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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Decbjibek 26, 1907. 



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beating him on yellow and H. W. Buck- 

 bee on pink. He grows 12,000 carnation 

 plants and a few roses, the rest of the 

 space being devoted to potted plants for 

 the local trade. 



One of the illustrations shows the 

 Noble automobile, which homo inventive 

 faculty has fitted for both pleasure and 

 business. Note the box on the rear for 

 carrying stock for delivery. It is a 

 handy affair. The same picture shows 

 the fine hedge of arbor-vitas which sur- 

 rpunds Mr. Noble's home. The picture 

 was taken July 1, when the catalpa in 

 front of the house was in full flower. 



The other small picture shows the in- 

 terior of one of the new houses. The 

 middle bench is Lawson and the two 

 side benches are a light pink sport of 

 Lawson which originated with Mr. Noble. 

 At the time the photograph was taken 

 the plants were small, but good growth 

 has been made and he is this winter cut- 

 ting first- class stock. The place includes 

 27,000 feet of glass. 



.V--. 



Richard - Boston. — White flushed by 

 pink; a flower of distinct beauty. 



Ladysmith. — An old favorite; flowers 

 rosy-pink. 



Alice Gibbs. — Terracotta color in the 

 way of Mary Anderson; a splendid flower 

 in a rich color. 



Clibran's Crimson. — Rich bronzy-crim- 

 son; a fine thing in this color. 



Rev. W. E. Remfrey. — A very dark 

 crimson, having several rows of petals; 

 the disk is not always faultless. 



Miss Crissy. — SmaU flowers, bronzy-or- 

 ange, almost chocolate color; striking. 



NOBLE'S HOOSffiR HOME. 



In this issue of the Review there are 

 three illustrations which show how pleas- 

 antly t). C. Noble is situated at Colum- 

 bia City, Ind., where he built his first 

 greenhouse fourteen years ago. It was 

 only 18x54 feet and was put up for 

 growing lettuce, radishes and tomatoes. 

 So good did the local demand for these 

 prove to be that he extended the house 



the next year and two years after added 

 another house sixty feet long, using hot- 

 bed sash for the roof. 



In 1900, with a partner, three more 

 houses 18x100 were built, but the part- 

 nership lasted only one year. It was in 

 this year that carnations and roses were 

 first grown, and these did so well that 

 the next season another house 18x100 

 was added, with a small structure 12x48. 

 This constitutes what Mr. Noble knows 

 as the old plant and is next to his dwell- 

 ing. The heating here is hot water. 



In 1906 he built three houses 21x150, 

 across the alley, "and heats this range 

 with steam. This year he added another 

 house 21x150 to the new plant and grew 

 in it 5,000 chrysanthemums, achieving 

 such good results that he was able to 

 win first prize on fifty blooms white at 

 the Chicago flower show, his Mrs. Robin- 

 son beating-the Eatons shown by Wietor 

 Bros, and the Poehlmann Bros. Co. His 

 Appleton were second ^nd so were his 

 Viviand-Morel, Poehlmann Bros. Co. 



CARNATION NOTES. -EAST. 



Watering. 



Conditions affecting soil moisture un- 

 der glass are different from those met 

 with in the open, where there are no 

 heating pipes, raised benches or confine- 

 ment of roots. While these are intended 

 to assist nature Ijy maintaining more con- 

 genial conditions, they are nevertheless 

 artificial and consequently demand close 

 attention. 



The old-time rule of watering only 

 when dryness of soil made it imperative 

 and then drenching the soil to the point 

 of saturation or until a fair sized shower 

 occurred under the bench, was obviously 

 a waste of water, to say nothing of the 

 loss of plant food carried out in solu- 

 tion. Probably no system of heating is 

 without defect, and partly on this account 

 we find spots which dry out sooner than 

 the greater part of the bench; also the 

 strip of soil along the side of a bench is 

 inclined to become dry, especially on 

 afternoons of bright days, and no matter 

 when either state of affairs is found to 

 exist, suflScient water should at once be 

 applied to equalize matters. 



A trip through the houses every morn- 

 ing and afternoon in search of such dry- 

 ness is time well employed. 



The oft-repeated advice to do the gen- 

 eral watering on mornings of bright days 

 is safe to follow, but I cannot accept 

 the theory that no water should be al- 

 lowed to touch the foliage; on the con- 



trary, the whole plant is benefited by a 

 gentle bath. 



Of course, when touching up the dry 

 spots between general waterings, care will 

 be taken to wet the soil only. 



If what promised to be a bright day 

 turns out cloudy or stormy, after having 

 watered, do not make the mistake of 

 turning on more heating pipe and shut- 

 ting the ventilators, with the idea of dry- 

 ing off the foliage. Turn on a little 

 more heat if you choose, but raise the 

 ventilators as the temperature increases, 

 keeping the air moving outward. 



In regard to syringing, I can only re- 

 peat my unaltered opinion that as a 

 remedy for red spider it is often worse 

 than the afliiction; the careful grower 

 will detect this pest's first appearance 

 and either sacrifice the plant or prevent 

 increase and spreading. 



George S. Osborn. 



CARDINAL AND WOLCOTT. 



At the place where I work the Cardinal 

 carnation often does not open well, look- 

 ing sleepy when it first opens and stay- 

 ing that way. Our Wolcott also has 

 somewhat the same tendency. Is there 

 anything we can do to bring them out 

 better? J. R. T. 



When we grew Cardinal we had some 

 blooms act the same way as you describe 

 during the early winter, but later on the 

 trouble disappeared. We were unable to 

 discover the cause, so we concluded that 

 it was a weakness in the variety. You 

 will find Victory, Beacon or Red Chief 



more satisfactory to grow than Cardinal. 



If the Wolcott stick in the center it 

 may be that they are infested with the 

 mite which is described by Mr. Davis on 

 page 8 of the Review for December 19. 

 Examine the blooms closely and, while 

 you are looking for the mite, look also 

 for thrips. They may be the cause of the 

 trouble. 



In this case, too, I would advise you 

 to stock up with the newer sorts. Un- 

 less you are unusually successful with 

 Wolcott you will find White Perfection 

 or White Enchantress far superior and 

 more profitable to grow. Yon will always 

 find that a moderate sum of money spent 

 in new varieties each season is a splen- 

 did investment. That you must recruit 

 your list of varieties with the improved 

 sorts as they prove themselves worthy 

 goes without saying. I have always main- 

 tained that the grower who keeps' right 

 up to date is usually the one who makes 

 the most headway. It may be that the 

 same progressiveness which impels him 

 to keep up with the times in this direc- 

 tion causes hiiil to be more progressive in 

 other directions, but anyway, you will 

 usually find the current season's intro- 

 ductions on the places which are turning 

 out the best stock and turning in the 

 most money. 



By this I do not mean a certain class 

 of plungers, for I have always advised 

 against plunging on any one new variety. 

 Our own experience with the new varie- 

 ties has taught us to avoid such folly. 

 Having decided on about how much we 

 wish to invest in new varieties, we make 



