The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 6, 1907. 



among hard-wooded stock in the open, 

 such as azaleas, acacias, ericas, etc. 



Keep young marguerites potted on and 

 pinch out all flowers from them. 



Have you made a list of hyacinths, 

 tulips and other bulbous stock you will 

 need another season? Do not leave the 

 buying until you need them. Early 



orders will secure you better class bulbs. 

 Many handsome deciduous shrubs are 

 now in flower. A few planted on your 

 front lawn makes your home attractive 

 and may bring you orders for similar 

 stock. Especially desirable are the many 

 fine lilacs, viburnums, loniceras and 

 spiraeas. 



PLANTING. 



Planting should be proceeded with this 

 month, for all the main crop or flowers. 

 Many growers have to wait until the 

 bedding stock is out of the way, and it 

 is during this interval of waiting that 

 plants so often are neglected. The plant- 

 ing rush is on and the mums must wait, 

 and in the meantime often suffer for 

 want of water, becoming potbound, hard 

 and stunted. Avoid this as much as 

 possible if you would grow fine stock. 

 If the plants are getting potbound and 

 you are not yet ready to plant, either 

 move them on into 4-inch pots or knock 

 them out of the pots and set thinly into 

 flats, putting soil between the balls. If 

 the benches are full of other plants, one 

 can at least have the soil chopped down 

 and ready, so that the work of planting 

 can be rushed when it can be got at. 



Stock for Late Flowers. 



Several inquiries having reached me 

 last week on the time to plant for 

 Thanksgiving flowers, I would say that 

 there is yet plenty of time to propagate 

 for late planting. Quite nice flowers 

 can be obtained from plants rooted even 

 as late aa the middle of July, if the 

 right kinds are grown. In fact, I know 

 some commercial growers who have bet- 

 ter success with stock propagated from 

 now on than they do with the earlier 

 stock, because they have more time to 

 look after it. "With the season so cool 

 as it has been so far this year, propaga- 

 tion has been easy, but look out for the 

 drying wynds in June and by frequent 

 spraying keep the cuttings from wilting. 



A good selection of varieties to use 

 for late planting is as follows: White — 

 Chadwick, Mrs. Swinburne, J. Nonin 

 and Timothy Eaton. Yellow — Yellow 

 Chadwick, Mrs. Geo. Beech, Yellow 

 Eaton and Nagoya. Pink- — Winter 

 Cheer, Dr. Enguehard and Maud Dean. 



The last named I could never do much 

 with myself, but I have seen it doing 

 nicely in some places. With me it al- 

 ways made an enormous eye and would 

 not cover in the center. Mrs. Swinburne 

 and Mrs. Geo. Beech are two varieties 

 that have done well in most sections of 

 the country and can be recommended as 

 being easily grown, not too large in fo- 

 liage and doing well on the terminal 

 bud. Enguehard is another variety that 

 is best on the terminal and consequently 

 comes in well for this late work. En- 

 guehard got a black eye when it first 

 came out, because so many growers 

 caught it on too early a bud and the 

 resultant flower was a wretched affair 

 that looked more like a piece of sponge 

 than anything else, with short petals 

 sticking straight out. Now it has 



reached its level and occupies a fair 

 place as a commercial pink for. late flow- 

 ers. 



In the New York market late mums 

 have not amounted to so much of late 

 years as they once did, but there are 

 many towns where they are welcome till 

 December. It is by no means impos- 

 sible to have them for Christmas, but in 

 my humble opinion they are not much 

 sought after so late as that. There is a 

 time and a place for everything and 

 the mum is never more welcome than in 

 early October, when the frosts have 

 stripped the outside flowers down and 

 the people are hastening back to the 

 city, and the crisp, nippy air reminds 

 the florist that his summer loafing is 

 ended. It is an easy matter to flower 

 mums in May by propagating early in 

 the year and keeping them in small pots 

 for a time to harden up the wood. Sev- 

 eral singles are a mass of buds and flow- 

 ers with me, that have been so treated, 

 but I question if they could be profit- 



ably sold in quantity, and, as I said 

 before, there is a time and a place for 

 everything. Charles H. Totty. 



MUM SPORTS. 



No definite conclusion has been ar- 

 rived at as to the cause of sporting in 

 chrysanthemums, but every addition to 

 our knowledge brings us nearer to the 

 goal. On this account attention is called 

 to a statement by M. Clement in Le 

 Chrysanthfeme, to the effect that, in nine 

 cases out of ten, the change is from 

 light coloring to a darker shade. That 

 yellow should be prominent in these 

 sports is only what might have been ex- 

 pected from the ancestry of these plants. 

 A yellow chrysanthemum is said rarely 

 to produce a white flower, but a white 

 variety may show yellow flowers; a red 

 variety will throw maroon blooms, a 

 rose-colored form will sport into a 

 salmon-colored one. 



SOIL FOR PLUMOSUS. 



What is the best soil for growing As- 

 paragus plumosus? S. C. C. 



Asparagus plumosus likes a compost 

 of three-fourths pasture loam and one- 

 fourth dry cow manure, with some sand 

 added. If in a bed, use six inches of soil 

 and remember that solid beds are better 

 than benches to plant in. C. W. 



OwENSBOBO, Ky. — A. H. Snapp, from 

 New York, is now in charge of the green- 

 houses of the Nanz Flor5 Co. 



Oregon, III. — Harry Davis, the Polo 

 greenhouse man, has had his wagons in 

 Oregon during the last week, engaged in 

 the sale of plants and bulbs, and has 

 met with good success. 



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SECURING THE CARD. 



One of the diflSculties that practi- 

 cally every retail florist encounters, and 

 which is especially exasperating, is the 

 loss or misplacing of cards which are to 

 aooompany orders for delivery. The 

 retailer who has a large business has 

 things systematized so these accidents 

 are reduced to a minimum, but the flo- 

 rist who does not have a large number 

 of these gift orders to deliver does not 

 always have the right system and is 

 constantly getting into trouble. One of 

 the best ways of keeping track of such 

 orders is that adopted by W. J. Smyth, 

 in Chicago. He uses a heavy printed 

 envelope, with a flap for sealing at one 

 end and punched at the other end, like 

 a shipping tag, for tying. When Mrs. 

 Van Rensselaer comes in with an order 

 to deliver a plant or box of flowers to 

 Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Brown's address at 

 once is written in the spaces on the en- 

 velope and the donor's card, placed in 

 a small envelope, is sealed within the 

 larger one, which then is tied upon the 

 plant. Subsequent decorations may or 



may not be added, but there is no 

 chance for the card to get away. 



BIRTHDAY BOUQUETS. 



H. N. Bruns, Chicago, tells an inter- 

 esting story of his experience with a 

 gentleman who came into his store in 

 search of something to send a lady as 

 a birthday remembrance. He said the 

 lady was seventy-four years of age and 

 he wanted something nice. "I told 

 him," says Mr. Bruns, "that in the 

 flower business there is nothing which 

 is thought more highly of than Ameri- 

 can Beauties, and suggested that be 

 send a bouquet of seventy-four Beau- 

 ties. At first he demurred because the 

 cost was too much, but I showed him 

 the flowers and finally he gave the order. 

 I made up a bunch that was good value 

 at the price charged, using seventy-three 

 tight buds with one large open flower 

 in the center. The next day the gentle- 

 man returned and said he came for the 

 express purpose of thanking me for 

 sending so nice a bouquet. 'The old 

 lady received all kinds of presents,' said 

 he, 'and- some of them expensive, but 



