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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 11, 1910. 



covered — a beauty — the real thing. The 

 other is two-colored, adjustable, a 

 charming combination of green and soft 

 pink. 



In baskets, birch twig rules the day. 

 There are Soman bowls, high backs, 

 gypsy kettles, and improved gathering 

 baskets of most pleasing design, with 

 high, irregular handles. In front of 

 these, their dainty forms in striking 

 contrast to the rugged, dark birchesj 

 are the Italian novelty baskets of deli- 

 cate straw, for favors, looking as though 

 the very sight of them would suggest 

 daisies and peas to come. Nearby are 

 green raflBa baskets, beautifully woven, 

 and on a shelf across the aisle are 

 wooden Swiss toys, water buckets and 



the like, for favors. Last, but by no 

 means least, are improved wall pockets 

 designed ut Edward Habermehl's sug- 

 gestion, after much planning — a good 

 thing, surely. 



P. S. — Many letters have postscripts. 

 This is the postscript to my letter: A 

 Panama hat in miniature is designed for 

 favors and for shields — a quaint con- 

 ception, usable and pretty. After many 

 attempts, pliable cycas leaves have 

 come. They are true to nature and 

 bendable into graceful curves never 

 attempted by cycas until now. The re- 

 vival in "prepared fern fronds brings 

 great variety — known and almost un- 

 known — many in colors, though natural 

 green predominates. Phil. 



CAEBYING OVEE EOSE PLANTS. 



I have a house of roses which were 

 planted last year, and which have done 

 well. Now I wish to dry them up and 

 give them a rest for winter blooming. 

 Please tell me how to treat them and 

 how and when to prune them. Will raw 

 bone and cow manure be sufficient as 

 fertilizers? How many years will they 

 be profitable? The varieties are Bride, 

 Maid, Golden Gate, Killarney and a 

 few Richmond. I am located in Ken- 

 tucky. G. O. K. 



The querist does not say whether his 

 roses are on table or on solid benches. 

 I presume they are on table benches, 

 with the usual depth, five inches, of soil. 



In order to ripen them, begin at once 

 to gradually diminish the supply of 

 water and continue this for at least 

 three weeks. If the weather is bright, 

 however, great care must be taken 

 never to let them become so dry that 

 even the softest of the wood will wilt. 

 During this process, syringing must be 

 resorted to frequently to keep spider in 

 check, and plenty of ventilation must 

 be given both night and day. 



Prune out all the small, strawy wood. 

 Cut back the strong shoots to three 

 eyes, bend them down to almost right 

 angles and tie them there. This will 

 encourage the dormant eyes near the 

 base to break. It is also well to re- 

 move as much of the top soil as can be 

 taken without disturbing the roots. 

 Then give the surface a sprinkling of 

 air-slaked lime and fill up the bench 

 with a compost consisting of two parts 

 decomposed cow manure and one part 

 turfy loam. 



Give the bench a thorough soaking 

 and keep the house cool and moist for 



a week, using the syringe freely during 

 bright weather. 



Raw bone flour is an excellent fertil- 

 izer. This can be sprinkled over the 

 surface of the soil and stirred in from 

 time to time, but it must never be used 

 in combination with lime. Cow ma- 

 nure can be used as a mulch, of which 

 a thickness of one inch is sufficient at 

 any time. Or the manure can be used 

 in the liquid form; in this form it is 

 easily assimilated and therefore quicker 

 in action. 



By carefully treating these varieties 

 in this way, they can be grown profit- 

 ably for years. I recently visited a 

 place in Pennsylvania where some of 

 the plants were 9 years old, and they 

 were bearing profusely. They were 

 on solid benches. Ribes. 



BIENNIALS AND PERENNIALS. 



A dry summer is not the best for 

 transplanting young seedlings to the 

 open ground. If biennials, such as 

 digitalis, Canterbury bells, etc., are still 

 in the seed beds, advantage should be 

 taken of the first spell of cool, moist 

 weather to get them out. Allow the 

 plants nine inches in the rows. If the 

 rows are twenty-four inches apart they 

 can be conveniently stirred with a hand 

 cultivator. Perennials, such as aquilegias, 

 Chinese larkspurs and others of more 

 moderate growth, can go much closer in 

 the rows. August and September are 

 the months par excellence for these 

 plants to make their growth, and if 

 given a piece of land well loosened up 

 by the harrow they will grow fast. 



BOTTOM HEAT FOE PALM SEED. 



Would it be injurious to kentia seeds 

 to give them a bottom heat of between 

 90 and 100 degrees? E. N. 



Kentia seeds will endure a bottom 

 heat of 90 degrees without special in- 

 jury, though so high a temperature is 

 not really needed to ensure their ger- 

 mination and such a temperature is 



likely to make the seedlings rather 

 long and spindly. In addition to this 

 the seedlings are liable to feel the check 

 more at the time they are potted off 

 than would be the case when grown at 

 a somewhat lower temperature. 



A bottom heat of 80 degrees is sulii- 

 ciently high, and they are frequently 

 germinated at a lower average temper- 

 ature than that. W. H. T. 



HTDBANGEAS. 



Where hydrangeas are growing in the 

 field they may be suffering from dryness 

 at the root, in which case, if they are 

 beyond the reach of the hose, they 

 should be watered. Draw a ring around 

 each plant, or a channel along each row, 

 and fill it with water. With a barrel 

 and -watering pot the work will not oc- 

 cupy long. Push back the dry soil and 

 keep the ground well stirred. This is 

 vastly more beneficial to the plants than 

 playing the surface soil and baking it 

 hard, little moisture reaching the roots. 

 Plants being grown on in pots will take 

 up a lot of water in hot, dry weather, 

 and several sprayings overhead daily 

 should be given to keep them from wilt- 

 ing. Late rooted stock in 3-inch pots 

 will take a shift to 5-inch pots, and fill 

 these with roots before fall. Use a mod- 

 erately heavy and rich loam, as hy- 

 drangeas are strong feeders. 



OBITUARY. 



L. B. Fuller. 



Luther R. Fuller, of Shelburne Falls, 

 Mass., died August 1 at his home on 

 Green street, where he had been en- 

 gaged in the florists' trade for twelve 

 years. He was 66 years of age and 

 had been in poor health for two years 

 or more. He was a past grand of the 

 Alethian lodge of Odd Fellows. Forty- 

 one years ago he married Miss Mary 

 Chapin, of Ashfield. He is survived by 

 his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Ethel John- 

 son, who lives at home, and two sons, 

 Edward W. Fuller, of San Francisco, 

 Cal., and Julian Fuller, of Ashland, 

 N. H. 



CINCINNATI. 



Tlie Market. 



There is surely a sufficiency of stock 

 in the market. That which really is 

 good sells readily, while the buyers hcs 

 itate as they view the other grades. 

 The prices, as is usual when there an 

 gluts, are in inverse ratio to the sup 

 ply. 



Roses sell quickly. The Beauties, M.- 

 Maryland, Taft and Kaiserin- are oi 

 excellent quality. There still are soni'' 

 light receipts of carnations, but tin 

 blooms are small. Gladioli and h.^ 

 drangeas are accumulating, the formt: 

 because of the many large consigi^ 

 ments and the latter because the d< 

 mand has shifted to white asters. Ea- 

 ter lilies, auratums, speciosums an i 

 nymphseas are offered. A few cattleyn 

 are arriving. 



Asters are everywhere, with fev 

 sales to take them up. The really good 

 stock is cleaned up at fair prices, whih 

 the ordinary grades do not move at 

 all. 



Tne green goods market is quiet. 



On to Bochester. 



Most of the Cincinnatians bound con- 

 ventionward expect to leave Cincinnati 

 on the C, H. & D. for Detroit, then take 

 the boat to Buffalo, and then rail to 



