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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 30, 1906. 



NOTICE 



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 It is of first importance that the Review 

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 morning, instead of Wecuiesday mom- 

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CONTENTS. 



The Dajton Convention (lUus. ) 019 



— National Flower Show IJltt 



— Closing Sessions ttll) 



— Outdoor Display at Dnj ton (lUus.) 910 



— Presentations U20 



— Trade Kxhlblts 920 



— Entertainments 920 



— Shooting Contest 92<J 



— Final Individual Contest 92<J 



— Cuttings and Seedlings 920 



— W. H. Ilorlacher (portrait) 920 



— The S. A. F. Visitors (illus.) 921 



— Some Ileeollectlons 921 



— On the Lawn at Dayton ttV:-! 



— Horticulture in the Schools 92:{ 



— John Slebentholer (portrait) 924 



— Warren (J. Matthews 925 



The Ketail Florist— Uetailers' Methods 925 



A Coles House (illus.) 92t> 



Carnations — Carnation Notes — East 927 



— Carnation Notes— West 927 



— Supplementing Carnations 927 



— Buds Malformed 928 



Roses-^Care with Temperature 928 



— Koses in Pots 928 



Chrysanthemums — Seasonable Suggestions... 929 



— Uust on Chrysanthemums 92i» 



Notes from England 9.30 



Harrisii Lilies 930 



Vegetable Forcing — Christmas Vegetables... 930 



— Forcing Cucumbers 930 



— Sowing Lettuce 931 



Boston 931 



The Parterre at Lincoln Park, Chicago (Illus.) 931 



Starting Euonymus 932 



Asparagus tt.'12 



Chicago ii'i'i 



New York 934 



Indianapolis 935 



Philadelphia 935 



Toronto 939 



Seed Trade News — Onion Sets 9441 



— Bermuda Lilies 040 



— European Seed Notes 040 



— Rochester Seed Notes 941 



— German Seed Crops 041 



Cincinnati 944 



Kansas City 945 



Steamer Sailings 051 



St. Louis 951 



Pacific Coast— Victoria, B. C 952 



— Portland, Ore 952 



— San Francisco 053 



Nursery News 954 



— Peony Lady A. Duff 954 



Lenox. Mass 0.56 



Pittsburg 958 



Detroit 900 



Baltimore »62 



Greenhouse Heating 972 



Twin Cities 976 



QuiNCY, III. — Gentemann Bros, are 

 spending $2,000 in remodeling their 

 houses. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Henry Koegler, 

 formerly with Currie Bros., at Twenty- 

 seventh and State streets, has bought an 

 interest in the East Side Floral Co., at 

 468 Farwell avenue. 



Louisville, Ky. — Charles W. Reimers 

 has disposed of his business here and 

 has gone to make his home in Los An- 

 geles, Cai. He will not immediately en- 

 gage in business of any kind. 



Newton, Ia. — C. W. Anderson, of the 

 Ohio National Military Home, has leased 

 the greenhouse plant of Mrs. James Lis- 

 ter, and will take immediate possession. 

 Mrs. Lister will spend the winter with 

 her son, C. A. Moss, at Spartansburg, 

 S. C. 



STARTING EUONYMUS. 



Kindly advise me as to the proper 

 material in which to root euonymus, and 

 if the method varies any with the sea- 

 sons. J. P. S. 



Some varieties, such as Europaeus, ala- 

 tus and atropurpureus, are usually prop- 

 agated by seeds sown in early spring, or 

 Ave II ripened pieces of wood in autumn, 

 in a coldframe. The increasingly popu- 

 lar evergreen varieties, Europseus and 

 radicans, root freely at this season from 

 top cuttings, which have run along the 

 ground or been against a wall. Plant 

 thickly in a frame, water freely and 

 shade for two or three weeks, and few 

 will miss making plants. 



Propagation may be made from July 1 

 to September in a frame, earlier or later 

 in a greenhouse. Layering is another 

 method, but stock can be so rapidly made 

 from cuttings that it is much the sim- 

 plest plan. From cuttings put in during 

 July, 1905, we now have plants four feet 

 high on walls. This plant is also de- 

 sirable as a shrub, but its special value 

 lies in its adaptability for covering 

 rocks, bowlders, fences and walls. "We 

 have never found it to kill at all in the 

 most severe weather, and it is the most 

 satisfactory evergreen climber we have in 

 New England. W. N. C. 



ASPARAGUS. 



Can you give us some points on the 

 best method of growing asparagus, both 

 plumosus and Sprengeri? What is con- 

 sidered the correct distance for setting? 

 How many cuttings a year should a well 

 grown bed furnish? How many strings 

 to a plant at one cutting of plumosus, 

 and how many strings to a plant in a 

 year, would be a fair estimate? What 

 combination of soil is generally consid- 

 ered best for asparagus < S. H. S. 



There is considerable difference in the 

 methods of growing plumosus and 

 Sprengeri. We shall first consider plu- 

 mosus. It is principally grown for long, 

 stringlike vines for decorating and has 

 no competitor as a decorative plant. The 

 less you attempt to make it conform 

 to any formal space or attitude the bet- 

 ter. Throw it up against a mirror or 

 suspend it from an archway; it is grace 

 and beauty, and the hand of the artist 

 cannot improve it. The best time to 

 plant it to be most profitable is during 

 the months of June or July, but it can 

 be planted any time of the year. One 

 foot apart each wa^ is a proper dis- 

 tance. Don 't expect to divide the growth 

 of one plant. A single growth would 

 hardly be full enough for decorative 

 purposes. 



On one inquiry I can speak with full- 

 est authority and experience. Make 

 your Asparagus plumosus bed on the 

 floor of your greenhouse unless it be 

 gravel or cement. A clay, or sand, or 

 bog, or anything your greenhouse is 

 built on, let that be the foundation of 

 your plumosus bed. I shall quote once 

 more the words of the foremost aspar- 

 agus grower of this country, William H. 

 Elliott, of New England, who said to the 

 writer, when the latter was in distress, 

 "Never divorce asparagus from Mother 

 Earth." That was good advice, and 

 the truth. If you are a practical gar- 

 dener you will know what an avaricious 

 feeder the whole of the asparagus family 

 is. In the old works on gardening on 

 "How to make an asparagus bed," you 

 are told to excavate three feet deep, 



put in all the bones you can collect, any 

 dead horses or cows lying around, and 

 your mother-in-law, to make the growth 

 prolific. In short, the asparagus family 

 are gross feeders and cannot be over- 

 done with nourishment. 



In addition to the long twining 

 growths of Asparagus plumosus, there 

 are always a lot of short, stunted 

 growths which are in great demand. 

 These should not be cut until they are 

 matured. 



Plumosus is often grown on a side 

 bench alone, for the object of cutting 

 these short sprays, when the strong 

 growths that would run up should be 

 pinched to induce lateral growth. This 

 is, 1 think, not a profitable system of 

 cultivation, because a bed will give you 

 the long strings, and also plenty of the 

 short, useful growths. 



Asparagus Sprengeri. 



This is a plant of different habit, 

 although partaking like all members of 

 its family of a strong appetite for all 

 vegetable stimulants. Its mass of roots 

 or tubers, if not sustained with food, 

 soon become exhausted, and little growth 

 follows. A bed fifteen or eighteen inches 

 deep of heavy, rich soil would grow it 

 for several years, but would this be 

 profitable? We doubt it. Far less will 

 it be profitable in six inches of soil on 

 a raised bench. The first and best 

 method of growing this useful aspara- 

 gus, we notice, was at Peter Crowe's, of 

 Utica, N. Y., who also struck pay dirt 

 in growing the adiantum which now 

 bears his name. He has several ranges 

 of rose houses, all connected, with no 

 partition between them, cedar posts sup- 

 porting the gutters and a narrow path 

 on each side of the posts. We think 

 a 2-inch pipe supporting the gutter is 

 better than cedar posts, less expensive 

 and obstructs less light. Anyway, be- 

 tween the posts and beneath the steam 

 pipes there is a space not used. Here 

 Mr. Crowe put a lot of English glass 

 boxes to good use. The English glass 

 box contains 100 square feet. Ours 

 holds fifty feet. The former is eight 

 inches wide, sixteen inches high and 

 two feet long. These he stood on end 

 and filled with the same material as 

 his rose beds and planted in each box 

 three plants of Asparagus Sprengeri. 

 They are a very valuable asset to the 

 profits of these houses, and we hastened 

 home to follow his example. You may 

 not have these English glass boxes and 

 you may not have these modernly buUt 

 houses affording such a place, but you 

 will glean from the above what Aspara- 

 gus Sprengeri needs: A lot of root 

 room, a heavy, rich soil, lots of liquid 

 manure and a night temperature of 60 

 degrees. W. S. 



York City, Pa.— B. H. Ellis has be- 

 gun the erection of greenhouses on Chest- 

 nut street. 



Lowell, Mass. — J. J. McMannion has 

 a field of fine phloxes which attract 

 much public notice. 



Sterling, III. — The Sterling Floral 

 Co. is building an extensive addition to 

 its greenhouses this summer. Robert 

 Lundstrom is manager for the company. 



Paterson, N. J. — The Second Ward 

 Dahlia and Flower Association has set 

 the dates for its first show of the sea- 

 son, to take place about the middle of 

 September. Its former shows have always 

 been successful. 



