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The Weekly Rorists' Review^ 



NOVEMBBR 2, .1911. 



teresting pictures, of which the accom- 

 panying is one. So far as known, it is 

 the first time that a revolving camera 

 has been tried inside a greenhouse. This 

 was at the establishment of P. J, ding- 

 er, at New Castle, Ind., September 20. 

 Imagine yourself stepping into the mid- 

 dle walk at one side of the carnation 

 rapge, looking first to the left. Then 

 you turn your head slowly to the right, 

 until your eyes are directed to the far 

 end of the house, opposite the end at 

 which you first" looked. What you would 

 see in turning your head is shown in the 

 photograph reproduced here. It is 

 practically looking three ways at once. 

 The other illustration is reproduced 

 jfrom a photograph taken by ordinary 

 means in one of the dinger Beauty 

 houses. 



THE GABDENEBS MEET. 



The convention of the National As- 

 sociation of Gardeners was held at 

 Madison^ N. J., October 27, with a fair 

 attendance, although the majority of 

 the gardeners who attended the Morris 

 County Horticultural Society show 

 October 21 were unable to be away 

 from their conservatories two days in 

 succession. New constitution and by- 

 laws were offered and met with almost 

 unanimous approval. M. C. Ebel, of 

 Madison, was elected secretary. Splen- 

 did addresses were made by J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, of Boston, J. Otto Thilow, 

 of Philadelphia, and C. H. Totty, of 

 Madison. About thirty attended the 

 banquet in the evening, where jollity 

 and good fellowship prevailed. Among 

 the visitors were Messrs. Orpet and 

 Foley, of Chicago, and David Bust, of 

 Philadelphia. A large attendance from 

 New York was noted. Rising votes 

 of thanks to the speakers were many 

 and Ex-secretary Maynard was not 

 forgotten. The outlook for the society 

 seems bright and its influence is ex- 

 pected in helping to make the national 

 flower show in 1913 a great success. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



THE GABDENEB'S PABT. 



In an address to the National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners, at Madison, N. J.^ 

 October 27, C. H. Totty said in part: 



"Let us have exhibits in the flower 

 shows that can show people something 

 of what they can do on their own little 

 estates or cottage gardens. The great- 

 est possibilities, to my mind, lie in 

 making a man interested enough to 

 buy his own little home, and then, by 

 judicious use of hardy plants and flow- 

 ers, he can make that little home a 

 bower of beauty. Let us show him 

 how, by judicious cultivation of his 

 back yard, he can have enough vege- 

 tables fresh from his own garden to 

 supply his family table for eight or 

 nine months of the year. Get a man 

 interested in such a proposition as this 

 and it will do him more good, mentally, 

 morally and from the viewpoint of 

 health, than any other thing he can 

 get interested in. You gentlemen, each 

 in your own community, exercise a 

 power of good in that way. A man 

 interested in gardening or a woman 

 either, if they ask your opinion on a 

 certain thing, will accept your answer 

 as gospel truth, and act on the in- 

 formation. They know you have no 

 direct financial interest in any recom- 

 mendation you may give. It is some- 

 what different with a florist. No mat- 

 ter how honest he may be, there is 

 always behind it the idea ' be has some- 



thing to sell; he has an axe to grind,' 

 and his word therefore does not carry 

 so much weight. 



"I think you gardeners arc making 

 a great mistake that you do not belong 

 to the Society of American Florists. 

 Your own national organization is ex- 

 cellent. It covers your phase of the 

 situation. But the Society of American 

 Florists is the only society operating 

 under a national charter. Its mem- 

 bers have tried repeatedly to interest 

 the private men. Years ago the phrase 

 'and Ornamental Horticulturists' was 

 added to the Society of American Flo- 

 rists in an effort to prove to you that 



the same was all-embracing. The re 

 sponse to this was not satisfactory. 

 One reason, I believe, is that the gar- 

 deners have not until recently realized 

 the value of organization. 



"The Society of American Florists 

 and Ornamental Horticulturists wishes 

 you to cooperate with it in making 

 the National Flower Show of 1913 

 the grandest and greatest success that 

 has ever been seen along these lines. 

 As chairman of the National Flower 

 Show committee, I beg of you at this 

 time to give us your earnest support, 

 to give us the benefit of your experi- 

 ence." 



SEASONABLE OBCHID NOTES. 



Fall Sorts and Their Treatment. 



The orchid houses during October and 

 November are quite gay with flowers. 

 There is hardly so much variety as, for 

 instance, in February or March, but 

 there are certain varieties which com- 

 bine to make the houses attractive 

 now. Among these are the free flower- 

 ing, easily grown and ever popular 

 Cattleya labiata; the beautiful golden 

 yellow Oncidium varicosum Eogersii; 

 the free flowering dendrobiums, D. 

 Phalsenopsis Schroederianum and D. for- 

 mosum giganteum; Vanda caerulea, with 

 its great spikes of charming blue 

 flowers; cypripediums of the insigne 

 and some other sections; certain phalae- 

 nopsis and some other orchids. 



The daylight is steadily declining 

 now and, while some days are hot, 

 there are spells of dull weather. For 

 the welfare of the plants, the amount 

 of shading on the roofs should be con- 

 siderably decreased. In fact, cattleyas 

 not in flower should now stand the full 

 sun, but cypripediums will need shade, 

 as will phalaenopsis. On the other hand, 

 dendrobes of the nobile and Wardianum 

 types want the fullest amount of sun- 

 shine. It is hard, where a number of 

 genera are grown in one house, to suit 

 the needs of all. We can but try to 

 accommodate the greatest possible num- 

 ber with the best possible growing con- 

 ditions. 



During sunless weather, watering 

 should be done with greater caution. 

 As yet, fire heat will not be needed 

 to any great extent, and 'Vvhen any is 

 used the ventilators should' be opened 

 all day and on mild nighti. Few or- 

 chids want a close, stuffy • atmosphere 

 and this is particularly true of cat- 

 tleyas and coelias. The East Indian 

 species naturally enjoy more heat and 

 moisture. For some months now, water- 

 ing ghould be done early in the morn- 

 ing, and the amount of damping down 

 of the floors will, of course, depend on 

 the weather and the amount of fire 

 heat being used. 



T^e Temperatures. 



Temperatures should now be lowered 

 in the several houses. Phalsenopsis and 

 other East Indian species should be 

 allowed 65 degrees at night; 58 to 60 

 degrees is ample for cattleyas. Cypri- 

 pediums, or at least many of them, like 

 a warm house and 62 to 65 degrees at 

 night will do for them, although C. 

 insigne, C. Leeanum and other varieties 

 can be well grown 10 degrees cooler. 

 Ccelogynes, cymbidiums, odontoglossums 

 and other cool orchids should not have 

 a temperature exceeding 55 degrees on 

 warm and 50 degrees on cool nights. 

 Orchids, like many other plants, are 

 not benefited, but, in fact, much weak- 

 ened by a high night temperature. We 

 are told by scientists that plants make 

 all their growth at night; therefore, 

 the importance of moderate and uni- 

 form night temperatures can scarcely 

 be overestimated. 



With all orchids now in their winter 

 quarters, some time must be given to 

 the work of cleaning them, and any 

 spare moments are well spent in this 

 way. Commercial growers can not 

 spare time to do this, as in the case of 

 private estates. Still, with some genera, 

 especially miltonias and cypripediums, 

 it is a necessity, particularly if, through 

 any neglect, thrips or other pests have 

 been allowed to attack the foliage. For 

 thrips, dipping in tobacco water or one 

 of the soapy solutions is good. Beaches 

 become more in evidence with increased 

 fire heat and will attack flowers, roots 

 and leaves with equal avidity. Poison 

 and fumigation have no terrors for 

 them, but tins or glass jars, sunk in the 

 ground and containing molasses or some 

 other appetizing food, will lure many 

 of them to their destruction. 



DAHLIAS FOB MIDDLE WEST. 



There is so great a variety of 

 dahlias that a florist situated as I am, 

 in a small middle-western town, where 

 I have few opportunities for seeing the 

 plants, much less studying their char- 

 acteristics, is entirely at sea when it 

 comes to picking out a few to grow for 



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