January 28, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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varieties which make great records on 

 the exhibition table are soon dropped 

 after their dissemination. The rank and 

 file will not give them such coddling as 

 they have been accustomed to, and of 

 course they fail to duplicate their former 

 records. Consider well before you dis- 

 card all other varieties in favor of some 

 pet seedling. A. F. J. B. 



LACK OF BUDS. 



I have several benches of carnations, 

 especially Fair Maids, which were 

 benched all right, and seemed to make a 

 good start, but lately have not been 

 throwing many buds. The plants are 

 healthy, showing no disease whatever, 

 with many shoots starting, and from this 

 stage to shoots half grown, with broad 

 leaves and stout stems, but it seems an 

 interminable period before a bud 

 emerges at the top. I have given them 

 lime and sheep manure as top dressing, 

 separately, since November, working it 

 into the soil. 



Now, is there any chemical, or other 

 substance, such as nitrate of soda, which 

 I could apply to hasten the plants into 

 bud, or rather, to make them bud in- 

 stead of sending many useless shoots f 

 I keep the temperature as near as possi- 

 ble to the right mark. My soil is apt to 

 be rather heavy, as I have no soil that 

 could be called sandy on the place, al- 

 though the soil in the benches seems loose 

 and not packed solid. Would such soil 

 have any effect on certain kinds of 

 pinks? Beacon seems to do well for me, 

 as all shoots go directly to bud and 

 bloom. 



Is there any special variety of pink 

 which you could recommend as suited to 

 such soilf I. F. 



Carnation Dorothy Gordon. 



There is not a great deal you can do 

 with those carnations, except to have pa- 

 tience. At this time of the year you 

 cannot adopt any radical methods to pro- 

 mote growth, as there is too much dan- 

 ger of getting the plants into a soft. 



worthless condition. Better wait for the 

 crop to come and get a good one, than 

 to hasten it unduly and get an inferior 

 quality. 



If you had a whole house of the va- 

 riety in question, you could hasten them 

 on slightly by raising the temperature 

 about 3 degrees, providing you would 

 run ventilation on the house almost con- 

 tinuously. There should, however, be no 



increase in temperature unless it be ac- 

 companied by an increase in ventilation 

 in proportion. 



All plant foods, such as nitrate of 

 soda, etc., will soften as well as hasten 

 growth and should be used sparingly at 

 this time of year. 



You will find that some varieties are 

 inclined to make a fall and early winter 

 crop of blooms and to go off crop about 

 this time, coming in again about March. 

 You can overcome this to some extent by 

 proper pinching, with a winter crop in 

 view. A. F. J. B. 



BEST VHITE CARNATION. 



Please tell me what you consider the 

 best white carnation of those generaUy 

 grown, considering productiveness and 

 size. H, G. F. 



If I had to choose one best white car- 

 nation I would pick White Perfection. 

 Next, and so close to it as to have but 

 little preference, I would mention White 

 Enchantress. Many other growers place 

 the last named variety at the top, and the 

 other one second. Each will occupy about 

 the same amount of space on our place 

 next season, with a leaning toward White 

 Perfection. I might say in connection 

 herewith that Lady Bountiful will not 

 be dropped by us just yet. This variety 

 has some points that have made it a 

 favorite here. Lloyd seems promising 

 abd, while its showing thus far this sea- 

 son does not warrant its displacing any 

 of the three varieties mentioned, yet we 

 expec:J; it to make good here another 

 year, and to stick. A. F. J. B, 



Carnation Governor Deneen. 



RECORD OF CUTS. 



The Pikes Peak Floral Co., Colorado 

 Springs, Colo., found a special interest 

 in the record of carnation cuts published 

 in the Review January 7, comparing re- 



