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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Makcu 4, 1909. 



CROP FOR SMALL HOUSE. 



My house is 21x50, arranged with two 

 center benches four feet and six inches 

 wide, and two side benches three feet 

 wide. I int9pd to grow either roses or 

 carnations on the center benches, and, if 

 possible, to grow other general stock on 

 the side benches. If this ia possible, 

 what would you advise me to grow? Or 

 do you think it would pay better to fill 

 the house with only roses or carnations! 

 There is headroom of two feet six inches 

 on the side benches, with glass sides. 

 W. H. B. 



In such a house as you have, I would 

 not recommend you to grow roses at all. 

 TTieir culture is better left to specialists 



who have larger houses to devote to them. 

 Ca];nations would do well. They require 

 a night temperature of 50 to 54 de- 

 grees, according to the varieties you 

 may plan to grow. The Lawson and En- 

 chantress varieties can be grown suc- 

 cessfully in a minimum of 48 to 50 de- 

 grees. If you wish to utilize the side 

 benches for other crops, such as stocks, 

 or the growing of bedding plants, spi- 

 raeas, azaleas, bulbous stock and other 

 flowering plants, you could do so. My 

 own choice would be to fill the house with 

 carnations, if you have a good market 

 for these flowers. You could pull out 

 some of the plants on the side benches 

 if you needed extra room in spring. 



C. W. 



KUHL'S KUT. 



George A. Kuhl, at Pekin, 111., thinks 

 the house pictured in the accompanying 

 illustration is entitled to consideration 

 among the claimants for the record for 

 production in the last few months. The 

 house contains 3,450 plants, the varieties 

 being Enchantress, Sarah Hill and Law- 

 son-Enchantress, about one-third of each. 

 During the months of November, Decem- 

 ber, January and February the cut was 

 as follows: 



Lawson-Enchantresa 6,800 



Sarah Hill 7,000 



Enchantress . , 7,300 



Total 21,100 



This is an average of more than six 

 blooms to the plant. 



LEAF-SPOT DISEASES. 



Please tell me what is the trouble 

 with my carnations, the cause and the 

 remedy. The tips are dry, even in the 

 short shoots or cuttings. Enclosed you 

 will find samples. Some of the buds are 

 affected also. We have steam heat. We 

 have been watering once a week so far 

 this winter, and we soak them well. We 

 keep them in a temperature of 50 degrees 

 at night, 60 degrees on cloudy days and 

 70 degrees on bright days. The Enchant- 

 ress seem to be affected most. I also 

 spray them once a week with nicotine 

 solution, for greenfly. C. U. 



The specimens were too badly dried 

 up when they reached here for me to be 

 entirely certain of the disease affecting 

 your carnation plants. It is apparently, 

 however, a leaf-spot disease, most likely 

 fairy ring. Like all the leaf-spots, this 

 disease is usually started by too much 

 humidity in the atmosphere where they 

 are growing. Standing wet overnight, or 

 a heavy drenching of the soil during 

 cloudy weather, will produce such atmos- 

 pheric conditions. 



To begin with, have all the spotted 

 leaves picked off and burnt. Get some 

 lime, slake it dry, and scatter it under 

 the benches and along the paths to 

 sweeten the atmosphere. Dust the plants 

 with Grape Dust and paint one of the 

 steam pipes with a sulphur and lime 

 dope. Get some Bordeaux mixturp and 



spray them once each week. Keep up 

 this treatment until you have the disease 

 under control. With the days getting 

 longer and more sunshine, you ought soon 

 to get the disease under control. 



A. F. J. B. 



IN FAVOR OF INDOOR CULTURE. 



In the Review of February 25, page 

 25, a correspondent spoke of our suc- 

 cess in growing carnations in the houses 

 all summer. I wish to say. with' refer- 

 ence to the different varieties of the 

 Lawson carnation, that if they are prop- 

 erly treated and grown indoors all sum- 

 mer, and if care has been exercised in 

 taking cuttings, they will give just as 

 good results as they originally did. I am 

 cutting White, Pink and Variegated Law- 

 son with 2- foot stems and with flowers 

 three inches and over, with a greater 

 quantity of cut. The plants are strong 

 and vigorous. I have a bench of Boston 



Markets grown the same way, with 2-foot 

 stems, and they sold for $3 per hun- 

 dred in New York city. We had just 

 as good results PWjith the seyjeral vari- 

 eties of Enchscnfl-easj* Lady Iteountiful, 

 B€acon, Winsofy'lSSngston Pet, etc. We 

 shall grow all varieties in the houses this 

 year. If properly cared for, success is 

 certain. Of the cuttings from these 

 plants we do not lose over one per cent, 

 on account of their natural vigor. 



Newburgh Floeal Co. 



LOCATION OF VARIETIES. 



Our carnation house will run east and 

 west and have five benches. By using 

 one bench for each kind, in what order 

 should the following be arranged, com- 

 mencing with the south bench: Winsor, 

 White Lawson, Enchantress, Beacon and 

 Harlowarden? D. S. 



If your house is even-span, I would 

 advise you to plant your benches as fol- 

 lows, beginning at the south side of the 

 house: White Lawson, Beacon, Harlo- 

 warden, Enchantress, Winsor. 



The two pink ones will be better on 

 the north side, because the sun will not 

 hit them so strongly and better colored 

 blooms will be cut. Always plant white 

 carnations where they will get the full 

 sun, especially those which have more or 

 less pink mottling in the petals. 



A. F. J. B. 



RESULTS FROM TOP CUTTINGS. 



I have received several hundred un- 

 rooted carnation cuttings, but I believe 

 they are all top cuttings. What am I 

 to expect from them next year? Why 

 are top cuttings not as good as those 

 from side shoots? And if not so good, 

 will side shoots from those plants be all 

 right? J.M. 



Ip is generally conceded that top cut- 

 tings are not so desirable as those taken 

 from the base of the flower'' stems. They 

 do not root as readily as those with a 

 heel, and it is claimed that if only top 

 cuttings are taken year after year the 

 plants will gradually grow more and 



George A. Kuhl's House of Camationi. 



