MAY 10, lilOd. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



731 



flnost plants for another Kaster. Why 

 I don't know, hut thp two-year-old 

 phmts give us a much lirif^liler (lower 

 than the young plants, I prefer to 

 keep them in pots pluiiKiii all sum- 

 mer out of doors. 



1 am in duty ho\ind tf) say that the 

 Aphis Punk tor which I had a good 

 word to say at the Carnation Con- 

 vention and which up to that time 

 I Iiad found most convrniont to use 

 and most efficacious in killing green- 

 fly, has recently seemed to have no 

 strength. I trust the manufacturers 

 will inject some nicotine into their 

 future make. Perhaps a great de- 

 mand did not allow proper time to 

 add the essential quiJities, and the 

 lahel and advertising was in greatest 

 supply. "When you get a good thing, 

 push it along," but be sure the qual- 

 ity is of the same excellence that 

 gained the article a reputation, "Cole- 

 man's mustard." "Cross & Blackwell's 

 pickles," "Lee & Perrin's Worcester- 

 shire sauce," "Bass' pale ale," and a 

 number of those things they make in 

 the "slow, old island," are the same 

 to-day that they were ■'lO years ago, 

 and no matter where you buy them, 

 whether it be in Chicago, Bombay, or 

 Botany Bay. So let us have Aphis 

 Punk as you first made it. for then 

 it killed greenfly as well as Mr. 

 Ward's favorite cat. 



I hope that you have most all your 

 bedding plants shifted into their sell- 

 ing sizes, but your labor with them 



Fig. 10. 



hotbed manure, and those without. Is 

 remarkable. Possibly the leaf ab- 

 sorbs some benefit, but the absence 

 of extreme dryness has much more to 

 do with it. It takes a little while to 

 throw this material up to each row 

 as you are setting the plants over, 

 but the quality will repay a hundred 

 fold; and then the sun can pour down 

 on them without harm. 



WILLIAM SCOTT. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The first summer exhibition of the 

 American Rose Society will be held In 

 the Winter Garden of the Eden Musee, 

 New York City, June 12, 13 and 14. 



The premium list has been issued 

 and copies may be had by addressing 

 the secretary, Mr. Leonard Barron, 136 

 Liberty street. New York. There Is a 

 large number of cash prizes in addition 

 to many silver cups and medals. The 

 display of hybrid perpetual and hybrid 

 tea roses promises to be especially fine. 



Fig. 11. Anemone Flowered Carnation. 



is not finished. Now is the time of 

 greatest growth and the zonal gerani- 

 ums particularly want at least one 

 stand-over before they are sold. It 

 seems to do them an immense amount 

 of good and the reason is the added 

 light and air that you let in among 

 them. An expert hand will move sev- 



eral thousand in a day and it must 

 be done if you are going to produce 

 good plants. 



I don't like to advocate extra labor, 

 but the difference between gerani- 

 ums and fuchsias or anything that 

 has over a 3-inch pot when plunged, 

 or even half plunged, in hops or old 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The printed proceedings of the ninth 

 annual meeting of the American Car- 

 nation Society, held at Buflalo Febru- 

 ary 1.5 and 16 last, has been issued and 

 a copy has reached us. 



It is handsomely printed and con- 

 tains a stenographic report of all the 

 discussions, in addition to the essays 

 read at the meeting. These discus- 

 sions, by the way, are always the most 

 interesting part of the proceedings. 



The report is a valuable addition to 



