May 2, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



19 



without any packing around them. I 

 would be pleased to know the best 

 method of keeping these bulbs. 

 " S. C. C. 



Your first mistake was in cutting the 

 plants down while in a frozen condition 

 aud lifting them the same day. It 

 would have been much better to have 

 left them a few days before cutting 

 them down, or failing that, to have let 

 them stand two or three days to allow 

 the cut portions to dry up well. The 

 roots should be lifted on a dry, sunny 

 day and soil should be left on the canna 

 ruots. Under a greenhouse bench is 

 not an ideal place for storing these 

 roots. There is likelihood of drip from 

 above and temperature fluctuations are 

 Miiich greater than in a dry shed or 



cellar, where suitable shelves are avail- 

 able for storing them on. 



As far as the caladiums are con- 

 cerned, you will find that, if they are 

 well dried after lifting, they will be 

 freer from dry rot if packed in boxes 

 or barrels of dry sand. For small 

 growei's of these it hardly pays to keep 

 them over winter when they can be 

 purchased every spring so cheaply. The 

 cannas will winter finely in any shed 

 or cellar where a temperature of 45 

 degrees is maintained. A few degrees 

 higher or lower will not hurt them, but 

 it is important that they are not ex- 

 posed to drying fire heat, or dry rot 

 will attack them. Leave a good ball 

 of earth on your roots and store on 

 shelves in this way and you will have 

 much less trouble with dry rot. 



C. W. 



GOOD EABLY AND LATE SORTS. 



Will you kindly let me know what 

 are the best three double chrysanthe- 

 mums in white, yellow and pink? Please 

 mention three early and three late va- 

 rieties. They are to be planted in solid 

 beds. My location is southern Pennsyl- 

 vania. W. N. 



I should not like to state which are 

 the best mums, because tastes differ 

 widely and some varieties do much bet- 

 ter in some sections than others. The 

 following list, however, can be depended 

 on throughout the country generally, 

 and would perhaps be hard to beat: 

 • Three early whites — Smith's Ad- 

 vance, Mrs. Arnold and Beatrice May. 

 Early yellows — Yellow October Frost, 

 Golden Glow and Monrovia. Early 

 pinks — Montmort, Unaka and Pacific 

 Supreme. These varieties are given in 

 the order of their flowering and are the 

 kind that have produced the most 

 money for our market, which is New 

 York. 



A similar selection in late varieties 

 would be about as follows: 



Late whites — Timothy Eaton, W. H. 

 Chadwick and Jeanne Nonin. Late yel- 

 lows — Nagoya, Bonnaffon and Yellow 

 Chadwick. Late pinks — Wells' Late 

 Pink, W. T. Brock and Pink Chadwick. 

 It will be noted that the Chadwicks 

 are prominent in this section. They 

 have been so satisfactory that I have 

 included them. The finest Chadwicks 

 I have ever seen were grown in solid 

 beds and in what I would imagine 

 would be somewhat similar conditions 

 to W. N.'s. C. H. Totty. 



the world to shade the young chrysan- 

 themums — what they want is sunlight 

 and lots of it. It is possible that the 

 plants have been growing too close 

 together, which would make them thin 

 in growth. The only thing you can do 

 with these plants now is to grow them 

 along, put them in as good, rich soil as 

 you can get and make them branch 

 out that way. If these plants are cut 

 down and allowed to come up again 

 they will be nothing much but a multi- 

 tude of small growths and buds, as the 

 base of the stem is undoubtedly hard 

 by this time. Set the plants out a 

 foot apart and give them a little en- 

 couragement in the way of fertilizer, 

 plenty of water and sunlight, and there 

 is no reason in the world why they 

 should not come out strong and healthy. 

 C. H. T. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Kindly publish the following addi- 

 tional special prizes to be awarded at 

 the C- S. A. annual exhibition, Amer- 

 ican Institute, New York, November 6 

 to 8, 1912: 



YOUNG STOCK IS SPINDLY. 



I wish you would give me a little in- 

 formation regarding chrysanthemum 

 plants. My October Frost and Golden 

 Glow were rooted about March 12 and 

 have made a fine growth. They are 

 about twelve inches tall, but the stems 

 are so small! I have been giving them 

 full sun. Had I better shade them? 

 Will that make the stems thicker and 

 heavier? 'E. H. M. 



It would be the greatest mistake in 



Offered by Harry E. Converse, The 

 Moorings, Marion, Mass., $25 cup for 

 the best six blooms of Chrysanthemum 

 Harry E. Converse. 



Offered by William Kleinheinz, 

 Ogontz, Pa., first prize $5, second prize 

 $3, for the best five blooms of Chrysan- 

 themum William Kleinheinz. 



The following firms have also recently 

 contributed to the special prize list: 

 The Foley Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111.; 

 Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Lord & Burnham Co., Irvington-on-Hud- 

 son, N. Y.i Hjtchings & Co., New York, 

 N. Y. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



WHAT A CYCLONE DOES. 



The accompanying illustration gives 

 some idea of what a cyclone might do if 

 it really took a notion, for the storm 

 that hit the establishment of J. E. Mein- 

 hart, at Webb City, Mo., about a week 

 ago did most of its damage on the out- 

 side house in the range. Mr. Meinhart 

 has about 50,000 feet of glass and, for- 

 tunately for him, the house on the right 

 in the illustration is in much worse 

 shape than any of the others; in fact, 

 the balance of the place is in good con- 

 dition except for the damage by hail 

 that accompanied the high wind. The 

 house at the right is a new one. It was 

 finished only last autumn and contains 

 the first plants ever grown in it. The 

 house is 30x300 and is practically a total 

 loss. Along the outside wall the house 

 was built with a wood gutter instead of 

 an eave plate, it being the intention to 

 add another house there in the course of 

 time. At both ends of the house the 

 storm broke the gutter away from the 

 pipe posts on which it was carried. At 

 one end the purlins prevented the col- 

 lapse of the roof, but at the other end 

 the purlins gave way and the roof for 

 quite a distance on that side hung per- 

 pendicularly from the ridge. The wavy 

 shape of the gutter on the inside side 

 of the house shows how severely the 

 house was wrenched, the only wonder 

 being that it did not go down. 



Eeatrice, Neb. — A local paper re- 

 cords that "E. W. Dole has quit the 

 greenhouse business and has removed 

 far from the maddening crowd's igno- 

 ble strife to the fragrant fields of 

 alfalfa, to the hog and poultry ranch 

 which he has established near the Fritz 

 Kees property southwest of town." 



J. E. Mdnhart't Range at Webb Qty, Mo., After Storm. 



