. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. I trust your corre- spondent, " B" (page 7) will be more successful in grow- ing carnations in-doors during summer than the writer has been, for al- though I cannot say that the experiment in my case was quite a failure, I am satis- fied the results were not the best. Some three j'ears ago I planted one side of a span-roof house with young plants, chiefly Crimson King and Ed- wardsii. They were good, thrifty stock from 4-iuch pots. Each alternate sash was taken off the house, and the plants had all neces
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. I trust your corre- spondent, " B" (page 7) will be more successful in grow- ing carnations in-doors during summer than the writer has been, for al- though I cannot say that the experiment in my case was quite a failure, I am satis- fied the results were not the best. Some three j'ears ago I planted one side of a span-roof house with young plants, chiefly Crimson King and Ed- wardsii. They were good, thrifty stock from 4-iuch pots. Each alternate sash was taken off the house, and the plants had all necessary attention as to pinch- ing, watering, etc. The result was a light crop of bloom early in the season— too early to be of much value—and no more bloom worth mentioning till verj- late in the spring. This last was a good crop and good flowers, but did not repay me for the time and room occupied in obtaining it. I was so ill pleased with results as a whole that I never tried the experiment again, neither have I known it tried by others, and I am consequently the more anxious to learn what measure of success "; is destined to achieve. A. W. M. Baltimore, Aug. 20, 'S7. Benching Carnations.—In reply to B., of Richmond, Ind., would state that Messrs. D. Rohrer & Bro, of this place (extensive cut flower growers) have been planting their carnations in the beds in houses several years, with very satis- factory results. But they have their houses built so that they can take the glass off of them, so that their plants are really outside; and they prefer solid beds to benches, but use both. A house of Hinze's White planted last summer with the glass on produced a very heavy crop of blooms all through the winter and a moderate number as late as July 15 of this summer. But to propagate from stock grown continually under glass would certainly cause deterioration. I trust B. will give results, as there is quite a saving of labor and expense in this method. M. H
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