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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



April 20, 1905. 



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patch, rub the fungous threads off of the 

 apparently healthy ones and replant in 

 fresh sand. Throw away every damping 

 oflF cutting. Scorched sand at a temper- 

 ature of 150 degrees scattered over the 

 fungous, especially in seed pans, has a 

 somewhat good effect. The mixing of 

 powdered charcoal and sulphur in the 

 sand is widely recommended, but my own 

 experience is not in favor of either of 

 them. Careful and intelligent attention 

 to cultural details is the best preventive. 



W. F. 



NEPHROLEPIS BARROWSH. 



This new, distinct and handsome neph- 



rolepis is a sport from N. Piersoni, dis- 

 covered in February, 1904. The habit 

 is dwarf and very compact. It makes 

 more fronds than N. Piersoni, only half 

 the length of those of that variety and 

 about double the width. The side pinnae 

 are set close together and overlap each 

 other. The small side pinnae are finely cut. 

 So far the plants have shown no signs 

 of reversion as in N. Piersoni. 



A group of this variety was shown at 

 the Boston spring show on March 23 

 and was much admired, receiving a certi- 

 ficate of merit. It promises to be & very 

 useful commercial variety. 



W. N. Craig. 



MISCELLANEOUS • 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Left-Over Ramblers. 



Before you will take the time to read 

 these notes a great change will have 

 <;ome over your houses; instead of 

 «very square , foot being crowded there 

 will be plenty of room to spread out. 

 Just a word about some plants that may 

 not have sold. Any Rambler roses that 

 you may have left may be sending up 

 several strong growths from the base of 

 the plant. These will make fine canes 

 for another year and the wood that flow- 

 ered this spring can be cut clean away. 

 A shift now or a little later will be nec- 

 essary. Keep them under glass until 

 they have made fine canes, as you do 

 those you started from dormant plants 

 this spring. 



Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Hybrid perpetuals which are offered 

 at Easter are almost all plants that were 

 lifted last November, potted and started 

 to force in January or later and this 

 method, if well done, is about all that is 

 needed. But this is not how a large, 

 ■well flowered plant is produced, because 

 you could not get these unestablished 

 roots to support so much growth and 

 bloom. So if you have left any of these 

 Toses that made four or five nice growths 



but little bloom, take care of them, en- 

 courage them with genial heat, spraying 

 and liquid manure to make their growth 

 stout. Plunge them outdoors in June 

 and with a few months' rest in fall and 

 winter these plants, if cut down to four 

 or five eyes, will make fine plants for 

 another year's forcing and will flower to 

 a certainty better by far than the un- 

 established plants lifted in the fall. 



Azaleas. 



Azaleas given care during summer 

 make our finest plants for next year 

 and flower more profusely than the new- 

 ly imported plants. If they are making 

 plenty of young growths, then only pick 

 off the withered flowers and keep them 

 in a temperature of 55 degrees, with 

 plenty of spraying, and they will make 

 a growth that will give you the flowers 

 next spring. 



If any azaleas come to your hands 

 that have been badly treated and are 

 losing their foliage, then cut them back 

 hard, even to old, hard wood. In a warm 

 house and with plenty of spraying they 

 will break into growth and make fine 

 plants. 



Other Easter Plants. 



Ehododendrons are of little use to us 



if left unsold. Where climate and soil 

 suit them you can plant them out, but 

 don't attempt to keep them in pots for 

 another year's forcing. You cannot do 

 it and plants in bud can be imported, 

 better in every respect. 



Acacias, aftei^the flower is gone, can 

 be cut back aMlkt halfway on last sum- 

 mer's growth and given the same treat- 

 ment as the azaleas. They will break 

 into growth and produce the shoots foi 

 next year's flowers. 



We should never bother about saving 

 our old tulip, hyacinth and narcissus 

 bulbs. In the forcing and ruthless cut- 

 ting we have about murdered them and 

 occupying valuable ground with them is 

 pure waste of time. 



Keep the Fires Going;. 



The late date of Easter has kept many 

 of our important summer bedding plants 

 in a crowded condition and the ample 

 space now afforded will be most welcome. 

 The ever popular zonal geraniums should 

 receive first attention. They should be 

 in 3% -inch or, better still, 4-inch pots 

 and growing fast and soon will be send- 

 ing up trusses of bloom. This brings 

 lis to consider what condition our houses 

 should be in just now. 



Two inches of snow fell within twen- 

 ty-four hours April 17 but we hope for a 

 speedy change and within a week or two 

 we may have bright, warm weather and 

 the fires are let out. Then follows, per- 

 haps, in early May a cool, rainy spell 

 and there is a reluctance to fire up again 

 because "this can't last long." To 

 add to the trouble, perhaps your glass 

 is shaded. This is a combination most 

 disastrous to nearly all our soft-wooded 

 plants. Make up your mind that firing 

 cannot be dispensed with until nearly 

 June. Of course, I cannot help having 

 our climate, western New York, in mind 

 iu writing these hints, but they will, I 

 think, apply to most of our northern 

 states. You do not make geraniums 

 soft by a little fire heat. Quite the 

 reverse, for with fire heat you can give 

 abundance of ventilation day and night. 

 Avoid shading of any kind as long as 

 you possibly can. No amount of sun 

 will injure the foliage of geraniums, 

 cannas, caladiums, coleus, achyranthes or 

 any of the common bedding plants. It 

 is the neglect of watering. The killing 

 dryness at the roots is what causes yel- 

 low leaves and a stunted growth. 



Nephrolepis Barrowsii Shown at Boston Spring Show by H. H. Barrows & Son, Whitman, Mass. 



