NOTEMEEK 28, 1901. 



TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



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View of the Central Part of the Kansas City Show. 



The pilgrims returning from Kansas 

 City say it was a great show and that 

 they had a great time. 



QUACK GRASS. 



Can you tell me how to destroy quack 

 grass? X understand that salt will do it, 

 but how much sliould be used per acre, 

 and would it be best to plow it in? 



New York. M. C. B. 



Quack or couch grass (Triticum re- 

 pens) is a pestiferous weed, very hard to 

 eradicate. In England it is one of the 

 worst weed pests the farmer has to con- 

 tend with. 



In hard walks it can be killed by fre- 

 quent applications of salt, sprinkled just 

 after a rain or after a watering. By 

 frequent is meant as often as the grass 

 appears and before it has a chance to 

 make growth. Salt, however, should 

 never he applied when its washings from 

 rain storms will run over turf. 



In arable land it is not practicable to 

 kill couch grass by salting. Plow or dig 

 the ground over and keep under clean 

 cultivation until the grass roots are dead, 

 for the grass will die provided the hoe is 

 run through the ground once a week, or 

 as often as the point of a spear of grass 

 appears. A crop may be grown, say corn, 

 to help the expense account; but faithful 

 vigilance for one season is the price of 

 ridding a piece of ground of couch 

 grass. J. A. Pettigbew. 



Boston. 



CLEVELAND. 



Various Items. 



Business has been slowly improving 

 the past week or so. We have had a 

 hard killing frost, just what was needed 

 to stimulate the demand for cvit ilowers. 

 Mums, of course, take the lead, with 

 roses and carnations striving hard for 

 second place in the race for popularity. 



It has been my experience this season, 

 and I think the majority of the growers 

 here will bear me out," that the better 

 quality of chrysanthemums, and of 

 course the larger sizes, have sold bet- 

 ter and brought more money than they 

 ever did before, most of the buyers pre- 



fering to pay the price asked for a large 

 flower rather than take a smaller one. 

 The fad for large mums is not dying out 

 bcre but is rather on the increase. 



On Saturday was held the annual mum 

 sliow at Sheriff street market house. 

 The display was very fine, but the day 

 lieing stormy the sales were poor. There 

 were no prizes given this year, but the 

 competition for arrangement, variety 

 and size of blooms was just as great as 

 heretofore. The best displays were made 

 in the following order: S. N. Pente- 

 cost, G. M. Naumann, Casper Aul, A. 

 Steyn, A. Schmitt, H. Hart, Mrs. Ut- 

 zinger and J. MoUenkopf. G. M. Nau- 

 nuinn had some very fine Golden Wed- 

 ding, Timothy Eaton and Pennsylvania; 

 Casper Aul was strong on Col. Appleton, 

 and S. N. Pentecost displayed Golden 

 Wedding, pink and white Deans and 

 white and yellow Jerome Jones. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. gave their an- 

 nual chrysanthemum show last week and 

 had mums in great quantity, but they 

 made a specialty of table decorations, 

 two of the tables being exceptionally 

 fine. One table was of orchids and 

 maidenhair ferns in a birch log, the 

 whole surrounded by violets, tied in 

 bundle* with violet ribbons, to be used 

 as favors. The other a centerpiece of 

 lily of the valley, surrounded by a gar- 

 land of rosebuds. There was also a 

 liridal canopv of palms and ferns. 



This week.' Tuesday (the 19th), Smith 

 & Fetters have their annual opening, 

 of which I will speak in my next week's 

 notes. 



A Visit to Mentor and Patnesville. 

 I visited Mentor and Painesville last 

 week, stopping at C. Hagenl>erger's, 

 whore I found Carl, as he is familiarly 

 called, packing ferns and palms prepar- 

 atory to shipping. But he had time to 

 take' me around and dwell on the new 

 carnations. He gives all the new ones 

 a trial. H*is mums were very good. 



I next called on C. ilerkel & Son. 

 Here I found everything in the pink of 

 condition, their roses showing a fine 

 growth and a great many ready to cut. 

 Their carnations are not showing very 

 many buds or blooms yet, they having 

 picked oil' all the blooming shoots when 

 planting them in. Their, one house of 



violets looked very fine, indeed. Hei'O 

 is where you can see the mum in all it.> 

 glory. While they do not raise very 

 many, their one house was a sight. Their 

 soil seems to be especially adapted for 

 them. 



I next visited Painesville, where the 

 Storrs & Harrison Co. are located. I 

 was taken in hand by Mr. Robert George 

 who, by the way. was elected vice presi- 

 dent and general manager at the last 

 meeting of the stockholders, and was 

 taken around through the different de- 

 partments. The}' grow roses in small 

 pots by the thousands for mail trade, 

 having about 400,000 H. P. and Crimson 

 Ramblers. Thej' have lumdled this year 

 over a carload of bulbs and 7,000 azaleas, 

 and they shipped during October ninety- 

 eight carloads of ornamental trees and 

 nursery stock. Their packing, shipping 

 a)ul storing rooms cover about two acres 

 and are the best equipped in.Ameiica. 

 Ornamental trees and shrubs of all 

 kinds have sold well this year. Their 

 shipping trade in hardy shrubs and 

 trees was about 40 per cent greater ii\ 

 October than any previous month and 

 f'ovember gives promise of beating last 

 month. TEIJEl^ 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



Tlie past week was a gala one for this 

 lively town and a most gratifying one 

 for those who assumed the financial re- 

 sponsibilities of the great show. The 

 weather was all thiit could be desired, 

 both for the presentation of cut blooms 

 and for the comfort of the people. 

 The increasing attendance, evej» up to a 

 late hour on Saturday, showed how anx- 

 ious the masses were to see the wonder- 

 ful display, and the management decided 

 to continue the show over Sunday. There 

 was no less than fifty thousand paid ad- 

 missions to Convention Hall last week 

 at the popular price of 25c. In potted 

 plants there were few outside of the 

 chrysanthemums because none were pre- 

 pared for the exhibition. 



The quality of cut blooms was par ex- 

 cellence and with plenty of floor space 

 enabled the exhibitors to display them 

 to the best advantage. It was a great 

 show of choice blooms and floral decora- 



