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Carnation House of J. Y. Lambert. 



eases, but it is much more stubborn and 

 is harder to get rid of. 



But why grow such ancient varieties, 

 which have long since been superseded? 

 You can find much better scarlets than 

 Red Lawson, and better whites than Bos- 

 ton Market. 



The automatic sprayers are just the 

 thing to use for applying Bordeaux. Get 

 a can of prepared Bordeaux from some 

 florists' supply house. Full directions 

 accompany each can, as regards strength 

 to use. Apply about once each week, and 

 wash oflf before applying again. 



A. F. J. B. 



FOR DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES. 



We should like to have some informa- 

 tion as to carnation temperature. Our 

 houses are so arranged that the tempera- 

 ture runs from 5 to 10 degrees warmer 

 in one end of the houses than in the 

 other. We grow Enchantress, Lawson, 

 White Perfection, Fair Maid, Winsor 

 and Queen Louise. What varieties would 

 you advise planting in the warmer ends 

 of the houses f B. B. 



Begin at the cool end of your houses 

 and plant in rotation, as named: En- 

 chantress, Fair Maid, White Perfection, 

 Queen Louise, Winsor, Lawson. 



The cooler end should not run below 

 48 degrees and the warmer end should 

 not go above 55 degrees, for good results. 



A. F. J. B. 



POTTING INSTEAD OF BENCHING. 



We have a nice lot of field carnations, 

 which ought to be taken up, but we shall 

 not have bench room ready before Octo- 

 ber 1. Would you advise planting them 

 in pots until that time? A. C. 



Since you cannot house your carnations 

 now, which is the proper time, the next 

 best thing you can do is to pot them. If 

 you have a good place to set the pots, 

 either in the greenhouse or in a cold- 

 frame, they will take hold quickly. If 

 you will have your benches ready by Octo- 

 ber 1, I would advise you to put the 

 plants in moderately small pots, not over 

 4-inch and smaller if possible, according 

 to the size of the clumps. It will be well 

 for them to be fairly well root-bound 

 irhen you transfer them into the benches. 

 There will be no suffering from check if 

 the ball of soil holds together nicely. The 

 smaller the pot, the sooner the plant will 



become reestablished. Be careful to give 

 these plants plenty of room when you set 

 the pots away. If crowded the lower 

 leaves will dry and your plants will be 

 much weakened, and will be slow in start- 

 ing to grow when you plant them on the 

 benches. 



Of course you will not expect much of 

 a Christmas crop from these plants, 

 though there will be more than there 

 would if you left them outdoors until 

 October. A. F. J. B. 



THE LAMBERTS BRANCHING OUT. 



The house of carnations shown in the 

 illustration is part of the range of J. Y. 

 Lambert, of Savanna, 111. The house is 

 thirty feet wide, but was not completely 

 or satisfactorily photographed, on ac- 

 count of the lowness of the sun. The 

 varieties planted in this house are White 

 Lawson and White Perfection, which Mr, 

 Lambert considers the leading white 

 sorts. 



J. Y. Lambert, Jr., has purchased the 

 greenhouses of Wm. B. Lovell, at Sabula, 

 la., and will conduct a wholesale and 

 retail business in cut flowers, and in 

 bedding, decorative and greenhouse 



plants. The main office will be at 

 Savanna, 111. 



RHODE ISLAND'S HYDRANGEAS. 



The Display at the Summer Resorts. 



If there is any one thing which the 

 owners of the large estates that border 

 both sides of Narragansett Bay, in 

 Ehode Island, are proud of at this season 

 of the year, it is the unrivaled display 

 of hydrangeas that has become so well 

 known to everybody who pays a visit 

 to Newport, Narragansett Pier, or others 

 of the fashionable resorts. 



It is said, by those in a position to 

 know whereof they speak, to be a fact 

 that in few places in the country do the 

 hydrangeas grow and flower so satis- 

 factorily or profusely as along the coast 

 in this latitude. A plausible explanation 

 is the close proximity of the Gulf stream 

 to the shores of Ehode Island and the 

 fact that, even in dry summers like the 

 one just experienced, the air is more 

 charged with moisture than farther in- 

 land, and these shrubs, subsisting on the 

 proceeds of absorption through their leaf 

 surfaces, are able to get along with less 

 at the roots. Be that as it may, there 

 is no single horticultural object at New- 

 port, the Pier and several other points 

 which now attracts nearly the attention 

 that the great hydrangea display re- 

 ceives. 



An Estate at Warwick Neck. 



There may be somewhere a larger and 

 handsomer hydrangea than the specimen 

 illustrated herewith, on James A. Fos- 

 ter's beautiful estate at Warwick Neck. 

 It can at least be stated unqualifiedly 

 that seldom does this favorite shrub at- 

 tain the dimensions of the plant shown — 

 a circumference of forty feet, combined 

 with perfect symmetry and great flower- 

 ing ability. 



On the grounds of those who are so 

 fortunate as to possess shrubbery the 

 hydrangea follows the rhododendron in 

 blooming. During the latter part of 

 August and early September it is at its 

 best, and, by a beneficent provision of 

 nature, it attains its perfection along 

 the New England coast, where, at the 

 season of its flowering, thousands from 



Hydrangea on a Lawn at Warwick Neck« R. I. 



