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Septembeb 7, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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PBOOBESS AT DETROIT. 



The city of Detroit has been the 

 scene of so many trade conventions 

 that the enterprise of the Detroit flo- 

 rists is a matter of wide knowledge. 

 Among these enterprising Detroit men, 

 Albert Pochelon is taking a leading 

 place. He is the proprietor of •thei 

 Bemb Floral Co., having devoted ma^ 

 years to the upbuilding of its business. 

 Mr. Pochelon joined the late L. Bemb 

 before that gentleman/ began to find 

 the cares of business weighing heavily 

 upon him, but the employer soon found 

 that the younger man was demonstrat- 

 ing a capacity out of proportion to the 

 average employee's desires to assume 

 responsibilities and he gradually turned 

 over the details of the business to 

 him. At the death of Mr. Bemb, Mr.' 

 Pochelon was the logical one to ca,rry 

 on the business. In the last few years 

 the flower trade in Detroit has pro- 

 gressed as never before and Mr. Poche- 

 lon has kept at the head of the pro- 

 cession. Just now he is engaged upon 

 the erection of a new store building 

 and conservatory, which will be one 

 of the largest and finest of its kind in 

 the country. The store is to be in a 

 4-story steel frame building, the front 

 of which is to be laid up in glazed 

 terra cotta and ornamental Pewabic 

 tile panels. The main stairway will 

 be reinforced concrete finished with 

 Moravian tile. Handsome as will be 

 the exterior of the building, the archi- 

 tect's plans contemplate equal ornate- 

 ness for the flower store, combined 

 with arrangements which will make it 

 a model for convenience in handling a 

 constantly increasing volume of sales. 



DARWIN TULIPS. 



I have a quantity of Darwin tulip 

 'bulbs, about one-half of which are of 

 flowering size, but I do not know how 

 to properly grow them on. Can your 

 correspondent, C. "W., tell me how to 

 grow them on to full sized bulbs? 



G. K. 



Sandy loam is the best for growing 

 on the tulips, as this gives clean, 

 bright bulbs J in heavy soil they be- 

 come dark and speckled. Plant them 

 out about the end of September in beds 

 31/^x4 feet. The smallest offsets can 

 go two inches apart, but larger ones 

 should have double this space. Cover 

 the bulblets four or five inches deep, 

 with six to eight inches between the 

 rows. The ground is better well 

 spaded over or plowed, incorporat- 

 ing some well decayed manure in it. 

 Cover the beds with straw or some 

 other material after the ground 

 freezes, removing it early in April. 

 The smaller bulblets will probably not 

 reach flowering size for three years, 

 but larger ones will bloom the first 

 and second years, C. W. 



PROPAGATINQ VINCAS. 



Please give particulars about the/ 

 propagation of vincas, when to start 

 them, etc. I do not have good luclc 

 with them. O. E. H. 



Vinca major and its varidgated 

 form are the varieties mostly used by 

 florists and it is probably the varie- 

 gated one to whidh 0. E. H. refers. 

 This vinca can be rooted almost any 

 time of the year, but the present 

 month is an excellent one for the work. 



Albert Pochelon. 



The soft cuttings just starting from 

 the base of the plants, if rubbed oft' 

 .with heels, will root quickly in an or- 

 dinary cutting bench suitable for the 

 propagation of chrysanthemums and 

 carnations. Another method, requir- 

 ing rather a longer period to root the 

 cuttings, is to cut up some of the long 

 shoots into pieces containing a couple 

 of eyes each. Choose wood that is 

 moderately firm, but reject that which 

 is old and woody. With reasonable 

 care as to watering and shading, nearly 

 all these will root. Pot off into 2-inch 

 or 214-inch pots when rooted and later 

 shift into 3-inch or 3V^-inch. Before 

 bedding-out time these will make nice, 

 salable plants, but of course are not 

 equal to the stock which has been 

 grown one season in the field. Any 

 unsold stock should be planted out in 

 the field rather than carried over the 

 summer in pots. C W. 



HYACINTHS AND PAPER WHITES. 



What treatment shall I give Roman 

 hyacinths and Paper White narcissi 

 after placing them in flats, in order to 

 have them in flower aa early a* possi- 

 ble? S. S. 



Soak the flats well with water. Place 

 them in a coldframe or on a cellar 

 floor. Cover the hyacinths with three 

 or four inches of cinders, but do not 

 similarly cover the Paper Whites. Do 

 not allow the soil to become dry. By 

 starting Paper Whites now and simply 

 keeping them in a frame or in an ordi- 

 nary greenhouse below the benches, 



you can easily have them in flower 

 early in November. The Eoman hya- 

 cinths cannot be flowered so early. 

 Allow them to sprout about three inch- 

 lis before housing them. Then give a 

 tiight temperature of 60 to 65 degrees 

 ;ind they will flower early in December. 

 The Paper Whites will do better if 

 not grown too warm; 50 to 55 degrees 

 is sufficient. Both these and the Ro- 

 mans are improved if stood in a cool 

 house when the flowers axe expanded. 

 C. W. 



ASTERS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



Can I have asters in flower at Christ- 

 mas in benches in a carnation tempera- 

 ture? If so, how and what kinds? 



L. V. A. 



I* have never tried asters as a Christ- 

 mas crop and doubt if they would- prove 

 a paying proposition, with chrysanthe- 

 mums still in season and procurable 

 with so much longer stems than you 

 could hope to se^eure on the asters. It 

 would now be too late to sow seed for 

 Christmas flowering. The plants should 

 be of a sufficient size to transplant now. 

 One of the best indoor varieties is 

 Queen of the Market. It carries excel- 

 lent stems and produces a lot of blooms 

 per plant. A carnation temperature 

 would answer well and asters would 

 do all right in your regular carnation 

 compost. White and pink would be 

 the best selling colors. C. W. 



Des Moines, la. — J. W. Rudebeck, 

 formerly in business at 3523 Univer- 

 sity avenue, has i*etired from the trade 



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