The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mabch 9, 1011. 



Store of Miss Lou Helen Dundore, Lancaster, Pa 



the dollars. The Chatham Floral Co., 

 Chatham, N. Y., had such a piece to 

 make last summer, in the shape of an 

 automobile in flowers. The outcome is 

 shown in the snapshot sent herewith. 

 The design was correctly proportioned 

 and six feet long, the body and tires 

 being made of asters, the hood or radia- 

 tor, etc., of American Beauties, lilies, 

 valley and other flowers. The lamps 

 were of yellow flowers, with white 

 flowers for the glass. The steering 

 wheel, levers and wheel spokes were 

 wound with chenille. Every detail' 

 was carried out, even to the number on 

 the back of the machine. The design 

 was made on a specially built wire 

 frame, with six rods affording contact 

 with the ground and holding the de- 

 sign so that the weight would not come 

 upon the wheels. The design stood 

 several days in a cemetery and at- 

 tracted great crowds. Of course, there 

 is nothing artistic to commenti in puch 

 a design; but mechanical excellence 

 probably counts for as much with the 

 purchasers, and certainly such a design 

 as this automobile attracts vastly more 

 attention than would any number of 

 the most skillfully arranged sprays. 



E. E. Shuphelt. 



THE BOSEBY. 



The illustrations on this page show 

 the attractive little flower shop known 

 as The Rosery, at Lancaster, Pa., which 

 was opened for business November 17, 

 1910, by Miss Lou Helen Dundore, who 

 has been connected with the florists' 

 business for some years and is thor- 

 oughly qualified to make her venture a 

 success. The color scheme of the shop 

 is white and green, the woodwork being 

 finished in white enamel, with green 

 for walls and fixtures. The window is 

 tiled in white and green, and the fur- 

 niture is of the mission style, the re- 

 frigerator, of McCray manufacture, also 

 being in the forest green finish. The 

 Eosery is up-to-date in all its equip- 

 ment and work, and Miss Dundore has 

 enjoyed an excellent patronage ever 

 since her opening day. 



TO GBOW WITH CABNATIONS. 



We grow carnations and should like 

 to grow some other plants for cut flow- 

 ers in the same temperature. Will sweet 

 peas and candytuft grow in that tem- 

 perature? L. F. C. 



marguerites and all kind3 of Dutch 

 bulbous flowers, including hyacinths, 

 tulips and narcissi, will succeed well in 

 a carnation house. C. W. 



CYCLAMEN CULTUBE. 



Sweet peas will do well in a carna- 

 tion house. They enjoy a temperature 

 of 48 to 50 degrees at night. Candytuft, 

 while it can be grown with carnations, 

 will succeed better if grown 5 degrees 

 cooler. Gladioli, both the small and 

 large l;ulbed varieties, lupines, lark- 

 spurs, jintirrhinums, Spanish irises, ten 

 weeks' stocks, niyosotis, sweet alyssums, 



Sowing the Seed. 



My years of experience in the grow- 

 ing of the cyclamen may perhaps be of 

 use to some of my brother florists in 

 the cultivation of this beautiful winter 

 blooming plant. 



The time to sow cyclamen seed varies 

 according to when you want them in 

 bloom. The latter part of July or the' 

 first part of August is a good time to 

 sow in order to make good plants in 

 fifteen to sixteen months, or by the 

 second Christmas after the sowing. 

 Other sowings can be made until Janu- 

 ary. Seed sown as late as January 

 would, perhaps, with good culture and 

 everything favorable, make strong 4- 

 inch and 5-inch pot plants, but do not 

 expect them to bloom as early as those 

 from seed sown in August. Your suc- 

 cess in growing cyclamens depends 

 greatly upon the strain of seed used. 

 Always get the best seed grown and 

 of the highest standard, and your dis- 

 appointments will be less. 



We are sowing our cylamens in flats 

 12x20x3 inches, inside measure, in rows 

 one and one-half inches apart, and we 

 drop 500 seeds about one-fourth of an 

 inch apart in the rows. Of course, we 

 usually make a sowing of from 30,000 

 to 60,000 at a time. For a florist that 

 grows only from 100 to several thou- 

 sands, I would advise that he sow the 

 single seeds about one inch apart each 

 way, grow them on until the plants 

 have a nice ball of roots established 

 and then shift them into flats, about 

 two to two and one-half inches apart, 

 or into 2Vi-inch pots. I recommend the 

 latter method, as they are thus handled 

 better and make stockier plants. 



A good soil to sow in would be a 



Stof e of Mfss Lou Hrlen Dundore, Lancaster, Pa. 



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