March 23, 1916. 



Tlic Florists' Review 



17 



will come along in ample tim^ if placed 

 in the greenhouses a couple of weeks 

 before they are needed. Where bulbs 

 are kept outdoors they will be, in many 

 cases, still buried in ice and snow. This 

 is just as we would wish it to be, for 

 such stock can be kept back nicely. 

 Murillo tulips, Victoria and Golden 

 Spur narcissi are likely to be the lead- 

 ing bulbs in pans the coming Easter, 

 with a probability that many species 

 will have passed. 



Easter Lilies. 



If the lilies have buds which are 

 two to three inches long April 1, they 

 will come along all right for Easter if 

 given a minimum of 60 to 65 degrees 

 and are freely syringed. If the buds 

 can only be seen standing erect and 

 clustered thickly together, . they are 

 late and need all the heat you can give 

 them. Of course we may have a warm 

 April and, in such a case, three weeks 

 in that month may be worth as much 

 as the whole of March, but weather is 

 a most uncertain factor and it is not 

 wise to take too much for granted. 

 >-r->.Giganteums are always inclined to be 

 "a little too dwarf and some shade on 

 the glass will help to give them the 

 necessary length. 



If the buds in Lilium candidum can 

 be counted April 1 they will be on 

 time, but remember this lily will not 

 tolerate hard forcing; 50 degrees at 

 night should not be exceeded if blooms 

 of good size and substance are wa^nted. 



Calceolaxias. 



Keep the calceolarias cool, no mat- 

 ter whether you are growing the 

 herbaceous varieties or the rugosa, with 

 its intermediate forms, of which 

 Stewarti is still the best. It is of no 

 use trj^ing to force calceolarias. You 

 will simply ruin them if you do so. 

 A cold, clammy-feeling house seems to 

 suit them to a nicety. When the pots 

 are well filled with roots use liquid 

 manure, quite weak at first, a little 

 stronger as the spikes develop. If the 

 leaves are at all pale, use a little soot 

 water to tone them up. Never omit 

 fumigation. Do it once a week in or- 

 der to be Oft the safe side. 



Marguerites. 



If you want some large, bushy mar- 

 guerites to flower from the first of De- 

 cember onward, ^take some cuttings 

 now. The old Paris daisy with small, 

 white flowers, 'or Chrysanthemum 

 frutescens, is far ahead of all others 

 as a pot plant. These cuttings will 

 throw flower buds all summer, but 

 keep them picked oflf and give the 

 plants the necessary pinching, plung- 

 ing them outdoors through t6e Sum- 

 mer. These plants will be large and . 

 bushy before fall and will flower asy 

 early as .December or as late as May, 

 according, to how much you pinch them: 

 The yellow marguerites and the large 

 white varieties, such as Queen Alex- 

 andra and Mrs. Sander, do not make 

 nice, shapely pot plants like the old 

 variety, nor will they bloom as early 

 or as freely. 



Shading. 



While we have spells of dark weather, 

 the sun is now getting quite strong and 

 some shade on palms, ferns and other 

 foliage plants is necessary. Kerosene 

 and white lead makes a neat and eas- 

 ily applied shade. It can be made thin 

 to apply with a force pump or can be 

 put on with a long-handled whitewash 



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FBED COWPEETHWAITE. 



\E7HEN you meet Fred Cowperthwaite at the National Flower Show you are 

 "T at liberty to fire at him all the questions that you have been choking up 

 inside you from the moment you stepped within the door of that wonderful 

 exhibition — that's what Cowperthwaite is there for, to fire questions at. Prob- 

 ably you know a lot of men who can answer questions if you give them time, 

 but how many do you know who can come right slap-bang back at you with the 

 answer, the right answer, every time! But that's Cowperthwaite. He seems to 

 have his great store of knowledge all card-indexed in his mind, where he can 

 get it out at a moment's notice. That's why they made him chairman of the 

 Committee on Information for America's greatest show. And it's why he is a 

 popular lecturer before the garden clubs around PTiiladelphia, where they have a 

 habit of trying to heckle the speaker. It can't be done with Cowperthwaite. 



brush. Only a thin shade should be ap- 

 plied as yet. Some orchids, especially 

 such as are in fiower, will need shade, 

 also fiowering plants of any variety 

 which it is desired to retard. It is im- 

 portant to shade newly potted cuttings, 

 but this is better in the form of cheese- 

 cloth or something movable, rather 

 than a permanent roof shade. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



Alvin, Tex. — Negotiations are pend- 

 ing by which the receivership of the 

 Alvin-Japanese Nursery Co., which has 

 been in the courts for a year and a 

 half, will be terminated, according to 

 papers filed in the Eleventh District 

 court in Texas. An order was issued 

 by the court directing the sale of the 

 nursery and other property of the com- 

 pany near Alvin within thirty days, 

 dating from March 13. When the re- 

 ceiver was appointed the assets of the 



company were said to amount to $200,- 

 000 and the liabilities $110,000. By 

 good management and sales of prop- 

 erty at different times, all the creditors 

 are being satisfied. The final sale of 

 the property and the payment of all 

 debts will terminate the receivership. 

 The business, of course, will be con- 

 tinued by the purchasers. 



Springfield, O. — At a recent meeting 

 of the Springfield Florists' Club tree 

 planting in the city was discussed by 

 the members. As a step to better the 

 conditions pertaining to this work and 

 to bring about an organized effort, a 

 committee consisting of George H. Mel- 

 len, George D. Leedle and Arthur J. 

 Todd was appointed to recommend to 

 the city that a forester be appointed. 

 R. H. Murphy, of Urbana, and Thomas 

 McBeth, of this city, discussed the 

 planting of trees, and A. C. Leedle 

 Bpoke on the same subject. 



