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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_39_2 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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40 The Florists^ Review March 22, 1917. I i ll=3C 3^=)C a^c ac acrac SEASONABLE Mr AT SUGGESTIONS ac=3C ac=ic a^c ai^ac ac^i I Dutch Bulbs for Easter. Hyacinths and all varieties of nar- cissi and tulips come along rapidly at this season. Three weeks should suffice to flower practically anything in this line, while a fortnight would enable some to flower in a night temperature of 50 degrees. Do not stand any of the pots or pans below the benches. You want them as stocky as possible, in order to obviate the necessity of staking. Spe- cially popular varieties in pans this Eastor will be Golden Spur and Vic- toria narcissi, Murillo and Tea Rose tulips, white and pink hyacinths. Plants which are a little too advanced can ensily l)e retarded on the floor of a cool collar. Any which seem at all back- ward should be given a little more heat, but keop them near the glass, so they will not become drawn up. Violets for Easter. The increasing power of the sun will now send violets along rapidly. Par- ticularly is this true of the single va- rieties. As soon as the plants start to throw up a big crop of lusty leaves, that is a sure sign of the beginning of the end, so far as flowers are concerned. At Easter there is a heavy call for vio- lets, and they will bring much better prices than at present. In order to hold flowers in good condition until that date, it will be necessary to place some shade on the glass to assist in lowering the temperature, in addition to keeping ventilators and doors wide open. Propa- gation should be started at once. Se- lect strong, healthy plants for stock. You can afford to sacrifice some flowers on these. Tear the plants to pieces, cut away all but a few of the new leaves and shorten the roots. Place them in sandy loam. Cuttings without roots should go in clear sand and if kept shaded and properly watered will prac- tically all root. Easter Lilies. The date of Easter is April 8, and this is a reminder that lilies will need close attention between now and that date, to time them correctly. Put the laggards in the warmest house you have, spray and water them freely and close the house early in the afternoon, in or- der to bottle up a brisk heat, always provided the house does not contain plants which will be injured by such treatment. Plants well advanced should go into a somewhat cooler house. If buds are now ready to bend down they will be on time if given a night tem- perature of 60 to 65 degrees, but do all the forcing you can now rather than nearer Easter, and remember that while you can get from $8 to $12.50 per hun- dred for buds and flowers before Easter, they are worth but little after that date. Therefore hurry them along all you can oow. Pansies. Pansies carried over the winter in coldframes should now have the mulch of dry leaves over them removed. Give them a watering with the hose and firm any which frost may have heaved. Air freely, but keep the sashes closed on cold nights. These plants will furnish early flowers, and plants in small bas- kets, a dozen in each, will be found sal- able. The same holds true of myosotis and double daisies. Do not be in too much of a hurry about removing mulch over the plants outdoors. March is a notoriously treacherous month. One day of heat reminds us of the tropics, but is followed by an arctic wave. If your mulch was somewhat heavy and snows have packed it down solid, remove a little of it, but go slowly about uncov- ering pansies, violas, Canterbury bells, foxgloves, daisies, forget-me-nots and beds of bulbous plants. Amaryllises. It is possible to have amaryllises in bloom over quite a long season by keep- ing the dormant bulbs in a cool, dry house or shed, a few degrees above freez- ing. Amaryllises are beginning to have more commercial value. One grower wholesaled all his spikes at $12 per dozen this season. This is not an extrav- agant price for good hybrids, but as many plants produce two spikes they pay fairly well. The plants should have some of the old surface soil removed and be given a top-dressing of fibrous loam and old cow manure before starting up. Any that are badly potbound should be care- fully repotted; be sure to give them good drainage. Give the plants a tempera- ture of 60 degrees when started. It will not take the flower stalks long to ap- pear. Move the plants into somewhat cooler quarters as the flowers open. For shipping it is always best to cut the spikes before the blooms become fully developed. They will open well in water. Snapdragons. Snapdragons in the benches now are throwing up a fine crop of stout shoots for spring flowering. If you want fancy spikes, cut out the weakest of these, but if your trade calls for small to me- dium stalks, do not trouble to do this.
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