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452 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



July 20. 1906. 



water pass freely away. Do not plant 

 too early, or your poinsettias will grow 

 to a great height. Choose a bench that 

 gets the full sun and where there is 

 Ave or six feet of head room. 



Take young plants from 2 V^ -inch or 

 3-inch pots and plant about the middle 

 of August in five inches of well firmed 

 soil, about ten to twelve inches apart 

 each way. They will need some support 

 as they grow. Syringe to keep down 

 mealy bug, which is often troublesome 

 in the true flower, and fumigate fre- 

 quently. Planted out, the poinsettia 

 has much more root room than in pots 



and will not lose its foliage. With the 

 roots not starved they will do with a 

 lower temperature, but 55 degrees at 

 night is the lowest they should be al- 

 lowed to get. W. S. 



INCARVILLEA OLGAE. 



The plant figured in the last issue of 

 the Beview as Incarvillea Olgse is in- 

 correctly labeled at the greenhouses at 

 Garfield park, Chicago, where it came 

 to Head-gardener John Sell as a gift 

 from a gardener friend. W. N. Craig 

 says it is instead undoubtedly some va- 

 riety of acanthus. 



the benches are deep no barm will result 

 in putting it near the bottom. 



Plants in the field, if to be housed 

 early, should be topped very little if 

 at all at this time. Time is needed for 

 the shoots to mature somewhat before 

 being lifted. Geo. S. Osborn. 



TWO NEW ONES. 



CARNATION NOTES.-EAST. 



Filling the Benches. 



On account of the hard labor, coming, 

 as it does, at the hottest period of the 

 jear, the job of filling the carnation 

 benches with fresh soil is quite often 

 left to indifferent help, or perhaps to 

 extra hands who are taken on to facili- 

 tate the work. It is admitted to be a 

 tedious operation and it is quite proper 

 to use all means to prevent the job be- 

 ing long drawn out but there should be 

 some one familiar with the work to 

 oversee and attend to small details. 



Some may hold the opinion that soil 

 can be dumped on a bench haphazard 

 and leveled "any old way" or time. So 

 it can, but it makes harder work to do 

 a satisfactory job than if raked around 

 and leveled as it comes in, and even 

 then, while it apparently looks all right, 

 after the bench is planted and has re- 

 ceived a month or so watering, hollow 

 places develop, caused by the soil not 

 being of the same density throughout. 



It is advisable, too, that benches be 

 filled a week or two in advance. This 

 makes it possible to remedy any defects 

 that may appear and also allows a crop 

 of weeds to be gotten rid of. It is pre- 

 ferable to let the weeds get two or 

 three inches high before removing them, 

 thus improving the mechanical condition 

 of the soil. As soon as a bench is 

 leveled give a fair watering to assist 

 in the germination of weed seeds. 



Every grower must arrange his help 

 and make plans according to location of 

 benches, walks, etc., but should have a 

 system and personally see that it is car- 

 ried out. If wheelbarrows are used pro- 

 vide runs of plank and avoid in every 

 way possible traveling over the soil, 

 either by walking or wheeling. Watch 

 the corners and edges, that there be no 

 skimping of material in these places. 



Opinions differ on the question of us- 

 ing manure in the bottom of the bench, 

 but as we see equally good stock grown 

 under both methods and, alas, equally 

 poor, it is evident that no arbitrary rule 

 can be made. More depends on the man 

 than the method and whether or not top 

 dressing and feeding are to be prac- 

 ticed. 



From experience the writer favors the 

 use of manure if a good quality can be 



obtained. The best bench of Mrs. 

 Bradt ever grown on our place had two 

 inches of half rotted horse manure un- 

 der six inches of rather heavy loam, a 

 liberal sprinkling of bone meal being 

 put over the manure. The fact of its 

 being a solid bench underlaid with brok- 

 en brick may have been a factor but it 

 would seem, from the location of the 

 roots when the plants were pulled out, 

 that they found what they wanted at 

 the right time. " 



Remember the plants when first set 

 out are incapable of using much in the 

 way of food, so I would advise leaving 

 out bone meal until later; however, if 



Among the new carnations to be intro- 

 duced next year will be Glendale and 

 Helen Goddard, both pictured in this 

 issue. Glendale is a fine variegated sort 

 raised by W. J. & M. S. Vesey and to 

 be distributed jointly with the Chicago 

 Carnation Co. It is a robust grower 

 and seems a particularly fine summer 

 sort, for the pictures reproduced were 

 taken only a few days ago. 



Helen Goddard is the result of a cross 

 between Lawson and Crane. The raiser 

 is 8. J. Goddard, Framingham, Mass. The 

 habit of the plant is about intermediate 

 between the two parents. The flowers 

 are of a rosy pink color somewhat light- 

 er than Lawson and without any of the 

 objectionable coloring peculiar to that 

 variety. The stems are long and strong 

 and burst calyxes are unknown. Helen 

 Goddard has won an increasing number 

 of admirers each time it has been shown 

 in Boston. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The American Carnation Society has 

 issued the preliminary premium list for 

 the exhibition to be held at Boston 

 January 24 and 25, 1906. The general 

 classes are identical with those of recent 

 years, calling for 100, fifty and twenty- 

 five blooms in the nine color divisions. 



Caraation Helen GodcUu-d. 



