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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jan CART 8, 1907. 



strikes them most directly they will dry 

 out in spots and will need water perhaps 

 every day, while at other spots water 

 may not be needed more than once in 

 three days or more. This is important 

 and should not be neglected. 



Any spot that will require watering 

 more than once each day is not fit for 

 a young carnation plant, or any other 

 plant for that matter. Later on, how- 

 ever, when the sun becomes quite warm, 

 more watering will be needed, and, in 

 many cases, twice a day may be neces- 

 sary. By plunging the pots in the sand 

 slightly this can be partly overcome, but 



more sand will be required on the bench. 

 Sand that has been used for propagating 

 makes splendid material for this use ex- 

 cept in case it may be full of cutting 

 bench fungus. In that case it should 

 not be used in the greenhouse in any 

 way at all. 



Be careful that you do not mix your 

 varieties, of which there is always more 

 or less danger when handling the young 

 plants. One young plant mixed in an- 

 other variety now, may mean a dozen or 

 more plants the next season and may be 

 the cause of no end of trouble. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Every few years pleasing variations 

 of form, or color, or type occur in the 

 chrysanthemum, which serve to rejuve- 

 nate the interest in the flower, and, just 

 at present, it would seem that it is the 

 single varieties that are coming into 

 popular favor. The singles are not a 

 new type, but it is only within the last 

 year or two that they have been greatly 

 improved and brought into the limelight. 

 The Keview, a week or two ago, mem- 

 tioned the great interest being taken in 

 the singles in England and there is abun- 

 dant evidence that this interest is also 

 spreading along the eastern states of our 

 own country, good exhibits having been 

 made at several of the fall shows. 



The big fellows will always have their 

 admirers and the singles in no way en- 

 croach on their domain. As soon might 

 one say that Paper Gontier will supplant 

 American Beauty in the rose section, as 

 to say that the single varieties will dis- 

 place the giant exhibition sorts. But 

 the singles have a place and satisfy for 

 a time the longing for variety and 

 change that, like hope, seems to "spring 

 eternal in the human breast." 



We now have in the single varieties 

 every shade of color found in the other 

 types and not a few unusual shapes. 

 Some varieties, notably Edith Pegram, 

 have two well defined rings of color in 

 the flower, and in others the contrast be- 

 tween the eye, or disc, and the petals is 

 striking and beautiful, the pure white 

 varieties often having a golden yellow 

 eye, the yellow kinds showing a large 

 green eye, and so on. 



The flowers of one variety I grew this 

 year, Cecil Denyer, are the exact repre- 

 sentation of a cactus dahlia, while an- 

 other, Dorothy Fortescue, produced 

 flowers that, saving for color, are an ex- 

 act representation of the flower of the 

 poinsettia. Some of the varieties are de- 

 liciously scented, so mucli so, in fact, 

 that bees were a nuisance in the houses 

 where the plants were in flower. 



While the flowers would get damaged, 

 more or less, if grown entirely outside in 

 the northern states, yet I think that 

 there is an immense stretch of country 

 where they will do finely and produce a 

 wonderful wealth of color without any 

 protection whatever. 



It will, however, be as pot plants that 

 singles wUl find most favor in the north- 



ern markets. So grown they are very 

 beautiful and can be used in any kind of 

 a decoration with telling effect. I have 

 been asked whether they can be used for 

 cut flower work, and I answer most as- 

 suredly, yes. Grown in a bench they 

 can be cut in long, graceful sprays which 



cities and their decorative value will then 

 be fully established. 



Some of the most effective varieties as 

 they grew with me were as follows: 

 white, Gertrude, Nancy Perkins, Harold 

 Shaw, and Miss T. C. Warden; yellow, 

 Sir George Bullough, Kitty Bourne, Pre- 

 toria, Arthur Thome and Golden Star; 

 pinks, Mrs. E, Roberts, Edith Pegram, 

 F. W. Smith, Ladysmith, Mrs. Ferguson 

 and Herbert Henderson. Of odd colors 

 there are several fine ones: Kev. W. E. 

 Renfrey, crimson maroon; Crown Jewel, 

 bronze; Earlswood Beauty, primrose; 

 Felix, a very large, crimson bronze; J. 

 T. Angus, deep cerise; Mrs. BaUlie, 

 chestnut, and Mary Richardson, deep 

 salmon. 



When they are better known, many a 

 florist will find them money-makers, and, 

 particularly, those florists who retail the 

 stock they grow direct on the establish- 

 ment, as they sell themselves if people 

 can see them growing naturally. 



Charles H. Totty. 



PREPARING STOCK PLANTS. 



Will you tell me how to prepare chrys- 

 anthemum stock plants for propagation? 

 When the old plants are dug up should 

 all suckers and sprouts be removed and 

 only the bare root planted, or should 

 some of them be left to give the roots 

 a start? If they are to be stripped, 

 should it be done when dug up, or left 



John K* M« L. Farquhar. 



sell readily, and many of the progressive 

 growers that watch the market closely 

 are preparing to grow them extensively 

 next year. Another season will see tiiem 

 in regular supply in several of the larger 



until they are planted out for cuttings f 



W.C. 



It is our practice to cut oflE all flower 

 stalks and hard wood and to remove all 



