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other early varieties will do one foot 

 apart each way. Victoria and the 

 Peonia-flowered should be quite fifteen 

 inches in the row and the rows eighteen 

 inches apart and, unless land is scarce 

 with you, the branching varieties, such 

 as Semple's, deserve eighteen inches in 

 rows and the rows two feet apart. It 

 pays to skip every fifth row. You need 

 a path from which to pick your flowers 

 and carry out your armful of blossoms. 

 A good dusting of wood ashes harrowed 

 in is a great help to asters, but this is 

 only a help. A deep ploughing and 

 plenty of farm yard manure are the 

 principal things. 



Callas. 



I wonder if the old calla lily will 

 come again into favor. We have had 

 frequent calls for th^m this season. 

 You may be resting plants in pots now 

 or lifting beds to make room for other 

 crops. You will find many offsets, lit- 

 tle bulbs the size of a hazelnut or 

 smaller. ]f put into 3-inch pots and 

 kept growing they will make flowering 

 plants by next winter. Plunge outdoors 

 in June and keep well watered and later 

 shift into 5-inch pots. It is wonderful 

 what plants they make by fall. When 

 the calla was an important flower we 

 found these young plants quite as profit- 

 able as the older and stronger bulbs. 



There are a few seeds to sow just now, 

 say cineraria and Primula obconica, if 

 you want them for December and Janu- 

 ary. If you do not care for cineraria ex- 

 cept at Easter, then August or Septem- 

 ber is time enough. Obconica, too, can 

 also be sown in August. If you sow 

 now you can summer these plants in a 

 cold frame, where it is easy to give 

 abundance of fresh air and shade when 

 necessary. The primula plants out and 

 lifts easily. It is a standard, valuable 

 gieenhouse plant and no telling what 

 Bcme of our clever men will yet do with 

 its coloring. When sowing P. obconica 

 do not forget a little of Forbesii, the 

 pretty little baby primrose, useful and 

 beautiful. It is not for me to give any 

 plant a bad character, but for the com- 

 mercial florist the cineraria is a bulky, 

 buggy, soft, unprofitable plant, good to 

 make a conservatory gay, but giving poor 

 returns to the hard working fiorist. 



Beddins: Roses. 



Hybrid perpctuals might have been 

 planted two or three weeks ago, although 

 it is now by no means too late for our 

 latitude. Whether you have planted or 

 are still planting these roses, please do 

 not lead your customers to expect a great 

 show of blossoms this summer. It can- 

 Kot be done and have strong, vigorous 

 plants. If two or three eyes are left on 

 each growth they will make a strong 

 growth. A few may terminate with a 

 flower but if not you have the foundation 

 for a rose bush for years to come and 

 are assured of a glorious show the sec- 

 ond year. 



Department stores now sell thousands 

 of these dormant roses at ten for $1. 

 We are asked repeatedly if they are any 

 good. Yes, I am sorry to say they are 

 good. They may be cheap Dutch stock, 

 but if properly planted and pruned will 

 make good plants. Not one person in a 

 hundred who buys them knows enough to 

 cut them down, so if they start at all, 

 the first winter finishes them and the 



A Specimen Easter Offering of the Ernst 'Wienhoeber G>., Chicago. 



local florist is after all depended on for 

 good roses. 



The classes of roses that will give the 

 most satisfaction to our customers are 

 the tea and hybrid tea varieties. There 

 is not that grand burst of bloom we get 

 in June from a. bed of Ulrich Brunner 

 or Magna Charta, .but there are rose 

 buds all the time and when September or 

 October, with chilly nights are with us, 

 the Carnot or Maman Cochet bud is 

 opening its dewy petals to the morning 

 sun. 



The hybrid teas, and even the teas, are 

 hardy in many localities and with us can 

 be kept over winter with a good protec- 

 tion of straw and litter. You do not 

 want to save all the growth. If the 

 stems are sound and alive six inches from 

 the ground,' that is enough and if they 

 are killed dead you had pleasure enough 

 from them. 



Now, and foi^ a week or two, is the 

 time to plant this type of rose. Per- 

 haps they are from a cool house or frame 

 and would have felt a sharp frost. 

 There is no question but that all roses 

 like a heavy fresh loam. A worn-out 



soil, however much manured, will not do. 

 Have the bed within reach of the hose. 

 The florist for his own use should plant 

 a big bed of Maman Cochet, both white 

 and pink, and Pres. Carnot. For his cus- 

 tomers he should plant these fine varie- 

 ties mentioned and Admiral Schley, 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Perle des 

 Jar dins and The Burbank. Almost any 

 of the hybrid teas are satisfactory in 

 the summer and the now old-fashioned 

 true teas, Safrano, Isabella Sprunt and 

 Duchess de Brabant we have cut by the 

 thousands in August, September ,and 

 October. William Scott. 



Hancock, Mich. — A. M. York will add 

 twenty-eight feet to his greenhouse at 

 Ripley and build another house 14x100. 



Tulsa, I. T.— J. A. Yeager & Son 

 have bought land for the erection of sev- 

 eral greenhouses for cut flowers and 

 vegetables. 



Malta, C— W. C. Scovell says that 

 his business for March and April was 

 double any previous year. Easter was 

 especially good. 



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