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SsPTKMIiER 7, 1905. 



TheWcckly Florists' Review. 



875 



bena about the same time and in the 

 same way. They malte fine growth here 

 in the south, and are highly prized for 

 their delightful odor. 



Cannas and Other Bedders. 



Cannas grow beautifully in the south 

 and are almost hardy here. They re- 

 quire no protection, unless it should hap- 

 pen to be a very severe winter, when a 

 little mulching is all that is necessary to 

 protect them. 



Dahlias do only fairly well, the climate 

 being too hot for them. Gladioli do 

 fairly well. Lantanas are like hibiscus 

 and plumbagos, as they enjoy the hot 

 sun and bloom all summer. Bananas 

 grow finely here. A bed with a banana 

 in the middle surrounded with caladiums 

 or cannas makes a rich tropical effect. 

 Salvias make a beautiful display and 

 stand the sun well. Verbenas stand the 

 climate to perfection and bloom all sum- 

 mer and sometimes go through the win- 

 ter. 



Geraniums are very popular in the south 

 as everywhere else. A great many varie- 

 ties, however, will not stand the hot 

 sun and have to be shaded. The varie- 

 ties I have noticed that seem to stand 

 our climate best are Spaulding's Pet, 

 A. Kicard, Heteranthe, Single Grant, 

 La Favorite, Jean Viaud, Lizzie Ham- 

 ilton, Mrs. E. G. Hill, Castellane and 

 Jacquerie, the latter being one of the 

 most beautiful dark crimson geraniums 

 we know of. 



Various Plants. 



Clematis Jackmani and C. paniculata 

 grow and bloom well here. Violets begin 

 to bloom in January and continue up to 

 about the end of March. The single are 

 the only kind that do well, but they 

 are fine. 



Poppies, dianthus, phlox and corn- 

 flower seed can be sown in the fall here. 

 They then bloom very early in the spring. 

 Balsam, cockscomb, larkspur, nastur- 

 tiums, petunias and vincas do well here 

 and will bloom all the summer, from seed 

 sown in the spring. 



We have had for several years quite 

 a demand for hardy plants that do not 

 have to be replanted every season, so we 

 tried a great many kinds and find that 

 the following list do well here and seem 

 to stand our climate : Achillea The Pearl, 

 bocconias, peonies, helianthus, holly- 

 hocks, perennial phlox, platycodon, rud- 

 beckia, Stokesia cyanea, tritomas, Pyre- 

 thrum uliginosum and Shasta daisy. We 

 have a number of other varieties planted 

 for trial. 



Bulbs. 

 Hyacinths do best planted in Decem- 

 ber, as when planted earlier they some- 

 times grow too fast and get the tops 

 killed. Tulips do only fairly well. Nar- 

 cissi of all kinds do first-class. A 

 Frenchman by* the name of Eevershon, 

 who lives near Dallas, has about a quar- 

 ter of an acre planted in bulbs, some 

 of them having been planted twenty 

 years ago. And he grows as fine hya- 

 cinths, narcissi, etc.. ns T havo ever seen 

 grown from imported bulbs. Hulbs are 

 growing several hundred feet away from 

 the field, where the seed has washed with 

 the rains. This goes to show that the 

 land is well adapted to the raising of 

 bulbs. 



Quysanthemums. 



We grow as fine chrysanthemums in 



the south as are grown anywhere. In 



the southern part of Texas they are 



grown entirely outdoors. Some growers 



cover their beds with cloth during the 

 blooming period, to protect the flowers 

 from the weather. 



At Waco, Tex., in the central part of 

 the state, they hold a show every fall, and 

 if some of our northern florists were to 

 see the mums they grow there, they 

 would be surprised. In this section of 

 the state mums are planted in beds out- 

 doors, and, during the blooming period, 

 they build a cheap framework over the 

 beds, which they cover with cloth to pro- 

 tect the flowers from the weather. No 

 artificial heat is used. 



In northern Texas, the weather being 

 colder in the fall and winter, we plant 

 on benches under glass for single stems. 

 We also plant in solid beds, taking the 

 sash off the houses during the hot 

 weather. The plants that we grow in 

 solid beds we give from three to five 

 stems and get very good-size flowers 

 which sell to good advantage. 



As soon as the weather begins to get 

 a little cool and the buds begin to show 

 color, we put the sash on, giving abun- 

 dance of air all day and using a little 

 heat at night if the weather happens to 

 get cold. Outdoors they bloom very 

 nicely in the late fall provided we do 

 not have an early frost. People in 

 town cover them at night when there is 

 any prospect of a frost, and in this way 

 prolong the blooming period. 



Cut mums sell here at from $2 to $5 

 per dozen. Oklahoma grows good mums 

 also, in about the same way as we grow 

 in northern Texas. 



Roses. 



The south is famed as being the land 

 of roses. Tea and hybrid tea are the 

 kinds that are grown mostly here. 

 They are all perfectly hardy with the 

 exception of a few varieties, such as 

 Perle, Sunset, etc. These sometimes gst 

 winter-killed when very young in this 

 way: During the hot weather the roses 

 do not grow very much and in the fall 

 when the weather is cool, they put on a 

 young, tender growth and bloom freely. 

 When in this condition we sometimes 

 get an early frost, about the latter part 

 of October, which weakens them and 

 they then die during the cold weather in 

 the winter. 



I consider the hybrid tea as being by 

 far the best type of rose for the south, 

 being more hardy than the tea, and 

 first-class bloomers. We grow Kaiserin 

 outdoors for a white rose for cut flowers 

 and have never seen anything yet that 

 would compare with it. Bride and 

 Bridesmaid do very well, also a great 

 many other kinds that are grown for 

 show only. 



Meteor mildews easily and is only 

 good in very hot weather. La France 

 grows to perfection. American Beauty 

 is the best rose of its kind for out- 

 doors, as it blooms continuously from 

 April until winter sets in. It is a very 

 profitable rose to grow. Gruss an Tep- 

 litz has a very rich color and is fine for 

 massing outdoors. It comes almost sin- 

 gle, but the color is perfect. Hybrid 

 perpetuals are not grown very much. 

 Paul Neyron and Mrs. John Laing do 

 well. 



I planted 3,000 roses in my back yard 

 a year ago, as I wanted to have the 

 prettiest back yard on the street. I 

 planted 1,000 Kaiserins, 1,000 Beauties, 

 500 La France and 500 Meteor, Bride, 

 Bridesmaid, etc. I cultivated and ma- 

 nured the ground well and had fine roses 

 up till frost. I then pruned them back 

 to within six inches of the ground and 



mulched them heavily with well-rotted 

 manure. 



This spring when they started to grow, 

 I disbudded the Kaiserins and Beauties, 

 and at Easter I cut as fine Kaiserins 

 with two to three-foot stems as I have 

 ever seen grown under glass, and the 

 flowers were solid and of fine color and 

 had perfect foliage. I cut from 500 to 

 1,000 fine roses every day for several 

 weeks, and my back yard was ths admira- 

 tion of the neighborhood. I like the 

 Kaiserin best for an all-round rose. 

 Beauty next. 



Eoses are not much grown under glass 

 in Texas, but it is only a question of 

 time till we grow all the roses we require 

 during the winter . months, as they can 

 be grown here just as well as in the 

 north. 



Gu-nations. 



Carnations grow well in the south and 

 if anything are more popular than roses. 

 We grow all the standard varieties. They 

 are treated practically the same as in 

 the north. We plant them in the field 

 in April and bench them in August 

 and September. Oklahoma is growing 

 very good carnations and the florists 

 there sell all their surplus in Texas. 



The reason carnations are grown here 

 more than roses is because they do not 

 ship long distances as well as roses, so 

 we buy our roses in Chicago at present. 

 A good many carnations are still being 

 shipped to the south, but it will not be 

 long before the south will produce all it 

 requires and have a surplus. 



What we need in Texas mostly now is 

 a few first-class greenhouse establish- 

 ments to grow cut flowers on a large 

 scale for the retailers. The south is 

 coming to the front very rapidly, espe- 

 cially Texas. The demand for choice cut 

 flowers is increasing wonderfully, and 

 people here demand the best flowers 

 that can be bad and are just as hard to 

 please as people in the larger cities in 

 the north. Our people are also willing 

 to pay a fair price for a good article. 



Texas at present buys a great many 

 cut flowers during the winter, and Chi- 

 cago is the principal market from which 

 we draw our supply. However, new es- 

 tablishments are being started from time 

 to time and it will not be long till Texas 

 will be shipping flowers to other states. 

 Eoses will also be grown here in the 

 winter after a while, as soon as we get 

 some larger establishments started. A 

 company has just been organized here 

 with a capital of $250,000 to engage in 

 the nursery and florist business. They 

 intend putting up a large range of 

 houses, so we hope we will soon be able 

 to get all the flowers we want in the 

 winter at home. 



ROSE J. B. CLARK. 



The rose novelty of the day in England 

 is a hybrid tea named J. B. Clark. The 

 flowers are of large size, cup-shaped, with 

 very broad rich scarlet petals of good 

 texture and velvety in appearance. It 

 secured the silver medal of the National 

 Eose Society as the best hybrid tea in 

 the nurserymen's class when shown by 

 Hugh Dickson, Eoyal Nurseries, Belfast. 

 There can be no question that it is a 

 grand acquisition to the hybrid tea class, 

 and removes the stigma that hybrid tea 

 roses were entirely confined to pale varie- 

 ties. J. B. Clark has a much larger 

 bloom than Liberty, and is equally as 

 fine, if not a better color, so that this 

 rose is bound to take a prominent posi- 

 tion. 



