March 15, 11)06. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



112: 



PERSONAL OPINIONS. 



[A iiapor Ity Jos(>i)h V. Klimincr. roiid lii'fDre 

 tlic Clikiifjo I'lorists' Club, Murili 8. T.MiO.] 



Before 1 Ix'gin the narration of tlicsi' 

 ('xi)orionccs 1 want to say that 1 liu])C I 

 \\[\\ not tread on anybody's toes. It is 

 not jny intention to do any variety any- 

 tliing bnt jnstice and I sliall relate my 

 fxperieiieo of the j)ast season and my 

 ])lans for the next with fall understand- 

 ing that mine may not bo at all like the 

 results obtained and con(dusions reached 

 by other gro^Yers in other soils and with 

 other methods of culture. P.y this time 

 every carnation grower should liave his 

 plans ready for next season; he should 

 know which varieties he intcMids to plant 

 next fall ami what varieties lie has to 

 discard. 



There are quite a few growers like 

 myself, always ready to try a reason- 

 able amount of those liberally adver- 

 tised novelties, and now, after tryinfj 

 them for a season, the (|uestioii is, did 

 lliey ]>ay and did they yive satisfaction? 



Fiancee. 



AVe will take Fiancee Inr a staiter. I 

 • liscarded Marquis for the new love bc- 

 c;iuse, after seeing it at three different 

 seasons at Joliet, 1 supposed it was time 

 to make the cliange. ]>ast August I 

 jdanted in the bench the 410 plants I 

 had left of the oOO 1 had bought. They 

 produced in October iV2') tirst-class 

 tlowers, which sold even in tlie chrysan- 

 themum season for from $4 to .*tj per 

 hundred. During November 1 cut 1(59, 

 during December sixty nine, during 

 January thirteen, and in February four. 



This is a rather astduisiiing record, 

 but I believe it is to a great extent my 

 own fault, because I treated my i'iancee, 

 in the first week in Xovember, to a fair- 

 ly liberal dose of manure and lione meal 

 and in return got an inutieiisc^ crop of 

 fantastic looking "splits" wiiidi nobody 

 would buy. 1 Wonder will we ever learn 

 to let well enough alone? I am con- 

 vinced that if I had left the fertilizer 

 olf .sixty-live per cent of the splits would 

 have been salable llowers and l'"iancee 

 would have been a fairly well ]iaying 

 jiroposition, at l(>ast up to Christmas. .\>^ 



it is, i lia\c sworn olV llirting aii\' t'ur- 

 tlier wit!) iinybody else's Fiancee. 



Cardinal. 



Next on the progrannin' is r'ardinal. 

 The most id" my i>lants were affected 

 witii rust and I could not get rid of it. 

 They produce (piit(! .'i few black and dis- 

 toi'ted flowers, but they also give me a 

 very libei'al auumnt of good, first-idass 

 llowers with fairly strong stems. Right 

 among tiie rusty ones we iiad about thir- 

 ty plants whicli kept (Mitirely (dean and 

 certainly came up in every n^spect to the 

 introducer's desci'iiit ion, so 1 shall give 

 Cardinal another trial. 



Some of the jilants I have now potted 

 up in 4-inch ])ots. Tliev \\iil be ]iianted 

 out as early as jiossiliie to ;;ive it a trial 

 as a summer liloouier. (ardinal is an ini- 

 ))rovement on l''.stelle, whiili lias been my 

 best summer bloomer for tiie last fixe 

 years. 



Lieut. Peary. 



Xext is liieul. Peary. This is, in my 

 estimation, the best of last year's inti'o- 

 ductions. it has not the elegant finish, 

 and it is not such .a glistening wiiif(> as 

 Lady Bountiful, but it is one of tlie very 

 best k(H'pers and siiippers. It is a strong 

 upright grower, a steady and even 

 bloomei", makes no siir|ilus grass and is 

 entirely free from rust or any other dis- 

 ease. Although it brings some sleef)y- 

 hioking .and some split llowers, still on 

 the whole 1 belie\c it will be in the I'un 

 ning for soum' years. 



Estelle. 



Tn scarlet 1 grow Flamingo, Kstelle 

 :ind (ardinal and in addition will also 

 have JSno each of IxNdiert Craig and \'ic- 

 titiy. I nee<l ]''sfelle for a good, common 

 scarlet in tiie winter, ami early in April 

 I take uj> the old jilants from tlie iiem-li, 

 cut them back se\erely ami then pl.-mt 

 them out for summer bloftming. (»necan 

 depcMid ujion those jdatds to furnish a 

 good, st(\idy supply of flowers from the 

 middle «i' .luly until frost, at an axerage 

 price of $1.50 jter iiuudred. 



Flamingo. 



Flamingo is coie^idered liv our •'liiiau;o 

 retail florists the best searlet winter car- 



nation on the market ami as far as 1 can 

 jutlge I believe that either b'obert Craig 

 or A'ictory will ha\e some fronlile to beat 

 it. I'laminj^o has tieen a failinw iti a 

 gocxi uiany c.a.ses, in sonn' nndniiliti'diy 

 liecaiise tlic vdii (li(| iiul suit, but in most 

 castas I |.elli\e it is the t I ra t men I . The 

 plants must lie good ami strong when 

 planted iMit. 1 )o not pinch tlieiu baeK any 

 more than is aiis(diitely iiercssary to keeji 

 them ill trim. After Aimiist; 1 pick oil' 



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i :il] lni'U iii«'!i lip t i!i 1 ln' ^1 t'ln mil i I ( )r- 



1 toiler I'll; then jrt them lilooill all t lleV 



I can until March lo. wlii-ii they shoiihl be 

 ; thrown out to make i.Pdm tor "-piing 

 stoi'k. 



llaminyo neeijs t<i he planted in sandy 

 Soil, or soil with a liberal quantity of 

 half rotten horse manure to make i( jmr 

 oils. (ii\e ii plenty id' water Imt do not 

 feed at all, lierausc the Ihiwcr is larye 

 eiioiiyii lor all jir.act ira I |Hirpo<cs and 



any I'ecdiliL; is likely to .spdil the keep 



ing qiialily and proilm-e more splits. 



Contradictory Experiences. 



As an explantion I can state that- the 

 first .")00 l-"l;iiningo I bought, in .laniiai"y, 

 made larye and e|ei^;iiit plants that came 

 into blo(Un in Aumist. I |iinched those 

 llowfrs idV before pl.anting them in the 

 house, and let tlieiu cimie into Idoom 

 again in the latter jiait of Septemliei, 

 but li.ad to pick those llowers off also, 

 because they wmild Hot i\eep. but in the 

 latter |>art of October, when the weather 

 eol cool, they impioxcd lapiilly and by 

 • hristm.as I had i-iit an axeia^e nt thir- 

 teen (lowers per pl.-int, raiiLiin;^ in price 

 I' roll! T I to + 1 L' per lllllldled. Ily March 

 lO we iiioi an a\eraL;e ot' ei;^iiteen 



llowei's. .Insi .about then flowers get 

 spott\ and the plants grow so much In 

 t^ra^s a< to be almost entirely worthless. 

 Seeing that my first lot did so well I 

 bought L'Ol) mole 111 the t'all. all gooij. 

 healliiv jdaiits I'lom the Ijeld, lint en- 

 sideralily smaller th.an my own. These 

 plants had. fiotn Sejitemlier L'o cm, the 

 '^.anie t leaf lllelit. Were plaiiti'd in tiie same 

 -^oil and ill the same liemdi, but I did iiipt 

 ciil a llower from those i.'iiil jilants until 

 .l.anuary 11. ;iiid then they mily a\er;med 

 llol i|uile v|x llnweis per plant up to 

 Maicl jo. when I1h'\ also ga\e out. Diir 

 ing the !;i^t \\ inter I had the .same ex- 

 perience with pl.ants of my twvn "row in l: 

 am! ;il-M iiniiced .similar residts .at some 

 id' my iieigel'ois" pl;i( e^. This siiiiws in 

 my iniinl whv smiie [ jde have .smh 



ere.al ^ih ee^s with I'l.a 111 i 1 1 l;o. while with 



otiier^ it 1^ alinosi a failure. 



.\ imi III 1 I inporta lit |Miint 1-. in dislmd 

 diii;^-. 111 ralibine oi't the liud next in 



the linWer. the lliaill stem is Ae?-y li.abh' 



tn be iii|iireil and the tlower will li;i\e a 



Display by Wietor Bros, at the Carnation Show of the Chicago Florists' Club. March 8. 



