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The Florists^ Review 



October 16, 1913. 



WINTER CARE OF PANSIES. 



Those who have planned pansy beds 

 for next spring, either to sell the plants 

 or to beautify the home place, have now 

 set the plants in their winter quarters, 

 or are now doing so. If your plants 

 have been well grown and seed was 

 sown in July, they will bloom this 

 month or early in November in my 

 Michigan climate. Later plants will 

 make quicker growth under the warmth 

 of a spring sun. 



This year I have made the beds rich 

 with well rotted manure and raked them 

 fine and level. They are just wide 

 enough to take eleven plants across, 

 four inches apart. This makes a con- 

 venient width to work from each side. 

 The beds can be of any length, but the 

 plants this way should be six inches 

 apart, for convenience with the hand 

 weeder. It will pay, both in appear- 

 ance and in time saved in caring for 

 the beds, if your rows are made straight 

 and true with string and measure. 



Several hours before taking from the 

 seed bed, the plants should be watered 

 thoroughly, and the winter bed should 

 be moist, but not wet. One of the se- 

 crets of moving these plants and get- 

 ting them into quick growth is to main- 

 tain a large quantity of moisture around 

 the roots, and do it, too, without hav- 

 ing the soil muddy or soggy, or the 

 surface of the ground both wet and 

 hard. To accomplish this, the most suc- 

 cessful way I know, and one which has 

 worked splendidly with many kinds of 

 small plants, is to cover with a small 

 pot each plant soon after it is set. When 

 the bed is complete and the pots have 

 been placed, water heavily over the pots 

 with hose or sprinkler. Do not remove 

 the pots until the following evening. 

 Not a healthy plant will have wilted, 

 rootlets will already have started in 

 the new location, the surface around the 

 plants will bo just right and no soil 

 will have been washed into the crowns, 

 which is a thing to be carefully avoided 

 with pansies. By this method I have 

 set small flower and vegetable plants in 

 ( the field right in the middle of some 

 of our hottest summer days with just 

 as good results as on a cool, cloudy 

 eveniqg, but in the heat of summer I 

 generally leave the pots on a full forty- 

 eight hours. They not only protect the 

 plants from the sun, but moisture is 

 conserved as it evaporates from the 

 soil. 



After a heavy rain you should go 

 over the bed with the hand weeder and 

 loosen lip the surface, being careful to 

 keep the soil out of the crowns. This 

 fixes the weeds, too. 



When the ground has frozen hard — 

 not before — throw over your beds an 

 inch or two of coarse straw and over 

 this light brush or wire to hold the 

 straw in place. Be careful not to re- 

 move this covering until the last freeze 

 of spring is over. If early flowers are 

 wanted, the straw can be removed some 

 warm day in late winter and a cold- 

 frame set over a portion of the bed. 

 The sun through the sash will then 

 bring them on with a rush. 



With pansies, remember they must 

 have abundant air, water and sunshine, 

 important in the order named. 



In The Review for October 2 I no- 

 ticed an inquiry on wintering pansies 

 in coldframes. I use some' ftames and 

 they are at the foot of a grade. I 

 have never used any litter under the 

 glass and have rarely lost more than 



one or two per cent of my plants. One 

 winter there was a thaw and my frames 

 were filled with water over the plants. 

 Then the water froze solid and for 

 weeks I could see the plants several 

 inches down in solid ice. Not a plant 

 was lost that winter. However, I use 

 few frames and winter mostly in beds 

 covered with one inch of coarse straw. 



Paul L. Ward. 



THE GLASS MARKET. 



• In spite of the reduction in the duty 

 on window glass, jobbers are looking 

 for an early advance in the price, prob- 

 ably five per cent. 



The fact appears to be that the stocks 

 on hand are the lowest in years. One 

 man who has spent a lifetime in the 

 business said in The Review office last 

 week that he never had known stocks 

 in manufacturers' hands to be so light 

 as at present. It is asserted by the 

 trade authorities that the quantity now 

 on hand is approximately 200,000 boxes, 

 while normal stocks at this date would 

 aggregate 600,000 to 700,000 boxes. 



The season's fire will not begin until 

 November 1. It will be well toward 

 the end of that month before any new 

 glass can come on the market. The fire 

 ends with May. It means seven produc- 

 tive months to meet a twelve months' 

 demand. 



The wage scale was advanced ten per 

 cent for the season. In reality the ad- 

 vance will be nearer fourteen per cent, 

 it is said, due to changes in working 

 conditions. 



No Belgian window glass is likely to 

 come on this market, because the manu- 

 facturers there are better satisfied with 

 present conditions than they have been 

 for a long time and are not apt to push 

 out for American business because it 

 would entail a reduction in the prices 

 they are at present receiving. A jobber 

 figures that to lay 16x18 Belgian glass 

 in his Chicago warehouse at present 

 prices abroad and under the new tariff 

 law will cost $2.69 per box, which is 

 so close to the prices at which jobbers 

 are selling American hand-made glass 

 that the business is unattractive; in 

 fact, carload lots have been offered 

 within the week as low as $2.70 for 16x 

 18 double strength A, f. o. b. Chicago. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Henry Krinke & Son, of St. Paul, 

 Minn., submit for registration the fern 

 described below. Any person object- 

 ing to the registration or to the use of 

 the proposed name is requested to com- 

 municate with the secretary at once. 

 If no objection to the registration is 

 received, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this date. 



Name — Fteris Krinkeii. 



Description — The fern is a 1911 seed- 

 ling sport from Pteris adiantoides. The 

 leaves are much more divided and long- 

 er. It hangs over the pot in the usual 

 sized plants and it grows more quickly 

 than the parent kind. 



John Young, Sec 'v. 



October 7, 1913. 



Savannah, Qa. — The firm of McCabe & 

 Stafford, composed of Edward F. Mc- 

 Cabe and William J. Stafford, has taken 

 over the business of Henry F. Teynac, 

 at Fortieth and Lincoln streets, the old- 

 est florist in Savannah. 



AZALEA INDICA SHORT. 



The situation as regards Azalea In- 

 dica has been going steadily in one 

 direction for some years and the reflex 

 action which has been predicted does 

 not appear to have set in according to 

 predictions. Some yeans ago the de- 

 mand for certain popular var^jeties be- 

 gan to exceed the production of these 

 varieties and the Belgian growers be- 

 gan raising prices, or sending smaller 

 and less perfect plants for the money, 

 which amounted to the same thing. 

 The result was that the business be- 

 came less and less satisfactory to 

 American importers and forcers, until 

 the point was reached where some of 

 the big dealers ceased handling azaleas 

 and many reduced their orders. It 

 freely was predicted that this soon 

 would so affect the market that the 

 Belgian growers would catch up with 

 the demand and once more be able to 

 offer good plants at the old prices. Ap- 

 parently that time has not yet arrived. 

 The stock this year is reported to be 

 well budded, but the supply of the 

 popular forcing varieties continues in- 

 adequate and prices are not affected. 



ANNUAL SHOW AT VINCENT'S. 



The fact that dahlias have recently 

 been winning increased popularity was 

 confirmed anew by the special interest 

 taken in these flowers at the seventh 

 annual show of dahlias and cannas on 

 the farms of R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons 

 Co., at Cowenton, Md. The show, 

 which was held, as usual, in conjunc- 

 tion with the annual harvest home 

 festival of the Ebenezer Methodist 

 Episcopal church, continued for five 

 days, September 30 to October 4, and 

 is reported to have been even a greater 

 success than heretofore, in attendance 

 and otherwise. 



In spite of the somewhat unpleasant 

 weather on Ttiesday, when the show 

 was opened, more than 2,000 persons 

 were present during that day, and it is 

 estimated that the total attendance 

 was fully 10,000. The Federal Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the Maryland 

 Agricultural College and other official 

 bodies were represented. The register 

 showed names of visitors from Cali- 

 fornia, New Orleans and other distant 

 points. Special trains were run from 

 Baltimore to Cowenton for the accom- 

 modation of the guests, and the adja- 

 cent roads were lined with visitors ' 

 automobiles during a large part of the 

 five days. 



On the opening day there was a 

 good attendance of practical florists, 

 who inspected such sections as most 

 interested them in the forty-five acres 

 of dahlias and the fifty-five acres of 

 cannas, selecting stock for purchase 

 and meanwhile expressing enthusiastic 

 approval of the condition of the plants. 

 One of the chief centers of attraction 

 was a patch of dahlias where some of 

 the giant-flowering sorts had been tied 

 to stakes, disbudded to single stems 

 and mulched, and had received other 

 such special culture as would demon- 

 strate the dahlia's highest possibili- 

 ties. 



In the large packing shed, which 

 had been transformed into an exhibi- 

 tion hall for the occasion, the effect- 

 iveness of cut dahlias for decorative 

 purposes was convincingly shown by 

 elaborate displays containing a total 

 of over 50,000 of the flowers. The in- 

 side stock, such as geraniums, chrysan- 



