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November 1, H»06. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1539 





New Carnation House 30x140 at J. R. Hellenthal% Columbus, O. 



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HELLENTHAL'S HOUSES. 



The accompanying illustrations are 

 from recent photographs made at the 

 establishment of J. E. Hellenthal, Co- 

 lumbus, O. One of the pictures is of the 

 interibr of a new carnation house, 30x 

 140, which is an especially fine structure. 

 It is planted with The Queen, Lady 

 Bountiful, Enchantress, White Lawson, 

 Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson, Ethel Ward, 

 Flamingo and Estelle. A late start was 

 made but the plants are in fine condition 

 and the prospect for winter is excellent. 



The rose house contains Bride and 

 Bridesmaid out of 2-inch pots planted in 

 June. They are in good order. The 

 side bench is one given to Boston ferns. 

 A crop of fine chrysanthemums now is 

 about ready to cut. There is a nice lot 

 of poinsettias on a bench, and also a lot 

 in pans. Mr. Hellenthal is neglecting 

 no detail which makes. for good stock. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Boston, Oct. 29. — Mushrooms, 75c to 

 $1; lettuce, 50c and 75c per box; cucum- 

 bers, $2 to $5 box. 



New York, Oct. 29. — Cucumbers, per 

 dozen, 50c to $1.12; lettuce, Boston, av- 

 erage, per strap, $1 to $2.25; mushrooms, 

 per lb., 10c to 65c. 



Chicago, Oct. 29. — Cucumbers, per 

 dozen, 75c to $1. 



FORCING STRAWBERRIES. 



I have 500 plants in 6-inch pots. How 

 should I keep them through the winter? 

 I have no coldframes, and intend to put 

 them in a vegetable house. What time 

 should I start them growing to be rea- 

 sonably early! I have no time for hand- 

 setting. T. Y. 



If you have no coldframes you are 

 going to have some trouble keeping your 

 plants through the winter. The plants 

 would not be hurt by frost with a slight 

 covering of some light material, but un- 

 less your pots are protected they are sure 

 to be cracked by frost; and you will not 

 be able to cover them suflSciently out of 

 doors to prevent their freezing solid. 



without danger of ruining the plants, as 

 the crowns are liable to rot, if covered 

 too heavily. All the protection the plants 

 really need is just enough to prevent 

 freezing and thawing; but the covering 

 material must never be put on heavy 

 enough to exclude the air. You could 

 probably plunge the pots out of doors, 

 and cover over lightly after they have 

 had sufficient frost to put them to sleep 

 for the winter. That is, frost hard 

 enough to pretty well freeze them 

 through. The idea is to retain this frost 

 in the soil, and prevent alternate freez- 

 ing and thawing; and, at the same time, 

 prevent them from getting frozen too 

 hard. To prevent this, some sort of mov- 

 able covering should be provided, to put 

 over during cold nights, and removed 

 during suitable days. 



Eegarding the time of starting, you 

 should regulate that to suit yourself. 

 They can be started as ^rly as Christ- 

 mas, and as l«te as you want; but I 

 would not advise starting much after 

 March 1, as southern grown berries come 

 in the market early; and unless you get 

 your crop sold before you run against 

 them, there would be little profit. About 

 the beginnifag of February would be a 

 good time. 



You say you have no time for hand- 



setting. I fail to see how you are going 

 to get them set any other way, unless 

 you have bees. Unless the flowers are 

 pollinated, your crop will surely be a 

 failure. 1 hope you have chosen suitable 

 varieties for forcing. There is a great 

 difference in the pollen producing quali- 

 ties of the different varieties. One would 

 naturally think that all per fect-flo were jl; 

 varieties would be alike in this respect,":; 

 but such is not the case. The best pollen 

 producer we have found so far is Nick 

 Ohmer, though it does not mature as 

 quickly as some of the others. It pays 

 to grow it for the purpose of getting 

 pollen to fertilize some of the others. 

 The pollen, when ripe, can be shaken 

 from the flower onto a piece of glass and 

 transferred from there, by a camel 's-hair 

 brush. The operation does not take up 

 so much time. The brush soon becomes 

 loaded with pollen, and quite a number 

 of flowers can be run over and fertilized 

 with what it contains. 



W. S. Croydon. 



SWEET PEA TROUBLE. 



I am enclosing a root of sweet pea in- 

 fested with an insect which I have been 

 fighting since the first part of August 

 and with little success. It already has 

 destroyed my house of peas and the 

 ground is so full of the pest it seems 

 useless to plant in the same soil again. 

 I have some few peas left and should 

 like to try some remedy. I already have 

 used air-slaked lime, tobacco dust, to- 

 bacco dust and camphor, wood ashes, and 

 watered abundantly, as the dry soil seems 

 to breed them. Would some one help me 

 out in this trouble? G. L. B. 



We could see where the fiber of the 

 root had been eaten away but could nof 

 detect the insect that was the cause of 

 it. It is difficult to get at anything that 

 is destroying the roots of plants, for 

 anything strong enough to destroy the 

 enemy wji.ll in most cases injure the roots. 

 In other' words, the cure is worse than 

 ihe disease. As you seem willing to try 

 any remedy suggested, I would ask you 

 to put a peck or more of touacco stems 

 in a tub or barrel and pour some boil- 

 ing water on them. The strength of this 

 decoction will, of course, depend on the 

 quality of stems and how much diluted. 

 When applied to the plants it should 

 be as dark as weak coffee. When cool 



Brides and Maids at J. R. HcUenthai\ Columbus, O. 



