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TheWcckly Florists' RevieW: 



OCTOBBR 6, 1904. 



y^etable Forcing. 



PARSLEY. 



"Where this very useful vegetable is 

 made a specialty the plants vrill no doubt 

 be well established in the benches, so that 

 a supply can be had as soon as the out- 

 door crop is cut off by frost. Those 

 "who only grow parsley as a catch crop, 

 or for filling in odd corners, may be 

 depending on lifting plants from out- 

 doors to fill up with and I would advise 

 any such to get lue plants in before hard 

 freezing. Though they will stand quite 

 a little frost, especially if protection is 

 provided, still it is a check to the growth, 

 and satisfactory results are by no means 

 certain after a severe check. 



Parsley likes a fairly rich soil when 

 ^rown under natural conditions, but un- 

 der artificial conditions, such as winter 

 forcing, a little caution should be exer- 

 cised in this respect. Especially should 

 the use of too fresh manure be guarded 

 against, as it tends to make the soil 

 heavy and retentive and the plants will 

 not take so freely to it as they will to 

 a lighfer soil. The soil should be such 

 as to encourage the making of roots 

 gather than the hastening of growth. 

 When the plants have got a good hold 

 and the bench is well filled with roots, 

 liquid manure can be applied, or a tc^- 

 dressing of well-enriched soil may be 

 given when it is seen that the plants 

 require it. 



Though parsley is one of the easiest 

 grown crops I know of, and with any- 

 thing like fair treatment can be depended 

 on to give fair returns, still a little spe- 

 cial care and frequent stirring of the 

 aoil will amply repay the extra labor by 

 materially increasing the yield. "Water- 

 ing should be carefully attended to and 

 to have the plants clean and healthy it 

 is very important that all decaying and 

 yellow leaves should be kept picked oflf. 

 Yellow leaves are only breeding places 

 for insects and their presence imparts 

 an untidy look. 



The only insect pest that troubles 

 parsley as a rule is greenfly. We have 

 seen it attacked by red spider, but only 

 when grown under unfavorable condi- 

 tions or when the house is kept too dry 

 and warm. The fly can be kept in check 

 by tobacco, either by having the stems 

 laid through the house or by occasional 

 smokings. But smoke is apt to flavor 

 the product somewhat for a day or two 

 after it has been applied, so that care 

 should be taken when smoking is to be 

 done to have enough parsley pulled and 

 set away in water in a cool cellar to 

 last for a day or two until the smell of 

 the smoke has worn off. 



In old houses, or where the floor of 

 the house forms the bed, snails are some- 

 times troublesome. These can be kept 

 down by having slices of turnips or po- 

 tatoes laid around to acfr as traps. The 

 under side of the traps should be hol- 

 lowed out so that when they get under 

 they will stay, and by looking over the 

 traps every morning and destroying those 

 caught they may soon be thinned out. 



W. S. Croydon. 



MriiWAUKEE, Wis. — Gene Oestreicher 

 has returned to his home and proposes to 

 start in business. He has been at Mt. 

 Clemens, Mich., for some time, in the 

 employ of James Taylor. 



DENVER. 



After a siege of dullness seldom ex- 

 perienced in Colorado we are now passing 

 into a period of activity and the store 

 man is carrying a more pleasant coun- 

 tenance and is more easily approached on 

 topics relating to his business. 



Asters, gladioli and dahlias, owing to 

 frequent rains, have been exceptionally 

 fine this year. The latter are still in 

 their prime and many of them are used 

 extensively. Mrs. "Winters, a good semi- 

 cactus white is one of the best and in 

 floral work does not, like most dahlias, 

 look stiff and formal. The fall aster, 

 the Michaelmas daisy, and Clematis pan- 

 iculata are now asserting their rights to 

 recognition. Both are pretty and grace- 

 ful and have proven their value in recent 

 decorations executed here. In competi- 

 tive table decorations at the state fair 

 this fall we saw this character of daisy 

 used in conjunction with pink roses and 

 adiantum and the effect was very showy 

 and agreeable. At the same place there 

 was a mantel decoration in which the 

 clematis took a prominent part, in con- 

 nection with Beauties and palms. Per- 

 haps there is not anything at this time 

 of the year that is as economical and 

 effective as the clematis. Its fine cut 

 glossy foliage with a profusion of dainty 

 white flowers makes it well adapted for 

 party or wedding decorations. For a 

 bridal canopy it is superb. 



Chrysanthemums are now showing 

 themselves and are pushing many of the 

 outdoor flowers to the rear. Many dread 

 their coming but all agree that they fill 

 up a gap at this time that no other flower 

 can do. The market here looks as if it 

 might be overstocked this fall, for while 

 the majority of the crop will be up to 

 its usual good quality, indications point 

 to a lot of inferior stock, which has an 

 influence on prices where the market 

 for good flowers is limited. The va- 

 rieties now on the market are Pacific, 

 lolanthe and Bergmann, pink; Monrovia 

 and Modesto, yellow; Lady Fitzwygram 

 and Polly Bose, white. 



Denver and Colorado Springs florists 

 were well represented at the state fair 

 held at Pueble last week. They were 

 very successful in their various entries. 

 Prizes to the amount of $50 were award- 

 ed for table and mantel decorations and 

 proportionate amounts in baskets, bou- 

 quets and other features. The success- 

 ful competitors were: For mantel, first, 

 Daniels & Fisher, of Denver; second, 

 Colorado Springs Floral Co.; tables, first, 

 Colorado Springs Floral Co., with a neat- 

 ly arranged table of dendrobiums and 

 adiantum; second, Daniels & Fisher, of 

 Denver, using Chatenay roses, Shasta 

 daisies and adiantum; third, Geo. 

 Fleischer, of Pueblo, with centre-piece of 

 Maids. Daniels & Fisher took first in 

 basket and Geo. Fleischer second. Wm. 

 Clark, of Colorado Springs, took first 

 for bridal bouquet, with lilies of the val- 

 ley, and second went to Fleischer 

 for bouquet of Brides. "Wm. R. 

 Mauff, of Denver, took first in Beauties, 

 Queen of Edgely and second on Liberty 

 and Bride. Daniels & Fisher were, first 

 on Bride, Liberty and Maid and Grimes 

 & Son, of Denver, took five firsts in five 

 entries in carnations, principal among 

 them being Enchantress, Lawson and 

 Harlowarden. 



"Wm. Clark, of Colorado Springs, took 

 most of the prizes in plants. The com- 

 petition in the plant line was very weak. 

 Several hundred dollars are appropriated 

 annually from the funds of the state 



board of horticulture to encourage and 

 sustain an interest in floriculture at the 

 state fair, but although the exhibitors 

 were more in number than last year, the^ 

 floral hall was not as well filled as here- 

 tofore, principally because some of the 

 larger firms of Denver failed to put in 

 an appearance. Geh;a.t Divide. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Res:istration. 



H, Weber & Sons, Oakland, Md., sub- 

 mit for registration. Carnation My Mary- 

 land, previously known as Seedling No. 

 119, '01; parentage, Norway x Mrs. 

 Thos. "W. Lawson; flowers white; three 

 and a half to four inches in diameter; 

 stems strong, twelve to twenty-four inches 

 long during season; constitution and 

 general good habits much superior to 

 either parent. 



Wm. J. Stewabt, Secy. 



NIIKSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTMM OT NURSERYMEN. 



Pres., K. W. Eirkpatrlck, McKlnney, Tex.; 

 V^lce-PreB., C. L. WatrouB, Des Moines; Sec'y, 

 neo. C. Sealer, Rochester; Treas., C. L. Tales. 

 Rochester. The 29th annual convention will b« 

 held at West Baden, Ind., June, 1«)6. 



Suckers from the budded roses must 

 be kept off, else the stock will outgrow 

 the bud and failure result. 



Large, new plantings of shrubbery are 

 to be made at Washington park, Chi- 

 cago, during the next month. 



L. R. CxniTis, secretary, is expending 

 $40,000 in construction work on Ever- 

 green cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla. 



At Berkeley, Cal., R. E. Johnson is 

 laying out a tract of 124 acres as a new 

 cemetery. He was the engineer who laid 

 out 'Cypress Lawn at San Francisco. 



Fob a defensive hedge the osage orange 

 is largely used in the south, but it is not 

 reliably, hardy north of central Illinois, 

 where the honey locust begins to take its 

 place. 



The Spencer Seedless Apple Co., of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., has been incorporated 

 with $50,000 capital stock by G. L. 

 Knight, W. P. Smith and C. P. Fell, to 

 do a general nursery business. 



The George M. Bacon Pecan Co., De 

 Witt, Va., distributed a neat reprint 

 from a pamphlet issued by city of Al- 

 bany, Ga., in which the industry of pe- 

 can orcharding is presented in a most 

 favorable light. 



It is stated that largely through the 

 efforts of Peter Bisset the United States 

 Department of Agriculture has been iD» 

 duced to take steps to establish a test 

 collection of peonies, co-operating with 

 the S. A. F. peony committee. 



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