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September 7, 1005, 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



869 



A Basket of Shasta Daisies and Asparagus Sprengeri. 



lot, taking every part of the plant that 

 will make a cutting, and let the old 

 plants freeze up. Old geraniums take a 

 lot of bench-room, more than they are 

 worth. 



If you are very short of stock of any 

 variety, then if you will take a crop of 

 cuttings off now, the old plants will be 

 in good shape to lift and pot in 5-inch 

 or 6-inch pots early in October, or before 

 hard frost. Pot firmly. They will look 

 shabby for a few weeks, but will soon 

 recover and after a "standover" and 

 cleaning will give you a lot of cuttings 

 during winter if kept about 50 degrees 

 at night. W. S. 



FALL-SOWN SWEET PEAS. 



My attention was directed to a very 

 fine lot of sweet peas at one of the 

 New York shows this year and inquiry 

 revealed the fact that they were grown 

 by Frank M. Kyan, gardener to Wm. F. 

 Woods, of Greenwich, Conn. In response 

 to my inquiry as to how he did it, Mr. 

 Eyan sent me a few cultural notes on 

 his system of fall sowing, which he 

 claim^produces an earliar and much 

 more vigorous growth than is possible 

 from spring-sown seed. With his per- 

 mission I pass his notes on to the Re- 

 view for reproduction in your columns 

 if you see fit. C. H. Totty. 



We sow the seed quite thickly about 

 the first of October. Care should be 

 taken not to sow too early, as the vines 

 get too tall and later lodge and rot in 

 winter. We lost a good many from this 

 cause last winter. Try and have them 

 about four or five inches high when 

 the growth stops for the winter. 



For protection we use boards of any 

 thickness and about one foot wide, run- 

 ning lengthwise the row and braced 

 where necessary, or about the same plan 

 as used in some places for blanching 



celery. On the boards we put narrow 

 sash about sixteen inches wide, made on 

 purpose for this. We do not put on the 

 boards until it gets quite cold at night, 

 say four or five degrees of frost, and we 

 take or run the sash off every day that 

 the glass is anything above freezing, the 

 idea being to gradually inure the vines 

 to the extreme cold they will have to 

 stand through the winter. Before zero 

 weather, or about Christmas, we cover 

 all over the sides and top with a good 

 layer of horse manure or litter and leave 

 thus until Old Sol is warming up things 

 a little again, say about the last of Feb- 

 ruary. After this date a crack of air 

 may be given on all favorable days and 

 about April 1 everything can be re- 

 moved from around the vines and the 

 trellis put up. 



B'o not be in a hurry to pull out any 

 seemingly dead vines in the spring. 



As I mentioned before, we lost a 

 few varieties and had to sow them over 

 in the spring, but what survived were 

 better at the last picking than were the 

 spring-sown ones at any time, besides be- 

 ing fifteen days earlier. 



As our row was under four feet 

 of snow and manure from New Year's 

 to March 12, I do not think the glass 

 entirely essential, except for the little 

 extra heat generated in spring. 



THE CHICAGO PREMIUMS. 



The preliminary list of premiums has 

 been issued for the November exhibition 

 of the Horticultural Society of Chicago. 

 In general it is a reprint of previous pre- 

 liminary lists, but in several of its fea- 

 tures it has been strengthened. Profiting 

 by each year's experience this society 

 has eliminated the classes which do not 

 produce competition until it is now the 

 practice to award from ninety to ninety- 

 five per cent of all premiums offered. 

 Collections of cut blooms of chrysanthe- 



muniH are now limited to two, for twelve 

 and forty varieties. For 100 blooms, ar- 

 rangement and quality to be considered, 

 premiums of $50, $40 and $30 are of- 

 fered. The classes for chrysanthemum 

 plants are of course retained. For mis- 

 cellaneous plants the premiums are lib- 

 eral ($25 and $15 for six araucarias, as 

 an example) and are likely to be all 

 awarded. 



The interest in the rose classes has 

 been steadily on the increase and this 

 should prove one of the best features 

 of the show, as several of the large cut 

 flower growers at Chicago are looking 

 for the awards as ammunition for adver- 

 tising. For 100 Beauties the premiums 

 are $100, $75 and $50; for 100 liberty 

 or Richmond, $35 and $25; for 100 

 blooms in other classes, $20 and $12; 

 for classes for forty blooms, $6 and $3. 



There are forty-four classes for carna- 

 tions, exclusive of classes for seedlings. 

 It looks as though there must be a place 

 for everything. 



Premiums for floral arrangements, 

 table decorations, etc., will be announced 

 later. The show will likely be held in 

 Brooke's Casino, Wabash avenue and 

 Hubbard court, and copies of the premi- 

 um list may be had on request to E. A. 

 Kanst, assistant secretary, 5700 Cottage 

 Grove avenue, Chicago. 



DEATH OF RICHARD DEAN. 



Of the large number of our craftsmen 

 who came from Great Britain to America 

 within the past forty years, few but will 

 feel a sense of personal loss at the an- 

 nouncement of the death of Richard 

 Dean, at London. His failing health 

 had been known and deplored but it was 

 not until a few days before his death 

 that the brief span left to him was real- 

 ized. On August 21 his son, G. R. 

 Dean, in a letter to the Review, said: 



