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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Februabt 18, 1009. 



Ind., Ruby and Mrs. Charles Knopf car- 

 nations, but these had traveled badly. 



Bassett & Wasburn, Chicago, staged 

 a splendid vase of their now well-known 

 red carnation, O. P. Bassett. 



Bertermann Bros. Co., Indianapolis, 

 sent twenty-five blooms of their new yel- 

 low carnation, James Whiteomb Eiley. 



St. Clair Floral Co., Belleville, exhib- 

 ited a vase of its dark pink seedling car- 

 nation designated as No. 20. 



W. H. Gullett & Sons, Lincoln, well- 

 grown Maid and Bride roses. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, had a 

 long table of palms, ferns, ficus, aspara- 

 gus, pandanus, rose plants and some fif- 

 teen varieties of bulbs. 



Wertheimer Bros., New York, Spark- 

 ling Dewdrop chiffon, other chiffons, rib- 

 bons, corsage shields, violet ties, etc. 



I. L. Pillsbury, Galesburg, staple for 

 mending bursted carnation calyxes. . 



Geo. M. Garland Co., Des Plaines, sec- 

 tion of greenhouse embodying iron gut- 

 ter and truss construction. 



John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, section 



of greenhouse roof embodying new venti- 

 lator hinge, gutter, bar splice, etc. 



American Blower Co., Detroit, model 

 of the Detroit steam trap for returning 

 the condensation to greenhouse boilers. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago., model 

 of greenhouse boiler, heat generator, pipe 

 tongs, etc. 



Springfield Boiler & Mfg. Co., Spring- 

 field, boilers and shaking grates. 



Ionia Pottery Co., Ionia, Mich., stan- 

 dard pots, lawn vases, wire work. 



Among those represented by signs were : 

 A. Dietsch Co., Chicago, greenhouse ma- 

 terial; Laib Co., Louisville, pipe, fittings 

 and boilers; E. H. Hunt, Chicago, cut 

 flowers and supplies; Henry F. Miehell 

 Co., Philadelphia, seeds and supplies; 

 Wm. Hagemann & Co., New York, bulbs ; 

 C. A. Kuehn, St. Louis, cut flowers and 

 supplies; Chas. F. Meyer & Co., New 

 York, bulbs and nursery stock; Pulver- 

 ized Manure Co., Chicago, Wizard brand 

 manure; Foley Mfg. Co., Chicago, green- 

 house material; Geo. H. Angermueller, 



St. Louis, cut flowers and supplies; Pe- 

 terson Nursery, Chicago, nursery stock; 

 W. J. Cowee, Berlin, N. Y., wired tooth- 

 picks; D. S. Crum, Pine Apple, La., wild 

 smilax. 



The Skigh Ride. 



Wednesday afternoon the annual sleigh 

 ride took place, all visitors who remained 

 being taken on a tour of inspection of 

 the greenhouse establishments of Spring- 

 field. Special interest was felt in A. C. 

 Brown's benches of Sangamo and Su- 

 perba, new pink carnations. 



AMERICAN CAHNATION SOCIETY. 



Notice to Members. 



Inasmuch as I will not enter upon the 

 duties of secretary of the A. C. S. until 

 about April 1, you will kindly send all 

 matters pertaining to that society to Mr. 

 Herr, who is still doing business at the 

 old stand. A. F. J. Baur, Sec 'y-elect. 



PROPAGATION. 



The Main Crop of Cuttings. 



It is none too soon for those who 

 grow for exhibition to put in their main 

 crop of cuttings, particularly of the 

 dwarf varieties. The tall growers, such 

 as General Hutton, do not need to be 

 propagated for a month or more yet, 

 but I like to see all the average growers 

 in the sand box by March 1. These will 

 give fine stock to plant out in May and, 

 as a general rule, plants set out in 

 May will produce larger flowers than 

 those set out in June. 



Some of the varieties that are grown 

 for exhibition may not be suitable for 

 commercial growing, but with many kinds 

 it is simply a matter of early or late 

 propagating. Take Appleton, for in- 

 stance. There is no yellow that will beat 

 it for all-round good qualities as a show 

 variety, and as grown in our vicinity it is 

 equally good as a commercial yellow ; yet 

 some growers say the stem is weak 

 and the flower flops over. Many vari- 

 eties are the same way when improperly 

 grown and, as I have often said, the 

 difference between a commercial variety 

 and an exhibition variety is often merely 

 the difference between a good grower 

 and a poor one. Polly Rose, as sent into 

 the New York market by some growers, 

 with 3-foot to 4-foot stems, will bring 

 from $4 to $6 a dozen, and the same 

 variety will be selling as low as 3 cents 

 at the same time. 



Exhibition Varieties. 



To return to the exhibition varieties, 

 I do not think that the list which I 

 gave in these columns after the shows 

 could be much improved on, and the 

 grower who has to buy in stock should 

 get in his order at once, as all catalogue 



men report an exceptional demand this 

 year. This can be accounted for in sev- 

 eral ways. The big show at Chicago 

 helped to introduce a large circle of 

 growers to many new kinds that they had 

 not seen before, and in addition several 

 shows are scheduled to be held that have 

 not been held in some time. New York 

 will have two shows, I understand, and 

 several smaller towns are getting into 

 line. With the return of prosperity, the 

 future of the mum is bright. 



The questions of propagation I have 

 talked over so often in these notes that 

 I am almost ashamed to even mention 

 them any more. Some growers trim up 

 the leaves much, others little. Some make 

 a clean cut at a joint; others just snap 

 off the cutting, and both root an equally 

 large percentage of the cuttings. So, 

 as Dooley would remark, "What's the 

 use iv worryin't" 



A Caution as to Spraying;. 



Keep the stock from wilting and it 

 roots better and much more quickly, but 

 do not spray your cuttings every day, 

 unless you want to have a good percent- 

 age rot. February and May are two 

 very different months to propagate in, 

 and the spraying necessary in May means 

 trouble at this season of the year. In 

 our own case, operating in a lean-to house 

 with a north aspect, the cuttings are 

 well watered when first put in and sel- 

 dom get any more till they are taken 

 out and potted. Growers using a high 

 temperature, with bottom heat, could 

 not root their plants with so little mois- 

 ture, but the mum is a cool growing 

 plant and does not need such treatment 

 as stove plants require. 



Keep the draughts away from the cut- 

 tings, but, on the other hand, avoid a 



stuffy atmosphere, as this will breed 

 fungi in the benches. 



Common sense is the only thing neces- 

 sary at this season in order to get a 

 good start with the plants, and anything 

 well begun is half done, as the old 

 proverb has it. Chas. H. Totty. 



NONIN ON TWO STEMS. 



The accompanying illustration shows a 

 good marketable grade of chrysanthe- 

 mums. The variety is Jeanne Nonin and 

 these blooms were grown by Ernest L. 

 Johnson, at Palmer, Mass. He propa- 

 gated his stock in February and benched 

 the young plants in June. He carried 

 up two stems to the plant, for, like a 

 good many growers who cater to a local 

 demand, it better suits his need to have 

 a quantity of good, clean stock of moder- 

 ate size, rather than to make special 

 effort for fancy stuff, such as must bring 

 good prices to be profitable; the local 

 growers haven't the special demand that 

 will pay the'price. Mr. Johnson 's plants 

 were fed only with liquid cow manure 

 and the blooms could be cut with extra 

 long stems by the time the flowers were 

 finished. 



Nonin has proved to be one of the best 

 of the commercial varieties. It finishes 

 evenly and a house can be cut out clean 

 within a very few days, making way for 

 another crop. 



RAILROAD GARDENERS. 



The executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Railroad Gardeners 

 met in the Illinois Central offices, Chi- 

 cago, February 12, and selected Philadel- 

 phia for the next annual convention, to 

 be held in August. The day was not 

 fixed, but it will immediately follow the 



