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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 8, 1911. 



BABSON'S SEEDLING. 



Charles Barson, of Ossining, N. Y., 

 has this season been sending cut 

 blooms of a new pink seedling carna- 

 tion to Gunther Bros., New York, who 

 have found the variety not only an ex- 

 cellent seller but a splendid keeper. 

 Mr. Barson has decided to disseminate 

 the seedling, which is not yet named, 

 in the season of 1912. He has worked 

 up considerable stock. The color is a 

 deep rose pink and the blooms are of 

 the largest size, with serrated edge and 

 well built center. Mr. Barson describes 

 the plant as exceptionally easy to grow, 

 the blooms being carried on long, 

 strong stems, some flowers being cut 

 which stood more than four feet above 

 the soil in the bench. He has found 

 that it does not burst its petals, ex- 

 cept to an inconsiderable extent in the 

 one month of January, and that in ad- 

 dition to having a good constitution, 

 making no surplus grass, it is extremely 

 easy to root. 



BUIIJ>INa SOUD BEDS. 



Please give me a plan for building 

 solid beds for growing carnations. 



0. F. C. 



If you wish to build solid beds in 

 the full sense of the term, there is 

 nothing complicated about it. Simply 

 build up your sides and fill in with 

 good soil. The sides may be made of 

 either lumber or concrete; the latter 

 material is in great favor these days. 

 Bight at the start let me caution you 

 to use only the best of material, what- 

 ever kind of bed you build. If con- 

 crete, then use good cement and clean 

 gravel, mixing it in the proportions of 

 one part cement to six parts gravel. 

 Be sure you get it thoroughly mixed, 

 as that is one of the most important 

 points in making concrete. Build your 

 forms the full length of the bed before 

 you start filling in any grouting; then 

 it can all set together in one piece. 

 One inch is thick enough at the top, if 

 you let it taper to four inches at the 

 bottom. 



If you use lumber for making your 

 beds, then use red cedar for posts and 

 pecky cypress for the siding. Set the 

 posts on the outside of the bed, four 

 feet apart and deep enough to stand 

 the weight without tipping outward at 

 the top after a while. The height of 

 the sides w'll determine the depth you 

 should set the posts into the ground. 

 We build our beds according to this 

 latter plan, but instead of filling solidly 

 with soil, we fill in with cinders, leaving 



good four inches of room for soil, which 

 we change each year just as you do 

 with raised benches. We consider this 

 the most economical bed for growing 

 high grade stock. A. F. ,T. B. 



FIVE ACRES OF CARNATIONS. 



In recent issues of The Review there 

 have been printed comments by the Eng- 

 lish trade visitors who made a trip of 

 3,000 miles through the United States a 

 few weeks ago. One thing that every 

 visitor commented on was the sight of 

 five acres of carna'tions "under one 

 roof"; apparently nothing the English 

 visitors saw in this country impressed 



Banoa's Piak Carnation. 



them so strongly as did the carnation 

 range of the Poehlmann Bros. Co., of 

 Morton Grove, 111. Here are over 200,- 

 000 carnation plants, but not "under 

 one roof" as Americans understand it; 

 it is a range of ridge and furrow houses 

 built after the style generally adopted 

 by growers of cut flowers in the middle 

 west. The accompanying illustration 

 gives the view as the Englishmen saw 



it. The photograph is one made in the 

 early part of the present season. 



THE TEMPLE SHOW, LONDON. 



England's Great Annual Event. 



The annual Temple show, the great 

 horticultural event of the year in Eng"- 

 land, was held May 23 to 25 and was 

 again a triumph for horticulture. It 

 was visited on the opening day by 

 their Majesties the King and Queen, 

 and by a great crowd of visitors, who 

 were delighted with the representa- 

 tions of the best that cultural skill can 

 produce in plants and flowers. How 

 good that best is can only be realized 

 by those who have seen a Temple show. 



Orchids, roses, tulips, carnations, 

 sweet peas and hardy flowers were 

 magnificently shown by many growers. 

 In orchids great banks of bloom, all 

 arranged with a light and fairy touch, 

 were staged by Sander & Sons, Bruges 

 and St. Albans; Stuart Low & Co., 

 Bush Hill Park, and C. Vuylstehe, 

 Loochristy, Belgium. 



Roses, especially ramblers, were 

 superb, and among others who seemed 

 to outshine all previous efforts were 

 Hobbies, Ltd., Dereham; Paul & Son, 

 Cheshunt; Wni. Paul & Son, Waltham 

 Cross; Frank Cant & Co. and Ben Cant 

 & Sons, Colchester, and G. Mount & 

 Sons, Canterbury; also H. Cannel & 

 Sons, strong with American Pillar. 



Nothing Striking in New Carnations. 



In carnations there -Here no particu- 

 larly striking new varieties,, but all the 

 well-known favorites were well repre- 

 sented in huge vases of magnificent 

 blooms from Stuart Low & Co.; C. 

 Englemann, Saffron Walden; A. F. But- 

 ton, Iver; H. Burnett, Guernsey; S. 

 Mortimer, Farnham, and Young & Co- 

 Cheltenham. 



Sweet peas were superb from Dobbie 

 & Co., Edinburgh; E. W. King & Co., 

 Coggeshall, and from other noted 

 growers. 



May-flowering tulips were one of the 

 decided hits of the show and there 

 were grand collections from Alex. 

 Dickson & Sons, Newtownards; Hogg 

 & Robertson, Dublin; Barr & Sons, 

 London, and R. H. Bath, Ltd., Wis- 

 bech. 



Begonias of immense size, yet of 

 refined form, were strongly in evidence 

 from Blackmore & Langdon, Bath, and 

 T. S. Ware, Ltd., Feltham. 



The new marguerite, Mrs. F. Sander, 

 in nicely flowered plants from Sander 

 & Sons, was remarkably pretty. 



