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The Florists^ Review 



June 10, 1915. 



When heading back a shoot, it is well 

 to cut below the first upper joint. 



A, F. J. Baur. 



EXTRA CARE NEEDED INDOORS. 



This has been a queer spring. April 

 was abnormally warm; May was un- 

 seasonably cool. This fact accounts 

 for the blooming plants being in bet- 

 ter condition than usual at this date. 

 The blooms are as good as they were 

 six weeks ago, and unless June proves 

 unusually hot, like April, a good cut 

 should be had all through this month. 

 At this time we have the advantage of 

 unusually good quality, and a little 

 extra care should -hold them up nicely. 

 The sun is strong now and the spring 

 growth is made, so that all our atten- 

 tion will be paid to maturing the pres- 

 ent crop of blooms, and a fairly heavy 

 shade will prove only beneficial. The 

 pink varieties have taken on their 

 warm weather hue, and bleaching is not 

 nearly so noticeable as it was earlier 

 in the spring. What a fine thing En- 

 chantress Supreme ds, with its fine 

 color, which seems practically the same 

 now as it was in the winter! There 

 certainly is no place for the old En- 

 chantress where this variety once gets 

 a foothold. More syringing will be 

 found necessary, to keep down red 

 spider, but this can be reduced con- 

 siderably by spraying once each week 

 with salt water. Carnations do not 

 seem to relish water on the foliage, as 

 do some other plants, perhaps because 

 the growth at this time of the year is 

 crowded and does not dry out readily, 

 causing stagnation among the lower 

 foliage. I almost believe that if it 

 were possible to keep down red spider 

 without syringing, the carnation would 

 be better off without a drop of water 

 on the foliage at any time after the 

 plants become established. 



You will, of course, look closely after 

 the disbudding. If there is one time 

 when disbudding closely pays, it is 

 during this period, when the quality 

 naturally deteriorates. A natural de- 

 sire for tidiness will prompt you to 

 keep down the weeds, even if it were 

 of no benefit to the plants. Perhaps 

 a little loose manure along the edge 

 of the beds will help prevent drying 

 out. A. F. J. Baur. 



CARE OF PLANTS IN FIELD. 



Now that the bedding season is over, 

 you will have more time to give to 

 your young carnation plants in the 

 field. If they were planted and culti- 

 vated at least once before the bedding 

 out started, they will no doubt be in 

 good condition, without having suffered 

 for want of attention during the last 

 three weeks. In Indiana, May was 

 quite cool, and the growth of weeds 

 as well as of crops has been slow, but 

 now that warmer weather has set in, 

 one can see both coming on rapidly. 

 You will have to get busy with the cul- 

 tivator and the hoe, to keep the soil 

 free from weeds and in proper condi- 

 tion to hold the moisture that is in 

 it. During the last ten days we have 



had an abnormal supply of rain. It 

 was needed badly, as a rather dry May 

 caused the soil to dry out. With care- 

 ful and consistent cultivating, it will 

 be possible to produce excellent stock, 

 even should the future rainfall be de- 

 ficient. Make a practice of going 

 through with the cultivator once every 

 week, even should there be no rain, and 

 if it rains, cultivate just as soon after 

 as the soil is in working condition. 

 Do this after every rain, even should 

 that be twice a week or oftener, but 

 be careful not to work the soil while 

 it is wet. The idea is to keep a layer 

 of pulverized soil on top all the time, 

 to conserve the moisture below. 



If the plants were all topped before, 

 or at planting time, many of the shoots 

 will need heading back again now. Go 

 over them every week if possible, head- 

 ing back such as have begun to run 

 up. In that way you will have, by 

 benching time, plants with shoots in 

 every stage of growth, and that means 

 a steady crop of blooms next winter. 

 By going over them often, you will 

 also avoid a waste of energy, as you 

 will be able to top each shoot at the 

 time it is ready and it will not be 

 necessary to take off two weeks' 

 growth that the plants should not have 

 been allowed to make. Do not top 

 the shoots before they are ready. I 

 have seen growers pull out the heart 

 when it should have been left a week. 

 Frequently in such cases the heart does 

 not come out, but just the young leaves 

 around it, and the heart keeps on grow- 

 ing just as though nothing had been 

 taken away. That is a waste of work 

 and certainly no benefit to the plant. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The following new carnations have 

 been registered with the American Car- 

 nation Society: 



By Frank Dinda, rarmingdale, N. Y. — Peace, 

 Prosperity x Wlnsor; color, white; size, three 

 and one-half to four Inches; habit, like Winsor; 

 vigorous grower; long, stiff stems; can be planted 

 closely. 



By Joseph Sakswich, New Hyde Park, N. Y. 

 — Olive Whitman, Beacon x Victory; color, scar- 

 let; size, three to four Inches; as free and early 

 as Beacon, as strong and sturdy as Victory in 

 late spring. 



By S. Knudsen, Boulder, Colo. — Victory, un- 

 named seedling; color, dark scarlet; size, three 

 and one-half inches; a fast grower, but not 

 grassy; habit resembles Cardinal, but stronger; 

 color does not fade in strong sunlight. 



By Wm. A. Dawson, WilUmantic, Conn. — Red 

 Wing, unnamed seedling x White Perfection: 

 color, scarlet; size, three to three and one-half 

 inches; strong, robust grower; very free bloomer, 

 without surplus grass; almost a non-splitter; 

 stems long and strong; a fine keeper and shipper. 



A. F. J. Baur, Sec'y. 



AT THE EXPOSITION, 



Among the things in which florists 

 attending the approaching S. A. F. con- 

 vention will be interested at the Pan- 

 ama-Pacific international exposition, at 

 San Francisco, is the Water Temple 

 Fine Arts Palace, shown in the illus- 

 tration on this page. It is worth men- 

 tioning that the standard acacias at 

 the base of the temple are twenty feet 

 high. 



A NEW WISCONSIN RANGE. 



The trade interests in southeastern 

 Wisconsin are developing at a hand- 

 some rate and the best part of it seems 

 to be that the increase in the demand 

 for stock is taking care of the greater 

 output after a fashion that probably 

 will encourage the investment of addi- 

 tional capital. 



One of the newest of the Wisconsin 

 establishments is that in the town of 

 Cudahy, just south of Milwaukee, start- 

 ed last summer by Patrick Cudahy, one 

 of the famous Cudahy brothers and 

 the owner of the Cudahy packing plant 

 in Milwaukee. It is another instance 

 of a financier taking up greenhouses 



Water Temple, Fine Arts Palace, at the San Francisco Exposition. 



