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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Single pips planted as soon as procura- 

 ble in the fall, in rows eighteen to 

 twenty-four inches apart, will in three 

 or four years make thick rows, which 

 may need dividing and replanting with- 

 in five or six years if the quality is to 

 be kept high. Give your valley rich 

 land and a liberal top dressing every 

 fall. Keep weeds in check and you will 

 have a bed of which your neighbors will 

 be envious. Be sure not to cut off the 

 foliage while green, or you will ruin 

 your flower crop for the succeeding year. 

 Berlin pips have always given us excel- 

 lent results for outdoor planting. 



Lilies. 



If you potted some bulbs of Lilium 

 speciosum, L. tigrinum or L. auratum 

 last November, they will now be grow- 

 ing vigorously and should have a cool, 

 airy house, with applications of 

 manure water once a week. Where there 

 is a call for summer plants in pots, 

 these lilies are useful and the flowers 

 also are of much value in design or 

 bouquet work. L. speciosum album is 

 perhaps the most valuable and is a good 

 seller in the markets at all times. 



Retarded bulbs potted early in July 

 will flower for Christmas, when they 

 will be found especially valuable. Dur- 

 ing the last few years retarded bulbs 

 have been considerably used, but in this 

 respect we are still much behind our 

 English cousins. The big London grow- 

 ers, like the Eochfords, use them in im- 

 mense numbers. Sprinkle some tobacco 

 dust on the tops of the shoots to keep 

 green aphis in check. It quickly spoils 

 many of the little buds if given any 

 quarter at all. 



Mill Gloxinias aod Tuberous Begonias. 



Early potted plants of gloxinias and 

 tuberous begonias should now be flow- 

 ering freely. They require a house with 

 fairly heavy shading, the gloxinias re- 

 quiring it more than the begonias. A 

 temperature of 55 to 60 degrees at 

 night and a little air from the top ven- 

 tilators all the time will keep them 

 stocky, and the gloxinia flowers will 

 stand erect instead of falling over, as 

 is the case when grown hot and stuffy. 

 If you water with the hose, wet the 

 foliage as little as possible and never 

 spray the plants overhead, or flowers and 

 foliage will quickly resent it. Keep 

 seedlings of gloxinias and begonias 

 potted on as required and they will make 

 nice stock for blooming in late summer. 



Brief Reminders. 



Shift your single-stem chrysanthe- 

 mums into larger pots if benches are not 

 ready, rather than allow them to become 

 hard and matted at the roots. 



The poet's narcissus, N. poeticus, is 

 a grand flower for Memorial day. The 

 bulbs are cheap and a bed containing a 

 thousand or so will soon pay for itself. 



Be sure the hoe is kept going among 

 all growing crops. The more you stir, 

 the better your plants will grow. No 

 plants will thrive when the ground is 

 baked. 



Amaryllis Belladonna should now be 

 completing its growth and can be rested 

 under the sashes of a frame or on any 

 dry, sunny bank outdoors. The flowers 

 are beautiful and serviceable in October. 



There is time still for another batch 

 of chrysanthemum cuttings. Put in 

 plenty of the stand-bys, like Bonnaffon, 

 Ivory, Nonin, Halliday and Eaton. Cut- 

 tings rooted now will make nice, bushy 



The Pooderosa Lemon is a Good Advertising Card. 



little stock in G-inch or 7-inch pots for 

 retail trade. 



If you have a demand for cut an- 

 nuals, put in another sowing of such 

 plants as lupines, annual larkspurs, 

 mignonette, stocks, asters and selected 

 colors of nasturtiums. 



Is your smilax about ready for plant- 

 ing in the bed? It will grow better in 

 a solid bed than in a raised bench. 



Iris Hispanica and Gladiolus Colvillei 

 in variety are excellent Memorial day 

 flowers. Have you ever tried them? If 

 not, make a note of them and order this 

 fall. 



Look out for the slugs on your hardy 

 roses. Use hellebore when it shows it- 

 self. For green aphis, spray with kero- 

 sene emulsion or whale oil soap. 



FERTILIZERS. 



Decidedly the best fertilizer that can 

 be used is well rotted stable manure. 

 In most cases where a commercial fer- 

 tilizer is used, some manure should be 

 used with it. It is important in fertiliz- 

 ing soil to improve its physical condi- 

 tion, as well as its chemical composi- 

 tion. It should be made loose, so that 

 the roots of plants may readily absorb 

 the food it contains. For this purpose 

 manures are unexcelled. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 says the physical [)roperties of soil have 

 a large influence on fertility. The most 

 common means of loss of fertilitv is 



through leaching, or the mechanical wash- 

 ing away of nourishing properties. Soils 

 which have a large proportion of clay 

 are finely grained and compact, thus 

 making it easy for the plant food they 

 contain to be washed away. At the same 

 time the compactness frequently retains 

 the elements of fertility tenaciously 

 against their use by plants. 



If a commercial fertilizer is used, it 

 should be a mixture that gives a com- 

 plete fertilizer, supplying all the ele- 

 ments needed to maJie rich soil. 



DAHLIA FIRE RAIN. 



For many years Lyndhurst has been 

 our brightest, richest dahlia for cutting 

 purposes, especially when used under 

 artificial light, says the Henry A. Dreer 

 Co., but in unfavorable seasons it is late 

 in flowering. In the new variety. Fire 

 Rain, which was sent to us by a special- 

 ist in Germany and which we have had 

 under trial for two seasons, we have not 

 only the rich cardinal red color which 

 has made Lyndhurst so desirable, but a 

 plant that produces masses of bloom early 

 and continuously throughout the season. 

 We consider Fire Rain a most valuable 

 addition to our list of decorative varie- 

 ties, both for garden display and as a 

 cut flower. 



Marshall, Mich.— W. M. Stuart, 

 the stationer and jeweler, is going into 

 the florists' business. 



