyclamens are 

 grown should always be kept clean. 

 Before placing the plants, the benches 

 should receive a good washing with 

 some strong insecticide, then putting 

 on new gravel or ashes to make sure 

 everything is clean. It is also a wise 

 precaution to spray in between the 

 plants occasionally so as to keep clear 

 of the small white mite, which so often 

 wrinkles the leaves and flowers of the 

 Cyclamen. If your plants are affected 

 any with this insect, they ought to be 

 dipped in a strong solution of X. L. All 

 insecticide two or three times. This 

 operation is best done the last thing 

 at night, syringing the plants with 

 clear water first thing in the morning. 

 The other two insects that attack 

 Cyclamens, thrips and greenfly, can be 

 got rid of with ordinary fumigating, 

 always bearing in mind that prevention 

 is better than cure. If troubled with 

 the ordinary garden grub in your soil 

 or manure, which quite frequently does 

 great damage to the Cyclamen, steril- 

 izing the soil is the only way of com- 

 pletely eradicating it. 



A grower of the Cyclamen may know 

 all those points of good cultivation and 

 still not have the desired success, 

 owing, no doubt, to having neglected 

 some of them at a time when he was 

 otherwise busy. Cyclamens once or 

 twice neglected never make up what 

 they have lost. I would like to im- 

 press the fact that there are not so 

 many important things to be learned 

 about their cultivation as putting and 

 keeping in practice the small details, 

 which we all know make success or 

 failure in the cultivation of any plant. 



AUSTRALIAN APPLE TRADE. 



Consul-General John P. Bray re- 

 ports that a shipment of 1800 cases 

 of American apples, which arrived at 

 Sydney on November 15 from San 

 Francisco (via Tahiti and New Zea- 

 land), was condemned by the New 

 South Wales government fruit inspec- 

 tor owing to the presence of the cod- 

 ling moth. The whole shipment was 

 subjected to fumigation under govern- 

 ment supervision, after which it was 

 re-packed. As this entails consider- 

 able extra expense to the importer, it 

 Is believed locally that next season's 

 importations will be much smaller 

 than those of the current season. A 

 further shipment of American apples, 

 about 8000 cases, was expected to ar- 

 rive in a few days. 



Washington, D. C— President Taft 

 appointed Henry S. Graves, director of 

 the Yale Forest School, January 12, 

 as forester of the United States to suc- 

 ceed Gifford Pinchot. He also appoint- 

 ed Albert F. Potter, at present acting 

 forester, as associate forester. The 

 new forester and the associate are both 

 known as Pinchot men. Both have 

 served under Mr. Pinchot and both are 

 in sympathy with his administration 

 policy. It was largely through Mr. 

 Pinchot's efforts that the Yale Forest 

 School was established and Mr. Graves 

 went from the post of assistant chief 

 of the division of forestry under Mr. 

 Pinchot to become director of the 

 school in 1900. He had served in the 

 forestry division for two years. 



