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which eould bring about a like result, 

 lose oi damp an atmos- 

 phere or defective drainage, i am satis- 

 fied that the heaviness of the soil would 

 not induce this condition. We have been 

 rising a very heavy, clayey lean. I 



years, and with most excellent ivmiIis. 



root action is g 1 the trouble 



cannot be attributed to run out or de- 



ire adopted and which was 

 happily successful, although it took a 

 couple of months to restore them to 



■ ■ [. ,.-,.t. \ieal. We 



kepi thi ■ tter than usual. 



- at night. SO de- 



WHITE SCALE. 



In a bench of Brides aud Maids we 

 have just one Winnie Davis rose. It is 

 thickly covered with what seems to be 

 white' scale. Can you tell me why this 

 is as no others are so affected? What 

 shall I do for it I C. M. B. 



Why the scale should be confined to 

 this one plant I cannot say; doubtless 

 there are attending conditions which fa- 

 vor this which could only be determined 

 bv local investigation. Probably this 

 variety is more to their liking than the 

 others', or possibly they were brought into 

 the house on this same plant and have not 

 vet had time to disperse, as they are slow 

 of movement and take a long time to 

 crawl from one plant to another, this 

 being their only mode of progression. 



If these are 'the small white scale they 

 can be easily dislodged by the syringe, if 

 sufficient force is used. An application 

 of whale oil soap will quickly destroy 

 them. This should be applied with a 

 svringe and is most effective when ap- 

 plied hot, about 120 degrees. This dogs 

 the breathing pores along the sides of the 

 body, literally choking them. Kerosene 

 emulsion will also destroy them if applied 

 in the same way. Eibes. 



THRIPS. 



What is the best remedy to apply for 

 thrips on roses? Any information will 

 be appreciated. C. R. 



Fumigating lightly and frequently 

 with tobacco smoke will, if persisted in, 

 certainly destroy them, but to this prac- 

 tice there are objections; it bleaches the 

 petals to such an extent that they are fre- 

 quentlv unsalable, but where thrips have 

 a good foothold there must be some 

 sacrifices before they are cleared out. 



Burning cayenne pepper is a most ef- 

 fective way of destroying them, but this 

 also must bo practiced frequently to ac- 

 complish the object. Heat some plates 

 of iron till they are nearly red and place 

 them along the paths, then put a table- 

 spoonful of the pepper on each, begin- 

 ning at the end of the house farthest 

 from the door, and get out as quickly as 

 possible, as the fumes are very disagree- 

 able, even dangerous. Four such plates 

 are sufficient to fill a house 25x100 feet. 

 All affected buds should be picked off 

 and burned. Keep the paths and floor 

 clear of weeds and rubbish, as these af- 

 ford a shelter which it is hard to reach 

 with any kind of fumes. Eibes. 



THE SHASTA DAISY. 

 What is the proper treatment for 

 Shasta daisy to have it in bloom for 

 spring trade in Ohio? T. C. B. 



I would say that is a question of what 

 size plant you desire. Plants that were 

 grown out of doors in pots this summer. 

 or those planted out and lifted at this 

 time and kept cool during winter, will 

 make a splendid Easter plant. If a smal- 

 ler plant is desired, then cuttings put in 

 now and grown on with an occasional 

 pinching and successive shifts would 

 make a very neat plant in a 5-inch pot 

 by next April. These daisies, or properly 

 chrysanthemums, are most excellent 

 houBe plants and we have noticed large 

 plants sold to our customers at Easter 

 flowering in great profusion in the win- 

 dows six months later. Not many of our 

 greenhouse plants will do that. I have 

 never tried the Shasta daisy in pans, but 

 the common Paris daisy makes a verv 

 salable 6 or 8-inch pan for Easter. For 

 this purpose flowering tips from the 

 large plants should be put in the sand in 

 January and when rooted they should be 

 planted two inches apart in the pan. If 

 Easter is late, defer propagating until 

 the middle of February. 



William Scott. 



AMARYLLIS. 



I have quite a lot of Amaryllis vittata, 

 Jolmsoni, etc., and some bulbs of Crinum 

 fimbriatum. Some of them are in pots 

 and others planted out. Will they keep 

 through the winter if dried and stored 

 like spotted ealla? I have always kept 

 them in the cellar in the pots, but I have 

 not room to store them all that way this 

 winter. L. M. G. 



Supposing these plants flowered the 

 past summer, it would be poor treat- 

 ment to shake off all the soil and keep 

 them dry during winter. Those that 

 have been planted out must, of course, 

 be lifted before hard frost, as neither 

 amaryllis or crinum could be kept out of 

 doors, even with the greatest protection, 

 in the state of Vermont. Lift them, pre- 

 serving all the roots you can, and tread 

 them in in flats with five or six inches 

 of soil, and don't dry off too suddenly; 

 withhold water by degrees, and a month 

 after lifting the flats can be stored be- 

 neath a bench. Under a carnation bench 

 would be an excellent place for them, as 

 you would be starting them again in the 

 spring before much water would be drip- 

 ping through the carnation bed. Those 

 that are in pots by all means leave in 

 pots. From October to, say February, 

 they can be stood beneath a bench in 

 some cool house. Most of these plants 

 are evergreen, and although they rest 

 during winter they by no means want to 

 be dust dry. William Scott. 



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 



To say that I am pleased with your 

 valuable paper would be saying some- 

 thing very old. My wife and children 

 also read the Review; it keeps up their 

 interest and confidence in the business 

 I am engaged in, which is of no small 

 value to me some days when the sun 

 does not shine. Am much interested 

 in your articles on seedling longiflorum 

 lilies, having experimented with them 

 the last seven years with an aim to 

 propagation, but with poor results. Am 

 also in with peonies a little. When 

 plants are advertised 1 often see the 



statement made that the varieties are 

 not subject to any disease, but this 

 year I notice a trouble which started at 

 blooming time. The top leaves would 

 show little black spots, as though 

 punctured by a fly, which spots would 

 grow in size, so that by now the tops 

 on most are dried up and black. Some 

 plants of officinalis dried up entirely 

 shortly after blooming, apparently of 

 the same trouble, and in consequence 

 the eyes for next year are very feeble. 

 Would spraying with Bordeaux mixture 

 help if done during the growing season? 

 I see that a four-year-old plant of the 

 Chinese section has died this summer, 

 one eye after another, until all the roots 

 were found to be rotten, while the 

 plants around it seem all right. 



C. C. Arnold. 



MADISON, N. J. 



Current Comment. 



I had an interesting chat the other 

 day with,, a veteran rose grower, and 

 from him obtained much information con- 

 cerning the 1 early days of the rose grow- 

 ing industry in this town. It is now 

 thirty-eight years since roses were first 

 shipped regularly from here to New 

 York, Mr. Littlejohn, the gardener for 

 Judge Lathrop, being the pioneer, the 

 Bryce place and E. V. Howard coming 

 next. In those days Cornelia Cook was 

 the great white and Bon Silene was also 

 largely grown. The roses were, shipped 

 in small tin boxes, with a large padlock 

 attached, a key for which was kept at 

 each end of the line. Nowadays a 6-foot 

 box is used and the padlock is no more. 



One of the old time places still pro- 

 uuces roses of — e first class. This is 

 the old Slaughter place, now leased by 

 Elwood Brant. There are some seven- 

 teen houses here, accommodating about 

 30,000 plants. Beauties are the chief 

 crop grown, with teas along the front 

 benches. Two houses of Liberty and 

 one of Meteor are also grown. The 

 houses are antiquated compared with the 

 modern standard, but the stock looks 

 very good indeed and reflects great credit 

 on Mr. Brant. He is a shrewd young 

 man who is forging ahead and is part 

 lessee with his brother of the immense 

 rose houses of Peter Crowe, of Utica, 

 N. Y. 



Most of the largest growers here live, 

 as Mr. Dooley would say, ' ' beyant the 

 thracks, ' ' or above the railroad. Just 

 a stone's throw from Mr. Brant is the 

 handsome range of Henry Hentz, Jr. It 

 is a modern plant, complete in every par- 

 ticular, and is of the most enduring con- 

 struction. Beauties are chiefly grown. 

 One house that has been changed to 

 solid beds shows up much finer than the 

 benched stock. One smaller house of 

 'mums were fine, as even a lot of stock 

 as I ever saw, Appleton, Helen Bloodgood 

 and Bonnaffon being the varieties grown. 

 Mr. Hentz is a partner of the firm of 

 Moore, Hentz &. Nash, which is the donor 

 of the special medals offered at the show 

 every year by the local horticultural so- 

 ciety. These* medals are awarded to the 

 actual growers of the winning flowers 

 and competition for them has always 

 beer* close. 



Not far from the last named establish- 

 ments are the plants of Louis M. and 

 Louis A. Noe, father and son respec- 

 tively, the Beauty kings of Madison. 

 Each has some nineteen or twenty houses 

 200 feet long and the stock can only be 



