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August 3, 1903, 



TheWeekly Florists' Review. 



547 



Harrisii Lilies. 



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The Bermuda lilies are arriving and 

 there should be no delay in getting them 

 j)otted. If 5 to 7-inch bulbs put them 

 into 5-inch pots at once. If they are 7 

 to 9-inch bulbs they can go into 4-inch 

 l>ots and later be shifted into 6-inch, but 

 if you have plenty of room this is un- 

 necessary labor and tliey can at once go 

 into the pots they are to flower in. We 

 like to stand them on ashes in a cold 

 frame, with their pots touching, and 

 after one good watering cover the whole 

 surface with one inch of weU rotted 

 manure. This will keep them from dry- 

 ing out continuously and when the leaves 

 appear above the mulch they will be 

 sufficiently rooted to bring into the 

 i louses. It is well to have them in a 

 frame. In case of frequent heavy rains 

 tlicy can be protected. 



It is well to have a good, big batch of 

 these lilies, for there are few more prof- 

 itable crops. The 5 to 7-inch bulbs will 

 cost you, perhaps, 4 cents and if they 

 only average three buds at wholesale they 

 should return you 30 to 35 cents. Think 

 what little room they take up. 



Lilies like a nice, sandy loam with a 

 fifth of manure, but not fresh manure. 

 Old hotbed compost suits them well. 

 That you could use to one-third the bulk 

 of the fresh loam. If you were making 

 a lily bed for the flower garden you 

 would put the bulb six inches under 

 ground, and so you would a hyacinth, 

 but that does not work in forcing; they 

 do best when the top of the bulb is just 

 even with the surface of the soil in the 

 pot. 



Begonia Lorraine. 



From now on the young plants of Be- 

 gonia Gloire de Lorraine will be making 

 a free growth and the stronger young 

 plants can be shifted into 4-inch pots. 

 Manage to shade these during the hot- 

 test hours with a lattice shade that can 

 be removed after 4 p. m. and not used 

 at all during dull, cloudy days. Keep 

 the house humid by wetting down the 

 paths and beneath the benches, ^ut do 

 not wet the foliage of the begonias. 



Freesias. 



Freesia refracta alba is with us again. 

 Grand bulbs of this sweet flower are 

 now sold very cheaply. It is well to 

 have some from fall until late spring. 

 The best freesias I have ever seen were 

 planted on a bench in rows about four 

 inches apart and two inches between the 

 bulbs. " This may not be convenient and 

 they can be grown very nicely in flats 

 four inches deep, the flats stood in cold 

 frames until the growth is well devel- 

 oped. Unless you are a grower for the 

 wholesale market you do not want 9- 

 great lot started at once, but say 500 or 

 so started every two weeks. The quan- 

 tity will all depend upon your market 

 for them. 



Some begiuners make the mistake of 

 treating the freesia as they would a 

 'ulip or narcissus. It is not a bulb but a 

 lorm and only wants pressing into the 



soil just out of sight and no more cov- 

 ering is wanted and it is surprising how 

 many can be grown in a small space. 

 Last winter we noticed some splendidly 

 flowered 6-inch pots of freesias. There 

 were fifteen corms to a pot. 



Asparagus Sprengeri. 



Now that you have your roses planted, 

 is there no place beneath the gutters 

 or at the sides or ends of the houses 

 where you can stand a lot of deep boxes 

 planted with the useful Asparagus 

 Sprengeri? This is such a tremendous 

 feeder that it is soon exhausted in an 

 ordinary bench and after one good pick- 

 ing you do not get much more. We 

 utilize old glass boxes for the purpose, 



will give you a cutting for two yeare^ 

 but if you want best results you cannot 

 overdo it the second year with liquid 

 manure. 



William Scott. 



RIVERTON NOTES. 



Modern journalism demands wealth of 

 circumstantial detail. We are told in 

 a full column account of all that the 

 Hon. Elihu Root said and declined to 

 say when he was asked about his letter 

 to Mayor Weaver, of all that he did, 

 and probably we would have been told of 

 all that his family did, only unluckily 

 they were not in Washington and so 

 could not be reached. 



The standard of the horticultural press 

 is in its way quite as high as that of the 

 dailies. Its readers want to know what 

 is doing and they want to know it 

 promptly. So, as the convention is to 

 meet in Washington in a few weeks and 

 many delegates will, it is hoped, spend a 

 few days there in passing, the Review 

 instructed its representative to run down 

 to Dreer's and look about. 



That glorious July afternoon the 



J. D. Eisele, Vice-President H. A. Dreer Gj. 



making them two feet long, six inches 

 wide and eighteen inches deep, filling 

 the boxes firmly with heavy loam, and 

 with a third of rather fresh manure and 

 putting three asparagus plants in each 

 box. The deep soil suits them'gnd so 

 does the rose house temperature. We 

 are never overdone with nice sprays. It 

 goes well with any flower. These boxes 



Dreer place smiled its ever-cordial wel- 

 come. It was at its best, clean, neat, 

 orderly, not a trace of the heavy spring 

 rush left. Planting, cultivating, shift- 

 ing, cleaning, spreading, all complete 

 right up to time. This was evident every- 

 where, in the houses, benches and fields. 

 Anyone who has tried, even on a small 

 place, to keep up with the work during 



