April 18, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



11 



Easter Opening DtspUy in the New Store of W. L. Rock Flower Co., Kansas City. 



with plenty of sand. At the last pot- 

 ting some well rotted manure may be 

 added. Do not use a heavy loam, or 

 they will do poorly in it. C. W. 



AZALEAS AFTER BLOOMING. 



Will you please tell in The Eeview 

 the way to take care of azaleas after 

 they are done blooming, and do they 

 pinch them in any way? E. L. 



Eemove all flowers and seed pods. 

 Cut back or tie into shape any runaway 

 shoots. No pinching should be re- 

 quired. You can either carry the plants 

 over summer in pots, which should be 

 plunged to their brims in a bed of 

 soil or cinders, the latter being prefer- 

 able, or plant them out in good soil 

 where you can give them frequent hos- 

 ings over during the growing season. 

 Lift and repot them the first week in 

 October. "When planted out, the plants 

 appreciate vigorous swingings over- 

 head during the early Jifternoon on hot 

 days, as do all other hard-wooded 

 plants under similar conditions. 



C. W. 



AGATH^SA CCELESTIS. 



Can you tell us how to handle 

 Agathaea coelestis and what it is used 

 for? This information will be greatly 

 appreciated by us. Ours are rooted 

 cuttings. L. B. 



Agathaea coelestis, also called Felicia 

 coelestis, and commonly known as the 

 blue daisy or blue marguerite, is a use- 

 ful winter flowering plant for pot cul- 

 ture on account of its color, which is 

 of a pleasing shade of blue. For win- 



ter flowering, take cuttings now and 

 grow them on through the summer in 

 pots, which should be plunged to their 

 brims in a coldframe or bed of ashes 

 and kept well watered and pinched. It 

 is better to grow them a little warmer 

 than the white and yellow marguerites; 

 50 degrees at night is to their liking. 

 Of late years this old plant has ap- 

 peared in limited numbers in the flower 

 stores and appears to sell well. While 

 it is not much of a success here as a 

 bedding plant, it is quite ^atisfactory 

 in Great Britain, where it flowers free- 

 ly all summer. C. W. 



THE DOESETT VIOLET. 



C. A. Classon, foreman for the 

 Archias Floral Co., Sedalia, Mo., writes 

 under date of April 9: 



"Tn regard to the single violet. Dor- 

 sett, I wish to state as follows: We 

 bought 500 plants during the month of 

 September, 1911. Two hundred fifty' 

 were from 214-inch pots and the rest 



from 2-inch pots. We planted some in 

 a coldframe, lifted them after a few 

 good freezings and housed them on a 

 solid bed in old soil after the mums. 

 They began to flower slowly around 

 Christmas and have increas^^ in flow- 

 ering capacity ever since and are still 

 doing well in spite of hot weather. Two 

 hundred fifty of the smaller plants we 

 planted directly in a carnation house, 

 in a rather dark part of the house, and 

 they toolv hold of the soil rather quick- 

 ly and gave us a lot of flowers with 

 short stems throughout the fall and win- 

 ter, with increasing length of stems, 

 and always with a bright, deep blue 

 color. As a whole I consider the Dor- 

 sett violet to be a good commercial 

 flower and easy to grow in a higher 

 temperature than other violets I know 

 off." 



BEST D0UBL3 VIOLET. 



I shall grow .3,000 double violet"^ next 

 winter and shall appreciate any infor- 

 mation in reference to the best'variety 

 to grow. I have been thinking of 

 growing the Campbell variety. I should 

 also like to ask whether the doubles 

 require any different culture from the 

 singles. T always let my single vio- 

 lets have a few degrees of frost in 

 the fall, to check the leaf growth, but, 

 if I understand properly, the doubles 

 will not do so well if treated in this 

 manner. My location is northern Wy- 

 oming. L. M. B. 



So far as color goes, the old Marie 

 Louise is still the finest double violet 

 where it can be grown well. Unfor- 

 tunately, it is more subject to spot on 



