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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 80, 1906. 



every six feet on the north edge of 

 the bench. When they need support, put 

 in a stout bamboo eight feet long, and 

 tie to a wire near the top. If sown 

 early in October, these will bloom by 

 April, and will continue for two months 

 if you keep them picked and watered. 

 You can plant the winter-flowering vari- 

 eties the same way, only plant by Sep- 

 tember 1. The first named will not harm 

 your carnation plants any until late 

 February or March, at which time they 

 will start into a strong, rampant growth ; 

 they will keep you busy tying them up, 

 for you must keep them growing upright 

 if you want the best results. 



Planting Boston ferns or asters on 

 the benches is a big mistake. They are 

 never out of the way early enough not 

 to interfere with replanting carnations. 



Now, I want to add a word as to 

 whether you are getting as much as you 

 ought out of your houses. You say that 

 you are new in the business, and in that 

 case you are hardly competent to judge. 

 If your carnations give you good crops 

 of high grade blooms, covering the whole 

 season, then you are getting all you can 

 reasonably expect from your grower. 

 After years of experience and applica- 

 tion, you will learn to work in an extra 

 crop here and there, and thereby add to 

 your profits. Those are the fine points 

 of the business which you must learn 

 through daily experience. 



Begarding summer carnations, I should 

 say that we have found very little in 

 them from a wholesale point of view. 

 The time that fair indoor carnations 

 cannot be obtained is so short that it 

 does not pay to grow a separate lot to 

 bloom during that period. If it were 

 possible to get them into full crop just 

 at that time, so that you could cut six 

 or more blooms per plant during July 

 and August, then it would pay fairly 

 well, but you will find usually two or 

 three blooms per plant during those two 

 months, and a large crop in September 

 and October, when you are cutting inside 

 again. Some growers let their plants 

 come into bloom in the field and depend 

 on selling the plants late in the season. 

 This is a bad practice. Others, again, 

 after selecting their stock for benching, 

 allow the balance to bloom until frost. 

 This is all right and does no one any 

 harm. We think a short season without 

 carnation blooms does no harm, but 

 rather stimulates the demand for them 

 when they do come again. When the 

 asters are in full crop and other outdoor 

 flowers are to be had in plenty, the 

 carnations would have to be sold cheap 

 to be sold at all, which would tend to 

 hold down the price all through the fall 

 season. I should advise you, instead of 

 trying for carnations in summer, to take 

 up asters, summer lilies, gladioli and 

 other flowers which naturally bloom in 

 the summer. You will be surprised, if 

 you have a good supply of these, how 

 well you will get along for this short 

 time without the carnations, and how 

 wftlcpme the first carnations will be 

 ■sfUmt thiey do come in again. 

 Mf,:. ) . ' A. F. J. Bauk. 



BUDS MALFORMED. 



What is the trouble with my Mrs. 

 Joost carnations? The flower buds all 

 hold fast between the leaves, and find 

 it a hard matter to unfold. The buds 

 are, of course, in this way malformed. 

 Otherwise the plants look good. 



■;:"' . G. T. s. 



iT-our ooraplaint is a common one with 



this variety, though I don't think it 

 serious. With a little careful handling 

 during the next few weeks they will 

 come' around in good shape. You will 

 find more or less of this trouble with 

 Mrs. Joost after every severe check, and 

 especially after transplanting plants that 

 are strong and thrifty. 



By starting them off slowly you can 

 ward it off to some extent, and that is 

 the plan for you to follow. Water them 

 moderately and do all you can to en- 

 courage root action, by stirring the soil 

 frequently, etc. Don't mulch or feed 



in any way as long as this malforma- 

 tion shows. Give all the air you can 

 at all times. Sometimes thrips will 

 cause the same trouble, and if it were 

 some other variety I might think it was 

 that, but we always noticed more or 

 less of this same thing every year a 

 few weeks after housing the plants, when 

 we grew this variety, and after study- 

 ing the matter carefully we concluded 

 that it was caused by resuming growth 

 too suddenly. The stronger the plants 

 were the worse it seemed to be. A very 

 rich soil made it worse. a. F. J. B. 



CARE WITH TEMPERATURE. 



Danger of Mildew. 



As the season advances we may expect 

 cooler nights, accompanied by more or 

 less dampness from rains, fogs, etc., 

 which will have the effect if not care- 

 fully watched of creating tue conditions 

 favorable to mildew. 



Where the place is large enough to 

 warrant the keeping of a night watch- 

 man, this need give little trouble. He 

 can by keeping an eye on the outside 

 temperature so regulate the ventilation 

 that no sudden change of temperature 

 occurs. But in the large number of 

 places where the extent of glass may 

 not reach 30,000 feet, and where even 

 the half of that may not be devoted to 

 roses, keeping a night watchman during 

 the summer months appears in most cases 

 too big a drain on the prospective profits 

 to be safely indulged in. The ingenuity 

 and skill required to overcome these un- 

 favorable conditions at small cost will 

 be the cause of many anxious hours. 



It is good policy to run no risks at 

 this season, and whenever the ther- 

 mometer outside indicates an approach 

 to 56 degrees it is safe to apply a little 

 firing. Especially is this the case if 

 the fall in temperature is accompanied 

 by rain. 



If this pest is not suppressed in its 

 initial stage, it spreads rapidly and 

 works sad havoc amojig the growths and 

 foliage, tender at this time. 



If firing has to be resorted to this 

 early in the season, care will be needed 

 not to get the foliage too soft, a con- 

 dition which is easily acquired, but from 

 which it is difficult to escape before 

 the winter begins. This can be obviated 

 by. careful watering and ample but 

 judicious ventilation. 



When necessary to fire up every ad- 

 vantage should be taken of the oppor- 



tunity to paint the pipes with the sulphur 

 mixture to hold the pest in check. 



BiBES. 



ROSES IN POTS. 



The rose always has been a popular 

 subject, whether grown for cut blooms 

 or in pots as a flowering plant. The 

 latter are now splendidly grown, and 

 put on the market from early spring. 

 At one time it was only hybrid perpet- 

 uals that were utilized for the purpose, 

 but with the advent of the rambler class 

 other sections came in vogue, and we 

 now see nearly all represented except 

 the weaker-growing teas. 



Many stalls are gay in Covent Garden 

 in the spring with Crimson Bambler 

 carrying wreaths of roses six and eight 

 feet long. They are curled around the 

 stakes, so that the decorator can easily 

 unfasten them and place them in any 

 position required. The pink rambler, 

 Dorothy Perkins, has also come to stay,, 

 for it makes a good show and is just 

 as easily grown as the crimson variety. 

 The more recent variety. Lady Gay, will 

 no doubt appear on the market next 

 season. The polyantha roses, White Pet 

 and Eed Pet, have long been popular 

 as market plants, and when grown well 

 make dense little bushes about fifteen 

 inches high, which renders them valu- 

 able for decorative work. Madame N. 

 Levavasseur has also "taken on" and 

 is now grown in large quantities. 



The best of the hybrid perpetuals 

 and hybrid teas that one sees most plen- 

 tifully are Mrs. J. Laing, General 

 Jacqueminot, La France, Ulrich Brun- 

 ner. Captain Hayward, Frau Karl 

 Druschki, John Hopper, Mrs. R. Shar- 

 man Crawford, Duke of Edinburgh,, 

 Baroness Rothschild, Merveille de Lyon 

 and Caroline Testout. Most of these 

 are sent to market in 5-inch pots. 



The plants are grown by two meth- 

 ods, to meet the requirements of the 

 different classes of trade. The first is 

 that where the plants are grown right 

 through in pots; they make fine plants 

 and can be forced into bloom quite 

 early. These are grown for the better 

 class of trade, and they are decidedly 



