N'OVKMUKB 21, 1907r 



The Weekly Florists'' Review, 



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f ! i -' ' '-': ' Azalea Mollis. 



While lieas grown than the omnipres- 

 ent Indian azaleas, the mollis section 

 is well worthy of being more grown by 

 florists. Well-flowered plants are usu- 

 ally quite a feature in the first three 

 months of the year at all the better- 

 class flower stores. It is not necessary 

 for these to be potgrown. The plants 

 always lift with substantial balls, and 

 should be potted firmly. Their treat- 

 ment need not differ greatly from that 

 advised for lilacs, only the plants should 

 never be grown in the dark. There are 

 some beautiful shades of color in these 

 azaleas, such as are unknown in the 

 Azalea Indica group, and all are popular 

 with flower buyers who know how to 

 appreciate good things. Pot up any 

 plants you may have bought or grown 

 yourself. Keep cool and subjected to a 

 little frost until you want to force them. 



Indiaa Azaleas. 



If azaleas wanted for Christmas are 

 not already started, lose no time in get- 

 ting them in a warm, moist house. It 

 will only be possible to get in such early 

 sorts as Hexe and Deutsche Perle at this 

 late date, as Christmas is only a trifle 

 over a month ahead. Keep any plants 

 you are forcing well syringed in bright 

 weather, and let the atmosphere in wMch 

 they are growing be congenial and moist. 

 As flowers get fairly well expanded, 

 remove to a cooler house, not to one just 

 clear of freezing, but rather where it is 

 kept at 50 to 55 degrees at night. 



Lilies. 



If you are figuring on a good batch 

 of lilies for Christmas they will need 

 close attention during the next few 

 weeks, and you will undoubtedly have to 

 do considerable moving around to time 

 them to a nicety. The sun power now 

 decreases daily in marked contrast to 

 what it is in March or April, when we 

 are hurrying on our stock for Easter, 

 and growth is now much slower than in 

 the spring months. Do not allow aphis 

 to secure any lodgment. Spray the 

 plants freely and remove the most ad- 

 vanced ones to slightly cooler quarters. 

 Those you are forcing should have 70 

 degrees at night to send them along, and 

 do not forget a dose of manure water 

 once a week. 



Lilies for Easter, which comes much 

 later next year, should be kept moderate- 

 ly cool, and do not overwater them. 

 Better keep a little on the dry side to be 

 safe. 



Brief Remioders. 



Protect hybrid perpetual roses by 

 drawing earth up to the stems. This is 

 better than putting leaves and manure 

 among them. ^ 



Hybrid tea roses will winter with 

 earth protection in favored latitudes. In 

 more rigorous sections it is better and 

 safer to lift and bury them, or to heel 

 deeply and quite thickly in a coldframe. 



Get antirrhinums planted as the mums 

 are cleared away. Sweet peas also make 

 a good successional crop. 



Keep stevia cool. The flowers are 

 specially valuable at Christmas and dur- 

 ing January. 



Start a batch of French Trumpet 



Major narcissi, and if La Eeine tulips 



are well started, bring in a batch. Keep 



• them dark to draw up the stems for a 



time. 



Keep the early sweet peas carefully 

 tied up. The night temperature for them 



Chrysanth'Qium O. H. Broomfiead. 



is better kept below 50 degrees at night. 



Do not forget to save plenty of chrys- 

 anthemum stock for yourself. Give the 

 plants a light bench in a cold house. 



Give more room to Lorraine begonias, 

 which are now growing fast. A tempera- 

 ture of 55 degrees is high enough as the 

 flowers open. 



Lift any roots of doubtfully hardy 

 perennials, and place winter protection 

 over those requiring it. 



Keep berried solanums in a cokl house 

 if you want them in good condition for 

 Christmas. 



Put Gladiolus Colvillei, The Bride and 

 any of the nanus section in flats as soon 

 as you receive them. Keep in a cool 

 pit, but do not cover with ashes or other 

 material, as they start to grow very, 

 early. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



'^ork of the Committees. 



Cincinnati, Nov. 16. — Miss Sadie 

 Stremler, light yellow, sport of Queen, 

 exhibited by T. L. Metcalfe, Hopkihs- 

 ville, Ky., scored 72 points commercial 

 scale. 



Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 16. — Lynn- 

 wood Hall, white, Japanese incurved, 

 exhibited by William Kleinheinz, Ogontz, 

 Pa., scored 89 points commercial and 

 86 points exhibition scale. 



David Fraser, Soc 'y. 



I CONSIDER the. Review of too great 

 value to have it out of my reach when I 

 want reliable information. — George W. 

 Fagan, Cedar Falls, la. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Something of a pall continues to over- 

 hang the flower market, and a good deal 

 of pessimistic talk is heard as to the 

 trade during the coming winter. Condi- 

 tions, if anything, show a trifling im- 

 provement, but continue the reverse of 

 satisfactory. While chrysanthemums are 

 still arriving in goodly numbers, they 

 arc dominating the market less than they 

 did. There is no change to be recorded 

 in prices for these, although some ad- 

 vance is anticipated for Thanksgiving. 

 Some nice flowers of Chadwick, Penn- 

 sylvania, Enguehard, Nagoya, Faton and 

 ito yellow sport are seen". Bonnaffon 

 and its white sport are stUl much in 

 evidence. 



Roses are doing a little better, but 

 prices are not what they should be. 

 Beauties are fine and special grades are 

 selling ii little higher. The same is true 

 of the best quality blooms of Killarney, 

 Wellesley, Chatenay and Richmond. 



Carnations are in heavy supply, with a 

 slightly hardening tendency in prices 

 due to the approach of Thanksgiving. 

 Violets remain about the same. Paper 

 White narcissus conies from several 

 growers, but is not yet in much demand. 

 Lily of the valley is not abundant, but 

 suffwMent for the light calls. Lilies and 

 callas are more plentiful. Other flowers 

 arriving include bouvardia, mignonette, 

 snapdragon and gardenias. There is a 

 fair call for smilax, adiantum and as- 

 paragus. 



Thanksgiving prospects at this tinif do 



