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HORTICULTURE 



June 28, 1919 



For All Flowers in Season Call on 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



1201 Race St. Philadelphia, Pa. 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



M19 - 21 Rsastsaa St., Psilassbakia, Pa. 



»«CE BEAUTIES, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 tat all SiaMmbk, Vanities if Cut Flows 



Wired Toothpicks 



W.J. COWEE, Berlin, N.Y. 



GEORGES. HART 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



24 Stone St., Rochester, N. Y. 



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the most desirable for putting greens 

 or for lawns of superior quality. The 

 fescues and the bents, the peers of 

 all fine turf grasses, are markedly sus- 

 ceptible to the "brown patch" disease, 

 although resistant strains are avail- 

 able in both these groups of grasses. 

 It is anticipated by specialists in the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture that in the near future resistant 

 strains of desirable grasses for put- 

 ting green use will be available in 

 amounts sufficient to satisfy all de- 

 mands. 



When a person is sufficiently fa- 

 miliar with the time of appearance 

 and development of the "brown 

 patches" among grass plants to fore- 

 cast the occurrence of the disease, he 

 can partially control and check its 

 damage by persistent spraying with 

 Bordeaux mixture, in amount just 

 sufficient to moisten the leaves and 

 crowns of the grass, without thor- 

 oughly wetting the ground. Frequent 

 applications are necessary. The diffi- 

 culty attending the use of Bordeaux 

 or any similar fungicide is that as 

 soon as it has been removed from the 

 plants by rain or by continued mow- 

 ing the fungus breaks out in new 

 places, undeterred by the fungicide 

 which is on the surface of the soil or 

 on the older stems and leaves. Al- 

 though the expense of using Borgeaux 

 mixture is rather heavy, it will pay 

 the owner to test out this measure 

 of eradication rather than to allow the 

 disease to spread unchecked. 



As a rule, mixed grasses on putting 

 greens or lawns are less injured than 

 individual settings of pure-bred varie- 

 ties. However, mixtures will never re- 

 sult in the fine turf which comes from 

 setting such grasses as velvet bent, 

 carpet bent, or red fescue. Incident- 

 ally the high susceptibility of mouse- 

 ear chickweed, or "creeping Charlie" 

 is a special reason for eradicating all 

 patches of these plants from putting 

 greens or high-quality lawns. 



The common lawn plants seem sus- 

 ceptible to the brown patch disease in 

 about this order: Mouse-ear chick- 

 weed, red fescue, red top, velvet bent, 

 carpet bent, rough-stalked meadow- 

 grass, speedwell and yarrow. Fre- 

 quently, especially in 'the case of 

 mouse-ear chickweed and speedwell, 

 the disease does not spread beyond 

 the boundaries of the plant attacked, 

 but in other cases several species of 

 plants may be involved in the same 

 spot. 



At one of the leading golf courses 

 in the District of Columbia, where the 

 "brown patch" disease was rampant in 

 1916, experiments were conducted in 

 1917 to determine if the trouble could 

 be prevented by the use of Bordeaux 

 mixture. A fine putting green of Ger- 

 man-mixed bent, measuring about 40 

 by 80 feet in size, was used. The 

 disease appeared on June 13; two 

 days later the green was watered with 

 300 gallons of half-strength Bordeaux 

 mixture, a small portion of turf being 

 left untreated as a check. No injury 

 whatever resulted to the grass from 

 the use of the Bordeaux. The treated 

 area seemed to improve very quickly 

 and 'within a week few spots were 

 visible. 



H. E. FROMENT 



Wholesale Commission Florist 

 Choice Cut Flowers 



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Wholesale Florist 



107 W. 28th Street, NEW YORK 



Telephone 533S, Farrarot. 



Call and Inspect the Beat BiatabUameot 



In the Wholesale Flower District. 



WALTER F. SHERIDAN 



Wholesale Commission Dealer In 



CHOICE CUT FLOWERS 



13! Wees 88th Street. New York 



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GEO. C. SIEBRECHT 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



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HIOMMOND, IND. 

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REED <EL KELLER 



122 West 26th St.. New York 



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We manufacture all our 



ittil Disifns, Baskets, Win Wirk & Noveltiis 



and are dealers In 



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Florists' Beanisttes 



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Highest Standard of Quality. Lajxsex 

 Stock In America. Writ* tar IUoatrataa 

 Caul of of Qreens and Floriata' Snppllaa 



119 W. 28th St., - - NEW YORK 



WILLIAM H. KUEBLER 



Brooklyn'* Foremost and Best 



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