The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



749 



help more to keep up the quality. A 

 mulch of some loose material will help to 

 keep them from drying out too much, but 

 more care will be necessary in the water- 

 Try to cut all your blooms iir the 

 morning before the sun is hot. They are 

 fresher then than at any other time and 

 the color is also better; if the open 

 blooms are left on the plants through the 

 day the sun takes the color out of them 

 and gives them that washv ajipearancc. 

 A. F. J. Bauu. 



A WEDDING BOUQUET. 



We prcbcnt heiewith an enguniug 

 from a snap-shot photograph of a wed- 

 ding bouquet arranged bj- !Mr. Luis Kus- 



larger the bettor. I will here step aside 

 to thank tin- oii"iiiators for their skill 





for us I.I r ^ 



Then. )- ^.l' 

 private ^Mi.lri 

 commercial lluiLst^' products, except 

 quality, which is in favor of the florist, 

 owing to modern improvements ami bet- 

 ter facilities. When we meet together 

 let it not be for character analysis, not 

 for humdium, but for facts as they 

 present thenisches fiom fijiic to Wmv. 



a forcib'e maun, i i I Ii. hi ' 



year of the dn \ mih. umiiii i i_. iniin i 

 ous plants th it ,\ ..ii . . iiM li m I..1111.I m 

 private collections pn'Mnus Ici the .id 

 vent of the chrysanthemum have now eu- 



A Wedding Bouquet. 



sell, of the firm of W. & L. Russell, Vic- 

 toria, B. C. The carnations used in the 

 bouquet are Flora Hill. 



This firm grows carnations very suc- 

 cessfully, including Lawson, Marquis, 

 Bradt, America, Flora Hill, etc. Their 

 Lawsons have measured from 3 to 4 

 inches across all this last winter. 



"WHERE ARE WE AT?" 



[Paper read at ttie .\piil 25 meeting of the 

 Tarry town (N. Y.) Horticultural Society by 

 Mr. John Shore, of Harrison, a member of the 

 Portchester Horticultural Society.] 



As I learn from reports in the hor- 

 ticultural journals describing your meet- 

 ings, the subjects on which you have had 

 some very iirstructive essays I would 

 infer that you are a society of special- 

 ists. I am not in the class of specialists 

 but an ordinary practitioner. I have a 

 wider scope than the specialists and wish 

 to take advantage of that scope this 

 evening. 



I will begin by asking you a question : 

 "Where are we at?" Are w-e as garden- 

 ers on the ascendancy or degeneracy? 

 Now we hear very little of gardening 

 nomenclature, but carnations, roses, vio- 

 lets, clirysanthemuins and a few other 

 specialties; then the principal feature of 

 evervthing would seem to be size, the 



tirely disappeared, so much so that it is 

 only a question: of time when we must 

 awaken to the fact how little we know 

 of plant nomenclature. 



Some citizens have awakened to the 

 fact tlint n iHinili.^v of the animals of 

 the I'liil.il Si ill.- ;iri. becoming extinct 

 and til -:i\.' -II. Ii liave secured reserva- 

 tions till iliiir |.i..tirtion and perpetu- 

 ancy. 1 am jilcasid to know there is 

 also a reservation n-ow established in 

 Bronx Park where we may again become 

 familiar with plants we once knew but 

 have forgotten and also with plants of 

 recent introduction. 



There is also another fact that pre- 

 sents itself, namely, that the most in- 

 structive feature of our society meetings 

 is the question box and the discussion 

 orr exhibits. But have the nature of our 



ixliiliits 1 11 ,11. li that what we may 



.ir^iuii.ii . .1- iii-ijiiitiraiit may have their 

 |iI:m.', I III 111. -.■ lu.. features depend the 

 tiihiri^iiiiiiii lit iHii knowledge as indi- 

 viduals, they alone can keep up the in- 

 terest that will draw the members to the 

 meetings. 



In coii.iIu..i.-iii T .-.-iiiavatulate the mem- 

 bers of 111.. r.iii\i..\vu Society in that 

 they ai,. \w\r .i\\,ik.. iu the interests of 

 their s.i.aci\. in iliat they have contem- 

 plated iinilatimi- to members of other 



Gardeners' Societies, though there is 

 enough latent talent if the fire is once 

 kindled that would supply an inexhausti- 

 ble source of information. 



A HOT CORNER. 



ave a hot corner enclo.sed on the 

 by the walls of the main house 

 11 "the east by a wing of it. This 

 ■ has a south and southwest expo- 

 uid is an excellent place to grow 

 lal loquiring heat and shelter fioin 

 . uinds. 

 iillower vines are used to cover the 



I he plants bein'g well started un- 

 as, botnip pl-ititiii" tiiiip in order 

 e the in l.iiij . n 11 h I 1 . 1 li above 

 ■aiU III 1 h. |il lilt |.l I. • .1 111 Iront 

 I, -111' \ li 11 -. I I. Ill I'ls-irtora 



II 1 1 I ..1 as a wall cover and 



I I .iiier among the passi- 



1 1 \ iiii's at the back I use 

 u-ia -iiiensis and tall standard 

 standard lemon verbenas and 

 finishing towards the front 



foims of abutilons. lantanas, 

 ; and crotons. Geraniums, 



and verbenas may be used to 

 fiont. 



he-e plants have been started 

 t and ur bloom, or nearly so, 

 11 til 1.5, which is as early as 



he put out here with safety. 

 iliciii hing with the hose de- 



ti iidciii V to led spider. 



W. C. EOAX. 



1 11.1 



TOMATOES UNDER GLASS. 



apKiii- to the inquiry of B. K. Hed- 

 ; in the last issue of the Review 

 lid say: Your correspondent's trou- 

 with "disease o:r his tomato plants is 

 Minns one. I have heard it claimed, 

 apiiaiently with good reason, that 

 !■ ili^ease appears in a house of toma- 

 • . the spores will remain in the house 

 trouble will get worse with each 

 succeeding year until finally profitable 

 tomato growing is out of the question. 

 It is claimed that the form of disease 

 called Cladisporium is hereditary, and 

 plants raised from tainted stock will re- 

 produce the disease. I have noticed the 

 disease always appears in the fall when 

 we may have a few days of damp, close, 

 iiuiggy weather. The orely thing to do is 

 to keep a dry moving atmosphere and 

 also keep your plants dry at the root 

 during such weather. 



There is little doubt in my mind that 

 cow manure used in excess helps on the 

 disca^i. hy imln. iin^ a soft, sappy growth, 

 win h i- lial.l.. to take anything that 

 Cdin. - iI.iiil;. It 1 could get good rotted 

 sod 1 «oulii start my plants in it with- 

 out the addition of any manure whatever. 

 In such a soil the plants would make a 

 firm, short jointed growth, and when 

 you have a good set of fruit, feed your 

 plants. I prefer to use bone meal as a 

 top dressing and liquid manure made 

 from either cow or sheep manure. 



With the best of looking after and 

 every precaution taken it is well nigh 

 impossible to grow a crop of tomatoes 

 under glass from start to finish without 

 getting some one or other of the nu- 

 merous leaf diseases, not to mention 

 stem rot. club foot, or eel worm. 



With the competition from Havana 

 and all the southern states the days of 

 profitable winter culture of tomatoes 

 under sUiss seems about over. 



C. ToTTr. 



