



October 22, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Crimson Rambler on a Pergola, Four Years After Planting. 



LILIUM LONGIFLORUM. 



"We would like to know how to take 

 care of longiflorum multiflorum bulbs 

 after they arrive, how to plant the bulbs 

 and how to take care of them until 

 sprouted. Could they be set under 

 Denches in a carnation house and should 

 litter be put on? R. H. G, 



Pot as soon as possible after you re- 

 ceive them. Use 5-inch pots for small, 

 and 6-inch pots for large bulbs. Put 

 some sand below and above the bulbs in 

 potting ana let the soil just cover them. 

 Do not use any fresh manure in your 

 compost. 



The bulbs can be placed under a car- 

 nation bench if the drainings from the 

 bench will not keep the soil wet in the 

 pots. If you can place them in a heated 

 shed or on a cellar floor they will start 

 nicely. They are just as well in the 

 dark until they start to grow. You can 

 cover them with ashes, moss or hay. 

 Avoid keeping them wet at the root in 

 t.ie early stages of growth. Better run 

 them on the dry side. They will do well 

 for a time in a temperature of 45 de- 

 grees at night; when the shoots appear, 

 10 degrees higher can be given advan- 

 tageously. C. W. 



KEROSENE. 



Please inform me how I can apply 

 kerosene to plants. I used to spray the 

 woodwork with 11,, against the common 

 spider, but as they also are troublesome 

 among the plants I would like to get rid 

 of them. I have used tobacco extracts 

 pretty strong, but without any result. 

 Can I spray my plants with clean kero- 

 sene and then give them a good syring- 

 ing afterwards without injury? T. B. 



If you apply pure kerosene to your 

 plants, no amount of after syringing 



will save them from complete destruc- 

 tion. A wine-glassful to a three-gallon 

 pail is as strong a dose as can safely be 

 used, and then care has to be taken that 

 it is well mixed; it cannot be applied at 

 all to any plants with woolly foliage. 



The Kdltor Is pleased 

 when a Reader 

 presents his ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



ii^ 



As experience Is the best 

 teacher, so do ^e 

 learn fastest by a<a 

 exohanee ol experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brouKht out 

 by discussion. 



Good jjenmanshlp, spelling' and frratn- 

 mar, thoutrh desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 dolncr your best. 



WK SHALL BE GLAD 

 TO HKAR FROM TOU. 



We do not know what the common 

 spider is you refer to. As a rule, these 

 insects do no special harm to plants, 

 while some are beneficial through de- 

 stroying green and black aphis. You had 

 better try some other form of fumiga- 



tion before syringing with any kerosene 

 mixture. The nicotine extracts and hy- 

 drocyanic acid gas should all prove suffi- 

 ciently deadly to kill any insect pests 

 you have. 



The safest way to use kerosene is in 

 an emulsion. To make this, use one-half 

 pound of any good hard soap, one gallon 

 boiling water, two gallons kerosene. Dis- 

 solve the soap in the water, add the ker- 

 osene and churn with a pump or syringe, 

 for ten minutes. Dilute twenty-five times 

 before applying for aphis, etc. For 

 scale it can be used diluted ten times. 



CYCLAMENS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



My cyclamens are in 5-inch pots and 

 the pots are full of roots. I want them 

 in the best possible shape by Christmas. 

 Would you shift them into 6-inch pots, or 

 leave them in their present quarters? 

 G. A. T. 



It is now rather late to shift your 

 cyclamens intended for Christmas flower- 

 ing. Had you purposed holding these 

 for early spring sales, it would be all 

 right to give them a shift, but it will be 

 much better to keep them in 5-inch pots 

 now. As these are well filled with roots, 

 give them a sprinkling once a fortnight 

 of some highly concentrated fertilizer, 

 like Clay's fertilizer, alternating this with 

 doses of liquid manure. C. W. 



PLANT FOR NAME. 



Will you kindly tell me the name of 

 the plant a piece of which I send? 



W. P. M. 



The plant is Conoclinium ccelestinum, 

 or Eupatorium coelestinum, as most au- 

 thors now unite the two species under the 

 latter name. 



Shrewsbury, Mass. — Charles H. 

 Hutchins has built a greenhouse, 15x68. 

 to be used for forcing vegetables. 



