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Februahy 2, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



21 



In One of Frank R. Snyder's Violet Houses. 



and keep them wet until they throw up 

 sprouts, which takes three or four 

 weeks. I feel well rewarded if I get 

 one-half of them to grow. 1 put them 

 in early in March. 



Last year I had my usual success, but 

 with an added experience: I did not 

 disturb the remaining seeds and they 

 were there during the summer and fall 

 until I began firing for my chrysanthe- 

 mums, when, to my surprise, several of 

 them showed themselves and grew, but 

 not as vigorously as did the first ones 

 to come up. I now have them in 4-inch 

 pots and, by their looks, I shall have all- 

 I need for the coming scnson. 



F. P. Avery. 



VIOLETS WITH OTHER STOCK. 



Will you kindly tell mc if 1 can grow 

 English violets sucecssfiilly in a iiouse 

 of lettuce or carnations! What is th;' 

 best time to set the plants and which i ; 

 the best variety of doubles? Must 1 

 get them in pots or on the 1 enclies? 

 What temperature is best for them and 

 where can I procure good plants? 



S. E. I. 



Violets want a low temperature to 

 grow them successfully; 40 to 42 de- 

 grees at night. A lettuce house would 

 suit them much better than one in 

 which carnations are grown. The best 

 varieties of doubles are Marie Louise, 

 dark blue, and Lady Hume Campbell, 

 light blue. The latter is rather less 

 susceptible to leaf disease than the 

 former. They grow best in solid beds, 

 but can also be grown in raised benches 

 if heating pipes do not run below them. 

 They prefer a cool and moist bottom. 

 Plants can be set in the beds during 



August and the early part of Septem- 

 ber. Many of the large specialists in 

 double violets grow them in flats or 

 l>ots and plant out where they are to 

 flower. The houses usually have mov- 

 able sashes, however. Your best plan 

 would be to set the young stock out- 

 doors about the last of April and keep 

 the plants well cultivated and clear of 

 runners. Purchase plants a little later 

 in the season. You will find them of- 

 fered by a number of Review adver- 

 tisers. C. W. 



CONDITIONS AT RHINEBECK. 



One of the leading growers at Rhine- 

 beck, X. v., the violet center of Amer- 

 ica, writes: "While there were enough 

 violets to go around during the month 

 of .fanuary, when the demand is usually 

 light, the prospects for the future are 

 not so bright as they might be, on 

 :ic<'(»unt of the prevalence of the dis- 

 eases to which the violet plant is sub- 

 ject; viz.: blight, root rot. and crown 

 rot, these having made serious inroads 

 during the present season, some houses 



being entirely out of commission from 

 the ravages ot these diseases. Quite a 

 number of houses are for sale, or to 

 rent. There will no doubt be plenty of 

 violets through February and March, 

 the two months of the heaviest bloom, 

 but the prospects are for a light pick 

 for Easter, which comes so late this 

 year that most of the houses will be 

 out of bloom. ' ' 



VIOLETS WITH SHORT STEMS. 



I have some field grown California 

 violets. They bloom freely, but have 

 short stems. Is there anything I can 

 do to make the stems grow longer? 

 B, B. C. 



It is probable that your violets were 

 housed too early. Single varieties 

 should be exposed to a few degrees of 

 frost before lifting them; otherwise 

 they make a rank leaf growth and 

 small, short-stemmed flowers. Another 

 possible cause is that your clumps are 

 too large and runners have been allowed 

 to develop, instead of being removed. 

 Provided your plants are in good soil, 

 to which was added a good proportion 

 of well rotted barnyard manure, they 

 should not need feeding. If, however, 

 they are in poor compost, give a top- 

 dressing of soot and pulverized sheep 

 manure, scratching it into the soil. If 

 you mix the sheep manure with double 

 the quantity of screened loam, to which 

 was added the soot, it will be better 

 than applying the sheep manure in a 

 dry state alone. 



California used to be considered a 

 good violet, but its day has gone. 

 Princess of Wales is now the predom- 

 inant single and is vastly superior to 

 California in every way. " C. W. 



A VIOLET ESTABLISHMENT. 



One of the accompanying illustra- 

 tions shows the establishment of Frank 

 R. Snyder, one of the best known of 

 the violet growers at Rhinebeck, N. Y. ; 

 it is a bird's-eye view taken from the 

 top of a neighboring grower's barn. 

 The other illustration shows the interior 

 of one of Mr. Snyder 's houses. As with 

 practically all the more than 100 

 growers at Rhinebeck, Mr. Snyder grows 

 Marie Louise exclusively. 



Establishment of Frank R. Snyder, Rhinebeck, N. Y.; | 



