Decembeh 13, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



247 



Twig Basket of Baby Rambler Roses. 



left the pots on the pipes until the bells 

 on the flower spikes could be easily 

 counted. Then they were lifted to the 

 bench in the full light and carefully 

 watered, not wetting the flowers, and 

 shaded from bright sun. They were uni- 

 formly fine. I am sure ninety-five per 

 cent of the pips thus treated gave us fine 

 spikes. So there is more than one way 

 of doing some things. 



I think it is a mistake to cut the roots 

 off short. We shortened the roots only 

 one inch. Wo have seen the roots 

 chopped off to within three inches of 

 the base of the pip and the flowers were 

 poor. 



Christmas Plants. 



Whatever you need in the way of 

 Christmas plants, procure at once. Don 't 

 delay until the last day or two and then 

 telegraph and have to take what is left. 

 Whatever popular flowering, fruiting or 

 decorative plant you are short of you 

 should buy. If in the retail business 

 you can't afford to say, "I don't want 

 this and that, for I have plenty of so 

 and so." You must keep up with the 

 fashion, even if you come out only even 

 on the stock you have to purchase. 



Storage for Greens. 



Holly and ground pine soon will be 

 arriving. Just a word now in reference 

 to their care. If you can't unpack the 

 green at once, then keep out of doors, 

 but cover the sides of the crates with 

 matting, old carpet or some material to 

 keep daylight away, for all that is ex- 

 posed to the light will turn brown. The 

 holly tree endures frost, but that's no 



reason why the holly branches should be 

 exposed to zero weather outside. Store 

 the cases in some cool, dark room. A 

 few degrees of frost won't hurt, but se- 

 vere freezing will cause a loss of many 

 berries, and what's holly without the 

 berries? 



Protecting Pansies. 



About this time of the year we usu- 

 ally have something to say about cover- 

 ing pansies that have to face our cruel, 

 cold and treacherous winter, but annually 

 we hear the same dialogue in April: 



"How are your pansies?" 



' ' What 's alive are looking fine, but 

 they got winter-killed, many of them." 



Go into the woods and get a load or 

 two of evergreen boughs and place them 

 lightly over your plants. There is no 

 covering so good as evergreen and no 

 evergreen so good for the purpose as the 

 hemlock, Abies Canadensis. Its branches 

 are broad, and spreading, and light, and 

 curve up at the ends, so by reversing 

 their order of growth and putting the 

 convex shape of the branch upwards 

 they lie lightly on the plants. Straw 

 thinly laid over the plants may some- 

 times do good, and sometimes it rots the 

 plants. William Scott. 



PECKY CYPRESS. 



Pecky cypress is about the most un- 

 handsome wood one could imagine. If 

 a person knows nothing about it, its 

 appearance is that of being already well 

 rotted when it is just from the mill. 

 The holes in it are not rot, nor do they 

 seem to be the work of borers. Just 



what is the cause of the ill appearance 

 lumbermen are not able to say with cer- 

 tainty. But on the theory that handsome 

 is that handsome does, greenhouse own- 

 ers have taken a great liking to Pecky 

 cypress. The big growers around Chi- 

 cago are using nothing else for their 

 bench material. The first cost is about 

 the same as hemlock, and it lasts so much 

 longer that the cost in the end is only 

 a fraction of the cost of other lumber. 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co. used 250,000 feet 

 of Pecky cypress in the benches they 

 built last spring. Peter Reinberg now 

 has three cars on the track for unloading 

 and his order for immediate delivery is 

 100,000 feet. The Adam Schillo Lumber 

 Co. has 700,000 feet of Pecky cypress 

 in Louisiana, drying for delivery between 

 now and spring. These are boards 1x6 

 and from eight to twenty feet long, being 

 selected so that they will just strike the 

 crosspieces of benches built on posts four 

 feet apart. Since the cypress mills have 

 found so good a demand for Pecky cy- 

 press among greenhouse owners they have 

 advanced the price. At Chicago it is 

 now worth about $22 per 1,000 feet in 

 carload lots. 



Charlotte, Mich.— The Fuller Floral 

 Co. has opened a flower and candy store 

 in the Foster block. 



PoNCiiATOULA, La.— Annie H. Park- 

 hurst recently erected a range of four 

 300-foot greenhouses for vegetables. 



New Brighton, Pa.— Mrs. H. A. 

 Hewitt, formerly of Beaver Falls, has 

 leased the Junction Park greenhouses 

 here. 



