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them every second or third week. Spray 

 overhead lightly on warm evenings. Re- 

 move the sashes altogether on summer 

 evenings, if there is no likelihood of rain. 

 Keep the plants in tho frames until Oc- 

 tober 1; then place in a light, sunny 

 house kept at about 50 degrees at night 

 and you will get most of them to produce 

 some flowers for Christmas. Cyclamens 

 prefer a lower temperature than 50 de- 

 grees, but the extra warmth will be nec- 

 essary to flower them when you need 

 them. 



If perchance you have any old bulbs 

 which have not bloomed, do not dry off 

 in summer as you would Dutch bulbs. 

 Cyclamens will not stand this treatment. 

 Keep, however, on the dry side and 

 shake out and repot them early in Aug- 

 ust, treating them as recommended for 

 the seedling plants. C. W. 



SWEET PEAS ROTTING OFF. 



I am enclosing three sweet pea plants, 

 which, like a number of plants in the 

 same house, appear to rot off' at the 

 ground. They are on a solid bed, in a 

 100-foot house. Plenty of air is given 

 them, and not too much water. The 

 temperature is 58 degrees at night and 

 sometimes 85 degrees on very hot, sunny 

 days. No shade is supplied. From these 

 particulars, can you give the probable 

 reason for this continual withering of the 

 plants? R. P. 



You are giving your sweet peas much 

 too high a temperature; 48 degrees we 

 have found to be about an ideal night 

 temperature to flower them in and we 

 do not care to have it exceed 50 degrees. 

 While making their growth and before 

 flowering, 45 to 46 degrees is about the 

 right heat. A temperature of 58 degrees 

 at night is ruinous for sweet peas, and 

 you must radically change your heat if 

 you are to have any degree of success. 



From the sample sent, we should say 

 your plants are weak and spindly. It is 

 probable that you have sown them too 

 thickly. Allow two to three inches be- 

 tween the plants in a row. The best 

 growers give them even more space than 

 this. Sweet peas like a good supply of 

 moisture at the roots, and if your beds 

 are well drained you may have erred in 

 giving them too little water. C. W. 



ASK YOURSELF. 



"Will you kindly give me your advice 

 on the following questions: After last 

 season's experience, is it worth while for 

 a man who can grow only 4,000 plants 

 to compete with the modern flower fac- 

 tories in the wholesale market ; that is to 

 say, is there any hope of his making a 

 reasonable profit? 



Is the day of the big carnation bloom 

 waning? The big blooms commanded an 

 extra price for me in my market. 



In the event of reducing one's plant- 

 ing by half, which of the following vari- 

 eties would be best discarded: Enchant- 

 ress, White Enchantress, Winsor, Haines, 

 Imperial, Pink Imperial? J. 



The Review always is glad to answer 

 questions, but the answers to some are 

 so obviously found in the querist's own 

 experience that it does seem as though 

 all one had to do, instead of looking out, 

 was to look in and read the answer. 



El Paso, III.— Austin Wallace, for- 

 merly with W. W. Coles at Kokomo, 

 Ind., has taken charge of the green- 

 ' houses of the El Paso Carnation Co. 



