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The Weekly Horists' Review. 



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June 17, 1909. 



yellow varieties alone numbering over 

 thirty. Some day we may expect to see 

 these grown by the houseful for market, 

 but in the meantime we can afford to 

 hang on to the parent type. 



Its Culture. 



Coming from a warm country, this 

 cypripedium does well grown in either a 

 warm or cool house. In summer a cool 

 north house, or even a coldframe where 

 the plants can be close to the light, suits 

 them to a nicety. We have seen splendid 

 specimens kept outdoors under over- 

 hanging branches of trees. Unlike cat- 

 tleyas, the cypripediums, like most of 

 the other terrestrial orchids, need an 

 abundant water supply all the growing 

 season, and in hot weather they will need 

 a thorough soaking each day if, the pots 

 are filled with roots. When well estab- 

 lished, water once in ten days with weak 

 cow manure water, but do not use any 

 chemicals. The plants will enjoy a 

 syringing every warm afternoon. 



It is doubtful if any other orchid pays 

 much better for space occupied and care 

 bestowed on it than C. insigne. Allow- 

 ing only twelve blooms to each 6-inch 

 pot, at the rate of 10 cents per bloom 

 they yield a good profit, and as they 

 increase in size rapidly their value can- 

 not be estimated merely by flowers sold. 



This lady's slipper does well in either 

 fibrous loam or a mixture of loam and 

 fern fiber. It grows only moderately in 

 pure fern fiber. Some moss can be used 

 among the loam in potting. This work 

 cannot be done now, but in February or 

 March. As a general thing, a night 

 temperature of 55 to 60 degrees will be 

 found to suit C. insigne well. The yel- 

 low forms seem to like a slightly higher 

 temperature. 



ADIANTUMS. 



This is the time of rapid growth with 

 all ferns, and with a cessation of the 

 rush incidental t6 bedding out, planting 

 mums and similar seasonable duties, it 

 is well to give the ferns a little attention. 

 The adiantums do not succeed well in a 

 bright house. The fronds when so grown 

 are pale in color and undesirable. If a 

 house well shaded can be set apart for 

 their culture during the warm months, 

 where they can be fairly close to the 

 glass, they will produce a wealth of fine 

 fronds. Pots well filled with roots will 

 need some liquid manure once a week. 

 Let the doses be rather weak, and if 

 some soot is used in the water it will as- 

 sist in keeping the fronds a fine dark 

 color. 



If greenhouse space is limited and a 

 suitable place cannot be given them, cold- 

 frames can be called into requisition. 

 Give the sashes a good coating of white- 

 wash (kerosene and white lead is suit- 

 able), dig out the loam so as to give the 

 plants suflScient head room, spread a 

 layer of coal ashes to stand the pots on 

 and, if snails are in evidence, give a 

 dusting of air-slaked lime in addition. 

 You will find that your ferns will grow 

 faster and stockier than in a dark green- 

 house, and be fine plants by the middle 

 of September, if carefully tended. 



Not only adiantums, but many other 

 ferns can be similarly grown in summer. 

 It is surprising that more frames are not 

 utilized in this way in summer, instead 

 of being allowed to lie idle and grow up 

 ■with weeds. The successful commercial 

 man never wants to see any houses or 

 frames unoccupied any longer than bare 

 necessity requires. 



Dover, N. H. — Charles L. Howe had a 

 large extra force of men employed at his 

 Garrison Hill greenhouses preparatory to 

 the Memorial day rush. 



Rochester, N. Y. — The Florists' Club, 

 in a letter signed by its secretary, H. B. 

 Stringer, has accepted Mayor Edgerton's 

 invitation to hold its flower show in Con- 

 vention hall, November 2 to 4. 



Dover, Me. — At the Park Street Green- 

 houses Mr. Genthner had the finest crop. 

 of carnations he ever has been able to 

 cut, just right for Memorial day. He is 

 doing an excellent business this spring. 



JoLiET, III. — The Joliet Eepublican 

 printed a Memorial day section in red 

 and blue, and Albert C. Rott and Jo- 

 seph Labo took advantage of the oppor- 

 tunity to publish attractive advertise- 

 ments in colors. 



Pueblo, Coix). — G. Fleischer, not con- 

 tent with the business at store and 

 greenhouses, just before Decoration day 

 put a full assortment of bedding plants 

 at "Boselawn cemetery, where a large 

 trade was done. 



Wyomissing, Pa. — B. H. Farr, of the 

 Wyomissing Nursery, invited the public, 

 June 8, to view his peony garden, and 

 he and his employees devoted the day to 

 showing the visitors about the place. The 

 garden covers five acres. 



Neenah, Wis. — Louis Otto says that 

 trade for Decoration day was fine, though 

 the quality of the stock was somewhat 

 poor. Some excellent peonies were 

 shipped in. Cape jasmine could not be 

 had, on account of its lateness. 



Belfast, Me. — W. E. Hamilton has 

 lately passed through one of the busiest 

 periods that he has known in his twenty- 

 five years of business. In addition to 

 Decoration day work and general trade, 

 he has handled an unusual number of 

 funeral orders. 



Freeport, III. — Louis Bauscher has 

 turned his business into a corporation, 

 application for a certificate having been 

 filed at Springfield June 9. The capital 

 stock is to be $25,000. Three new houses 

 are to be erected, using Garland gutter 

 and truss construction with Moninger 

 mill work. 



Des Moines, Ia. — The J. S. Wilson 

 Floral Co. says that trade for Decoration 

 day was double the record of the estab- 

 lishment for last year, and Mr. Wilson 

 states that from what he can learn 

 among the other florists of the town 

 the business everywhere was far ahead 

 of any previous year. Trade in general 

 all through the month of May was away 

 ahead of last year. 



Worcester, Mass, — The local florists 

 say their plants and flowers have grown 

 better this spring than last, and that 

 they had a larger stock on hand with 

 which to meet the Decoration day de- 

 mand. But they say the demand was 

 larger than that of last year ; hence there 

 was more of a shortage at the last min- 

 ute than had been expected. Many or- 

 ders were only taken conditionally and 

 it was necessary to have much of the 

 stock shipped in from Boston. 



Rhinebeck, N. Y. — Frank Marquet is 

 building a greenhouse on Chestnut street. 



New Castle, Ind. — The illness of Her- 

 bert Heller has taken a turn for the 

 worse, and his recovery is despaired of. 



Bar Harbor, Me. — The Main street 

 flower store of the Mount Desert Nurs- 

 eries was opened for the summer on 

 Monday, May 31. 



Eliot, Me. — W. L. Fernald, the nur- 

 seryman, had a lively business during the 

 last week or two of May, shipping his 

 stock by the carload. 



Jersey City, N. J. — John T. Withers 

 is chairman of the committee on arrange- 

 ments for the dedication of the Zabriskie 

 playground June 19. 



TiLLSONBURG, Ont. — Mrs. Wm. Rus- 

 ling announces that the marriage of her 

 daughter, Nellie May, and William L. 

 Lindsay will take place June 30. 



Hancock, Mich. — At the greenhouses 

 and store of the A. M. York estate, ex- 

 tensive and systematic preparations were 

 made for the Decoration day trade and a 

 most satisfactory business was done. 



Albion, Mich. — M. & S. L. Dysinger's 

 stock of blooming plants was in unusu- 

 ally good condition this season, and their 

 Decoration day sales were the best in 

 their experience. Trade has also con- 

 tinued good since then. 



LODA, III. — Addems, Morgan & Co. 

 had a heavy business last month, dispos- 

 ing of thirty per cent more bedding 

 plants than in May, 1908. They have 

 also had a large increase in cut flower 

 trade as compared with last year. 



Hartford, Conn. — J. F. Huss presided 

 at a meeting of the Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society, June 11. The society 

 has secured Unity hall for a dahlia show 

 September 23, and contemplates securing 

 Putnam Phalanx hall for a chrysanthe- 

 mum show November 3 and 4. 



Napebville, III. — Charles F. Rohr 

 says there has been an unusually heavy 

 business here in bedding plants. Every- 

 thing salable in that line was gone a 

 week before Memorial day. He estimates 

 that his trade in May was about thirty 

 per cent greater than in the same month 

 of 1908. 



Hamilton, Can. — Trade has been 

 brisk in bedding plants. Store and fu- 

 neral work have been quiet for the last 

 few weeks. The Cannon Floral Co. dis- 

 posed of all its bedding stuff at whole- 

 sale. The Vossen Floral Co. sold about 

 8,000 geraniums retail. McLeod Bros, 

 report a good spring business, and find 

 demand for pot plants increasing. 



Readino, Pa. — In the market here 

 many of the stall-holders sell flowers at 

 such times as Memorial day. Outdoor 

 flowers were scarce this year and all 

 sellers did big business. Calvin Angstadt, 

 of Friedensburg, sold fifty-two bouquets 

 at from 35 cents to 50 cents each and 

 seven dozen peonies at 80 cents a dozen. 

 Few peonies were in bloom and they 

 were in great demand, bringing better 

 prices than usual. 



