Septembeh 14, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Hard Wooded Holiday Plants at Establishment of Koisht & Struck Co., Flashine, Lone Island. 



WILI» IMPBOVE SOIL, 



The Middle West Soil Improvement 

 Association, which for the last six 

 months has been perfecting its plans, 

 met in Chicago September 11 and 

 launched its active campaign. The 

 chief object of this movement is to 

 encourage better methods of building 

 up and maintaining soil fertility by the 

 rotation of crops and the use of barn- 

 yard manure and legumes, supplemented 

 by fertilizers bearing nitrogen, phos- 

 phoric acid and potash; by drainage 

 and the scientific use of lime where re- 

 quired. The work is under the direc- 

 tion of H. G. Boll, late professor of 

 agronomy of the Lniversity of Maine, 

 and former assistant professor of farm 

 crops of the Iowa State College. The 

 committee has established headquarters 

 at 919 Postal Telegraph building, Chi- 

 cago, and invites correspondence. 



PICKINa OFF PEIMULA BUDS. 



How long shall I continue to pick oflE 

 the buds of Primulas Forbesi and Chi- 

 nensis? A. E. B. 



Discontinue picking the flower buds 

 off Primulas Forbesi, obconica and Chi- 

 nensis about the middle of September. 

 This will give them time to bloom nicely 

 by Thanksgiving and Christmas. 



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LILIES Ilk^tyqi, HOUSES, 



As Easter comes April 7 next year, 

 what lily or lilies would you advise 

 us to grow in houses where the tem- 

 perature varies from 40 to about 52 de- 

 grees? That is, we have houses where 

 we can give them this temperature. 

 F. & F. 



I would not advise you to try L. 

 longiflorum giganteum in any of your 

 houses. This would certainly not 

 ffower for Easter; besides, it does best 

 in a warm house. There remain L. 

 Harrisii, Formosa and multiflorum. 

 The Harrisii will flower the earliest, 

 but this and the other two sorts named 

 should have your warmest house. L. 



Formosa is a good lily, variable in 

 height and to some extent in the char- 

 acter of its flowers, but generally free 

 from disease. If you want the flowers 

 for cutting, I would prefer this to 

 either Harrisii or multiflorum, but if 

 pot plants^ are needed you would do 



Erica Regerminans. 



well to grow L. longiflorum multiflorum. 

 It grows somewhat taller than gigan- 

 teum and the flowers are smaller, but 

 it can be flowered a good deal earlier. 

 Seeing that Easter comes early, you 

 should secure and pot your bulbs in 



good season. It is easy to retard the 

 stock for a week or two before the 

 flowers open, but you have not the tem- 

 perature for hard forcing to send along 

 laggards. C. W. 



COMPOST FOB DUTCH BULBS. 



Please inform me how to prepare a 

 compost for narcissus and daffodil 

 bulbs from a spent mushroom bed, con- 

 sisting of six parts of horse manure* and 

 two parts of soil. E. C. 



The mushroom bed compost would 

 contain too much manure in itself. 

 Two-thirds loam and one-third of the 

 mushroom manure, with the addition of 

 some sharp sand, will make a good bulb 

 soil. C. W. 



NEW YOBK. 



The Market. 



Never was there known such a season 

 for asters. Thousands of them remain 

 unsold daily. The expressmen seem to 

 be making the most money out of them 

 now, carting the surplus to the river. 

 Every grower of asters within forty- 

 five miles of New York feels like ndVer 

 growing thom again. This does not ap- 

 ply to the finest shipments, for the best 

 of everything always brings good re- 

 turns in the big city. 



Dahlias have begun to arrive in quan- 

 tity. Here, too, only the best can hope 

 for paying recognition and there are 

 some beauties this season. Gladioli 

 seem to have got their second wind. 

 The rains developed an abundance of 

 late blooms and some of the better 

 kinds met with much favor. The large 

 growers near New York have some re- 

 markably fine seedlings that are not 

 yet on the market. There are quanti- 

 ties of Golden Glow, and before the end 

 of the month shipments of chrysan- 

 themums promise to be large. The win- 

 dows show an abundance of cosmos, 

 hydrangea and goldenrod. 



Roses have advanced a step toward 

 legitimate values. The new stock im- 

 proves daily. The short -stemmed roses. 



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