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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1165 



ity in the blooms you ought to get. The 

 fitems, too, will lack in s&ength. 



If your carnations in the natural 

 ground gave fairly good results, then I 

 would use the same soil on the benches. 

 If you use stable manure rake out as 

 much of the straw as you can. Sheep 

 manure would be better ; use a big wheel- 

 barrowful of sheep manure to a yard of 

 soil. Turn this over several times, a cou- 

 ple of weeks apart, so it will be well 

 mixed. After filling in the bencnes, rake 

 in a liberal supply of bone meal, before 

 setting in your plants. After that de- 

 pend on sheep manure for mulching and 

 bone meal and wood ashes to stiffen the 

 stems and heighten the quality of the 

 blooms. You must watch your plants 

 and give them what they seem to need 

 from time to time. One cannot give ex- 

 plicit directions without knowing more 

 about local conditions, etc., than I do 

 about yours. A. F. J. B. 



HELLENTHAUS CARNATIONS. 



The accompanying illustration is pre- 

 pared from a photograph made in one 

 of the new houses of J. R. Hellenthal, 

 at Columbus. There are four varieties 

 of carnations in the house. Enchantress, 

 Lawson, Lady Bountiful and Ethel Ward. 

 The plants of Enchantress, according to 

 Charles M. Jones, who is grower in 

 charge, are a long way ahead of any- 

 thing else on the place. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Carnations Registered. 



E. Witterstaetter, Cincinnati, registers 

 The Cardinal, color a deep rich scarlet; 

 habit similar to Estelle but stronger. 



The Aristocrat, color a deep, lively 

 cerise; long-stemmed flowers three to 

 three and one-half inches in diameter; 

 habit, no surplus grass, a rapid grower, 

 quite healthy and with long-jointed 

 stems. 



Afterglow, color a light, rosy cerise, 

 a three-inch flower, guard petals stand- 

 ing out straight, with high buUt center; 

 habit, a strong, vigorous grower, stems 

 the length of Aristocrat but more rigid; 

 destined to be grown as largely as Law- 

 son in its time. 



i Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



DELPHINIUMS. 



The larkspurs are useful annual and 

 perennial plants. The boldness of the 

 plant and the beauty of the flowers will 

 always attract attention. They are ef- 

 fective when planted in beds or. massed 

 in front of shrubs. In color the flowers 

 range from palest to deepest blue, and 

 include pink, red and white, but rarely 

 yellow. 



The culture of larkspur is simple, ob- 

 serves the National Council of Horticul- 

 ture. They will thrive in almost any 

 good garden soil and in almost any sit- 

 uation. The perennial kinds should be 

 propagated from seed sown early in the 

 fall. In the spring young seedlings, 

 which have been kept during the win- 

 ter in a coldframe in 2-inch or 3-inch 

 pots, should be available and should be 

 set out two or three feet apart in rich, 

 sandy loam, in a sunny exposure. Peren- 

 nial larkspurs may also be propagated by 

 taking up an old plant and dividing its 

 roots. In fact, a bed will remain in con- 

 dition longer if the plants are dug up 

 and replanted every three or four years. 

 The roots or young seedlings may be ob- 



Carnation House of John R. Hellenthal, Columbus, Ohio. 



tained from most wholesale dealers in 

 hardy plants. Grandiflorum, hybridum, 

 and f ormosum are the best varieties. 



Seed of the annual varieties may be 

 sown in beds or borders in spring or fall, 

 preferably the latter, so germination may 

 take place in early spring. As the seed- 

 lings grow they should stand twelve to 

 eighteen inches apart. Seed sown in 

 April will give good results. When the 

 plants are established they should be 

 transplanted to light, rich soil, where 

 they will grow rapidly. The so-called an- 

 nuals are really hardy biennials, but be- 

 cause they bloom the first season they 

 are treated as annuals. Two successive 

 flower crops may be had the same season 

 from the same plants if the faded flower 

 stems of the first crop are removed. 

 Among the better varieties are Ajacis, 

 which grows from fifteen to eighteen 

 inches high, and has graceful spreading 

 branches, and grandiflorum. 



THE ILLINOIS APPROPRIATION. 



An amendment to the bill providing 

 the annual appropriations for the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois has been introduced 

 at Springfield by C. J. Lindley and is 

 now in the hands of the sub-committee 

 on university, of the house appropria- 

 tions committee, of which Frank J. 

 Heinl, of Jacksonville, is chairman. 

 These gentlemen are looking after the 

 florists' interests, but when the amend- 

 ment is reported out with the bill men- 

 tioned, it must have as broad support 

 as the trade can get for it. The follow- 

 ing is the text of the amendment: 



That It shall be the duty of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station to discorer and demonstrate 

 the best methods of producing plants, cut flow- 

 ers and vegetables under glass, and the most 

 effective remedies for disease and Insect enemies 

 of the same, to Investigate and demonstrate the 

 best varieties and methods of producing orna- 

 mental trees, shrubs and plants suitable for pub- 

 lic and private grounds In the various soils and 

 climatic conditions of the state, and to dissemi- 

 nate information concerning the same; and 

 that, to carry out the provisions of this section, 

 there be, and hereby Is. appropriated the sum 

 of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for the year 

 1907 and five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for 

 the year 1908; provided, that the work under- 

 taken and outlined in this section shall be car- 

 ried out In lines to be agreed upon by the direc- 

 tor of the Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 an advisory committee of five, to be appointed 

 by the Illinois State Florists' Association. 



This asking is supported by the Illi- 



nois State Florists' Association, Chicago 

 Florists' Club, Horticultural Society of 

 Chicago and all the leading growers of 

 greenhouse products. Each florist should 

 see personally or write his representative 

 at Springfield to support the appropria- 

 tion asked for. 



USING HAND PUMP. 



Can water be forced with a hand pump 

 a distance of 350 feet, which includes 

 an elevation of seventy-five feet above 

 the water in the well ? J. K. H. 



Your question is not quite clear, but if 

 the well is not over thirty feet deep the 

 ^vater can be raised by suction to that 

 height and then forced any distance into 

 the tank. If the well is over thirty feet 

 deep it will be necessary to place the 

 working cylinder of the pump within 

 thirty feet of the water-level in order to 

 make it work. Water can be taken from 

 a well 300 or 400 feet deep, but the 

 Avorking cylinder is usually placed well 

 down, even below the water-level, so that 

 there can never be more than thirty feet 

 suction. Above the working cylinder it 

 is simply a matter of lifting a column 

 of water to the height desired, which 

 simply requires power. While the work 

 in question can be done by hand power, 

 it will be hard, and an engine or wind- 

 mill should be carefully considered if 

 there is much pumping to be done. 



L. C. C. 



Bloomsville, O. — W. S. Lowry, who 

 began in a small way two years ago, re- 

 ports good business. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — The articles of 

 incorporation of Wm. Donaldson & Co. 

 have been amended so that beginning 

 March 4 the name became L. S. Donald- 

 son Co. 



Davenport, Ia. — The Tri-City Flo- 

 rists' Club held a special meeting Feb- 

 ruary 28 at Fejervary park. The ques- 

 tion as to whether they would give an 

 annual picnic or not was to have been 

 discussed but after the new greenhouse 

 had been inspected little time remained 

 to discuss the question, so the meeting 

 took on the form of a social evening. 



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