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The Florists' Review 



Fbbruaby 25, 1915. 



an interesting address on gladioli before 

 th« ^Worcester Horticultural Society. 



^^isitors last week were Winfrid 

 Roelker and George Struck, of New 

 York. H. L. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



"The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Holyoke and Northampton Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club was held in E. J. 

 Canning's office, Prospect Heights, 

 February 16 and was well attended, 

 twenty-two members being present. G. 

 H. Sinclair and George Strugnell, of 

 Holyoke, and F. D. Keyes & Son, of 

 Florence, exhibited some • remarkably 

 well grown cyclamen plants. F. D. 

 Keyes & Son also exhibited a vase of 

 that fine new dark crimson carnation. 

 Princess Dagmar. E. H. Downer, of 

 the Smith College Botanic Garden, ex- 

 hibited some beautiful plants and 

 sprays of flowers of Schizanthus Wise- 

 tonensis. He also exhibited some finely 

 grown cinerarias. Each of the exhibit- 

 ors was awarded a first-class certifi- 

 cate of merit. The exhibits provoked 

 much discussion among the members 

 and practically every minute detail of 

 culture was brought out. 



Frank BarnArd, a former active mem- 

 ber, sent a paper which was read by 

 Mr. Sinclair, on the history and the 

 quantity of plants and cut flowers at 

 the A. N. Pierson plant at Cromwell, 

 Conn., where Mr. Barnard is now 

 located. 



The March meeting of the club will 

 befhpld at the new Sinclair greenhouse, 

 Smith's Ferry. 



TO LENGTHEN LILY STEMS. 



Our giganteum lilies seem to be a lit- 

 tle short in stem, about six inches high. 

 Tney are in a temperature of 70 de- 

 grees, with full^ sunlight. Will a little 

 shade hurt them? H. G. A. 



No, a little shade will not hurt them. 

 It is oft«n applied- in order to lengthen 

 the Stems on lilies when they are too 

 dwarf. Most customers prefer lilies 

 which are comparatively dwarf. Keep 

 yonr plants well sprayed, and in the 

 temperature mentioned they should 

 now be showing buds. C. W. 



NOT BEGONIA CHBISTMAS BED. 



I have a greenhouse 30 x 100 feet and 

 make a specialty of pot plants. Being 

 a subscriber to The Review, the in- 

 quiry of W. C. K., on page 13 of the 

 January 21 issue, has aroused my curi- 

 osity as to whether a begonia I have is 

 Christmas Red or Martha Washington, 

 by which name it was sold to me. I 

 am sending you a bud and foliage. It 

 is a persistent bloomer; it has bloomed 

 for fourteen months and during that 

 time has not been a day without buds 

 or flowers. We have the original plant, 

 which I purchased five years ago. It 

 is in a bench in the greenhouse and is 

 about three and one-half feet high and 

 three feet wide. It now has forty-nine 

 flowers and buds. I have started as 

 many as 200 plants from the original 

 plant. It is easily propagated, by either 

 cuttings or leaves. H. M. S. 



The flowers and leaves forwarded 

 were quite fresh on arrival, as you 

 packed them well. This is not B. 

 Christmas Bed, but B. semperflorens 

 gigantea rose^ an old but quite florif- 

 erous and persistent-flowering variety. 



C. W. 



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