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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JuxE 9, 1910. 



TREATMENT FOR GLOXINIAS. 



Gloxinias, when in flower, enjoy a 

 moderately warm house, 60 degrees at 

 night being sufficient. It is a mistake 

 to shade heavily. No sun should reach 

 the plants, but they do not want to be 

 in a dark, semi-diingeon-like structure, 

 or the flowers will lack texture and the 

 stems substance. Young stock raised 

 from seed in January or February, if 

 kept potted along, will make nice flow- 



not to bury the crown, and on the 

 other hand do not leave it too ele- 

 vated, or it will be constantly see- 

 sawing and will finally snap off if not 

 supported. Properly ' potted primulas 

 need no support. Keep on the sashes 

 during bright sunshine; remove them 

 on dull days and during warm nights. 

 Cloth or lath shades are better than 

 whitening the glass, as they keep the 

 plants cooler. 



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Golden Spur Narcissus at J. J. GruUemans & Sons', Lisse, Holland. 



ering plants in July and August. Give 

 them a place well up to the glass and 

 do not coddle them. Except on cold 

 nights, leave some ventilation on all the 

 time. Give them a light but at the 

 same time fairly rich compost, and do 

 not pot too firmly. To secure good 

 sized tubers for another season, the 

 bost plan with seedlings is to plant 

 them out in a eoldframe in rows a foot 

 apart, allowing six to eight inches be- 

 tween the plants. Keep the sashes tilted 

 top and bottom all the time. Fumigate 

 once in eight or ten days for thrips. 

 Water, when well established, once in 

 four or five days. The plants will make 

 grand growth treated thus and throw 

 splendid flowers in late summer. They 

 can Ye lifted and stored in flats to 

 ripen in October. 



PRIMULAS IN SUMMER. 



The best place for such winter flow- 

 ering primulas as Sinensis, obconica and 

 Kewensis during the summer months is 

 a eoldframe. One facing north or east 

 is better than one having a south or 

 western exposure. A coating of fine 

 coal ashes three or four inches thick, 

 in which the little pots easily can be 

 partially plunged, will keep worms from 

 finding their way into the drainage. Our 

 earliest plants are now in 3-inch and 

 4-inch pots, and any still in flats or 

 pans should be potted before they be- 

 come crowded. A good compost con- 

 sists of one-half well-rotted fibrous 

 loam, one-third leaf-mold, not too much; 

 decayed and inclined to be flaky, and 

 the balance old decayed hotbed or cow 

 manure, adding a little sharp sand and 

 fine charcoal to give porosity and sweet- 

 ness. Be sure in ])otting P. Sinensis 



One successful primula grower plants 

 out his young stock in coldframes, well 

 up to the glass, in light but fairly rich 

 soil. He keeps the sashes over them 

 all summer, but gives air all the time, 

 and lifts and places the plants in their 

 blooming pots early in October, taking 

 a nice ball with each. Better grown 

 plants rarely are seen, and placed in a 

 shaded house they become established 

 quickly and hardly lose a leaf. This 



plan has many features to recommend 

 it, the chief saving being in labor, pot 

 ting and watering. We should like any 

 primula growers who want to get somo 

 extra fine plants, to try this plan. 



IRIS FOR IDENTIFICATION. 



I am sending the bud of an iris and 

 shall be glad to have you tell me the 

 name of the variety. The flowers ex 

 pand well in water after cutting and 

 remain in good shape for several days. 

 The flower is the same form as the 

 Spanish iris, white with golden mark 

 ings. The foliage is narrow. The plant 

 grows about thirty inches high, is 

 robust, hardy and forms large clumps 

 like the German iris. It always is in 

 flower with us in Kansas for Memorial 

 day. The roots are rhizomate, but still 

 are much like a mass of stiff wire. It 

 thrives in any good soil. The variety 

 was introduced here several years ago 

 by an English lady and it is sometimes 

 called Iris Angelica. I shall be glad 

 to have any information you can give 

 about it. a H. C. 



When the bud reached me it was too 

 far gone for positive identification. 

 Considering the flower with the descrip- 

 tion, it probably is Iris Siberica alba. 

 If so, it blooms after the German sec- 

 tion. William A. Peterson. 



ANTIRRHINX7MS FOR MARKET. 



We have noticed in the wholesale 

 markets during the last season that an- 

 tirrhinums well grown and of pleasing 

 shades of color have sold well. The 

 best shades are pure white and pink; 

 next to these come yellow and dark red. 

 In the better class flower stores pink 

 is the popular color. As a rule, pink 

 snapdragons do not produce so robust 

 spikes as the other varieties, but they 

 flower just as early and as profusely. 

 We hope you remembered to select cut- 

 tings from one or two of your best 

 varieties and have had them planted 

 outdoors. From these you should soon 

 be able to secure some cuttings, which. 

 if kept potted along, will prove useful 



Miscellaneous Bulbs Shown by Grullemans & Sons, of Lisse, at the Haarlem Exhibition. 



