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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



several seasons ahead, I think you can 

 do no better than to sow the bulk of it 

 in blue grass and red clover. Plow it 

 as deep as possible first and then sow 

 the seed broadcast. Early in Septem- 

 ber is a good time to do this. If you 

 can use the hay you can cut it next sum- 

 mer, which will do the grass and clover 

 good by making it stool more. In two 

 years you ought to have a good, heavy 

 sod, and quite rich. The clover will 

 gather nitrogen while the grass is filling 

 the soil with fiber. 



In the fall you will plow as much 

 of it as you think you will need the 

 next summer and leave it rough through 

 the winter. During the winter a good 

 eoat of manure is added, which is plowed 

 in early in the spring. This time you 

 will pulverize it thoroughly with a disk 

 harrow. About every three or four weeks 

 it is to be plowed again, until it is 

 taken into the houses. Soil handled 

 in tliis way makes the finest material for 

 planting in that you can possibly get. 

 Some growers would prefer *to plow the 

 sod and stack it up in layers with 

 manure in the fall or early spring, to 

 be turned over several times before fill- 

 ing in the benches. Either plan is good, 

 but I think the first one the better. 



Your next year's soil you must han- 

 dle a little differently. I would sow 

 on it, after a deep plowing, a mixture of 

 rye and clover, to be plowed under and 

 pulverized early in the spring. A coat 

 of manure can be added just before 

 plowing in the spring. Let the rye get 

 eight to ten inches high before you plow 

 it under, and then plow and pulverize 

 •very three or four weeks, as recom- 

 mended above. A. F. J. B. 



BEST WHITE AND PINK, 



Would you be so kind as to inform 

 me as to the best white carnation, also 

 the two best pink sorts, for cut flowers, 

 in the latitude of Ohio! G. E. H. 



In white carnations the two varieties 

 which will be most widely grown during 

 the next few years are White Perfection 

 and White Enchantress. Both are fine 

 in every way and are likely to hold the 

 lead for some years. Our preference 

 runs toward White Perfection, because 

 the blooms bruise less easily. White En- 

 chantress can be more depended on to 

 make good plants in the field under ad- 

 verse conditions. I would advise you to 

 try both varieties. 



In rose-pink you will likely do best 

 with Rose-pink Enchantress, but Winsor 

 has become very popular with many large 

 growers. It has the same characteristics 

 as Mrs. Lawson and, if these character- 

 istics are not objectionable to you, it may 

 suit you better. The blooms handle bet- 

 ter than Rose-pink Enchantress, as they 

 do not bruise so easily. 



In the cerise shade of pink, Aristocrat 

 and Pink Imperial are both fine and each 

 has its followers. We prefer the latter 

 somewhat, because it holds its color bet- 

 ter and makes a better plant. In shell 

 pink. Enchantress stands practically alone 

 among the standard varieties. 



You will make no mistake on any of 

 the foregoing varieties. All have been 

 tried and found true. I have not men- 

 tioned any of last spring's novelties, be- 

 cause a whole season's test is necessary 

 to demonstrate their worth. We expefct 

 an unusually large per cent of them to 

 make good, however, judging by present 

 indicatioas. A. F. J. B. 



Jung's American Beauty Aster. 



JUNG'S ASTERS. 



"I have a new aster growing on my 

 seed farm here," writes J. W. Jung, of 

 Randolph, Wis., "which differs from all 

 other varieties in width and substance 

 of petals, some petals being almost a 

 half inch wide. As the color is almost 

 the same as the American Beauty rose, 

 I have decided to call it American 

 Beauty. It is a medium early bloomer. 

 The plants are strong growers, from 

 twenty-five to thirty inches tall, well 

 supplied with heavy foliage, and it is a 

 prolific bloomer. 1 have plants now 

 which are carrying from eight to twelve 

 flowers, each of which measures over 

 four inches across. The one used for 

 the photograph was five inches across. 

 The stems are twelve to eighteen inches 

 long. The petals are of unusually heavy 

 substance and will last a long time with- 

 out wilting. 



"My strain of the Comet originally 

 came from Burpee, in a mixture, and 

 during all the time that I have had it, it 

 has been improved each year by selec- 

 tion. Unlike other strains, the plants 

 attain a height of twenty-four inches 

 and bear the blooms on stems from 

 eighteen to twenty-four inches long. 



"These are undoubtedly two of the 

 finest strains of asters in cultivation, as 

 I have purchased aster seed from our 

 leading aster specialists and from Euro- 

 pean growers, but have as yet found 

 nothing that will equal these strains." 



SULPHUR WATER FOR PLANTS. 



Will water from a sulphur well be 

 likely to do injury to plants if used for 

 watering? We are here, at times, rather 

 short of water, but have a sulphur well 

 available. J. K. 



When natural springs are so strongly 

 impregnated with foreign substances as 

 to have a decided taste and a peculiar 

 operation in physical economy, they are 

 called mineral springs. 



Under the heading of sulphur waters 



are such as contain sulphureted hydro- 

 gen, which are distinguishable by the 

 peculiar, fetid smell of that gas and by 

 yielding a brown precipitate, with the 

 salts of lead or silver. 



Such waters are in nowise suitable for 

 watering greenhouse stock and are still 

 more unsuitable for syringing. By ex- 

 posing such waters in shallow reservoirs 

 for twenty-four or thirty-six hours and 

 then drawing off the water from the sur- 

 face, the bad effects of the sulphureted 

 hydrogen would in a measure be elimi- 

 nated. RiBES. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



Walter Park, of Brooklyn Cottage, 

 Langholm, Scotland, died recently, at the 

 age of 86. He emigrated from Scotland 

 to America over sixty years ago, and as 

 a florist in Brooklyn, it is said, he made 

 a fortune in twenty years, and then re- 

 turned to Langholm, where for a time he 

 took an active part in the' public af- 

 fairs of the town. 



A great international horticultural ex- 

 hibition will be held in Berlin, Ger- 

 many, April 2 to 13, 1909. The pre- 

 liminary program has just been issued. 

 It has been determined that the exhibits 

 of horticultural products shall not be 

 placed in ordinary rows or groups, but 

 an attempt will be made "to show by 

 small, self-contained, impressive and dec- 

 orative pictures what striking paintings, 

 views and landscapes" can result from a 

 harmonious combination of horticulture 

 and art. The schedule contains 725 com- 

 petitive classes, and all branches of hor- 

 ticulture are well represented therein. W. 

 Swoboda, head of the firm of J. C. 

 Schmidt, Berlin, is president of the coun- 

 cil, and O. Beyrodt, of orchid fame, is 

 one of the vice-presidents. All inquiries 

 should be addressed to the General Sec- 

 retary's Office, Invalidenstrasse, 42, Ber- 

 lin, N. 4, Germany. Bee. 



Chambersburo, Pa.— Wm. B. Reed 

 was reported in the last part of August 

 to be seriously ill. 



