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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



NOVEMBEK 20, 1902. 



torn and sides of each box. We don't 

 believe it feasible to put the roots in 

 12 degrees of frost and .so envelope them 

 as to keep them above that temperature. 

 To do this would be keeping them ab- 

 solutely air tight, and that would never 

 do. Keep them between 28 and 30. 



WuxiAM Scott. 



CARNATION TROUBLES. 



1 send two carnation plants that I 

 think are afl'ected with stenirot. I have 

 a house of Joost and am losing three and 

 four plants a week from this disease, 

 though they are giving me the best crop 

 of blooms I have ever had. Please give 

 ine a remedy for this disease. 



I also enclose a bud and bloom of 

 White Cloud. The plants are healthy 

 and the stem is good, but tlie blooms 

 are largely diseased. Wliat is the rem- 

 edy? C. V. K. 



The two carnation plants came in 

 good condition and showed plainly what 

 is troubling your carnations. It is not 

 the common form of stem-rot and can- 

 not be combatted with lime like the com- 

 mon form, or rhizoetonia rot. This is 

 one called fusarium rot, and it is entire- 

 ly distinct from the other, in that it is 

 a dry. rot, whereas the other one is a 

 wet rot. 



Tliis one is also far more difficult to 

 combat than the other, and I liave never 

 heard of a cuie for it. Whenever we 

 notice a plant that is attacked by it 

 we usually pull it up and burn it and 

 in that way we have so far kept our 

 stock almost entirely free from it. This 

 is by far the safest way to combat it. 

 If you do not wish to sacrifice the dis- 

 eased plants I would advise you to spray 

 the plants with the bordeau.x: mixture or 

 the copper solution, preferably the lat- 

 ter. Dissolve one pound of sulphate of 

 copper in one gallon of ammonia, and 

 use one part to 50 of water and spray 

 the plants thoroughly twice each week 

 until you see that the disease has dis- 

 appeared from your plants. Apply it 

 in the morning after all the blooms have 

 been picked, as it will stain them, 

 though not so bad as the bordeaux mix- 

 ture. 



The bloom and bud you sent were 

 pretty well dried up when they arrived 

 here and they were of little help' to 

 me in diagnosing the case. I was not 

 able to find any thrips. owing to the 

 condition of the blooms, Init from your 

 description of it I am inclined to think 

 the gentleman was correct when he told 

 you it was thrips that was causing your 

 trouble. You seem positive that it is 

 not thrips, but are you sure that you 

 know thrips when you see them, or do 

 you know just how to find them? Take 

 a bud that is showing about J inch of 

 petal above the calyx and unfold the 

 petals, one after another and look closely 

 for a tiny insect about 1-10 to J of an 

 inch in length and very quick of move- 

 ment. I think you will find them. 



If you have only white varieties in 

 that house you need not be afraid to 

 fumigate all you like, and I would ad- 

 vise you to do so every evening for a 

 week; but if yon have colored varieties 

 in the house it will take most of the color 

 out of the blooms and your loss will be 

 considerable. A good talilpspoonful of 

 cayenne pepper on each pile of tobacco 

 stems will help to make it more ef- 

 fective. Give abundant ventilation to 

 free the" blooms of the tobacco odor. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



AZALEAS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



"F" asks: "What varieties of azaleas 

 are best for holiday sales, and in what 

 temperature should they be ke(pt at 

 night to have them in season?" 



There are three varieties tliat are es- 

 pecially suited for early forcing, an'i 

 they are: The well known Deutsche 

 Perle, for white, is indispensable and 

 can be had in flower at Christmas time 

 without any trouble; Vervaeneana, the 

 beautiful salmon and white, which forces 

 well ; and for a deep rosy pink, Simon 

 JIardncr is fine. Helene Thelmann is 

 another beautiful rose pink that forces 

 well, but it is not easily procured. The 

 above are all semi-double and will fill 

 the bill for this early season of flowet» 

 ing. 



1 have learned from wiser, if not 

 balder, heads that contrary to what 

 would appear reasonable, the plants that 

 you have kept over summer on your own 

 place, either planted out or in pots, 

 and which should now be well set with 

 buds, are not the plants for Christmas 

 flowering. The newly imported plants 

 are altogether better for this purpose.^ 

 I think I can account for this by the 

 conditions that the imported plants are 

 subjected to after being lifted from the 

 beds in Belgium. They are packed in 

 close boxes, cross the Atlantic in the 

 hold of the vessel, and the closeness and 

 heat give the buds a start and they are 

 ready with a little extra heat .to go 

 on and open their flowers. A tempera- 

 ture of 05 degrees at night will do for 

 any of the varieties named and syringe 

 daily until the flowers are open. 



William Scott. 



NEW YORK. 



American Institute Show. 



The American Institute exhibition 

 last Wednesday and Thursday was a 

 very creditable one, and well attended. 

 The quality was superb and quantity 

 abundant for the limited space for ex- 

 hibits. Chas. H. Allen displayed his 

 "White Lawson" and F. E. Pierson his 

 prize winning Pierson fern. .James 

 Scott showed evidences of ability in 

 the carnations grown by his "charges" 

 at Randall's Island, and so demonstrat- 

 ed his ability to do "missionary work." 

 The violets were superb. 



Franz Deegen is the name that has 

 settled on the new yellow rose by Ernst 

 Asmus, and I suppose we will "have to 

 make the best of it. Messrs. Roehrs 

 and Hale had their usual fine banks of 

 decorative plants with orchid dressing, 

 and Lager & Hurrell had their usual 

 excellent orchid exhibit. 



In the palm and fern classes the 

 prize winners were Howard Xicol, Geo. 

 Hale and Alex McKenzie. Specials were 

 awarded to Lager & H\irrell for their 

 orchids, to H. T. Clinkaberry for cyp- 

 ripediums, to Howard Nicol for ferns, 

 to C. H. Allen for carnations, and to 

 P. Sorenson for greenhouse plants. 



In roses Louis M. Noe was first on 

 12 Beauties and 25 Teas, and Geo. Hale 

 on 25 Brides and 25 Maids. First on 

 violets was won by Lyons & Strickland, 

 second by C. G. Velie & Son. 



In the chrysanthemum bloom classes 

 A. Hcrrington was first on 50 blooms, 

 with white Eaton, second being taken 

 by E. G. Hill Co.. with Yellow Eaton. 

 E. G. Hill Co. was first for pink, with 

 the new R. E. Richardson. For 25 flow- 

 ers W. Duckham was first, his collec- 



tion including Appleton, Eaton, Carnot, 

 Mme. Thurkall, Convention Hall and a 

 number of interesting new sorts. J. G. 

 McNicol was second. A. Hcrrington was 

 first on 30 blooms in six varieties, his 

 sorts being Eaton, Chadwick, Kate 

 Broomhead, G. J. Warren, Appleton and 

 Mrs. Barkley. Second went to Jarpes 

 Bell. 



In the chrysanthemum plant classes 

 J. G. McNicol took three firsts and 

 James Bell three. 



F. R.. Pierson Co. received a medal 

 for their new fern, Nephrolepis Piersoni. 

 Julius Roehrs was first for group of 

 ornamental plants. Alex McKenzie won 

 a special for poinsettias, Wm. Duckham 

 a special for 50 mum blooms and A. 

 Hcrrington for Gerbera Jamesoni. 



Notes. 



This week "turns the tide" in the 

 cut flower business that has been so 

 long ebbing; and the wholesalers and 

 retailers alike will rejoice as the skies 

 clear, the long period of dullness ends 

 and "the flowing tide comes in." The 

 horse show and the foot ball games are 

 helping to reduce the violet and mum 

 supply a little, a.nd the cooler weather 

 certainly is close -at .hand. "The good 

 old summer time", has been "lingering 

 in the lap" of autumn. Saturday it 

 was 70 degrees. No wonder the mar- 

 ket is glutted. Well, everything comes 

 to the patient waiter, even prosperity. 

 We anticipate a good season and a very 

 helpful Thanksgiving. Holly will be 

 used quite extensively in decorations. 



One of the finest dinners of the year 

 was given at Sherry's to M. Cambon, 

 the French ambassador, last week, the 

 floral decorations being very elaborate. 



Among fine wedding displays lately 

 was the Ellsworth wedding by Alex. Mc- 

 Connell, at the Church of the Heavenly 

 Rest, which was entirely in white mums, 

 the bridal bouquet of Dendrobium for- 

 niosum and the bridesmaids' of "Cris- 

 topher Columlras" mums, which Traen- 

 dly manufactures out of Ivory so deft- 

 ly that its own "grower" wouldn't know 

 it. 



On the 25th, at the Grace church, Mc- 

 Conne'll has the Clark wedding, which 

 will be one of the most elaboralie of the 

 year and Avhicli any of the city florists 

 would find it advantageous -to "look 

 upon." The whole back wall of the 

 church will be covered with wild smilax 

 and on each side of the altar, columns 

 extending to the roof, the whole dec- 

 orated with white chrysanthemums. The 

 same scheme of decoration will be used 

 on the altar and pulpit, pedestals reach- 

 ing down the center aisle to the door. 



The BriarclitT Greenhouses, through 

 Jlr. Paul M. Pierson, have invited a few 

 growers and friends to an "inspection 

 visit" to their Scarboro greenhouses this 

 Thnrsdav, and especially to see the new 

 house, 53x300, just completed on the 

 "new principle." concerning which the 

 Pierson-Sefton Co. are headquarters for 

 information. Tlie Briarcliff Farms, an 

 estate of 8,000 acres, with the largest 

 herd of Jersey cattle in the world, is on 

 the proarramme. 



Mr. Wesley B. Leach, with James Mc- 

 Manus. the wholesale florist, this city, 

 and also of tlie firm of .1. & W. Leach, 

 Astoria. L. I., was married Nov. 12 to 

 Miss Florence A. Ayres, of the same 

 town. Tlie ceremony was a quiet one 

 on account of the recent death of the 

 bride's grandparent. The Review ex- 

 tends congratulations. 



