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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 19, 1901. 



things better. Not but that the work 

 there could be improved, yet so much 

 better, that Boston's street trees (and 

 streets, too, in consequence) suffer in 

 comparison. 



The trouble lies largely in the lack 

 of knowledge, or__the lack of attention 

 given to the subject by- the governing 

 powers. Were the same intelligent in- 

 terest taken in the matter of its trees 

 that is given to its public libraries, hos- 

 pitals, parks, baths, gymnasiums, or 

 playgrounds, every street in Boston suit- 

 able for the purpose would be planted 

 with^rees, and provision made for their 

 care. Then, instead of the misshapen, 

 sickly and mutilated trees that we see 

 on every hand, all would be equally beau- 

 tiful, and contributing to the general 

 effect. 



I have said nothing about insect ene- 

 mies, and I will not in this paper specify 

 any, e.\cept the elmleaf beetle. This 

 is new to Boston, and was noticed for 

 the first time this year. It is a pest 

 of the most pernicious kind, and will, 

 without doubt, work great destruction if 

 not controlled or destroyed. Tlie intel- 

 ligence and energy of this club cannot 

 be better employed in the interest of 

 Boston's shade trees than Ijv directing 

 both against this destructive insect. It 

 has been successfully combated by the 

 use of the Paris green or London purple 

 solution. Tills should be sprayed on 

 the foliage as soon as it is expanded, fol- 

 lowed shortly by another application 

 should eggs appear. Timely application 

 is valuable in that poisoned foliage is 

 furnished for the first meal of the hatch- 

 ing larvae. Larvae descending to the 

 base of the trees to pupate can be killed 

 by a strong kerosene emulsion — 1 to 5. 



Several kinds of spraying machines 

 have been fitted up for u.se in fighting 

 this pest in other cities. A description 

 of several of the most effective can be 

 found in a reprint from the yeirbook of 



the Department of Agriculture for ISUO, 

 by L. O. Howard, Entomologist. Where 

 these machines have been tried, the cost 

 has been as low as 22 and 32 cents per 

 tree, where the conditions were favor- 

 able. 



There are many other insect pests, but 

 they can be left for another paper, as I 

 feel that I have already prolonged this 

 one beyond the point where danger may 

 be apprehended. 



PITTSBURG. 



Club Meeting. 



The Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting Thursday evening, the 

 12th inst., at the store of the Pittsburg 

 Cut Flower Co., 504 Liberty Street. It 

 was the largest meeting of the year. Five 

 new members were elected and seven new- 

 names proposed for membership. 



We had two distinguished visitors 

 with us, namely Dr. W. R. Hamilton, 

 president of the Botanic Society of Wes^t- 

 ern Pennsylvania, and John Shafer, sec- 

 retary of the same society and curator 

 of the botanical department of the Car-. 

 negie Institute. They were interested, 

 ilelighted, as'tonished. The only criticism 

 Dr. Hamilton made was — "but you don't 

 give any of the botanical names." "No, " 

 replied our president, "that is not our 

 mission, but if there is any plant, flow- 

 er, or green in this room you wish to 

 know the botanical name of we will 

 name it for you." 



The subject under consideration was 

 Plants, Flowers and Greens used by 

 florists at Christmas time, and an ex- 

 hibition of most everything available in 

 tliis line was spread upon the tables in 

 front of the members, having been 

 brought in by several of our florists. 

 Indeed, it made up a beaulifMl and very 

 interesting flower show. 



Henry A. Dreer, of Philadelphia, sent 

 some beautiful specimens of the pink 

 flowering and compacta forms of be- 

 gonia Lorraine to show their improve- 

 ment on the common type. He also 

 sent that elegant new palm Kentia San- 

 deriana, which threatens to supersede 

 Cocos Weddeliana in general utility. And 

 to show us the best kinds of small ferns 

 for use in fern dishes, so much in de- 

 mand at this time of the year, he sent 

 us a collection of the hardest leaved and 

 most lasting sorts. These included 

 Lastrea ari.stata, L. chrysoloba. Pteris 

 cretica and its varieties magnifica and 

 albo-lineata, P. leptophylla, Wimsettii, 

 palmati^, hastata, Sieboldii, adiantifolia, 

 intermedia and serrulata and its var- 

 ieties, Onycliium Japonicum, Polystic- 

 hum setosum and coreaceum. Nephrodi- 

 uni hirtipes, Cyrtomium falcatum and 

 Davallia tenuifolia stricta. 



Anton Schultheis, of College Point, 

 N. Y., sent Otaheite Orange in ripe fruit 

 and Ardisia crenulata full of berries, 

 and some Christmas heather wliich were 

 pyramids of myriads of little white flow- 

 ers. "Sell them!" exclaimed Julius Lud- 

 wig, "Why, I could get .$5 easy for that 

 "heather.' " 



John Dunbar, assistant superintendent 

 of the Rochester, N. Y., parks, sent a 

 collection of spraj-s of hardy shrubs and 

 vines loaded with red berries that was 

 an eye-opener. It didn't take our as- 

 tute florists long to note what a treas- 

 ure these bright berry laden vines would 

 lie at the Christmas season used with 

 asparagus or other green. They in- 

 cluded deciduous holly, euonymus, Jap- 

 anese and native celastrus, diflerent ber- 

 beris, long multi-panicled wands of red 

 fruit of Rosa multittora and many oth- 

 ers. As the berries of several sorts were 

 shriveled bv the recent severe frost the 

 president explained that had these 

 -prays been cut l)efore hard frost set 

 in and hung up to dry in a cool but free 



View in the Store of Mr. E. Wienhoeber, Chicago. 



