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AvauST 24. 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



775 



DO NOT WASTE 



YOUR TIME 



ON BOSTONS 



Grow Nephrolepis Scottii 



You will tell the plants quicker and at much better prices. They will take up less room aod cost you only a little more money ; 

 at the followios prices, which are 50 per cent lower than ever before: Strong plants from 2X-inch pots, 75c per dot.; $6.00 per 100; $50.00 



per 1000. jQHM WELSH YOUNG. Up»«l Sf tlon. Ponna. R. R.. GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



cessful crop, so see that the compost is 

 moist before the bed is made up. 



A good plan to find out if the manure 

 is all right is to take up a handful, 

 squeezing it tightly and place it on a 

 level surface. If it remains intact and 

 does not wet your hand you can safely 

 say that it is all right. As to making 

 up the beds, put the manure in layers 

 three or four inches thick and beat down 

 each layer with a mallet or brick as hard 

 as it is possible to make it until the bed 

 is ten to twelve inches thick. After 

 making the beds should the heat become 

 too strong make holes with a stick all 

 over the surface of the bed to moderate 

 the fermentation. The beds are to be 

 spawned when the heat gets down to 90 

 degrees, and still has a tendency to drop, 

 for brick spawn, or 80 degrees for French 

 or loose spawn. 



A few words as to good spawn won't 

 go amiss. One of the chief reasons why 

 there are so many failures in this busi- 

 ness is that there is a large amount of 

 lifeless spawn offere,d /or sale. See that 

 you get good spawn and you will get 

 good mushrooms. Break the bricks in 

 pieces about the size of turkey eggs and 

 insert all over the bed about three inches 

 deep and six to eight inches apart. Fill 

 up all the holes and beat down with a 

 brick again to make sure the bed is solid. 

 Syringe the surface of the beds every 

 day to keep the moisture from escaping 

 from the bed. I don't mean to saturate 

 the bed, only enough to moisten the top 

 of the surface. When the heat drops to 

 75 degrees in the beds cover the bed 

 with two inches moist loam and beat 

 down firmly with a spade. Keep the 

 temperature of the house as near 55 de- 

 grees as possible. In about six weeks 

 the buttons should begin to appear. 

 Make up other beds in succession. They 

 can be grown very profitably from No- 

 vember to April. 



Beds that are in houses where a tem- 

 perature of 50 to 60 degrees is main- 

 tained should never be covered. It will 

 cause the mushrooms to grow leggy, 

 thereby reducing the weight, as the sub- 

 stance is utilized for forming the stem, 

 but which under different conditions 

 would go to enlarge the crown. Where 

 steam or hot water is used moisture pans 

 should be placed on the pip^s apd kept 

 filled with water. All air should be regu- 

 lated so that there is a circulation but 

 no draught. Success in mushroom culture 

 can only be achieved by close attention 

 to all details in the different stages of its 

 growth. J. J. F. 



VARIEGATED VINCAS. 



In the Review for July 27 J. W. C. 

 asks for information on growing vincas. 

 The remarks of W. S. remind me of a 

 method practiced here which gives fine 

 bushy plants to pot in the fall. In the 

 spring we plant in the nursery rows any 

 plants we have to spare for that pur- 

 pose. Then as fast as wo can get vines 

 long enough we layer the tips about two 

 inches deep, spatting the soil down on 

 them closely. Each tip soon sprouts and 

 throws up nice vines, which can be cut 

 up for cuttings in the fall in the usual 

 way. J. W. :Myer. 



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 This pest has ruined both flowers and 

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