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NOTEMBER 10, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1251 



View of the Establishment of Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, I1I« 



(Showing raure of eight carnation houaea built the past season.) 



inch, don't do it now or you will lose 

 the foliage, even with the greatest care. 

 Rather, feed them with liquid manure. 

 If you did not make up pans enough, 

 don 't do it now. Take care of the little 

 plants in 3-inch or 4-inch pots and put 

 them in the pans or azalea pots a day 

 or so before you expect to sell them. 

 There is no fraud in this, but if you 

 disturb the roots at this date ever so 

 slightly you will have no foliage at 

 Christmas, and without its setting of 

 tropical foliage the poinsettia is a mock- 

 ery. 



From now on, the greatest enemy of 

 this plant, the dirty mealy bug, will make 

 its appearance. You may have no other 

 plant infested, yet among the nectar cups 

 and true flowers of tne poinsettias this 

 pest will appear. If you have thoroughly 

 sprayed the crown of each plant they 

 may have been kept away. A spraying 

 of some nicotine solution occasionally 

 would also have kept them away, but 

 if tlie bracts are partly developed and 

 the bugs have once a good lodgment 

 among the flowers it will pay to take 

 each plant and, while one man holds the 

 plant, another with a sharp, fine stream 

 from the hose, thoroughly rid tlum of 

 their enemy. One good cleaning in this 

 way will usually suffice and to spray them 

 on the bench with any good results is al- 

 most impossible. 



The writer has often remarked that the 

 loss of foliage is more often due to star- 

 vation of root than a low temperature. 

 Wlieii in pots they often are starved and 

 exhausted; planted on a bench for cut- 

 ting, seldom. About 60 degrees at night 

 is high enough and on a bench with 

 active, root growth I have seen them keep 

 most vigorous with 55 degrees at night. 



Azaleas. 



The importations are uni)acked and 

 seem to have crossed the briny ocean 

 safely and arrived in fine condition. 

 Don 't delay a day in getting the few 

 varieties into heat that are wanted for 

 (Miristmas. Be sure that water enough 

 is given at the root at all times to keep 

 the- ball of roots moist. The fresh soil 

 you used around the ball of roots ;nid on 

 the surface may appear moist when the 

 roots are not. Look carefully for this 

 and with these e^arly force<l plants err 

 on tlie side of moisture. Spray twice 

 a day until the flowers are showing color. 

 Direct sunlight is not so essential, but 

 they should have light. You must be 

 guided by the earliness of the bloom as 

 to heat. Some individual plants of the 



same variety, even the precocious 

 Deutsche Perle, will need more heat than 

 others. About 60 degrees now will do 

 aiid increase another 5 degrees later on 

 if needed. 



The summeretl-over plants and the new- 

 ly imported plants that are not wanted 

 until Easter you can keep but a little 

 above freezing, if you have the means 

 to elo so. Remember the lateness of 

 Easter and how difficult it will be to 

 keep many of the finest varieties for 

 that late date. A house with a north- 

 ern aspect and a very low temperature is 

 the place for them to winter, particular- 

 ly this winter. 



Cyclamen. 



The critical time with cyclamen is past 

 and the earliest are sending up flowers. 

 From 50 to 55 degrees at night is the 

 temperature. Spray the foliage lightly 

 every fine morning. The lightest bench 

 you have will now suit them. I still 

 think it pays well to spreail three or four 

 inches of tobacco stems between the pots. 

 It saves much fumigating. By no means 

 should the foliage of the plants be 

 crowded. The bloom is the chief at- 

 traction of the cyclamen, yet the hand- 

 some foliage and well rounded form of 

 the plant counts for much. The common 

 green fly is very troublesome on the 

 cyclamen, but there is no excuse for it, 

 as tobacco in its many forms, Iwth as 

 an extract and the fumes, will keep them 

 down. 



Two years ago we had a number of 

 cyclamen on a shelf at the east end of 

 a rose range. There was no opportunity 

 of spreading stems among the pots, al- 

 though they had been plunged in stems 

 all summer. The roses were fumigatetl 

 with the tobacco dust burned in pie 

 dishes (no better plan, I think) and no 

 aphis appeared on the cyclamen. When 

 this combination of dust and the dish is 

 once tried it will, I think, abolish many 

 fussy methods now in vogue. 



Easter Lilies. 



The earliest forced Bermuda liarrisii 

 are just coming in, but if they come in 

 plentifully after the mums are gone, 

 that will do. Tobacco smoke or the 

 fumes from the dust will easily keep the 

 green fly away from the buds after they 

 are once above the foliage, but wiien the 

 cluster of small buds is hidden by the 

 leaves it is not easy to reach the aphis 

 and an occasional spraying with a weak 

 srlution of nicotine by a Scollay sprayer 

 into the center of each plant will do much 

 good. A bright house and 60 degrees 



at night will bring most of these early 

 lilies into flower during December and 

 up to New Year's, but they will stand 

 more forcing if necessary. 



Indications of these early lilies point to 

 a disappearance of disease, or at least 

 great improvement in the health of the 

 bulbs. Not any more than two per cent 

 have yet shown the "yellow jaundice," 

 or "spotted fever." William SCott. 



THE POEHLMANN PLACE. 



Of all the great greenhouse establish- 

 ments which have sprung up so 

 quickly in the vicinity of Chicago 

 none has been marked by a 

 greater celerity of growth than that 

 of the Poehlmann Bros. Co., at Morton 

 Grove. The way this place has grown , 

 has been one of the wonders of the day. 

 They now have about 600,000 feet of 

 glass, the greater part of which has been 

 built during the last four or five years 

 and is constructed on the most modern 

 lines and in the very best of producing 

 condition. In fact it is asserted that 

 none of the large places of this country 

 produce more heavily per square foot of 

 bench space and in none is closer atten- 

 tion given to producing stock of good 

 quality. 



The" accompanying illustration shows 

 seven houses 500 feet long built this year 

 and planted to carnations. These ore 

 high houses. Garland iron gutters be- 

 ing used, set on seven-foot cast iron 

 I)Osts. There are ventilators on both 

 sides of the ridge and sixteen-inch glass 

 is used. Each house contains four 

 benches each five feet wide and four 

 twenty-inch walks, the economy of space 

 being apparent. 



Carnations were planted in this range 

 before the completion of the houses, as is 

 shown in the illustration. They are now 

 in very fine shape. Beauties are largely 

 grown, also tea roses and all the season- 

 able items of stock, chrysanthemums for 

 fall and bulbous material for spring. It 

 is already stated that another large 

 range on similar lines to the last one is 

 contemplated for 1905. 



Birmingham, Ala.— A. Hauge has 

 worked up a large stock of two new vari- 

 eties of coleus, Wilhelm Pfitzer and Ann.i 

 Pfitzer. These are of last year's intro- 

 duction and Mr. Hauge considers them 

 among the best ever sent out. They are 

 dwarf and stand the sun and drought in 

 good shape. The past summer was one 

 of the dryest ever known in this part of 

 the south. 



