J I 



,A' 26, 1917. 



The Florists' Review 



15 



. . -he day only, and only when the 

 ,1 i shining, water carefully, and the 

 ^" iigs will soon appear above the 

 ^^\ ,1. Gradually inure the plants to 

 f I'l! un and do the transplanting into 

 v,(.^, nursery rows or frames during 

 „oi> showery weather, if possible. There 

 ^ii, then be few failures. 



I I few hundreds only are grown, it 

 jj, t as well to winter thena in frames. 

 pi;'i is kept over in this way bloom 

 gjii r than those kept in the open, and 

 th' 'ifly plants realize the best prices. 

 Pa;, ies germinate well outdoors if a 

 pa, ;v shaded location is selected for 

 tin ■ I prefer to make beds three feet 

 ^i,'>. Sow the seeds broadcast and 

 •jva*' I" later, giving a scant covering of 

 gliglitly rotted leaves and laying some 

 birdi or other brush over these to hold 

 thorn in position. The mulch is re- 

 moved as soon as the seedlings appear, 

 but no harm is done if it is not removed 

 entirely. 



A number of pansy specialists offer 

 excellent strains of pansies. I find a 

 selection of Giant Trimardeau good. It 

 can be had mixed or in separate colors. 

 As a rule purchasers prefer mixtures, 

 but for bedding separate colors are to 

 be preferred. Do not overlook the tuft- 

 ed pansies or bedding violas. Sow and 

 treat them just as you would pansies. 

 These violas are splendid for bedding. 

 They are longer and far more persistent 

 bloomers than the larger-flowered pan- 

 sies and make grand ground covers for 

 bulb beds. They are also good for mass- 

 ing and for bordering. Blue, yellow, 

 white and mauve colors of violas can be 

 bought separately. 



Miscellaneous Hardy Plants. 



The last of July is a good time to 

 make sowings of double and single holly- 

 hocks — the latter are the best — lark- 

 spurs, lupines, aquilegias, sweet Wil- 

 liams, rockets, agrostemmas, Dianthus 

 plumarius, Alyssum saxatile, hardy 

 candytuft and other biennials and per- 

 ennials. Everyone with a garden wants 

 some hardy flowers and all country flo- 

 rists should equip themselves to meet 

 this demand. Perhaps this season flower 

 planting is a little neglected, but the 

 wave of liysteria which swept some sec- 

 tions, and the misguided zealots who ad- 

 vised people to tear out flowers and 

 plant food crops, are soon going to be 

 but a memory. I have met many of late 

 who mourned their lack of flowers, and 

 lU'xt season will bring these people 

 li;ick into line as flower purchasers. The 

 ^var also has given us hundreds of thou- 

 -ynds of new amateur gardeners, and if 

 1'ut one-fourth of these persist another 

 .^'•'ar, horticulture will got a big uplift 

 •""1 florists will feel the benefit of it as 

 V oil as nurserymen and seedsmen. 



Late Asters. 



Are your latest asters planted out yet? 



not, select a suitable day and plant 



"Cm out as soon as you can. When 



■lanted cultivate them persistently. It 



really astonishing the amount of dry 



Gather asters, and for that matter 



•'any other plants, will stand if a fine 



• 'Jst mulch is kept among tlioni. Per- 



^ips you have an empty greenhouse for 



hich you had an insufiticiency of mum 



. ants, or some old house which you 



'■"^ve not planned to operate the coming 



•'"inter. Why not ])lant a generotts 



'jitch of late asters in such a house? 



' ^'^e a compost such as will grow mums 



■r carnations, ventilate the house free- 



A. G. Hecht. 



ly at all times, give plenty of water, 

 keep the surface soil stirred from time 

 to time, and you will find these a prof- 

 itable crop. Furthermore, bad weather 

 will not affect the quality of your flow- 

 ers as it does the outdoor ones. 



Poinsettias. 



You can continue to put in poinsettia 

 cuttings until early in August. The late 

 cuttings will give plants suitable for 

 making up in small pans. Be sure not 

 to leave the cuttings too long in the 

 cutting bench. If they become at all 

 hard and have long roots when taken 

 out of the sand, it will be hard to make 

 presentable plants of them. Do not 

 allow the plants that are potted off to 

 become hard and potbound before giving 

 them a shift. Good drainage and care- 

 ful watering are needed for poinsettiiis. 

 but while we get hot weather and the 

 plants dry up rapidly the cliancos of in- 

 jury from these sources are less than we 

 have the first cold niglits in Soptonibor. 



A. G. HECHT GOES TO AMHERST. 



The royal road to the position of head 

 of the departniont of ilorii-ulturc of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am- 

 herst, Mass., appears to lead through 

 the University of Illinois. For a sec- 

 ond time the Massachusetts college filled 

 its chair in floriculture from the Illi- 

 nois institution, when A. G. Hecht, first 

 assistant at the floricultural experiment 

 station and instructor in floriculture, 

 was recently chosen for the position. 



Mr. Hecht filled the place at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois made vacant by the 



resignation of A. H. Nehrling, who be- 

 came head of the department of floricul- 

 ture at Amherst. Several months ago 

 Mr. Nehrling resigned to become mana- 

 ger of McDonald & Co., Crawfordsville, 

 Ind., and now Mr. Ilecht has again be- 

 come his successor. 



A graduate of the University of Illi- 

 nois, Mr. Hecht was one of the first to 

 receive a degree in floriculture, although 

 he entered the university to take only 

 a special course. After his graduation 

 he was selected as an instructor and was 

 placed in charge of the greenhouses. He 

 had the endorsement of the faculty at 

 Illinois for the position at Amherst. 



Mr. Hecht was born in Overland, Mo., 

 and received his preliminary education 

 in the public schools of St. Louis coun- 

 ty. After leaving school he worked 

 with liis brother, C. Hecht, who has a 

 florists' establishment near St. I^ouis. 

 He entered the University of Illinois in 

 1910. He was popular at Urbana and 

 his friends predict success for him in 

 the new position. 



'Mr. Hecht is a member of the Illinois 

 State Florists' Association and the 

 S. A. F., and is keenly interested in all 

 matters pertaining to floriculture. 



Sedalia, Mo.— The Archias Floral Co. 

 entertained its twenty-seven employees 

 at a picnic at the Mill Dam Fishing 

 Club's clubhouse, on the Laniinc rivor, 

 near Clifton City, July 4. 



Mimcie, Ind. — Silas A. Riehison, a 

 real estate broker and until a few weeks 

 ago head of the Kivorside Floral Co., 

 died July 10 of a complication of dis- 

 eases, at the age of 52. 



