APBiL 18, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



13 



James B. Knight and His Queen Alexandra Daisies. 



the case of Dorothy Perkins and some 

 other pink ramblers, too many shoots 

 will start from the bottom, and judi- 

 cious disbudding will be found neces- 

 sary, leaving not over three to five 

 canes per plant. Keep the newly potted 

 stock under glass until the middle or 

 ond of June, giving them a light, sunny 

 Louse where they will not be exposed 

 to cold drafts, which would mean mil- 

 dew on the young shoots. 



Of course you can place and grow 

 these same roses outdoors from the 

 start, but you will not get the same 

 clean, vigorous growth on them as when 

 kept under glass, nor will the wood be 

 ripened so early, something necessary on 

 plants which are to be forced early. 



Tausendschon continues to be popu- 

 lar among ramblers. It is well adapted 

 to early forcing, as it will flower fully 

 two weeks earlier than any of the 

 other ramblers. Crimson Rambler is far 

 less popular now than the pink varie- 

 ties, but the single scarlet Hiawatha 

 takes well, while Lady Gay and Dor- 

 othy Perkins each have their admirers. 

 American Pillar, with its large, single, 

 pink flowers, is proving a winner, and 

 the new Juniata is also proving popu- 

 lar. Among the so-called baby rambler 

 class, Catharine Seimeth, pure white, 

 is fine for Easter. Mrs. Cutbush, Phyl- 

 lis, Baby Dorothy and the original 

 Mme. Levavasseur are all good, and 

 Avhere dwarf plants are wanted, should 

 be grown in quantity. They come into 

 flower much earlier than the tall ram- 

 blers and need no stakes. Try some of 

 these various ramblers pot grown and 

 prove for yourself how much, better 

 they are for early forcing than plants 

 dug up and potted in the fall. 



SWEET PEAS (Xtf OLD SOIL. 



I am sending you a sample of sweet 

 peas. I always read with interest the 

 articles in The Review about sweet peas 

 and how they are grown. The peas I 

 am sending you were grown in a solid 

 bed, in soil which has been in the 

 greenhouse for three winters and has 

 been used all the time. The first year 

 we grew two crops of lettuce, and then 

 tomatoes; the second year we grew two 

 crops of Ifettuce and then stood pots 

 of geraniums on the soil hntil Decora- 

 tion day. Our sweet peas have been 

 in bloom since the third week in Jan- 

 uary. We have not done any feeding 



or mulching except on one day. That 

 was March 16, when they had a light 

 dose of liquid manure. S. E. L. 



Your sweet peas arrived in good con- 

 dition and are certainly of as ^ne 

 quality as can be seen anywhere. 

 Stems fifteen to eighteen inches long 

 are excellent and show that you under- 

 stand how to grow sweet peas under 

 glass. You will find that if you run 

 sweet peas and follow them with to- 

 matoes in solid beds, you can use the 

 same beds year after year for these 

 same crops without either showing any 

 signs of deterioration, provided you 

 manure liberally. Fine as your stems 

 are, they will now be improved by 

 more feeding, either in the form of 

 liquid manure or top-dressings. 



C. W. 



TWO BLOOMFIELD RANGES. 



At Bloomfield, N. J., the establish- 

 ments of Jacob Hauck and J. J. Bro- 

 zat stand side by side, as shown in the 

 illustration on page 12, which is re- 

 produced from a photograph made by 

 Fred Lautenschlager. Both gentlemen 

 are members of the Growers ' Cut Flower 



Co., New York. Mr. Hauck, whose 

 range is at the right, has 36,000 square 

 feet of glass, and Mr. Brozat 28,000 

 square feet. Both heat with hot water, 

 using Kroeschell boilers. 



LABQE MABOXJERITES. 



J. B. Knight, Willoughby, 0., sends 

 a photograph of two large marguerites, 

 the variety being Queen Alexandra, 

 with the accompanying note: "I am 

 sending herewith a picture of two mar- 

 guerites grown by me this season. 

 They are only a year old and measure 

 fully six feet across. They are full 

 of buds and blooms, unusually low and 

 symmetrical in shape, being much the 

 largest plants I have yet seen." 



WALLS OF CONCRETE BLOCKS. 



Will some reader of The Review 

 please give his experience with concrete 

 blocks used in greenhouse walls? Does 

 the frost come through and freeze the 

 plants next to the concrete wall, in a 

 temperature of 40 or 45 degrees at 

 night? Any information regarding this 

 will be greatly appreciated. My loca- 

 tion is southern Michigan. J. G. 



Though hollow blocks, even when 

 carefully laid, will convey the heat to 

 some extent, yet there will be no great 

 difficulty in keeping the frost out of 

 the house, if heating pipes are placed 

 upon the walls and if the beds or 

 benches are so arranged that there is 

 an uninterrupted circulation of air be- 

 tween the bed and the wall. When the 

 weather outside is zero or below, there 

 will be no great danger of frosting 

 tender plants if none of the leaves are 

 within four or five inches of the wall, 

 unless the temperature inside the house 

 drops below 45 degrees. 



AN ALABAMA CONSERVATORY. 



The illustration on this page shows 

 the conservatory in the rear of the re- 

 tail flower store of the Rosemont Gar- 

 dens, at Montgomery, Ala. This is the 

 establishment founded by W. B. Patter- 

 son and the four little people shown 

 in the picture are his grandchildren. 

 The picture was taKen a day or two 

 before Easter. 



Easter at Rosemont Gardens, Montgomery, Ala. 



