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ThcWcekly Florists' Review. 



13 



Mrs. Thomas Jackson. 



cause of buds falling. A little later 

 in the season a top-dressing of pul- 

 verized sheep manure will do the plants 

 good. Loosen the soil after applying it, 

 so that the manurial properties will 

 wash in evenly and readily. A dress- 

 ing of fine bone is also beneficial, but 

 this I would not apply until the middle 

 or end of March. You will find sheep 

 or cow manure better and safer than 

 nitrate of soda. The latter is a quick 

 acting stimulant, but its effects do not 

 last as do those of the other foods, and 

 there is also more danger of seriouslj' 

 harming the plants when applying it. 



C. W. 



OUTDOORS AND IN. 



Is there any remedy for the diseases 

 that cause outdoor .sweet peas to have 

 a mottled appearance and become some- 

 what deformed, and which later ap- 

 l)ear on the vines in the same way 

 and eventually kills the plants? 



What varieties of sweet peas, red, 

 purple, pink, mauve and white, would 

 you recommend for planting among vio- 

 lets some time in January, to como into 

 bloom after the violets are finished 

 blooming and discarded? S. B. 



Change of soil each year will keep 

 your vines healthier than if you plani 

 successive seasons in the same soil. I 

 do not know of anything you can do 

 once the plants show this mottled or 

 diseased appearance. Cover your seeds 

 two to three inches deep. Sow early 

 and rather thinly. If seedlings come 

 up thickly, thin 'them out four inches 

 apart each way. Do not hill up the 

 rows, as is often advised in catalogues. 

 This only causes a lot of stem-rot and 

 wholesale dying of the plants. Try 

 starting one or two seeds in 4-inch pot.-- 

 in coldframes about the end of Feb- 

 ruary and plant out a foot apart in the 

 rows. These will give you an early and 

 continuous crop of longer-stemmeii 

 flowers than you will got from sowing 

 directly in the open. 



Good varieties to sow among your 

 violets in January will be Countess of 

 8pencer, rosv pink; Helen Lewis, orang-; 

 pink; Mrs. Routzahn Spencer, soft pink; 

 King Edward VIJ, bright red; Navy 

 Jiiue, purple; Frank Dolby, mauve, 



Dorothy Eckford, white; White Spen- 

 cer. The Spencer or waved varieties, 

 which are unsuitable for early forcing, 

 will do well sown from January . on-* 

 wards, and command a higher market 

 price than the old type. C. W. 



A LATONIA LADY. 



Mrs. Thomas Jackson is one of the 

 well known florists of Latonia, Ky. The 

 portrait is from a snapshot made as 

 she was leaving the greenhouse with 

 an armful of flowers. Mrs. Jackson has 

 for many years sold a part of her stock 

 in the Jabez Elliott flower market in 

 Cincinnati, and through her unfailing 

 courtesy and reliability she has won 

 the confidence of all who see her for 

 their floral wants, as well as the re- 

 spect of others engaged in the trade. 



C. H. H. 



HYACINTHS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



Kindly inform us just when to bring 

 in hyacinth bulbs to force for Christ- 

 mas. The bulbs were jiotted October I 

 and are well rooted in coldframes at 

 present. A. O. N. 



You do not state whether the bulbs 

 are Roman or Dutch hvacinths. If the 



former, allow them five weeks in an 

 average night temperature of 60 de- 

 grees and they will be all right for 

 Christmas. The tops should be sprouted 

 a couple of inches before housing. As 

 the flowers expand, give them a cooler 

 house. Dutch hyacinths can not be 

 successfully forced for Christmas and 

 I would not advise your trying to get 

 them in flower at that time. They must 

 be well rooted and have growths at 

 least two inches long when placed in 

 heat. It is also necessary to keep 

 them dark for at least two weeks, to 

 draw up the shoots; otherwise the 

 flower stems will be short. C. W. 



CINDER COVERING ON BULBS. 



In answering my question, I wish C. 

 VV. had told us how deep he covere<i 

 his hyacinths with cinders and if glas.^j 

 or any other covering was needed on 

 top of the cinder^ J. M. 



If the bulbs are in a coldframe, ccl 

 lar or pit, four inches of covering of 

 ashes will suffice. If outdoors they 

 will need a heavier coating, say six to 

 eight inches, and additional protection 

 later in the way of leaves, straw or 

 hay, with board shutters over it to ex- 

 clude frost. By all means get your 

 bulbs under cover. It should not be a 

 warm place, and fire heat is better ab- 

 sent. I know many growers who con- 

 tinue to stand them outdoors and bury 

 with soil or ashes, with other pro- 

 tective material. The delights of dig- 

 ging out these bulbs in zero weather 

 with a foot of snow on the ground are 

 so many that I will not recount them,, 

 but am now well satisfied to stand 

 the bulbs out of reach of snow and 

 frost. They grow just as well and can 

 be easily and comfortably handled any^ 

 time when needed. C. W. 



THE WEISS ESTABLISHMENT. 



Charles Weiss & Sons, who have re 

 cently opened a wholesale cut flower 

 store at 127 West Twenty-eighth street, 

 in New York city, are an old estab- 

 lished concern at Mount Vernon, N. Y., 

 where they grow and retail. The ac- 

 companying illustration gives a view of 

 their retail store, with conservatory in 

 the rear and greenhouses surrounding. 



Whitman, Mass. — George D. Cook, 

 has closed his store in the Holbrook. 

 block for the winter. 



Establishment of Chas. Weiss & Sons, Mt. Vernon, N. Y, 



