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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Hnoie of Gloziiafn Grown by Wiliun F Xyon's at Spring BrookFarm^MorristownN. J. 



pay to turn on a little fire heat, leav- 

 ing the ventilators well open. The 

 question of ventilation is an all-im- 

 portant one and chapters might be 

 written upon it. Blessed are the men 

 in your employ who attend to it in- 

 telligently. They are well worthy of 

 their hire, for the use of even a little 

 •judgment may materially increase your 

 profits. 



Brief Reminders. 



Except in the case of recently lifted 

 stock, foliage on all plants should now 

 be dry at nightfall. A moisture-laden 

 air will speedily breed rust and vari- 

 ous bacteria. 



Give geranium cuttings abundant 

 ventilation and full sunlight. Do any 

 watering early in the day. 



Now is the time to lift, divide and 

 replant almost all kinds of hardy peren- 

 nials. The earlier the work is done 

 the better will be the results next year. 



Keep sweet peas well ventilated. The 

 early crop will need supporting strings, 

 if these are not already given. 



Lift and pot erotons, dracsenas and 

 any other colored-leaved plants of a 

 tropical nature. Keep warm and close 

 until established, spraying several times 

 daily in bright weather. 



Pot up plants of Campanula pyramid- 

 alis for flowering in July and August 

 next year. 



Keep genistas trimmed into shape. 

 Cuttings will root freely now in a cool 

 house. 



Hollyhocks, pansies, violets, digitalis 

 and other biennials or perennials will 

 now be fine stocky plants. Keep them 



free of weeds and the ground well cul- 

 tivated. It is too late to sow seeds of 

 these for flowering next spring and 

 summer. 



Pot on schizanthus before they be- 

 come potbound and make a successionai 

 sowing of seeds for early spring flow- 

 ering. 



Cyclamens are now growing rapidly. 

 They will do in frames for some time 

 yet, if greenhouse space is at a pre- 

 mium. 



GLOXINIAS AT SPRING BROOK. 



The gloxinia is one of the best and 

 most useful of our greenhouse plants. 

 Its culture is easy if close attention is 

 paid to the few necessities of the plant, 

 and it will pay to provide some good 

 plants for another season. The house 

 of gloxinias shown in the accompanying 

 illustration was grown by William F. 

 Lyons, foreman gardener for R. D. 

 Foote, Spring Brook Farms, Morris- 

 town, N. J. Not all the plants in the 

 house show in the picture. There were 

 280 plants altogether, each plant carry- 

 ing fifteen flowers, on the average. Mr. 

 Lyons describes his cultural method as 

 follows : 



The seeds of gloxinias should be 

 sown in a warm temperature early in 

 February, in pans or shallow boxes con- 

 taining a finely sifted mixture of peat, 

 leaf -mold and silvef sand in equal pro- 

 portions. The seedlings should begin to 

 appear in about ten days, when great 

 care must be exercised in watering, or 

 they will damp oflF. In fact, success with 

 these plants throughout the year de- 

 pends largely upon the care in watering, 



even in their most active growth. I al- 

 ways water with a can, taking care not 

 to water the foliage, though they like u 

 warm, humid atmosphere during their 

 growing season. 



As soon as the seedlings can be han- 

 dled they should be potted singly into 

 thumb pots, and grown on rapidly, using 

 in subsequent shifts a mixture of two 

 parts leaf -mold, one part fibrous loam 

 and one part peat. The plants must be 

 well shaded from sunlight, and placed 

 in a position free from draughts. The 

 seedlings should begin to flower by the 

 second week in August, when they should 

 be given an abundance of air and grown 

 at a temperature of about 60 or 65 

 degrees. 



After the flowering season is over the 

 leaves will begin to mature, when water- 

 ing should be gradually withheld. As 

 soon as the leaves have all ripened off, 

 the pots should be stored away in some 

 convenient place for the winter, in a 

 temperature of about 45 degrees, giving 

 just enough water to keep the tubers 

 from shriveling. About February these 

 tubers will show signs of growth again, 

 when they should be shaken out, repotted 

 in small pots just large enough to hold 

 the tubers, and repotted as the season 

 goes on, until they have been put into 

 sixes or sevens, when they should flower, 

 giving the same treatment and using the 

 fcame compost as described above. 



HYDRANGEA OTAKSA. 



The illustrations on pages 8 and 9 are 

 from recent photographs made at the 

 residence of J. A. Foster, at Warwick 

 Neck, R. I., where James Burke has 



