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NOVDMBEB 23, 1011. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Chtysanthfmum Mrs. Gilbert Drabble. 



varieties more space than the small 

 ones. Keep in a frame or cpol bed 

 until well sprouted, but do not cover 

 with ashes or soil, as these iris start 

 to grow quickly. When the growths 

 are two to three inches long, if in 

 flats, move them in batches to a cool 

 house where they will get full sun. A 

 temperature of 45 to 50 degrees at 

 night is about right. The latter figure 

 should not be exceeded, as iris cannot 

 be forced hard, like some other bulbs. 

 Water freely and feed regularly when 

 the flats are full of roots. Spanish 

 iris can not be had in good condition 

 before the last part of March and you 

 should allow six to eight weeks after 

 housing until they flower. Of course, 

 later in the season they come on more 

 quickly. C. W. 



MUM MBS. DRABBLE. 



The man who names the chrysanthe- 

 mums never took lessons of the expert 

 who sticks the titles on the sleeping 

 cars, else so fine a flower never would 

 carry the name of Drabble — it would 

 have, instead, some gently rolling word 

 suggestive of purity of color, perfec- 

 tion of form and great size, for C. H. 

 Totty, the new president of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America, says 

 Mrs. Drabble is unquestionably the 

 chrysanthemum novelty that shows the 

 greatest advance for the present yeHr. 

 He describes it as follows in a letter 

 written November 18: 



"Mrs. Gilbert Drabble is a white, 

 with whorl florets, and is a variety that 

 will next year be head and shoulders 

 above any white in its type. It is an 

 entirely different style of flower to the 

 splendid William Turner, but as an 

 exhibition white I can say that it will 

 beat everything when it is well grown. 

 This variety has won first prize for the 

 best bloom at the Paris show, -^as 

 voted the best flower in the Crystal 

 Palace national chrysanthemum show, 

 also at Birmingham and several other 

 big English shows. The novelty that 

 showed the greatest advance for the 



year is unquestionably Mrs. Gilbert 

 Drabble. ' ' 



CHRYSA^NTHEMUM RAMAPO. 



Chrysanthemum Bamapo was certif- 

 icated in New York. It is a seedling of 

 Appleton and to my mind will un- 

 doubtedly take the place of that va- 

 riety. It is the same color, shows the 

 same easy growth and the foliage is 

 right up to the flower, but it never 

 under any circumstances shows the ob- 

 jectionable top-knot so common to Col. 



Appleton. Ramapo will take a place 

 in the list of standard yellows, when it 

 is better known. CharleR H. Totty. 



suiaPHXtr on pipes. 



Please tell me whether it would be 

 advisable to use sulphur on the pipes 

 where miscellaneous pot plants, ferns 

 and bulbs are grown in one house, and 

 carnations, chrysanthemums and pln- 

 mosus in another. W. 6. 



The use of sulphur on the pipes is 

 not to be recommended in a house of 

 assorted plants, from the fact that the 

 fumes of sulphur are highly injurious 

 to many plants. This method is an old- 

 fashioned remedy for mildew and also 

 for red spider, but there are safer treat- 

 ments for both these troubles. 



W. H. T. 



ERRATIC TEMPERATURES. 



We have a house that is newly 

 planted. It is partly planted with let- 

 tuce and partly sown with radish seed, 

 and there is also some stevia in it. 

 One night the temperature got down to. 

 32 degrees and the next night it w»» 

 78 degrees. In a carnation house one 

 night the temperature, was 46 degrees 

 and the next night it was 64 degrees. 

 What I want to have published is, 

 which of these temperatures did the 

 most injury to the plants in questiont 



O. S. M. 



Even after making every allowance 

 for rather wide fluctuations in tempera- 

 ture outdoors, your range of extremes 

 are such that no plants will grow prop- 

 erly in them. A little frost will min 

 stevia and if your thermometer recorded 

 32 degrees, the wonder is that your 

 plants were not killed. Lettuce suc- 

 ceeds best in a night temperature of 

 40 degrees. The same heat suits stevia. 



Chrysanthemum Bamapo. 



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