August 28, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



173 



"SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" 



It he is "an ungrateful pup," say It 

 with doRfennel. 



If she is a sour old girl, say it with 

 catnip. 



If he is in the poultry business, say 

 it with old hens and chickens. 



If he deals in seafood, say it with 

 oyster plants. 



If he deals in watches, say it with 

 4 o'clocks 



If she is a sensitive soul, say it with 

 touch-me-nots. 



If he is a spiritualist, say it with 

 live forever. 



It she is going to be married soon, 

 say it with a bridal wreath. 



If she got engaged in a fog at the 

 seashore, say it with love-in-a-mist. 



If she is a flirt, say it with sprays 

 of the butterfly bush. 



If she is divided in her affection, say 

 it with love-entangled. 



If they are the parents of a new in- 

 fant, say it with baby-breath. 



It he is bilious, say it with liver- 

 wursf 



If he is tubercular, say it with "love- 

 heal-you." 



If she is inclined to be a tyrannical 

 wife to a Hollander, say it with dutch- 

 man's breeches. 



If he is a Hollander who smokes 

 constantly, say it with dutchman's 

 pipes. 



If she is extragavant with footwear, 

 say it with slippers. 



If he is going into the sheep busi- 

 ness, say it with phlox. 



It he's a nut, say it with daffodils. 

 — Retail Public Ledger. 



SNAPDRAGON RUST 



Snapdragon rust (Puccinia antirr- 

 hini) is apparently an American dis- 

 ease having been first found in Call- 

 tomia in 1895. Since that time it has 

 spread all over the United States by 

 means of infected snapdragon plants 

 shipped from place to place. 



In the past, spraying with Bordeaux 

 mixture or ammoniacal copper car- 

 bonate has been recommended to hold 

 the disease in check, but experi- 

 mental work done by Prof. George U 

 Peltier of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Experiment Station and reported in 

 Bulletin No. 221 of that station proves 

 that the benefits derived from spray- 

 ing are not sufficient to justify the ex- 

 pense. 



The disease attacks all portions ol 

 the plants, leaves, branches, stems 

 and even the seed pods, and that all 

 varieties are equally susceptible. 



To prevent its spreading among 

 plants already in the greenhouse do 

 not syringe the plants. The spores 

 are carried from plant to plant in this 

 manner, and also it creates conditions 

 favorable to the germination ot spores. 



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When watering be very careful not to 

 wet the foliage, simply water the 

 earth. 



The disease is not carried over on 

 the seed. This affords a method of 

 avoiding trouble. Remove the soil 

 from the greenhouse benches that has 

 grown infected plants, replacing it 

 with soil which has not grown snap- 

 dragons for one year or longer. In 

 growing the seedlings be very careful 

 to avoid the use of infected soil. By 

 this manner only can trouble be 

 avoided. 



HavirLg produced seedling stock the 

 desirable varieties can be selected and 

 propagated by cuttings. Be very 

 careful not to use infected cuttings 

 because even a very few cuttings in 

 a cutting bench can cause the loss of 

 the entire bench full of cuttings, the 

 grower laying the trouble to "damping 

 oft." 



Keep the plants clean, and the 

 houses in which they are growing well 

 ventilated. Should the rust show up 

 among the plants burn such plants 

 immediately. With these precautions 

 and the growing of seedlings In clean 

 soil a reasonably clean and profitable 

 crop can be grown, but it will be at the 

 price of eternal vigilance. — P. T. B. 



The American Greenhouse Mfg. Co. 

 Is to build a conservatory and show 

 rcom for Schiller, the florist, at 4509 

 Broadway, Chicago. The conservatory 

 will have several large display win- 

 dows facing the street. 



Dean & Bario are the proprietors of 

 a new flower store recently opened at 

 Waterbury, Conn. Both the owners 

 are women, Aliss Dean having worked 

 for some years under the direction oC 

 Pallas, the florist. 



