Jandaky 9, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



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effect these plants make a marvelous 

 show now, adiantums being used to 

 cover the pots and some of the naked- 

 ness of the bottoms of stems. Spikes 

 with thirty to fifty flowers are fine, but 

 well-grown spikes will considerably ex- 

 ceed even the latter number. As soon 



as the spikes are cut, store the plants 

 away on a warm, dry shelf, where they 

 can remain until they show signs of 

 growth at the base of the old bulbs, 

 when they can be shaken out and 

 started in flats of sand and moss in a 

 warm, moist house. 



PRODUCTION OF CUTTINGS. 



Will you kindly give me some infor- 

 mation in regard to the treatment of 

 carnations? The growth in some years 

 is thrifty, with fairly good stems and 

 a good supply of cuttings; another year 

 there will be equally good plants and 

 stems, but scarcely any cuttings. What 

 kind of feeding would you suggest for 

 the plants without cuttings at this 

 time? J. F. J. 



I cannot suggest any reason why a 

 variety should behave much differently 

 from one year to another, in the way 

 of producing cuttings. Of course, you 

 understand that varieties differ greatly 

 in the number of cuttings they produce 

 along the flower stems. Some give 

 cuttings of good size before the flower 

 is ready to cut, while others seldom 

 break from the lower eyes until after 

 the bloom is cut. 



You cannot feed the plants anything 

 to make these growths come more 

 quickly. Wait for your cuttings until 

 the breaks come, after you have cut 

 blooms a while. If you began cutting 

 in the fall, there ought to be plenty 

 of these now. A. F. J. B. 



CARNATIONS AT UNCOIJr. 



Frey & Frey, of Lincoln, Neb., say 

 that there was no shortage of carna- 

 tions for Christmas — they were among 

 the few fortunate growers who were 

 right in the midst of excellent crops 

 for the holidays. The photograph from 

 which the accompanying illustration 

 was prepared was an extremely poor 

 one, but it shows something of the 

 display of color they had on their 

 bench of Victory. The photograph was 

 made December 23, and on that day 

 Frey & Frey cut 6,840 blooms from 

 35,000 carnation plants. They say their 

 average cut from December 15 to Jan- 

 uary 2 has been 5,240 flowers per day 

 and the cut is still on the up-grade. 



son. FOB NEXT YEAB. 



We have mixed the soil for our car- 

 nations for next year, using one-third 

 well rotted manure and two-thirds soil 

 from a corn field that had been well 

 manured the fall before. Would you 

 add bone meal or lime, and when and 

 how much? We have had considerable 

 trouble with our carnations. They look 

 healthy, but plants here and there in 

 the bed wilt down and die. Would 

 mixing the soil with the manure just 

 before it is put in the beds cause this? 

 J. A. F. & 8. 



The soil you have mixed for your 



carnations is amply rich; in fact, the 

 proportion of manure is greater than 

 is usually considered right. Three 

 parts soil and one part manure are 

 generally regarded as the proper pro- 

 portions. I would not add anything 

 further at this time. Next season, 

 when the plants are growing, you can 

 add whatever seems lacking, as a top- 

 dressing. 



The trouble you complain of seems 

 to be the common wet stem-rot. 

 Whether the fungi were added to the 

 soil with the manure or were in the 

 soil before the manure was added, 

 would be difficult to tell. It is cer- 

 tainly a mistake, however, to mix much 

 manure with the soil when it is being 

 brought into the house. Especially is 

 this true if the manure is not well 

 rotted. A. F. J. B. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The following new carnations have 

 been registered with the American 

 Carnation Society: 



By Cottage Gardens Co., Queens, L, I. 

 — Vivid, parentage, Fisher seedling x 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward; color, vivid cerise; 

 size, three and one-half inches; good 

 habit, wiry stems, comes into full crop 

 very early; the color is of remarkable 

 brilliancy under artificial light. 



By Baur & Steinkamp, Indianapolis, 

 Ind. — Badiance, parentage. Beacon x 

 scarlet seedling; color, deep, brilliant 

 scarlet; size, three and one-half inches; 

 flower perfectly circular in outline, 

 with deeply serrated petals, just full 

 enough and built high in center; plant 

 strong and healthy, comes very quick 



after benching; extremely free in pro- 

 ducing blooms; never comes sleepy or 

 off color. A. F. J. Baur, Sec'y. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Dayton, O. — At Cincinnati December 

 31 Herman H. Kitter, for many years in 

 the flower business at Dayton, filed a 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy in 

 the United States District Court. He 

 scheduled assets of $39,164.75 and lia- 

 bilities of only $24,041.02. 



Brockton, Mass. — The firm of Jahn & 

 Robinson, 53 Main street, with Walter 

 E. Jahn and Hadley E. Bobinson as the 

 partners, has made an assignment to 

 Attorney Winfield M. Wilbar. The lia- 

 bilities are given as about $2,500 and 

 the assets as about $1,500. 



New York, N. Y. — Schedules in bank- 

 ruptcy of Butler, Florist, Inc., 18 East 

 Forty-sixth street, show liabilities $19,- 

 139 and assets $1,468, consisting of 

 cash, $47; fixtures, $262; delivery wag- 

 on, $212; accounts, $939, and fire in- 

 surance, $8. Eugene G. MacCan, presi- 

 dent of the company, is a creditor for 

 $14,650. 



SPRENGERI GOING TO SEED. 



I have a bench of Asparagus Spren- 

 geri in which a number of sprays went 

 to seed, so that I can not use them 

 for green. The green is in great demand 

 for my local retail trade. Now, I 

 should like to ask you what is advisable 

 under the circumstances. I mean, 

 which will pay better, to let the seeds 

 mature and sell them to the wholesale 

 market, or to cut out the seeding 

 sprays so that they will not take away 

 the strength of the plants and reduce 

 the crop of green? W. F. H. 



To a man with an active local retail 

 trade, it would seem that a bench of 

 Asparagus Sprengeri for sprays would 

 pay better than the same space given 

 over to seed producing, from the fact 

 that seeds of this species are usually 

 plentiful in the market and conse- 

 quently do not bring high prices at 

 wholesale. I would advise the cutting 

 out of the seeding growths, except a 

 sufficient quantity for home use; then 

 give the plants a top-dressing of short 

 manure to encourage a new growth. 



W. H. T. 



Frey & Frey, Lincoln, Neb^ Cut a Specially Fine Carnation Crop. 



