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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw42amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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igio. The American Florist. 165
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BEGONIA PATRIE AS GROWN BY SAMUEL MURRAY, KANSAS CITY, MO, fectivp.'- It is one of the best long- stalkeC rose.s. whether in the open, in frames or forcing house. The blooms bear transport without injury, and come on continuously after the first cutting, the second flowers being the equal of the first crop. Reichskanzler (hybrid tea).—Color a beautiful pink, with a .silvery sheen; blooms very large, full a;nd with the fragrance? of La France. Flower stalks ^Iways long till the end of the season, ■ In growth the plant resembles J. C. 3ehmid's Otto von Bismarck, but its identity with the latter is not as yet Evscertained. • Mrs. Aaron Ward (hybrid tea).— The bloom is alabaster white, and light rose. Apart from the color ef- fect, it has a pretty flower bud. a good full shape, and pleasant fragrance. For cutting it is excellent, and re- quires a heavy BOil. Mme. P. Varin Bernier (tea).—The flower yaries from light to deep yel- low, is moderately full, and strongly fragrant. The bud is magnificently or- namental, and should be cut at an early stage.—Die Gartenwelt. PITTSPIELD. Mass.—S. G. Barnes has opened a retail business here with Robt. L. Smith as a partner. Begonia Patrle. The illustration herewith gives a good idea of the new begonia sent out by Lemoine of Nancy, France (the originator of B. Gloire de Lorraine), whose description we append: "This new winter flowering begonia is a hybrid between B. Socotrana and a variety of B. Pearcei, a tuberous species with velvety foliage and yellow flowers. It has the same growth as B. Gloire de Lorraine, but is distin- guished by its greater vigor, its more stock.v habit, by the nature of its larger, more solid and fleshy leaves, and lastly by the more vivid color of its flowers. Its culture is also much easier, and its propagation more rapid. "The flower clusters cover the plant like a dome, and bend in graceful curves. The flowers, almost all imale. are four-petaled and almost as large as those of B. Gloire de Lorraine: their color is a deep, coppery salmon red with a lighter reflex: they are so numerous that a plant 10 inches high and of the same diameter bears sev- eral hundred at a tinie, for each flower is extremely lasting: like those of B. Gloire de Lorraine, its flowers remain persistently on their pedicels, never falling, but remaining fresh for more than a month without fading. It flow- ers from November to April. We con- sider Begonia Patrle a plant xrith a great future. It will rival B. Gloire de Lorraine, which we gave to horticul- ture 15 years ago, and we have reason to believe that those who have culti- vated this latter with success and profit will be equally interested in this new introduction." Repotting Geraniums. . El). Amkkuan Florist: — I have a lot of stock plants of geran- iums in 4-inch pots which I have been taking cuttings from. I want them for spring sales, but they are now pot bound. The demand for 5-inch stock is small and I would like to re- pot them in the same size pots. Would it be advisable to take off pai-tiof the top soil and repot with fresh soil, and how much bone flour would you use 7 G. A. R. ■ This would be an excellent plan. Remove the greater part of the soil when repotting and shorten the strongest roots a little, then repot firmly in the same size pots. One to two quarts of bone meal to a wheel- barrow load of soil, according as this is good or the reverse, will be about right. G.

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