Decitmbbb 15, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



In a Roman Jar. ' In a Oold Basket. 



The Cyclamen is one of the Most Popular of Inexpensive Christmas Plants. 



Do not plant all your bulbs now, as 

 you will want two or three batches to 



give a succession through the season, 

 ther useful forcing varieties in addi- 

 tion to America are May, Augusta, 

 Shakespeare, Mrs. Francis King and 

 the old Brenchleyensis. 



Gladiolus The Bride. 



The small-flowered, early gladioli, 

 such as Colvillei The Bride, Blushing 

 Bride, Peach Blossom, Sappho, and 

 others of the nanus type, do well 

 treated similarly to the Spanish iris. 

 They will, however, stand a little more 

 heat, but 55 degrees should be the night 

 maximum. Give them a bench well up 

 to the light and as the flats become 

 well filled with roots, liquid cow man- 

 ure once in four or five days will im- 

 prove them. These gladioli are wel- 

 come in spring, when people have be- 

 come somewhat satiated with roses and 

 carnations and are looking for a change. 



liilacs. 



Pot lilacs are now at hand. After 

 they have had one or two good freez- 

 ings, a batch can be started in heat at 

 once. If .cut flowers only are wanted, 

 a warm, dark cellar or mushroom house 

 will answer well as a forcing house 

 until the flowers are ready to expand, 

 when more light can be given, or they 

 will lack substance. If, on the other 

 hand, nice plants in pots are desired, 

 the plants need a hot, moist and close 

 house. Syringe freely and the plants 

 will break quickly. For cutting, any of 

 the lilacs, colored or white, are suit- 

 able, as all will, come white if forced 

 mainly in the dark, but where the 

 plants are to be used and foliage as 

 well as flowers is necessary, Charles 



X, Mme. Lemoine, Marie Legraye and 

 Philemon are a good quartette of va- 

 rieties. Start the plants hot and moist, 

 keeping them a little cooler as the 

 flowers expand. 



Azalea Mollis. 



Azalea mollis is excellent for forcing. 

 It should be potted up at once, if this 

 has not already been done. It is in- 

 advisable to start more than a few 

 plants at a time, as they do not last so 

 well in flower as the Indian azaleas. 

 As they possess some charming colors 

 not found in the evergreen-leaved aza- 

 leas, they are popular with buyers who 

 are somewhat fastidious and looking for 

 something out of the beaten track. The 

 forcing of these does not differ from 

 that of lilacs. Heat and moisture, with 

 frequent syringings and a cooler, drier 

 house when the flowers are nicely ex- 

 panded, are conditions which they like. 



Canterbury Bells. 



Both at Easter and Memorial day, 

 Canterbury bells in pots sell well. The 

 white and pink shades are the best at 

 Easter. Other colors will sell later in 

 the season. Singles and hose-in-hose, 

 or calycanthema varieties, are to be 

 preferred to the doubles. For Easter 

 flowering it is now time to bring the 

 plants into gentle heat; 45 degrees is 

 sufficient for a start and 50 degrees as 

 a minimum is warm enough at any time. 

 These Canterbury bells succeed even 

 better in pots than outdoors, and if 

 neatly staked make about as beautiful 

 pot plants as it is possible to see. 



- Seed Sowing. 



Now, while the daylight steadily de- 

 clines and the solar rays are less power- 



ful, is a good time to make sowings of 

 a few seeds. With steady fire heat, 

 germination is usually better at this 

 season than later. The following may 

 be sown now: Asparagus plumosua 

 nanus, Asparagus Sprengeri, Clematis 

 paniculata (fresh seed picked and sown 

 now iji flats will germinate next sum- 

 mer), Ampelopsis Veitchii, cyclamen to 

 flower for Easter 1912, Begonia Er- 

 fordii, B. Vernon, also the tuberous va- 

 rieties; candytuft for an indoor crop, 

 ten weeks and other forcing stocks for 

 bench culture, Grevillea robusta, Ara- 

 lia Sieboldii, a useful foliage plant not 

 as much seen as it ought to be; the 

 common myrtle (Myrtus communis), 

 smilax, myosotis' for spring flowering in 

 pots, such as Eliza Fanrobert and dis- 

 sitiflora, torenias, double daisies and 

 pansies. The two latter, sown now, will 

 be suitable for late spring sales. All 

 these seeds like a light soil; one which 

 is two-thirds leaf-mold and one-third 

 loam will be found suitable, with some 

 fine sand added. No manure of any 

 kind should be used. 



Chicopee Falls, Mass.— Frank Burfitt 

 expects that a new railway, recently 

 surveyed, will pass partly through his 

 place, and he hopes, if it is true, he 

 may be put on Easy street, for a whi'e, 

 anyhow. He grows considerable sto» k 

 for the downtown stores, in addition to 

 his own extensive home trade. 



Kokomo, Ind.— W. W. Coles has sent 

 stock of his new crimson carnation, 

 Mrs. W. W. Coles, to two prominent 

 growers in widely separated parts of 

 the country. If the variety does as well 

 for them as it has done at home it will 

 be disseminated next year. 



