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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



15 



not any danger of being mixed up with 

 the late ones. Such sweet peas are 

 usually' guaranteed up to ninety-eight 

 per cent to be true winter-flowering. 

 Of course, as I said, a majority of the 

 feed growers use the same seed again, 

 without reselecting the same, and such 

 seed will ceTtainly run back to the late 



varieties inside of three years. As 

 C. E. Y. sowed his sweet peas Septem- 

 ber 15, he could not have them in flower 

 for the holidays, but by the first part of 

 February they might bloom O. K. If 

 winter sweet peas are wanted for 

 Christmas they must be sown not later 

 than August 20. Ant. C. Zvolanek. 



PROPAGATION OF HYBBID TEAS. 



Will you please let me know how best 

 to propagate hybrid tea rose cuttings in 

 summer, with the cutting bed in a cold- 

 frame and the cuttings to be taken 

 from outdoor plants? Any instructions 

 as to how to prepare the cuttings and 

 the bed will be much appreciated. I 

 should also like to know how to care 

 for the young plants through the win- 

 ter, so as to have them ready for bed- 

 ding out in the spring. 



Cuttings of hybrid teas and other 

 outdoor roses can 'be readily rooted in 

 a frame in summer. A foot of warm 

 manure, well tramped, should be placed 

 in the bottom of the frame, in order 

 to furnish a little bottom heat, which 

 is helpful, although not absolutely es- 

 sential for their successful propagation. 

 Cover the manure with three or four 

 inches of clean, sharp sand. Sometimes 

 sandy loam is used, with equally good 

 results, but I prefer the sand, as water 

 passes so readily through it and there 

 is not the danger of scummy surfaces 

 as when loam is added. Cuttings should 

 contain two eyes each. Cut directly 

 below the bottom eye and remove the 

 leaf. The upper leaf should be left 

 intact or be only partly cut back. The 

 wood should be partly ripened and can 

 be used from the middle of June until 

 the middle of July. A» a rule, the cut- 

 tings root best if inserted in June. The 

 glass must be shaded from direct sun- 

 shine. The cuttings should be well 

 watered through a rose can once a day, 

 and must, in addition, be freely but 

 lightly sprayed over several times daily 

 in hot, sunny weather. In cloudy 

 weather use much less moisture. Admit 

 air by tilting up the sashes at the back. 

 Do not give much ventilation, but 

 enough to prevent scorching. After the 

 cuttings are calloused and are forming 

 roots, air rather more freely and grad- 

 ually increase the light until the cut- 

 tings are nicely rooted, when plenty of 

 air can be afforded. 



Cuttings rooted in clean sand should 

 be potted off singly before the roots are 

 too long, or they can be planted mod- 

 erately close in a frame containing 



good sandy loam but not much manure, 

 kept close until established, gradually 

 hardened and carried over winter by 

 mulching with dry leaves and protect- 

 ing the sides of the frame well. When 

 inserted in sandy loam, if not set too 

 closely, the cuttings can be wintered in 

 the same way as when lifted from the 

 sand, and planted out in the spring. 

 If you can make your frame first, pot 

 off the rooted cuttings singly and carry 

 them over winter, plunged to the brims 

 in fine ashes or loam. You will find they 

 start away better in the spring when 

 planted outdoors than when lifted from 

 the frames. ' The latter plan entails 

 more labor and is, therefore, not so 

 often adopted. Ventilate during open 

 weather in winter and gradually harden 

 off as spring advances. Bosa. 



COCHETS FOB MEMOBIAI. DAY. 



I have some Maman Cochet roses 

 that were used for cut flowers in the 

 greenhouse last summer. They are in 

 a cool cellar. How shall I handle them 

 to have them blooming in 6-inch pots 

 for Memorial day! A. D. S. 



It would be better to pot the roses 

 now, standing them back in the cool 

 cellar and keeping them there until the 



middle of March, when they should be 

 placed in a greenhouse with a night 

 temperature of 50 degrees, raising this 

 5 d^gI'ees as growth advances. Cut away 

 any dead and weak wood and shorten 

 back the stronger shoots only moder- 

 ately. Of course, potting up could be 

 deferred until you want to start the 

 plants, but even in a cool cellar they 

 will make quite a few roots between 

 now and the middle of March, which 

 will be a great advantage when forcing 

 commences. In a stronger heat you 

 could, no doubt, flower the plants in 

 seven weeks, but it is better to grow 

 them on the cool side, thus insuring 

 ptockier growths and flowers with more 

 substance. W. C. 



CANTEBBXJBY BEXLS. 



Such plants of Canterbury bells as 

 are intended for Easter flowering should 

 now have the spikes well advanced and 

 will require one or two stakes to keep 

 them erect. Give them the fullest sun- 

 shine in a well ventilated house, where 

 a minimum not exceeding 52 degrees 

 is maintained. Avoid syringing them 

 overhead. This and a too close atmos- 

 phere will cause the shoots to rot off 

 frequently. Plants wanted for Memo- 

 rial day can be placed in a cold house 

 and allowed to come on slowly. They 

 will be found among the most popular 

 of plants for selling at that season, 

 while the flowers in a cut state have 

 excellent keeping qualities. 



FOX POINT CYCLAMENS. 



The accompanying illustration is re- 

 produced from a photograph of one 

 of the houses of the Fox Point Floral 

 Co., Milwaukee, Wis., taken about the 

 middle of December. The house is 27x 

 100 and was filled with the company's 

 leading specialty, cyclamens, of which 

 more than 4,000 plants in from 4-inch 

 to 8-inch pots were sold for Christmas. 

 They have two new, distinct salmon col- 

 ored cyclamens which are beauties. The 

 seed was procured direct from the 

 originator in Berlin, Germany, last sea- 

 son. They intend to work up a big 

 stock for next season. 



Besides cyclamens, they grow snap- 

 dragons, annual lupines, larkspurs, 

 stocks, anemones, chrysanthemums, etc., 

 for the cut flower market. E. O. 



Cyclamen House of the Fox Point Floral Co^ Milwaukee. 



