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JANUABT 14, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Establishment of R. Kaisert at Annapolis, Md. 



West Virginia. 



Pabkeesbueg. — Business is better than 

 ever and prospects good. — C. P. Dudley. 



Faiemount. — It's early to speak of 

 spring trade, but it has been good this 

 winter. — H. vjr. Fijjming. '' 



Wisconsin. 



Madison. — We are doing a good, 

 steady business; usual prospect for 

 spring; no panic felt here. — Fred Eent- 



SCHLEH. 



OSHKOSH. — The prospects for spring 

 business are first-class. Indeed, we have 

 had nothing but good business here. — 



FUGLEBERQ & FlISTER. 



Eat; Glaibe. — We expect that spring 

 trade will be about as usual, as business 

 here has but few ups and downs. The 

 effects of the financial upheaval were 

 not appreciable here, though the more 

 wealthy people may have bought a little 



more carefully than in former years. 

 — A. F. Laubitzen. 



KAISER'S MARYLAND PLANT. 



Budolph Kaiser does business at An- 

 napolis, Md., the larger part of his pat- 

 ronage coming from the naval academy 

 there, and from the well-to-do people 

 whom it attracts to the city. At his 

 store, 104 College avenue, he has a large 

 palm house, but his range of glass is at 

 West Annapolis, as shown in the ac- 

 companying illustration. Here he has 

 12,000 feet of gl&ss in five well built 

 greenhouses, where he grows plants and 

 cut flowers for his retail trade, making 

 a specialty of violets, roses, carnations 

 and mums. He also has several acres of 

 land, on which he grows outdoor flowers 

 in the summer and also vegetables and 

 fruits. Adjoining the greenhouses is a 

 substantial residence for the foreman in 

 charge of operations there. 



WHY MUM BLCXDMS DAMPEN. 



Speaking of the damping of blooms of 

 chrysanthemums, which caused great loss 

 to growers in the eastern part of the 

 United States last autumn, W. J. God- 

 frey, the widely known English grower, 

 says: 



"This has been unusually prevalent in 

 England during the past season, and the 

 loss of promising blooms' has been sorely 

 felt by many growers. No one has pro- 

 pounded a remedy, all growers taking it 

 for granted that the trouble arises from 

 one of two causes: overfeeding or the 

 soft growth caused by the moist condi- 

 tions of the atmosphere which followed 

 the heat and drought of the summer. 

 The peculiar point of this theory is that 

 the late blooms, which are produced on 

 the softest growth, are less liable to 

 suffer than the earlier ones, which are 

 generally produced on the ripest and 

 hardest wood. That an excess of manure 

 will cause loss of blooms is beyond dis- 

 pute, but this season plants which re- 

 ceived no manure lost many of the most 

 promising blooms. 



"Experience has taught me that the 



trouble is the result of leaving on too 

 much air at night. In the earlier part 

 of the season, especially if the weather 

 is hot and sunny by day, the night at- 

 mosphere is damp and murky. With this 

 in mind, many growers open the top ven- 

 tilators wide, the theory being that, by 

 giving a slight heat by means of the 

 hot water pipes, the damp air is ex- 

 pelled; whereas, the dry, hot air, being 

 the lightest, is allowed to escape, to be 

 replaced with other which is cold and 

 damp, and it is this which causes the 

 damage. Later on, the nights being 

 colder and at the same time drier, the 

 houses are kept closer, and damping is 

 almost forgotten." 



BEST EARLY VARIETIES. 



Please advise me what varieties of 

 mums you consider best as early white, 

 pink and yellow, with good blooms, and 

 not more than five feet tall. When is 

 the best time to procure rooted cuttings 

 for early bench culture? What is the 

 best care for same before the time for 

 planting the bench? How far apart 



should they be planted on the bench, and 

 when! E. A. M. 



The kinds I would recommend for early 

 use are as follows: 



White — October Frost, Polly Eose, 

 White Cloud. 



Pink — Pacific, Bosiere, Mrs. Coombs. 



Yellow — Golden Glow, Monrovia, 

 Crocus. 



These will flower in the order named 

 and will turn in more money than any 

 other kind a man can grow. White Cloud 

 and Golden Glow are comparatively new, 

 but they have won a place for themselves 

 on their merits. The latter variety can 

 be got in from September 1 if desired. 



Kosiere, in the pinks, is thin and not 

 very satisfactory, but its earliness, when 

 pinks are very scarce, makes it valuable. 



The tallest growers are Rosiere, Octo- 

 ber Frost and White Cloud, so E. A. M. 

 should figure on giving them the position 

 where they can get the most headroom. 



Good stock for early flowers should be 

 rooted in February and March, and kept 

 growing along as cool as possible, till 

 they can be planted out in May or early 

 June. The coldframe daring April is 

 as good a place as can be found. Stock 

 is rooted in May and June, I know, but 

 no grower should leave his early varieties 

 till so late and then expect good results. 

 To get a reasonable length of stem, be 

 ready to plant out sturdy young plants 

 in May, particularly so with Pacific and 

 Polly Bose, as they are slow-growing. 



The distance apart to plant is governed 

 somewhat by the quality of the flowers 

 that it is desired to obtain. For the 

 finest grade 8x6 is as close as it is pos- 

 sible to plant single stemmed plants. 

 This is for a quality that wholesales from 

 ^o to 50 cents each. If E. A. M. figures 

 on a cheaper grade of goods he can take 

 up two or more shoots from his plant, 

 but personally I always believe in letting 

 the other fellow grow the cheap stuff. 



E. A. M. understands, I presume, that 

 he must take his buds in good season and 

 not wait for terminals. Thus it is safe 

 to take buds on Golden Glow or Monrovia 

 after July 15, or the others early in 

 August. One cannot cut flowers in Sep- 

 tember or early October if one waits for 

 the September buds. 



Charles H. Totty. 



Davenport, Ia. — ^John T. Temple re- 

 cently talked to a large and interested 

 audience at the Scott County Farmers' 

 Institute, at Eldridge, la., his subject 

 being "The Care of House Plants." 



