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The florists' Review 



109 



ciaJly proud of his two benches of 

 sweet peas, the vines averaging eight 

 feet high, with an abundance of blooms 

 with stems from fourteen to eighteen 

 inches long. In the cattleya house the 

 TrianBB and Gaskelliana are in bloom. 

 The Easter lilies are being taken to 

 cooler quarters as fast as they show 

 color. The principal feature in the 

 window display at the store is a large 

 Empress of India azalea in full bloom. 

 This plant is over 30 years old and 

 has furnished many dollars' worth of 

 cut flowers in the days when green- 

 house flowers were less plentiful than 

 they are now. S. W. W. 



WHEN TO BUD MANETTI. 



I am planting 3,000 Manetti in Los 

 Angeles. Can you tell me what is the 

 best time to bud them? Some have 

 advised me that from June to Septem- 

 ber is the proper tiiie. Then, again, I 

 have heard that autumn is best. 

 About how long does it take to develop 

 a salable plant? G. T. — Cal, 



The condition of the Manetti stock 

 at the time of budding has more to do 

 with success or failure than the exact 

 season of carrying out the work. Ma- 

 netti stocks can be budded from May to 

 October in your section, and it takes 

 from ten to fifteen months from the 

 time of budding to make a really good, 

 salable plant. In colder localities rose 

 growers usually attempt to keep the bud 

 dormant during the first winter, and it 

 is from these shoots in spring that Euro- 

 pean growers obtain their fine "maid- 

 en" buds for exhibition. But here it 

 is unnecessary to keep them dormant, 

 for the growth made in winter is just 

 as good as that made in summer. In 

 order to have the wood ' ' run ' ' well, and 

 to facilitate budding, many growers 

 bank up the stocks with soU from the 

 center of the rows to keep the lower 

 part green and the bark soft. At the 

 time of budding, this soil is knocked 

 down by hoeing, and the buds are in- 

 serted, low down, as soon as possible 

 afterwards. Stocks should be six months 

 planted before budding. 



H. E. Eichards. 



OANNAS FOB SQUABE BEDS. 



I am enclosing a sketch of plots 

 which I wish to plant with cannas of 

 various kinds in order to beautify the 

 grounds between the sidewalks and the. 

 school building. If you will kindly 

 give me the names of such dwarf 

 cannas as you think suitable, I shall 

 greatly appreciate, the favor. 



J. C. E.— Tex. 



The following are suggested as 

 splendid cannas for your purpose: 

 Mrs. A. F. Conard, salmon pink; 

 Meteor, blood red; King Humbert, 

 orange scarlet, bronze foliage; Wil- 

 liam Sanders, scarlet, bronze leaves; 

 Black Beauty, brilliant scarlet, bronze 

 foliage; Hungaria, beautiful soft pink; 

 Eichard Wallace, canary yellow; Bee- 

 thoven, orange yellow. 



I would not try to use too many 

 kinds. Blocks of one solid color are 

 more eflfective than lines of a variety 

 of shades. I would. plajat six rows in 

 the widest border, which has a width 

 of ten feet. Three rows should suffice 

 in the other borders, which are only 

 five feet wide, but you could use four 

 if you wanted a more solid effect. You 

 could use an edging of a yellow or red 

 variety on one side, if. dgsir^d. , Let 



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