April 18, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Beddine at the Coxat House at Joliet, Ills., for the Grand Army Encampment. 



want all possible sunshine and plenty 

 of fresh air. Given these conditions, 

 there should be fewer sickly and dis- 

 eased plants. 



M. M. CASBOLL, DEAR SIB. 



M. M. Carroll, the Cincinnati im- 

 porter of bulbs and plants, generally 

 is known to the trade as "Mr. Car- 

 roll" and mail is addressed "Dear 

 Sir." Mr. Carroll's first name is Mae; 

 see portrait herewith. Miss Carroll is 

 said to be the only woman engaged 

 in this branch of the horticultural 

 trades. She sees no reason, if the flo- 

 rists' business in its other branches is 

 so well suited to women, why it should 

 not be in line for her sex to engage 

 in the wholesale importing branch of 

 the trade. For four years she was 

 connected with a man who did a large 

 and successful business in this line, 

 and she has traveled as a salesman for 

 nearly four years. Miss Carroll has 

 now been in business for herself for 

 nearly a year and says that her ex- 

 perience has proved to her that there 

 is a good field for a woman in the 

 bulb and plant business, providing she 

 has the average business ability and 

 understands thoroughly the line of 

 stock she handles. 



PBOPAGATmO ANTIBBHINUMS. 



We have a bench of snapdragons 

 from which we wish to take a lot of 

 cuttings if it will pay us to grow them 

 for winter flowering. Is this a good 

 time of year to propagate them, and 

 how should we handle them? Is the' 

 raised or the solid bench preferable? 

 What is the right distance apart to 

 plant them in the field and in the 

 bench after lifting! L. B. 



The cuttings of antirrhinums will 

 root readily now in an ordinary cut- 

 ting bench. Pot off singly as soon as 

 rooted, being sure not to leave them 

 in the sand until they become hard. 

 Gradually harden off the plants and 

 plant them out in the field a foot 

 apart in the rows. While these field 

 plants can be lifted and benched for 

 early winter flowering, plants which 

 are propagated somewhat later and 

 carried over summer in pots plunged in 

 a frame will do better. These latter, 

 if first placed in 2 1^ -inch pots, should 

 later be shifted into 4-inch pots and 

 planted in a bench in August if an 

 early crop is desired. If you want 

 later flowers, take cuttings from your 

 field plants in August. Keep the flow- 

 ering stems pinched back to encourage 



the production of cuttings. These can 

 be benched to follow mums and will 

 give a fine late winter and spring crop. 

 Of course, snapdragons will flower prof- 



"VLVL CarroO, Dear Sir." 



itably for several months if kept well 

 fed. 



In midwinter, plants on benches have 

 a little advantage, but on the whole 

 solid beds have given us the finest 



flowers and they are much to be pre- 

 ferred where flowers are wanted from, 

 say, Easter to Memorial day. Plant 

 in the benches 10x12 inches apart. Use 

 compost such as will grow good mums. 

 Never use gas in fumigating them, and 

 do not run the night temperature in 

 winter over 50 degrees. At 45 to 48 

 degrees the spikes will be much better. 



C. W. 



EMBLEMATIC BEDDING. 



Each spring florists are called on for 

 more or less bedding of emblematic 

 character and, as these beds must be 

 planned some time in advance, the ac- 

 companying illustrations will be of sea- 

 sonable interest. These beds were the 

 work of Wm. Behnisch, gardener at the 

 Will county courthouse, Joliet, 111., and 

 were planted because of the G. A. E. 

 state encampment held at Joliet last 

 year. 



The upper bed has the lettering 

 "Welcome G. A. B. " in red and green 

 alternanthera, with the opposite side of 

 the bed filled with cannas. The shields 

 in the bed were of crushed stone, some 

 of it colored. The flag in the second 

 bedj also is of crushed stone. At the 

 back was a row of cannas, in front of 

 which was a 12-inch band of silver- 

 leaved geraniums, then a 4-inch band of 

 red alternanthera, then an 8-inch band 

 of green and yellow alternanthera just 

 back of the flag, these last two strips 

 also running around its sides. In front 

 of the flag were alternate rows of green 

 and red alternanthera running in the 

 direction opposite to the stripes in the 

 flag. 



G. A. R. Bedding at Joliet, III. 



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