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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



DeCEMUKI! 



1005. 



raise the temperature as high as you 

 have it will make the plauts so soft and 

 the stems so weak as to ruin the whole 

 crop before the middle of the winter. 

 I would advise you to drop the tempera- 

 ture to 52 to 54 degrees and keep it an 

 regular as possible, with a ris^ of 10 

 degrees on cloudy days and 15 degrees 

 on bright days. In watering avoid either 

 extreme dryness or moisture and do not 

 feed them until toward spring. This is 

 about all you can do for them, and un- 

 der this treatment the percentage of 

 split calyxes ought to be small. 



Of course you know your own condi- 

 tion best, but I think that if you would 

 try some of the newer whites you 



HELP NEEDED. 



How much help will be needed to do 

 the work on a place consisting of a rose 

 house 25x200, another 20x100, a carna- 

 tion house 25x100, another 25x135, an 

 asparagus house 25x35 and a propagat- 

 ing house 13x21, a Ican-to 5^/^x92 de- 

 voted to mignonette, and another 10i/4x 

 50 for mums, stevia, etc.? A manager 

 is to have charge of the place. How 

 much assistance will he need to grow 

 first class stock for a city retail store? 

 A. T. 



The subject of the amount of help re- 

 quired to successfully care for certain 

 areas of glass is one of the most de- 



House of R. Fischer's Carnation Abundance. 



would let Queen Louise go, as we have 

 done. The Belle is much larger and if 

 anything, freer and does not burst any 

 more than Queen Louise. Lady Bounti- 

 ful never bursts and in quality can 

 hardly be beaten after December 1. Ves- 

 per is the best white in the whole busi- 

 ness. Large blooms on fine stems; never 

 bursts and the bed looks like a wheat- 

 field, with plenty of young shoots com- 

 ing. The cuttings of all these will be 

 reasonable in price this spring and you 

 would do well to try some of each. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



ABUNDANCE. 



With all due respect to the eminent or 

 popular persons whose names have been 

 bestowed upon more or less short-lived 

 novelties, and with full recognition that 

 the disseminators were actuated by a de- 

 sire to honor one whom they held in re- 

 gard and not at all by a wish to profit 

 by the prestige of popularity of the 

 "somebody whose name was chosen, how 

 much better are such names as Eudolph 

 Fischer chooses. Purity for . his white 

 freesia, Abundance for his carnation. 

 Who would doubt that a freesia callea 

 Purity is unmixed with color? wno would 

 ask for evidence that Abundance is a 

 free blooming carnation? What's in a 

 name? A whole lot! 



Mr. Fischer sends a photograph of 

 Abundance to show why he chose the 

 name. It was taken September 27 and 

 shows a house of plants benched August 

 31, 80 that if he had thought of a name 

 which indicated early blooming he would 

 have been all right. Incidentally it may 

 be remarked that he had not found it 

 necessary to support the plants at the 

 time the picture was taken. 



batable connected with the business 

 and one which I would rather shun. 

 Any definite answer is nearly an impos- 

 sibility, as the conditions of soil, cli- 

 mate and accessibility of materials 

 have so much to do in governing the 

 amount of help necessary. 



This place, covering roughly 15,000 

 square feet, should under ordinary con- 

 ditions be run by a manager who would 

 himself take the leading part of the 

 work, and one good practical assistant, 

 with a young man to help. 



Extra help would be necessary to 

 collect soil and manure and keep the 

 coal bins supplied, etc. This also 

 raises the question of taking care of 

 the fires at night and as I am left in 

 the dark regarding the heating system 

 and the kind of fuel in use, it makes 

 the answer still more difiicult. 



If the system is hot water and hard 

 coal is used the amount of labor re- 

 quired is not so much but that it could 

 be apportioned and carried out by the 

 help mentioned, except during very in- 

 clement weather. If the system is 

 steam closer attention will be required, 

 which may call for additional help. 



Extra help should also be given dur- 

 ing the planting season, as emptying 

 and refilling the benches would en- 

 croach too much on the time of the 

 help to allow them to perform their 

 ordinary duties in a satisfactory 

 manner. 



A good deal depends on the manager 

 himself, whether he is strenuous in his 

 efforts to have everything right, as the 

 force of example goes a good way in 

 the matter of getting the best services 

 from his assistants. R. 



NAME OF HARDY LILY. 



I have some hardy lilies that make a 

 good growth of leaves in the fall. In 

 the spring they send up fiower stalks and 

 bloom in the summer. This fall I found 

 on the flower stalk near the ground a 

 lot of small bulbs. These I gathered and 

 put in a pot. I have some growing from 

 them. Will you tell me how to care for 

 them until ready to plant in the gar- 

 den? Can you tell what variety of lily 

 it is? I. A. W. 



We think the variety grown by this 

 correspondent must be Lilium candidum, 

 commonly known as St. Joseph's lily, 

 the Madonna lily and Annunciation lily. 

 So far as we are aware no other hardy 

 lily produces its leaves in the fall. It 

 flowers in Massachusetts about the end 

 of June and succeeds best in moderately 

 heavy soil. 



This and a number of other lilies pro- 

 duce small bulblets at the base of the 

 flower stalk or between the scales of the 

 bulb. These can be taken off, which in 



House of Carnation Helen Goddard, Pliotographed November 24. 



