12 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Makcii 25, 1900. 



.J^:r!L<£-- 



MUMS IN MNCH POTS. 



"Wlini results can be olitaiiioil from 

 clirysaiitlieiiiuiii plants j^roun in, say, <i 

 incli j>nts, sunk in a solid bed? Also what 

 tr('atin(>jit, sliadin<j, t'ortilizinir and watcr- 

 iiifj do thcv rt'<j\iiro to gidw i'or show 

 purposes? " F. P. F. C. 



ClirysantlioMiunis will eairy fine flowers 

 in C iiiih j)ots, and these ar(^ attraeti\e' 

 features at many of the fall exhibitions. 

 Cuttings should be rooted any time from 

 now until the end cd' April. For vt-ry 

 fine flowers, they should j^o in at once. 

 Select varieties wliicdi ari> not tall <^ro\\ 

 ing. When rooted, j)lace in ^'.j-in(di {)()ts 

 and later in 4 inch, before shifting them 

 into their tlowering pots. 



For the liiud jxdting use well rotted, 

 turfy loam, drieil cow manure and ;i little 

 bone imal as coiujiost. Press the soil 

 firndy in the ]iots. .\11end to disbudding 

 carefully. When the jiots are well (illed 

 with roids, and esjx'cially whi'ii the buds 

 are set, ice(| alternately with lii|niil 

 UKiiuire and toji-dre'^sings of ;i wrll con 

 centrated fertilizer, like ('lay's or lion 

 Arbor. Discontinue fet^ding when the 

 flowers show color. No shading will be 

 requireij until the llowers ;ire e.\|>an<iing. 

 when sonu' w'lU be uecessaiv. it' you 

 can plunge your jmts in the solid bid or 

 stand them o\er it so th.at their I'oots c:ni 

 penetrate into it, .all the belter. Better 

 and hi'iivicr lloweis can be grown iti pot^ 

 than in bed- or benedict. Watch ihi' 

 chrysanthemum cult\nal notes in the 

 Rkvii:\\ for furtliiu' piadical inl'.o-ma- 

 tion. ('. W. 



MUMS IN POTS. 



Will }iiii ple.-ise :^i\e infornunion 

 throu;:li your ccduinns abunt the best 

 vari(Mies of (dii'ys.anthcmums to gi-ow ami 

 sell as pot jilanls in Xcxv Jersey, ;uul 

 the best method of ;^ro\\ing them, in 

 doors or out .' .1. R. W. 



f Would -ay that in our seclioii, as jn 

 his, New .ler--ey, juit mums ar(> bettiu* if 

 grown in-ide ;itter .lul\ 1; in fact, they 

 nuist be L;rowii inside if the f(di;ige is to 

 be kept in good coiuliti.ui. 'i'hey may be 

 grown outride if planli'd out in the gar- 

 den and c.'irefidly lifted and potted Sep 

 teinber 1. but it me;iiis too unu'h werk 

 for the niomy lealiy.ed if they are kei)t 

 in jiots (iiil-ide. Some growers plaid 

 them out on the c.aination bencdu's inside 

 from about .June 1 to the tinu> the car- 

 nations are housed, but as this latter 

 oper.ation is lieing done earlier every year 

 there are not so many nnuns haiulled that 

 way as formerly. 



Keep the plants closely pinched down 

 till .July 1, if you want dwarf, neat 

 stock. Some of the kinds that are natu- 

 rally dwarf, like Polly Kosc ami Beatrice 

 May, neeil not be stopped so late. T 

 give here what T consider a good list to 



s(de(d from and which cover all the 

 floweiing season : 



White.— Polly Rose, Beatrice :May, 

 .Mice Byron, White Coombes, Nellie 

 Pockett, ".Merza. 



Pink.- i'judfic, W. Duckham, Ciraco 

 WhitiK'y, J)r. Kugucduird, Winter Cheer. 



^'(dlow. — (!(dd<'n (ilow, Monrovia, Clud- 

 toni. Old Cold, Mrs. W. ]>U(kham, Bou- 

 nalfcui. 



Iii(Uize. -Brutus, Clenview, .Mrs. W. 

 Wells, Harrison Dick. 



Red. — Amateur Couseul, .Mis. Part rid;;*'. 



In adilition to the large tloweretl sec- 

 tion, ])om])ons aiul singles are being 

 grown in increasingly large inunl)ers as 

 pot pl.ants, the latter espeidally having 

 been \ery |)opular in New 'S'ork for the 





Chrysanthemum Patty. 



flowering kinds ably described by W. N. 

 Craig ill the Revikw of March 11, ac- 

 comi)anied by some good illustrations, 

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

 list. C. II. TOTTY. 



last two seasons. A list of twehe fine 

 singles I'or pots \vindd be about .a-- ((ib 

 low s : 



Whit.-. Irene Cragg. K'^b Pny, M. .1. 

 Carlisle. 



Pink. — Ladysmith, Crace Lambert, 

 Nellie ( dpjiard. 



Yellow. — Pretoria, Cohlen (dow, Miss 

 A. Ilolden. 



Bronze and ri'd. -Ijily \'aleiitine, 

 Hilda, Mary Richardson. 



A dozen good [)omp()ns for jiots are the 

 f(dlowing: Baby, Delicatissima, Diana, 

 Lulu, .Tas. Boone, Sunshine, St. Tlloria, 

 .1. Lagravere, Elsie Walker, Grace Dar- i 

 ling, Kynsford Ceni, .Tojipa. ' 



in addition there is a type of early I 



DORNER'S NEW MUMS. 



The reputation of F. Doruer & Sous 

 I o. does not rest solely upon the many 

 excellent new carnatiiuis which have been 

 distributed fnuii its establishment at 

 li.a Fayette, Ind. Chrysiinthemums have 

 had uo small share of the attention of 

 tlH> Dorners, father and son, and from 

 time to time a number of first-class com- 

 nier(dal sorts have been distributed. This 

 se;is(ui they are Sending out a set of 

 three new s.u'ts, a straw ycdlow, an En- 

 chantress ]»ink and a bright yellow with 

 lighter reverse. As with most of the 

 J)oriier chrysanthemums, these are all in- 

 curved sorts. Dolly Dimple is the straw 

 yellow. It is a seedling from Eaton, a 

 larg(> flower on ;i strong stem, the center 

 petals incurving and thi» outer petals re- 

 tlex(^d. It is a Thanksgiving variety. 

 Patty is Enchantress ])ink and comes in 

 early in November. It is a low grower, 

 suitable for side beiudies. Merry .fane is 

 an October sort, running over to the first 

 d;iys of November. In this set of n(wv 

 ones the Dorners think they h.ave soiuo 

 especially good things. 



EARLY FLOWERING POT PLANTS. 



I notice in the Rkvikw of IM.arch 11 

 an excellent arli(de by W. X. Cr.aig on 

 early llnweiing put jil.-ints, in which he 

 says that so far as Ik- knows no com- 

 mercial erower lists the>e \arietics. I 

 Would say th,-ii I ;im li-tini^ in my cata- 

 log this y('.ar some ten varieties, includ- 

 ing all the \arieties he semis j)icture3 of. 

 so there is no loug(>r need of sending to 

 llngl.and for them. 1 was ('ertainly im- 

 pressed hy them as I saw them in Eng- 

 land last September; so much so that I 

 am importing a large nuudier of kinds 

 for experiment here this year. 



M.iny of the older kinds have been 

 tried b(^fore, but I begin to think that 

 one iif the reas.uis of our jire\ious ])oor 

 success was that we disbudded to one or 

 two shoots to a )ilant and one flower to a 



^1 t. The plants simply refused to con- 



f(u-m to our standard, vvhereas liad we 

 urowu them in tlu^ way suggested by Mr. 

 < raig we would have had ;i different 

 showing. 



\ correspondent in northern New York 

 mentions the S]ilendid success he is hav- 

 ing with this early flowering type and I 

 feel convinced that we now know how to 

 handle these varieties. 



While they are generally called "Eng- 

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

 ter of fact to the French raisers that Ave 

 are indebted for some of the best kinds. 

 I will not cpiickly forget the sight pre- 



