JULY 19, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



207 



and keep a sharp lookout for the eggs, 



which should be destroyed before they 

 hatch out the caterpillars. 



"Can it be that your correspondent 

 is referring to the 'tomato fly.' as it is 

 commonly called, a small white insect 

 that breeds by the million on plants 

 when they begin to get a little past 



their best? They will rise in a cloud 

 when the vine is shaken. Fumigation 

 (light, of course) followed up every 

 night, will in time get the upper hand, 

 but this insect merely laughs at you 

 it you fumigate once a week, or so. 

 It is the only insect, as far as I know, 

 that troubles the tomato under glass." 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Mignonette. 



If you grow mignonette and want it 

 for Xmas it must be sown now. There 

 is nothing better than a solid bed to 

 grow it to perfection, but si.x inches of 

 soil on a bench will grow It very 

 well. The cooler the house the lar- 

 ger and stouter the spikes, Init too 

 cool it will not be profitaljle. Light 

 is the great essential. It is no good 

 trying it in a dark house: 40 to 45 

 degrees is about the right night tem- 

 perature. It makes the best spikes in 

 a strong, rather heavy loam, with a 

 fourth of cow manure and the soil 

 pressed firmly. 



Mignonette transplants with some 

 difficulty. So sow it on the benches. 

 We put a pinch of seed in one foot 

 apai't and when slugs and green worms 

 have had their fill you will have two or 

 three young plants left. Select the 

 strongest and pull up the rest. One 

 plant to a foot is quite as near as you 

 can grov/ good spikes, and some of the 

 large growers have them IS inches 

 apart. 



Last Easter we had very fine pots of 

 mignonette. They were too fine; that 

 is. they were in too large a pot. which 

 we could not help because they were 

 becoming exhausted and had to have 

 a shift. They were sown too early for 

 Easter. We also had a few for Xmas 

 that sold well. Now is the time to sow 

 them for the holidays, and middle of 

 September for Easter. They should 

 need no shifting, but should be sown 

 in the same pot in which they are to 

 flower, A 5-mch is the ideal size, some- 

 thing that you can sell and be profit- 

 able at 75 cents a pot. 



Make the soil firm, quite firm, and 

 rich. Sow enough seed so that you 

 can thin out to three plants an equal 

 distance apart. This makes a bushy 

 plant. You do not get large spikes on 

 these pots, nor do you want them, but 

 you get a dozen medium spikes. At 

 50 cents to one dollar you can sell lots 

 of mignonette in pots; when they are 

 in 7-inch pots and 18 inches across 

 they are not profitable at less than 

 $2.00, and then our customers would 

 sooner have a showy plant, 



Allen's Defiance mignonette came 



out a few years ago with a big name. 

 If I remember aright you got 7% seeds 

 for one dollar and only one seed grew. 

 Now it can be bought at a reasoualjle 

 price and will mostly all grow. It is 

 a splendid variety. It is one to force 

 for cutting. I saw a long bed of it 

 at Mr. Dunlop's, Toronto, last winter 

 that was a sight. Grow "Allen's Defi- 

 ance," 



Pansies. 



If you grow pansies in the field it 

 is time to prepare the beds. If you 

 winter them in a cold-frame, the mid- 

 dle of August will do. Field grown 

 pansies often get a terrible freeze and 

 are so late in blooming that the sea- 

 son for the florist is over before they 

 arrive. 



If you grow any on the benches for 

 winter blooming they should be sown 

 end of this month. Pansies are curi- 

 ous things to get to bloom in the 

 dark days of winter. In the dark, 

 sunless days they will not respond to 

 our care with their matchless blooms 

 as do their cousins, the Viola odorata. 

 They won't do in a violet house; it is 

 too cool. They want the lightest and 

 brightest bench, every ray of sun that 

 blesses us, and not below 45 degrees 

 at night, and as much as you like in 

 the day time if it is sun heat. 



I would, not dare to give you the 

 name of the man who sells the best 

 strain of pansy, because I know so 

 many men who have "absolutely the 

 finest pans.v in the world," I do know 

 that around Boston they always have 

 magnificent pansies. Don't sow pan- 

 sies under a tree or behind a house or 

 barn. Sow them where they will have 

 the full sun, but shade them with a 

 whitewashed sash until they are well 

 up. WM. SCOTT. 



OBITUARY. 



Harry Dale. 



Harry Dale of Brampton, Ont.. died 

 last Sunday night at 12 o'clock, of 

 blood poisoning. The funeral was 

 held Tuesday at 12:30 p. m. We ap- 

 pend a note received from Mr. William 



Scott of Buffalo, a lifelong friend of 

 Mr. Dale. 



We have within two hours re- 

 ceived by telegram the sad news of 

 the death of Harry Dale of Bramp- 

 ton, Ont. It seems scarcely possible 

 that this worthy man can be gone. 

 It is sudden to us, for we had no in- 

 timation of his illness. Who will take 

 care of that mammoth place? 



The name of Harry Dale and the 

 fame of his great rose growing place 

 was widely known, but he was too mod- 

 est and retiring a man to be known 

 personally as widely as are many less 

 worthy men. Prom one or two small 

 houses, and those devoted to vege- 

 tables not more than 15 years ago, 

 has grown at Brampton one of the 

 largest cut flower establishments on 

 this continent. Some houses either in 

 course of construction or finished this 

 summer are 800 feet long, but those 

 who know the place better than we 

 do can write of that. 



Personally we knew, admired, and 

 respected Harry Dale. He had all the 

 attributes to make him an honest, 

 conscientious and lovable man. His 

 place speaks for his ability. Anxious 

 to show you everything about the 

 place at all times, ready to Impart any 

 knowledge he possessed and thankful 

 to receive a hint. A listener and not 

 a talker, modesty was his failing, if 

 such it be. Harry Dale will be sorely 

 missed at his home, by his town, and 

 the fiorist world at large. 



COLUMBUS, O. 



Mr. Underwood, the old veteran flor- 

 ist of this city for many years, has 

 been appointed florist and superin- 

 tendent of the Franklin Park. 



Mr. Luke, of the 0. S. H., spent his 

 vacation visiting the florists of St. 

 Louis, and Mr, Ludwig, of the Living- 

 ston Seed Co., put in his vacation at 

 Cleveland and Cincinnati, 



Miss Charles visited Mr, and Mrs. J. 

 B. Heiss, of Dayton, O,, last week. 



Mr. Emil Jletznieir left, on July 1st, 

 for Europe. G. 



NORTH ADAMS, MASS. 



A. J. Schmutz, of this city, and Miss 

 Catherine Turnbull, of Pittsfield. were 

 married .Tune 28th. They enjoyed a 

 wedding trip for two weeks in visiting 

 the former home of Mr. Schmutz, at 

 Flatbush, Long Island. 



M. S. Worden. the well known flor- 

 ist, passed away July 14. after a lin- 

 gering illness of many months, aged 

 43 years. He is survived by a widow, 

 who has the sympathy of a large circle 

 of friends. D. 



BATAVIA, ILL.— Mr. E. Fryer, for- 

 merly of Brooklyn, N. Y., has leased 

 the greenhouses lately conducted by 

 Clias. Handel. 



