JANUARY 12, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



157 



View in one of the Iron-Frame Rose Houses of Mr. Henry HenU, Jr., Madison, N. J. 

 [Erected by Lord & Burnham Co.] 



adelphia. Pa. A grand combination of 

 good qualities, free bloomer, early and 

 continuous. In point of color the finest 

 pink carnation yet produced, large and 

 perfect in form, very fragrant and 

 with, a long, stiff stem, 



Moore's Crimson, — B, L, A, Moore, 

 Unionville, Pa, A free flowering, per- 

 fectly healthy variety, early and con- 

 tinuous in bloom. 



Gov. Griggs. — By Joseph Towell, 

 Paterson, N, J, A strong, healthy 

 grower, a continuous free bloomer, 

 with stiff stems and in color similar 

 to Daybreak but brighter. Of good 

 shape, with full center, and does not 

 burst, Beautifullv fimbriated, 



ALBERT M, HERR, Sec'y. 



Lancaster, Pa, 



SCALE ON CISSUS DISCOLOR. 



I would like to know a remedy for 

 a brownish soft scale on Cissus dis- 

 color. A great drawback to applying 

 insecticide with a syringe is that it 

 spoils the color of the leaves. W. 



When badly infested with scale it 



becomes rather difFieult to clean a 

 plant of Cissus discolor, the leaves be- 

 ing so tender that any insecticide that 

 is strong enough to kill the insects is 

 almost certain to injure the plant. 

 Hand picking or sponging with a soft 

 sponge and soap solution is the safest 

 method, though a slow and tedious op- 

 eration. 



If the plant is very dirty it would 

 pay better to secure a few clean cut- 

 tings, and then destroy the old plant 

 entirely, for cuttings rooted now and 

 potted off two or three together in a 

 pot would soon take the place of the 

 original plant. W. H. TAPLIN. 



VEGETABLE CULTURE UNDER 

 GLASS. 



By a. Herrixgton, Supt. of Park, Florham 

 Farms. Madison, N. J. 



[Paper read at the 34th annual meeting of the 

 New lersev State Horticultural Society at Tren- 

 ton. N.J. .January 5, 1S99.] 



The decade now drawing to a close 

 Is marked bj' an extraordinary devel- 

 opment in glass-house production. It 



has witnessed the building up of mam- 

 moth establishments solely devoted to 

 the growth of products that we have 

 come to regard as necessities of life, 

 although they are in reality but lux- 

 uries. To attempt, however, to dis- 

 pense with the plants and f.owers now 

 raised in such prodigious quantity, 

 and used often with lavish profusion 

 to adorn our homes, would ci-eate a 

 sad void, and leave a cheerless blank 

 in some of the pleasantest functions of 

 life. From the cradle to the grave Na- 

 ture's beautiful children born of .bleth- 

 er Earth bringing brightness and 

 sweetness into the lives of millions, 

 have become such a necessity that 

 since very early days, man has resort- 

 ed to artificial means of provision for 

 the same when natural sources by ."ir- 

 tue of the seasons temporarily fail 

 him. Upon the floricultural branch of 

 glass-house production, however, I 

 cannot now enlarge, as the subject as- 

 signed to me is a gastronomical one. 



Vegetable culture under glass at the 

 present day is almost infinitesimal, 

 certainly insignificant in comparison 



