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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEH 26, 1905. 



finished, is a perfect ball. It does not 

 require much feeding, for it is a great 

 grower and as a pot plant will be well 

 liked. Everything cornea good, either 

 the early or late bud, and Brooks can be 

 set down as one of the well liked kinds, 

 the "easy doers." 



Next week sees the big shows under 

 way and some of these varieties will 

 doubtless be seen and admired by many 

 who read these notes. 



Chaeles H.' Totty. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The two chrysanthemum seedlings ex- 

 hibited before the committees in Phila- 

 delphia, Cincinnati and Chicago Satur- 

 day, October 14, by Nathan Smith & 

 Son, Adrian, Mich., under number hav^ 

 been named as follows: No. 11-27-04 will 



be called October Frost; No. 12-11-03 

 has been given the name of Bosiere. 



Work of the Committeei. ;. . 



At New York, October 21, Mrs. Wm. 

 Knox (imported) deep canary yellow, 

 Japanese reflexed, exhibited by Chas. H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J., scored 65 points 

 exhibition scale. Beatrice May (im- 

 ported) white, Japanese type, exhibited 

 by Chas. H. . Totty, Madison, N. J., 

 scored 95 points, both commercial and 

 exhibition scales. Mrs. George Heaume, 

 amber, tinted salmon, Japanese type, ex- 

 hibited by Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. 

 J., scored 85 points exhibition scale. No. 

 15, seedling, bright yellow, Japanese 

 type, exhibited by F. R. Pierson Co., 

 Tarrytown, N. Y., scored 80 points com- 

 mercial scale. 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y. 



rial suited for the same purpose, should 

 now be stored in readiness for use. 

 Shading material should be arranged 

 and everything put in order, so that no 

 time may be lost when propagating 

 should be done. Ribes. 



SEASONABLE REMINDERS. 



A neatly kept house of roses is a pleas- 

 ure to the eye and at this season, after 

 the benches have been put into condi- 

 tion for the winter, staking and tying 

 done, we can afford the time to clean up 

 and make and keep the houses neat and 

 clean. 



The walks should be kept scrupulously 

 clear of weeds, as it is there that our in- 

 sect enemies find a refuge from tobacco 

 fumes and from the force of the syringe. 

 The plants should be kept neatly tied up 

 and disbudding should be practiced at 

 least once a week. This, whUe adding 

 neatness to the house, is also adding to 

 the revenue, for if these young stems are 

 neglected and allowed to trail on the 

 bench they become weak and produce 

 nothing but blind wood. While, if dis- 

 budding is neglected until the side stems 

 are so large that they have to be re- 

 moved with a knife, the size of the bud 

 is reduced and the symmetry and grace- 

 fulness of the stem are spoiled. 



The care and supervision of the night 

 duties will now give the grower more or 

 loss worry until he gets his winter staff 

 into full training again. This is a duty 

 Avhich year after year gives us a good 

 deal of trouble and we have to exercise 

 a great deal of patience and watchful- 

 ness until we are satisfied that each and 

 every one of the night staff understands 

 his duties and is trustworthy, as any 

 laxity along these lines will nullify the 

 efforts of the most careful grower. 



By selecting intelligent, temperate men 

 to fill these places, and paying them well 

 for the long, cheerless hours they have to 

 be on guard, we can remove a good part 



of the burden from the shoulders of the 

 man in charge during the day, with 

 profit to the place and pleasure to all 

 concerned. 



As the propagating season is approach- 

 ing everything should be made ready for 

 that important and interesting period. 

 The benches should be overhauled and 

 put into proper condition, piping in- 

 spected and repaired where necessary and 

 a thorough cleaning given to the house 

 to get rid of all insect pests and special 

 pains should be taken to get rid of any 

 appearance of bench fungus. 



A good supply of a propagating me- 

 dium, such us sand or any other mate- 



FORCING RAMBLERS. 



Can Crimson Rambler and Dorothy 

 Perkins roses which have been growing 

 outdoors be taken up this fall and forced 

 for Easter, or should they have been 

 grown in pots the past season? 



W. A. S. 



While it is the safest and most suc- 

 cessful method to grow these ramblers 

 in pots during the summer previous to 

 forcing, as by this treatment they make 

 more suitable wood for forcing and 

 >us\ially ripen it more perfectly, still they 

 can be grown with good results when 

 lifted from the field and treated in the 

 following manner: 



Select strong plants as soon as they 

 are ripe, a condition which is indicated 

 by the shedding of the leaves. Lift them 

 carefully, so that the roots do not get 

 broken or torn. Pot immediately, before 

 the roots have time to get dry, in good 

 rose soil. Select pots of a suitable size, 

 not too large, give plenty of drainage 

 and pot firmly. 



They should then be stored in a pit 

 or burie<] in the soil beyond the danger 

 of frost. By the middle of December 

 they should be brought in and placed in 

 a house with a temperature not to ex- 

 ceed 45 degrees and shaded during very 

 bright weather. 



As the buds begin to swell the tem- 

 perature should be increased by 5 de- 

 grees per week until it reaches 62 de- 

 grees nights and 75 degrees daytime dur- 

 ing bright weather. Syringing must be 

 practiced every bright day, as the high 

 temperature is very conducive to the in- 

 crease of red spider and these plants 

 seem to bo its favorite haunt if left un- 

 disturbed. 



The greatest care must be exercised 

 in ventilating, so that the wood and 

 foliage does not become too soft, as it is 

 very apt to do, owing to the rgipidity of 

 growth. Ribes. 



CARNATION NOTES.-EAST. 



Watering. 



The subject of watering is one upon 

 which volumes might be written and jet 

 not be fully covered, as among a large 

 number of growers many different con- 

 ditions are daily arising that cannot pos- 

 sibly be met by any arbitrary written 

 directions. 



You have probably seen plants grown 

 by a lady customer in her dwelling that 

 would be a credit to the profession, and 

 under conditions considered radically 

 wrong; for instance, a palm potted 

 directly into a glazed jardiniere, with 

 absolutely no drainage and growing 

 luxuriantly. Now this to my mind is the 



result of a certain intuition possessed by 



the fair sex and which is similar to 



Patience Is a virtue; have It \t yon can; 

 Seldom ill a woman, never in a wan. 



Pardon the digression, but I wished to 

 emphasize the point that to be success- 

 ful a grower must be half plant himself 

 to anticipate the wants of his charges. 



The first principles of watering are 

 to apply when needed in such quantity 

 as to thoroughly moisten the soil and 

 no more, also at such time of day, or in 

 such manner, as will allow the foliage to 

 dry before night. 



These would be very simple rules to 

 follow if changes in weather, variation 

 in soils, needs of the different varieties, 

 aspect of houses and arrangement of 

 benches did not have to be taken into 

 consideration. 



During the fall months we are very 



