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H O R T I C U L T U K E. 



Juue 3, 1911 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



New York — Continued 



Frank Milhingr. New York, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 Traendly & Sobenek, New York, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 Bndgle.v, Kiedel & Meyer, Inc., New York 



For page see List of Advertisers. 

 ■ A. Moltz & Co., New York, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



Siebreclit & Siebreclit, 1.36 West 2Sth St., 



New York. 



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Philadelphia 



Leo. Niesseu Co., 1209 Arch St., Pbila., Pa. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



The S^ ST Pennook-Meehan Co~1608-12 



Ludlow St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



Bochester, N. Y. 



George B. Hart, 24 Stone St. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



New Offers in This Issue. 



BRIDAL AND GRADUATION SUP- 

 PLIES. 



11. Bayersdorfer & Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. 

 For page .see List of Advei'li^^ei -i. 



BRIDAL REQUISITES 



I'OV p.- 



,^ Co., l'hila(h'lplii.l. Pa. 

 SCI' List of Advertisers. 



CATTLEYA DOWIANA. 



.Tosepli Jlanda. West Orange, X. .T. 

 For pa ge see List of Advertisers. 



HYACINTHS FOR CHRISTMAS 

 BLOOM. 



Loeehner & Co., New York, N. Y. 

 Vin- page see List of Advertisers. 



NEW JERSEY-GROWN TOMATO 

 PLANTS. 



Warren Shinn, Woodliury, N. .1. 

 For page see List ol Advertisers. 



Flower Market Reports. 



any amount of such low grade stock. 

 Growers came in with wagon loads 

 and sold for any absurd figure. Many 

 of these growers were truckers (who 

 are never heard of in the business ex- 

 cept at this time), and of course they 

 took whatever was offered them and 

 demoralized the market. But on the 

 whole it was a pretty good Memorial 

 Day week. 



The local market was 

 ST. LOUIS again crowded all of 



last week, with a slow 

 demand for any kind of stock. The 

 majority of the retailers report a slow 

 business week. The extremely hot 

 weather caused it and consignments 

 came in very poor — in fact, all stock, 

 home-grown as well, is of very poor 

 quality. On Monday, May 29, prices ad- 

 vanced a few cents and the demand for 

 Decoration Day started off good, but 

 here the plant trade is much better 

 than the cut flowers for this day and 

 cheap prices are demanded for cut 

 flowers for decoration purposes. Three 

 cents for jioor carnations is too high 

 and other stock about the same. Roses 

 are very poor now. Peonies sell well 

 when good. Sweet peas are still too 

 many. All kinds of greens are in 

 plenty. 



FORCING LILACS AROUND PARIS. 



By Yoscf Vales iu Moeller Deutsche Gaert- 



ner-Zeitung. 



(Translated by G. Bleicken.) 



In the vicinity of Paris, where the 

 culture and forcing of lilacs exclusive- 

 ly is carried on extensively, you can 

 buy forced lilacs from the middle of 

 October up until June. The rules fol- 

 lowed in the growing and forcing of 

 these, although not new, will perhaps 

 prove valuable to the trade, especially 

 for such as contemplate to go into 

 forcing lilacs on a larger scale. 



The plants tor forcing are dug in 

 the middle of August, only such as 

 show flowering buds being selected. 

 The plants must be "drawn in" after 

 digging; that means they have to 

 stand in the shade to ripen off slowly. 

 Foliage, whicn does not come oft by 

 itself has to be removed. The "draw- 

 ing in" takes about four weeks. Yet 

 the bulbs must not shrivel and it may 

 become necessary to water dry balls, 

 in order to prevent too rapid drying 

 off, and to secure a natural and regu- 

 lar ripening of the wood. When all 

 growth has ceased — about the time of 

 the first night fi-ost, all watering must 

 stop for good, not to be renewed un- 

 til one week before forcing time. 

 This first watering is given in order 

 to start the buds again; sometimes 

 this takes two good waterings. Of 

 course plants dug up at the natural 

 fall season for later forcing do not 

 need to be dried off like the first 

 batch. 



Before forcing commences the 

 plants must be pruned and special at- 

 tention must be paid to the work, else 

 it does more harm than good. All 

 twigs not ending in a flower bud 

 must go entirely; only such as grow 

 out of the root or the neck of the 

 plant are left on; of two such shoots 

 only one is left on. In case of a leaf 

 and a flower bud on the same twig, 

 they remain, the leaf bud to be 

 pinched out later. 



For colored lilacs there are forced 

 "Andenken an Ludwig Spaeth" and 

 "Charles X;" for whites "Marly." 

 Marly is a rose color, but bleaches to 

 pure white in the forcing houses, the 

 same being covered with tiles or tar 

 paper on boards. Into this air-tight 

 roof windows are fitted every ten feet 

 to give light for the workman inside 

 and at the same time the little light 

 which the plants require for growth. 

 Marly houses are usually 30 to 40 

 feet long and 12 feet wide, the back 12 

 feet and the front 9 feet high. All 

 direct sunlight must be excluded dur- 

 ing the forcing. The healing pipes 

 run along the walls. 



In these houses the plants are dug 

 in, as they come out of the nurser\ 

 or the sheds, the larger plants in 

 back, the smaller ones in the front 

 part of the house, and covered over 

 with soil to the depth of 3 to 4 inches. 

 The houses are started with heat from 

 82 degrees to 88 degrees F., after 

 November, 88 degrees to 102 degrees 

 F. After planting a thorough water- 

 ing is given, and again as the buds 

 expand, at the first watering, syring- 

 ing of twigs and buds is also bene- 

 ficial. As soon as the buds have 

 opened to about one inch length, all 

 twigs are disbudded, and only the two 

 end buds remain. If one of these is 

 a leaf-bud it is now pinched out. 

 Walks are located either through the 

 centre of the house or along the side. 



In 18 days after planting, the first 

 sprays are cut. The flower sprays are 

 cut with the one-year-old wood left on 

 to length of 20 inches. Some es- 

 pecially fine sprays for large decora- 

 tions are had with a length of six 

 or seven feet. 



A little different from the Marly 

 treatment is the forcing of the colored 

 lilacs. For them tlie houses have glass 

 roofs. More light and more air are 

 necessary — about twice as much of 

 both as in the Marly houses. In con- 

 sequence of more airing and less heat 

 the time required to force colored 

 lilacs is considerably longer. One 

 colored variety, Sangeana, has flower 

 buds along the whole length of her 

 twigs, therefore is not disbudded. The 

 flowers are a little smaller thougU. 

 Straw mats are used here in covering 

 the houses at night. In the autumn 

 a temperature from 76 degrees to 82: 

 degrees F. is sufficient; later on, 82 

 degrees to 88 degrees F. Always give 

 for a few days (say four to five) a 

 lower temperature at the beginning. 



The storage of the plants is best 

 done in sheds. After carefully drying 

 them off they are brought into the 

 sheds, where they are handled over 

 several times, always watering any 

 balls that have become too dry, and 

 looking out always that no flower buds 

 commence to shrivel up. After prun- 

 ing them finally, they are put away 

 in layers 8 to 10 feet high; boards 

 or shutters are put over them and 

 mats again over them, hanging down 

 on all sides to the ground. 



In this manner the dormant lilacs 

 are stored away until spring, and are 

 not uncovered till May to give the 

 flowering plants for .Tune, when all 

 out-of-door lilacs have gone to seed. 

 Of course this is the last lot tor that 

 season in the storage house, the other 

 batches being taken out according to 

 need. Always water the batch to be 

 used, one week before commenting to 

 force. 



In conclusion we have to mention 

 that in Paris all lilacs are cultivated 

 in the nurseries six to seven /ears be- 

 fore forcing. This assures flowers 

 of absolutely first class quality. In 

 the fourth and fifth year all are trans- 

 planted with a good ball, and culti- 

 vated thoroughly during their stand 

 in the out-door grounds. By this man- 

 ner of culture almost every twig car- 

 ries good flowering buds, and not use- 

 less leaf-buds, which with less careful 

 culture will merely turn up in larger 

 quantities. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



York, Pa. — Edwin Foust, one house. 



Grand Rapids, Mich. — R. Jonker. two 

 houses. 



Kalispell, Mont. — Kalisiiell Gardens, 

 addition. 



Elmhurst, III. — Geo. H. Rabe, range 

 of houses. 



Kalispell, Mont. — A. Salmon, range 

 of houses. 



Tewksbury, Mass. — M. A. Patten, 

 one house. 



Providence, R. I. — .Joseph Kopelman, 

 one house. 



Guilford, Conn. — Branford A. La- 

 tham, one house. 



Austin, Minn. — A. N. Kinsman, car- 

 nation house 27 x 160 feet. 



Morrison, la. — R. R. Davis Co., cu- 

 cumber house 40 X 400 feet. 



