The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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FALL EXHIBITIONS. 



Nov. 5-6— Madison. N. J.— Morria Counly Gar- 

 deners' and Ploriata- Society. C. H. Atklus, 

 Secy. Madison. N. J. 



Nov. 5-7— Newport. R. I.— Newport Hort. So- 

 ciety. A. Melkle. Sec'.v. 



Nov. 5-7— T.4RRYTOWN. N. Y.— Tarrytown Hort. 

 Society. Thos. Cockburn, Sec'y. Irvlngton. 

 N. Y. 



Nov. 5-9— Chicago — Hort. Society of Chicago. 

 Edwin A. Kanat, Ass't Sec'y, 5T0O Cottage 



Hort. Society. Alex. McKenzie. Sec'y. 



Nov. 9— CixciNNATi, O.— Cincinnati Florists' So- 

 ciety. P. W. BaU, Sec'y, 416 'Walnut street. 



Nov. 7-9— Boston.— Mass. Hort. Society. Rob't 

 Manning-. Sec'y, Horticultural Hall. 



Nov. 13— ORAN'GK, N. J.— New Jersey Floricul- 

 turai Society. Geo. Smith, Sec'y, Orange, N. J. 



Nov. 12-13— Elmira, N. Y.— Elmira Hort. So- 

 ciety. H. N. HofEman. Sec'y. 



Nov. 18-15—Baltimore— Baltimore Gardeners' 

 Club. J. J. Perry, Sec'y, Gay and Eager sts, 



Nov. 12-16 — Philadelphia — Pennsylvania 

 Hort. Society. David Rust, Sec'y. Hort. Hall, 

 Broad street. 



Nov. 12-16— "Waco, Tex. — Texas State Floral 

 Society. J. W. Barnett, Sec'y, Waco, Tex. 



Nov. 13-14— HonsTON.TEX.-Faith Home Ass'n. 

 Mrs. M. E. Bryan, Sec'y. 



Nov. 13-15— St. LotTis— St. Louis Plorista' Club. 

 E. Schray, Sec'y, llUl Pennsylvania avenue. 



Nov. 14-15 — Marshall. Tex.— East Texas 

 Flower Assn. F. S. Rlggs. Sec'y. Marshall. 



Nov. 13-16— Toronto, Oxt.— Toronto Garden- 

 ers' and Florists" Ass'n. W. C. Jay, Secy, 4;i8 

 Spadina avenue. 



Nov. 14-16— New Orleans— New Orleans Hort. 

 Society. D. Newsham, Sec'y. 



Nov. 15-16— Providence, R. I.— Rhode Island 

 Hort. Society. C. W. Smith, Sec'y, 61 West- 



Mo. — Con 



ntion 



John Thorpe. 

 Sup't. 



Nov. Utica. N. Y.— Utica Florists' Club. 



(Secretaries are requested to supply ar 

 sions In above list and to notify us of an: 

 changes.] 



CARNATION NOTES. 





I have never had carnations to act in 

 tlie manner described by Mr. H. J. G. 

 and I am unable to state with any cer- 

 tainty just what the trouble or the cause 

 of it could be. Perhaps if I had a dis- 

 eased specimen before me and a record of 

 the treatment the plants have received I 

 could tell more about it. It is quite evi- 

 dent, however, that part of the trouble 

 is simply a ease of stem-rot. Although 

 this disease most commonly attacks the 

 stem at the base of the plants its opera- 

 tions are by no means confined to that 

 part of the plant. You will often find 

 that certain stems and the foliage there- 

 on are so constructed that they will hold 

 considerable water at each joint and that 

 after each syringing those places are 

 filled with water, which remains there 

 until it evaporates. If syringing is too 

 frequent these places are wet constantly 

 and often stem-rot results, causing the 

 top to die off. It more frequently at- 

 tacks the branches down close to the 

 main stem, though, because the growth 

 is more dense and cannot dry out so well 

 there as it can up higher. 



We find that -when a plant once begins 

 to die off that way it may just as well be 

 pulled up at once and burned, as the bal- 

 ance of the branches will die off one 

 after the other. The proper thing to do 

 in that case is to burn the affected 

 plants, discontinue syringing for a time, 

 water sparingly at the roots and when 



you do water run the end of the liose 

 "between the rows close to the soil, dust 

 the plants with lime and give all the air 

 you can at all times. 



I cannot account for the turning yel- 

 low of the tips unless it is caused by 

 greenfly or thrips. Either of these if 

 allowed to multiplf will cause the tips 

 to come yellow and deformed. This turn- 

 ing yellow is also aggravated by too lib- 

 eral a supply of water at the roots or 

 by excessive feeding at a time when the 

 plants are in poor condition to even take 

 up a normal supply of food and water. 

 They get a sour stomach, so to speak. 

 Run them a little on the dry side and 

 fumigate every other night for two or 

 three weeks to rid them of aphis or 

 thrips, as the ease may be. Would also 

 advise cutting off all the badly affected 

 shoots, as they will produce no decent 

 blooms, and allow the plants to make a 

 new growth, which will be healthy if 

 fumigating is kept up regularly and the 

 watering is done carefully. It is y 

 early in the season and they can be got- 

 ten into full bloom again by January, 

 and if they are not badly affected a 

 Xmas crop can perhaps be had. 



New Varieties. 



Already there are some varieties being 

 advertised for dissemination next spring 

 and of course each one is the best that 



ing a very good plan we find is to no- 

 tice what varieties are exhibited in good 

 shape at the fall shows and then keep 

 sharp lookout for reports on those vari- 

 eties all through the season. In that 

 way you can at least learn whether a 

 variety is an early and continuous 

 bloomer. For instance, if a variety is 

 shown in good shape at the fall shows 

 and then again at the February meeting 

 of the Carnation Society you may depend 

 on that variety being a money maker and 

 you are safe in investing your money. 

 We avoid as much as possible those va- 

 rieties that are not heard from at all 

 until mid-winter unless the blooms are 

 extra fine. 



Tlie fall shows are being held right 

 along now and nothing will pay you 

 better than to take in one or more of 

 them. You can afford to go several 

 hundred miles for the sake of gaining 

 information which you cannot obtain in 

 any other way. You will not only see 

 new carnations and old ones, but you 

 will see many other beautiful blossoms 

 which will make you forget for the time 

 being all about rust and stem rot and 

 all your other troubles at home. If 

 you "do attend any of these shows try 

 and take along something good of your 

 production to show what you can do and 

 that you are alive and doing something. 

 A grower always respects another grow- 



Display of Orchiis by Lager & Hurrell at the New York Show. 



has ever been offered, so they claim. The 

 disseminators in most cases are honest 

 and conscientious men and they really 

 believe their varieties to be just what 

 they claim for them, and in fact most 

 every variety that is sent out gives prom- 

 ise of a great future while it is growing 

 on the originator'- ]il;n .-. P.nl in spite of 

 all that and the i:f\ ilmi ». .ne willing 

 to acept the nrl-iiuini . -uieinents as 

 correct, yet we w^inl Ui -,iti-.ly ourselves 

 by having a look at the plant and bloom 

 before we invest heavily. When we can- 

 not make a journey to the homes of the 

 candidates in order to see them grow- 



er who can do a few things just a little 

 better than he can. It does not need to 

 bo a mum or a carnation or a rose but 

 any kind of a well done plant or bloom 

 is always gladly received and given a 

 guild position on the exhibition table. 

 If you have a carnation seedling I hope 

 you have been wise enough to get it 

 into good shape for exhibition this fall 

 and you should show it now to show its 

 earliness. 



- Packing Blooms. 



DoiL't spoil a lot of good blooms by 

 carcli'ss packing, as one often sees, but 



