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May 15, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Eighteen Catlleya Plants Flowered by the Hollywood Gardens, Seattle. 



if it could offer to each local civic or 

 horticultural society the rose society 

 medals. The plant growers of the 

 United States should all join the A. 

 E. 8. Three societies have asked 

 whether such membership could be 

 granted. 



President Farenwald has appointed 

 the following as judges for the Hart- 

 ford rose garden: Wallace R. Pierson, 

 Eber Holmes and John Huss. 



A committee consisting of Robert 

 Pyle, Patrick O'Mara and Wm. F. 

 Gude was appointed at the annual meet- 

 ing to confer with the United States 

 commissioner of agriculture, Mr. Hous- 

 ton, relative to the establishment of a 

 rose test garden at Washington, D. C. 

 This committee is in accord with the 

 S. A. F. committee. 



Another movement in this same di- 

 rection comes from the New York State 

 Agricultural College at Ithaca. Here 

 is an opportunity for New York state 

 people to make a test out in the cen- 

 tral part of the state, where the win- 

 ters are usually steady and there is an 

 inland climate. The Rose Journal, 

 which last year was upheld by five 

 gentlemen, should be sustained. If we 

 can get fifty persons who as rosarians 

 will take space for fifty inches, it will 

 help. Our committee on membership 

 will take hold and help. 



Benjamin Hammond. 



PERENNIALS FOE FALL SALES. 



Will you kindly tell me the names 

 of two or three perennials or other 

 plants that I can plant now and grow 

 outdoors until fall and then market 

 through the columns of your paper? I 

 can pick out my own list, but the 

 kinds I would select might not be in 

 demand. I have the space and the 

 time and should like to grow at least 

 $100 worth of some plant or plants 

 during the Summer. P. L. W. 



If you had started seeds under glass 

 in March you would have secured 

 stronger plants of perennials than will 

 now be possible, but here are a few 

 which will make good plants if sown 

 at once: Delphiniums, Chrysanthemum 

 King Edward VII, Coreopsis grandi- 

 flora, Gaillardia grandiflora. Campanula 

 Medium (Canterbury bells), Digitalis 

 gloxinispflora (foxgloves), Lupinus 

 polyphyllus, sweet williams and Cam- 



panula persicifolia. Hollyhocks can be 

 sown early in June and pansies and 

 myosotis late in July. Sow under 

 shaded sashes, transplant to nursery 

 rows during cool, moist weather and 

 keep well cultivated through the sum- 

 mer. C. W. 



CATTLEYAS IN FINE BLOOM. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 a group of Cattleya Gaskelliana grown 

 at Hollywood Gardens, Seattle, Wash. 

 There are eighteen plants in the group, 

 with 125 blooms. In the foreground is 

 Adiantum cuneatum. 



SALTING MANUBE. 

 In The Review of June 24, 1909, R. 

 E. Shuphelt gives instructions to mix 

 salt with cow manure, in order to 

 make it rot better and also for the 

 purpose of killing grubs, etc. He does 

 not state, however, how much salt 

 should be used to the ton of manure. 

 Will you kindly give me this informa- 

 tion? B. J. P. 



I have never had a hard and fast 

 rule for applying salt to manure, but 

 have used more or less, according to 

 the condition of the manure, etc. The 

 best place to use the salt is in the 

 stable every time that the stables are 

 cleaned, using about a small handful to 



a shovelful of manure. If the manure 

 is unusually strawy, of course you 

 should use more salt than if the litter 

 is well shaken out, and you should use 

 more for horse manure than for cow 

 manure. If you are making up your 

 compost heap and the manure has not 

 already been salted, salt each layer of 

 manure; put it on so that it will look 

 as if there had been a good, heavy 

 snow squall, making the surface quite 

 white. I find that people seldom use 

 too much, though that can be done, of 

 course. You will soon learn by ex- 

 perience the proper amount to use, ac- 

 cording to the condition of the manure 

 and the length of time that will elapse 

 before the manure is needed; use less 

 salt if the manure is wanted quickly 

 than if you have time to let it stand 

 and turn it several times. 



R. E. Shuphelt. 



WM. EDLEFSEN IN OREGON. 



The new home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 

 liam Edlefsen, formerly of Milwaukee, 

 Wis., and now located at Lorane, Lane 

 county. Ore., is shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration. In a recent let- 

 ter to friends in Milwaukee, Mr. Edlef- 

 sen states that he has recovered his 

 health in the ideal western climate and, 

 although now 67 years old, he expects 

 to celebrate many more birthdays. He 

 was one of the pioneer florists of Mil- 

 waukee and upon learning of the splen-- 

 did prospect for fruit growing in Ore- 

 gon he went there several years ago to 

 investigate. 



Mr. Edlefsen located last July at 

 Lorane, where he bought forty acres, 

 part of which is now an orchard, while 

 the rest is still timber land. He made 

 his house and immediate grounds as 

 attractive a^ possible and thinks that 

 he now has one of the prettiest spots 

 in Oregon. He writes that the florists' 

 business in his vicinity is in its in- 

 fancy, and that if he were twenty years 

 younger he would again embark in 

 that line. With a river about a block 

 away and plenty of wild fowl in the 

 immediate vicinity, Mr. and Mrs. Edlef- 

 sen are not worrying about the high 

 cost of living. 



Malta, O. — W. C. Scovell says that al- 

 though his carnations were under water 

 for forty hours during the flood, they 

 were not damaged. For Mothers' day 

 he had a record business, colored flowers 

 selling as well as white. 



William Edirf sen's New Home at Lorane, Oregon. 



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