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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



January 18, 1906. 



zens will wear carnations as a silent 

 tribute to his memory. The committee 

 has prepared a, suitable display placard 

 with a splendid likeness of President Mc- 

 Kinley, announcing this anniversary, and 

 showing the action of the florists in the 

 building of the national McB[inley 

 Memorial at Canton, Ohio, the late presi- 

 dent's home. This display card cannot 

 fail to remind many people of this cus- 

 tom, who otherwise might overlook the 

 date. Upon receipt of any contribution 

 of $1 or more to this fund, or a pledge 

 to contribute ten per cent or upward of 

 the carnation sales on January 29, 1906, 

 the committee will mail to the contributor 

 this display placard. 



H. M. Altick, Chairman, 

 Dayton, Ohio. 



IN A COOL HOUSE. 



Would you kindly tell us what varieties 

 of carnations would grow in a lettuce 

 house with Grand Eapids lettuce? The 

 temperature ranges from 46 to 50 de- 

 grees. We would like to know of sev- 

 eral varieties. H. & F. 



What you will have to look for mostly 

 are varieties that wUl not burst in a low 

 temperature. No variety will grow and 

 bloom very rapidly in a temperature 

 much below 50 degrees, though some of 

 course will do better than others. The 

 following varieties will do as well as 

 a,ny: Vesper, Lady Bountiful, Moon- 

 light, The Queen for white; Enchantress, 

 light pink; Mrs. Nelson, pink; Crane, 

 red; Harlowarden, crimson; Mrs. Patten, 

 variegated. A. F. J. Baue. 



DOING WELL. 



Under date of January 6 J. H. Dunlop, 

 Toronto, Ont., writes as follows: "My 

 Maryland, on trial here, is proving itself 

 a free bloomer and makes a fine flower; 

 the only trouble with it that has devel- 

 oped here is a slight inclination to stem- 

 rot. Jessica is magnificent, pure white 

 ground with red stripe; very striking; 

 strong grower; good stem; it is the best 

 of the fancies." These are the novelties 

 of H. Weber & Sons Co., Oakland, Md. 



BACTERIA. 



I enclose some Flora Hill carnation 

 leaves. They are grown on a west side 

 bench with about thirty inches of head 

 room, planted up in August. • They 

 seemed to start off all right. I have 

 fed them liquid twice, with a top-dress- 

 ing of sheep manure about December 7. 

 Can you tell the trouble with them? 

 Night temperature 50 to 55 degrees. 

 D. A. L. 



Your carnations are affected with bac- 

 teria and you are pursuing just the 

 wrong course to get rid of it. Flora 

 Hill is especially subject to this disease 

 and invariably shows traces of it during 

 the winter months. By handling it just 

 right it can be kept in check, so that it 

 will not do much damage. They want 

 to be watered rather sparingly and no 

 feeding should be done between October 

 and March, neither mulch nor liquid. If 

 the soil is good to start with and a light 

 mulch applied about September 1, they 

 will thrive until the sun is stronger and 

 the days are longer, toward spring, when 

 they will want a little more food to 

 make the spring crop. So, I would ad- 

 vise you to take off that sheep manure 

 and sprinkle on the soil some air-slaked 



lime, about a scant 3-inch potful to a 

 row across a 5-foot bench, and water it 

 in well. After that keep them a little 

 on the dry side. Keep the temperature 

 as near 52 degrees as you can and give 

 all the air you can. A. F. J. Baue. 



CARNATION MEASURES. 



Last season Kroeschell Bros. Co., 51 

 Erie street, Chicago, sent out to the trade 

 a very neat device for measuring the size 

 of carnation blooms. It consists of a 

 circular cardboard with an opening to 

 admit the calyx of the flower, its siz" 

 being indicated by circles a half-inch 

 apart on the card. It is a very handy 

 device and the distributers write us that 

 they have a number still on hand and 

 will gladly send one to anyone who sends 

 a two-cent stamp to pay the postage. 



CARNATION CANDACE. 



The writer of this made three trips to 

 Indianapolis last winter to personally 

 inspect and note the behavior of the 

 above carnation; also visited the intro- 

 ducers twice this winter, in November 

 and January, to see what progress it was 

 making, and the more I see of this new 

 flower the more firmly I am convinced 

 that it is a winner. It has many points 

 that recommend it to the average florist. 

 It is an easy grower, a free, continuous 

 bloomer, bright, cheerful and clear pink, 

 a trifle lighter and brighter than Law- 

 son; has good, long stems and the shape 

 of the bloom is ideal. It will readily be 

 classed as a fancy as it has splendid 

 size, shape and color. It is a rare oc- 

 currence to find a split calyx among 

 them. The stem is stiffer than Flora Hill 

 but not quite so strong as Lawson or 

 Enchantress, although with the writer, 

 who has fifteen plants for trial, the stem 

 is stiff and wiry. The best evidence of 

 the merits of this new carnation is that 

 nearly every florist who sees this variety 



growing leaves an order and I am in- 

 formed that nearly every carnation 

 grower in and around Indianapolis has 

 placed an order. If this new variety 

 does as well throughout the country as it 

 ^oes in Indiana I am satisfied the results 

 will be most gratifying to the grower, 

 I have no personal interest in this new 

 flower whatever, but pen these few notes 

 for the benefit of the trade. 



"VVh W. Coles, 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Carnations Res:istered. 



George Anderson, Hyde Park, Mass., 

 registers Eed Warrior, a bright scarlet, 

 very free bloomer, strong grower, aver- 

 age stem at this time eighteen inches, 

 blooms three to three and one-half 

 inches; a cross between Mrs. Lawson 

 and Mrs. Bradt. 



The Boston Convention. 



The paper on * * Carnations from a 

 Wholesaler's Point of View" will be 

 given us by A. J. Guttman, New York. 



The New England Passenger Associa- 

 tion has granted the rate of a fare and 

 one-third for the meeting over all of 

 their lines excepting the Eastern Steam- 

 ship Company. 



Your secretary has made application 

 at the same time to the Trunk Line As- 

 sociation and the Central Passenger 

 Association for the same rate and it 

 will no doubt be granted. Parties com- 

 ing to the convention should give them- 

 selves plenty of time to buy their 

 tickets and get the usual certificate from 

 the ticket agent at their home office 

 entitling them to the reduced fare. 



There will be more flowers staged in 

 Boston, January 24, than have ever been 

 staged at one time and place in the 

 world and every carnation man who 

 can should attend this meeting, 



Albert M, Herb, Sec'y, 



POTTING YOUNG STOCK. 



Where the cuttings in the bench show 

 rootlets one-half inch in length they 

 should be potted without further delay. 

 Procrastination at this stage wiU lead 

 to a lot of trouble which will require 

 months to overcome. As the sand con- 

 tains, or should contain, no nutritive 

 properties, any wood the young plants 

 may make, while in the sand must neces- 

 sarily be of a weak nature and low in 

 vitality. The roots become attenuated, 

 unmanageable and because of their 

 length and brittleness are liable to be 



broken and so lost to the plant just when 

 it requires their services to give it a 

 good start in life. 



Soil suitable for a first potting should 

 contain very little manure or other fer- 

 tilizer, as this is liable to sicken the 

 tender roots before they have become 

 accustomed to actual feeding. Compost 

 left over from last season's planting and 

 which has been carefully looked after 

 and kept clear of weeds during summer 

 and fall is about the ideal article. This 

 should be passed through a half-inch 

 screen to fit it for the requirements of 

 the newly made roots. 



For a first potting 2-inch standard 

 pots are large enough and fit the purpose 

 better than larger sizes. Having the 

 pots of a uniform size, shape and color 

 simplifies the act of watering, as each 

 pot contains an equal quantity of soil 



