Mabch 2. 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



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dant ventilation and lots of sun are 

 what the plants need. Also, be careful 

 not to use any fresh manure when pot- 

 ting, as this induces a rank, soft 

 growth, which easily falls a prey to dis- 

 ease. Spread the plants out occasion- 

 ally and pick off the decayed or decay- 

 ing leaves. Persevere in this treatment, 

 do not throw any rubbish below your 

 benches and your plants should come 

 out all right. C. W. 



FACTS FOB TIMINQ BULBS. 



Please state what bulbs can be forced 

 most easily, Holland, Guernsey or south- 

 ern bulbs. What are the earliest dates 

 for the following to be brought in for 

 forcing? What temperature should be 

 given and when will the flowers showt 

 Murillo and La Beine tulips; Trumpet 

 major, Double Von Sion, Single von 

 Sion, princeps, Sir Watkin, Golden Spur, 

 Victoria, Emperor, poeticus ornatus, 

 Barri conspicuus narcissi. 



A. R.— B. I. 



Thomas H. Joy. E. Q. Hill. Karl P. Bauiii. 



On the Occasion of a Recent VhU to Geny Bros., Nashville, Tena. 



Guernsey bulbs are earlier than the 

 Dutch bulbs. The flowers are somewhat 

 smaller. French bulbs are earlier than 

 Guernsey, but not so large. Southern- 

 grown bulbs I have had no experience 

 with. The time it will take bulbs to 

 show flowers depends much on when 

 you start them. Started early in Jan- 

 uary, they need double the time they 

 would in March. Trumpet major. Sin- 

 gle Von Sion, princeps and Golden Spur 

 require three to four weeks in a tem- 

 perature of 55 degrees, according to 



season; La Beine tulips the same. Mu- 

 rillo tulips, if wanted fairly early, re- 

 quire nearly double the time of La 

 Reine. If started after March 1 they 

 come on much more quickly. Allow 

 Double Von Sion four weeks on the 

 average. Emperor, Sir Watkin and 

 poeticus ornatus should have four to 

 five weeks; Victoria and Barri con- 

 spicuus an average of flve weeks. Of 

 course all come in less time if the 

 weather is warm. C. W. 



C»>CN LETTCR^v^ BEADED^ 



HOT WATEB ON CALLAS. 



I believe that if G. K., of Dlinois, 

 would treat his callas as I do mine he 

 would have an abundance of blooms. 

 Give the calla beds a good watering of 

 hot water, but see that it is not scald- 

 ing. I have treated my callas in this 

 manner all winter and have had free 

 blooms all season. The flowers are extra 

 large, too. I occasionally water the 

 plants with liquid manure and pack well 

 rotted manure on the beds. 



Herbert Boggs. 



on. FOB FUEL. 



tory, but distillate is too expensive in 

 most cases to use for fuel. 



I would advise you to let oil alone 

 unless you have 8,000 or 10,000 feet of 

 glass, and install a horizontal return- 

 flue high-pressure steam boiler. Fuel 

 oil cannot be burned successfully with 

 less than twenty pounds pressure. You 

 would be obliged to make your own 

 burner, as there is none on the market 

 that would operate with so small a 

 flow of oil as is needed in this case. 

 Fifty gallons of oil, properly handled, 

 will easily keep 5,000 feet of glass hot 

 in zero weather for twenty-four hours. 

 William Mosteller. 



I noticed the inquiry of C. F. B. in 

 The Review of February 17 concerning 

 the use of fuel oil in greenhouse heat- 

 ing. As I have been burning oil for 

 several years, I can assist C. F. B., and 

 do so herewith as payment for your 

 kindness in answering my inquiry of 

 January 13: 



Tou cannot bum fuel oil under a hot 

 water boiler unless you have a small 

 steam boiler, fired with wood or coal, 

 to carry a pressure of twenty pounds 

 or more. This you would connect to 

 the oil burner to operate it, but even 

 at that your fire would be much too 

 hot. There are some burners on the 

 market designed for burning distillate, 

 both with and without air pressure, 

 that are, to a certain extent, satisfac- 



THE ADVEBTISEBS' DUTY. 



The paper has called attention of 

 patrons of your advertisers to the im- 

 portance of mentioning The Review 

 when writing to, or ordering from, the 

 advertisers. This has often reminded 

 me of the duty advertisers owe the cus- 

 tomers. I have frequently had diffi- 

 culty to get prompt acknowledgment 

 of receipt of money and order, the ad- 

 vertiser sometimes holding me up in 

 this way until I receive my stock en- 

 tirely too late for my purpose. Even 

 after writing the second time for a 

 reply, the delay is continued. I have 

 tried the method of first writing to 

 find out if stock is in hand ready to 

 ship, but the delay is only doubled. 



Advertisers also frequently allow an 

 old advertisement to be repeated after 

 being sold out of the article advertised. 

 This is exasperating, to say the least. 

 Can not something be done? Why 

 not margin the advertising columns 

 with "Advertisers will please promptly 

 acknowledge receipt of orders, and keep 

 ads up to date"? 



W. Grant Kintigh, 



OOINO SOME. 



My Mrs. Ward carnations carry stems 

 nearly three feet long, but as I want 

 all the cuttings I can get, I leave about 

 eight inches on the plant when I cut. 

 My new stems are nearly all over three 

 feet long now and my flowers of En- 

 chantress now measure three and one- 

 fourth to three and one-half inches in 

 diameter. As my sticks are only two 

 feet six inches above the ground, I 

 sometimes wish the plants would not 

 grow so tall, but what do you think 

 of the growth? I have a space 6x20 

 feet planted with sweet peas and last 

 week I picked over 2,000 sweet peas 

 off them. I think this is going some. 



I enjoy reading the questions in The 

 Review. I have Enchantress, Rose- 

 pink Enchantress, White Enchantress 

 and Enchantress Supreme, also Phila- 

 delphia and Matchless, all planted about 

 September, but have not had a split on 

 them. In October I planted about 100 

 Ward and 100 White Perfection and 

 half of the flowers are split. The tem- 

 perature runs all the way from 48 to 

 60 degrees, so I do not believe the 

 changes in temperature have anything 

 to do with split calyxes, but I believe 

 that the check in the growth of the 

 plants is the real cause, as the first 

 named varieties never were checked, 

 but the latter two were shipped here 

 and were taken up out of the field, 

 while the first were small plants when 

 planted and made their growth in the 

 house. I am feeding my carnations and 

 sweet peas quite heavily, but have not 

 lost any buds on the sweet peas. I 

 had a hard time getting them started, 

 however, as I lost a good many young 

 plants from stem-rot. Wm. H. Hertel. 



Oklahoma City, Okla.— Roses, carna- 

 tions and plants will be grown by C. H. 

 Keller in the future, in addition to hi» 

 market gardening business. 



