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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AUGUST 25, ISJ.y 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



Weather conditions con'inue good. 

 We have had another downpour and 

 ideal early fall weather. Carnations are 

 getting a move on them now. Trade 

 is as flat as a pancake. Roses are 

 plentiful and of good quality, retail- 

 ins at 75 cents to $1.00 per dozen; car- 

 nations poor and scarce. Aster.s are 

 plentiful, but of very poor qu.-.lity a.s 

 yet. 



The last of the late propagation of 

 single stem mum stock is now in and 

 Ihe boys are looking the carnation 

 benches over, with a view of getting 

 them ready for early planting. 



There is a fine lot of Japan lilies to 

 be seen in Smith's store window. They 

 deserve to sell better than they do. 



Trade quiet. Quite a little ripple in 

 white flowers occurred during the 

 week on account of funeral work. 

 White carnations are about over and 

 white asters have been ruined by the 

 blight, which has struck some crops 

 hard, destroying nearly every flower 

 and bud on the plants. We are having 

 moist, torrid Cuban weather: every- 

 thing seeming to fairly wither under 

 the scorching rays of Old Sol. 



Sweet peas, unless late plantings, are 

 nearly over. Gladiolus are in their 

 prime, as is also a mixed assortment of 

 outdoor flowers. 



GEO. F. CRABB. 



THE HARRISII EI5EASF. 



The time for the arrival of the Har- 

 risii bulbs is here, and I have an idea 

 which it might be well to test. 



If, as it is claimed, the Harrisii dis- 

 ease is produced by a mite that is sup- 

 posed to be in among the scales of the 

 bulb, it seems to me it could be very 

 easily killed by placing the bulbs in 

 an air tight vessel and using bisulphid 

 of carbon. I don't think it would in- 

 jure the bulbs, and being verj pene- 

 trating it would surely find all the 

 mites. 



I have used it several years for kill- 

 ing the pea weevil. As soon as the 

 seed peas are ripe they are cleaned and 

 put in a jug, then about a tablespoon- 

 ful of the carbon bisulphid is poured 

 on a rag and put in the jug, which is 

 then corked up tight. In a few hours 

 the larva will be dead, and if it kills 

 the larva inside the peas it would sure- 

 ly kill the mites inside the Havrisij 

 bulbs, and the cost would oe very 

 small. 



If found effective, of course the right 

 way would be for the wholesale houses 

 to kill the mites before they send out 

 the bulbs, or. better still, let the grow- 

 ers do it before shipment. If done on 

 a large scale the cost of carbon would 

 not be 5 cents per 1,0(M). I hope some 

 one will be induced to give it a fair 

 trial anyhow. JOHN BEIMFORD. 



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