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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



It will iiever pay to force candytuft, 

 but in the garden it is a fine annual. If 

 you want it for cutting, make a sowing 



as early as possible in drills and make 

 another sowing a month later. 



\Vm. Scott. 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



water. This pump will also feed boiler. 

 Collingdale, Pa. M. F. LaRoche. 



Look Out For Frost. 



There are many plants propagated 

 from cuttings that it is not advisable to 

 take cuttings of in the fall, but are more 

 profitably and better increased by lifting 

 a few old plants. Don't delay this till 

 the afternoon that you see a frost com- 

 ing. 



A few plants lifted now will root 

 quicker than they will in cold weather, 

 and will stand anywhere out of doors 

 till the approach of frost. Among these 

 plants are salvia, ageratum, acalypha, al- 

 ternanthera (if you did not propagate 

 these in August)," pyrethrum, and others 

 of which a stock can be worked up 

 quickly. A few of these plants do not 

 take up much room but are highly nec- 

 essary when spring comes. 



Mignonette. 



We have found the green cabbage worm 

 ^•ery troublesome on the young mignon- 

 ette in our houses this fall. It is the 

 larva of the sulphur butterfly. The chief, 

 and you would think the only, function 

 of their life is to eat, and before you can 

 discover them on the leaves they have 

 done much damage. They are also ex- 

 actly the same color as the leaf. Don't 

 wait till you see the plants half eaten, 

 but sprinkle the leaves and then dust 

 the whole bed with powdered hellebore. 

 A teaspoonful of Paris green in two gal- 

 lons of water and syringed on will also 

 do, but the hellebore is safest. 



Hydrangeas, 



Don't let your hydrangeas stand too 

 close just now. They have grown very 

 rapidly of late, but should be far enough 

 apart to let the light and air between 

 them. And don't think of bringing them 

 in for several weeks yet. It is always a 

 time for the exercise of good judgment 

 for the next month. You can't tell how 

 frost will approach. If we get a few cool 

 nights and then perhaps a night when 

 the thermometer goes down to 32 de- 

 grees, it is the most favorable for us, 

 for then things are gradually hardened 

 and one or two degrees of frost will not 

 hurt hydrangeas or many other plants 

 that are considered tender. It all de- 

 pends on the condition of the plants how 

 the first frost affects them. 



Just to be reminiscent a momeiit: 

 Some 15 years ago we had warm, moist 

 weather continuing till the 8th of Octo- 

 ber; not a night had been below 50, 

 when down swooped Jack Frost to the 

 extent of 6 degrees and killed everything 

 that we had been negligent enough to 

 leave out. Sweet stevia, geraniums, aza- 

 leas and all went; for the mild weather 

 had deluded us. Don't trust to what you 

 think the season is going to be, but go 

 more by dates. If we are not prepared 

 for a frost about the first week of Octo- 

 ber we ought to be. 



Violets. 



You should have all the shade off your 

 violets by the middle of this month. 

 Don't wait to see the aphis appear, but 

 every week go over them with a weak so- 

 lution of nikoteen. When once the aphis 

 gets down into the heart of the plant 

 they are very difficult to dislodge, and it 

 takes very little to ruin all your pros- 

 pects of a crop. Keep all the runners 

 cleaned off. Don't pull them off, it tears 

 and bruises the stems. Cut them off. 

 For the spot so troublesome with many 

 I know of no c\ire, but to make the con- 

 ditions right keep the house airy, syringe 

 only on bright mornings and pick off 

 every leaf the moment you see it affected. 

 It is worth mentioning that you must 

 never attempt to use Bordeaux mixture 

 or any copper mixture or solution. It 

 will kill every leaf. 



The next few months, or till steady 

 firing commences, is the most anxious 

 time'with all your roses. Mildew is ever 

 ready to find a lodgment the moment 

 the vitality of the plant is lowered, and 

 this may be caused by leaving ventilation 

 on ton IniiL' .Hnl -'fliiig a chill, or not 

 openiiiL! ii|i iMil.i 111 Iho morning and let- 

 ting till I. iii|i. I iiiiirc ;;o too high. Above 

 all avoid a r.,1,1 ilaiiip night. When the 

 outside thermometer goes below 45 de- 

 grees during any part of the night fire 

 heat must be resorted to. Do your syring- 

 ing early in the morning and not at all 

 <m cloudy days. William Scott. 



'WATER SUPPLY. 



Replying to L. S., pump No. 2* made 

 by the Dean Steam Pump Co., Holyoke, 

 Mass., will do the work. It has l*-inch 

 suction and li-inch discharge. No gov- 

 ernor. The pump has an air chamber 

 to steady the flow of water. With this 

 pump you can water with two J-inch 

 hose, and it will give good pressure on 

 one hose for syringing. 



I have used this pump since 1889, 

 when I started with four houses each 

 20x100, and though we now have twenty 

 houses of the same size the same pump 

 is still doing the business. 



A well six feet in diameter and deep 

 enough to always have six feet of water 

 in it will give an ample supply of water 

 for four greenhouses of the size men- 

 tioned by L. S. and the acre of ground. 

 I have three wells of this size for my 

 place, with four acres of ground. 



Either Jenkins' adjustable seat globe 

 valve or any good make of brass gate 

 valve will keep the steam from leaking 

 into the heating pipes if at a reasonable 

 pressure, say 75 lbs. or less. I run my 

 Dean steam pump at about 25 to 35 lbs. 

 steam pressure, and after it is once 

 started I have run it as low as 18 lbs. 

 pressure and still get an ample flow of 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Trade Conditions. 



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^\ilr ni ,,(i il.LM II - I' 1 .It I i;o-es are 



ill i-.>ii-,',|iiciioe iiiipniving. Diiiiand for 

 llifin is fair; quite a little business in 

 the best irrades is being done. Beauties 

 are bringing $2 per dozen locally when 

 really fine, and $2.50 per dozen when 

 carefully selected, so as to arrive in 

 good condition at some distant point. 

 Teas sell fairly well at $3 and $4 per 

 100. Carnations are more in evidence. 

 Some fancy sorts such as Flora Hill and 

 Ethel Crocker are to be had of good 

 quality. Asters are still plentiful; .-^ome 

 days there are too many. Smilax is in 

 demand. 



■Various Items. 

 Keller Bros., of Norristown, report a 

 very active demand for flower pots this 

 fall. 



William Berger, of Germantown, com- 

 bines mushroom growing with his flor- 

 ist business, and finds it satisfactory. 

 This enterprising florist has added two 

 greenhouses and a show house during 

 the past fifteen months. 



Our local horticultural writers gener- 

 ally favor their readers with a para- 

 graph about the "familiar sun-browned 

 faces reappearing" at this time. Would 

 not this apply strikingly to the floral 

 aristocracy of to-day? 



The city's suburbs are wonderfully 

 beautiful— rich, green grass, clematis, 

 cannas, sage, hydrangeas, geraniums in 

 full bloom — a w-ealth of color is dis- 

 played well worth seeing. 



A lovely lady who presides over one 

 of our leading stores found that a cer- 

 tain hustler always put the price up 

 when she badly needed his flowers. On 

 a certain busy" morning when her whole 

 force were in the midst of work, she 

 gave a signal. Instantly all trace of 

 work disappeared under the counter and 

 when the hustler entered every one ap- 

 peared idle and listless. The lady is 

 confident this ruse saved her a lot of 

 cash. 



It is a fine thing to belong to the Flor- 

 ists' Club. You can feel a sort of pro- 

 prietary interest in all the trophies 

 brought from afar that ornament the 

 show-case; you can wear the pretty 

 blue and white enameled button with its 

 gilt monogram, P. F. C, engraved in the 

 center, designed by H. H. Battles; you 

 can bowl and chat and shoot and smoke 

 with all the great men of whom you 

 have heard and it will help you in many 

 ways; when you are worried, or discour- 

 aged, or dull, it will do you a world 

 of good and make life seem brighter and 

 more worth while. 



I spent a half-hour there this week. 

 First Commodore Westcott told fishing 

 stories. Repetition would spoil them; 

 besides you might not believe them. I 

 did. Then President Harris told of his 

 early struggles to succeed in our call- 

 ing, of the first start with only 400 feet 

 of glass and how it took ten years of 

 hard, unremitting toil before success was 

 assured ; then he told of his Jacque roses 

 and Lilium Harrisii, of his tulips and 

 daffodils and hyacinths, in a way that 

 was so full of interest that I wished he 



