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The Florists^ Review 



July 5, 1917. 



State Nursery & Seed Co., Helena, 

 Mont. 



John W. Duncan, superintendent of 

 the city parks, is planning a trip to New 

 York city during the S. A. F. conven- 

 *;ion in August. Mr. Duncan is trying 



■» get the Spokane florists to make up 

 '' party for the trip and has succeeded 



n interesting several, who have prom- 

 ised to go. L. B. H. 



METHODS OF PROPAGATION. 



[This is tlie second installment of extracts 

 from a paper road by T. D. Hatfield, of Welles- 

 ley, Mass., nt a moetinfr of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. The third will be run in 

 an early issue.] 



Cuttings of evergreen trees and 

 shrubs, mostly coniferous plants, are 

 put in during the autumn and kept over 

 in a cool greenhouse or coldframe. The 

 same thing is done with cotoneasters, 

 evonymus and buxus. They scarcely do 

 more than callous during the winter. A 

 fair percentage may be expected to root 

 during the following spring and sum- 

 mer, but some junipers, torreyas and 

 taxus may lie over another year. Those 

 that root may be planted in the spring, 

 but it is customary to keep them in 

 flats until established, as the roots of 

 some are brittle, especially the yews 

 and torreyas. 



EstablisMng New Varieties. 



It is best to root all the forms and 

 variations from the type from cuttings, 

 especially the foliage forms of conifers, 

 as they are surer of retaining their 

 varietal character than when grafted. 

 Ordinarily the juvenile forms of thuja, 

 juniper and chamaecyparis, with acicu- 

 lar whorled leaves, give way in a few 

 years to the adpressed adult form and 

 sometimes quite extreme forms. If, 

 however, these juvenile and other forms 

 are rooted from cuttings they will be 

 likely to retain their individuality dur- 

 ing the lifetime of the plant. In this 

 way many peculiar forms of conifers 

 have been established and are now in 

 cultivation, but if grafted they are lia- 

 ble to take on the adult form or revert 

 sometime or other, either wholly or in 

 part. The dimorphic character of many 

 conifers makes it difficult to fix these 

 variations with any degree of certainty 

 and they sometimes break away. The 

 red cedar, as before stated, has at first 

 acicular juvenile leaves and later ad- 

 pressed, scale-like adult leaves. Now, 

 if it is pruned or gets injured the first 

 new leaves that appear are juvenile and 

 it does not resume the adult form for 

 two or three years, starting life over 

 again, after a setback, so to speak. 



Dwarfing Plants. 



It takes less time to flower a plant 

 from a cutting or graft than from a 

 seed, and at less stature. This fact is 

 often taken advantage of to dwarf 

 stock. A cutting of the poinsettia, if 

 taken in spring and grown, will some- 

 times reach a height of six feet before 

 flowering, but if a cutting is taken in 

 July it will flower at one-third this 

 height or less. It is a common practice 

 to take cuttings of flower stems of Cras- 

 sula coccinea and bloom them when a 

 few inches high, and the same can be 

 done with Sedum spectabile. The ordi- 

 nary garden phlox can be rooted from 

 cuttings and grown as a pot plant and 

 has considerable decorative value. Chry- 

 santhemums can be bloomed down to a 

 foot high, depending on when the cut- 

 tings are rooted. 



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WINTER ORCmD-FLOWERING 

 SWEET PEA 



Price List has been mailed. It con- 

 tains many splendid NOVELTIES. 

 If you have not received a copy, send 

 postal for one. 



ANT. C. ZVOLANEK 



SWEET PEA RANCH 



LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA 



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WESTERN CLAY PRODUCTS CO., INC. 



Manufacturers of 



"Quality" Standard Red Flower Pots .^rBaTl^uE'ir """* 



"A POT OR A CARLOAD" 



^^%^hl[^'p^£S^y'J^l "POTS THAT GIVE SATISFACTION" 

 Broadway and 38th Street, EVERETT, WASH. 



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ASTERS 



Send your order at once for 1916 crop Aster 

 seed. Quality the best yet. Florists every- 

 where getting good results. 



"THK HOMX OF A8TKRS" 



HERBERT A FLEISHAUER 



MoMINNVIIXK. ORKGON 



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TABLE FERNS 



2ii2-inch pots $3.00 to $4.00 per 100 



From Flats $2.00 per 100 



BOUVARDIA 



2-inch. $3.00 per 100 | 4-inch, $6.00 per 100 



RAHN & HERBERT CO., Clackamas, Ore. 



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CHRYSANTHEMUM, R. C. 



Best commercial varieties, Standards, 

 Pompons and Singles. "Do not forget 

 Early Frost in your plans— the best Early 

 White." Write for list and prices. 2I4- 

 in. Smilax, nice, bushy stock, 1000, $25.00. 



H. L. OLSSON 



Wholeiale Florlat. 11 Post St.. Spokane, Wash. 



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Leaf Cuttings to Fix Sports. 



Drop a leaf of a Eex begonia on the 

 sand of the propagating bed and it will 

 root at almost every leaf fork. This 

 suggestion has been taken advantage of 

 by growers of Begonia Gloire de Lor- 

 raine and now stock of this is raised al- 

 most exclusively in this way. 



Leaf cuttings are often the only 

 means of fixing a sport. Sports as they 

 occur in chrysanthemums mean a change 

 in the color of the flower, sometimes half 

 and half. Generally the sporting does 

 not extend to the whole shoot, and 

 shoots below a certain point produce 

 normal flowers; so to fix a sport it must 

 be done from the shoot that produces 

 it. Sometimes one is limited to leaf 

 eyes, which generally root quite easily 

 and so the sport is fixed. The plants ob- 

 tained will produce rootstocks the fol- 

 lowing autumn from which can be got a 

 plentiful supply of cuttings. Rose 

 sports can be treated in the same way, 

 although grafting and budding may be 

 practiced with these. 



CHRYSANTHENUN ROOTED CUTTINGS 



mSo^^: [$2.50 per 100 



Bonnaffon .... 



Amorlta 



Maud Dean . . . 

 White Chadwlck , 

 Yel. Chadwlck.. 



Cbas. Kasrer 



O. H.Kahn 



Comoleta 



White Chieftain. 

 Pink Chieftain..! 



Turner 



Buckbee 



Crystal Gem... 

 Golden Queen.. y 



$2.00 

 .per 

 100 



White Ivory v 



Pink Ivory ) $1.60 



Yellow Ivory.. .. s. per 



Early Frost ( 100 



Unaka / 



POMPONS and SINGLES 



BncklnRham . 

 Mrs. Papo .... 

 Fairy Queen.. 



Hilda Wells ! $1.50 



Polly Duncan... / per 

 Baby Yellow . . . . ( 100 



Klondyke 



White Mensa.. 

 Yellow Mensa. 

 Yellow Turner and Tiger, $2.00 per doz. 

 Wonder Geranium, 4-lnch $12.50 per 100 



STUBER & RICHARDSON. 

 4852 HoUy St., SeatUc, Wash. 



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Woodland Park Floral Co. 



Wholesale Growers of 

 Carnation and Chrysanthemum Cuttings. 



Write for Prices. 



WOODLAND PARK FLORAL CO. 



Telephone 814 SnHSTKR, WASH. 



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from 2Jfl-inch pots, extra choice stock. Turner. 

 Chieftain, Bonnaffon, Touset and Dean, 2c to 

 close out; Chadwlck, 2^0. 



A few choice Poinsettia stock plants, 3-inch, 

 8c; from top cutting, 2»fl-inch, 6c. 



Hoyt Bros. Co., p^^tst.. Spokane, Wash. 



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Akron, O. — C. Seybold and T. A. Lus- 

 sen liave formed a^- partnership and 

 leased the Dean Street Gjeenhouses. 



Ogden, Utah.— The Ogden Floral Co. 

 his filed an application seeking a change 

 in its corporate title to Dumke Floral 

 Co. John F. Dumke, Jr., is president 

 of the company and E. E. Dumke sec- 

 retary. 



Rhinelander, Wis. — The Ehinelander 

 Nursery Co., D. R. Hanford, secretary 

 and manager, has grown a large quan- 

 tity of aster plants in its hotbeds, for 

 transplanting to the field for a cut 

 flower crop. It is a first attempt in 

 this line. 



