. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1048 The American Florist. Dec. ig. Have No Empty Benches. As soon as the benches of later chrys- anthemums are cleared and any stock plants selected, the benches should be made use of for another crop. There are many crops that can be grown and where plants have not been prepared to meet such an emergency it is more profitable to buy young plants than to allow the room and fire heat to be wasted. It is late, of course, to plant violets but should there even now be field plants left they may be made use of and pro
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1048 The American Florist. Dec. ig. Have No Empty Benches. As soon as the benches of later chrys- anthemums are cleared and any stock plants selected, the benches should be made use of for another crop. There are many crops that can be grown and where plants have not been prepared to meet such an emergency it is more profitable to buy young plants than to allow the room and fire heat to be wasted. It is late, of course, to plant violets but should there even now be field plants left they may be made use of and probably some good flowers will be produced in spring. Antirrhinums too may still be planted; sweet peas may be sown or the benches may be used to grow bulbous stock. la the case of the sweet peas and antirrhin- ums the old chrysanthemum soil may be enlivened with a little new loam and will produce a crop with careful mauage- raent. For violets it will be safer to use new soil and place the old outdoors in shallow piles for the winter. This will enable the frost to reach every part of it. purifying it and rendering it suit- able for use in mixture with other soils in spring. Outdoor Lilac. If anyone will take the trouble to look at the lilac bushes in the autumn it will be easily apparent why the cen- ters of the plants get bare and flower- less and the flowering wood keeps get- ting constantly higher and thinner. Few deciduous shrubs carry their foliage so late as the hardy lilacs, and as the leaves are broad and rather heavy they keep the light out of the lower, young shoots. In October there are many of these shoots that started out in life with fair pros- pects, when the upper foliage was not so thick and heavy, but they have been gradually smothered out of existence, and one may look all through a big clump without seeing a single green leaf or good flower bud below the upper and inside of the outer canopy of leaves. The cure here must be somewhat of a radical one. and the gr
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