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AvQvax 24, 1911. 



TTie Weekly Rorists' Review. 



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those whose stock is outdoors. Climatic 

 conditions can not affect his plants in 

 the least and he will have plants in 

 flower considerably earlier than when 

 they are outdoor grown. Also, if his 

 beds have been properly enriched, he 

 will have larger and more luxuriant 

 plants. The pansy loves a cool, meist 

 and Tich soil, and if fancy flowers are 

 desired a lot of water must be given. 

 No fire heat is needed for them at any 

 time, unles winter flowers are wanted. 

 Thertf aSe probably more pansy plants 

 sold than of geraniums, coleus and al- 

 temantheras combined. They are not 

 likely to wane in popular favor, as 

 anyone can grow them, and the fact 

 that their flowers come so soon after 

 winter has passed makes them appeal 

 to every flower lover, and the florist 

 who stocks up heavily on pansies for 

 1912 will make a most excellent invest- 

 ment. 



BAWLINOS' PANSIES. 



Doubtless the bulk of the pansy seed 

 still comes from Germany, but at many 

 widely separated places in the United 

 States florists are building up a profit- 

 able side line in growing pansy seeds 

 for sale to the trade. In the majority 

 of cases the seed industry has grown 

 from the business of supplying pansy 

 plants in spring. Thousands of florists 

 sell baskets of pansy plants at planting 

 time. Many buy these baskets, ready 

 for sale, from a grower who produces 

 pansy plants in quantity. Where a 

 florist is supplying a large list of other 

 florists with these Tjiaskets of pansy 

 plants, and when ne -Works up a first- 

 class strain, he begins to receive in- 

 quiries for the seied. Pretty soon tho 

 sale of seed becomes almost as impor- 

 tant an item as the sale of plants. It 

 was thus with ' Elmer Rawlings, of 

 Olean, N. Y. He has been twenty years 

 at it. 



One of the accompanying illustra- 

 tions shows a partial view of one of 

 Mr. Kawlings ' field beds of pansies, ' 

 from a photograph taken June 26, 

 which was a little late for the best 

 showing of bloom. The other picture 



Pansies at Elmer Rawlings^ Olean, N. Y. 



shows his dark strain. Mr. Bawlings 

 grows quite a list of named sorts and 

 has worked up several private strains 

 through the testing of everything new 

 that appears in the pansy world. 



WINTEEINO DUTCH BXJI.BS. 



If Dutch bulbs are kept over winter 

 in a dry cellar, how deep should they 

 be covered with ashes or soil? Will 

 they not start too early if wanted for 

 Easter I Is it best to keep them out- 

 side until cold weather sets in? I 

 live in New York state. M. B. 



Easter Sunday comes April 7 next 

 year. If you wish to keep hyacinths, 

 tulips and narcissi until that time, 

 they must be held quite cool. It is a 

 common practice to stand them out- 

 doors after placing them in pots, pans 

 or flats, to keep them well watered and 

 stand them in a frame, where they can 

 be covered sufficiently deep with ashes 

 or loam to exclude frost, with the as- 

 sistance of a covering of straw. This 

 plan may answer well, but there are 



some objections to it. You can not 

 tell in what condition your bulbs are. 

 either in growth or in regard to moist- 

 ure, and it is sometimes disagreeable 

 to take them out. If you have a cold, 

 dry cellar, I would advise placing them 

 there, in preference to outdoors. Do 

 not cover them too soon with ashes 

 or soil. Keep them well watered until 

 covered. You can hold your bulbs in 

 such a cellar perfectly well in your 

 latitude. C. W. 



Elmer Rawlingft' Strain of Dark Pansies. 



OIQANTEUM PLANTS DIE. 



Will you please tell me the best 

 way to handle Lilium giganteumf 1 

 have planted them the last two years 

 and have grown them as high as two 

 feet, when the foliage would start to 

 turn yellow and the whole plant would 

 decay. On digging them up, I would 

 find them full of little white lice. I 

 have noticed the same lice on the im- 

 ported bulbs before being planted. Is 

 there any way of killing them, with- 

 out hurting the bulbs? A. A. 



Lilium longifiorum giganteum is not* 

 much the most widely grown form of 

 the Easter lily. The bulbs do not ar- 

 rive as early as the other types, and 

 when we get an early Easter they 

 need quite hard forcing to flower them 

 on time. The lice referred to I do 

 not know about. Should you see theno 

 again, I would advise rolling the bulbs 

 in flowers of sulphur before pottihg. 

 Should they appear in spite of this, 

 water the plants with tobacco water. 

 You can soak tobacco stems and lise 

 the liquid, or dilute one of the special 

 nicotine preparations. 



Pot the giganteums as soon as you 

 get them. Use 5-inch and 6-inch pots, 

 according to the size of the bulbs; gen 

 erally 5-inch ones are used. Do not 

 make the mistake of starting them 

 too cool. Place them in a temperature 

 of 55 degrees at night in a cellar, in 

 a shed or under a greenhouse bench, 

 clear of drip. After the first watering 

 keep them on the dry side until the 

 pots are nicely filled with roots, and 

 shoots are appearing; then give them 

 a mimimum temperature of 65 degrees 

 ■ right along, and even more if neces- 

 sary after the buds show. Do not try 

 to grow giganteums cool. They like 

 plenty of heat and half the failures 

 nre due to a lack of a proper realiza- 

 tion of this fact. r. W. 



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