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The FkMfets' Review 



15 



All Saints' Day at La Loma Cemetery, Manila» Philippine Islands, as it Appeared to an American Florist. 



with a broken neck is weak and not as 

 good, and requires longer to become 

 established and to commence to grow 

 after being planted in the ground. 



After removing the clump, shake gen- 

 tly to remove the soil that would 

 naturally fall off. Cut off top within 

 two or three inches above top of clumps, 

 allowing them to be exposed to the sun 

 and air for only an hour or two. Do 

 not allow them to stay out two or three 

 days to dry up, then wonder why they 

 are withered and fail to sprout. 



Pack in a cool, frost-proof place, 

 where extremes in temperature may be 

 avoided, a place having an average tem- 

 perature of about 45 degrees. Do not 

 cover, or' pack in any material or with 

 any substance; cork, sawdust, shavings, 

 coal ashes, sand or earth, all hold and 

 retain a dampness or moisture, some- 

 thing unnatural,. They are also too 

 close, compact and damp, causing the 

 bulbs to start to mildew, or to decay. 

 Would you pack your potatoes in any of 

 the above! Simply pack clumps one on 

 top of the other, placing each clump up- 

 side down. 



Undoubtedly you are aware that the 

 dahlia stalk is hollow, and that this hol- 

 low contains a watery substance, or 

 acid. If you pack your clumps with 

 the stalk up, the acid will flow back 

 into the crown of the clump, causing 

 decay; whereas, if you turn your 

 clumps upside down the acid must flow 

 out, and clump will remain in a perfect- 

 ly dormant condition. Pack clumps up- 

 side down, in boxes or barrels, packing 

 one on top of the other. 



Dahlias in an old-fashioned cellar will 

 keep well without any covering, but in 

 a cellar having a cement bottom, or 

 heat, the boxes or barrels should be 

 lined with heavy paper, and covered 

 with paper or burlap. Covering with 

 paper or burlap excludes the air and 

 preserves a more even temperature. In 



heated places the circulation of air and 

 heat causes the bulbs to shrivel and dry 

 up. A covering of this kind prevents 

 the roots from shriveling. 



J. K. Alexander. 



INDIANA FLORISTS TO MEET. 



The November meeting of the State 

 Florists' Association of Indiana will be 

 held with Hichmond members, Novem- 

 ber 2, instead of November 8, as an- 

 nounced at the Anderson meeting. 

 Please make due note of the above and 

 arrange to spend the day with our 

 Bichmond friends. Indianapolis florists 

 will leave the Union station at 7:05 

 a. m. over the Pennsylvania railroad. 

 Buy tickets to Easthaven, which is the 

 stop directly opposite the plant of the 

 E. G. Hill Co. 



O. E. Steinkamp, Sec'y. 



BIPENINO OBEEN TOMATOES. 



As of interest to the grower^ who has 

 a garden, it may be timely to note that 

 green tomatoes, carefully picked and 

 wrapped in tissue paper and placed in 

 a room that is temperate to quite cold 

 but dry, will ripen successfully up to 

 Christmas. A late-planted vine, or late 

 crop, seems to yield a firmer product 

 than green fruit of early-planted vines. 

 I have before me some beautiful, firm 

 fruit, weighing from one-fourth to one- 

 half pound, and especially nice for 

 slicing. Theo. F. Beckert. 



MUM SHOW AT BANGOR, ME. 



The first chrysanthemum show to be 

 held in the state of Maine will take 

 place November 1 and 2, at Bangor, 

 in the rooms of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce. It has been arranged under 

 the auspices of the Maine State Flo- 



rists' Society. The members are hop- 

 ing the show will be successful enough 

 to make it an annual event. Alexander 

 Lurie, instructor in floriculture and 

 landscape gardening at the University 

 of Maine, who informs The Review of 

 the plans of the society for holding the 

 show, writes as follows: 



"The florists have responded splen- 

 didly and have done themselves proud 

 in the exhibitions which have been held' 

 in connection with agricultural fairs. '^ 



CULTUBE or EUPATOBIUMS. 



Will you please advise me as to the 

 culture of eupatoriumst , 



L. M. S. & C— Del. 



The treatment of eupatoriums is prac- * 

 tically the same as that of stevias. 

 Take cuttings in winter and either grow 

 them on in pots plunged outdoors 

 through the summer, or plant them out, 

 lifting and potting them before there 

 is danger of frost. Give them cool 

 greenhouse treatment. The plants will 

 need one or two pinchings through the 

 early summer. Good varieties to grow 

 under glass are E. riparium, E. glandu- 

 losum and E. glabratum. There are 

 also a number of good hardy eupato- 

 riums, useful in the hardy perennitil 

 borders. The blue variety, E. cceles- 

 tintnrr,~ll~now classed as a conoclinium. 

 / C. W. 



Hamilton, O. — Miss Catherine Federle 

 has opened a store in the Jefferson 

 Theater building, under the name of 

 Federle 's Flower Shop. 



Brooklyn, N. Y.— The department of 

 parks of the borough of Manhattan 

 has issued a call for bids or estimates 

 for the erection of greenhouses for the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, on Washing- 

 ton avenue, opposite Crown street. 



