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The Florists' Review 



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I find that oommercial guano is an 

 excellent fertilizer for chrysanthe- 

 mums, using four 4-inch pots to 100 

 gallons of weak manure water. The 

 guano contains both phosphoric acid 

 and potash, and is a more complete fer- 

 tilizer. Use twice a week until color 

 shows, alternating with manure water 

 and one of the other fertilizers. On 

 pink varieties, I should not advise the 

 use of either soda or ammonia, but 

 guano, and that in only about half 

 strength. 



Bone meal is safe for all varieties, in 

 conjunction with liquid manure. To 

 secure the best results from bone meal, 

 dump a half or a whole sack into a 

 barrel, cover with water and let stand 

 for three or four weeks. By that time 

 it will be dissolved enough to be readi- 

 ly available as plant food. Use about 

 ten quarts of the solution to 100 gallons 

 of medium strength manure water. 



When the blooms show color, stop 

 all feeding. (Less clear water will also 

 be needed. Keep a drier atmosphere in 

 the house. Otherwise you may have 

 trouble with damping of the flower 

 petals. L. 



CTCI.AMEN IN THE SOUTH. 



In the south, September is a good 

 time to plant seeds of cyclamen. Use 

 a compost of half soil and half leaf- 

 mold, finely screened, and add a little 

 sand if the soil is particularly stiff. 

 Where only * a few thousand cyclamen 

 are sown, it is better to sow them in 

 flats. The flats should be nearly filled 

 with the compost, which should be 

 pressed level with a brick, and well 

 watered. An additional thin layer of 

 pure leaf -mold, screened through a mos- 

 quito wire screen, makes a fine bed for 

 the seed. Make shallow drills about one 

 inch apart in the flats and sow the 

 seeds in the drills, leaving a space of 

 about one-half inch between each seed. 

 Cover lightly with more finely-screened 

 leaf-mold and water with a fine ro«?o. 

 A little sphagnum moss, rubbed through 

 a %-inch screen and spread- evenly and 

 thinly over the flats, will greatly help 

 to keep an even moisture. The flats, 

 covered with glass, should be placed on 

 an overhead frame, near the glass at 

 the end of a rose house. The soil must 

 be kept moist at all times. 



In buying seed, be assured that it is 

 strictly fresh. Fresh seed will germi- 

 nate in from two' to four weeks, while 

 seed that is old may take three months 

 to germinate, and unevenly at that. 

 When the seed shows no sign of germi- 

 nation at the end of four weeks, use 

 water at a temperature of 85 to 90 de- 

 grees, which will hasten germination 

 considerably. L. 



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NESINE FOB TEXAS. 



Under separate cover we are mailing 

 you some species of lily. We are 

 desirous of knowing what it is and 

 where it may be obtained. It does 

 splendidly in this part of the country. 

 Are there any other colors of this than 

 red? T. N. C— Tex. 



The specimen is Nerine Fothergilli 

 major, better known as the Guernsey 

 lily. There are quite a number of 

 other varieties of nerines. Many are 

 pink in color, some white, others 

 crimson. N. Fothergilli and N. Sar- 

 niensis are the best known varieties 

 and possess somewhat more vigor than 

 the other sorts. All should succeed 



CHABIXS I.. BAUM. 



THE seventy-five centimeter gun down Knoxville way is Charles L. Baum, 

 president, of course, of the Knoxville Florists' Club, still in its first year. 

 Baum is a typical southerner who has become imbued with the northern 

 spirit of push. His range of glass is the largest in east Tennessee, and his 

 store one of the earliest to be equipped along thoroughly modern lines. But 

 with all his business responsibilities he has plenty of time for travel, and a.lmost 

 always is among those present wherever florists gather. It was due to his initiative 

 that Knoxville florists organized, and it was he who led a delegation to the Boston 

 S. A. F. convention that gave Knoxville the credit of being better represented 

 than any other city in America, four out of five of the florists there being 

 present. 



well in Texas climate. It is well to say 

 that bulbs of these nerines are rather 

 high-priced, but are to be found listed 

 in many catalogues. C. W. 



CLEVELAND ADOPTS FOED PLAN. 



The Cleveland flower show, already 

 the best advertised event of the trade 

 of the present year, is making a new 

 bid for popularity by offering to share 

 its profits with the trade exhibitors. 

 The executive committee recently an- 

 nounced that twenty-five per cent of 

 the net profits of the show will be 

 turned pro rata to the trade exhibitors. 



This is the first flower show to emu- 

 late Henry Ford, and the decision was 

 reached after the executive committee 

 found that the present sale of space 



and the prospect for an unusually large 

 attendance at the show more than guar- 

 anteed the sum necessary to put on the 

 show. At the meeting the following 

 were present: S. Prentiss Baldwin, 

 chairman executive committee; Wm. 

 Q. Mather, president Ohio Horticul- 

 tural Society; H. P. Knoble, general 

 chairman all show committees, together 

 with F. A. Friedley, Timothy Smith, 

 Herbert Bate, F. C. W. Brown, C. E. 

 Russell, H. P. Merrick and George 

 . Bate. That the general outlook for 

 the show could not be better was dem- 

 onstrated by the reports made by the 

 chairmen of the various committee's 

 represented. It is expected that the 

 space allowed for trade exhibitors will 

 be oversold before the end of the pres- 

 ent month. 



