DlOCKMIJICU 7, I'JUo. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J47 



The Old Varieties. Some New Seedlliips. 



Illustrating the Development which has Taken Place in the Hardy Phlox in a Comparatively Brief Period. 



criticise what is being done in a nursery 

 when you are privileged to go around, 

 but when my attention was called to the 

 failure later on I could not help attribut- 

 ing the failure 1o the treatment they had 

 received after they were bought, rather 

 than the condition they were in at the 

 time of purchase. 



It is dangerous to leave ericas out in 

 the open much after the middle of Sep- 

 tember, but it is just the time that they 

 require all the light and air possible, 

 and the niglit dews are also beneficial. 

 Plenty of room is one essential. The 

 best position for them is in light wooden 

 frames, with the lights at hand, so that 

 they can bo put on at s-hort notice in 

 case of heavy rains or frost coming on 

 suddenly. Provided the frost is kept ofT, 

 the cooler they are kept the better. It is 

 only when the flower buds are well ad- 

 vancetl that it is safe to give them 

 warmth to hurry them on. Another mis- 

 take which I have seen made is giving 

 them manure water. It is beneficial dur- 

 ing July, or on to the middle of August ; 

 but after that time it must be withheld 

 if they are to set their bloom properly. 

 A little weak soot water may be used, 

 and when the first flowers begin to open, 

 a little manure may help in finishing 

 them off. It will be found that those 

 which have a starved or stunted appear- 

 ance usually flower the best, though I 

 have seen those which have been grown 

 on vigorously early in the season, and 

 then ripened off, flower remarkablv 

 well. 



Of all the ericas, hyemalis takes first 

 Iilace, and we usually get this in market 

 about the first Aveek in October, and I 

 have seen it earlier. Some of our best 

 growers keep up a succession until the 

 end of March. Gracilis is already in, 

 and we should have a good supply iip to 

 Christmas. Caffra is also coming in, and 

 r have seen a few well flowered plants 

 '>r gracilis alba; this comes almost pure 

 white under glass earlv. but Nivalis is 

 !i much better variety. 



Of all the ericas. Wilmoroana is the 

 mocf diflicult to fi„i.l,. After the buds 



are well advanced, they may fail to open. 

 The most important point with this 

 variety is to keep the plants as cool as 

 possible, with plenty of light and air. 

 They are more liable to fail when we 

 have spells of very mild weather with 

 frost !it intervals. Candidissima is an- 

 other Avhich requires rather careful atten- 

 tion to flower it well. Grandinosa, which 

 comes in early, rarely fails to flower 

 weli. Persoluta alba is also fairly free, 

 yet with all ericas there is some un- 

 certainty, and those who grow them best 

 during the early stages often fail to 

 finish, them off well; overcrowding and 

 a close atmosphere are the most general 

 causes of failure. This can be proved 

 by elevating a few plants above the 

 others, and where they would bo far 

 from the glass, it will pay to stand 

 them on inverted pots, or even to hang 

 tliem up to the roof in the wire suspend- 

 ers. — 1 lorticultnral Advertiser. 



TOLEDO, OHIO. 



Various Comment. 



Ill making the rounds this week tlie 

 writer struck ■Miller Pros.' place on 

 Dorr street and there cannot be a better , 

 built or a better kept place in the | 

 country. Tlie range consists of eight 

 short-roof Dietsch houses L*50 feet long, 

 no partitions, heated by hot water, 

 wliich is kept in circulation by steam 

 pumjis. There are a number of the 

 larger places in this district heated in 

 the same manner and it seems to be a 

 very economical system. Miller iiros. 

 raise lettuce mostly, but had one house 

 of mums as an experiment. They have 

 iiad indifferent success but will try 

 again next year. ;Miller Pros., by the 

 way, does not mean two or tliroc, but 

 six, and all in working trim. Xo sur- 

 l>lus flesh about any of them ; tlie eighty ' 

 odd acres of market garden keens them 

 in good training. 



Mrs. John V/right put up two short- 

 span Dietsch houses about 300 feet long \ 

 this season, for lettuce and vegetables. I 



The Scottwood Greenhouse had a 100- 

 foot bench of poinsettias in fine shape 

 for Thanksgiving, the bracts measuring 

 fifteen to twenty inches across. Their 

 Lorraine begonias are fine. 



At Heinl 's place in West Toledo 

 everything looks good except one house 

 of Meteor roses. Mums were wound up 

 here for Thanksgiving. One bench of 

 1,200 poinsettias will be fine by Christ- 

 mas. 



^liss ir. I'atten, owner of the Flick 

 florist store, reports business as being 

 fine. 



The place of E. Darke, who movc<l 

 from East Proadway to West Toledo, 

 has reverted to the original owners and 

 the improvements made by iSIr. Darke 

 went with the place. S. N. Peck bought 

 the loose material, such as glass, pipes 

 and lumber, and intends to use it in 

 building houses next spring. 



?ilrs. v.. Suder was kept busier than 

 over during Thanksgiving week. From 

 one decoration she had to hurry to an- 

 other. Tlie largest decorations were for 

 tlie Knights of Columbus, the Progress 

 Club, and then the decoration of one 

 of the finest theaters in this country, 

 the Valentine, for the Elks' memorial 

 services. The stage was handsomely 

 decorated with palms and a profusion of 

 southern smilax and cut mums were used 

 in the draping of the background, also 

 large bunches of cut flowers at the differ- 

 ent stations on the stage. Pusiness was 

 much better this year than ever before. 



The chrvsantliemum show at the 

 Wiilbridge park conservatories is at an 

 end and the superintendent feels tickled 

 l<v the success he made of it. 



E. A. K. 



ITamiltox. <). — Wm. T^odder did a 

 neat turn by |)ros('iitiiig each of the 

 tclophone girls with a bouquet a few 

 days before Tlu.iiksgiving; they can help 

 in many ways, if tliov care to. 



TiPTOX, IxD. — n. Pornhoeft sailed 

 from New York on Tuesday for Falke- 

 nau, Germany, to lie gone a year. 



