OCTOBEB 2, 1913. 



^Thc Florists^ Review 



15 



temperature there should be a good cut 

 from early in November until January. 

 L. Jamesii we are trying this year. It 

 is an early form of longiflorum, which 

 80 far keeps clean and is quite early. It 

 is one we are likely to grow more heav- 

 ily a year hence. 



HENBT EMUNDS' NEW CANNA. 



"When the Minneapolis convention 

 was well under way there arrived a box 

 of cannas from Henry Emunds, of 

 Belleville, 111., which did not get as 

 much attention as they would have won 

 under more favorable conditions. The 

 flowers were of his new canna. Queen 

 Helen, such as are shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration. This namesake of 

 the Queen of Italy is a sport of King 

 Humbert and has all its habits. The 

 foliage, however, is green. Mr. Emunds 

 has great faith in his canna. It is a 

 stronger grower, he says, and has prob- 

 ably twice as many shoots to a plant as 

 has King Humbert. The flowers are 

 rather orchid-like in appearance and 

 evenly spotted: the clusters, too, are 

 larger than those of King Humbert. 

 The leaves of the plant are large and 

 glossy. 



PANSIES IN COLDFBAMES. 



Please give a good method of winter- 

 ing pansies in coldframes for early 

 spring sales, a good, common way for 

 plants transplanted at this time. 



E. B. 



Let the plants freeze quite hard, and 

 then cover them with perfectly dry 

 leaves; only a light coating is needed. 

 Put the sashes on and leave them shut 

 up tightly, except on warm, sunny days, 

 when they can be tilted up. Be sure the 

 sashes are well glazed and do not leak, 

 for damp leaves will soon start decay 

 among the plants. The leaves can be 

 removed about the first week in March. 



C. W. 



BUI.BS IN BOSE BEDS. 



Will you kindly tell me if it will 

 injure roses that are planted three feet 

 apart to have hyacinths and narcissi 

 planted in the same bed with them? 

 When is the best time to plant these 

 bulbs outdoors in southeast Alabama? 

 They do well here. M.W.P.B, 



It will not do any great amount of 

 harm to grow some hyacinths, tulips 

 and narcissi among your roses if the 

 latter are planted as much as three feet 

 apart each way. The best time to 

 plant the bulbs outdoors in your lati- 

 tude is late October or early Novem- 

 ber. C, W. 



LIME FOB CYCLAMENS. 



Can lime or lime water be used for 

 cyclamens, to sweeten the soil and 

 kill worms, and in what quantities? 

 D. W. D. 



Lime water can be applied to cy- 

 clamens to assist in getting rid of 

 earthworms. It must be used with 

 care, for too much will impoverish the 

 soil and harm rather than benefit the 

 plants. Take a piece of stone (un- 

 slaked) lime. Slake it in a tub, barrel 

 or pail, according to the number of 

 plants to be watered. For a pail con- 

 taining twelve quarts of water a piece 

 weighing one pound is ample. After 

 slaking, let the lime color settle to the 

 bottom. Then draw off and apply the 



Canna Queen Helen, a Green-leaved Sport of King Humbert* 



clear water. Do not keep your cycla- 

 mens standing on .beds of manure or 

 earth, or worms will soon make the 

 soil in the pots sour, and choke the 

 drainage. Let them stand on a good 

 layer of coal ashes, which worms do 

 not trouble. C. W. 



KACKS FOB BULBS. 



We have a room sixteen feet square 

 and about nine feet high joining our 

 workshed, and should like to know the 

 best method of arranging racks for 

 bulb boxes and the proper heat, water 

 and ventilation for the bulbs. Is it best 

 to bury bulbs outside till cold weather? 

 J. A. & S. 



We should build a rack three feet 

 wide around the sides. The shelves can 

 be eighteen inches apart. Another rack 

 six feet wide can be built down the 

 center. This will allow a 2-foot path 

 on either side. If your flats are 12x24, 

 they will fit on the shelves without any 

 waste of space. All varieties of bulbs 

 can be placed here after being started 

 outdoors or in coldframes. Tulips, 

 narcissi and hyacinths do best if the 

 room is kept dark to draw them up, 

 especially early in the season. This is 

 not necessary in the case of gladioli, 

 iris, Paper White narcissi, sweet-scent- 

 ed jonquils and a few other varieties. 

 These can be given light all the time. 

 In addition, valley in flats can be 

 started in such a house, although it 

 prefers some bottom heat. A minimum 

 temperature of 60 degrees should be 

 maintained in midwinter; later in the 

 season less heat and more air and light 

 are necessary. C. W. 



ANNUAL PINK LUPINES. 



Please tell me how far apart annual 

 lupines should be planted for forcing. 

 Which are better, benches or beds, and 

 what temperature is the best for them? 

 I want to force a lot of pink lupines. 



F. S. P. 



The annual pink lupines will do bet- 

 ter in winter on raised benches than on 

 solid beds, as, indeed, will practically 

 all annuals. Sow the seeds thinly in 

 rows a foot apart. If they come up too 

 thickly, it is easy to pull out a few, but 

 they do not transplant readily. To fill 

 up any possible gaps, it is a good idea 

 to sow a few dozen 3-inch pots of them. 

 Give the lupines a tolerably rich, but 

 quite porous soil. They will then be 

 less liable to damp off during dark 

 weather in midwinter. A night tem- 

 perature of 45 to 48 degrees, with a 10 

 degree rise during the day, is suflS- 

 ciently high for them. 



Varieties of L. mutabilis, blue and 

 white, require twice the distance, be- 

 tween the rows, of the pink variety. 

 They also take much longer to flower, 

 but the spikes are fine. C. W. 



Clinton, Mass. — Edward W. Breed 

 was judge of the Lancaster flower show 

 this year. 



Highland Park, Tenn,— Mrs, H, H. 

 Hicks is starting in the greenhouse 

 business here. 



Springfield, Mass. — Mrs. Warren S. 

 Emerson, of N. F. Higgins' force, is 

 confined to her home with what is diag- 

 nosed as typhoid fever. 



