May 10, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Greenhouse Establishment of the Lodwig Floral Co., Pittsburgh, at Castle Shannon, Pa. 



of 75 cents to $1 per dozen, and at a 

 wholesale figure of $3 to $4 per hundred. 

 Certainly no customer would be injured 

 by paying such a figure, but all of us, 

 wholesaler and retailer, would be greatly 

 benefited, and with the close of each 

 trade season we should feel that we 

 had worked to some purpose. 



Will you not kindly invite an expres- 

 sion from other readers of the valued 

 Review? C. E. Gullett. 



Later Mr. Friedley went into business 

 for himself. 



PROPAGATION OF PHLOXES. 



A Bia PITTSBURGH RANGE. 



Besides having one of the best equip- 

 ped stores in Pittsburgh, Pa., the Lud- 

 wig Floral Co. ranks among the largest 

 growers in western Pennsylvania. At 

 its range at Castle Shannon, Pa., shown 

 in the accompanying illustration, the 

 company produces principally roses, car- 

 nations, chrysanthemums and lilies for 

 the Pittsburgh store. The range con- 

 sists of 150,000 feet of glass and before 

 the company took it over five years ago 

 was known as the Saxonwald Green- 

 houses. The officers of the company all 

 are well known to the trade in Pitts- 

 burgh. They are: President, Gustav 

 Ludwig; vice-president, J. W. Ludwig; 

 secretary, Gilbert Ludwig; treasurer, 

 Henry Meuschke. 



FRIEDLEY A CRACK BOWLER. 



Frank A. Friedley, of Cleveland, O., 

 is a versatile young man. He not only 

 manages the greenhouses of the Friedley 

 Co., at East Cleveland, is secretary of 

 the Cleveland Florists ' Club, and a 

 leader in Cleveland trade circles, but is 

 a proficient bowler as well. He is a 

 crack member of the Cleveland Florists ' 

 Bowling Club, which, during the last 

 season, won the Michigan Cut Flower 

 Co. trophy by defeating the Detroit 

 Florists' Bowling Club. The accom- 

 panying reproduction of his photograph 

 shows Mr. Friedley about to make a 

 strike. Mr. Friedley served his appren- 

 ticeship as a grower with the E. G. 

 Hill Co., Richmond, Tnd., remaining 

 there five years. He was later with the 

 Miami Floral Co., Dayton, O., Frank 

 Huntsman and William Murphy, Cin- 

 cinnati, O., the Chicago Carnation Co., 

 Joliet, HI., and Miss Bell Miller, Spring- 

 field, 111., leaving the last named nine 

 years ago to become superintendent of 

 the J. M, Gasser Co. greenhouses at 

 Rocky River, O., a suburb of Cleveland. 



By Seeds and Cuttings. 



Phloxes may be propagated by seeds, 

 cuttings or divisions. The hybrid 

 phloxes will not breed true from seed, 

 but it is found that about forty per 

 cent of the seedlings will be as good 

 as the parents. In order to secure the 

 best results with seed, cross [)ollination 

 is necessary. The seed should be sown 

 in February in a moderate temperature, 

 and as soon as the seedlings are large 

 enough to handle they should be placed 



Frank A. Friedley. 



siHgly in 2yy-h\ch. pots and grown in 

 coldframes or a greenhouse. The new 

 plants should be set out early in the 

 spring, allowing two to two and one-half 

 feet between the plants. In this man- 

 ner it is possible to siicure bloom the 

 first season from seed. 



To perpetuate varieties of especial 

 merit, proj)agation by cuttings is re- 

 sorted to. Cuttings may be taken in 

 the fall from flowering stems which had 

 been previously cut back immediately 

 after flowering. Cuttings two to three 

 inches long should be selected, prefer- 

 ably with a heel, and rooted in sand in 

 a shady coldframe. They should then 

 be potted in light, sandy loam, and kept 

 in the coldframe over winter, with a 

 protection of sash and straw\ Early in 

 tlie spring these young plants should be 

 set out similarly to seedlings, or placed 

 in a nursery row until they have at- 

 tained sufficient size for permanent 

 planting. Another method employed 

 where greenhouse facilities are available 

 is to take up old plants from the garden 

 in December, pot them and force growth. 

 Good, strong cuttings may then be ob- 

 tained in March, which are rooted and 

 potted in the usual manner. 



By Dividing the Clumps. 



Tlie easiest and most common method 

 of propagation, especially among ama- 

 teurs, consists of taking up the plants 

 in the fall or spring and dividing the 

 (lumps with a spade or knife. Phloxes 

 increase by underground stolons growing 

 outward, and it is these young, vigorous 

 shoots on the outside which produce the 

 best jilants. The newly divided plants 

 should be set out at once. In the case 

 of the dwarf and creeping species, P. 

 siibulata, large plants may be converted 

 into numerous small ones by shaking 

 s(»me light soil among them in the sum- 

 mer and then dividing in the fall, when 

 the trailing branches will be found to 

 have rooted. 



The garden culture of phloxes is quite 

 simple. As they are gross feeders, the 

 soil should he worked up to a depth of 

 eighteen inches to two feet and well en- 

 riched with well-rotted manure. The 

 manure is especially necessary in light, 

 sandy soil, to conserve moisture. II; 

 should be used sparingly in stiff, heavy 

 soil, hoWever, in view of a prevalent 

 spot disease caused by a fungus, Cercos- 

 pora phlogina. The disease is character- 

 ized by circular brown spots on the foli- 



