1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
797 
GREENHOUSE WORK IN NOVEMBER. 
Bulbous Flowers. —In the October 
notes on greenhouse work a passing refer¬ 
ence was made to the fact that there were 
other bulbous plants beside the Easter 
lilies that should soon have attention. 
Among these are the tulips, hyacinths 
and daffodils, also the Freesias, all of 
which are forced into early bloom by tens 
of thousands every year, the bulbs being 
received in the late Fall, usually from 
European sources, and planted in pots, 
pans of earthenware or boxes, according 
to the use that is to be made of them. 
Florists who grow these flowers in large 
quantities for cutting, usually plant the 
tulips, daffodils and Freesias in shallow 
boxes, or flats as they are commonly 
termed, the flats being about two feet 
long, one foot wide and three to four 
inches deep, and in such a box 50 to 60 
bulbs would be planted. Rather sandy 
potting soil of good quality is used for 
these bulbs, the latter being planted to 
such a depth that the points of the bulbs 
stand above the surface of the soil from 
half an inch to an inch. A cold frame is 
a good place to store these boxes of bulbs 
until such time as they are to be brought 
into heat, giving them a watering as they 
are placed in the frame, then covering 
the points of the bulbs with a thin layer 
of straw or litter, over which is spread two 
or three inches of soil. The object of 
using this thin layer of straw over the 
bulbs is to enable the covering of soil to 
be more readily removed from the boxes 
without disturbing the bulbs while the 
ground is frozen. 
Hyacinths. —The Dutch hyacinths are 
more often grown in pots or pans than 
in boxes, because these rather heavy, 
waxy flowers are not so largely used for 
cutting, a four-inch pot containing one 
hyacinth bulb, or else an eight-inch pan 
in which six bulbs are grown being the 
popular methods. The more graceful and 
delicate-looking Roman hyacinths are 
quite largely used as cut flowers as well 
as pot plants, and all of these bulbs are 
planted in much the same manner, and are 
given the same cool treatment at first, 
in order to permit them to form roots 
before the forcing period begins. 
Lilies of the Valley are also received 
from the importers in November, the im¬ 
ported roots, or pips as they are termed, 
being much more generally used for forc¬ 
ing than the homo grown article, the Ger¬ 
man and Dutch growers having had gen¬ 
erations of experience in the culture and 
preparation of these roots for the market, 
in addition to which they have an abun¬ 
dance of cheap hand labor to apply to 
their business. The finest grades of lily 
of the valley pips for forcing are German 
grown, and are known commercially as 
Berlin pips, and are carefully sorted and 
tied up in bunches of 25, the bunches 
being packed 100 in a case. These lily 
pips for forcing are the result of three 
years’ growth, so it will be readily under¬ 
stood that much labor has been expended 
in their preparation before they reach the 
American market. The pips having been 
received, however, should at once be 
planted in flats in a similar manner to 
that noted for tulips, the points of the 
pips projecting at least half an inch above 
the surface of the soil. The flats are then 
placed outdoors in a cold frame, watered 
well, and covered with litter and soil, a 
less thickness of soil being required for 
the lily of the valley, for a good freezing 
is rather beneficial than otherwise before 
these roots are forced into flower, no 
new root action taking place in this 
case, the flower bud having been already 
formed in the pip, being simply forced out 
by the abnormal heat that is applied by 
the grower. But the forcing of these 
flowers may be noted in more detail later 
in the season, it being too early to ex¬ 
periment with pips of the new crop as 
yet. 
The Violets will all have been housed 
before this time, and should now be be¬ 
ginning to flower, the blooms attaining a 
better size and color as the weather 
grows cooler. A slow and steady de¬ 
velopment is required to secure good 
blooms on violets, and with this in view 
it becomes necessary to pay strict atten¬ 
tion to ventilation, watering and heating, 
avoiding high temperature and doing all 
watering in the early part of the day, 
thus preventing an overplus of moisture 
on the foliage at night. Violets require 
a moist soil, but not a soggy one, and 
whenever the weather is cloudy and damp 
it is best to postpone watering the vio¬ 
lets, for in so low a temperature they do 
not dry out so rapidly anyway. A good 
temperature for double violets is 45 de^ 
grees at night, while the single varieties 
will grow well in a slightly lower temper¬ 
ature, a minimum of 36 degrees doing no 
special harm beyond delaying the opening 
of the flowers. It must be remembered 
that these violets have formed the greater 
part of their flower buds by this time, 
and if too high a temperature be given 
the plants are liable to start another 
growth of leaves, thus robbing the flower 
buds of a portion of their nourishment. 
The most successful violet growers plant 
their violets in solid beds in the green¬ 
house rather than on benches, these beds 
being formed of a good sod compost to a 
depth of at least one foot, and special 
fertilizers in the form of bone dust and 
wood ashes are added to the soil prior 
to the planting and also in the form of 
top-dressings at long intervals, the quan¬ 
tity and frequency of such applications 
depending upon the condition of the soil 
in question, and being a matter for which 
there is no hard and fast rule. Sprink¬ 
lings of lime are also used upon the soil 
at times and may act as a preventive of 
some fungus troubles, of which the mod¬ 
est violet has a considerable list. Open 
the ventilators early in the day during 
bright weather, in order to prevent the 
temperature from running up too far, be¬ 
ginning this operation when the tempera¬ 
ture has risen eight or ten degrees above 
the night average. Also be particularly 
careful in looking over the plants during 
the dull season to remove any decayed 
leaves before others are affected and keep 
the surface of the soil stirred with a weed- 
er until such time as the plants cover it. 
Various Cuttings, or slips as they are 
• frequently called, have been put in sand, or 
soil during the past month or so, it being 
the custom of many growers to take off 
a lot of geraniums, for example, before 
lifting some of the old plants from the 
garden for stock, this first crop of cut¬ 
tings making an early batch of plants 
from which another lot of cuttings may 
be taken after the New Year. The same 
method is practiced with many other 
plants in the Autumn, and in some in¬ 
stances obviates the necessity of lifting 
the old plants from the ground. A com¬ 
mon mistake with such cuttings is to 
leave them in the sand too long after they 
are rooted, when they make a weak and 
long-jointed growth that does not form 
a good foundation for the future stock. 
Geranium cuttings may be potted up as 
soon as they are callused, and unless 
overwatered afterward will soon become 
established plants. This reminds us that 
over-watering is one of the most likely 
mistakes of the amateur geranium grow¬ 
er, much more injury being done to these 
plants in this way than by allowing them 
to get dry occasionally during the Winter 
months, and a night temperature of 50 
degrees is much more conducive to a 
sturdy growth of these plants than one o ’ 
60 degrees. 
Fumigating to destroy aphis is required 
nearly each week at this season, tobacco 
stems or snuff being among the cheapest 
materials for this purpose, though liable 
to injure the color of some flowers, a 
better material being found in some o 
the nicotine-soaked paper offered by al 
the seedsmen for such use. 
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CURE. 
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