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The Florists' Review 



AnousT 0, 1815. 



but the war interfered witU many of 

 them, just as it has with many other 

 features of the exposition. However, 

 the Netherlands gardens, two views in 

 which are shown in the accompanying 

 Illustrations, have profited by the war 



rather than suffered from it; they have 

 been '*«fttll supplied with stock. The 

 Netherlarnds display is in charge of 

 Arie Van Vliet, who did the landscap- 

 ing around the famous Peace palace 

 at The Hague. 



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Sweet Peas. 



Early in August is none too soon to 

 make a sowing of some of the winter- 

 flowering sweet peas, if flowers are 

 wanted from October onward. Do not 

 use any of the grandiflora varieties, 

 unless it may be for home retail trade. 

 They bloom freely, but are increasingly 

 hard to sell in the wholesale markets 

 in competition with the winter-bloom- 

 ing Spencers, which are now obtainable 

 ifi nearly every imaginable color. The 

 seed of the latter is much higher-priced 

 than that of the grandifloras, but it 

 pays to procure what will sell the best. 

 Do not buy too many colors. In white, 

 Mrs. M. Spanolin and White Orchid; in 

 pink, Mrs. A. A. Skach and Bohemian 

 Girl, and Lavender Orchid, a fine laven- 

 der pink, are extra good sorts. Orange 

 Orchid is of a beautiful salmon orange 

 color, a telling shade, and Venus, white 

 with a suffusion of blush, is charming. 



Sow in pans or flats of sand and 

 later plant out four to six inches apart 

 in the rows, allowing four to five feet 

 between the rows. The soil should 

 have been well trenched and plenty of 

 cow or well rotted stable manure added 

 to it, with some fine bone. The wider 

 and more roomy the house, the better. 

 Be sure you have ample head room. 

 Good sweet peas can be had in raised 

 benches in midwinter, but solid beds 

 are far preferable if well drained. 



• Antirrhinums. 



Early in August is also a suitable 

 time to plant out snapdragons for 

 winter flowering. The plants of these 

 should be in 4-inch pots and the flower 

 spikes should be allowed to open a few 

 flowers before being well pinched back. 

 If the plants are headed back earlier, 

 while the wood is soft, the breaks will 

 be weaker and many of the resultant 

 shoots will fail to flower at all. For 

 winter flowering I like to allow twelve 

 inches between the rows and ten inches 

 between the plants. It is possible to 

 grow snapdragons closer than this, but 

 iii midwinter the additional space is 

 really necessary and pays in the end. 



Do not use more than five inches of 

 soil. For a good winter crop, you will 

 find raised benches much superior to 

 solid beds. 



Differences of opinion exist as to 

 whether seedlings or rooted cuttings 

 make the most profitable plants for 

 indoor culture. The tendency is toward 

 seedlings. These are more vigorous and 

 disease-resistant, and, if the seed is 

 procured from a first-class specialist, 

 the percentage of rogues is compara- 

 tively small. There will be more or 

 less trouble with stem-rot and leaf -spot 

 at this season. Planting too deeply 

 and overwatering will produce stem- 

 rot. For leaf -spot, spray with Bordeaux 

 mixture or Fungine, and apply more 

 than once to insure clean plants. 



Mignonette. 



It is time to make a sowing of 

 mignonette for a winter crop. Migno- 

 nette must have a cold house. It likes 

 a good depth of soil and a cool bottom, 

 and no heating pipes should be below 

 it if it is grown in raised benches. 

 Mignonette will flower ' profitably for 

 six or seven months in a cold house. 

 The spikes will not all be fancy ones, 

 but will be of a convenient size for 

 use on retail places. Use a rich soil, 

 containing one-fourth of well decayed 

 cow manure. It is safer not to use 

 any bone or chemical manures for 

 mignonette. Purchase a first-class strain 

 of mignonette. Several special forcing 

 strains are offered in The Review's 

 columns. Sow a few seeds in little 

 patches a foot apart each way and thin 

 the seedlings out to three in each. 

 Care will be ecessary to prevent the 

 little seedlings from being eaten by 

 the larvae of the white butterflies, 

 which are partial to them. Migno- 

 nette succeeds best in a night tem- 

 perature of 40 to 45 degrees. 



DUTCH BULBS FOE EASTER. 



Easter comes late next year, April 

 23. How can the common bulbs, such 

 as Dutch hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, 

 etc., be kept back until that date? 



Woidd the ordinary covering of the 

 buHsH^ih outdoor beda,l>e all right, if 

 more covering were added as the win- 

 ter passed, say about ttie first part of 

 March? We use sucj^ varieties of 

 tulips as Cottage Maid^ Bose Grisdelin,- 

 Yellow Prince, Duc^j^e de Parmfe, 

 Murillo and Crown ofTGold, and are 

 anxious to known wh/^er these could 

 be held back successft^y, or whether 

 later varieties should.twe used. Also, 

 would the Darwin tulifs be too long- 

 stemmed to use for po^ and pans? 



L. E. S.— Mich. 



It is true that Easter next year- 

 comes late, but it is quite possible to 

 hold hyacinths, tulips and narcissi back 

 until that date. If you carry your 

 bulbs in outdoor beds it would be a 

 good plan to cover the winter mulch 

 with additional mulch, in order to hold 

 frost in it to a later date than usudl. 

 It would be a further advantage if 

 you placed these Easter bulbs where 

 they would get a minimum of sunshine, 

 or, if you have a good cold cellar, you 

 should have no great - trouble in hold- 

 ing back practically all varieties. 



Darwin tulips are being increasingly 

 used in pans. It -is true they have 

 longer stems, but they easily bring 

 much higher prices than the ordinary 

 early tulips. Pridfe 'of Haarlem you 

 will find a particularly good sort for 

 pans. In narcissi you should grow Vic- 

 toria in quantity. It is a grand late 

 sort. If people will try Double Von 

 Sion, both this and the single form 

 make up excellent pans. In double 

 tulips there is nothing better than 

 Murillo; Couronne d*Or is less stocky 

 in habit. Yellow Prince, Duchesse de 

 Parma, Flamingo, Pros6rpine, Keizers- 

 kroon and Bose Grisdelin are all use- 

 ful varieties. 



The Review will, in a later issue, 

 treat this subject at greater length. 



C. W. 



KANSAS CITY CLUB PICNIC. 



The picnic of the Kfnsas City Flo- 

 rists ' Club, at Holsinger Bros. ' Nursery, 

 Bosedale, July 28, was a grand success, 

 bringing out the largest attendance of 

 florists that was ever known in this 

 city for such an occasion. There were 

 about 225 people on the grounds. The 

 club wishes to extend hearty thanks to 

 Holsinger Bros, for the use of the 

 grounds and for the refreshments they 

 served. 



The visitors from out of town were: 

 Joseph Marks, of the A. A. Arnold 

 Paper Box Co., Chicago; John Lanni, 

 representing Mandeville & King, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; L. H. Archias and 

 son, of the Arehias Floral Co., Sedalia, 

 Mo.; L. Asmussen tind wife, of Lansing, 

 Kan., and P. G. Brackenberg, of Pleas- 

 ant Hill, Mo. The rest were from 

 Kansas City and Independence, Mo., 



Kansas City Florins' Club and Friends on theJr Annual Outing at Roreiafe, Kao., July 28. 



