The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



S73 



House of Candytuft Grown by Wm. Sim, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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 bait tluit 



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;iU nf a .aninti.m bvul. and no 

 \M- loiow .ii \\..iilil lure tbem 

 r \ . Mil- > J I iialion l)uds are to 

 ■M, iliiii;:^ ihat tbey do hate, 

 uf salt and lime, and if we 

 lx)thering a box of seedlings 

 ikI or another we #]>rink!e a 

 It or lime around the box and 

 •M-i rv. --r- i(. Dusting lime 

 over tile |ilaiii~ iiii'jlii ii.'l]) to keep them 

 off, ajid pi-ihaii- >|iia\iiig «ith brine 

 would help some. Iiut we prefer catching 

 them and giving them a good tight 

 squeeze between the sole of our shoe and 

 the ground. 



find t 

 of on 

 layer 

 no sn 



Other Pests. 



While we are e 

 have a word atinii 

 tion plants free fn 

 Sometime- «e lia\ 

 sow bugs and for t 

 ing better than sui 

 little of it dropped 

 edgeboar.l of tlie b 

 paris green to eolo 



iiving U stai 

 so the suga 

 Thev feed 



hour- l>i-loi 



sorb t hr |i 



Iiigbt and l.ury Ibem-elves in 



duriiii; the day. liut you can ( 



where tbey ari' tbe tl'iiekest by 



seem to prefi-r the liarder 'jro\M 



Thrip IS a small fellow. I.ut 

 you an innnen-e amount of dan 

 is allowed to get a foullmld. 

 never bothered by them unti 

 spring when the weather is wa 

 first sign usually is a brown ed 

 white l)looms. and if be i- mil 

 once tlie blooms will i oin.' mi] 



Tobaeeo in varion- fonii- i- I In 

 but it takes a lot of it to e\ 

 them, as they get way into 

 where no smoke or liquid can c 

 trate and you must depend on 

 him outside. Fumigate and si 



t notb- 

 reen. a 

 on the 

 enough 

 II, and 



UMstly at 

 the soil 

 ■asily see 

 tbe way 

 y. They 

 III. 



lie can do 

 la.Lre if he 

 We are 

 I toward 

 rm. The 

 •^c on the 

 fnii-ht at 

 M.'.d an. I 



ei inmate 

 he buds 

 .er pene- 

 eatehing 

 i-av with 



Greenfl}- or aphis is such a common 

 pest that every grower has one way or 

 another of combating them. The common- 

 est way, and while there are no blooms 

 perhaps the cheapest wav, is to burn 

 tobaeeo stems and fill the house with 

 smoke. This must not be done, how-^ 

 ever, when a crop is en, as it takes the 

 color out of the blooms and the blooms 

 will retain the burnt tol.acd ndcii foi 

 a day or two afterwaid. Ili.ir im- hlhh 

 preparations on the inaikn w In. h an 

 very efl'eetive and if u-(<l i:iMtiill\ llic\ 



to .1 llldxJtJ foot house, under the benches 

 Ion lioaid- to keep them dry). Fumi- 

 gate in the fall to get your plants clean 

 and after that you will find that the 

 stems will throw off enough nicotine to 

 keep them free from greenfly, and thrips, 

 too. Last year we found it necessary 

 to fumigate not more than three times 

 in any of the houses, and in some not 

 once, from October 1 until the next June. 

 An occasional turning over and a light 

 sprinkle will k'-ry tie- -liins active. 



Last winter I wa- \i-iliMg at a place 

 that is fauinii- for its eaiiiations. and 

 the grower told me nf the trouble he had 

 in keeping down aphis, and he showed 

 me a bench that was alive with them at 

 the time. It did not take more than a 

 glance around to see the best way that 

 any man could ask for to keep them 

 do\vn. The houses were built without 



-id,' 



about 3 inches apart. To fill between 

 these pipes with tobacco stems would be 

 an easy matter and the heat from the 

 water pipes would send out enough 

 vapor to keep any carnation free from 



aphis. The stems would likely dry out 

 and need to be changed every month or 

 six weeks on account of the heat, but 

 that would not be much of a job. 



Last winter during a long cold spell 

 when the ground remained frozen we had 

 some trouble with mice in our carnation 

 houses. They would gnaw through the 

 flower stems about two inches below the 

 bloom and then eat out the seed pod, 

 leaving the balance lay to show what 

 tlhv bad ibine. \\'i' tricil everything we 

 : ii'ld iliinlv .it ill till- way of home-made 

 lai |i..i-.iii-. liiit all ill \ain until we tried 

 a pn-paralion .alle.l 'Steam's Electric 

 Taste. ■ That semed to be too much for 

 them and in a few days we were rid of 

 them. A. F. J. Baub. 



CANDYTUFT. 



I see in a recent issue of The Re- 

 view that a correspondent, in reply to 

 "Iris," says it will never pay to force 

 candytuft. I take an entirely different 

 view of it. I have been forcing candy- 

 tuft for the last six years, and I con- 

 sider it the best paying crop I raise. 



There are, however, a great many va- 

 rieties of candytuft on the market, and 

 it is next to impossible to get any that 

 is good for forcing. I have worked up 

 my own strain, and find no trouble what- 

 ever in forcing it. I enclose a photo of 

 one of my houses of candytuft, taken last 

 May, and from which 800 bunches were 

 cut for Memorial Day, and from which 

 violets were picked up to April 6. Not- 

 withstanding the cloudy weather we had, 

 it was along and fit to cut ten days be- 

 fore Memorial Day. 



I also enclose a photo of twenty-five 

 spikes of my candytuft, which was 

 awarded a certificate of merit by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 

 1000. An idea of the size of it may be 

 bad when I state that it measured six 

 feet from tip to tip. William Sim. 



Cliftondale, Mass. 



