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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Florists' Qub of Scraoton, Pa., on its Annual Outing at Moosic Lake, August 14. 



the tops of the leading shoots to make 

 the plants bushy, also removing all flow- 

 ers. A light shade only is needed. 



While Lorraines are best in a cool 

 house when flowering, they do much bet- 

 ter in a temperature of 60 degrees at 

 night until the blooming season starts. 

 Place in larger pans before the roots 

 become matted. If plants are small, it 

 is best to use several in a pan. Six-inch 

 pans will grow fine plants of a useful 

 size . for retail trade, while 8-ineh ones 

 make handsome specimens. Lorraines 

 like a light compost. One containing 

 plenty of good leaf -mold and spent hot- 

 bed manure seems exactly to their 

 liking. 



Cyclamens. 



Cyclamens, like many other plants, 

 take on additional vigor as the heated 

 summer period wanes. The best place 

 for them yet a while is in coldframes, 

 where they can obtain an abundance of 

 pure air and be shaded from the heat 

 of the noonday sun. Sashes are better 

 left off at night, unless heavy rain 

 threatens. They can also be left off ad- 

 vantageously during the daytime when 

 there is but little sun. Do not place the 

 shadings over the frame too early in 

 the morning and remove them not later 

 than 4 o 'clock in the afternoon. A little 

 sun helps cyclamens and many other 

 plants. It warms the pots and promotes 

 root action. Many plants are half ruined 

 by overshading, cyclamens being one of 

 them. 



Any plants not yet given their final 

 shift should be attended to at once. From 

 4-inch they can go into 6-inch and from 

 5-inch into 7-inch. Some growers flower 

 their stock in as small sizes as 4-inch 

 and 5-inch pots, but such plants cannot 

 hold a candle to the larger ones, no mat- 

 ter how carefully they may be fed. 



Seed sown a few weeks ago is germi- 

 nating nicely and paper covers have been 

 removed. The flats will need some shade 

 on the glass over them, but should be 

 placed well up to the light. These will 

 do better in a greenhouse than a frame 

 and if a temperature of 55 degrees at 

 ■ight can be kept up they will grow well. 



Mignonette. 



Mignonette being grown in pots will 



need a few small pieces of brush placed 

 so as to keep the shoots erect. Pinch out 

 the tops of the shoots and grow the 

 plants as cool and airy as possible. They 

 need full sunlight and must be looked 

 over carefully for the green worms which 

 love to eat their foliage. Plants in beds 

 and benches are starting to grow quite 

 fast. Flowers are not needed for some 

 time yet and it is best to pinch back all 

 leading shoots. Supports should be given 

 the plants before they are grown too far. 

 Some use brush stuck in at intervals. We 

 really prefer this to strings. It does not 

 look so artistic, but we think answers 

 well for the grower who has only a 

 bench or two of mignonette. Scratch 

 over the soil frequently and keep all 

 weeds picked out. 



Chrysanthemtims. 



The season of early chrysanthemums is 

 close at hand and for some time mums 

 will call for a good deal of our attention. 

 Tying, disbudding and the removal of 

 weeds and decaying foliage takes up con- 

 siderable time. Each year many of us 

 aver that we will grow less mums, but 

 each succeeding fall we are found grow- 

 ing the usual quota and trying a few 

 novelties. There is something of a charm 

 ia the culture of the queen of autumn, 

 such as we cannot derive from any other 

 plant. 



Any plants which have been grown in 

 bush form outdoors or on benches in- 

 doors should have been potted before 

 this. If kept well watered and frequently 

 sprayed they will soon fill the pots with 

 roots. We do not consider that such 

 plants will for a moment compare with 

 pot-grown ones, but many still follow 

 this practice and get fairly satisfactory 

 plants. There is a growing tendency 

 towards single flowering varieties in Eu- 

 rope, and this year they promise to be 

 much in evidence at tBe fall shows. Most 

 of them make splett^id pot plants and 

 wide-awake growers would do well to 

 make a note of the better kinds at the 

 exhibitions. 



Brief Reminders. 



Soft cuttings of perennial phloxes 

 placed in flats of sandy soil in a cold- 

 frame will make nice stock for another 



season. This will bloom much earlier 

 than spring-rooted cuttings. 



Reduce the shading on cattleyas, coelo- 

 gynes and dendrobiums. Place any of 

 the latter which have well matured their 

 growths in a cooler and airy house, with 

 plenty of sun. 



Stake poinsettias on the benches be- 

 fore they become bent. Grow tbem cool 

 still. They need heat when the bracts 

 are being developed, but should not be 

 coddled now. 



Finish putting in cuttings of any ten- 

 der plants as soon as possible. Frosts 

 usually arrive in September. 



Do not leave Lilium candidum lying 

 around unpotted. Be sure to give them 

 a light, sunny place outdoors until No- 

 vember. 



Put in cuttings of Ampelopsis Veitchii, 

 Euonymus radicans and English ivy. All 

 will root freely in an ordinary propagat- 

 ing bench. /^ 



Give hydrangeas and rambler roses 

 plenty of sun and a reduced water sup- 

 ply. 



Keep genistas well pinched or clipped 

 into shape. Put a batch of cuttings in 

 now in a cool house. 



HARDY PERENNIALS. 



In the last few years the demand for 

 hardy perennials has increased wonder- 

 fully, and this not at all because of a 

 falling off in the demand for the class 

 of plants commonly known as bedding 

 plants, but rather because of a wider and 

 more extended knowledge of the merits 

 of hardy plants for purposes to which 

 the others were not put. In years gone 

 by, herbaceous plants were not given 

 anything like the attention by growers 

 that they are now receiving. Not so long 

 ago it was uncommon to grow these 

 plants in large numbers in pots, but 

 now there are vast numbers so grown and 

 sold every year, in the autumn and 

 spring. 



Pot plants of most kinds of peren- 

 nials are the most satisfactory in vari- 

 ous ways; they are easier to ship and 

 they invariably succeed better in the 

 hands of those who are intended ulti- 



