July 2. 1003. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



205 



sulphur i- a good serviceable blower. 

 The best jnachine that I know of for 



Win 



close the ventilators so that the powder 

 may have a chance to settle evenly, and 

 keep them closed for half an hour or so. 

 This should lie done during bright 

 weather ami when tin- foliage is dry. 

 This should be done twice a week till 

 the trouble disappears, and nine a week 

 after that, as a precautionary measure. 

 When firing becomes necessary, paint- 

 ing the pipes with a mixture of two 

 parts sulphur and one part air -hiked 

 lime will keep mildew away. If steam 

 i- used, put the sulphur on the- return 

 pipes; the hotter pipes will cause it to 

 fuse, and the fumes of sulphur m ;i state 

 of fusion is death to vegetable life. 



ElBES. 



ROOTING 'MUMS LATE. 

 When Ki.li.,4 tiie recent article on 

 (In \ ■sjni henuuns damping oil'. I thought 



hut I cii, hi not get good stems and the 

 plants were not as strong as those from 

 earlier culiirgs. So I struck upon the 

 following plan, which has given me 

 -ie.it satisfaction for my last hatch of 

 stock is even bigger and stronger than 

 the first. 



After the stock plants are brought in 

 from the eold frame they are planted mi 



a light bench in good soil: then a- - 



ii- tl nttings me about three inches 



high they are taken and rooted in -and 

 in the usual way. Then the stock plants 

 are covered up with soil until nothing is 

 seen but a few dead sticks left from last 

 year's cut. and the label of each sort. 

 They are then watered and very soon 

 the shoots begin to break through and 

 grow very rapidly, making strong 

 growth. When they are about -i\ 

 inches high they are pulled off, not cut 

 oil', and are found to he tine plant- ready 

 for 3-inch pots, with a large bunch of 

 root- and most of them with two stems, 

 which are left on if the previous cut 

 ting was strong when cut. They are 

 then potted into 3-inch pots and well 

 watered and shaded until they start 

 growing. 



The cuttings, or I should say plants, 

 taken this way are very strong and vig- 

 orous, as there is no drain on their vital- 

 ity in making roots, for their attach- 

 ment to the stock plants sustains and 

 keeps them growing. They verj soon 

 outstrip the sand-struck plants, for by 

 the time the sand-struck plants are 

 ready for 3-inch pots these are ready 

 for 4-inch, or the bench, if it is ready 

 for them. 



A second crop of cuttings may be taken 

 baforc the stock plants are coverol op. 

 i! the stock plants are brought in parly 

 enough from the frame and if much 

 stock is wanted. The varieties I have 

 rooted in this manner are ilajor Bon- 

 natl'mi. Mrs. Weeks. Ivory. Autumn 

 Glory, J. E. Lager. Glory 'of Pacific, 

 Polly Rc-c. i let i, l>cr Sunshine and Mr-. 

 Jerome Jones. The latter does not root 

 as readily as tl thers; it has to re- 

 main longer on the plants. 1 am sure 

 that anyone who tries this method in 

 rooting his last hatch of cuttings from 

 .stock plants will be more than satisfied 

 with results. Rudolph Fischer. 



Roses on the Wooded Ishnd, Jackson Park, Chicago, June 22. 



CARNATION NOTES-EAST. 



Stem-Rot in the Field. 

 Carnation fields in this section are 



in most instances -naked to the point of 

 saturation, making it impossible to cul- 

 tivate, besides producing condition- con- 

 ducive to the development of stem-rot. 

 There are so many conditions beyond 

 our control that tend toward the de- 

 velopment of this disease in the field 

 that it must lie admitted to be one of. 

 if not the worst enemy with which the 

 grower has to contend. An advantage 

 in having its ravages take place in the 

 field is that less time and space are 

 wasted, also contamination of valuable 

 bench soil is avoided. I do not believe 

 it to he a constitutional disease, hut 

 broughl on wholly by condition- sur- 

 rounding the plants. In that case it is 

 necessary to resort to prevention rather 

 than cure. 



Intelligent preparation of Held soil 

 a- regards fertility, method of handling, 

 grade and genera] aspect of the land 

 niii-t he carefully studied. I have -ecu 

 had cases of stem-rot mi land enriched 

 l>\ t.,i. much animal manure. If some 

 other hoed crop had been grown the 

 tir-t vear. the land ploughed late in the 

 fall, 'left exposed to tile action of the 

 frost, again ploughed in the spring and 

 with the harrow ine in of a libera] coal 

 of wood ashes or air-slaked lime, the 

 result would have hen different. 



In the case of depression in the land 

 allowing the plants to stand in water 

 for -onic time, the effect cannot In- hi id 

 to stein int. Any plant but an aquatic 

 would suffer by the rotting of its roots. 

 We see equally well grown plant- on 

 both clayey and -.ilnh -nil-: al-o ca-e- 

 of stem-rot occur in each kind oi soil, 

 so that while moisture has its effect in 

 aggravating the trouble, it can hardly 

 he called the cau-c: ill fact, no one thing 

 can be put down as the cause. 



From the time the plant i- set in the 

 field until lifting time, there are many 

 ways and means of it- receiving a check 

 in growth. It is then. I claim, that 

 fungus growths embrace their opportun- 

 ity. The ever present, lurking, thread- 

 like germ enters: th nditions arc pel- 

 ted for it- development; the result is 



In arresting it- progress n bas been 



.ke, I 



• practice to remove affected plants 

 soon as discovered, securing the en- 



■ wiioie to a -ate distance 

 tcrward working into the 

 oil a small handful of air- 

 This year I am using six 

 pail- lime to one of grape dust; by 

 tin- means employing three or more 

 fungicide's at once. 



Having had hut very little rol this 

 year, I can only report adjoining plants 

 in good health. From experience of other 

 year- 1 am satisfied that the disease 

 did not spread from plant to plant. Last 

 week a- :i general precaution I gave 

 l he whole field a sprinkling of lime. 

 Hope to say more about lime next. week. 

 Ueo. S. Osborx. 



PLANTING AND FUMIGATING. 



What is the proper distance apart to 

 plant Princess of Wales violets! What 

 i- tin proper amount of potassium cya- 

 nide to in. ike "..■.- for fumigating a house 

 50 feel long, in feet to ridge and both 

 -lde wall- ti feet high? 



Subscriber. 



Ten inches i- a good average distance, 

 hut this, like everything pf thi- kind, 

 can have no arbitrary rule, as so much 

 depend- upon your stock, v mu -oil. time 



ad- 



bench, proving that they have plentv 

 nt air and opportunity to drv off quickly 

 after watering, c-pceiallv mi ,1 uk. damp 

 day-, when there i- a natural tendency 

 to dceav . 



Subscriber has failed to give the width 

 of his house, so I cannol tell him tiie 

 exact quantity of cyanide to use in fumi- 



