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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



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circumstances should there be any un- 

 necessary exposure of freshly cut stem 

 ends to the air. 



Provide a generous supply of vases. 

 Use fresh water, about the temperature 

 of the house from which the blooms were 

 cut. Avoid putting too many in a vase. 

 Stand them where the temperature will 

 not vary much from 45 degrees and 

 where they will, be out of drafts, but 

 nevertheless where the air is not stag- 

 ■ant. Geo. S. Osborn. 



CARNATION NOTES.- WEST. 



Saving Blooms for Holidays. 



You will pardon me if I repeat the 

 old story of pickling the blooms and 

 the consequences thereof. It seems that 

 every year some growers make the same 

 mistake, in spite of repeated warnings 

 and admonitions to send in all blooms 

 which will not keep in first-class condi- 

 tion until they are wanted. That there 

 must be a certain amount of storing up 

 goes without saying, else where would ail 

 the extra blooms come from? And if 

 the supply were kept at a normal vol- 

 ume and fifty per cent of the demand 

 had to go unsatisfied the complaining 

 about shortage would be louder even 

 than it is now about pickled stock. This, 

 however, should not be taken as an ex- 

 cuse for carelessness in saving up the 

 blooms. 



The grower must discriminate between 

 the varieties which naturally keep well 

 and handle well after being water- 

 soaked. There are a few varieties which 

 can be kept several days and handle as 

 well as when first cut, while some of the 

 most extensively grown varieties are ren- 

 dered unfit for much handling after 

 standing in water three days. All the 

 Enchantress varieties seem to bruise very 

 easily when water-soaked, while the Law- 

 son varieties and Victory are among the 

 best for holding. 



Look over your blooms carefully each 

 day in search of those which fail to 

 draw water properly. There will be a 

 percentage of such blooms, and it win 

 not pay you to mix them with the good 

 ones. By separating them from the 

 good blooms and accepting a fair price 

 for them you will be able to command 

 the top figure for your best stock. 



When placing your blooms in water 

 do not crowd too many in a vase and 

 see that the blooms are supported prop- 

 erly. A fairly strong stem vdll often 

 be found insufBcient for holding up a 

 large bloom after it has soaked up 

 water for several days. 



This question of caring properly for 

 the blooms is really of more importance 

 than the length of time they are kept. 

 If you are conscientious in sending in 

 only first-class stock, you are not Imely 

 to send in any which have been kept 

 too long. This, in short, covers ihe whole 

 question. If you are a wholesale grow- 

 er, consult your patrons frequently and 

 keep them advised correctly as to what 

 you will have and deliver when it is 

 wanted. In that way you can realize 

 the greatest gain from your products. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



BEST CARNATIONS. 



Although I do not profess to be an ex- 

 pert carnation grower, I think I have as 

 much right to say my piece as any large 

 grower. First I will say what I think 

 of last year 's novelties. I will put White 

 Enchantress ahead of White Perfection, 

 as it has a better stem and is a freer 

 bloomer. Pink Enchantress and Eose- 

 pink Enchantress are good enough for me. 



I like Helen Gould very much; it is a 

 good grower and a fancy flower. For one 

 who retails his own stock it sells on 

 sight at 10 cents each or $1 per dozen 

 at tijnes when other stock sells at 4 or 5 

 cents. 



Victory, in red, I cannot say much 

 about. It did not do well with me, but 

 I think I know where my mistake was, 

 as I grew it in the house all summer and 

 fed it highly. I will try it again next 

 year. 



The old standard kind. Enchantress, 

 is my standby for light pink.' G. Lord is 

 my best pink for cheap flowers. Boston 

 Market is my bread and butter for cheap 

 white. 



Next year I will grow Boston Market 

 and White Enchantress for white, Eose- 

 pink Enchantress, G. Lord and Winsor 

 for pink, Enchantress for light pink, 

 Victory and Crane for red. For new 

 kinds I will try Sarah Hill, Lawson- 

 Enchantress and Afterglow. I saw Aft- 

 erglow grown at its home and liked it. 



Perhaps someone may not think I have 

 a good list to grow, but I am growing 

 the kinds that bring me the doUars. I 

 also keep my eyes open to look for others, 

 and when I get a good thing I keep it, 

 no matter whether it is old or new. 



I will put up a new house for the En- 

 chantress family next spring. 



Simon J. Hider. 



FUMIGATING. 



Please tell us what is the matter vdth 

 our Enchantress carnations. The ends 

 of the leaves are turning color. They 



have a fine growth, some stems being 

 three feet long. They have been kept 

 at a temperature from 50 to 58 degrees, 

 never over or under, with plenty of air 

 both dajr and night. They were sprayed 

 with Nicoticide, after which they were 

 fumigated with tobacco stems, which 

 might have something to do with it. 

 Any information gladly received. 



H. p. 



It is quite possible that'you used the 

 Nicoticide too strong, or that the fumi- 

 gating was too strong in connection with 

 the spraying. You would have done 

 better to have skipped a day to allow 

 the Nicoticide to spend its strength be- 

 fore fumigating. If the house was too 

 warm the fumigating would have the 

 same effect. A. F. J. B. 



DETERIORATION. 



I send a few carnation blooms; 

 Glacier is the variety; also a few leaves 

 from Lawson, that appear to have been 

 burned at the tips. There seem to be 

 quite a number of the carnation blooms 

 affected in the same way. The trouble 

 seems to be confined to the one variety. 

 I thought perhaps it was thrips, but I 

 have been unable to discover any of 

 them. We had the same trouble with 

 them last year. Can you tell me the 

 cause for condition of each and what to 

 do for same? E. M. 



Your trouble does not seem to be 

 caused by thrips, as the most careful ex- 

 amination fails to disclose any. We 

 have noticed these blooms on some va- 

 rieties, and at times quite numerous. 

 We cannot account for it, except that it 

 seems to be a weakness in the variety 

 and as the variety gets older and de- 

 teriorates, the trouble grows worse. We 

 have had seedlings do the same thing 

 when we were satisfied there were no in- 

 sects to cause it. There is no help for it 

 and I would advise you to discard the 

 variety and replace it with one of the 

 newer sorts. A. F. J. B. 



CHARLES HERR'S PLACE. 



The accompanying illustration repre- 

 sents Charles B. Herr's greenhouse es- 

 tablishment. It consists of six houses 

 running from 21x40 to 34x150, the whole 

 comprising about 15,000 square feet of 

 glass. 



As compared with greenhouse es- 

 tablishments of mammoth proportiooB, 

 Mr. Herr's is rather a small place. 

 Nevertheless, what it lacks in size, 



Carnation-growing Establishment of C B. Herr, Stroudsburg, Pa. 



