Mabch 6, 1913. 



TJic Florists^ Review 



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Establithment of J. W. Law*on, Yorkt Neb. 



opinion as to what is the trouble. The 

 plants are not looking right and some 

 of them have died. We think that 

 perhaps the soil here will not grow 

 carnations, though a gentleman who was 

 testing soil for the government said 

 we could "grow anything in it." How- 

 ever, potatoes seem to be the only sure 

 crop. We used good rotted cow manure. 



A. E. N. 



There does not seem to be anything 

 seriously wrong with your soil. The 

 specimen plant submitted was un- 

 . doubtedly a poor plant at planting 

 time. All the original foliage carried 

 by the plant at the time it was benched 

 was dead, which would indicate that 

 the plants did not take hold of the soil 

 readily. This, however, would not nec- 

 essarily be the fault of the soil. 



The specimen is pretty well covered 

 with red spider, which would help to 

 stunt its growth. I would suggest that 

 you syringe these plants every bright 

 day with all the water pressure at your 

 command, until you get rid of the 

 spider. Then give the beds a liberal 

 mulch of half rotted cow manure or of 

 stable manure which is just old enough 

 to have lost its heating properties. You 

 should still be able to get a good spring 

 crop of blooms. A. F. J. B. 



SHORT-STEMMED ENCHANTRESS. 



My carnations are blooming with 

 short stems. The stems are but six to 

 eight inches long, but carry fine blooms. 

 I have Enchantress, Eose-pink Enchant- 

 ress and White Enchantress. They 

 were housed in September and have had 

 one feeding of sheep manure and bone. 

 The plants are healthy, but I am unable 

 to get the stems to lengthen out. My 

 location is northern Ohio. Will you 

 kindly inform me what I can do to 

 lengthen the stems? W. E. P. 



If you were growing the Lawson 

 tribe instead of the Enchantress, I 

 should not be surprised at the shortness 

 of the stems, but even with your late 

 planting this variety should be making 

 stems at least eighteen inches in length. 

 If the plants look healthy and the 

 blooms develop properly, there is some- 

 tning wrong which your letter does not 

 msclose. Perhaps your plants are af- 

 lected with a trouble which I saw 

 a bench of Enchantress on a friend 

 place two years ago, but which I wi 

 unable to diagnose. The whole pi 

 seemed to become stunted after it L_„ 

 taken hold nicely in the fall. The stems 

 retused to lengthen and the foliage 

 tooK on a light, unnatural color. There 

 seemed to be nothing wrong with the 



was 

 lant 



had 



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xsoil Or with the<tolture, and the grower 

 got rid of the trouble by selecting his 

 cuttlpgs from the healthy plants. If 

 this is the nature of your trouble, you 

 can likely get rid of it in the same* 

 manner. If all your plants are af- 

 fected in this way, however, I would 

 advise you to buy new stock from some 

 reliable grower. A. F. J. B. 



STIGMONOSE. 



All of my carnation plants show 

 more or less of the disease called stig- 

 monose and I am coming to you JEor 

 advice. Is there any cure for itT~'I 

 dread to think of replacing the wliole 

 stock, as I have about 20,000 plants in 

 all and it would cost more than I 

 could stand to buy that many >ib«w 

 plants. The disease was brought in two 

 years ago with some plants I bought 

 from another greenhouse. If I am care- 

 ful in selecting the cuttings and then 

 just as careful in looking after'them, 

 will there be any chance of the plants 

 outgfTowing the disease ? A, G. C. 



You can gradually work the stig- 

 monose out of your carnation stock by 

 selecting your cuttings. Select cut- 

 tings which do not show any of these 

 light spots. When the cuttings are 

 rooted, select again, as the disease will 

 frequently show at that time, even 

 though the young shoots appeared 

 quite clean when the cuttings were 

 taken. If any of it shows after the 

 plants have become established in the 



pots, cull them out again. By constant 

 selection you can, after a few seasons, 

 have your stock entirely clean. How 

 many seasons it will take, will depend 

 entirely on how critically you do . the 

 selecting. A. F. J. B. 



LAWSON OF YORK. 



Jos. W. Lawson started in business 

 at York, Neb., a little over two years 

 ago, making bis beginning with one 

 house 25x100. During the last season 

 he added two other houses, one 27x100 

 and the other 12x90, giving his ee^ab- 

 lishment the appearance shown in the 

 smaller of the two accompanying illus- 

 trations. Hot water is used for heat- 

 ing, the apparatus having been installed 

 by Mr. Lawson himself. The boiler 

 house contains two No. 27 Mercer water 

 heaters. Jhe piping is all 2V^-inch pipe 

 and he says his home-made system gives 

 him perfect satisfaction. His main crop 

 is carnations, and at the recent ex- 

 hibition at Lincoln, under the auspices 

 of the Nebraska State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation, he took first premiums on white 

 and on light pink. He grows roses in 

 small quantities, also sweet peas, mums, 

 violets, smilax and potted plants. One 

 bench is given to lettuce, which proves 

 a profitable crop. Business has been 

 excellent this season. He had a splen- 

 did Christmas trade, amounting to sev- 

 eral times as^,much as a year ago, and 

 there has been a good, steady demand 

 for wedding, funeral and society flowers 

 all through the season. He is looking 

 forward to needing still more glass. 



IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



The illustration on page 28 will 

 show that carnations can be grown in 

 North Carolina just as successfully as 

 in other climates. This house is 20x80, 

 though the picture shows only half of 

 it. It is one of three houses planted to 

 carnations by Fred EoU, Durham, N. 

 C, a town a good many smokers have 

 heard of. Mr. EoU has something over 

 2,500 carnation plaHts and has cut good 

 stock steadily. He complains that this 

 has been the warmest winter in fifteen 

 years, with hyacinths blooming out- 

 doors at the end of January. He thinks 

 a colder climate vastly more favorable 

 for florists. 



Carnation House of J. W. Lawson, Yorkt Neb. 



