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October 29, 1908. 



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SUGGESTIONS 



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Cinerarias. 



The first sowing of cinerarias is now 

 in 6-inch pots, with the flowering stems 

 a foot in height. These will have some 

 flowers open by the end of the year and 

 will be in full bloom in January. Be- 

 ing gross feeding plants, liquid manure 

 should be afforded them once in four, 

 or five days. Spread the plants out to 

 prevent crowding of the leaves. A cin- 

 eraria without good foliage down to the 

 pot is a poor object. 



Later sowings are now growing fast 

 and should be potted oi|t before the roots 

 become too much matted. A fresh sup- 

 ply of tobacco stems placed among the 

 plants once a fortnight will keep aphis 

 in check, but a fumigation every week to 

 make doubly sure is advisable. 



A temperature of 40 to 45 degrees at 

 night is high enough for cinerarias in 

 winter. Coldframes may be utilized for 

 them until the mums are out of the way. 



Palms. 



October weather has proved so extreme- 

 ly hot that a fair coating of shading on 

 palm houses has been a necessity. Usu- 

 ally at this season it has been possible 

 to considerably reduce it, but it is un- 

 wise to do so under recent climatic con- 

 ditions, which are more suggestive of 

 early September than late October. Be- 

 sides the danger of burning the leaves, 

 the removal of too much shading will 

 cause the foliage to turn paler in color. 



A thorough hoeing over, once a day at 

 least, is desirable, using the sprayer in 

 order to secure a strong pressure. This 

 will help materially in holding spider, 

 mealy bug and scale in check. 



The present is not a good season for 

 doing any repotting. It is better to feed 

 plants which arc somewhat potbound in 

 order to keep their foliage of a dark 

 green color. An occasional application 

 of liquid manure is beneficial to all palms 

 and, in order to tone up those showing 

 yellowing foliage, weak nitrate of soda 

 water or soot water may be applied. 



Many growers err in overpotting Cocos 

 Weddelliana. This graceful palm makes 

 comparatively few roots and should be 

 kept in small pots. 



A night temperature of 60 to 62 de- 

 grees is ample for palms such as are used 

 commercially, and, of course, the atmos- 

 phere should always be moist. 



Nephrolepis. 



Sales for nephrolepis have been rather • 

 slow thus far this fall, but thc.xlemand 

 should irtiprove froiil this time on. 

 Plants potted some weeks ago are root- 

 ing around the sides of the p^ts nicely 

 and will require more frequent water- 

 ings. ' 



Do not grow your nephrojepis in a 

 heavily shaded house, or the frtonds will 

 be sort and brittle. Just ei^ugh shading 

 to break the direct rays of the sun is 

 required. \ ' 



Do not crowd ' the plants; elevate a 

 number of the best to give more room 

 for the others, and hang some up near 



the glass. These will all give you splen- 

 didly furnished specimens. Be careful 

 to keep the fronds dry. 



If you use the hose over the foliage 

 of such heavily fronded forms as Whit- 

 mani, Elegantissima, Amerpohlii and 

 Todeaoides, many of the pinnaa will rot 

 in the centers of the plants. 



A high temperature for nephrolepis is 

 neither desirable nor necessary, 55 de- 

 grees at night being ample. 



Rambler Roses. 



It is much too early to place pot-grown 

 ramblers under cover. They should be 

 left outside until the canes have had 

 several quite sharp frosts, sufficiently se- 

 .vere to take oflf the leaves. Moderate 

 dryness at the root is still desirable to 

 assist in ripening the wood. Damp con- 

 ditions keep the plants growing too long 

 and the soft ends of the shoots are of 

 no value. 



Now is an excellent time to pot up a 

 batch of field-grown ramblers for forc- 

 ing the coming season. These will not 

 give as good results as plants which have 

 been pot-grown all summer, but are pref- 

 erable to those dug up and potted just 

 before being wanted for forcing. Keep 

 all possible roots intact when potting the 

 ramblers, tie up the shoots to a stout 

 stake and stand outside in a sunny spot, 

 where they should remain until severe 

 frost threatens to break the pots. 



Amaryllis. 



The water supply having been gradual- 

 ly reduced for some weeks back, as pre- 

 viously advised, the foliage on amaryllis 

 will now be drying off and the pots can 

 be laid on their sides under a bench, 

 where they will not get much drip and 

 where they will not be in close contact 

 with heating pipes. A house kept at 45 

 to 50 degrees at night is sufficiently warm. 

 (Continued on Page 16.) 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



There was no improvement in market 

 conditions last week. The wholesale cen- 

 ter was overwhelmed with shipments, in 

 which chrysanthemums predominated, and 

 there was no standard for prices. De- 

 mand was light and clearances were 

 made, if at all, at whatever the stock 

 would bring. Saturday, October 24, there 

 was a fair clean-up, but at probably 

 lower values than ever were seen at this 

 date. The big buyers in Brooklyn took 

 their stock away by the wagon-load. The 

 warm weather has been particularly un- 

 welcome to the chrysanthemum growers, 

 for it has brought in stock which would 

 not ordinarily arrive until November and 

 prices on all grades have been down. 



The present week opened with the ac- 

 cumulations fairly well cleaned out, and 

 rain, with the promise of colder weather. 

 Were it not the week preceding election, 

 with political excitement centered here, 

 there would be grounds for anticipating 

 a better business. 



Beauties have advanced a little in 

 price, but other roses still are going at 

 exceedingly low rates. Richmond seems 

 to suffer the worst. Valley is too abun- 

 dant and cannot all be sold at any price, 

 but the retailers report a good many wed- 

 ding orders booked, so that the growers 

 of valley and lilies anticipate better 



Chrysanthemum Mile. Margue/ite Desjonis. 



