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Elevation for a Guiuttion House Twenty-Seven Feet W^ide« 



along these lines will produce as good 

 carnations as any house that can be 

 built. Houses of this type can be built 

 on ground that has a little slope, but I 

 would suggest that you build on a level 

 site. If possible select a light, sandy 

 soil on which to erect your range. 



While this plan is, in my opinion, the 

 best, some changes can be made as to 

 patterns and size of the various parts 

 that enter into the constructidn. As 

 stated at the beginning of this article, 

 there is no one house that can be taken 

 as a model, but you will find that houses 

 of this type will produce the kind of 

 stock that sells and puts the balance on 

 the right side of the ledger. 



BUDDLEIA VARIABILIS. 



Last summer several growers exhibited 

 vases of flowers of Buddleia variabilis 

 at various shows. It was much admired 

 by all who saw it then for the first time. 

 This, along with the descriptions given 

 of it in nurserymen's and seedmen's 

 catalogues, caused quite a demand for 

 plants this spring — a demand the supply 

 was not able to meet, at least in some 

 sections. Farquhar & Co., of Boston, re- 

 ceived an order by telegram about a 

 week ago from a party who had just 

 read a description of the plant as given 

 in that firm's catalogue. The firm had 

 to wire back that they were sold out of 

 it. It can then be inferred that it will 

 pay to propagate it rapidly. 



This buddleia is a recent introduction 

 from China. It is a profuse bloomer. 

 The flowers are lilac in color and are 

 borne in dense panicles from five to six 

 inches long. D. M. 



NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 



The exhibits at the meeting of the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society, London, 

 April 30 were particularly rich in new 

 plants of interest to the trade in general, 

 but, as usual, the majority were orchids. 

 The most noteworthy of these was Odon- 

 toglossum Prince Edward of Wales, a 

 hybrid between O. Bolfese and O. cris- 

 pum Harryanum. The flowers are white, 

 pure in color, and decidedly and distinct- 



ly marked with a good shade of purple. 

 The medium size, good shape, color and 

 strong growth of the plant will make it 

 a useful commercial variety for cutting. 

 The variety originates with Sander & 

 Son, of St. Albans. 



Cutbush & Sons, of Highgate, London, 

 brought up a magnificent new winter car- 

 nation wMch they have named Jessica, 

 of which we shall probably hear much 

 more in the near future as a market var- 

 iety. The blooms are of immense size, 

 fully five inches across, and are of excel- 

 lent shape and substance. The color is 

 pure wldte, slightly striped with scar- 

 let. The stems can be had extraordi- 

 narily long and it is one of the strong- 

 est growers. We are now continually 

 getting new varieties, of English origin, 

 of the American or winter flowering 

 carnations, and soon there will be a host 

 of purely English varieties, but it is the 

 opinion of many of our largest growers 

 here that neither from America nor 

 elsewhere has there been any variety to 

 equal Enchantress for money making. 

 It is taking on in England more than 

 any other sort, and growers recognize 

 that, to make the most money, fully 

 two-thirds of their stock must consist 

 of this variety. I was in conversation 

 with a big grower today who tries every 

 new variety as it comes out, and grows 

 70,000 plants of different sorts in pots, 

 but still his stock contains 50,000 En- 

 chantress, there being no other variety 

 yet to come up to it or even near it in 

 every important commercial quality. 

 The Guernsey variety, Britannia, is pos- 

 sibly the only one at all likely to enjoy 

 the favor bestowed on Enchantress. 



At the Royal Horticultural Society 

 meeting Barr & Sons showed the largest 

 known variety of trumpet daffodil, the 

 trumpet at the mouth spreading to a 

 width of nearly three inches, the length 

 of the trumpet and the size of the 

 perianth being in proportion to the 

 enormous width of the trumpet. It was 

 a true bicolor and is named Seraphim. 



Some substantial prizes have been 

 offered by the Dutch Royal Bulb Grow- 

 ers' Society of Haarlem for hyacinths 

 to be grown in pots and to be exhibited 



at the show of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society held at Vincent square during 

 March, 1908. 



At present roses are glutted in all 

 the English markets. The flnest possi- 

 ble quality, with longest stems, as good 

 as the best grown in any part of the 

 States, are being almost given away, the 

 supply being fully double the demand. 

 Carnations of finest possible quality are 

 not bringing fifty per cent of the cost 

 of cultivation, and as to narcissi and 

 other bulb stock, many growers are al- 

 lowing them to rot in the fields. Lily 

 of the vaUey, second quality, is selling 

 in the streets at the rate of 3 cents per 

 dozen blooms, finest specials making 

 fifty per cent less than cost of produc- 

 tion. Of course these low prices are 

 only for a few days, the cause of the 

 glut, no doubt, being the recent sudden 

 hot, growing weather, which brought 

 every bloom out at one time. J. B. 



DEMAND FOR GERANIUMS. 



Louis Wittbold, secretary of tha 

 George Wittbold Co., Chicago, says that 

 each year he sees the futility of trying 

 to propagate geraniums too late in the 

 season. He says that every year, in 

 their own business, and apparently in 

 the establishments of a great many with 

 whom they have business relations, all 

 the early propagated geraniums are in 

 good shape the latter part of May and 

 sell cleaiJy at good prices. Then there 

 is a period of strong demand and short- 

 age of stock; all the early propagated 

 plants have been cleaned up and the 

 late propagated stock is not in salable 

 condition. During this period excellent 

 prices always can be obtained. A little 

 later late propagated geraniums begin to 

 come into bloom and shortly there is an 

 oversupply. Eventually most of the 

 stock is cleaned up, if at somewhat re- 

 duced prices, but there always is a 

 certain proportion of the late plants 

 which cannot be disposed of. It takes 

 a most plausible salesman to sell a 

 geranium not yet in bloom. 



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