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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_48_1 (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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JUNB le, 1921 The FlcMists' Review 15 Richmond (lem. a beautiful shade of scarlet with a distinct while eye. Itosalda, crimson pink shade; a grand bedder. IVY GERANIUMS. Alliance, lilac white, feathered and blotched crimson rose. .Teanne d'Arc. soft lavender, white markings. Mme. Thibuut, clear, rosy pink, delicately feathered deep crimson maroon. Pierre Crozy, scarlet, erect in habit. Souvenir de Charles Turner, deep pink; fine grower. SCENTED GERANIUMS. Lady Plymouth, variegated rose leaf. I.«mon. delicious lemon odor. .Nutmeg, dwarf, nutmeg fragrance. Pelargonium crispum latifolium, finely scent- ed, of erect habit, useful for cutting for market, an excellent tlorists' plant. Rose Leaf, indispensable for cutting. VARIEGATED imOXZE AND TRICOLOR. Golden Bedder, rich, golden-leaved. Happy Thouglit, dark green, wliite center. Marshal MacMahon, fine bronze, with distinct dark zone. Mme. Salleroi. compact variegated plant; ex- cellent for edging. Mountain of Snow, pure white and green leaf; a most desirable plant. Mrs. Parker, variegated foliage; double pink flower. Mrs. Pollock, beautiful tricolor leaf. Hilver-Leaf Nutt. green foliage, edged silver; like the type except for the variegated leaves. TWO GROWERS' GERANIUMS. "Geraniums, the finest we have ever grown!" This cheerful expression, ooming almost simultaneously from J. L. North, Sewell, N. J., and T. E. Mc- Ginniss & Son, of South Williamsport, Pa., is impressive of the fact that gera- niums are thriving in more than one locality this season. And the view of Mr. North's house, on page 13, and th.it of the McGinnis range on page 14, fur- nishes convincing proof. Mr. North, who operates four green- houses, has grown 35,000 geraniums this season, the best he has ever had, ho says. T. E. McGinnis & Son grew 20,000, also the best in their experience. Those in the illustration are Beaute Poitevine and Helen Michell varieties. Mr. Mc- Ginniss and his son started in business in 1909 with one house, 22 x 60 feet. They now have 11,000 feet under cover and are planning to build an additional house, 22 x 60 feet, and a propagating house, 10 X 100 feet, this summer. In the view of their house appear both father and son. MAKING GERANIUM CUTTINGS. It is remarkable to see the poor judg- ment (or is it carelessness?j of some florists in such a simple thing as mak- ing cuttings. We have been told that cutting at a joint was not at all essen- tial; don't believe it. Cuttings will root, of many kinds of plants, if cut an inch below a joint, but not so surely. At a joint is where the wood is most firm, and if you leave a piece of sappy, succulent stem an inch long below a joint, it is more likely to become over- cliarged with moisture; then the walls of the cells are ruptured, decay com- mences and the stem turns black. If cut at a joint, this is not so likely to occur. By ' •' at a joint is meant an eighth to a fourth of an inch below the joint. Then, again, you will see men denude a cutting of all the leaves except the small, undeveloped ones, and others will leave three or four large leaves, so that if the cuttings were put into the sand or potted they would be just a mass of leaves unless you placed them far apart. These mistakes are not always by the boys or beginners, but sometimes by men who ought to know better. The trouble is due to carelessness, want of brains and want of thought. Cuttings should be made quickly, but
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Did Yoo Ever Grow a Tree Geranium? they should be niadti i)roj)erly. The cut- ting exists largely on what the leaf ab- sorbs from the atmosphere and sends down as material to form the root. (Tliese remarks, of course, apply to soft- wooded cuttings tliat are in active growth.) So do not pull off all the geranium leaves. Leave one perfect leaf and one half developed; that will allow you to stand the small pots close together. While the foregoing describes the way to trim a geranium cutting, it is not a guide to the hundreds of other soft-wooded plants we grow. With many of the smaller-leaved kinds a number of leaves can be left on, pcr- liaps the more the better for the rooting process, but if too many leaves were allowed you would soon fill up your )>ropagating bed, and to crowd the cut- tings, covering the sand densely, is just the way to produce fungus on the sur- face of the sand, which is a calamity ami often results in serious loss. GERANIUM TREES. The illustration on this page shows a floral specimen that is rarely grown, a geranium in tree form. This was grown by Poole & Purllant, Winchester, Ky., who have grown several of these plants. This one, however, is the best plant turned out so far. It is a trifle less than 3 years old, is five and a half feet high, is three feet in diameter and, at the time of photographing, carried fifty blooms. The method of growing it was a bit of labor, but it is interesting. It was grown from a fall, 1918, cut- ting of the variety Heteranthe. This plant, with several others, was left over from the spring sale of 1919; so it was decided to train it into a plant of the tree form. It was put into a 6-inch pot sometime during the latter part of August, 1919. All the shoots but the center one were cut off. That one was ••illowed to grow until it was twenty-six inches high. Then the center was cut out and the plant was allowed to grow at its own free will until late in the fall, when each shoot was topped and rooted with other cuttings for the sin-ing. It was kept cool and was practicallv untouched until March, 1920. Then i't was repotted into an 8-inch pot. Dur- ing the fall of 1920, it was again topped at each shoot and treated the same as the year before. In February of this year, it was put into a 10-inch pot and grown in a warmer place. The result is the plant as it stands in the illustra- tion. The soil used was heavy and was enriched with bone and watered occa- sionallv with liquid manure. "Does it pay?" "Will they sell?"

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