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at night. As to those who grow only a 

 small number of these winter-flowering 

 begonias, I would advise them to pur- 

 chase plants now from some specialist 

 rather than do their own propagating. 



Hardy Climbers In Pots. 



Every country iSorist will have more 

 or less call for climbers at this season, 

 and for many weeks yet. I have al- 

 ways thought it a good plan to pot up 

 a number of these, so that they can be 

 planted at any time through the sum- 

 mer or fall. Any unsold plants can be 

 plunged outdoors and, if not sold now, 

 may sell in the fall. Pot plants are 

 more likely to give customers good re- 

 sults than those from the open ground, 

 and it is a branch of the business which 

 should be much extended. 



All the rambler type of roses, clem- 

 atis, Ampelopsis Yeitchii and A. Engel- 

 manni, honeysuckles, Euonymus radicans, 

 wistarias, vitis, Hydrangea petiolaris, 

 aristolochias, etc., can be successfully 

 handled in pots, while the polyantha, 

 hybrid tea and hybrid perpetual roses 

 and hardy perennials, of course, are 

 much more salable late in .the season 

 if carried in pots. To compensate for 

 the extra expense entailed in potting 

 and caring for these, customers are usu- 

 ally willing to pay fifty per cent more 

 for them in the case of climbers and 

 twenty-five per cent more for roses and 

 perennials. 



Evergreens in Tubs. 



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Such evergreens as bay trees, boxes, 

 Irish yews, aucubas, bay laurels, hollies, 

 Araucaria imbricata, etc., which have 

 been wintered in a cold greenhouse or 

 'pit, should all be outdoors now. Some 

 may be much cramped and starved and 

 may need retubbing, but all that the 

 majority will need will be a removal 

 orf some of the surface soil and a top- 

 dressing of loam and sheep manure or 

 bone. Bleep these evergreens well wa- 

 tered and sprayed when they go out- 

 doors, especially if they have been 

 stored in a dark pit or cellar. The 

 foliage is liable 1^ scald sometimes, if a 

 hot day follows their removal from a 

 cool cellar. 



PLANTS X7NDEB MAGNaLIA. 



What are the best ferns or other 

 plants to use for a bed under a mag- 

 nolia tree! The tree is five feet or a 

 little more from a residence and about 

 fifteen feet from a row of shade trees 

 that border the street. All the trees 

 are on the north side of the street. The 

 space around the tree has been spaded 

 up and enriched. Is there a vine that 

 grows under and climbs up the magnolia 

 in Florida? If so, what is the name 

 of it and would it grow here, in north- 

 ern Tennessee t M. E. H. — Tenn. 



Where the magnolia is trimmed up so 

 that there is a free circulation of air 

 under it, and the soil is limed each sea- 

 son to keep it sweet, we have succeeded 

 in growing a good sod of Bermuda grass 

 under it. Where we have added bone 

 meal to the lime, we have had some 

 degtee of success with a mixture of 

 bluegrass and white Dutch clover, where 

 the lowest limbs are at least four feet 

 from the ground and the trees do not 

 stand closer than twenty or thirty feet. 



We have succeeded with English Ivy 

 under magnolia trees under similar con- 

 ditions, and Vinca minor grows well 

 under them. Where the limbs are al- 

 lowed to come close to the ground we 



Carnatiooi at the EstabUsbment of John Miller, McHenry, III. 



have never seen anything that would 

 grow under them. I have made diligent 

 inquiry about the Florida vine you 

 mention, but have failed to learn any- 

 thing definite about it. Perhaps some 

 other reader of The Review can name 

 the vine referred to. F. B. 



MILLEB'S CARNATIONS. 



McHenry, 111,, is located in the pic- 

 turesque lake district frequented by' 

 Chicago people seeking release from tho 

 confinement of city life; McHenry is 

 visited each year by many Chicago flo- 

 rists, few of whom fail to call at the 

 establishment of John Miller, who 

 grows carnations for the Chicago mar- 

 ket. All those who have enjoyed tho 

 hospitality of the establishment will be 

 interested in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion showing the crop of White En- 

 chantress coming on for Easter, as the 

 photograph was made April 19. Mr. 

 Miller not only has had a good season, 

 but is looking forward to an exception- 

 ally successful May, with Mothers* day 

 and Memorial day, the carnation plants 

 being in unusually good shape for this 

 date because of the cool spring. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



Cleveland, O. — The James Eadie Co. 

 filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy 

 May 1 in the United States District 

 court, scheduling liabilities of $6,249.27 

 and assets of $3,857.21. The claims are 

 pretty well scattered among local and 

 eastern houses supplying the trade. The 

 James Eadie business is one of the 

 oldest in Cleveland. James Eadie, his 

 daughter, Jane, and his son, James, 

 conducted the greenhouses and store 

 with success for nearly fortv years. 

 The corporate title was used after 1908 

 and after Miss Jane Eadie died, in 

 1913, the business passed to Frank A. 

 Friedley and Frank Schoen, long em- 

 ployees of the competing J. M. Qasser 

 Co. In November, 1915, Messrs. Fried- 

 ley and Schoen separated, the former 

 taking over and continuing the green- 

 houses under the title of the Fnedley 

 Co., Mr. Schoen retaining the retail 

 store, one of the best in the downtown 

 shopping section. Later the store was 

 removed to a room occupied jointly 

 with a candy concern. Mr. Schoen has 



associated with him, as secretary and 

 treasurer, Mark A. Copeland, a local 

 attorney. 



BUST ON THE QUEEN CACTUS? 



Will you please advise me if the en- 

 closed leaves of Phyllocactus latifrons, 

 or P. stenopetalus, are affected with 

 rust, and, if so, what kind of treat- 

 ment can you suggest! Sometimes the 

 leaves become skeletonized from these 

 rusty patches, but the blooming quali- 

 ties of the plants are not noticeably af- 

 fected. It makes them unsightly, how- 

 ever. L. 8.— Ky. 



This may be a true rust or merely 

 sun-scald through defective glass. If 

 you are sure the glass is all right, I 

 would advise spraying the plants oc- 

 casionally with some such fungoid rem- 

 edy as Fungine or Bordeaux mixture. 

 C. W. 



STEM-BOT ON ANTIBBHINUMS. 



Will you please tell me what is the- 

 trouble with my Silver Pink snap- 

 dragons? They are planted in a solid 

 bed and in the last week I lost eleven 

 plants out of 150. The plants stand 

 about ttree feet high. They wilt over 

 night and there is a ring of a yellowish 

 color around the plants at the ground. 

 On examining the crown, I find that the 

 disease looks much like the stem-rot on 

 carnations. There are from six to fifteen 

 spikes to the plant. What can be donef 



H. L. U.— Kan. 



Your plants undoubtedly have stem- 

 rot. The cause of this is hard to de- 

 termine, but it is probably due to the 

 cuttings having been left crowded to- 

 gether too long in the cutting bench. 

 There is little you can do to check this 

 trouble, but I would suggest that you 

 give the bench a top-dressing of lime 

 and soot and rub some of this in about 

 the stems of the plants. This may as- 

 sist in some measure. Too deep planting 

 sometimes aggravates this trouble. 



0. W. 



Springfield, O. — Opha Jackson, presi- 

 dent of the American Rose & Plant 

 Co., has let a contract for the erection 

 of a $20,000 office and storage build- 

 ing. An addition to the greenhouses 

 is being built. 



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