Januabt 19, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



13 



Establishment of '^. & K. Pedersen, St. John, N. B. 



IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 



The accompanying illustration gives 

 an excellent idea of the character of 

 the location and the excellence of the 

 facilities of W. & K. Pedersen, at St. 

 John, in the far northeastern province 

 of New Brunswick, so far out of the 

 beaten tracks, followed by florists that 

 Samuel S. Pennock, of Philadelphia, is 

 almost the only member of the trade 

 who goes ther^ regularly. 



TXTBEBOSES IN THE SOUTH. 



What varieties of tuberoses are most 

 suitable to the climatic conditions of 

 the Texas coast country, particularly 

 the Alvin district? What are the names 

 of some of the long-stemmed varieties, 

 both single and double flowered, that 

 are grown in the southwest! 



H. & L. 



In our opinion, one variety of tube- 

 rose will succeed as well, under any 

 climatic conditions, as another.' AH 

 varieties succeed well here, at Mag- 

 nolia, N. C, about forty mil«s from the 

 Atlantid coast. The name of the tall 

 variety that we are familiar with is the 

 Tall Double, and in single flowering 

 sorts there are the Mexican Everbloom- 

 ing, Albino and Silver Leaf. The va- 

 riety almost exclusively grown here, 

 however, is the Excelsior Dwarf Pearl. 

 Newbury Bulb Co. 



DORMANT AZALEA INDICA. 



I should like to know how to handle 

 Azalea Indica, when received in a dor- 

 mant condition, so that the flowers on 

 them will be large. About how long 

 does it require to force them into bloom? 

 I have a cool, cemented cellar. Will 

 it be all right to keep them in it until 

 it is time to start to force them? 



J. E. S. 



The azeleas can be kept nicely on the 

 floor of a cool cellar. If the temperature 

 is just above the freezing point, it will 

 be all right. Be sure that the balls 

 are suflSciently moist if the plants are 

 not in pots. It will be better to pot 

 them as soon as possible; they will 

 then be better under control for water- 

 ing. The time required to force aza- 

 leas into flower depends much on the 

 time when you want them, as well as 



the variety. Presuming that your 

 plants are wanted for Easter, allow 

 them six to eight weeks in a tempera- 

 ture of 60 degrees. If you have no 

 higher temperature than 50 degrees at 

 night, allow two weeks more. Some 

 sorts can be flowered within a month, 

 but it is easy to hold them a week or 

 two in a cold house, when once they 

 are seen to be on time. C. W. 



APHIS ON VIOLETS. 



Kindly tell me how to destroy green 

 and brown aphis on my violets. I do 

 not want to use gas. F. H. E. 



The safest fumigant to use on the 

 violets, and one which will clear out 

 the aphis, is one of the nicotine papers. 

 These are far better than tobacco stems, 

 as they are cleanly, leave no offensive 

 smell behind them and there is no likeli- 

 hood of injury from their use. If one 

 application does not destroy all the 

 aphis, give a second one a couple of 

 days later. Then fumigate once a week 

 without fail. If you will make it a 

 point to fumigate every greenhouse once 

 a week during the winter season, there 

 will be little chance for the aphis to 

 spread. You should not wait to see it. 

 Prevention is better than cure. 



C. W. 



VIOLETS DOING POORLY. 



I would like to know what would 

 be best to do about my house of vio- 

 lets. By mistake I was delivered 

 sheep manure and, not thinking there 

 would be any great danger in using it, 

 I put about three to four inches of this 

 at the bottom of my plants. The balance 

 of the soil was rather poor and I am 

 not getting any blossoms to speak of 

 and they are very small. The plants 

 did not take hold of this soil. Can I 



use anything to offset this treatment, 

 or had I better throw them out and try 

 something else before I put in my 

 stock plants for Decoration day? I 

 suppose my soil is more or less filled 

 with ammonia. Will it be fit for stock 

 plants? H. J. C. 



If you had mixed the sheep manure 

 with your soil before planting, it would 

 have done the plants lots of good. 

 Pulverized sheep manure, if laid sev- 

 eral inches deep below each plant, 

 would be too strong for the roots to 

 live in. If you want to keep your vio- 

 lets and they are green and healthy, 

 it would pay even at this date 

 to lift them and fork over the beds. 

 Give the soil a good additional appli- 

 cation of cow or sheep manure and 

 then replant. If you take them up 

 with a ball, they will not suffer much 

 of a check. If, however, you feel the 

 plants are not worth retaining, throw 

 them away now, or as soon as your 

 stocks are ready for the beds. The 

 sheep manure will be just what they 

 like, only take care to incorporate it 

 well in "the soil before planting. 



C. W. 



PRIMULA SINENSIS SEED. 



How is Chinese primrose seed grown? 

 Can it be produced in a greenhouse, or 

 should it be procured from other coun- 

 tries? Which would be the better way? 



A. J. B. 



Seeds of Primula Sinensis are always 

 produced under glass. While it is pos- 

 sible to save seed from your own plants, 

 still, unless your strain is an extra good 

 one and the flowers have been carefully 

 hand pollinated, it is far better to pur- 

 chase them from some reliable seed 

 house. It pays to buy the best grades 

 of primula seed. It costs as little to 

 grow the dearer seeds into plants as 

 the cheaper ones, and they will always 

 sell the best. Mixtures are less salable 

 than distinct c61ors ; scarlet, white, pink 

 and white, and pink sell the best. Ger- 

 many and Great Britain are the two 

 chief countries from which first-class 

 primula seed is exported. As special 

 houses are devoted to each variety or 

 color, you can always depend on getting 

 them true to name. It would be qtiite 

 otherwise if you depended on any hap- 

 hazard method of your own. C. W. 



