JUNB 4, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Zonal Gefanium Paul CrampeL 



or other sucker growths from budded 

 stock. Use whale oil soap again if aphis 

 continues to trouble them. 



Cut the peony flowers early in the 

 morning and place in deep jars of water 

 in the cellar as soon as possible. If cut 

 with the sun shining on them, they will 

 last poorly. 



Plant out any left-over azaleas or other 

 hard-wooded plants you may still have 

 standing around. 



Plant out your own flower beds. Keep 

 the lawn mowed and your approach neat. 

 It will attract customers. 



GERANIUM PAUL CRAMPEL. 



The zonal geranium Paul Crampel is 

 one of the best sorts in its class, useful 

 either as a bedder or as a pot plant for 

 Christmas sales. It is a Cannell variety, 

 one of the English round-flowered sec- 

 tion, decidedly preferable to doubles for 

 Christmas sales. B. Vincent, Jr., & Sons 

 Co., in its 1908 catalogue, gives a list of 

 geraniums which it classes as "newer 

 varieties of special merit." Of Paul 

 Crampel it is said: "A magnificent sin- 

 gle bedding variety that promises to 

 supersede all other scarlets owing to its 

 splendid habit and its ironclad constitu- 

 tion; dwarf and vigorous, close jointed 

 grower; gigantic trusses; exceedingly 

 free in bloom." Elsewhere in the cata- 

 logue it says, "After the introduction 

 of that splendid bedding variety, Paul 

 Crampel, one would be tempted to form 

 an idea that a further improvement was 

 well-nigh impossible." 



W. N. Craig says Paul Crampel is 

 "a magnificent bright scarlet, as good 

 for bedding as for pot culture. It is a 

 compact grower, dwarf and vigorous. 

 Trusses are of immense size, and as bril- 

 liant in coloring as poinsettias. This 

 unique sort should displace others of its 

 color now in general use." 



In flowering for Christmas, cuttings 

 should be placed in 2-inch or 2 1^ -inch 

 pots during January or February, using 

 a compost of sandy loam. Stand the 

 pots quite close together, on a bench 

 where a little bottom heat will reach 

 them. Give a good soaking of water and 

 let them become rather dry before wa- 

 tering again. Avoid syringings over- 

 head, which are more harmful than ben- 

 eficial. The plants need no shade what- 



ever and ninety-five per cent should root. 

 Shift to 4-inch pots when nicely rooted 

 and later to 6-inch, where they may be 

 flowered unless extra large plants are 

 required, in which case a further shift 

 to 8-inch may be given. 



For the final pottings a compost of 

 turfy loam and well rotted and dried 

 cow manure, to which are added some 

 sharp sand and a pinch of bone meal, is 

 suitable. Pot quite firmly. The plants 

 will need some pinching until the end of 

 August, after which time, if desired for 

 Christmas flowering, it can be discontin- 

 ued. Experience has taught some grow- 

 ers that the plants do better kept under 

 glass all the time, giving them a little 

 shade in summer. In feeding avoid the 

 use of too much liquid manure. It pro- 

 duces too rank and soft growth. 



IN IOWA. 



The establishment of E. Friederich- 

 sen & Sons, Wilton Junction, la., is 

 typical of a large class in the trade. 

 It is an especially important class this 

 year, because of the fact that such places 

 are enjoying just as much business as 

 they ever had, with the opportunities 

 for development only limited by the in- 

 dustry with which the proprietor pur- 

 sues his work. 



Friederichsen & Sons have about 12,- 



000 feet of glass and grow a great va- 

 riety of stock, for their business is ex- 

 clusively retail and the many requirer 

 ments of the people of a small, rural 

 western community must all be met. Pot 

 plants occupy as much space as cut flow- 

 ers, the bedding trade being also a large 

 feature. Good use is made of hotbeds 

 as a means of increasing the production. 

 Vegetables, as well as vegetable plants, 

 are grown and there is outlet for all 

 that is produced. Not only is this west- 

 ern country full of money as a result 

 of several years of good crops, but com- 

 petition is less keen than it is in the 

 east and, if one person does not buy, 

 it is always possible to push along until 

 some one is found who will purchase. 



THE RUFFLED GLADIOLUS. 



A Coming Flower. 



Keferring to various articles com- 

 menting on my new strain of ruffled 

 gladioli and its origin, since its an- 

 nouncement in the Eeview of January 

 23, I wish to offer a few words of ex- 

 planation in reply. As to its origin I 

 cannot do better than repeat the history 

 of its production as given by me in 

 previous notes on this strain, namely: 

 "About a dozen years ago I began se- 

 lections with a view to crossing, in the 

 hope of producing a frilled or ruffled 

 gladiolus as beautifully formed as au 

 azalea. I' got the clue from observing 

 in some varieties a tendency to vary 

 somewhat from the regular or smooth 

 petals. 



"After many matings and failures I 

 was at last rewarded about five years 

 ago by the desired results. The first 

 flower to show was an ideal cream in 

 color, with a tint of blush and a striking- 

 ly marked red feather on three lower 

 petals. One variety is white, and some- 

 what smaller in size of flower than the 

 cream-colored sort. There are several 

 shades of pink and yellow, also purples, 

 in the varieties now under process of 

 development, all beautifully ruffled. ' ' 



From this it will be clearly seen that 

 I have improved, by years of selection 

 and crossing, a type of gladiolus which 

 all who have seen pronounce a marvel 

 of beauty and form and a great advance 

 in this already remarkable flower. White 

 Lady, America and other varieties have 

 been used for a number of years, as well 

 as one of the light colored species. There 

 are at present over 50,000 seedlings of 

 the ruffled stock in various stages of 

 development. 



Mr. Christie expresses an opinion that 



Establishment of E. Friederichsen & Sons, Wilton Junction, la. 



