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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Dkcejiueu 10, 1003. 



hy applying water absorbents, such as 

 liaic, to the foliage. In snort, many t'nu- 

 gous diseases, peculiar to foliage, ran be 

 nuii-h les.sened and in many instances 

 prevented by regulating the moisture 

 couditioils of the air. 'I'lie cucumber and 

 melon hlights, which have raised havoc 

 with these crops, the last few years in 

 New England, have never troubled our 

 greenhouse crops, grown under minimum 

 moisture conditions, notwithstanding the 

 fact tliat infected crops were abundant 

 outdoors in tlie innnediate vicinity. If 

 it were possible to control the moisture 

 conditions outdoors the same winild hold 

 true there. For example, a cold, wet 

 spring induces peach leaf carl, while a 

 dry, warm .spring is not favorable for 

 the development of the fungus which 



ond jihotograph was taken from the same 

 position December i! anil clearly shows 

 tiie higher su|iports. improved growth and 

 increased quantity of buds. 



ERIE, PA. 



Baur Place Closed. 



On .Monday, Dcccjnlier 7, Sheriff Bur- 

 ton levied on the stock and other eft'ecis 

 of S. Alfred Baur, in the store at 11' 

 State street, and on the stock and ;ill 

 personal property at the extensive new 

 greciiluius<'s on West Twenty-si.\th street, 

 riic sale at the store is advertised for 

 December 11, at 9 o'clock in the morn 

 ing, and at the greenhouses at 2 o'clock 

 on the afternoon of the siune date. The 



Hause of Dorners' New White Carnations Photographed September 14. 



causes curl, and many other cases might 

 be cited where infection is due to weath- 

 er conditions which cannot be controlled; 

 whereas, in under-glass culture there 

 would be little difficulty in controllir- 

 these conditions, and preventing such 

 diseases. The application of moisture 

 absorbents to asparagus plants has, in 

 some instances, very perceptibly reduced 

 the rust, and even the covering of an ap- 

 ple tree is often suflScient to keep the 

 dew off and render the plants free from 

 infection. With this idea in mind, tent 

 cloth crops have been tried with some de- 

 gree of encouragement, although the ex- 

 pense of tent covers and the results ob- 

 tained from their use do not at present 

 appear to be such as to warrant their 

 employment in all instances. 



Another element which has a great 

 bearing on the health of plants in gen- 

 eral is proper feeding. The influence 

 wMeh proper feeding and cultivation has 

 on the susceptibility of crops to disease 

 is quite marked. There is little doubt 

 that in many cases time and money 

 could be better spent in securing robust 

 crops by cultivating and feeding, than 

 in spraying sickly plants. 



NEW CARNATIONS. 



The accompanying illustrations are 

 from photographs in a house of F. Dor- 

 ner & Sons Co.'s new white carnations. 

 Lady Bountiful on the first and The Belle 

 on the farther bench. The house was 

 planted July 28, 1903. The first photo- 

 graph was taken September 14 and shows 

 the earliness of the varieties. The see- 



.'eizures were made to satisfy claims ot 

 Rev. Christian Adolf Baur. 



BUFFALO. 



Various Jottings. 



The writer was li-it in town 

 giving, and did not get a wi 

 family turkey, but was serenely 

 in bachelor's hall, with a co 



It Thauks- 



ng of tlie 



contented 



id chicken 



and sliced cold pork, and when he diil 

 retuiii to town the report was that busi- 

 ncs:i hail been very good. Chr^'santhe- 

 munis to make the house cheerful and 

 violets to send to "the only one" were 

 rather the favorite flowers. 'Mums are 

 Jibout all over and roses and carnations 

 ha^e now come in for a long season ; of 

 gooil qualities of both there are none 

 too many. Growers are ))leased with the 

 prices that the commission house and re- 

 tailers are giving them for good carna- 

 tions and we hear of this from several 

 j>arts of the country. This is as it 

 should be. Carnations have for years 

 been grown at little or no profit. If 

 ihe grandmother and your wife and chil- 

 dren all worked at it, and you managed 

 to keej) out of debt, or perliaps you grew 

 other things that did yield a profit bur 

 without keeping any account, you thought 

 the carnations were earning you a living. 

 The long-stemmed fine carnation that is 

 ^v:^nted today should bring close upon 

 the same price as a Bride, Bridesmaid. 

 I'crlc, ;\Iorgan or any of the popular tea 

 ruses. Why not? I heard an ea.stern 

 rose grower, who does not by any means 

 brag of his skill, say that his Brides- 

 maids averaged twenty-six buds during 

 tlie year, and a western grower said at 

 the same meeting that liis roses of the 

 same varieties averaged forty-nine buds. 

 Can anyone of you do much better with 

 the fine varieties of carnations than 

 twenty-six flowers? Then there is only 

 the little difference in cost of fuel, and 

 its not enough to count, and labor i« 

 about, the same. A dozen Prosperity-. 

 lOnchantress or Harlowarden should be 

 worth just as much, wholesale or retail, 

 as a dozen Bridesmaid or Meteor roses, 

 relative quality being the same. 



Buffalo seems well off for flowering 

 plants for the holiday season. Palmer, 

 Kebstock and Anderson are all making 

 lavish displays of Begonia L,orraine, aM 

 home grown. Jlr. Rebstock has enough 

 for the eighth judicial district, nhi<di 

 includes the eight western counties of 

 the state. Anderson has a splendid lot 

 of poinsettias and cyclamens. Pal- 

 mer ha.s begonias, cyclamens, azalep = 

 etc.. to burn, or rather I should say to 

 freeze, and at Cold Springs vrill l^" 

 found plenty of flowering plants to sai- 

 isfv all aaIio will ^'enture so far into tiic 

 suburbs. 



There have been some large demamN 



House of Dorncfi' New White Carnations Photographed December 2. 



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