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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



January 17, 1907. 



have advised you to put some bone into 

 the soil at planting time. 



If your soil is of a light texture you 

 would naturally have more trouble along 

 this line than you would with a good 

 heavy loam. A soil that makes lots of 

 growth does not necessarily make good 

 steins and blooms. If your plants were 

 exceptionally large at planting time 

 they may be too crowded by now, which 

 would also cause a weak growth. 



I would advise you to keep the venti- 

 lators open all the time, especially when 

 you are firing heavily. This may seem 

 like wasting fuel, but you will find it 

 will pay you well. If you can get some 

 sheep manure, then tie half a bushel in 

 a burlap bag and hang it in a 50-gallon 

 barrel of water. After three or four 

 days .use this liquid, mixed half and 

 half with clear water, and apply it about 

 once in ten days and when you get 

 bright weather give it to them once each 

 week. Get a Kinney pump; it will save 

 you nmch labor in the operation and 

 you won't mind the job half so much, 

 A little later, when evaporation is more 

 rapid, a mulch of old stable manure 

 will do them good. A. F. J. B. 



ROBERT CRAIG CARNATION. 



I would like to know if Eobert Craig 

 carnation is giving satisfaction. I got 

 fifty plants in the spring. I find it a 

 strong grower, but there are too many 

 split and off -colored flowers. I can 't 

 lay it to cultivation, as it makes a good 

 stem twenty-four inches and over and 

 the perfect flowers come about three 

 and one-half inches and over. I have 

 Lawson, Enchantress and Boston Mar- 

 ket, all doing well. Is Craig a desir- 

 able carnation to plant in quantity? 

 G. H. 



Robert Craig is doing splendidly with 



really profitable, but it will do this right 

 along on account of its unfailing qual- 

 ity. Other growers with whom I have 

 talked seem to hold the same opinion. 



"We have noticed three or four plants 

 among our stock which produce off- 

 colored blooms, which we cannot ac- 

 count for. Better not propagate from 

 such plants. This need not necessarily 

 be a weakness in the variety, but it may 

 be simply a bud variation, the same as 

 any otlaer sport. If it happened to be 

 some desirable color you would save it 

 and call it a sport; in this case it is a 

 rogue. A. P. J. B. 



McKINLEY DAY. 



Eetailers everywhere should look for- 

 ward to McXinley day, January 29, and 

 each should do his share to stimulate the 

 public interest. McKinley day will die 

 an untimely death unless the trade does 

 something to keep alive the spirit. Tell 

 your local newspaper men of it and get 

 them each to publish a little note to the 

 effect that on January 29- everyone who 

 voted for McKinley, or who reveres his 

 memory, will wear a carnation. Eefer 

 to McKinley day in your local advertis- 

 ing and wherever possible give the senti- 

 ment a start on the morning of McKin- 

 ley day by seeing that people on their 

 way to work wear carnations. Last year 

 one retailer did a good turn by deco- 

 rating with a boutonniere every street 

 car employee before the cars left the 

 barns in the morning. Another started 

 the business by putting boys at nearby 

 street > corners witn small baskets of 

 blooms to sell at a nickel apiece to the 

 people on the streets. 



It would be the greatest mistake to 

 undertake to advance the price of carna- 

 tions for January 29, and growers need 

 make no special preparations for the day. 

 If the normal production can be put 



House of Aristocrat at Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet, IlL, Photoeraphed Septeniber 1, 1906* 



us and we consider it a good thing and 

 worth planting in quantity. The growth 

 is strong and the stems are fine. Blooms 

 are large, well formed and of a deep 

 rich red. It is not early with us and 

 not so free as Victory, but it throws up 

 its stems quickly and produces more 

 blooms than one would be led to think 

 by the appearance of the plants. It 

 will have to bring the top price to be 



upon the streets that day it will be en- 

 tirely satisfactory. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet", 111., 

 registers Carnation Beau Brummel, a 

 large white overlaid with crimson, on 

 the order of Prosperity, having more 

 color than this variety; a cross between 



a white seedling and Harlowarden; au 

 early, free and continuous bloomer, pro- 

 ducing large well-formed flowers on good 

 strong stems. 



Baur & Smith, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 register Carnation Saint Nicholas, the 

 brightest scarlet we have ever seen in 

 any carnation, exactly identical with the 

 geranium, Trego, in color; does not dull 

 in aging; large bloom on fine, long and 

 strong stem and very free; at its best 

 during midwinter but comes in early and 

 continues late; clean, vigorous, upright 

 grower, with strong constitution; both 

 parents seedlings. 



Baur & Smith also register Carnation 

 May, a full shade deeper and brighter 

 than Enchantress; bloom of large size 

 and well formed; opens up the center 

 petals as soon as the bloom is unfolded; 

 good substance and never bursts the 

 calyx; stem of good medium length and 

 strong as Lawson. A fine, healthy grower 

 and very free; comes in very early and 

 never lets up until midsummer; both 

 parents are seedlings. 



Albeet M. Herr, Sec'y. 



CARNATION WINSOR. 



At Scarboro, N. Y., the next station 

 to Tarrytown, a few miles higher up 

 the Hudson, there is a wonderful trans- 

 formation occurring, for here on 

 newly purchased land, coming right 

 down to the railroad station, the F. E. 

 Pierson Co. is establishing one of the 

 most picturesque and beautifully lo- 

 cated nurseries in America. The 

 grounds at present cover nearly sixty 

 acres and many fine collections are to 

 be seen. Here, too, there is being 

 brought into existence a great range of 

 glass. In addition to eight older rose 

 houses each 300 feet long, there have 

 recently been built three plant houses 

 over 300 feet in length and from fifty 

 to sixty feet in width. One of these 

 houses, built on the U-bar design, is 

 shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion. It is planted with the new Win- 

 sor carnation. This particular house is 

 50x300 feet, heated and ventilated by 

 the latest improvements. In it are ten 

 solid beds divided half way by a 6-foot 

 passageway. In these beds are planted 

 15,000 Winsor and on these plants, by a 

 carefully counted bench, a fair aver- 

 age would place the number of visible 

 buds and blooms on these 15,000 plants 

 that day, January 9, at 165,000. 



Winsor is a seedling raised from 

 Daybreak and Albertina On Lawson, 

 resulting in an entirely distinct va- 

 riety, yet retaining all that which is 

 best in its triple parentage. If there 

 is any predominant element it is that 

 which distinguishes the Lawson. Its 

 healthy and profuse foliage is, if any- 

 thing, a shade lighter than that of the 

 above mentioned variety. Its flowers 

 are borne on stiff stems, from fourteen 

 to twenty-four inches in length. There 

 is none of that brittleness about the 

 stem that characterizes some other va- 

 rieties. Not a single bursted calyx was 

 discernible. In size the flower is the 

 equal of Lawson. 



There are thr^jC benches of Winsor 

 planted two years ago. They have 

 never been disturbed, merely receiving 

 the ordinary culture necessary to stock 

 plants. Today they are a mass of 

 healthy foliage, blooms and buds. 

 Twelve thousand plants were put out 

 in solid beds from 2%-inch pots last 

 June. Large cuts were made early in 

 October. In November 10,000 blooms 



