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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



Mahch 2, 1905. 



CARNATION NOTES. -WEST. 



Seasonable Care. 



The sun is gaining a good deal of 

 strength and on very bright day8 your 

 carnation houses will need a good deal 

 of attention. To keep the temperature 

 down you will be obliged to open the 

 ventilators rather wide and this in re- 

 turn will cause more or less draught in 

 the houses. Have just as little of this 

 as possible, as it will cause the plants 

 to llag, which is not good for them. 



During such days the plants should 

 not be dry at the roots, but do not soak 

 them to keep them from wilting; at 

 the root is not where the water is need- 

 ed to stop wilting. Spray them lightly 

 overhead and wet down the walks to 

 moisten the atmosphere. Do this before 

 noon, so the plants can dry off before 

 night. In opening the ventilators don't 

 let the temperature run awity up before 

 you raise them, but start early and put 

 on just a crack of air and every hour 

 in the day raise or lower the ventilators 

 as may be needed. The same way in 

 the evening, don't close them down 

 when the thermometer stands at 65 de- 

 grees, but let it go down to 55 degrees 

 by five o'clock and have your steam 

 ready to turn into the houses when they 

 reach the proper temperature. 



Your cuttings in the propagating 

 bench will also need extra care. Shade 

 them closely and when the ventilators 

 are raised make sure no draughts of air 

 can strike them. A badly wilted car- 

 nation cutting might as well be thrown 

 out and a strong draught of air will 

 wilt them as much as the sun will. 

 Like the plants, they will need an extra 

 spraying or two. and the walks and 

 boards should be dampened to keep the 

 atmosphere moist. 



In my notes on varieties shown at 

 Chicago January 25 and 26 I mentioned 

 the ill luck J. E. Haines had with his 

 fine scarlet carnation. I was very sorry 

 to see it, as I know he has a fine va- 

 riety. Last Friday I received from him 

 a box containing a dozen fine blooms 

 the smallest of which was over three 

 inches. They carried well and today 

 (Sunday) they are as fine a dozen car- 

 nations as one could well imagine. One 

 would hardly suppose they had been 

 shipped about 700 miles. The color, 

 form, calyx and stem' are all good and 

 I predict that if this variety is at all 

 prolific it will be widely grown. 1 

 want to congratulate Mr. Haines on his 

 good fortune in possessing such a grand 

 variety. A. F. J. Baur. 



BUFFALO CARNATION SHOW. 



Our exhibition of carnations on Feb- 

 .ruary 22 was a most gratifying success, 

 and we appreciate sincerely the trouble 

 and expense that those firms went to in 

 sending us samples of their choice 

 products. We are well aware that these 

 £rms have been kept busy sending flow- 



ers to the many club shows. Most 

 surely the larger cities have had larger 

 exhibits, but for our town we are quite 

 proud of the result. A most cordial 

 vote of thanks was "resoluted" to all 

 those contributing an exhibit, and they 

 will be thanked individually. We were 

 blessed with mild weather and no rail- 

 road blockade interfered with arrivals 

 except in ope instance, which was great- 

 ly regretted, viz., a very fine lot of 

 White Lawson and Lady Bountiful ar- 

 rived after the meeting had dispersed, 

 but many saw them, and they were fine. 

 With only one exception the entire lot 

 of flowers arrived in most perfect con- 

 dition. The attendance was good. Coun- 

 try members were in stronj? evidence, 

 and they are the backbone of our club. 

 Henry J. Wise, of East Aurora; Charles 

 T. Guenther, of Hamburg, and W. S. 

 were chosen a committee to score the 

 varieties coming out this spring, and 

 some that will make their debut in 

 1906. 

 A business meeting of the dub was 



held, at which the nomination of offi- 

 cers to be elected in March was the im- 

 portant item. Louis Ludwig Neubeck 

 was nominated for president; for vice- 

 president, C. T. Guenther; for record- 

 ing secretary, Daniel B. Long and W. J. 

 Peake; for financial secretary, Emile 

 Brucker, and for treasurer, the veteran 

 Charles H. Keitsch. A. J. Guttman, of 

 Guttman & Weber, came all the way 

 from New York city with his scarlet. 

 Victory, and gave us a little talk, and 

 so did Mr. Beerhorst, of Sassenheim, 

 Holland. Mr. Beerhorst is no novice at 

 talking before a little crowd, and said, 

 although he admired greatly the beau- 

 tiful and fragrant carnation, he hoped 

 there would be always a place left for 

 the handsome tulip. George Urban was 

 present and had to introduce his usual 

 jokes, which strike the auditory nerves 

 with more propriety than they would 

 in cold type. The vase of thirty-five 

 blooms containing thirty-five varieties, 

 shown bj- Mr. Urban 's gardener, Theo- 

 dore Venenan, was most interesting, as 

 it embraced the latest varieties as well ' 

 as some of those grown thirty years 

 ago, and was an excellent illustration 

 of the evolution of the divine flower. It 

 was the pickaninnv and Hottentot, or 

 something lower, of Africa, side by side 

 with Chauncey M. Depew or Mr. Urban 

 himself. 



Beside the new varieties, local grow- 



Be£onla Suaveolens. 



