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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Fbbruaby 10, 1910. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM GOLDEN GLOW 



I confess I felt dubious about the 

 profitableness of the Golden Glow mum, 

 on account of its extra earliness, since 

 it comes into bloom when asters are 

 plentiful on the market, but I was 

 agreeably disappointed. The first cuts 

 brought even better prices than the later 

 crops last season. 



We hardly understand its value yet. It 

 will probably produce a white sport — 

 perhaps several of them — within the next 

 two years. In fact, there is one already, 

 and it is not impossible that we may get 

 a pink sport from the white. Then we 

 shall have all the desirable colors and 

 the mum season will be extended a month 

 or more. It is a better finished flower 

 than Monrovia, and the latter variety 

 wiU soon be dropped in a general way. 



Whether the extending of the blooming 

 season will prove a benefit, we do not 

 yet know. To the retailer who does his 

 own making up there is no doubt of 

 the benefit, but time will tell. The man 

 who broke the record for earliness with 

 the Golden Glow deserves a medal in his 

 honor. E. Fryer. 



PREPARING TO PROPAGATE. 



With the advent of February the 

 chrysanthemum grower, particularly the 

 man who is growing for exhibition, be- 

 gins to turn his thoughts to propagating 

 for the coming season. The expert has 

 doubtless had his plants in a cool, airy 

 house, where the cuttings can make a 

 hard, firm growth, and they are now in 

 good shape, but many of the commercial 

 growers simply throw their stock under 

 the benches and leave them there until it 

 is time to begin propagating once more. 

 Such a method is folly, pure and simple. 

 The cuttings are weak and the plants, be- 

 cause they have been growing in insuffi- 

 cient light, have lost most of their vital- 

 ity. 



There is an idea abroad that the 

 chrysanthemum, after flowering, should 

 have a resting season. While it does not 

 need heat or nearly as much water as 

 during the rest of the year, still the 

 chrysanthemum is never dormant and 

 there is no use of looking for good cut- 

 tings after three or four months of ab- 

 solute neglect. If your stock plants are 

 under the benches, throw out some of 

 your violets and carnations and make 

 room on top for the mums, where they 

 can have a reasonable show to produce 

 good cuttings. Anyone who has ever 

 tried it knows that a plant that is lifted 

 and replanted into good, sweet loam, 

 with a fair proportion of leaf-soil and 

 rotted manure, responds immediately. It 

 is good policy, therefore, even though 

 the plants are still in the benches where 

 they were grown, to lift them, turn over 

 the soil and replant them. 



The commercial grower does not want 

 to propagate his stock so soon for average 



cut flower growing, but he will find it an 

 advantage to root the plants and set 

 them out on a bench in a cool house, 

 where they will, after being pinched sev- 

 eral times, give an abundance of splendid 

 cuttings along in May, when the stock 

 plants are getting exhausted and not of 

 much account. It is always a good plan, 

 with any novelties that may be pur- 

 chased, to plant them out on a bench in 

 this manner, because they will then make 

 a free, kind growth and can be increased 

 quite considerably without impairing the 

 constitution of the variety. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



EARLY POT PLANTS. 



I have a side bench on which I would 

 like to grow early mums, two flowers to 

 the plant. There are only twenty-four 

 inches of head-room in the rear of the 

 bench and forty-two inches in the front. 

 When shall I take the cuttings, so as to 

 have the plants not too high by flower- 

 ing time for the above bench? I have 

 stock' plants of Glory of Pacific, Polly 

 Kose, Ivory and Pink Ivory. Are the 

 varieties mentioned suitable for pot 

 plants? If so, when is the right time to 

 take the cuttings? C. B. 



The varieties mentioned by C. B., if 



propagated in April or early May, shoiild 

 not grow any too tall to flower in twenty - 

 four inches of space. So far as my own 

 experience goes, with either Polly Hope 

 or Pacific, I have not been able to flower 

 them with over 2-foot stems, no matter 

 at what time I propagated them. Nice 

 little plants, put out in June and topped 

 once, so as to carry two flowers, should 

 finish weU in that space, unless the bench 

 is heavily shaded, which, of course, makes 

 the stems pull out considerably. 



The kinds mentioned are all well adapt- 

 ed for pot plants, and cuttings can be 

 taken any time when good stock is avail- 

 able. It is simply a question of keeping 

 the plants pinched back, and at the mid- 

 dle of June there are pot plants just as 

 dwarf as anyone could wish. Plants to 

 flower in 7-inch pots, carrying from six 

 to twelve flowers to a plant, should be 

 rooted not later than the end of April. 

 For smaller stock, in 6-inch pots, carry- 

 ing several flowers to a plant, they should 

 be rooted in May or early June and would 

 still be in ample time to produce good 

 stock. Chas. H. Totty. 



Alvin, Tex. — The jasmine business 

 of W, A. Dennis has changed hands, and 

 the new firm in charge is Stevens & Hel- 

 ler. 



FISHER'S CARNATIONS. 



At Peter Fisher's place, at Ellis, Mass., 

 no matter at what time of the year the 

 visitor may call, he always receives a cor- 

 dial welcome and finds something of in- 

 terest to examine. So many high-grade 

 carnations have originated here that Ellis 

 has secured international fame horticul- 

 turally, and that the list of good things 

 is not yet exhausted is self-evident after 

 a look over the seedling house. One seed- 

 ling, of which Mr. Fisher has a nice 

 batch, is a superb cerise, a big flower, 

 with a long, strong stem and an ideal 

 calyx — one which, if it holds good, will 

 be heard from. There are also one or 

 two fine scarlets which promise to beat 

 even Beacon, a variety originating here. 

 A beautiful white variegated variety in 

 the way of the old Mrs. Bradt appears to 

 be free and has handsome flowers. There 

 are other varieties of great promise under 

 trial. If any doubtful traits develop in 

 any of them, however, they will never be 

 introduced, Mr. Fisher declining to put 



anything on the market unless absolutely 

 sure it is all right. 



Among the standard varieties, Winonu 

 seemed to lead as a heavy cropper tn 

 date. Melody looked well, but will noi 

 be grown again. Winsor also carried ■ 

 heavy crop. Kose-pink Enchantres>. 

 White Enchantress and Enchantress ar^ 

 all grown still and there is nothing ye' 

 in sight to beat them when well grown 

 White Perfection does well here and Ben 

 con is the only scarlet grown. No. 50' 

 one of C. W. Ward's varieties, carried 

 nice crop. Viola Sinclair also occupie 

 considerable space, but was off crop '<> 

 the time of our visit. 



Mr. Fisher believes in early plantini; 

 The houses planted first certainly showe 

 a big lead over the later ones, and ar 

 other year every effort will be made t 

 get planting done considerably earlier. 



C. 



CARNATION RUST. 



Enclosed you will find some leaves oi 

 carnations that are affected with what 1 

 think is smut. Will you please tell mc 



