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NOVEMBEK 28, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



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View of the Portland Flower Show Repotted In Last Week's Issue. 



real bread and butter sorts. Failing 

 space in a cold greenhouse, you can 

 plant the stock in a coldframe, but it 

 should be well protected in order to 

 exclude frost. 



Show Pelargoniums. 



Keep those showy spring flowering 

 plants, the pelargoniums, in a cold 

 house. They will now start to grow 

 quite rapidly. Keep the leading shoots 

 pinched back and pot along any plants 

 needing a shift before they become too 

 potbound. Use a good, fibrous loam. 

 Add some old cow manure, sand and 

 fine bone to it and ram the compost 

 quite firmly in the pots. Do not over- 

 look a spraying or fumigation once a 

 week, to keep aphis in check. 



English Ivy. 



There is always a good demand for 

 English ivy each year for vases, plant- 

 ing against walls, or for cemetery beds. 

 Now that fire heat is being used stead- 

 ily and the sand in the propagating 

 bench is warmer, it is a good time to 

 start a liberal batch of cuttings. These 

 will scarcely grow to such size as to 

 be salable the first season, but will be 

 heavy plants before fall if kept in pots 

 and plunged outdoors, and should bring 

 a good price the following season. 

 Some growers say there is no money in 

 growing ivy, as the demand is erratic. 

 There is good money in it, even if the 

 actual profit is not so great as on some 

 of the quick growing, soft-wooded bed- 

 ding plants, as the mere fact that a 

 florist has ivy will usually bring him 

 other business on which greater returns 

 may be expected. 



Lorraine Begonias. 



Christmas is the season when the 

 bulk of the winter flowering begonias 

 are sold, but a good many are always 

 disposed of before then. Where the 

 plants have been grown warm, it will 

 be a good plan to run them a little 

 cooler now. There will then be less 

 complaint of the flowers dropping when 

 the plants go into dry, warm and scan- 

 tily ventilated dwellings. All staking 

 should have been completed long ago. 

 It is now too late to do it without 

 damaging the plants. Olory of Cincin- 



nati is more in evidence than ever this 

 season, and some growers talk of drop- 

 ping Lorraine. I think there is room 

 for both, but Cincinnati is easily the 

 better house plant of the two, the flow- 

 ers standing dry atmospheres far better 

 than the older variety. 



EUONYMUS BADICAKS. 



I was glad to see the article from 

 Wilhelm Miller in The Beview for Octo- 

 ber 31, on this most valuable of all 

 evergreen climbers. It can truly be 

 called hardy, as I have never seen it 

 injured, even with a temperature as low 

 as 25 degrees below zero, and it will 

 grow in every imaginable location and 

 in soil so poor that hardly any other 

 plant would exist in it. English ivy, 

 while it will winter under favorable 

 conditions on walls facing north, will 

 become badly scorched and sometimes 

 killed outright even in such locations in 

 New England, and can only be depended 



upon in a moderate way. Even for 

 covering graves, it will become badly 

 browned unless boxed over or well cov- 

 ered with leaves when severe cold 

 sets in. 



There is a popular misconception rcK 

 garding E, radicans, that it is a slow 

 grower. As a matter of Xact, it will 

 cover a wall as rapidly as English ivy. 

 A little over five years ago I rooted 

 some hundreds of cuttings, which, a 

 year later, were planted at the base of 

 the walls of a new mansion here, and 

 they are now fifteen to seventeen feet • 

 high. One wall twelve feet high was 

 densely covered in a little over three 

 years. These plants had, of course,, 

 good soil, and had an annual top-dress- 

 ing of cow manure. 



For covering walls and boulders, or 

 using as a hedge plant, E. radicans 

 has no equal. The form vegetus, with 

 round leaves, fruits freely even on small 

 plants and at this season the fruits are 

 quite attractive. The variety Carrieri 

 is excellent for hedging purposes. It 

 also makes a neat shrub if wired to- 

 gether a little. It is a fact that the 

 common E. radicans, while it will pro- 

 duce small leaves for a year or two, 

 will later grow much coarser and fruit 

 . freely. 



Although the propagation of this 

 evergreen is easy, there are still many 

 thousands annually imported from Eu- 

 rope. Cuttings taken in summer from 

 half ripened wood, placed in a close, 

 shaded coldframe and kept well 

 sprayed, will nearly all root, and fully 

 matured wood will also root in the 

 same way, although it takes longer. 

 Cuttings put in nursery rows outdoors 

 late in August, watered and well 

 pruned, will most of them root, and, 

 if transplanted in spring, will make 

 strong plants for selling the next fall. 

 This euonymus can be successfully 

 planted at any time in the year when 

 the ground is open. The variegated 

 forms are less hardy than the green 

 ones, and the latter are far more beau- 

 tiful and possess greater vigor. There 

 is a wonderful future before this plant, 

 and florists can make no mistake in 

 stocking up heavily on it. 



No. Easton, Mass. W. N. Craig. 



View of the Poirtland Flower Show Reported in Last Week's luuc. 



