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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 6, 1006. 



ROSES 



are improving every day and we are now 

 getting in a fine lot of Kaiserins^ Brides^ 

 Bridesmaids and Giatenays. The Rich- 

 mond are a little short in stem^ but the 

 flowers are fine. 



CARNATIONS 



are good, and Violets are the finest coming 

 into this market. 



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no need of putting them in the sand. 

 Pot them at once. Pot firmly and give 

 them one good watering and place on a 

 light bench. In three weeks they will be 

 rooted and will make better plants than 

 those from the sand. 



These later propagated plants will 

 need no pinching, but, shifted into their 

 flowering pot in the end of March, 

 should be in good flower at the end of 

 May. The principal cause of geraniums 

 running to leaf and being shy of flower 

 is because they are potted too loosely, 

 with too much manure or leaf -mold. Pot 

 into a heavy loam with a 5-inch pot of 

 bone flour to a bushel of the loam and 

 pot firmly. W. S. 



PYRETHRUMS FOR CUTTING. 



Keferring to my recent notes on 

 pyrethrums, it may interest American 

 readers to hear that this useful hardy 

 herbaceous perennial is grown by market 

 men in England by the acre for cut 

 bloom for market, some growers having 

 as many as five acres and one or two 

 cultivating nearly ten acres each. Many 

 growers and, in fact, all growers when 

 first commencing their cultivation, make 

 a failure the first year or two of plant- 

 ing out, through not planting at the 

 proper time of the year. Some growers 

 think they may be moved practically all 

 the year around, while others only 

 during the period from February to 

 June, and one of our leading specialists 

 continually advocates the months of 

 August and September. But according 

 to my own experience these two latter 

 are the worst possible months of the 

 whole twelve. 



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There is only one month pyrethrums 

 may be successfully moved and that is 

 April (at least, in England). The great 

 essential point is that the clumps be 

 taken up and divided just at a time 

 when they are in their full spring 

 growth, and in such weather they con- 

 tinue growing without the slightest check 

 and commence to take root in their new 

 quarters from the moment they are 

 planted. At that time, and under such 

 conditions only can the clumps be di- 

 vided down to two eyes and ninety per 

 cent be sure of living and making sal- 

 able retail nursery clumps by the fol- 

 lowing spring. Of course, the bulk cul- 

 tivated here are white varieties, the best 

 being Carl Vogt, snow white; Aphrodite, 



ivory white; Sambamburg, white with 

 yellowish center, and White Aster, white 

 with blush center. All the four are 

 double. B. J. 



The Eeview is the pusher. — J. G. 

 Angel, Neosho, Mo. 



GiKARD, Kan. — Sourdry Bros, have 

 just completed their new plant. It is 

 100 feet square, with 12,500 feet of 

 glass. There are six houses, one 20x100 

 and five 16x100 feet each, but there are 

 no partitions between these houses and 

 all are really under one roof. The plant 

 is heated by hot water and the firm will 

 install a mechanical watering system. 

 Their specialties will be lettuce, cut 

 flowers and mixed plants. 



