OCTOBEB 19, 1916. 



The Floiists^ Review 



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Carnations in House No. If of the New GuIIett Range at Lincoln. 



"Washburn, Enchantress and "White En- 

 chantress. 



House No. 5 also was devoted entire- 

 ly to carnations. They had been plant- 

 ed in the latter part of July and the 

 varieties were Champion, Ward, Match- 

 less and White Enchantress. In house 

 5, there were about 33,000 plants, the 

 same number as in house 6 and house 

 11. Thirteen thousand of the plants in 

 house 5 were Matchless. The other 

 three varieties were divided about 

 evenly. 



The Bose Houses. 



House No. 4 was the first rose house 

 to be reached. In section 8 Killarney, 

 White Killarney and some Brilliant 

 had been rested and started up.. They 

 were just coming into crop in fine shape. 

 Some Mrs. Russell and Ophelia in sec- 

 tion 7 were just over the resting period 

 and being started. Only one bench in 

 this house had been run through with- 

 out resting. This was a bench of Wards 

 and they looked well. 



In house 3, section 6 contained Kil- 

 larney and White Killarney which had 

 been started up after resting. Section 

 5 consisted of one bench of Ward and 

 nine benches of Killarney and White 

 • Killarney, all in crop and giving a big 

 cut. Section 5 in this house certainly 

 was the best seen so far, but section 

 3 in house 2 was better still. This sec- 

 tion had been planted with young 

 plants, about half Russell and half 

 Ophelia, all now in crop. Section 4 

 in this house was also planted with 

 Russell and Ophelia, but here the plants 

 were old. The entire house was in 

 crop and, from the looks of things in 

 the refrigerator, a good number of 

 flowers were being taken every day. 



In house 2 there were a few plants 

 of Baby Doll. It was stated that these 

 plants were merely a try-out of this 

 variety and that so far it had made a 

 fair showing. One bench in section 3 

 was devoted to Cecile Brunner. 



Tbe Bed Boses. 



^>In section l*^the lasi house, Na. 1, 

 ^rere some of the best Beauties that 

 had been seen in a long time. There 

 were eight benches and each bench 

 seemed as perfect as its neighbor— tall, 

 strong, healthy looking plants that any 

 grower would admire. There was one 

 bench of Richmond and one of Milady 



in this section. These two reds seemed 

 to be doing nicely. In section 2 there 

 were five benches of Shawyer that 

 would do credit to any grower. There 

 were three benches of Hoosier Beauty. 

 These eight benches were all young 

 stock. Two benches of Richmond were 

 old stock. The three reds, Richmond, 

 Milady and Hoosier Beauty, said Mr. 

 Nielsen, were being grown together and 

 watched carefully to see which did the 

 best. The entire house was in crop. 



The manager has been having con- 

 siderable trouble with the leaf -roller and 

 has tried some unique methods to get 

 rid of it. One idea tested with con- 

 siderable success consisted of having 

 an electric light near the center of 

 the house and beneath this a tub full 

 of water and kerosene. The light was 

 turned on during the night and the next 

 morning the tub was covered with 

 moths. Thousands of moths were 

 caught in this manner. 



The Plant Bange. 



After bidding good-bye to Mr. Niel- 

 sen, the party was taken in charge by 

 C. G. Anderson and driven over to the 



plant range of Gullett & Sons, on Tre- 

 mont street near the center of the city. 

 This plant range is quite like many 

 other greenhouse ranges, in that it con- 

 sists of a number of small houses built 

 from time to time over a period of 

 many years. The houses are all of pipe- 

 frame construction and some of them 

 are rather old. There are twenty-five 

 houses in this range, with a total area 

 of 100,000 square feet. "With the excep- 

 tion of a house or more of chrysanthe- 

 mums and small quantities of other 

 stock for cutting, this entire range is 

 devoted to pot plants and bedding 

 stock. 



The visitors were forcibly impressed 

 by two characteristics of the plant 

 stock — its uniformly high quality and 

 the judicious selection of the most sala- 

 ble commercial varieties. There were 

 cyclamens, chrysanthemums in pots. 

 Primula obconica, Draceena terminalis,, 

 Pandanus "Veitchii, crotons, ficus, Chat- 

 elaine begonias, French hydrangeas,, 

 poinsettias, peppers and miscellaneous 

 bedding stock. In the palm houses were 

 Phoenix Roebelenii, kentias, arecas, etc. 

 In the fern sections there were Bostons, 

 Whitmani and Wanamaker ferns, Pteris 

 albo-lineata, Pteris Wilsoni, Asplenium 

 Nidus-avis, smilax. Asparagus plumosua 

 and Sprengeri. In the propagating de- 

 partment there were thousands of cut- 

 tings of geraniums and other stock in 

 the sand. 



' A Fine Stock of Cyclamens. 



The stock of cyclamens was so nota- 

 ble, both in quantity and quality, as to 

 deserve special mention. Six entire 

 houses were occupied by these plants, 

 in all sizes up to 10-inch. The visitors 

 were told that the cyclamens this year 

 were the best the company had ever 

 put out, and an unusually large number 

 of fine specimen plants were noticed. 

 There were English and German vari- 

 eties and the 4-inch to 6-inch plants 

 were better developed than the usual 

 plants in pots of these sizes. The large 

 plants exceeded anything the callers 

 had ever seen and "Wilbur Gullett said 

 they were the largest he had ever heard 

 of. They were immense. 



In the packing room five or six men 



Roses in House No. I of the New Gullett Range at Lincoln. 



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