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Fbbbuary 11, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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bright days. Keep the plants well spaced 

 as they grow. . Elevate any specially 

 good ones on stands, being sure in such 

 cases that they are watered carefully. 

 A temperature of 55 degrees at night 

 should not be exceeded for these ram- 

 blers, if you want them to be strong and 

 to carry large, well-colored trusses of 

 flowers. 



Schizanthus. 



Easter is two months away and plants 

 of the popular Schizanthus Wisetonen- 

 sis can now go into their blooming pots. 

 Grow them cool and airy to keep them 

 short and stocky. Discontinue pinching. 

 Afford one or two shoot supports. Water 



freely and afford liquid manure twice a 

 week when the roots have filled the pots. 

 This schizanthus is still much of an 

 Easter novelty. It pleases purchasers 

 and there would seem to be a market 

 for more of it. 



A BUFFALO STORE. 



Jacob N. Bailey, manager of the Buf- 

 falo Cut Flower Co., sends the photo- 

 graph of his establishment reproduced 

 herewith. The concern is one of the 

 younger wholesale houses, but Mr. Bailey 

 has had a long training in the business 

 and western Ivlew York is steadily gain- 

 ing importance in all departments of the 

 flower business. 



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STOCK PLANTS. 



"Will you kindly let me know how I 

 shall tsJie care of my chrysanthemum 

 stock plants? I am always bothered 

 with their running up too tall before 

 time for taking cuttings. Shall I keep 

 them cut back I And how tall shall they 

 be before doing so? Also, about the cut- 

 ting of same after they are potted; how 

 tall shall I let them grow before cutting 

 them back, and how far from the ground 

 would you cut them? L. A. G. 



The proper care of the stock plants is 

 a subject that many florists seem to give 

 little thought to, and yet on the condi- 

 tion of the stock plants depends abso- 

 lutely the success or otherwise of the 

 next year's crop. 



In many places they are dropped down 

 under the bench as soon as the room they 

 have occupied is needed for something 

 else, and then surprise and disgust are 

 expressed, a month or two later, when it 

 is found that the stock plants are either 

 dead or making weak cuttings. Almost 

 every florist has a cold house where he 

 grows violets or holds back azaleas and 

 such stock, and such a house, where the 

 night temperature is around 40 degrees, 

 is the ideal place to rest the mum stock. 

 Take them up from the bench and put 

 into flats or pots in new soil and give a 

 good watering to settle the soil. Then 

 put them in the cold house in a light, 

 airy position. Keep them on the dry 

 side and if there was any fly on them 

 when they were taken from the bench, 

 either dust them well with tobacco dust 

 or spread stems around them. 



In such a position the plants make 

 little growth and never run up tall, as 

 Ii. A. G. says, but stool out so that by 

 March there is a goodly number of fine, 

 healthy cuttings ready to be taken. Also, 

 the plants, not being weakened, are in 

 shape to keep on producing good shoots. 

 The mum, while almost a hardy plant, is 

 never really dormant, and the low tem- 

 perature, while not enough to induce con- 

 ditions of growth described by L. A. Q., 

 is still enough to keep the plant on the 

 move. 



Shoots that are running up too tall 

 should be cut back so that they will 

 break again. The tops can be rooted if 

 needed and potted or boxed up, and the 



tops of these in turn can be used for 

 cuttings. As to how tall plants should 

 be before they are cut down again, it is 

 not material. If the top is not wanted 

 for a cutting the tip can be pinched out 

 as soon as the young plant is growing 

 nicely, and successive pinchings will keep 

 the plant just as dwarf as one wishes. 

 It is a mistake to let the plant run up a 

 foot or more in height and then cut it 

 down into the hard wood. Such a plant 

 does not break strongly again and the 

 check is severe, whereas pinching the 

 young, soft shoots does practically no 

 harm. If it is intended to grow bush 

 plants this pinching can be continued till 

 late in July; in fact, must be continued 

 to keep the plant within bounds and fur- 

 nish more shoots; but if it is desired to 

 grow one or two flowers to a plant it is 

 an easy matter to take up as many shoots 

 as are needed, say June I, and as soon as 

 these shoots have a good headway the 

 plant will put all its energy into them, 

 and the useless wood at the base of the 

 plant can be cut away. 



Some growers seem to think that the 

 plants to be set out on the benches must 

 be propagated at just such a time and 

 moved along without any check, or pinch- 

 ing, or anything else. While such a 

 method may be the ideal way, it is not 

 the only way by any means, and I have 

 many times seen plants that had been 

 doing duty a^ stock plants and been cut 

 over half a dozen times go ahead and 

 make a wonderful growth just as soon 

 as they got their head, so to speak, and 

 were allowed to run up for flowering 

 shoots. C. H. T. 



OBITUARY. 



W. C. Krick. 



W, C. Krick, Brooklyn, N. Y., died 

 Sunday, February 7, and was buried Feb- 

 ruary 10 with Masonic honors. Mr. Krick 

 was widely known in the trade as the 

 manufacturer of an immortelle letter for 

 use in design work, a pot hanger, and 

 other useful contrivances. 



Alex Von Asche. 



Alex Von Asche, of Woodside, L. I., 

 N. Y., died February 4. He was a vet- 

 eran rose grower for the New York mar- 



ket and was highly esteemed by all who 

 knew him. 



Alex N. Kay. 



Alex N. Kay, of Churchill, O., died of 

 pneumonia, February 2, at the age of 

 70 years. 



Lorenzo G. Yatet. 



Lorenzo G. Yates, a horticulturist of 

 Santa Barbara, Cal., died January 31, at 

 the age of 77 years. He had acquired a 

 wide reputation as a specialist in the 

 ferns of the Pacific coast. He was bom 

 in England. 



Hermann WiMpret. 



Hermann Joseph Wildpret, a well-known 

 gardener of Teneriffe, Canary Islands, 

 died December 18, 1908. He was born 

 in Eheinfelden, Switzerland, October 5, 

 1834. Immediately after leaving school 

 he took up gardening and served a long 

 and vigorous apprenticeship. At the 

 age of 22 years he left for Santa Cruz, 

 Teneriffe. At first he occupied a very 

 modest . position^ but his. untiring zeal 

 and sound knowledge of floriculture soon 

 won him the attention and qonfidence of 

 his superiors and in a short time he was 

 appointed superintendent of public gar- 

 dens at Orotava, Teneriffe. This posi- 

 tion he occupied for over thirty-five 

 years. His influence was soon felt, not 

 only in Orotava, but on all the Canary 

 Islands, for he set about introducing 

 many new varieties of plants, and im- 

 proving and naming many which had 

 hitherto grown wild on the islands. For 

 instance, upon his arrival only one palm 

 was grown in Teneriffe, namely. Phoenix 

 Canariensis, while now one will find over 

 100 varieties, nearly all of which were 

 introduced by him. But on account of 

 his nationality, being a stranger in a 

 strange land, he had very many enemies, 

 who finally succeeded in ousting him from 

 his position. Mr. Wildpret, being then 

 well advanced in years, did not seek a 

 new position, but went into retirement, 

 contributing articles to the various Eu- 

 ropean trade papers. 



MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. 



Enclosed are some Marie Louise violet 

 buds. Will you please tell me if the 

 petals are white when the bud first 

 breaks! H. W. A. 



The buds on all the double blue violets 

 are of a pale color when they first 

 appear. In winter they come even light- 

 er than they do later in the season, and 

 might quite naturally be mistaken for 

 Comte de Brazza or Swanley White by 

 anyone not accustomed to their culture. 

 C. W. 



Keaeney, Neb. — Fire originating in 

 Green & Wiley's heating plant, in the 

 evening of January 29, partly destroyed 

 three of their greenhouses. Cold and 

 broken glass wrought further damage. 

 The insurance had expired only a few 

 days before. 



