The Weekly Florists' Review, 



669 



Easter, if the price is to include the hol- 

 iday crop, and after Easter the price 

 should be cut fifty per cent and if car- 

 ried over Decoration day it should again 

 be cut fifty per cent, making a flat rate 

 ef $1 per 100 for summer blooms. Queen 

 Louise might be grown for about half 

 these figures, but the others will be losing 

 ventures for any less money. 



CARNATIONS REGISTERED. 

 Jerome A. Suydam, Flatbush, N. Y., 

 registers Carnation Amaze, an A No. 1 

 commercial scarlet; it will stand the heat 

 of the sun without losing its brightness, 

 is of good size and has an excellent stem. 

 One of the best bloomers we have ever 

 grown and we have failed to see a burst- 

 ed calyx. Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Watering. 



As the days begin to get shorter and 

 cooler, more attention should be paid to 

 the watering. The plants have made a 

 heavy growth of foliage and the sun can 

 no lunger penetrate to the soil to dry out 

 the beds, as it did during the earlier 

 months. Let the soil get somewhat on 

 the dry side and then water thoroughly 

 and it will be some days before the op- 

 eration need be repeated. It is a great 

 mistake to be giving the beds light sur- 

 face watering every day or so, because 

 this method rots the tiny root fibers and 

 the plants do not keep moving along as 

 they should. 



It will often happen that the sides of 

 the bench where the sun can reach will 

 be dry, while the center of the bed is 

 plenty wet enough. Water along the 

 sides with a light stream and do not turn 

 the water on full force; then the bed 

 will be evenly moist all through. It is 

 always in the center of the bench where 

 leaf spot commences when water is in- 

 discriminately given. 



Syringing, also, should be now done 

 only on bright days, so that the foliage 

 is always dry before night, or mildew will 

 make its appearance; in fact, it is al- 

 ready showing on some varieties because 

 of the very wet August. Spraying with 

 the potassium solution, as previously 

 noted in these columns, will check the 

 spread of mildew and not disfigure the 

 foliage to speak of. One cannot afford to 

 dispense with syringing altogether yet, 

 on account of the red spider, though I be- 

 lieve the plants would otherwise be better 

 ofl without it. 



Insects. 



A careful examination of the buds will 

 find some of them infested with black or 

 greenfly. Blackfly will often be found in 

 colonies on the under side of the foliage 

 also, when the grower had thought that 

 Ms plants were clean and right. Fumi- 

 gation is the quickest way to kill fly, 

 and in our experience the tobacco dust 

 burnt in the house is just as effective and 

 far safer to use than tobacco stems. If 

 the young foliage is burnt now it seri- 

 ously impairs the value of the crop, as 

 it will show all around the edges when 

 the leaf is developed. Fumigate at night 

 and get the house opened up before day- 

 light so that the smoke is all gone bo- 

 fore the sun gets up ; then the foliage is 

 not nearly so likely to be injured. 



Where some of the buds are badly in- 

 fested with greenfly and smoking does 



El Seedling Nymphaea James Gurney, at Tower Grove Park, St. Louis. 



not seem to be effective, get some to- 

 bacco dust 1 and shake it thickly all over 

 the bud, working it into all the little 

 crevices of the hard, husky covering. The 

 dust will smother every fly and I have 

 always found it effectual, without injur- 

 ing the bud in the least. 



Grasshoppers are few and far between 

 this year, which is a blessing, for they 

 have a fondness for cutting the young, 

 tender bud off from its parent stalk and 

 leaving profanity in their wake. Get up 

 at daybreak, if "they are troubling you, 

 and catch them while they are in a semi- 

 comatose condition. Later in the day, 

 when the sun is out, they move too brisk- 

 ly t.i I .-isih captured. There seems 



to be fewer insects on the plants this 

 year than for some seasons past, and for 

 this relief we are duly thankful. 



Brian Boru. 



NYMPHAEA JAMES GURNEY. 



Many good things have emanated from 

 Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, where they 

 have a new seedling nymphaea, called 

 James Ourney, whose parents are N. 

 O'Marana and N. Frank Trelease. It 

 has large bronze leaves, more fringe. I 

 than its parents, and large, beautiful 

 pink flowers. Anyone who sees it can 

 1m,-, i nil the other varieties. Phil Go- 

 bel, who has charge of the pond, and 

 James Gurney. the head of the park, are 

 very proud of their new find. Tower 

 Grove Park is also the home of the grand 

 new salvia, St. Louis, and the beautiful 

 Stella Gurney ageratum. The park Is 

 looking better than ever. Mr. Gurney 

 laid it out in 1863 and has been at its 

 head ever since. He planted every tree 

 in the park but three. J. J. B. 



Elgin, III. — Theo. Schroder has 

 opened a cut flower store at 137 Chicago 

 street. He also handles candies. 



"AT BUYER'S RISK." 



Wo were much interested in the mat- 

 ter under this heading in the Beview of 

 last week, for, like a good many others, 

 we have, we fear, lost standing with cer- 

 tain wholesale houses because we refused 

 to pay the bill in full when we were not 

 satisfied with the stock received. It 

 seems that legally we were in the wrong, 

 and should have had to pay if collection 

 had been pressed, but is it justice to ask 

 the buyer to stand losses for which he is 

 in no way responsible? Does he not 

 suffer enough loss when stock reaches 

 him in such condition that it cannot be 

 used? Very likely he loses a customer. 



Perhaps it is too much to ask that a 

 wholesaler admit that he sent, out stuff 

 not fit to travel; we will grant that the 

 shipper sent fresh stuff. If the express 

 messenger puts the box on the steam 

 pipes and the carnations go to sleep, is 

 it right that the disappointed buyer be 

 made to pay the bill and waste as much 

 more in time trying to get his money 

 hack from the express company? 



We don't suppose that the time will 

 ever come when the wholesaler can afford 

 to guarantee the arrival of his goods at 

 destination, for such a practice would 

 let down the bars for all sorts of unfair 

 claims, but it looks to us as though the 

 wholesaler ought to meet the buyer half 

 way in these matters. Certainly the 

 buyer cannot be expected to keep on or- 

 dering if he finds little but useless stock, 

 and a bill, when he opens the box, and this 

 is only a little less true if somebody else 

 stands the loss. The shipper may not 

 "guarantee" safe arrivals, but just the 

 same they have got to arrive safely if 

 the business is going on. 



The introducers of novelties may talk 

 all they want to about size and color, 

 calyx and stem, the societies may judge 

 'em by scale to any figure they please, 

 but the important thing in a flower now- 



