

NOTEMBKR 1, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1535 



MISCELUNEOUS 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



The Dutch Bulbs. 



*^ There should be no time lost now in 

 getting your main crop of tulips, nar- 

 cissi and hyacinths into nats and pots. 

 In these pages I often have said that we 

 make up pans of tulips, narcissi and 

 hyacinths from flats of, these plants, 

 when in flower, or when just about to 

 flower in the spring, but we do this only 

 because we don't happen to have just 

 what is asked for. One reason why the 

 bulbs should be got into the nats is that 

 this is much more easily and quickly don«» 

 outdoors near where the flats are to rest 

 for the winter. And when the soil is 

 dry and fingers not chilled work goes 

 much quicker and more cheerfully. We 

 can't expect much more fine weather. 

 Put your hyacinths, narcissi and tulips 

 into the pots and pans you expect to 

 flower them in. The only difference in 

 the managem.ent between the pots and 

 the flats is, that in case of a very severe 

 winter no harm is done to these hardy 

 bulbs, even if the soil in the flats should 

 be frozen hard; but if this should occur 

 with the pots and pans there would be 

 many broken. Nothing sells better in 

 the spring than pans of Von Sion nar- 

 cissi. Everyone likes the cheerful daffo- 

 dils. All these bulbs in pans and pots 

 should be put into coldfxames, so that 

 they can be protected from hard freez- 

 ing. Don't think, because the soil you 

 use in the flats or pans happens to be 

 moist, that a thorough watering is not 

 necessary. It is most essential, and 

 without it rooting will not take place. 

 We have passed through that mistake 

 years ago, with fatal results. 



Paper Whites and Romans. 



I have often mentioned the fact that 

 Paper White narcissi should be brought 

 in early and given lots of time in a cool 

 house. The same can be said of Roman 

 hyacinths, although the Bomans will en- 

 dure a much higher temperature without 

 harm. I have seen Paper Whites 

 brought in and put down by the side of 

 the path in a warm house, and grow all 

 to leaves. This is entirely wrong. This 

 early, cheap bulb is most useful at the 

 holidays, and the way to make it so is 

 to bring in the flats the first week of 

 November and put them on the bench 

 in the full light, and in a house where 

 it is about 50 degrees at night. Boman 

 hyacinths should be given 60 degrees at 

 night and allowed six weeks to come into 

 flower, but give them also full light. 



Geraniums. 



With the man who grows bedding 

 plants there is one job important about 

 now Mhich may not appear very press- 

 ing. Your big crop of zonal geraniums 

 that you put into 2-inch pots in early 

 September should now oe stood over and 

 the surface of the soil stirred up. This 

 may seem quite a chore to read about, 

 but anybody quick with the fingers can 

 handle thousands in a day. AH that are 

 going to root will be rooted by this time, 

 and the ten or fifteen per cent that are 

 dead will allow you to give the remain- 



der a little space between pots. It is 

 wonderful, the improvement you will 

 notice even in a week after you have 

 stood over and stirred the soil in the 

 small pots. This stirring or loosening of 

 the surface of the soil in pots is identical 

 with hoeing a field of cabbages, or car- 

 nations in the field, and the great bene- 

 fit of that you surely all have seen. In 

 my humble opinion, with plants in pots 

 under glass, it is not practiced nearly as 

 much as it might be to the great benefit 

 of most of our small plants. 



Lorraine Begonias. 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine will just 

 now be starting to send up the growth 

 that will make it such a charming plant 

 at Christmas, and now is a good time to 

 do what tying is necessary. Some use 

 three or four small stakes and surround 

 the plants with a strand of silkaline. 

 Others prefer one stake in the center of 

 the plant and the branches supported by 

 a tie of this material. This should be 

 done soon, so that the plant has time to 



assume a natural appearance and not 

 have the artificial form which all plants 

 have when first tied out. 



Lilies. 



We are busy now potting our Japan 

 lilies, and lack of room or pots may com- 

 pel us to pot them in 4-inch pots, later 

 to be shifted into 6-inch. It may be a 

 case of force, but we do not approve of 

 it. To suit our ideal would be to put 

 them into the pot we intended to flower 

 them in, most likely a 6-inch, and to 

 place the bulb just below the surface of 

 the soil, the pots being only two-thirds 

 full, and place them in a frame pro- 

 tected by glass. When bringing them 

 into the houses, about the middle of De- 

 cember, the pot could be filled with good 

 soil, which would feed those roots that 

 are sure to spring from the stem just 

 above the bulb. The only trouble with 

 this good method is that the fresh soil 

 on the surface will not indicate, by a 

 superficial appearance, whether the bail 

 of roots is dry or not, and a greenhorn 

 cannot be trusted to water them.. 



I was made to say in last week's Ee- 

 viEW by some terrible mistake (most 

 likely my own), in reference to liquid 

 nicotine: "This application is of par- 

 ticular value, but not in the case of early 

 lilies." The reverse is the truth. Wo 

 already have injected into the center of 

 the leaves of our early Bermuda lilies a 

 weak decoction of nicotine, and it has 

 kept them perfectly free from aphis. 



William Scott. 





THE AUTUMN 



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EXHIBITIONS 



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LENOX, MASS. 



The annual show of the Lenox Horti- 

 cultural Society was held on October 24 

 and 25, and, while from the standpoint 

 of quantity of chrysanthemum blooms, 

 was not so large as last year, the quality 

 of the flowers staged will not be sur- 

 passed anywhere this season. 



Last season's novelties were all staged 

 in splendid condition. Beatrice May, 

 Morton F. Plant, E. J. Brooks, Mrs. Geo. 

 Heaume, Mrs. H. Partridge, Mrs. W. 

 Knox, Mrs. F. F. Thompson, W. Wells 

 and May Seddon being in all the win- 

 ning classes, and in every case excep- 

 tionally fine. Mrs. A. J. Miller and 

 Mrs. W. Duckham, 1904 varieties, also 

 were splendid. 



The Pierson cup, for six kinds, three 

 flowers of each, was won by E. Jenkins, 

 gardener to Girard Foster. His varieties 

 were Morton F. Plant, Mrs. A. J. Miller, 

 Mrs. F. F. Thompson, Chr. Montigny, 

 Beatrice May and W. Wells, and were a 

 splendid lot of flowers. The same ex- 

 hibitor also captured the Boddington 

 prize for twenty-four blooms in twenty- 

 four varieties, practically all of the 

 varieties being last year 's novelties. 



The Totty prize for Beatrice May 

 brought out the largest flowers and the 

 best competition of the day. Here again 

 Mr. Jenkins proved his skill, Thos. Proc- 

 tor running him a good second, and S. 

 Carlquist third. Beatrice May, as shown 

 at Lenox, is a wonder. 



The vase of thirty-six blooms was won 



by Bobert Speirs, gardener to Mrs. John 

 E. Parsons, with a mixed collection of 

 fine blooms; second, by A. H. Wingett, 

 gardener to Charles Lanier, and third, 

 to E. Jenkins. The last named exhibitor 

 staged thirty-six grand Duckhams, but it 

 was a matter for regret tnat they were 

 not nearly finished. As mentioned be- 

 fore, the classes were not so well filled, 

 and it was due entirely to the fact that 

 many of the finest flowers were not 

 nearly ready for showing. 



Twelve blooms, distinct varieties, was 

 won by Thomas Proctor, gardener to B. 

 H. Patterson, with B. Speirs second. 



Six blooms, distinct varieties, was won 

 by S. Carlquist, gardener to Mrs. Bobt. 

 Winthrop; A. H. Wingett, second, and 

 Thomas Page, gardener to Geo. H. Mor- 

 gan, third. 



For twelve blooms, 1906 varieties, Mr. 

 Jenkins secured first, the most notable 

 flower being a magnificent May Seddon. 



Six yellow was won by B. J. Loveless, 

 with Mrs. W. Duckham; E. Jenkins, sec- 

 ond, and Thomas Proctor, third; six red, 

 by Fred Heeremans, gardener to W. D. 

 Sloan, with fine H. J. Jones; six white, 

 by E. Jenkins, with Beatrice May; six 

 pink, by the same exhibitor, with W. 

 Duckham; six bronze, by A. J. Loveless, 

 with Mrs. A. J. Miller; six any other 

 color, by Thomas Proctor, also with 

 Grand Miller; three yellow was won by 

 S. Carlquist, and also three red; three 

 white, by the same exhibitor, and three 

 pink by Bobert Speirs, with splendid 



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