SerrEUBEB 22, 1904. 



TheWeckly Florists' Review; 



851 



A Well Kept Place is the Best Advertisement a Retail FloHst Can Have. 



by any means that would tend to re- 

 tard or prevent vigorous re-establish- 

 ment, the first step has been taken in 

 the production of ideal conditions for 

 stem-rot to gain a foothold. To be sure, 

 some plants may be aflfected when brought 

 in, but these usually die a few days 

 after transplanting and cannot be said 

 to have been mistreated. 



It is the interval betweep housing and 

 regular firing that this disease is to be 

 most vigorously guarded against. Al- 

 though too late to remedy any defects in 

 • ligging, if planted too deeply a portion 

 of the surface soil may be carefully re- 

 moved. Atmospheric conditions and sup- 

 ply of moisture in soil and on foliage 

 can be regulated, also the mechanical con- 

 dition of the soil can be improved, if 

 faulty. 



Keep the air in the, houses constantly 

 on the move, remove all dead leaves from 

 the plants and allow none to decay on 

 or in the soil. If compelled to spray or 

 syringe, choose a bright morning, that 

 the foliage may dry soon. Give the 

 liouses an occasional dusting of grape 

 dust. Decrease the amount of water ap- 

 plied to the paths as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. Break up the surface soil fre- 

 quently and, above all, do not over- 

 water. 



Should any plants become aflfected, re- 

 move at once, with the soil immediately 

 surrounding. The excavation made 

 should be left open a few days to dry 

 out, when new soil can be added and a 

 fresh plant inserted. It is presumed you 

 reserve a few plants of each variety in 

 pots to replace those lost from any cause. 



Very little in addition to good treat- 

 ment can be done for the plants in close 

 proximity to those aflfected, although 

 watering for a time in a furrow made 

 Ijetween the rows and a liberal dusting of 

 air-slaked lime and powdered sulphur 

 around the neck of the plant is advis- 

 able. Geo. S. Osborn. 



IFIRE HEAT FOR CARNATIONS 



How soon should fire heat be given car- 

 i.ations. We began having light frosts 

 September 1.'). T. H. 



During the next month a great deal of | 



judgment must be exercised in regard to 

 firing on cold nights. Those who grow 

 roses or other plants which require firing 

 every night now, and employ a night man, 

 can manage much easier to have a little 

 heat around when it is needed than those 

 who grow only carnations or stock which 

 requires carnation temperature. Many 

 carnation growers do not put on a night 

 man until October 1 and some even later 

 than that. There are, in fact, usually but 

 few nights during the first half of Octo-" 

 ber when fire heat is actually necessary 

 in our locality, and if you will keep tab 

 on the weather during September you 

 can usually tell pretty well in the even- 

 ing how cool it is likely to be the next 

 morning. 



Just how cool the houses may run 

 without injury depends on the condition 

 of the plants, etc. If your plants were 

 housed early and have been growing with 

 an abundance of ventilation they will 

 stand a much cooler temperature than if 

 they had been planted lately or if they 

 have been giowing very rapidly and 

 soft. Those who have fire heat for other 

 plants will do well to run their houses 

 about 50° through October, unless there 

 is a crop of buds opening, in which case 

 they had best be run at the regular win- 

 ter temperature. We do not aim to have 

 much of a crop on before about Novem- 

 ber. Houses which are not in crop will 

 not require such regular temperature 

 while plenty of ventilation can be given 

 and the days are bright. 



As I said a few weeks ago, water, 

 sunshine and fresh air are the three main- 

 stays, of the carnation. If the weather 

 is bright the temperature can run down 

 dose to 40° in the houses occasionally 

 if the ventilators are open. Of course I 

 would not want this to happen several 

 nights in succession, nor would I want 

 it to happen with the ventilators closed. 

 I would rather have my houses run down 

 to 40° with the ventilators open than to 

 have them at 45° with the ventilators 

 closed and no fire heat. At this season 

 they will be down that low only a few- 

 hours toward morning and little if any 

 damage will result. 



Don't make the mistake of thinking 



that you can bottle up some of the heat 

 in the houses in the evening by closing 

 the ventilators tight while the houses 

 are warm to prevent them from running 

 down in the after part of the night. 

 There is no surer road to weak stems, soft 

 growth and disease than to follow that 

 practice. If you begin this early to de- 

 prive your plants of one of the essentials, 

 what do you think will become of them 

 later on when you cannot open the ven- 

 tilators -for a week at a time on account 

 of ice on the houses? Last winter a 

 prominent grower gave as his opinion 

 that the general sleepiness of the carna- 

 tion blooms which prevailed for some 

 time was caused by a lack of ventila- 

 tion, which was caused by the long, se- 

 vere winter. There is no doubt but that 

 this is true in a very large measure. 

 If we could have opened our ventilators 

 a few inches for several hours each day, 

 there would have been less complaint. 

 That is also largely the reason why car 

 nations which are grown cool will keep 

 longer than those which are grown warm. 

 The cooler-grown ones get more air. 



You will lose nothing if you do have 

 fire heat in your carnation houses to have 

 an inch or two of air on all night when- 

 ever practicable. Of course you do not 

 want to do this when you have to run 

 several pipes to keep the temperature up 

 to the proper level, but there are many 

 nights when you can run one pipe and 

 an inch of air and keep the temperature 

 about the right mark. That will keep 

 the air moving and prevent it from be- 

 coming foul, which should at all times 

 be avoided. A. F. J. Baur. 



PUT ON A GOOD FRONT. 



"Wash all you got and hang out all ^ou^ 

 wash." 



While the camera was on hand the 

 other day we thought it worth while to 

 take a shot at about 175 feet of the 

 gable ends of a few greenhouses, with 

 oflSce in the distance, the grass plot next 

 the street, with some flower beds, palms, 

 elm trees, etc. 



There are several diflferent kinds of 

 florists' establishments. If you are a 

 wholesale grower in the country, then 

 appeaiances don't count for much so far 



