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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw59amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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1919. The American Florist. 533 the red spider in check and freshen up the growths of the plants. SHADING AND CUTTING. After April 1, plants that are ex- pected to remain in production for any length of time, will be greatly bene- fited by a light shading. The best method of doing this is to draw a strip of shading, six to eight inches wide, down the center of each pane of glass. It is hardly necessary under the pres- ent conditions to dwell on the impor- tance of keeping the flowers removed from the plants as soon as they be- come ready. During the balance of the season, it is best to cut them be- fore ihey are fully developed. They will then retain their color longer and keep very much betier. CARE OF THE YOUNG PLANTS. The young stock being brought along for next season's planting, should be given the closest attention. This young stock is now growing rapidly and needs to be watched closely as regards top- ping back the growth to keep them strong and bushy. Every branch the plants can oe induced to make between now and planting time will mean extra flowers next winter. The earlier prop- agated stock of these young carnation plants are now strong enough to go out- side in cold frames whenever the bench space in the greenhouse is needed for other plants, but the frames must be situated out of danger of the plants be- coming flooded by heavy rains, also with a southern exposure for the plants to get the benefit of the warm spring days. A week or so before the time comes for planting them out into the field, it is a good plan to remove the sash from the frames during favor- able weather to harden off the plants so that they will stand the transfer- ring to the field better. C. W. Johnson. Cyclamens. This famous winter-flowering pot plant, bids fair to be of great impor- tance the coming season as there is but a limited supply. None of the large growers have any young stock to sell, requiring all on hand to make sure of their winter supply for next season. While there are still some young plants in the seedling boxes, most of the stock is now in two-inch pots, some of the strongest in fours, and with some growers planted out on benches of soil, where they make a quick growth, much faster than in pots. These are lifted as they become large enough for a four-inch pot, and shifted on as they grow. One of the large growers of cycla- mens, who has been very successful, prefers bringing his plants from the seed flats on in pots. His stock is now nearly all in two-inch pots, with four to five leaves. It is standing on a bench covered with ashes, each pot spaced so as to give all the leaves free- dom and allow a circulation of air around the pots. These are frequently sprayed with the hose, as often as twice a day being not considered too much In bright weather. A few hundred of the largest have been transferred to 1?pur-inch pots. In speaking of planting out on benches, this grower says: "They make a quicker growth, but it is more or less gross or spongy, and they get quite a check when lifted to be potted- I never like to disturb the roots of a cyclamen in any way, as this is quite sure to interfere with the building up of a perfect corm or bulb, the finished form and later ripening of which has so much to do with the quantity and uuality of its flowers."
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DAFFODILS AND YELLOW RIBBON. How To Make A Small Greenhouse Pay. I'aper by Kd\v:ird WillLims, Grand Island, Neb., read at the annual meeting of the Ne- braska State Florists' .Society, Lincoln, Febru- ary 25, 1919. I am very glad that I am able to be here today, having risen from a sick bed to be with you, but if a florist can- not attend a meeting of his co-workers once in a year, at least, he might as well be dead all over as to be half dead. Our genial secretary has handed me a problem: "How to Make a Small Greenhouse Pay." The record of the largest ranges in the country today, is that they started on a small scale. Nearly all within hearing of my voice, I dare say, all of you, began with a few dollars and lots of nerve, and that determined "I will," and here you are today. Of course, some of us have not succeeded as well as others, we know, but we do know one thing, and that is this : That anyone that thinks it is a snap to embark on a small scale in the floral business, has another guess coming. Conditions today are different to what they were 25 years ago. When most of us started up, the florist, or I should say, the "hothouse man" was a small fry in a commimity. The neigh- bors were always against him, for, if he did not smoke them out with his tobacco stems about twice a week, he would wake them up along the "wee hours" of a zero morning to ask them for the loan of their largest lamp, and if they had two he would take both, for that old flue was not drawing well. Of course, being up all night was all right; it had to be, and. of course, the watering and firing had to be looked after the next day, besides hitching up "Old Dobbin" to deliver that 2.5-cent bouquet to Mrs. Maloney, for she was going to entertain the ladies' aid that day and when you got back some one had been in and ordered a $2 wreath. Of course, as is expected, you missed your dinner, but that is all right. When evening came, you had covered the frames fnd were ready to eat that evening meal. Oh Boy! how I will

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