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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_14 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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'^,1IPWPWT» ■ n^py"TTf^y*Tp' '-n NovHifBSR 10, 1904. The Weekly Florists^ Review^ J 249 as a walking stick and with leathery leaves to the neck. Then came John Jones, of the Phipps Conservatories, with faultless blooms of gigantic size and s^e potted plants to show how he had grown them. Among his blooms was a Vallis fourteen inches in diameter. It waS the largest flower in the hall. All bis plants are grown in pots and nearly all are single-stemmed. Every plant must have perfect foliage from the pot up and any in the least degree deficient in this respect never see the conservatory. All of the out of town flowers and those from Mr. Peacock's place and the parks, after doing duty at the Florists' Club were taken by the president and ex- hibited, a day or two after, at the meet- ing of the Botanical Society of West- ern Pennsylvania, thus being doubly honored. Several of the prominent growers gave their methods of cultivation. Young plants are struck and potted in early spring and later on the tops of these are struck. "While both strikings are used, preference is given to the later batch. They are stronger, stockier and less hide bound than the other and give an evener crop of bloom. They are planted in beds in May, June and July, as liduses are ready for them, in three to five inches of soil and eight to nine inches apart. Usually two and sometimes three blooms are allowed to a plant. They occupy houses emptied of bedding plants or spring blooming stock and are removed in time to make room for fill- ing with carnations from pots and longi- florum lilies or hydrangeas. Some feed with liquid manure. Aside from a little bone dust mixed with the, soil very little artificial fertilizer .iff used. There is an impression it has a tendency to cause the dropping of the lower leaves. In potting, John Jones doesn't fill his flowering pots quite full, but when the soil becomes well filled with roots he fills them up with rich compost containing a goodly quantity of pulver- ized sheep manure and a sprinkling of bone fiour; later he waters freely with sheep manure liquid. Beware* of over- feeding; defoliated and cankered-looking plants are often the result. Mr. Jones believes in firm potting. For pot plants cane stakes are used, but for bench plants Fred Burki runs string lengthwise and uses a wire stake to each plant, fastening it to the overhead string. For black fly fumigating once a week with tobacco stems and a liberal use of fresh stems about the floors and under the benches is practiced, also freely dust- ing the tips of the shoots with tobacco powder. The parks use tobacco paper for fumigating, letting it smoulder for hours, but Fred Burki says this is too expensive for commercial purposes. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday evening, December 6 and it is to be a smoker. E. C. Beineman and Gus Lud- wig have been appointed a committee with full power to get it up, so if any of our florist or gardener friends throughout the country happen this way about that time, just drop in to see us. Guess you won't be soriy. Prex. Harrisburg, Pa.—John Kepner, of Elkwood, has opened a flower store here. Des Moines, Ia.—Bobert Newcomb, of this city, and W. E. Kemble, of Oska- loosa, have purchased their partners* in- terests in the Morris-Blair Floral Cdm- j)any. Mr. Newcomb has been the man- ager since the company was organized a year ago.
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Chrysanthemum Mrs. W, Duckham. WORLDS FAIR AWARDS. The individual nature of the informa- tion which has come to hand with regard to the World's Fair awards in the De- partments of Horticulture and Agricul- ture prompted a request on the manage- ment for a complete and official list of the awards. The following is the reply of Chief F. W. Taylor, dated Novem- ber 3: "Replying to your letter, I have been very much disturbed at the way in which the givlug out of awards information has been handled, but It has seemed impossible to do it in any other w^%y. A,8 a matter of fact, it now stands so that I am under orders not to give out Informa- tion as definite until some questions pending be- tween the national commission and the manage- ment are settled. I regret more than I can tell you this condition and will be glad .to give you information as soon as possible." ROSES. Watering;. One of the most essential requirements of a rose grower, or, indeed, of a grower of any kind of stock under glass, is a thorough knowledge of the art of water- ing. To a lack of this knowledge may be ascribed many of the failures in rose and carnation growing. The art can only be acquired by long practice, keen observation of the wants of the plants, deliberative and careful adjudi- cation of attending conditions, accom- panied by a knowledge of the real service that water performs in supplying the plants with food. That plants require water, every man employed in a green- house knows, but the reason why is often beyond their reach. Unfortunately there ;ire among the craft a large number who are content to be copyists, and either deluge or withhold, according to copy, without using their own judgment in the matter. i , ^i A year or two ago Mr. Scott gave a most practical and scholarly article on this very subject, but, as the ordinary reader is so prone to lorgetfulness, I do not think I am treading on William's patch if I remind my particular readers of the importance of attention to this particular study. With the shorter duration of sunshine and less intensity of heat there will be a corresponding decrease in evaporation, and, as evaporation means increased root activity, there will of necessity be less and less need of water as the days shorten and the hours of sunshine con- tinue to diminish. The supply of water necessary to transform the ingredients of the soil or mulch into an assimilable food for the plants when root activity is at its lowest / ebb should be carefully considered and the grower who safeguards himself against over-watering at this season will reap the full benefit in future crops. After mulching, especially where the pipes are under the benches and close to the roots, there is great danger that without a careful inspection every day, as the mulch absorbs and retains the moisture, the bench will have the appear- ance of being moist enough, when in reality the soil may be quite dry at the bottom. This state of matters will re- tard crops, weaken the plants, causing a loss of foliage, abnormal buds and make them susceptible to any or all trou- bles in the list.

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