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The Florists^ Review 



OCIOBEB 14, lOlG. 



vent the frost and sun from heaving 

 the ground. ^ 



Every country florist should help to 

 develop the bulb business. He can do 

 this in no better way than by planting 

 one or two attractive beds at his own 

 home or near his greenhouses. This 

 makes the best kind of advertisement. 



Everyone is interested in the bulbous 

 flowers which bloom in the spring. 

 They are cheering after the long win- 

 ter and for this reason appeal with 

 particular force to us all. There is 

 room for an immense development in 

 this field and it is up to the trade to 

 do its part in encouraging and develop- 

 ing it. 



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I SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS I 

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and provide good drainage. When pot- 

 ting, it is always w^ to leave one inch 

 of the pots to be filled later with a top- 

 dressing of soil and manure in equal 

 parts. This top-dressing takes care of 

 the feeding roots at the base of the 

 stem, and these are important factors 

 in producing fine flowers. The pots can 

 be set under benches in the carnation 

 houses and left there until after the 

 holidays. Give a good watering at first, 

 and thereafter only enough to keep 

 the soil moigt. Coldframes, even when 

 well prot^9Q with sashes, are not ideal 

 places to start these lilies, excepting 

 probably in the most southerly sec- 

 tions, where freezing temperatures 

 rarely occur, L. 



BOSES IN THE SOUTH. 



By the time this appears in print, 

 firing will have become general. Not- 

 withstanding the cold and rainy spells 

 of the last few weeks, we hare entirely 

 escaped the mildew, and this we at- 

 tribute to having the doors open day 

 and night and the side glass all re- 

 moved. It is always soon enough to 

 replace the side glass when firing be- 

 gins. Thrips may be expected at any 

 time now, but a few applications of 

 some of the tobacco extracts generally 

 exterminate them, as well as any other 

 insect pests. The plants should be 

 making a good crop now, but if you 

 cut them hard, especially if the plants 

 were only young plants set out this 

 summer, you are damaging your chances 

 for a later time. It is much better to 

 cut the flowers with short stems and 

 conserve the energy of the plants. 



To have a crop at the holidays, all 

 teas and hybrid teas must be pinched 

 about October 25 in the north and 

 about November 1 in the south. Ameri- 

 can Beauties will have to be pinched 

 about one week earlier. Let the pinch- 

 ing period begin a day or two be- 

 fore these dates and extend a day 

 or two after them and you will find 

 your crop in good shape about two 

 weeks before and after Christmas. To 

 get extra long stems on the Killarneys, 

 allow only one break to develop after 

 pinching out the bud. A good mulch 

 of cow manure will be needed to bring 

 on the crop in good shape. To pile 

 the manure in ridges between the rows 

 is better than spreading it evenly all 

 over. Watering must be done a little 

 more carefully now, although if the 

 plants are growing strongly, it is not so 

 easy to overwater them. Syringe early 

 and have the house dry by night. 



Ventilation is more important now 

 than ever. Open up a little at a time 

 as the temperature rises in the morn- 

 ing and decrease gradually as it falls 

 late in the afternoon. It will be pos- 

 sible for quite a while to have the ven- 

 tilators open a little at night, even if 

 you are running steam. Never by any 

 chance close the ventilators on mild 

 nights and shut off steam to save coal. 

 It is all right to do without steam on 

 nights mild enough to allow the ven- 

 tilators to be raised a few inches, but 

 not otherwise. A night temperature of 

 56 degrees is right for most of the 

 roses. Beauties and Mrs. Russell need 

 60 degrees at night. The outside tem- 

 perature fluctuates greatly in the south. 

 There may be a night or two when it 

 is as high as 60 degrees and in twenty- 

 four hours it may be down to 20 degrees 

 or even lower. The effect of these fluc- 



tuations is more felt by the plants than 

 if they varied from freezing to 25 

 degrees. While the lower temperatures 

 occur only on a few occasions, they 

 are apt to result in a decided check to 

 the plants, as many houses are not 

 piped sufficiently for these lower ex- 

 tremes. 



On damp, cloudy days the tempera- 

 ture should be from 60 to 64 degrees, 

 with a little steam and a little top ven- 

 tilation. On bright, warm days it may 

 get up to 80 or 85 degrees, and still be 

 all right if the ventilators are opened 

 enough. Keep a moving, buoyant at- 

 mosphere in the houses at all times and 

 you will have little to fear from mil- 

 dew. It is always safe, however, to 

 paint one, or perhaps two, pipes in 

 each house every week with a sulphur 

 paint, as a preventive. L. 



LZLIUM aiGANTEXJM'IN SOUTH. 



The bulbs of these liles should be 

 potted up as soon as possible after ar- 

 rival. Use good loam and at least one- 

 fourth good cow manure. See that the 

 soil is well broken up with the shovel 



EVEBOBEENS FOB THE HOME. 



One of the striking features of the 

 demand as recently noted by many 

 nurseries has been the increase in the 

 call for evergreens for use around the 

 city home. Indeed, so attractive has 

 this opportunity for profit looked that 

 some of the specialists in evergreens 

 have prepared large stocks of the most 

 adaptable varieties, even going so far 

 as to offer them in tubs and window 

 boxes as well as balled and baled, 

 while many retail florists are finding 

 evergreens a ready selling extra item 

 of stock. Of course the first use of 

 such hardy stock was around hotels 

 and apartment buildings in New York, 

 but it soon spread until now every 

 small town has its homes with winter 

 window boxes and tubs of evergreens, 

 as well as evergreens on the lawn. Flo- 

 rists easily make sales when they pro- 

 pose, instead of taking the window 

 boxes to storage for the winter, after 

 the geraniums and vincas are killed 

 by frost, that they be filled with hardy 

 stock of rich green that will last the 

 winter through. 



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CHICAGO CLUBS- HOLD 

 GET-TOGETHER DINNER 



OT in years has there been 

 such a large attendance at 

 any function of the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club as on 

 the occasion of the amal- 

 gamation banquet of the 

 club and the Cook County 

 Florists' Association, at Hotel La Salle, 

 October 7. A count discovered 108 

 present, whereupon the officers of the 

 club agreed that there is nothing like 

 the lure of a banquet and a good pro- 

 gram for bringing out the stay-at- 

 homes. The menu was sufficiently sat- 

 isfying in itself, but when accom- 

 panied by a rapid fire of conversation 

 and good-natured badinage, by way of 

 sauce, it was highly delectable. Nor 

 was the music forgotten, for piano and 

 song entertained whosoever would lis- 

 ten. 



Mr. Henderson Presides. 



After the coffee, when the cigars 

 were well lighted, H. N. Bruns, chair- 

 man of the banquet committee, intro- 

 duced Alex. Henderson, the toastmas- 

 ter of the evening. It has seldom been 

 the club's good fortune to have one so 

 well adapted to the duties of that of- 

 fice as Mr. Henderson. There was al- 

 ways the intimate, personal touch so 

 necessary in introducing a speaker. 



First on the list of speakers was W. J. 

 Keimel, president of the club. He 

 spoke on the benefits of the florists' 

 club to the trade: Personal contact, 

 cooperation, the broadening effects of 

 conversing with others, not only in the 

 same branch of the trade, but in all 

 its branches; the opportunities the club 

 affords the retailer of bringing his 

 wares to the attention of the general 



