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The Florists^ Review 



Dbcbmbeb 19, 1918. 



that the size of the paper was increased 

 from twelve to sixteen pages, and the 

 number of subscriptions caused the or- 

 der to the printer to be changed from 

 10,000 to 20,000 copies. The Camp Pike 

 Carry On is the most pretentious of any 

 of the camp papers, and compares with 

 any New York or Chicago daily, both 

 as to the amount of news, the illustra- 



tions and advertising. No small part of 

 its success is attributed by Lieutenant 

 Patterson to the whole-hearted support 

 of the business men of Little Eock and 

 the Little Eock Chamber of Commerce, 

 but it is suspected that what has been 

 accomplished is the result of the hard 

 work of Lieutenant Patterson and his 

 colleagues. 



HOSES FOR EASTEK. 



Kindly advise me when to give heat 

 to the following roses, so as to bring 

 them into bloom for Easter: Dorothy 

 Perkins, Excelsior and Baby Tausend- 

 schoen. What temperature do they re- 

 quire? These plants were grown in pots 

 all summer. G. E. N. — N. Y. 



benches with wood ashes. Can you tell 

 me the reason for the Scott Key plants 

 not producing as they should and state 

 what is wrong with the blooms f 



E. V. B.— N. M. 



Easter comes late in 1919 and plants 

 which were pot-grown through the sum- 

 mer can always be depended upon to 

 force better than such as have been 

 lifted from the field and potted in the 

 late fall. Baby Tausendschoen will not 

 require so long a period as Dorothy Per- 

 kins and Excelsior. I do not know what 

 heat you have at your command, but 

 those roses will be all the better for not 

 being subjected to hard forcing. I 

 would suggest starting Dorothy Perkins 

 and Excelsior the first week in January 

 and Tausendschoen ten to fourteen days 

 later. Give a temperature of 45 degrees 

 to 48 degrees at first. When the growth 

 is well started, the temperature can be 

 increased 10 degrees. The plants will 

 stand a minimum of 60 degrees, but are 

 better grown 5 degrees cooler. If the 

 plants come along too rapidly, owing to 

 a warm spring, such as we sometimes 

 have, it is easy to move them into a 

 slightly cooler house to hold them back. 

 I need hardly say tfiat pot-grown plants 

 will require an abundant water supply 

 and regular feeding until the flowers 

 start to open. C. W. 



SCOTT KEY A SUMMER ROSE. 



I am growing a few Francis Scott Key 

 roses in the same house with Ophelia, 

 Sunburst, Cecile Brunner and Hoosier 

 Beauty. These roses all do exceptionally 

 well except the Keys. The buds of the 

 latter turn blue and in some cases never 

 open, but get dry and become worth- 

 less, so they have to be cut off. Some 

 of the plants have yellow foliage, while 

 others have perfectly healthy foliage, 

 but the buds are the same on all the 

 plants, whether the foliage is yellow or 

 healthy. I feed my roses bone dust and 

 manure water and carefully sprinkle the 



Eose Francis Scott Key loves hot 

 weather and is fine from late spring un- 

 til fall. It is a splendid summer rose, 

 but poor and unsatisfactory in winter 

 and usually acts as it is doing in your 

 case. Substitute some other variety if 

 you want winter flowers, but retain it if 

 the flowers produced in the summer are 

 of equal importance. I think a rose 

 like Killarney Brilliant would prove 

 much more profitable for you. C. W. 



ROSES LOSING FOLIAGE. 



I have some White Killarney and 

 Ophelia roses which have been on the 

 bench the third year. I did not rest the 

 plants in the summer this season, as 

 they did not do well last winter, but 

 they did well during the summer and 

 fall. Now, however, the plants are los- 

 ing a good deal of foliage. They have 

 had no food since October 17 and I have 

 been keeping them on the dry side the 

 last few weeks. Kindly let me know 

 how to treat them and when to feed 

 them again. O. B. — Minn. 



The fact that you are keeping your 

 roses dry now would account for some 

 . loss of foliage. You cannot rest your 

 plants now and expect to get much bloom 

 from them this winter; but if you run 

 a lower temperature, keep the plants 

 drier, do some judicious pruning and 

 start them up toward spring, you will 

 get a fine crop. Eoses, however, are 

 much cheaper then than in the winter. 

 If you decide to rest your plants, the 

 temperature can be reduced to 35 or 40 

 degrees. You can hardly expect a good 

 winter crop from plants which flowered 

 all summer and have had no rest what- 

 ever, but it would not help matters to 

 start feeding now. Better rest your 

 plants until February, then start them 

 up, and, once they are in active growth, 

 you can commence feeding them. The 

 sun will then be growing in power and 

 not decreasing, as it is now. Feeding 

 must be done with extreme caution while 

 the days are short. C. W. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Chicago, 111. — Notices sent to the cred- 

 itors of William Langhout, bankrupt, by 

 Sidney C. Eastman, referee in bank- 

 ruptcy, announce that the first dividend 

 will be declared at a meeting to be held 

 at the referee's oflice, room 907 Monad- 

 nock building, 53 West Jackson boule- 

 vard, at 10 a. m., December 27. The 

 dividend will be payable within ten days 

 after that date at the office of the Cen- 

 tral Trust Co., trustee of the estate. At 

 the same time the receiver of the prop- 

 erty will make his final report. 



Chicago, 111. — Notice has been given 

 that John Evert, bankrupt chrysanthe- 

 mum and vegetable grower, has effected 

 a composition with his creditors and ap- 

 plied for confirmation and discharge. 

 Judge Landis will hear objections, if 

 any, December 27 and issue an order. 

 It is understood that Mr. Evert 's mother 

 has provided the funds to pay creditors 

 50 cents on the dollar. 



Flushing, N. Y. — It is announced that 

 the greenhouse property at Whitestone 

 avenue and Higgins lane, recently con- 

 ducted by Knight & Struck and for- 

 merly by H. D. Darlington, is to be sold 

 January 8 under foreclosure proceedings, 

 representing the second mortgage. The 

 plant consists of about 25,000 feet of 

 glass on which there is a first mortgage 

 of $15,000. 



ANNOUNCES QUARANTINE. 



This is the announcement of the plant 

 quarantine sent to the press through the 

 weekly bulletin of the Department of 

 Agriculture: 



NEW PLANT QUARANTINE TO GUARD 

 AGAINST INSECT PESTS AND 

 DISEASES. 



A quarantine, ■with regulations goTerning the 

 Importations of nursery stock and other plants 

 and seeds into the United States as a protec- 

 tion against the introduction of insect pests 

 and plant diseases, has been signed by the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, D. F. Houston. The 

 order, known as Quarantine No. 37, will become 

 effectlTe on and after June 1. 1919, and the regu- 

 lations under it ■will supersede those now In 

 force gOTeming the importation of such stock. 



Under the terms of this quarantine and regu- 

 lations, fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other 

 plant products imported for medicinal, food, or 

 manufacturing purposes, and field, vegetable, 

 and flower seeds may be imported without per- 

 mit or other restrictions. Other classes of 

 plants for propagation permitted . entry, includ- 

 ing certain bulbs, rose stocks, fruit stocks, 

 cuttings, and scions, and seeds of fruit, forest, 

 and other ornamental and shade trees, and all 

 hardy perennial ornamental shrubs, may be im- 

 ported only in accordance with the permit and 

 other requirements of the regulations. The 

 entry of these classes of plants Is represented 

 by experts to be essential to the floriculture 

 and horticulture of this country under existing 

 conditions. 



The regulations permitting the entry of the 

 restricted classes of plants, as noted, are simi- 

 lar to those hitherto in force and take into 

 account the classifloation of countries into those 

 maintaining inspection and certification of nurs- 

 ery stock in accordance with the requirements 

 of the plant quarantine act and countries which 

 have not made provision for such compliance 

 with the act. 



Copies of the quarantine and regulations soon 

 will be available for distribution. 



That surely is nothing to alarm any- 

 body; not a word about the palms, 

 azaleas and general nursery stock the 

 American public are not going to be 

 allowed to have from abroad any more! 



PRIMULA OBCONIOA. 



When should Primula obconica be 

 plfinted to obtain the best plants tor the 

 trade? J. M. K.— Wis. 



Sow Primula obconica in February or 

 March, if you want good-sized plants 

 for autumn flowering. If extra heavy 

 plants are desired, sow in January. 



0. W. 



