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is considered most suitable. If, how- 

 ever, the intention is to extend the 

 blooming season as much as possible, 

 Godfreys may be grown successfully in 

 a minimum temperature of 50 degrees. 

 In general, a carnation temperature is 

 approximately right for callas. To com- 

 bat thrips and red spider, occasional 

 syringing and fumigating are needed. 



As already intimated, the results from 

 pot culture of callas are usually much 

 more satisfactory than from bench cul- 

 ture. In benches, with abundant space 

 for root development, the plants are 

 likely to make a rank growth and pro- 

 duce comparatively few flowers, espe- 

 cially in the dark days of winter. In 

 the brighter, longer days of spring the 

 bench plants may bear a fair crop of 

 flowers, many of them extra large and 

 some of them even of unwieldy size — ' 

 too big to be useful for any ordinary 

 purpose. But the total output from the 

 potted plants will i)robably be much 

 greater, of much more uniform, satis- 

 factory quality and much more profit- 

 able. 



Propagation by Offsets. 



Callas are propagated easily and 

 abundantly by means of the offsets, 

 bulblets, or suckers that form on the 

 old tubers. In the case of beneh-grown 

 stock, these offsets may be started on 

 their separate existence in June, when 

 the old tubers are dug in preparation 

 for a rest. At the time of digging, the 

 offsets are detached from the tubers 

 and are planted outdoors, or in pots or 

 boxes, where they are watered copiously 

 throughout the summer. In fall, before 

 frost, they are potted and housed, for 

 frost is ruinous to the foliage. Thus, 

 while the plants from the benches are 

 resting, the offsets are developing to- 

 ward flowering size. 



When pot culture is practiced and the 

 plants rrniaiu in their pots all summer, 

 the offsets arc removed when repotting 

 the rested stock in the autumn. In this 

 instance, the offsets are placed at once 

 in small pots and are grown on during 

 the winter and following summer, at- 

 taining strong flowering size bj' tlie end 

 of that time. 



The Golden Calla. 



Thus far in this article, no direct ref- 

 erence has been made to any other 

 species or variety of calla except ffithi- 



opica and its immediate descendants, 

 such as Godfrey. The increasingly pop- 

 ular species, Zantedeschia Elliottiana, 

 commonly called the golden calla, differs 

 from the ffithiopica race in this one im- 

 portant particular, that Elliottiana is 

 naturally dormant during winter and 

 should therefore receive its rest then. 

 While resting, the tubers may remain 

 in the soil in a cold house or may be 

 stored in a cellar or similar place, in a 

 temperature that does not vary greatly 

 from 45 degrees. 



In the spring — perhaps in the first 

 part of April — when signs of growth in 

 the Elliottiana tubers appear, they are 

 potted. During the succeeding two or 

 three weeks, while root growth is be- 

 coming well established, they require a 

 comparatively low temperature, with 

 careful, somewhat restricted watering. 

 From that time on, their treatment is 

 similar to that of the other callas men- 

 tioned and the plants begin flowering 

 sometime within three months from the 

 date of their spring start. In a purely 

 natural environment they do not bloom 

 until late summer. The flowers, or 

 spathes, which last about two weeks, are 

 a lustrous yellow when in their prime, 

 but are u greenish yellow in their early 

 stages and merge again into green when 

 aging. Elliottiana forms seeds plenti- 

 fully, as well as offsets, and may be 

 propagated by either means. 



MR. FLUEGKJE'S PETS. 



Did you ever meet Wm. Fluegge's 

 feathered friend? Mr. Flueggc, whose 

 place is at Morton Grove, 111., is widely 

 known in the district as an expert 

 grower. His specialties are geraniums 

 and cyclamens, although he is equally 

 successful with carnations. When you 

 visit his greenhouses you will find Mr. 

 Fluegge busily at work. Topsy, you 

 know, "just growed," but Mr. Fluegge's 

 place does not contain the Topsy type 

 of plants and his motto is something 

 like "Eternal vigilance is the price 

 of good stock." One rarely fails to find 

 him on the job, and on his shoulder as 

 he works sits "Pretty Polly," as in the 

 picture. Polly lives in the greenhouses, 

 perching on the handle of a ventilating 

 machine when the owner is absent. 



Mr. Fluegge imports his cyclamen 

 seed from Germany. There are about 

 lOjOOO plants in 5-inch and 6-inch pots in 

 the batch shown in the photograph. 



which was made October 26, 1921. Mr. 

 Fluegge is just as successful with gera- 

 niums as he is with cyclamens— or par- 

 rots. 



THE PRICE OF GLASS. 



The federal grand jury at New York, 

 November 28, returned an indictment 

 charging fifty-three corporations in the 

 window glass industry with violation of 

 the Sherman anti-trust law. Joseph M. 

 Neenan, president of the National Glass 

 Workers' Union, was indicted. The in- 

 dictment charges conspiracy between 

 the labor union and the glass producers 

 to limit production, thereby enabling 

 the defendants to arbitrarily maintain 

 excessive prices. 



The Johnston Brokerage Co., an al- 

 leged selling agency, also was named in 

 the indictment. This agency, the indict- 

 ment declares, was part of "a price 

 scheme to enable the defendants to com- 

 bine, to dictate terms of sale and to 

 eliminate competition." 



The defendants are charged with a 

 combination and conspiracy to suppress 

 competition, to maintain arbitrary, ex- 

 cessive and extortionate prices, to cur- 

 tail the production and the supply of 

 window glass, and to control the sale, 

 shipment and delivery of window glass. 



For the purpose of carrying out the 

 alleged conspiracy to fix prices, it is 

 charged an agreement was entered into 

 with the labor union, through Mr. Nee- 

 nan, whereby the quantity to be pro- 

 duced annually by each manufacturer, 

 the period within which the manufac- 

 turers were to operate their factories, 

 and the amount to be manufactured by 

 each of the employees were predeter- 

 mined and prescribed. 



UniontQ-wn, Pa. — Mr. Stenson, of Sten- 

 son & McGrail, is on the sick list and not 

 able to be at the store. 



Crescent, Mo. — A page advertisement 

 of the Pevely Dairy Co. in the roto- 

 gravure supplement of the St. Louis 

 Globe-Democrat November 27 showed 

 views of the greenhouses operated on 

 the Pevely farm, formerly the estate of 

 J. T. Milliken. The cut from these 

 houses goes to the St. Louis Wholesale 

 Cut Flower Co., whose manager, D. S. 

 Geddis, directed the enterprises on this 

 farm before it was sold by the Milliken 

 heirs. 



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William Fluegge, Jr., of Morton Grove, III., Among Hfs Friends. 



