December 24, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists* Review; 



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We would advise removing your plants to 

 a lower temperature. Keep them rather 

 dry and just clear of freezing. Let them 

 rest here for a while, say until the mid- 

 dle of January, when you may start them 

 in a temperature of 50 degrees. We 

 question if you will get these in for 

 Easter, and unless you are anxious to 

 have some thus early we would advise you 

 to hold them back for Memorial trade. 

 If they had been pot grown, with good 

 balls, they would force far better than 

 the plants you received. C, W. 



Store of Clarke Bros., Portland, Ore. 



an inch of the flower stem when you re- 

 pot. In forcing, as high as 65 degrees 

 to 70 degrees at night can be given, but 

 flowers grown under these conditions lack 

 the substance of those produced in a 

 lower temperature. I prefer 60 degrees 

 at night as a maximum. Allow six weeks 

 from the time you can first see and count 

 the buds until flowers will be expanded, 

 in a temperature averaging 60 degrees at 



night. 



C. W. 



PANSIES FOR MEMORIAL DAY. 



Would you kindly tell us the right 

 time to sow pansy seeds under glass, to 

 have them in bloom for Memorial day, 

 and also the temperature they should be 

 grown in? A. E. E. 



The best pansies for Memorial day are 

 sown the preceding August. If you will 

 purchase seedlings of these from any re-, 

 liable dealer they will give you better re- 

 sults than those raised now under glass. 

 Seed sown now should be given a night 

 temperature of 50 degrees. Move into a 

 rather lower temperature when the seed- 

 lings have made their second leaves. A 

 house kept at 40 to 45 degrees at night 

 will suit the pansies. The best growers, 

 who handle them in big quantities, always 

 sow in the fall, and we would suggest 

 your doing the same another season. 



C. W. 



HYDRANGEAS FOR EASTER. 



Will you please have someone, well 

 posted in the forcing of Hydrangea 

 Otaksa, answer the following question? 

 How should Hydrangea Otaksa be treated 

 to have them in bloom by Easter? This 

 is my first experience with them. They 

 were gotten from a well known eastern 

 firm and were supposed to be pot grown, 

 but did not have any soil on the roots. 

 They had plenty of dark green foliage 

 and the lower wood seemed to be well 

 ripened. I potted them on arrival, No- 

 vember 7, and kept them in a tempera- 

 ture of 40 to 45 degrees until a week ago, 

 when I moved them to 50 degrees. I 

 kept them well watered at first, but late- 

 ly I have kept them a little on the dry 



side. The foliage is all turning yellow 

 and falling off and has a bad appearance 

 generally. Is it natural for them to lose 

 their foliage? The hydrangeas had 

 plenty of roots and seven to twelve 

 crowns and were about seven to ten inches 

 high. H. D. S. 



The hydrangeas you received were 

 probably field grown, and if you had 

 treated them differently you might have 

 had good success with them. After pot- 

 ting them, you should have placed them 

 in your coldest house, or in a coldframe. 

 It would have been an advantage to ex- 

 pose them to a little frost, just suflScient 

 to cause the leaves to fall. The plants 

 should then have been kept somewhat 

 dry, but given all possible sun in order 

 to thoroughly ripen the canes. 



It is natural for these hydrangeas to 

 lose all their foliage before being forced. 



FOR A SMALL GREENHOUSE. 



I have a small greenhouse which I 

 use for starting vegetable plants for 

 summer crops, but have some few com- 

 mon flowers which I started last fall 

 from cuttings. Please let me know what 

 would be the best paying flowers to raise 

 in a house of the following dimensions: 



n Space under glass, 10x24 feet, three feet 

 at eaves, seven and one-half feet to 

 top of ridge, with two-foot center walk, 

 two side benches four feet wide, contain- 

 ing seven inches of soil; height from 

 soil at eaves to glass, five inches; raised 

 beds and heated with a brick flue under 

 one side bench. I can hold the tempera- 

 ture at 60 degrees in the coldest part of 

 the house. I am located in a town of 

 4,000 population. G. C. H. 



A house of the dimensions you name 

 and heated by a flue will have an un- 

 certain temperature and arid atmosphere. 

 Such flowers as roses, carnations, violets 

 or chrysanthemums would be out of the 

 question with a temperature as high as 

 60 degrees at the cold end of the house. 

 Could you keep it at 40 to 42 degrees 

 at night it would answer well for violets. 

 Under the circumstances I think it would 

 not pay to bother with any of these 

 crops. It would do nicely for bulbous 

 plants, such as tulips and daffodils, or 

 anything not requiring much headroom. 

 If you have a sale for bedding plants, 

 such as geraniums, cannas, coleus, helio- 

 tropes, etc., why not confine yourself to 

 these? Remove the soil from the benches 

 to allow more headroom. If you have 

 glass in the sides, to lower the benches 

 may help. C. W. 



'Window of Clarke Bros., Portland, Ore. 



