JuLT 80, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



hAyfN VASES GOOD SELLEBS. 



Perhaps it is because he is financially 

 interested in a factory that makes, 

 among other things, lawn vases of con- 

 crete, that F. A. Parkmire, of the Lake- 

 shore Greenhouses, Chicago, finds them 

 good sellers in spring. He is interested 

 in them and pushes them — and what a 

 florist pushes usually sells. 



There has been complaint on the part 

 of certain florists that the call for lawn 

 vitics, and the filling of lawn vases, is 

 no longer what it once was. This, Mr. 

 Parkmire thinks, is due to the fact that 

 apartment houses are invading the dis- 

 tricts of the complaining florists — for 

 hii part, he was wise enough to locate 

 in a neighborhood exclusively private 

 dwellings, each with its piece of land 

 in lawn or garden, and he finds lawn 

 vases to be filled on every hand. 



The vase shown in the accompanying 

 ill.istration is of concrete. It has a 36- 

 in^h bowl. A Dracaena indivisa occu- 

 pies the center, surrounded by S. A. 

 Nutt geraniums and white petunias, 

 with vincas and English ivies around 

 th(! edge. These lawn vases in Mr. 

 Parkmire 's section are making so good 

 a showing this month that he expects 

 to sell and fill more of them next season 

 than this. 



BOSES WITH OTHER FLOWERS. 



Should roses be grown in a house 

 alone, or could some other flowers or 

 plants be grown,iB the same house? 

 ^ H. P. 



Of course you could grow some other 

 varieties of flowers with roses, but if 

 you want to do the roses justice keep 

 the other plants away if possible. If 

 you introduce a variety of other plants 

 you will at the same time make it more 

 diflScult to keep your roses free from 

 both insect pests and fungoid affec- 

 tions. C. W. 



PROPAGATING DRAO-ffiNAS. 



We placed both Dracaena Massan- 

 geana and Dracaena terminalis canes in 

 the sand at the same time, and the 

 terminalis shoots are well rooted and 

 ready to be cut off the cane and potted 

 up, while the Massangeana shoots are 

 five to six inches high and show no 

 signs of roots. What shall we do to 

 get them rooted so that we can pot 

 them? \ H. N. 



The best way to treat the young 

 shoots of Dracaena Massangeana is to 

 take them off the canes and root them 

 in a sand bed in the propagating house. 

 Give the cuttings some bottom heat, 

 keep them moist and protect them from 

 th(! sun, and they will soon root. 



W. H. T. 



WISTARIAS NOT FLOWERING. 



Can you tell me why some Wistaria 

 Sitiensis do not bloomf The plants are 

 healthy and the growth normal. I 

 pl:;nted them four years ago, but never 

 ha [ a flower. I have seen some old 

 Pli nts which had never borne a flower, 

 "iiat causes this? Is there a remedy 

 ^0 it? J. A. I. 



'^' is not at all unusual for wistarias 

 Pl ited even longer than four years 

 ?fJ to bloom. The same plants grown 

 '^ JOts or tubs might bloom profusely. 

 '^\ you pruning your plants back suf- 

 «f ntlyf lBst««d of root-pruning. 



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pinch back the lateral growths well 

 through the summer. This will encour- 

 age the production of flower buds. 

 There s^ms to be in commerce a form 

 of Wistaria Sinensis which never 

 blooms;' at least I have seen a number 

 of plants, some quite old, which have 

 never bloomed at all. C. W. 



POINSETTIA CUTTINGS ROTTING. 



I have put in a batch df" poinsettia 

 cuttings from stock which I think was 

 in good condition. I put them in wa- 

 ter while making them, and then in 

 sand. Three days after placing them 

 in the sand I found that the cuttings 

 had all turned black at the bottom. I 

 have never had this trouble before and 

 should like to know the cause of it. 



W. E. 



they had merely been sprinkled to keep 

 them from wilting. Another point to 

 reuiember is, never to give water to 

 cuttings if it has been standing mere- 

 ly over night. Let it be always fresh 

 from the faucet. There should never 

 be wholesale rotting, such as you have 

 had, unless the cuttings have had too 

 much water before going into the sand 

 or after, or a combination of both. 

 C. W. 



ASTERS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



When would be the proper time to 

 sow aster seed to have the plants in 

 bloom for Christmas? A. D. E. 



It is possible the water was not per- 

 fectly pure, or the receptacle holding 

 the water may not have been quite 

 clean. In hot weather great care must 

 be taken when placing cuttings in wa- 

 ter, as it soon becomes tainted and the 

 slightest impurity spoils the cuttings, 

 unless they are quite tough. The trou- 

 ble, however, usually shows in black- 

 ened foliage, but if you left your poin- 

 settias in thei water long they would 

 absorb so much water that they would 

 be far more likely to damp off than if 



While I would not care to say that 

 asters could not be flowered for 

 Christmas, I would advise you against 

 making any attempt to flower them at 

 that time, when sunlight is at its 

 minimum. Chrysanthemums last until 

 Christmas, and I am afraid asters 

 would have a poor sale even if you 

 could grow them. It would pay you 

 better to grow some more certain 

 Christmas crop, such as violets, carna- 

 tions, stevias, Paper White narcissi^ 

 Eoman hyacinths, etc., for the holiday 

 trade. c. W. 



WWtestone, N. T.— J. McMullen will 

 build two $900 greenhouses on Hurd 

 avenUe. 



