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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JUNE H, 1900. 



fort and facilitate the secretary's 

 work. 



To those joining the society this 

 year, however, this advice is given 

 with much earnestness. The crowd at 

 the New York convention will be un- 

 precedented. Dues cannot be paid 

 while meetings are in progress and 

 hundreds of applicants will be de- 

 manding attention before the opening 

 session on the morning of the first 

 day, the possession of a badge and 

 membership receipt for 1900 being ab- 

 solutely necessary before any individ- 

 ual can sign the roll book and receive 

 invitation cards for the various enter- 

 tainments provided by the New York 

 Florists' Club, including the ladies' 

 ride, which is planned for the after- 

 noon of the first day. 



Memberships paid at any time dur- 

 ing the year expire on December 31st, 

 so there is no advantage in deferring 

 payment until August. On receipt of 

 $3 from those who have paid member- 

 ship dues for 1899 and of $5 from all 

 others, certificates and badge for 1900 

 will be mailed promptly from the sec- 

 retary's office. Preserve your certifi- 

 cate and bring it to the convention 

 with you. 



WM. J. STEWART, Secretary. 

 67 Bromfleld St., Boston, Mass. 



THRIPS ON CARNATIONS IN FIELD. 



Can anything be done to banish 

 thrips from carnations growing in the 

 open ground ? X. Y. Z. 



The only way I know to banish 

 thrips from plants in the field is per- 

 sistent spraying with strong tobacco 

 water or Nikoteen and water. This 

 will keep them in check. 



Thrips are becoming more trouble- 

 some from year to year and the man 

 who will invent a sure remedy for this 

 pest will be a benefactor to the florists. 



Park Ridge, 111. E. BUETTNER. 



X. Y. Z. is up against the real thing 

 in the way of carnation pests. I have 

 never to my knowledge been able to 

 check them in the houses, as they hide 

 themselves right in the heart of the 

 buds and I believe, as Prof. Sirrine 

 claims, they deposit their eggs while 

 . there, where it is impossible to kill or 

 dislodge them with anything in the 

 way of insecticides without killing the 

 plants also. 



Though I have never been able to 

 find them outside I believe that is the 

 time they make their acquaintance 

 with the plants and the only feasible 

 plan I can think of is to keep continu- 

 ally syringing with tobacco water or 

 Nikoteen, with an occasional dose of 

 soapsuds, which will help to retain 

 more of the Nikoteen on the foliage, 

 thus getting the full benefit of same 

 and preventing it from drying up so 

 quickly. The point Is to destroy the 

 young as fast as they are hatched. I 

 should say give an application accord- 



ing to directions on the can about 

 twice a week as long as plants are out- 

 side. JAMBS HARTSHORNE. 

 Joliet, 111. 



SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



The eighteenth annual meeting of 

 the American Seed Trade Association 

 was held in the Grand Pacific hotel, 

 Chicago, this week. 



Among those in attendance at the 

 meeting were: S. F. Willard and Thos. 

 H. Willard, Wethersfield, Conn.; J. J. 

 Harrison and H. B. Harrison, Paines- 

 ville, O.; S. E. Briggs, Toronto, Ont.; 

 F. H. Ebeling, Syracuse, N. Y.; S. M. 

 Pease, Cape Vincent, N. Y.; J. B. Rice 

 and W. R. Roach, Cambridge, N. Y.; 

 Albert McCullough, D. A. Brown and 

 Chas. McCullough, Cincinnati, O.; F. 

 W. Bolgiano, Washington, D. C; F. 

 W. Barteldes and Max Wilhelmi, Law- 

 rence, Kan.; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Pep- 

 pard, A. G. Trumbull and T. Lee Ad- 

 ams and wife, Kansas City, Mo.; W. C. 

 Langridge, Albany, N. Y.; R. L. Temp- 

 lin and wife and J. S. Handte, Calla, 

 O.; W. J. Mandeville, C. H. Dick and 

 F. A. Stecher, Rochester, N. Y.; W. H. 

 Grenell and A. T. Ferrell, Saginaw, 

 Mich.; Jno. J. Cleary and Frank Hoer- 

 man, Terre Haute, Ind.; C. N. Page, 

 Des Moines, la.; J. C. Robinson, Wat- 

 erloo, Neb.; C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, 

 O.; Henry W. Wood, Richmond, Va.; 

 James Carrie, Milwaukee, Wis.; H. M. 

 Schisler, B. P. Cornelli and Chas. E. 

 Prunty, St. Louis, Mo.; H. W. Johnson 

 and wife, Philadelphia; W. T. Phillips 

 and wife, R. L. Burge, C. S. Burge and 

 wife and Warren E. Smith, Toledo, O.; 

 O. H. Dickinson, Springfield, Mass.; 

 Everett B. Clark, Milford. Conn.; H. 

 W. Buckbee and wife and R. H. Shum- 

 way, "Rockford, 111.: J. E. Northrup, 

 Minneapolis; A. J. Brown, Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich.; W. T. Michaels, Sioux 

 City, la.; C. S. Clark and wife. Wake- 

 man, O.; C. L. Allen, Floral Park, N. 

 Y. ; H. Windheimer, Omaha, Neb.; 

 Alex. Rodgers, S. F. Leonard, A. Dick- 

 inson, W. W. Barnard, J. C. Vaughan 

 and Peter Hollenbach, Chicago. 



The program touched upon many 

 matters of live ipterest to the mem- 

 bers and the sessions were declared by 

 those in attendance to be unusually 

 interesting and practical. But as usual 

 much important work was accom- 

 plished in the hotel corridors and the 

 interesting conferences between mem- 

 bers in knots of three to a dozen were 

 numerous. The "Heavenly Twins" 

 (Messrs. Langridge and Roach) helped 

 to tie many of these knots. 



On Wednesday evening the visitors 

 were entertained with a banquet at 

 the Athletic Club and on Thursday 

 they took a trip down the drainage 

 canal. 



DES MOINES, lA.— Mr. Wm. G. 

 Newell, foreman for W. L. Morris, has 

 rented from Mr. Fred Gadsby the Oak- 

 dale Greenhouses at Eau Claire, Wis, 



BUFFALO. 



There have been several June wed- 

 dings that have helped business all 

 around, and the school commence- 

 ments will soon be here. 



The plant men are getting over the 

 big rush, but we are always more or 

 less busy in that line till the first of 

 July. We think the bulk of the flower 

 gardening, and that feature which is 

 always prominent in Buffalo — the ve- 

 randa box — is larger than ever before, 

 and our Linwood, Delaware, Rich- 

 mond, Elmwood and other avenues are 

 now most beautiful. A trip to the Go- 

 liath of the West does not at all make 

 me think less of our beautiful city. 



Flowers are still of good quality, 

 for we have only had a warm day oc- 

 casionally. Paeonies are now at their 

 best and the beautiful Pyrethrum 

 roseum is seen in every store. A three 

 days' rain would be an everlasting- 

 blessing and We would be willing to 

 fast of everything while it lasted. 1 

 don't know how far east and south 

 they are suffering, but I do know that 

 from Cleveland on they have had 

 bountiful rains while we have had lit- 

 tle more than would lay the dust. Why 

 this treatment? I don't know. This is 

 not the home of Bryan, or the ic? 

 trust, or the street car strike. 



J. H. Rebstock has been showing a 

 lot of well flowered standard roses. 

 Very attractive but not very satisfac- 

 tory in our gardens. Kasting has been 

 flooding the stores with well flowered 

 Hydrangea Otaksa. They look fine, 

 but greenhouse hydrangeas will not do 

 out of doors, and the only way to have 

 hydrangeas to be really satisfactory 

 during summer is to keep them in a 

 cool, light cellar and never let them 

 start till they are safe outside. 



Mr. Alex. Forbes, of the Peter Hen- 

 derson & Co. firm, was here last Sat- 

 urday and much enjoyed a look at the 

 Pan-American grounds and the resi- 

 dence streets leading thereto. Mr. F. 

 is of the solid, substantial Scotch build 

 and his exterior is a truthful indica- 

 tion of the inner man. You don't get 

 lonesome or cold in his company. 



The writer took a flying visit to Chi- 

 cago last week and the few hours he 

 was off the train listened to a few es- 

 says read before the Park and Outdoor 

 Art Association. Just time to see the 

 busy editor, Mr. Grant, the amiable 

 Phil Hauswirth and the convivial 

 Walter Kreitling. We also saw and 

 smelled the south branch of the Chi- 

 cago river. Oh, local boys, don't grum- 

 ble about our Hamburg canal. It is a 

 crystal, sparkling fountain and its 

 odors are spicy and enjoyable by the 

 side of the prairie stream which smells 

 worse than the ark the day before it 

 settled on Mount Ararat. Paving agi- 

 tation is rife in Butfaio. You won't 

 grumble a bit about it if you take a 

 ride through Chicago. But what a 

 business place it is, and I wish we had 

 some of it. 



The Park and Outdoor Art Associa- 

 tion is doubtless a very cultivated lot 



