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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



June 26, 1S02. 



summer demand. Much of the poorness 

 of the present indoor roses can be cov- 

 ered or lessened by using plenty of the 

 foliage of roses, such as the admirable 

 Barablers or climbing varieties sent out 

 by Manda some four years ago. Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria is the best white rose 

 we can get in summer, and all the care 

 you can devote in preventing the petals 

 being bruised will be amply repaid with 

 their great beauty and sweetness. There 

 is more fragrance and depth of loveli- 

 ness in outdoor roses now than in all your 

 greenhouse pets, and wherever possible 

 preference should be given them. 



Lily of the valley is always a most ac- 

 ceptable flower for almost any occasion. 

 It is the choicest you can get now for 

 bride's bouquet or any particular order. 

 A bunch of Liberties and valley is good 

 enough for any queen. Bouvardia Hum- 

 boldtii corymbiflora is an exquisite white 

 waxy, starlike floner we are using for 

 choice boxes or cluster or for mixing in 

 a bride's bouquet. It must be used in 

 fairly good, flusters, though, to be most 

 effective. 



Ageratum, both the very light or dark 

 colors, make good lettering on funeral 

 work. Of course the letters must be 

 larger and broader than the usual, but 

 they give a more refined finish than im- 

 mortelles or chenille. 



Water lilies are good material for 

 wreath or cluster or points of prominence 

 in work. There is quite a knack in keep- 

 ing them open, but they are useful even 

 when shut if the outer petals are taken 

 off. The night bloomers are very beau- 

 tiful and specially adapted for dinner, or 

 for that matter any decoration connected 

 with aquatic life or event. 



Carnations are a most prominent ele- 

 ment in the cut-flower market. They are 

 cheap and as good as anything you can 

 recommend where general effect and last- 

 ing qualities are looked for. White ones 

 are fine for wreath or flat bunch. Col- 

 ored ones, particularly pink, are immense 

 for vase or basket or general decorative 

 work. Long, loose bunches, with broad 

 ribbon, are being used for arm bunches 

 for bridesmaids. 



Lilium auratum are coming in, and 

 while they are about the largest and 

 showiest flower you can offer, their very 

 strong odor prevents their use in any 

 great quantity; nevertheless they are 

 good for large funeral work or in a much 

 modified way for vase work where there 

 is plenty of air. They should not be sent 

 to a sick room or used on a dining table. 

 Orange blossoms can be had in limited 

 quantity and the finer jasmine may take 

 its place or be used to add fragrance and 

 beauty to any box or bunch. 



For yellow table decorations or other 

 forms where very rich color is desired 

 there can be nothing better than alla- 

 mandas. This flower is a great favorite 

 at Newport. It is fine when arranged 

 with maidenhair fern. Allamanda nerii- 

 folia makes a fine bush plant and is very 

 good for plant decorative work. Japan- 

 ese iris are now very beautiful and are 

 grand for funeral wreaths, bunches or 

 for general decorative purposes. In the 

 latter case they should, wherever possi- 

 ble, be arranged in Japanese or Chinese 

 vases, long and graceful with a little of 

 their own foliage. There are some lovelv 

 shades of color and splendid work can be 

 done with them. 



The different varieties of anthuriums 

 make a very effective vase, or even one 



flower in a vase of others will lend much 

 color. Their great lasting qualities and 

 odd shapes and colors make them valua- 

 ble, itiey will never be used to any ex- 

 tent as a decorative flower by themselves 

 but one or two goes a long way as re- 

 gards color and for that and other rea- 

 sons they should be more generally 

 grown. 



Thorley has been making a specialty 

 of a large white chrysanthemum which 

 he has been receiving for months past. 

 The flowers are large and make up fine, 

 of course with large roses such as Beau- 

 ties, Liberties or Brunners, or for funeral 

 bunches. 



There are many occasions where in- 

 tense color is desired either in small or 

 large quantity and for this such flowers 

 as Phlox Drummondu, poppies. Lychnis 

 chaleedoniea, geraniums, sweet Williams, 

 Plumbago coccinea, and such are obtain- 

 able. 



Some very beautiful decorations can bo 

 done by using masses of the different 

 geraniums. Low bowls and Adiantum 

 cuneatum are the best to use. Try 

 them some time when iixing small tables 

 for some big auair. Use one color on 

 each table, white or green shades on all. 



In flowering vines we have the dift'er- 

 ent kinds of honeysuckle, Clematis jiani- 

 culata and Cdbea scandens; they aire ^1 

 fine for traceries, hanging eft'ects or any 

 form of decoration. Agapanthus umbel- 

 latus can be used to good advantage 

 where long stemmed flowers are needed, 

 but the color is hard to make' effective 

 unless white is in close proximity. ^ 



ivER,A. 



ROSES. ' 



Seasonable Hints. 



At this season when the foliage on 

 young stock is succulent and tender many 

 of the florist's insect enemies will put in 

 an appearance, — hairy caterpillars, cut 

 worms, etc., which soon create great 

 havoc with the young leaves. In some 

 cases they will strip a plant entirely of 

 foliage in one night. Going over the 

 house and picking by hand is too tedious 

 a process in a place where roses arq 

 grown in quantity. Kerosene emulsion 

 sprayed on the leaves with a syringe is a 

 goou method of killing them off. 



I have lately been using a mixture of 

 finely sifted bran and paris green in the 

 proportion of one of paris green to twen- 

 ty of bran and applying it to the foliage 

 with the sulphur blower. This remedy is 

 sure, quick, easily applied and harmless 

 to the most tender foliage. I also used 

 it with great success on smilax where 

 the cut worm was literally destroying the 

 crop. This is also a sure cure for sow 

 bugs, grasshoppers or any chewing insect, 

 the bran when moist having a sweetness 

 which entices them to eat. 



The weather in many localities has 

 been so cold lately that many growers 

 have been forced to fire up again; this is 

 better than taking any risks. If the out- 

 side temperature runs down anywhere 

 about the fifties, especially during damp 

 weatlier it will pay to have some fire. 

 This will save the young stock from get- 

 ting a check and help to keep off mildew. 



ElBES. 



TROUBLE WITH BEAUTY. 



I send you a sample of American Beau- 

 ty rose. Please tell me what makes the 

 blooms come injured in this way. Two 



months ago I cut the old plants back, 

 gave them a mulch of fresh cow manure 

 three inches thick, and they made a fine 

 growth, but the flowers come like the 

 sample sent. Have grown many Beauties 

 but never had this trouble before. 

 Plants are old budded stock and are in 

 solid beds. C. W. K. 



Cal. 



This seems to be a clear case of over- 

 feeding. Three inches of mulch of any 

 kind applied at once is too heavy. Fresh 

 cow manure is altogether too rank to 

 apply to Beauties ; the wood produced 

 from such feeding is too soft and spongy 

 to bear good buds. 



A mulch composed of two-thirds well 

 decomposed cow manure and one-third 

 good fibry loam, with a sprinkling of 

 bone meal added, and spread on one inch 

 thick, will produce wood of a better 

 quality, with a much smaller percentage 

 of malformed buds. 



The smaller of the buds I found con- 

 tained some thrips, which would account 

 for its lack of development. Smoking 

 lightly and frequently in the early 

 morning will soon rid the house of these 

 pests. RiBES. 



_^ ..,H ROSE QUESTIONS. 



f'-We arc troubled with what they call 

 tlie June rose bug. Please tell me 

 through the Review how to keep them 

 off of the roses. ■ ' 



What kind of a climbing everbloom- 

 ing rose woukT^ifie^best to.- plant iajra 

 greenhouse? ''Sxl m '-■ ^ - ' J..,W. J. 



iinfFiom this letter I ^a^6Si8''%lie .roses 

 "are grown outside. J. W. j; aisff'fails to 

 describe the insect which is almoying 

 him. It may be the June bug (Lach- 

 nosterna fusca) or it may be the rose 

 chafer. The' remedy recommended for 

 both is spraying with some of the ar- 

 senites, paris green or arsenited Bordeaux 

 mixture. ' 3'i s^ 



The rose leaf hopper ' (Typhloeyba 

 rosea) is also in some localities called a 

 June bug. Dusting the leaves with pyre- 

 thnim insect powder is a simple and sure 

 remedy for this pest. 



Gloire de Dijon, Marechal Niel, an<I 

 Devoniensis make excellent pillar roses 

 for inside growing. Golden Gate is also 

 useful for this purpose. RiBES. 



THE ROSE CURCULIO. 



We mail a sample of a bug that is new 

 to us and which is this season proving 

 very destructive in the field. It per- 

 forates the buds of roses and the stems 

 of pseonies with its hard snout and ruins 

 them completely. It has not yet ap- 

 peared under glass. Can you give us 

 its name and some information concern- 

 ing it 1 



The Pake Floral Co. 



Denver. 



Dear Sirs: — The red and black insect 

 with the long snout received from Den- 

 ver, Colo., where it is stated to be de- 

 structive to the buds of roses and stems 

 of pjeonies, is the rose curcuUo (Rhyn- 

 chites bicolor), a well-known enemy of 

 roses. Pffiony seems to be a new food 

 plant for this species. 



There is also present in this sending a 

 single specimen of a closely related and 

 very similar beetle (Ehynchites mexi- 

 canus). This is comparatively new as 



