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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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destructive to roses and many other 

 plants grown under glass. Fortunately 

 there ir. n im -imph mid effective means 



, ]; ,„l,,-i ',,.m,dh- ,- pwvthium powder. 

 This should be in as fresh .1 condition as 

 possible, as if it is the least -tale it is of 

 no effect and this accounts foi the many 

 complaints as to its ineflieacy. For use 

 as a dry powder, in which state I con- 

 sider it 'most effective, it may be diluted 

 with flour in the proportion of one of the 

 powder to four 01 flour. Close live 

 Mutilators and apply with the powder 

 blower. Twice a week is sufficient. 



Helebore administered as a dry powder 

 is also very effective, as this kills by con- 

 tact and also by being eaten. Paris green 

 is the most common remedy used in rose 

 houses, and is applied in the dry state. 

 It should be diluted with some tine pow- 

 der and well mixed. Air slaked lime as a 

 dilutent answers the purpose admirably ; 

 the proportion should be lime forty, poi- 

 son one. Apply with powder blower and 

 refrain from syringing for twenty-four 

 hours. Two applications per week will 

 soon clean them out. Kibes. 



MIGNONETTE CULTURE. 



English growers of this annual, by a 

 system of culture peculiarly their own, 

 convert the plant into a semi-shrub and 

 perpetuate its life for a period of from 

 six to eight years. In my last article 

 on mignonette I described the method 

 of selecting, harvesting, storing and sow- 

 ing the seed, and its culture and care 

 up to its blooming stage. 



These methods in this case are perti- 

 nent up to the stage where training be- 

 gins by removing the two topmost leaves, 

 Where it is designed to train the plant 

 into its tree form, the training must be 

 deferred till the plant has reached the 

 length desired for height of stem. _ The 

 stem must be supported and kept in an 

 upright position and all the leaves along 



the plant in this form, as any approach 

 towards pinching as resorted to in chrys- 

 anthemum culture is simply ruin. 



When the plant has formed a head 

 measuring eight or ten inches across, the 

 leaves and branches along the stem should 

 be gradually removed, taking off two or 

 three of these at intervals of four or 

 five days, beginning from the bottom. 

 Training should be continued till Novem- 

 ber, when the flower buds can be allowed 

 to develop. 



A compost of four parts loam to one 

 of well decomposed cow manure, with 

 one-sixteenth of the entire bulk of sand 

 and the same quantity of old lime mor- 

 tar added suits admirably. The last shift 

 should be given before the middle of 

 September, giving ample drainage and 

 leaving room for a light mulch when re- 

 quired. 



These plants thrive best in a deep 

 frame or pit, with the back to the south, 

 and should have a lath shading during 

 bright weather. Before the nights get 

 cold they should be brought into a house 

 having a night temperature not exceed- 

 ing 54 degrees. 



I have frequently seen plants with 

 three-foot or four-foot stems and with 

 perfectly symmetrical heads measuring 

 three feet across and literally covered 

 with blooms. And many of these speci- 

 mens were grown by amateurs who did 

 not possess a foot of glass other than 

 a sash frame and their window accomo- 

 dation, and yet they kept them in good 

 flowering condition for as long as six 

 and eight years. Bibes. 



NEW SWEET PEAS. 



At the annual exhibition of the Na- 

 tional Sweet Pea Society of England, 

 July 15 and 16, Henry Eckford, of Wem, 

 was awarded a silver medal for Scarlet 

 Gem, a very bright red, which was judged 

 the best novelty of the year. Mr. Eck- 



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the stem left on. When these eyes break 

 and send forth a shoot this should be al- 

 lowed to grow until it has attained five 

 or six leaves, when the top leaves should 

 be removed. 



Encourage the plant to make a clean 

 stem of from three to four feet before 

 taking out the tips, and after that keep 

 picking out the tips of each shoot after 

 it has made four or five leaves. This 

 part of the training is of the utmost 

 importance in the successful culture of 



ford also received a first-class certificate 

 for King Edward VII, a deeper red than 

 the foregoing. 



REMEDY FOR ANTS. 



I have been troubled with ants for 

 some time, there being two large colon- 

 ies in my garden. I tried to destroy them 

 in various ways, using sugar and Paris 

 green on bread and fresh bones, but that 

 did not ' ' do them up. ' ' I then used 



gasoline. After wetting the ground I 

 made a hole with a stick, about six inches 

 deep, filled it with gasoline and then 

 trod the earth down solid. It killed 

 most of them. I repeated the dose when 

 any made their appearance and am now 

 entirely free from the pest. The gaso- 

 line did not hurt cannas or strawberries. 

 I. A. W. 



ADAPTING IDEAS. 



A florist who was short of flowers when 

 making up a pillow remembered having 

 seen a Japanese curtain with one corner 

 cut off and finally solved his pillow 

 difficulty by omitting flowers from one 

 corner of his design. He was much 

 praised for the "artistic inspiration." 



The plan for the rose garden at the 

 Chicago World's Fair was taken from 

 the ornamental casting on top of a radi- 

 ator in the office of the officials. An im- 

 print of the radiator was taken by cover- 

 ing it with shoe blacking and then 

 smoothly pressing a sheet of paper 

 against it. 



The plan for an odd and especially at- 

 tractive ribbon bed was taken from the 

 ornamentation of a seam in a pair of rub- 

 bers purchased by an observing park su- 

 perintendent. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



One can gather all sorts of reports as 

 to the state of the market, but on the 

 whole it may be said that seldom, if ever, 

 has there been so little stock in the mar- 

 ket or rose values so high at this sea- 

 son, quality of stock, of course, being 

 considered. But even at that there have 

 several times lately been too many car- 

 nations. Koses continue scarce, but more 

 growers are beginning to cut from young 

 stock and supplies are sure to increase 

 steadily from this on. Just the same 

 Beauties are still hard to get. Kaiserin 

 is scarce and Meteor is of about the best 

 average quality. 



Some good white carnations, mostly 

 Flora Hill, are coming in and have 

 brought fine prices one day and nothing 

 to brag of the next, according to supply 

 and demand. It is impossible to carry 

 them over night and retain their fresh- 

 ness. Outdoor carnations are coming in 

 more plentifully and asters are beginning 

 to pile up. F. W. Timme says this should 

 be a great year for asters because of the 

 fine growing weather, but qualities are 

 not very high and prices are decidedly 

 low. As a matter of fact, all outdoor 

 flowers are clogging the market. Aura- 

 tums are very abundant and of widely 

 varying quality. Ferns received from the 

 east are very fine now. 



Various Notes. 



E. F. Kurowski, of the Moninger Co., 

 was at Mendota the other day and says 

 that Henry Schweitzer was put com- 

 pletely out of business by the recent 

 storm. But Mr. Kurowski 's firm is heip 

 ing him to rebuild and friends in the 

 trade will largely restock the place. 



F. G. Klingel, bookkeeper at Peter 

 Beinberg's, who has been ill for several 

 weeks, is at Benton Harbor, keeping 

 quiet by the doctor's orders. 



The George Wittbold Co. will send an 

 exhibit of specimen plants to the con- 

 vention. 



The younger members of the Wien- 

 hoeber family are in the mountains, but 

 George Wienhoeber will be home for the 

 convention. 



