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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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New Store of Julius Baer at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Plunge the Pots. 



It is money saved, especially with the 

 geraniums, if about May 1 you can 

 plunge the pots on the bench in some 

 light, easily handled material. If it is 

 only halfway up the pot it is an im- 

 mense help. Ashes or the compost of 

 last year's hotbed are good but best 

 of all is refuse hops which are well de- 

 cayed. Only one half the watering is 

 then necessary and that is a great sav- 

 ing, and the sun can pour down on them 

 to the plants' delight without parching 

 the roots. This will apply also to can- 

 nas, with their hungry roots crowded in 

 a 4-inch pot, or any other of our fast 

 growing bedding plants. Notice how the 

 plants in the hotbeds grow and thrive 

 in the blazing sun, largely because the 

 pots are plunged. Tropical plants like 

 coleus just stand still, or worse, if you 

 drop firing before settled warm weather. 



The show pelargoniums, once so large- 

 ly grown, will soon be opening their buds 

 and are rather benefited by a very light 

 shade, but the brightest sun and even 

 neglect of water could not harm them so 

 much as one cold, rainy night without 

 fire heat and a little ventilation. The 

 petals of the flowers will drop, the flower 

 is gone and so is the plant, and months 

 of work are ruined in a few hours. So 

 Concluding this subject, do not let the 

 fires go out and avoid shading wherever 

 you can. 



Poinsettias. 



It will soon be time to start old 

 plants of poinsettias for Christmas. 

 Strong canes that have a foot of well 

 ripened wood are what you want. Shake 



off the old soil and repot in a 4-inch poi. 

 Cut off the green, unripe wood and start 

 in a warm house, with a daily spraying. 

 You will soon get cuttings. There are 

 months ahead of us to propagate these 

 showy plants for pans, even to the end 

 of August, yet it is time soon to start 

 the old plants going. 



William Scott. 



A aNCINNATI STORE. 



There is no city in the country where 

 tlie leading retail florists -ire located so 

 closely together as in Cincinnati. The 

 result has been that each onn has niade 

 special efforts to keep his sturo np-to- 

 «late in every feature ami there is no 

 city in whieli a higher or lev of retail 

 establishments is to be found. Among 

 the most progressive ef the crrtt't is 

 Julius Baer, who has recently remove! 

 into a new double store at 13S-4() ICast 

 Fourth street, only a lew <loors fiom his 

 former location, ilere he has one of the 

 most up-to-date establishments in the 

 country, as will be seen from the accom- 

 panying illustration, which is reproduced 

 from a photograph. It may also be 

 stated that Mr. Baer already feels a con- 

 siderable increase in his business, which 

 goes to show that the best buyers ap- 

 preciate the facilities which only a lib- 

 eral expenditure of money can provide in 

 the way of an attractive flower store. 



FREESIAS. 



We have some freesias planted in our 



carnation bench and as they are through 



blooming shall we dig them now or wait 



I until we throw out the carnation plantsl 



T pullccl up one and found a few off-sets, 

 or bulbs. What shall 1 do with tbemf 

 We thing of planting quite a large bench 

 of them this season and would like to 

 know if we could plant them one inch 

 apart each way. Would that be too close 

 for them to do well? We have a house 

 running north and south. The sides are 

 two feet above the bed, that is the glass 

 on the roof is two feet from the bed, 

 with no glass on the sides. Will they do 

 well if planted there? The bed is solid. 

 Is it light enough for them? When shall 

 we plant them so as to have them bloom 

 for Christmas? K. & 8. 



The bulbs of freesias are not produced 

 for forcing in the eastern states, ('ali- 

 fornia grows immense quantities, but it 

 is said they are not as pure in color as 

 those grown in Europe, which are large- 

 ly imported, mostly from the Channel Is- 

 lands, Jersey and Guernsey. You can 

 leave your bulbs among the carnations 

 until you throw them out, but do not ex- 

 pect them to produce as fine flowers as 

 they did last winter. Keep the bulbs in 

 perfectly dry sand until you start them 

 again. These bulbs are now offered us 

 so cheaply and of such splendid quality 

 that it will not pay to bother with the 

 off-sets or with tlie old bulbs with a 

 view to future forcing. 



For cutting at Christmas plant in 

 early August. Your house is all right 

 and will grow freesias. One inch apart 

 is too close. If planted in the bed, then 

 three inches between rows and one inch 

 between bulbs will be about right and if 

 you use flats of convenient size and four 

 inches deep they will do as well as in 



