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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



April 8, lOw. 



close frames, they will now do well in 

 them, provided a layer of warm manure 

 is first trampled in and coated with coal 

 ashes, in which the pots can be partly 

 plunged. The manure gives a slight 

 warmth, which prevents the change from 

 steam or hot water heat proving too sud- 

 den. 



There is still time to propagate and 

 get nice plants of coleus, heliotrope, al- 

 ternanthera and other quick rooting and 

 growing bedding plants. Give these, 

 when potted off, a warm house, not less 

 than 60 degrees at night. Petunias, 

 ageratums, verbenas. Salvia splendena 

 and other stock, whether seedlings or 

 cuttings, should be potted off before the 

 seedlings become crowded or the cuttings 

 hard. Be sure to use cheese-cloth for 

 shade over newly potted bedding stock 

 for a few days. 



There is still time to sow seeds of 

 quick growing subjects, like Salvia splen- 

 dens, zinnias, castor oil plants and Co- 

 baea scandens. Put in a successional sow- 

 ing of asters and stocks and gradually 

 harden off the earliest sowing, which will 

 now succeed well in a frame. Balsams, 

 celosias, marigolds, annual coreopsis and 

 salpiglossis are all annuals which can also 

 be sown now. 



Brief Reminders. 



Eake over lawns, scratch over mossy 

 spots, apply some fresh loam and reseed. 

 A dressing of a special lawn chemical 

 fertilizer, pulverized sheep manure or a 

 preparation of fine bone and wood ashes, 

 if not already applied, should be given. 

 Use a heavy roller when the condition of 

 the ground will permit, to make the turf 

 as firm as possible. 



Do not throw away any left-over 



much finer clumps than any you can im- 

 port. 



Start tuberoses in flats containing 

 moss and sand, or in small pots. It is 

 too early to plant these outdoors yet. 



Make a first planting of gladioli out- 

 doors at once; successional plantings 

 may be made until June. 



Place some additional shading over 

 palms and tender ferns, such as adian- 

 tums. 



Biennials and perennials wintered in 

 coldframes should have sashes removed. 

 All this stock will be better planted as 

 soon as possible. 



Plant a batch of lily of the valley in 

 a close frame. This will give as fine 

 spikes and better foliage than when 

 grown in a warm greenhouse. 



Start achimines, gesneras, tydseas and 

 tuberous-rooted begonias in flats contain- 

 ing finely chopped sphagnum and sand. 



Be sure you take off ah ample supply 

 of violet runners before discarding your 

 clumps of single violets. 



Do not grow dahlias in a close, stuffy 

 house. They want light and plenty of 

 air to make them stocky. Continue to 

 insert cuttings rubbed off with a heel, 

 of varieties you are anxious to increase 

 the stock of. 



Vegetable plants, such as cabbage, 

 cauliflower, lettuce and tomato, will do 

 much better in frames than greenhouses. 

 ■Sowings of celery, tomato, eggplant and 

 peppers are still timely. As a rule, all 

 these vegetables sell best in small flats 

 containing one or two dozen plants each. 



A HOUSE OF CALLAS. 



Joseph A. Martin, manager for Mrs. 

 J. L. Miller, in Newark, O., has given 



House of Calks That Pays Ninety Cents per Foot of Bench. 



azaleas. Pick off the flowers and seed 

 pods. Keep in a cool house and plant 

 outdoors at the end of May. These will 

 make excellent stock for another year, es- 

 pecially if you place them where they 

 can be hosed over. 



Keep left-over spiraeas in a frame and 

 plant outdoors after danger of frost has 

 gone. Grow for two years, and they will 

 make grand clumps. Cut large clumps in 

 pieces before planting. These will make 



practical demonstration, he thinks, that 

 it is not necessary to be a specialist in 

 callas in order to grow them successfully. 

 He started, he says, with fifty bulbs, and 

 as these multiplied he gradually gave 

 them more space, until he had filled the 

 house, 12x100 feet, which is shown in 

 the illustration. Besides stocking this 

 house with 640 plants, he has sold about 

 400 bulbs. 



The calla house contains two 4-foot 



benches, with a 30-inch walk through the 

 center and about fifteen inches of spj.ce 

 between the benches and the walls. 'I'lig 

 benches are raised about six inches, 'iiig 

 plants are placed twelve by eightiin 

 inches apart, in six inches of soil, 'i he 

 average temperature of the house is 45 

 degrees at night and 60 degrees in ihe 

 daytime. 



Mr. Martin says that after Decoration 

 day he quits watering the plants foi a 

 period of ten to twelve weeks, and then 

 replants or mulches the beds, as the ense 

 may be. The replanting is done once in 

 two years, about September 1, after the 

 benches have been repaired. In the uj- 

 ternate years a mulch is applied, consist- 

 ing of equal parts of soil and manure. 



Last year Mr. Martin cut about 3,500 

 lilies, or an average of about five blooms 

 and a half per plant. The blooms, he 

 says, have been quite satisfactory in size 

 and quality, and readily brought the av- 

 erage local price, which is about 20 cents 

 apiece at retail. The returns from the 

 crop have therefore been about 90 cents 

 for each square foot of bench space. 



HOW OLD IS ANN? 



August Poehlmann, head of the Rose 

 Society and secretary and treasurer of 

 the Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, is 40, 

 born at Milwaukee, October 21, 1869. He 

 is president of the village of Morton 

 Grove, where this firm 's cut flower fac- 

 tory is the town's principal industry. 



Philip Breitmeyer, His Honor, ' the 

 Mayor, is 45. Born in Detroit, May 13. 

 (It is supposed to have been Friday.) 

 He married a girl from Philadelphia, 

 which brought him good luck. 



Fred Burki, president of the Pittsburg 

 Eose and Carnation Co., is 56. Born in 

 Switzerland, he is a quiet man, but at 

 Indianapolis in January he talked so 

 much they told him to "go hire a hall" 

 — he's looking for the biggest one in 

 Pittsburg — to hold the next carnation 

 show in. 



Adolphus Gude, of Washington, vice- 

 president of the Gude Bros. Co., man- 

 ager of a brick yard and director of an 

 orphan asylum, is almost 46. He was 

 born at Knoxville, Tenn., April 20. If 

 there's anything in Masonry in the Dis- 

 trict he hasn't had or been, call his at- 

 tention and he'll doubtless go back and 

 get it. 



Philip J. Foley, president of the Foley 

 Mfg. Co., Chicago, is 42. He weighs 

 only 350 pounds and eight ounces with 

 his overcoat off. 



William J. Vesey, director of the S. A. 

 F., lawyer, bank director and ex-judge at 

 Fort Wayne, Ind., will be 52 April 19. 

 His house account at the Columbia Club, 

 Indianapolis, gets an awful boost once 

 every seven years. 



George Wittbold is 77. He was born 

 in Hanover, Germany, but started his 

 greenhouses on the present site when it 

 was all open prairie for over a mile to- 

 ward the city. Now he's the oldest 

 florist in Chicago and the town goes 

 miles beyond. 



Joseph Heacock, of Wyncote, Pa., is 

 63. Because of his Quaker training, even 

 though you act like the teufel, he'll give 

 thee thy due. 



Albert F. Amling, president of the 

 company that bears his name, at May- 

 wood, 111., is 43. He was bom in the 

 town and has lived there all his life, but 

 in spite of that they made him vice- 

 president of their one bank — that's now 

 his hobby. 



