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The Florists' Revfev;^ 



Februaby 11, 1015. 



H. Bayeradorfer & Co. in their factory 

 in a day and a half. It was adorned 

 with American Beauty roses and sweet 

 peas, and filled with choice fruit. The 

 photograph reproduced on paife 15 will 



show you the effect - when complete, 

 which is so realistic that a not extraor- 

 dinarily lively imagination will be re- 

 quired to hear the toot-toot that denotes 

 the real thing. Phil. 



anthemums? We findlchat poinsett^as 

 and Asparagus Sprengeri and plumo^us 

 are immune from these pests. A. Qi 



WMMMimS 



EAELY PROPAGATION. 



Stock for Exhibition. 



It is time for the grower who figures 

 on doing any exhibiting to be propagat- 

 ing his chrysanthemum stock. It is as- 

 sumed that the stock plants have been 

 in a cold, airy house and that they now 

 have a nice batch of good, healthy cut- 

 tings. We have found it pays us to 

 have an entirely separate batch of stock 

 plants to propagate from. We grow 

 them outdoors in the summer, keeping 

 them on the dry side, not permitting 

 them to flower and not feeding them in 

 any way. These stock plants are lifted 

 late in November, and immediately 

 after they are placed inside they begin 

 to throw up a batch of fine, healthy 

 cuttings, which are ideal for growing 

 along for next year. The method usu- 

 ally employed, of carrying along stock 

 plants that have been grown for flowers, 

 from year to year, tends quickly to de- 

 generate the stock, and while it costs 

 money to grow plants one year, simply 

 for the sake of propagating, we have 

 found it pays us to do so. 



The commercial grower to whom time 

 and space are valuable commodities will 

 not figure on propagating at this time 

 to any considerable extent, although, 

 if he has a batch of plants he wishes 

 to increase, he would do well to begin 

 getting his first lot of cuttings in the 

 sand, as the tops can be taken from 

 these later and they will give him nice 

 cuttings, which will root a great deal 

 more quickly and freely than the cut- 

 tings from the old plants. The mum 

 does not need any bottom heat, although 

 we always keep our sand at a tempera- 

 ture of about 55 degrees and then the 

 process of rooting is not so slow. It 

 is perhaps unnecessary to say that the 

 suckers that come up directly from the 

 soil are much the best cuttings and 

 that, as a rule, cuttings forming on the 

 old stem should be avoided, as they are 

 liable to run into bud as soon as they 

 begin to grow. 



Early-Flowering Varieties. 



There are many florists who have not 

 become acquainted with the early-flow- 

 ering type of mum, and yet I question 

 whether there is any other type that 

 will bring as much money to the 

 grower, satisfy his customers so well 

 and be out of the way in time to make 

 room for other stock before the severe 

 frosts come. The florist who has any 

 local business in plants can sell this 

 type to his customers with every assur- 

 ance that they will give good satisfac- 

 tion, flowering six weeks or a month be- 

 fore the pompons and continuing from 

 the .second .week 4n September, until 

 quite late in November. Our early- 

 flowering mums bloom outdoors without 

 any protection whatever, and in the fall 

 are visited by hundreds of people who 



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take notes of colors and types, so they 

 may intelligently order plants for them- 

 selves another year. Not only do they 

 give satisfaction outside, but they grow 

 indoors in pots and supply ideal blooms 

 for early fall weddings. 



The early-flowering varieties do not 

 produce cuttings so readily as other 

 sorts and, if they are outdoors now, 

 they should be brought in at once, in 

 order that a sufficient quantity of stock 

 can be worked up. 



It is a fact not generally known that 

 most of the singles are also entirely 

 hardy, and can be recommended with 

 every confidence that they are perfectly 

 satisfactory for garden work. There 

 has been a tremendous movement in the 

 last few years in favor of plants that 

 will bloom around the house, owing 

 largely to garden clubs and improve- 

 ment societies, and ^flbrists in almost 

 any gardening center will do well to 

 watch the signs of the times and stock 

 up. well with outdoor mums and other 

 plants that can be grown with a mini- 

 mum of time and trouble. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



I have never seen eelworms on chrys- 

 anthemums in this state. New Jersey, 

 though it is entirely. possible that, un- 

 der certain conditions, the worms 

 might prove annoying to mum growers 

 in other parts of the Union. Condi- 

 tions in A. G.'s statej New Mexico, 

 may differ radically from those of Npw 

 Jersey, so it is quite likely that some 

 grower nearer to A. G.'s locality can 

 give a more satisfactory answer to his 

 inquiry. C. H. Totty. 



USE or PULVERIZED MANURE. 



Can you inform me whether it is 

 possible to grow first-class chrysanthe- 

 mums by using pulverized cpw manure 

 instead of rotted cow manure? If so, 

 how much pulverized cow manure shotld 

 be used as a starter for benches 5 x 100 

 feet? W. H. B. 



WILL EELWORMS INJURE MUMS? 



Will you kindly tell us whether the 

 eelworms that attack geraniums, car- 

 nations, roses, etc., will attack chrys- 



I think it entirely possible to grow 

 good chrysanthemums by the use of pul- 

 verized cow manure, but would suggest 

 that the manure be mixed with the soil 

 before planting time. Personally, I 

 have never used the pulverized manure, 

 but have heard other growers speak 

 highly of it. In preparing our soil 

 with the cow manure we use four loads 

 of soil to one of the manure, but I 

 understand that the pulverized article, 

 being dried, is considerably reduced in 

 weight and in bulk. In such a case, one 

 load to even six or eight loads of soil 

 should be ' Stlfficient to start the plants 

 in good shape. During the month of 

 September, when they are finishing up 

 their buds, there is, of course, nothing 

 to beat liquid fertilizer. There is no 

 reason why pulverized material should 

 not be good for the soil in the spring 

 planting. Chas. H. Totty. 



OPEN LCTTEI^^" DEADER6 



SUN PERCH VS. MOSQUITOES. 



To the correspondent who inquired in 

 a recent issue of The Keview as to the 

 best means of exterminating mosqui- 

 toes in water tanks I suggest, why not 

 try sun perch? B. C. Auten. 



sure of the water. You should have 

 cuttings ready now. They commence 

 to grow about the middle of this 

 month in the Santa Clara valley. Use 

 English or French Manetti. 



F. W. Osterman. 



OBJECTS TO CHEROKEE STOCK. 



In The Keview of January 28 F. A. 

 D. writes that he wants to grow rose 

 stock for fall budding of Cherokee rose. 

 He does not say whether single or dou- 

 ble, but I presume single, for lack of 

 better knowledge.' We consider 

 Cherokee roses of no use in California. 

 The skin is too thin for proper bud- 

 ding, and if you do not cut them right 

 at the bud, they will not heal oyer 

 properly, leaving a dead stick, perhaps 

 a quarter or half inch long, below the 

 roots, and then they sucker badly. Use 

 R. Manetti. The climate in Texas is 

 much like that of California. Make 

 the cuttings six to eight inches long; 

 plMt tiLPm upright, a little over half 

 their length inlTie ground. Then sun- 

 shine and plenty of Wjater. But be 



REMEDY FOR GREEN FLY. 



I read with interest the many in- 

 quiries in The Keview as to what will 

 kill green fly or aphis. We use a 

 • Brown Auto-spray that holds about 

 three gallons; we fill it nearly full 

 of water, put in a 2^4 -inch potful 

 of a forty per cent nicotine extract 

 and mix thoroughly. Thi<| sprayed op 

 the infected plants a coaple of even- 

 ings in succession, completely clears 

 out the aphis and has never yet burned 

 any plants. 



If time is of much consequence the 

 following is a quick and good way, 

 _^i^ steam is used in heating. Take 

 ^^^nal parts of water and a forty per 

 cent nicotine solution and squirt it on 

 the steam pipe, near the center of the 

 house with an oil can. Or another good 

 remedy is to take half-pages of com- 



