October 16, 1915 



nOKTiCULTUEE 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK 



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"If vain our toil, we ousht to blame the cnltare, not the soil." — Pope. 



Bouvardias 



Bouvardias that wt-re littod and planted out in a 

 bench the end of August will by this time be making 

 lot* of roots into the new soil. Do not keep too low a 

 teinperatiire ; 60 degrees at night, 70 to 75 on bright 

 days and about 65 in cloudy weather will do. Water 

 carefully and on bright mornings give a good syi'inging 

 to help keep them clean of mealy bug and red spider. 

 Fumigate lightly and often for green fly. 



To Follow Chrysanthemums 



Tile more rpiickly a chrysanthemum house is emp- 

 tied, cleaned and replanted the better. Sweet peas, 

 snapdragons, stocks, marguerites, violets, mignonette 

 and pansies are among the many desirable things that 

 might follow the chrysanthemums. For these crops 

 the soil will not need to be removed. All that \\'ill be 

 necessary is to add some bone meal and give it a dig 

 over. The man who retails the stock he grows can 

 always dispose of certain things in cut flowers which 

 w-ould never find a buyer on the wholesale market. 

 Often the little odds and ends, as we might call them, 

 bring better returns than some of the standard stock 

 occupying the benches. 



Tulips for Outdoors 



It pays to grow an assortment of hardy bulbs for 

 cutting, entirely apart from such as may bo used for 

 bedding. These follow the indoor crop and can hardly 

 be dispensed with. When it comes to bulbs for bedding, 

 tulips are the bulbs par excellence, and every year sees 

 more and more of them planted. A well assorted mix- 

 ture is often used and looks well, but beds of one solid 

 color make the most pleasing and at the same time the 

 most imposing show. Care should be taken to select 

 varieties of uniform height which bloom together. By 

 far the finest of all white bedding tulips is White Joost 

 van Vondel ; Flamingo and liose Grisdelin, pink; Yellow 

 Prince and Ophir d'Or, yellow; Belle Alliance, scarlet, 

 and striped Joost von Vondel, rose flaked white, are of 

 unil'onii height, and bloom together. The following 



Next Week:— Adiantums; Azalea mollis; Begoni 



are inexpensive late tulips: Gesneriana lutea. Golden 

 Cro^vn, T. retroflexa, Bouton d'Or and Leghorn Bon- 

 net. Among whites La Candeur is good; in scarlets, 

 Gesneriana spathulata and Inglescombe Scarlet; in pink, 

 Inglescombe. 



Forcing Gladioli 



Every florist who lias a local trade should force a 

 good batch of gladiolus. The Colvillei conns can be 

 planted in flats or beds and will flower in from fourteen 

 to sixteen weeks. Wlien planting in benches, allow 

 about five inches between the rows and two or three 

 inches in the rows. Tiie corms should be placed about 

 three inches deep. There are many beautiful varieties 

 in the smaller flowered or Colvillei section and for later 

 forcing we have in addition to these the large flowered 

 sorts. Give them a temperature of from 50 to 55 degrees 

 at night. AAHien they have made fairly good roots and 

 top growth they will lie greatly benefited b}- weekly 

 doses of liquid manure, which will help the size of 

 the flower. 



Preparing Sweet Pea Ground 



Now is the time to get the ground in condition for 

 next spring. Good flowers may be had by merely ma- 

 nuring heavily and plowing deeply or spading the 

 ground over, leaving it with a rough surface over 

 winter. When flowers of a more fancy quality are de- 

 sired, trenching should be resorted to. Dig out the 

 trenches to the required depth, then place layers of 

 well rotted manure and soil, mixing them as placed in 

 the trenches. Some bone meal scattered through the 

 compost will also be advantjigeous. Discard all stones, 

 gravel and hard pan. Tliis often means considerable 

 work but a job well done will pay for itself better. 

 Where you first plow it spread manure about two inches 

 deep ail over and plow under. In the spring add the 

 lione and wood ashes. 



Shamrock for St. Patrick's Day 



Now is llie tiine id sow \\\v shaiiinick for the St. 

 Patrick Day trade. There is more call for the sham- 

 rock every year. Pre])are some flats and sow the seed 

 not too thick. Wien large enough, pot them into small 

 ])ots and gi'ow them on in a cool house. About 45 

 degrees at night will he right. 



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