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APBIL 4, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



S525 



Sowings of Salvia splendens are still 

 seasonable, asters, Nicotiana Sanderse 

 and N. affinis and other quick growing 

 annuals are still in good season. 



Pull up single-flowered stocks as they 

 show themselves. Give the doubles all 

 possible chance to develop. The singles 

 are almost unsalable, but doubles come 



est flowers would pay best. Gladioli, if 

 in separate shades of color, might prove 

 a fairly profitable crop. Mixed colors 

 would not pay express charges lor any 

 uistance to any important market. A 

 few sweet peas could probably be grown 

 at a profit. Dahlias are becoming pop- 

 ular in some markets and no doubt if 



House of Azaleas Flowered by W, "W, Edgar & Co.» Waverlcyt Mass* 



in very useful for bunching at Memo- 

 rial day. 



Take some cuttings from your best 

 antirrhinums, pot off when rooted and 

 plant outdoors. Cuttings from these 

 next August will make fine stock for 

 following chrysanthemums. The older 

 plants, also, if lifted carefully, cut back 

 and benched, will give splendid spikes. 



Make careful note of plants selling 

 especially well at Easter and plan to 

 increase your stock of these for another 

 year. Remember also that Easter, 1908, 

 does not come until April 19. 



Many bedding plants can now be re- 

 moved to gentle hotbeds and relieve the 

 crowding in the houses. Take out the 

 hardier varieties first. They will need 

 covering with matting at night for a 

 short time yet, as we may have a mild 

 revisitation of winter. 



SHADING VITH VHITEWASH, 



Can you give me a good recipe for 

 whitewashing my greenhouse. K. C. C. 



An excellent whitewash for green- 

 houses is kerosene and white lead; a lit- 

 tle whiting may be added to make it 

 a purer color. Stir up the lead m the 

 kerosene and try it on a sheet of glass 

 until you get it the right thickness. This 

 may be put on with a force pump or 

 ordinary hand syringe; or, to make a 

 neater job, use an ordinary wide white- 

 wash brush with a long handle. Be sure 

 not to use any linseed oil, as the mixture 

 would be hard to remove from the glass 

 in the fall. C. W. 



FLOWERS FOR MARKET. 



What flowers can be raised outdoors 

 100 miles south of Philadelphia that 

 would pay to grow and ship to market? 



E. C. L. 



There are probably two flowers which 

 it would pay to grow ana ship to a dis- 

 tant market. Asters, if of separate col- 

 ors, pure white, delicate pink and light 

 blue, meet with a ^ood sale. The earli- 



a few sorts of especially desirauie colors 

 were grown the flowers would sell. We 

 think an inquiry to a commission sales- 

 man in the market you will ship to 

 might help you further. C. W. 



TROUBLE WITH MICE. 



Will you please tell me how to get 

 mice out of the greenhouses? They are 

 not the common house mice. They are 



is to wait and shoot them, but they do 

 their mischievous work during the night, 

 eating off and pulling down lettuce 

 plants. They have eaten off as many as 

 seventy-five plants in a night. 



F. W. V. 



For ordinary house mice, we have 

 always found nux vomica mixed with 

 meal the best remedy. They eat it free- 

 ly and are not seen after one night. We 

 have had similar trouble with field mice 

 and know them to be very destructive. 

 Ordinary mousetraps are of no use. Pro- 

 cure one or two moletraps and set in 

 their runs. They can be procured from 

 any seedsman. These will soon capture 

 all the intruders. We would also ad- 

 vise sprinkling around some of the nux 

 vomica mixed with burnt meal. It 

 seems to be well liked by all members of 

 the mouse family. C. W. 



ANNUALS FOR BEDDING. 



Will you please give a list of the best 

 annual plants for bedding on large 

 lawns? What do you think of a bed of 

 dwarf coxcomb bordered with Centaurea 

 gymnocarpa? . E. S. 



Annuals to be effective should be 

 planted in solid beds or in large masses 

 of one color. Coxcombs we do not con- 

 sider a desirable annual for bedding* 

 owing to the extremely stiff habit. The 

 Centaurea gymnocarpa, however, makes 

 a good shbw in a mass. A few first- 

 class annuals for mass effect are the 

 following: Salvia splendens, petunias, 

 of which the California giants are fine, 

 and in separate shades of color they are 

 also very effective; verbenas, for they 

 bloom the entire season ; Phlox Drum- 

 mondi, Nicotiana afiinis and N. San- 

 deree. The latter prefer a little shade 

 and in such a location make a magnifi- 



House of Lilies Flowered by "W, W, Edgar & Co., Waverley, Mass. 



field, or sometimes called meadow mice, 

 with short tails. I find they will not go 

 into a mousetrap, nor will they eat any 

 of the poisoned bait. I have placed 

 some poisoned wheat on the ground, 

 which they have not eaten. I also mixed 

 Paris green with wheat flour and sugar. 

 That, too, does not seem to invite their 

 appetite. The only way I have found 



cent show from June until October. Zin- 

 nias are a little stiff, but for massing 

 in separate colors are good. For an 

 easily grown yellow flower, Calendula 

 Prince of Orange or Lemon Queen could 

 be used. The various coreopsis, like 

 Drummondi and coronata, are persistent 

 bloomers. 



Stocks and asters make but a brief 



