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MAY 23; 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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much feeding as carnations, later on, but 

 this soil will do nicely for them to start 

 in. A. F. J. B. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Mrs. Jennie P. Snow, Sharon, Mass., 

 registers C'arnation Andrew Carnegie, a 

 red sport of Harlowarden, a perfect 

 glowing scarlet, good keeper and fine 

 shipper, much freer than Harlowarden 

 and a continuous bloomer with a perfect 

 non-bursting calyx. 



^iiia name is used provisionally, to 'be 



approved or rejected at the next annual 

 meeting of the society. 



Albert M, Herr, Sec'y. 



A TYPICAL ESTABLISHMENT. 



The accompanying illustrations are re- 

 produced from photographs taken at the 

 establishment of J. F. Sked, Westerville, 

 O. There are mammoth expanses of 

 glass devoted to cut flowers, and little 

 places just starting, but Mr. Sked has 

 an establishment typical of the great 

 majority in the business. He does a 

 large local business in miscellaneous 

 stock, and a wholesale trade in certain 

 specialties. He says the season thus far 

 has been much against the local busi- 



beds I have carnations until Decoration 

 day; then plant ferns. One solid bed 

 I use for early tomatoes, which I plant 

 in February, transplant into boxes, tak- 

 ing to frames in March. Along the west 

 side of the house I have 6-foot hotbeds, 

 which I plant with pansies and early 

 cabbage, peppers, etc. Owing to the late 

 season I have been cutting the pansy 

 blooms, which find ready sale. I have 

 a local market for all the geraniums, let- 

 tuce and, in fact, all the output, but sur- 

 plus finds ready customers by using the 

 -classified advertisements in the Review. 



' ' I shall raise more geraniums and 

 discard small stock that is not so sal- 

 able. In potting my geraniums to 3-inch 

 and 4-inch I use excelsior around the 

 pots. It gives enough air and at the 

 same time keeps the moisture. Every 

 three or four weeks I move the gera- 

 niums, taking all dead leaves and giving 

 more room. I find Poitevine, Nutt, 

 Doyle, Viaud, Perkins and Buchner will 

 answer for any customers. I have for 

 Decoration day one bench of 5-inch 

 which is one mass of bloom and bud. 

 They retail readily for 25 cents to 40 

 cents. Hanging baskets and boxes are 

 all the rage. Boxes three to four feet 

 long and six inches wide, filled with 

 vincas, geraniums and so on, sell very 



Clematis Henryi, which has neat white 

 ■flowers, both producing a mass of rich 

 color when in bloom. ^ 



SHADING. 



Will you please give directions for 

 shading houses containing mixed collec- 

 tions of plants? E. D. P. 



A mixture of kerosene oil and white 

 lead makes an excellent shading for all 

 classes of plants. It either can be put 

 en with a long-handled whitewash brush 

 ior syringed on with a force-pump. For 

 palms, ferns and other foliage plants a 

 much heavier shade is needed than for 

 a general run of commercial flowering 

 plants. Do not use lime wash, as it eats 

 away the paint from the woodwork. If 

 you want a green shade for palms and 

 ferns, mix some dry chrome green with 

 the kerosene and lead, but be sure not 

 to use any linseed oil or the shading 

 will be difficult to remove. C. W. 



ALL THE DIFFERENCE. 



As illustrating the difference between 

 taking good care of stock and neglect- 

 ing it for just a few days at a time, a 

 large grower calls attention to his ex- 

 perience this year with antirrhinum. 



Bench of Geraniums May 1. ^House of Lettuce and Tomato Plants. 



Ettablishment of J. F. Sked, at Westerville, Ohio. 



ness, freezing weather having been ex- 

 perienced as late as May 12. However, 

 carnations planted in the field May 1 

 show no ill effects of the wintry weather. 

 As a result of the backward spring the 

 ■houses are badly crowded, for the young 

 stock has attained a size greater than 

 usual before it is moved outside. The 

 illustrations show how the capacity of 

 the greenhouses is increased by the use 

 of frames. . There are forty sashes 3x6 

 filled with pansies. One house 16x85 is 

 devoted to general stock and two houses 

 12x75 are filled with geraniums, lettuce, 

 tomato and cabbage plants. One of the 

 illustrations shows a bench ninety feet 

 long filled with geraniums in 3-inch and 

 4-inch pots which were ready May 1 for 

 filling orders for bedding out. 



In describing his routine Mr. Sked 

 says: "I have three houses, one 16x75 

 for general stock being the middle house. 

 The two outside houses are 12x80. On 

 each side of each house there are raised 

 benches four and one-half feet wide. 

 These are devoted to lettuce from Octo- 

 ber to February 20. Then I pot to 

 3-inch all geraniums, placing them close 

 and repotting to 4-inch later. On solid 



readily for $1 to $1.50, giving good 

 profit. 



' ' I have a hot water system and heat 

 by gas at 18 cents per thousand feet, 

 and profitable at that." 



VINES FOR THE VERANDA. 



Every possessor of a house with a 

 porch, whether in city, suburb, or coun- 

 try, should be made to realize the op- 

 portunity he has, with the help of nature 

 and the florist, to make it a delicious and 

 beautiful, cool, green, shady retreat, says 

 the National Council of Horticulture. 

 Vines will transform any porch into a 

 bower. To have vigorous vines plenty 

 of rich soil is needed, and it is best to 

 insure this by adding plenty of cow 

 manure or bone meal to make it rich. 

 Good drainage, as in any flower garden, 

 is also essential. 



The number of useful varieties of 

 vines is large and many are quite inex- 

 pensive. Among the best are the clema- 

 tises, well worthy of a place on the most 

 beautiful verandas, "especially the flow- 

 ering varieties such as Clematis Jack- 

 manni, which has purple flowers, and 



Early in the season, before the spring 

 rush began, • he took good care of his 

 stock, with the result that the spikes 

 were straight and well developed and 

 sold quickly at $2 per dozen, wholesale. 

 Then the rush of planting outdoors came 

 on and for a few days the antirrhinums 

 were neglected. They were not staked 

 as carefully as they should have been 

 and, while the stems were straight, the 

 spikes of blooms became twisted and 

 out of. shape, with the result that it 

 was almost impossible , to find a market 

 for them. The buyers would not take 

 them, even at 50 cents a dozen. 



Some growers think it economy to run 

 their places with as little help as possi- 

 ble, but it is often noted that the grow- 

 ers who have the most, and best, help 

 are the ones who .are producing the 

 largest crop, the most steady crop and 

 the best average quality. They are the 

 ones who get the money. 



LONGIFLORUMS IN ENGLAND. 



The quantity of Japan Lilium longi- 

 florum and its varieties being -disposed 

 of during the present season in the Lon- 



