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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



SEPTEMBER S, 1898. 



plants and an energetic and obliging 

 manager, who will treat customers 

 honestly. A love of flowers will soon 

 change inexperience into artistic abil- 

 ity. The fact of there being no street 

 fakirs in your town, and our knowl- 

 edge of your townspeople's love of 

 flowers, assures us all the more that a 

 florist's business properly handled 

 would succeed, and that best by itself. 



ivera: 



BLACK SPOT. 



Please tell me through The Review 

 how to kill blackspot on roses. 



W. H. B. 



During the latter days of August 

 and early part of September, while the 

 days are yet quite warm and the 

 nights comparatively cool, though, 

 perhaps, not cool enough to require 

 fire beat, is the time when "black 

 spot" often makes its appearance. It 

 is caused by too much moisture sur- 

 rounding the plant at night. In walk- 

 ing throngh the rose house early in 

 the morning it may be observed the 

 plants will often have the appearance 

 of having received a heavy dew. The 

 novice will see no harm in this, in 

 fact, he will be pleased with the fresh 

 and vigorous appearance of his rose 

 stock, but let me say right bere is the 

 beginning of failure to many a promis- 

 ing rose house, which for want of pro- 

 per attention, soon becomes infested 

 with "black spot" and kindred dib 

 eases, which bring consternation to 

 tbe minds of the growers, and When 

 once having a foothold means the loss 

 of a good part of the season's work, 

 creating an endless amount of trouble 

 and wony. 



"Black spot" is by no means a dif- 

 ficult disease to control when handled 

 by a grower of experience. A few sug- 

 gestions on tbe subject may be helpful 

 to those who are unfamiliar with the 

 cause and remedy of the disease. 



At this season of the year, too much 

 emphasis cannot be laid on the subject 

 of ventilation. Never allow the air 

 in a rose house to become stagnant, 

 continue to leave on a small crack of 

 air at night, do all your watering and 

 syringing before noon each day. If 

 tbe day is very warm, it may be neces- 

 sary to give a light syringing in the 

 afternoon; in this case be sure to get 

 through with it not later than 2:30 p. 

 m.. thus giving tbe foliage a chance to 

 thoroughly dry off before niglit. Give 

 the house a light dose of white sul- 

 phur about once a week; this should 

 be applied with a bellows, and may be 

 put on about 4 p. m. to remain for the 

 night; if the following day is cloudy 

 it may remain undisturbed; should the 

 day be bright, the sulphur should be 

 syringed off before the sun becomes 

 warm, say about 9 a. m. It will take 

 about 1-3 peck of sulphur to a house 

 100x20 ft. for a light application. 



If "black spot" has already made its 

 appearance, the following solution, ap- 

 plied twice a week, will soon check the 

 disease: 1 lb. sulphate of copper to 1 



gal. aqua ammonia, thoroughly mixed. 

 Of this solution take % pint to a 2 

 gal. can of water, apply with a hand 

 syringe. This operation should be 

 performed early in the morning and 

 continued semi-weekly until the dis- 

 ease is completely checked. Water 

 sparingly, especially where the dis- 

 ease has made much headway. Keep 

 a sharp lookout for the "spot," re- 

 move every leaf affected. It will be 

 advisable to dispense with syringing 

 until the disease is under control. 



S. A. BAUR. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



In order that; there may be no con- 

 fusion, it will be well to have it under- 

 stood by the growers of seedling car- 

 nations that the registration adopted 

 by the S. A. F. is not intended to and 

 does not conflict with the registration 

 method of this society. 



Most growers have fallen into line 

 and when they have a variety that will 

 be introduced to the trade or grown 

 commercially they have it registered. 

 Those who have not should do so at 

 once. The cost of one dollar, which 

 covers all the expense of registering a 

 name, is simply a well invested dollar 

 in the way of advertising, as the name 

 and the description are both printed 

 in the report and in the trade papers 

 (through their courtesy to the soci- 

 ety). In addition to this free advertis- 

 ing, when the name is registered with 

 this society it is recognized by the 

 trade everywhere as an official mat- 

 ter. When it is not registered the 

 grower is more than likely to take up 

 the name of some variety that has 

 dropped out of existence, and this 

 causes confusion with the old variety 

 and is often a hindrance to the sale of 

 the new. 



The American Carnation Society is 

 now at work on a rearrangement of 

 the list of all carnation names to date. 

 They will be in alphabetical order and 

 easy for reference. As there is some- 

 thing like a thousand names the seek- 

 er for a new one can readily see how 

 important this list will be to him. 

 This list with blank for registration 

 will be sent to all members of the so- 

 ciety and to any others who ask for it. 



This society anticipates a very suc- 

 cessful meeting in Philadelphia next 

 February, and will have the most at- 

 tractive premium list ever offered in 

 this country for carnations. In addi- 

 tion to the money premiums there will 

 be offered several handsome cups. One 

 of these, by E. H. Michel, of St. Louis. 

 Mo., will cause some lively competi- 

 tion. There will also be a valuable 

 cup offered for the best arrangement 

 of carnations by a retailer. A host of 

 other good things are in store for car- 

 nation growers, further particulars of 

 which will be given when arrange- 

 ments are completed. 



Suggestions for the good of the soci- 

 ety, special premiums, etc., are always 

 in order, and the secretary is ready to 

 receive them at all limes. 



ALBERT M. HERR, Sec'y. 

 Lancaster, Pa. 



CARNATION SOCIETY CERTIFI- 

 CATES. 



The society has issued a reminder, as 

 follows: "In order that there may be 

 no misunderstanding regarding the 

 awarding of the Certificate of Merit, 

 this card is sent you at planting-in 

 time, to remind you that it takes fifty 

 blooms, and a plant taken from the 

 bench in which the stock is growing — 

 and that the variety must have been 

 bloomed not less than three years to 

 secure a Certificate of Merit. A pre- 

 liminary certificate is granted to vari- 

 eties if twelve blooms are shown, and 

 the variety need not have been 

 bloomed three years, neither need 

 plant be shown." Address all inquiries 

 to the secretary, Albert M. Herr, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. 



AMONG BOSTON GROWERS. 



Mann Bros. 



Mann Bros., at Randolph, is the next 

 place we stopped at, and here we 

 found them busy remodelling a car- 

 nation house in which they proposed 

 to grow Daybreak, a very successful 

 variety with them. This house is 125 

 xlo and will contain 2,800 plants. 

 Their principal house is 12.5x15 and 

 Mr. Lester Mann, our entertainer, in- 

 formed us that he would get four dif- 

 ferent crops from that house. The 

 house now contains 2,5(Xl plants of dif- 

 ferent varieties of chrysanthemums, 

 grown to about three flowers to each 

 plant. These are followed by Harrisii 

 lilies and other bulbs, grown expressly 

 for Christmas trade. After these are 

 cut off, the house is again filled up 

 with lilies of the longifiorum type for 

 Easter forcing; then comes the last 

 crop, bedding plants, of which they 

 grow enormous quantities. Another 

 house, 100x20, will be planted to car- 

 nations Eldorado and Freedom. A 

 house, 185x25, will contain nearly 4,000 

 plants and will be divided up between 

 Anna Webb, Tidal Wave, Bradt, Flora 

 Hill and Victor. Attached to this 

 house is a propagating house of 100 

 feet in length, which is a model of its 

 kind. 



A couple of smaller houses, 80x12, 

 are devoted to palm stock for local 

 trade and bulb forcing out of doors. A 

 frame of fair Lady Campbell violets, 

 a lot of chrysanthemums of the early 

 varieties, looked very promising. Their 

 carnations, in the open field, are like 

 the majority in this section, rather 

 backward, owing to so much rain, but, 

 are healthy and will make nice plants 

 by the middle of September. 



The Messrs. Mann are extensive 

 growers of bedding plants, which are 

 mostly disposed of at auction in Bos- 

 ton. They make a specialty of pan- 

 sies, growing from 70,000 to 80,000 

 every spring, using a strain of their 

 own, and have earned quite a reputa- 

 tion as to uniformity of size and color 

 of their bloom. 



They are extensive growers of bulbs, 

 forcing thousands of them yearly mak- 



