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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 25, 1909. 



MUMS IN 6-INCH POTS. 



What results can be obtained from 

 chrysanthemum plants grown in, say, 6- 

 inch pots, sunk in a solid bedf Also what 

 treatment, shading, fertilizing and water- 

 ing do they require to grow for show 

 purposes? F. P. F. C. 



Chrysanthemums will carry fine flowers 

 in 6-inch pots, and these are attractive 

 features at many of the fall exhibitions. 

 Cuttings should be rooted any time from 

 now until the end of April. For very 

 fine flowers, they should go in at once. 

 Select varieties which are not tall grow- 

 ing. When rooted, place in 2%-inch pots 

 and later in 4-inch, before shifting them 

 into their flowering pots. 



For the final potting use well rotted, 

 turfy loam, dried cow manure and a little 

 bone meal as compost. Press the soil 

 firmly in the pots. Attend to disbudding 

 carefully. When the pots are well filled 

 with roots, and especially when the buds 

 are set, feed alternately with liquid 

 manure and top-dressings of a well con- 

 centrated fertilizer, like Clay's or Bon 

 Arbor. Discontinue feeding when the 

 flowers show color. No shading will be 

 required until the flowers are expanding, 

 when some will be necessary. If you 

 can plunge your pots in the solid bed or 

 stand them over it so that their roots can 

 penetrate into it, all the better. Better 

 and heavier flowers can be grown in pots 

 than in beds or benches. Watch the 

 chrysanthemum cultural notes in the 

 Review for further practical informa- 

 tion. C. W. 



MUMS IN POTS. 



Will you please give information 

 through your columns about the best 

 varieties of chrysanthemums to grow and 

 sell as pot plants in New Jersey, and 

 the best method of growing them, in- 

 doors or out? J. B. W. 



I would say that in our section, as in 

 his. New Jersey, pot mums are better if 

 grown inside after July 1; in fact, they 

 must be grown inside if the foliage is to 

 be kept in good condition. They may be 

 grown outside if planted out in the gar- 

 den and carefully lifted and potted Sep- 

 tember 1, but it means too much Work 

 for the money realized if they are kept 

 in pots outside. Some growers plant 

 them out on the carnation benches inside 

 from about June 1 to the time the car- 

 nations are housed, but as this latter 

 operation is being done earlier every year 

 there are not so many mums handled thajt* 

 way as formerly.v ^ i '• «jt *? 



Keep the plants cltffliely pinched '^own 

 till July 1, if you want dwarf, neat 

 Btock. Some of the kinds that are natu- 

 rally dwarf, like Polly Kose and Beatrice 

 May, need not be stopped so late. I 

 give here what I consider a good UBt to 



select from and which cover all the 

 flowering season: 



White. — Polly Rose, Beatrice May, 

 Alice Byron, White Coombes, Nellie 

 Pockett, Merza. 



Pink. — Pacific, W. Duckham, Grace 

 Whitney, Dr. Enguehard, Winter Cheer. 



Yellow. — Golden Glow, Monrovia, Chel- 

 toni. Old Gold, Mrs. W. Duckham, Bon- 

 naffon. 



Bronze. — Brutus, Glenview, Mrs. W. 

 Wells, Harrison Dick. 



Bed. — Amateur Conseul, Mrs. Partridge. 



In addition to the large flowered sec- 

 tion, pompons and singles are being 

 grown in increasingly large numbers as 

 pot plants, the latter especially having 

 been very popular in New York for the 



Chrysanthemum Patty. 



last two seasons. A list of twelve fine 

 singles for pots would be about as fol- 

 lows : 



White. — Irene Cragg, Bob Boy, M. J. 

 Carlisle. 



Pink. — Ladysmith, Grace Lambert, 

 Nellie Coppard. 



^ Yellow, — Pretoria, Golden Glow, Miss 

 /A. Holden.; 



Bronze and red. — Lily Valentine, 

 Hilda, Mary Bichardson. 



A dozen good pompons for pots are the 

 following: Baby, Delicatissima, Diana, 

 Lulu, Jas. Boone,, ^nshine, St, Hloria, 

 J, Lagraver©;"^ Elsie Walker, Grace Dat- 

 ling, Eynsford Gem, Joppa, 



In addition there is a type of early 



flowering kinds ably described by W, N. 

 Craig in the Beview of March 11, ac- 

 companied by some good illustrations, 

 and J, B, W. might include those in his 

 list, C. H. TOTTY. 



DORNER'S NEW MUMS. 



The reputation of F, Dorner & Sons 

 Co. does not rest solely upon the many 

 excellent new carnations which have been 

 distributed from its establishment at 

 La Fayette, Ind. Chrysanthemums have 

 had no small share of the attention of 

 the Dorners, father and son, and from 

 time to time a number of first-class com- 

 mercial sorts have been distributed. This 

 season they are sending out a set of 

 three new sorts, a straw yellow, an En- 

 chantress pink and a bright yellow with 

 lighter reverse. As with most of the 

 Dorner chrysanthemums, these are all in- 

 curved sorts. Dolly Dimple is the straw 

 yellow. It is a seedling from Eaton, a 

 large flower on a strong stem, the center 

 petals incurving and the outer petals re- 

 flexed. It is a Thanksgiving variety. 

 Patty is Enchantress pink and comes in 

 early in November, It is a low grower, 

 suitable for side benches. Merry Jane is 

 an October sort, running over to the first 

 days of November. In this set of new 

 ones the Dorners think they have some 

 especially good things. 



EARLY FLOWERING POT PLANTS. 



I notice in the Review of March 11 

 an excellent article by W. N. Craig on 

 early flowering pot plants, in which he 

 says that so far as he knows no com- 

 mercial grower lists these varieties. I 

 would say that I am listing in my cata- 

 log this year some ten varieties, includ- 

 ing all the varieties he sends pictures of, 

 so there is no longer need of sending to 

 England for them, I was certainly im- 

 pressed by them as I saw them in Eng- 

 land last September; so much so that I 

 am importing a large number of kinds 

 for experiment here this year. 



Many of the older kinds have been 

 tried before, but I begin to think that 

 one of the reasons of our previous poor 

 success was that we disbudded to one or 

 two shoots to a plant and one flower to a 

 shoot. The plants simply refused to con- 

 form to our standard, whereas had we 

 growti them in the way suggested by Mr. 

 Craig we would have had a different 

 showing. 



A correspondent in northern New York 

 mentions the splendid success he is hav- 

 ing with this early flowering type and I 

 fed convinced that we now know how to 

 "h&ndle. these varieties. 



While 4hey are generally called * * Eng- 

 lish"- early- nowenng, it is as a mat- 

 ter ef fact to.*hev.French raisers that we 

 are indebted foi* some of the best kinds. 

 I will not quickly forget the sight pre- 



