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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw30amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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igos. The American Florist. 1013 defeated. When well rooted repot into well crocked fours, fives or sixes, accord- ing to the size and strength of the young plants. In the hands of a careful culti- Tator the largest size will not be too big. Keep the young plants tied to neat and upright stakes. Do not pinch the top out, as is sometimes recommended; keep the plants growing without a check and it will be found that by the system recom- mended, the side shoots will develop very satisfactorily withouc pinching and a much more symmetrical plant will be produced than byanysystem of stopping so far practiced. The varieties have something to do with determining the size of pot to use. I do not know much about the newer introductions. Such old varieties as Arabella, Rose of Castile, Elm City, Prince Imperial, Earl of Beaconsfield and speciosa, would take an 8 inch pot for the final potting, and if very large speci- mens were the object lOinch pots have been used. When the latter size is used to advantage is when the cuttings have been rooted in October. Black Prince grows into symmetrical form nat- urally, but how it ever received the name of Black Prince has puzzled many a one. Perhaps a 6inch pot would suit that variety for a final shift, unless rooted in October or November. Maoria Chief, renamed Modoc Chief, was a naturally symmetrical grower and the corolla was a rich velvety purple and would seem to fit the name of Black Prince far better than the one which is now generally rec- ognized under that name. I have men- tioned Elm City. That was a fine fuch- sia in its day. I have been trying to get it but have so tar failed. I received two stock plants last fall with labels "Elm City," but it has turned outto be a single variety, with purple corolla. On general principles I prefer a single flowered fuchsia to a double one, but when we have a definite idea of what is ordered and receive something entirely diffeient, to say the least, we are natur- ally disappointed. Elm City, as grown around Germantown thirty years ago had a double purple corolla and red sepals. It was a compact, short jointed, symmetrical grower and was one of the most popular market plants in those days. Who has it now? Wave of Life was a popular variety in those days; it had yellow folliage, a single purple corolla and was rather a dwarf grower. There were two very distinct varieties sent out by two different London firms the same year in the late sixties under the same name. Avalanche. The one sent out by E. G. Henderson & Sons had yellow foliage and a double purple corolla. The other, disseminated by one of the Smith firms, had double white corollas. Hen- derson's Avalanche proved to be the most useful as it had a very fine habit. Edwin Lonsdale. Laelio-CattleTa x Gottolana. The subject of the illustration here- with, is a cross between Cattleya War- ner! X Lrelia tenebrosa. This hybrid, originally imported into England from Brazil as Laslia tenebrosa, was believed to have come in an importation of Cat- tleya Warneri, and flowered in the collec- tion of E. Gotto, by whom it was named Ljelia Gottoiana, and received a first-class certificate of the Royal Horticultural So- ciety. It was long suspected as a nat- ural cross between Laelia tenebrosa and Cattleya Warneri, and in November, 1900, James Douglas exhibited a plant raised by him, the result of crossing these
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LiELIO-CATTLEYA GOTTOIANA. two varieties, but using the cattleya as a seed bearer, which was unmistakably identical with the wild plant, thus prov- ing conclusively the origin of this beauti- ful and interesting specimen. It is a vig- orous grower, its habit is intermediate between both parents, the leaves resem- bling that of Cattleya Warneri, and the flower sheath that of Ljelia tenebrosa The large flowers, three on one spike, are the size of a large Cattleya Warneri (the illustration depicts the flower about half its natural size). The petals and sepals are narrower and more acute and the color a beautiful roe purple, while the throat and lip is much darker. The plant flowered with me last June and again in September. R. Schiffmann. In the Plant Houses. Following the holiday plant business there is usually found a lull in trade for a few days or weeks, partly owing to the trade being supplied temporarily, and also in most seasons to the severe weather that is likely to prevail at that time, and which renders the shipping of tender plants a very risky operation. This condition of affairs gives the busy grower an opportunity to do some thinking and planning for a future season, besides doing many little jobs that may have been neglected during the Christmas rush. In the line of preparation one of the things worth noting for future reference is the fact that many of us are still some- what deficient in system, notwithstand- ing the various learned papers that have been presented on this very subject before our national and local societies. There are doubtless many of our leading cut flower growers who keep regular records of the output from each house and vari- ety therein, and are able to reckon within a reasonable margin the cost of produc- tion and consequent profit or loss, but comparatively few plant growers go to the trouble of even an annual stock- taking, and are therefore unable to figure out very clearly the question of compara- tive profits from the various lots of pot plants they grow. This is not such a big undertaking as it may seem, for two careful men can count the plants in a

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