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reports from your section I would rec- 

 ommend the following varieties to grow 

 in the open ground: Ethel Crocker, Mrs. 

 Lawson and Wm. Scott for pink, Flora 

 Hill, Gov. Wolcott and Prosperity for 

 white, Portia, Crane and America for 

 red and Eldorado for yellow. I don't 

 think you will miss it on any of these 

 varieties, but after a season's trial you 

 will be able to select those which give 

 you the best returns. There may be 

 some other native varieties which have 

 not found their way east, but are among 

 the best to grow under conditions which 

 prevail in your locality. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



CARNATIONS WITH ROSES. 



What is the best pink or white car- 

 nation to plant on a side bench in a 

 rose house, with a night temperature of 

 56 degrees? The bench is two and one- 

 half feet from the glass. C. L. 



There are no carnations that will do 

 their best planted in a rose house, and I 

 would not advise you to plant carnations 

 in a house which must be run to suit the 

 loses. However, the one variety that will 

 suffer perhaps less than any other under 

 those conditions is IMrs. Lawson. This 

 variety will also keep about as short as 

 any I know of and two and one-half 

 feet of head room will do very well 

 for it. Floia Hill will stand that tem- 

 perature better than any other white ex- 

 cept Gov. Wolcott, but the latter grows 

 too tall for your bench. I would not 

 propagate my next season's stock from 

 that bench either, because you will find 

 the cuttings less vigorous than those 

 grown in a lower temperature and with 

 more air than you dare give your roses. 

 I have seen this tried a number of times, 

 but never with much success, and by 

 good growers, too. A. F. J. Baur. 



TUBEROUS ROOTED BEGONIAS. 



Very near our front door is a bed of 

 these handsome flowering plants. The 

 bed is about nine feet in diameter. It has 

 been quite amusing to sit on the veranda 

 of a summer evening and hear the dear 

 old ladies from the lural districts pro- 

 nounce them almost everything but what 

 they are. This beautiful bedding plant 

 has been lately written up in the columns 

 of the Review and the undersigned has 

 often declared his belief that in beauty 

 and variety of color and form they far 

 surpass a bed of the most brilliant gera- 

 niums. 



The corins were bought of an eastern 

 house as ' ' good mixed " at a cost of 2 

 or 3 cents each. Some of the single 

 blossoms aie more than five inches across. 

 Some are double and almost every shade 

 of color is represented, except blue. From 

 deepest crimson to purest white, all 

 shades of scarlet, red and pink and rich- 

 est orange to primrose yellow, all are 

 there. 



This little bed has the doubtful bene- 

 fit of the partial shade from an elm tree. 

 We have seen, in the Buffalo parks, bet- 

 ter beds of begonias than this and in 

 the fullest sun. 



These plants were started in flats at 

 the end of March. When a leaf or two 

 and a few roots were made, they were 

 potted into 3-inch and 4-inch pots, ac- 

 cording to size and strength of plant, 

 and plunged in a mild hot-bed, where 

 they remained during May, with the glass 

 off during the latter part of the month, 

 and were planted out in the bed early 

 in June. The bed has been most brilliant 



Tuberous Begonias and other Interesting Specimens. 



and attractive since the middle of June 

 and I am sorry the photograph repro- 

 duced gives such a poor idea of the bloom 

 and color. 



The fern in the background is an eight- 

 inch pot plant of John Scott's nephro- 

 lepis. The two night blooming cereuses 

 sitting under the kentia were not intend- 

 ed to be so conspicuous. To a casual 

 observer they may appear of the same 

 age, but they are not. Cultural direc- 

 tions for these will be dispensed with for 

 the present.' W. S. 



ROSES. 



Responsibility of Ni^ht Man. 



As we are now approaching the sea- 

 son when steady firing at night will have 

 to be resumed, our first care should be 

 the selection of a suitable night man 

 to whom we can delegate our responsibil- 

 ity for twelve out of the twenty-four 

 daily hours. In the larger and most up- 

 to-date establishments this functionary 

 has of late years occupied his proper po- 

 sition, but in far too many of the smaller 

 and medium-fized places any ordinary 

 help is considered good enough for the 

 position. Employers frequently select 

 men who by reason of their physical de- 

 fects are unable any longer to keep pace 

 among the day hands. 



It is unnecessary to say that this 

 method of selection is seldom favored by 

 either the foreman or section hands, who 

 know that without a thoroughly qualified 

 night man in charge their best efforts 

 during the day are nullified and that all 

 their care, skill and labor count for little 

 when such a man takes charge. 



The responsibilities which this man 

 has to shoulder entitle him to a good 

 salary, and to be able to earn it he must 

 possess qualifications surpassing the or- 

 dinary day laborer who has always some 



one to guide him and to whom he can 

 appeal for advice when in need. 



The ideal night man must of necessity 

 have a practical knowledge of the ordi- 

 nary conditions required in a greenhouse 

 and at the same time have a thorough 

 knowledge of his heating plant, firing in- 

 cluded. He must also have so much of a 

 mechanical knowledge as to be able to 

 make simple repairs, be able to judge 

 quickly and accurately and have sense 

 enough to know that the judgment of the 

 foreman, who has the entire responsibil- 

 ity, is more likely to be more mature 

 than his own, should be carried out to 

 the letter, and in spirit, and that except 

 in cases of emergency his nightly in- 

 structions should be carried out to the 

 letter. 



Above all, he must be strictly tem- 

 perate. Avoid encouraging company in 

 the boiler room. Company usually means 

 card playing, with its concomitants. 

 Smoking and drinking means neglect of 

 duty and, however well intentioned the^ 

 man may be, he usually after a while 

 succumbs and loss occurs. , 



Select a good, trustworthy man, pay 

 him well, treat him well and it will pay 

 you. RiBES. 



OVER-WATERED ROSES. 



I send some rose leaves and would like 

 to have you tell me why they turn so 

 light colored and what to do to pre- 

 vent it. C. H. 



The reason why these leaves have as- 

 sumed this shade of color is not far to 

 seek. They have been over-watered and 

 chilled during the night and exposed to 

 too high a temperature during the day. 

 To prevent this condition water early 

 and judiciously; give plenty of ventila- 

 tion. Take particular care that the 

 houses are freely aired during the night, 



