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The Florists^ Review 



Febbuabt 3, 1916. 



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resulting liquid clear, not adding any 

 water. 



My theory is that lime is a preventive 

 of stem-rot and kindred diseases and 

 that the dipping of the plants in the 

 lime-sulphur solution not only kills red 

 spider, but also the spores of any of 

 the fungoid diseases that the carnation 

 is heir too. Geo. N. Tyler. 



EUONYMUS rOE CHRISTMAS. 



During the Christmas holidays in this 

 locality, northwestern South Carolina, 

 the outdoor Euonymus Japonica formed 

 a picture not readily forgotten by those 

 interested in berry-bearing plants. 

 There were hundreds of old bushes and 

 hedges that were a perfect glow of 

 color, fairly outrivaling the holly. A 

 few days before Christmas a lady came 

 to me with an armful of the euonymus 

 branches and wished to know the name 

 of the plant. She remarked that she 

 had been born and reared in the south, 

 - but could not remember having ever 

 before seen anything so beautiful. She 

 asked me to go with her to see an old 

 hedge of this euonymus, growing in 

 front of a negro's shanty. It surely 

 was a beautiful sight. She asked the 

 old negro "mammy" how long the 

 bushes had been growing there. The 

 reply was: "Sure, Honey, dey's been 

 dar ebber since the days of freedom" 

 —referring, of course, to the Civil war. 



Any florist who could put these plants 

 on the market, berried as they have 

 been in this vicinity, could sell them 

 faster than they could be produced, and 

 no salesman would be required to dis- 

 pose of them; they would sell them- 

 selves. The great curse of the euony- 

 mus is its liability to be infested with 

 scale, but, starting with clean stock, 

 it is not a difl&cult matter to keep this 

 pest under control. H. J. Corfield. 



UME-SULPHUE FOE STEM-EOT. 



In response to Isaac A. Passmore's 

 request in The Eeview of January 12 

 for further details on the use of lime 

 and sulphur for stem-rot of carnations, 

 I want to say that I covered everything 

 in my article of November 11, 1915, on 

 page 38, under the title of "Stem-rot 

 and Other Diseases." At that time I 

 said I had not lost one plant out of 5,000 

 and that none of them was diseased in 

 any way. At this later date I can 

 again say that out of the 5,000 plants 

 in the benches not one have I lost, nor 

 have any of them showed a sign of any 

 disease. They are all in strong growth 

 and have been blooming all winter, 

 and are full of buds and blooms now. 



I am a great believer in lime in the 

 soil for carnations. I learned this when 

 William Scott was the leading pink; 

 Daybreak, the light pink; Lizzie Mc- 

 Gowan, the white; Portia, the red. The 

 way I discovered the use of lime was 

 peculiar. There is an old Indian mound 

 near my former place and this mound 

 is at least one-third oyster and clam 

 shells. Plants grown in the soil of this 

 motind made a much stronger growth 

 M*4ind the stems of weak-stemmed vari- 

 '^' eties were stiffened. I decided that it 

 was the lime in the soil. I limed a part 

 of a bench for experiment. In the 

 course of two or three weeks there was 

 such a marked improvement that the 

 plants limed appeared to be a different 

 variety. Since then I add a four-inch 

 potfiil of hydrated lime to a large bar- 

 row-load of soil, which is thoroughly 



mixed. Air-slaked lime is not as bene- 

 ficial as -the hydrated. 



When transplanting to the field in 

 early spring, I use hydrated lime on the 

 soil at the rate of about 1,500 pounds 

 to the acre. After the ground has been 

 spaded or plowed, the lime is applied 

 and thoroughly raked or harrowed in. 



When lifting in the fall, I dip the 

 tops of the plants in a fungicide pre- 

 pared as follows: Put twenty-five 

 pounds of quicklime in a 50-gallon bar- 

 rel; add enough water to slake, and 

 while it is boiling add ten pounds of 

 flowers of sulphur. Keep this well 

 stirred with a shovel or paddle until 

 it is thoroughly slaked; then flll up the 

 barrel with water and stir thoroughly 

 again. Then let it settle and it will 

 form a golden-colored liquid. Use one 

 part of this liquid to one part of water. 

 For mildew on roses and all fungous 

 diseases, I spray the foliage and the 

 ground around the plants, as well as 

 the plants in the houses, with this so- 

 lution. Dipping field-grown plants in 

 this fungicide kills all red spider and 

 the spores of most of the diseases that 

 the carnation is heir to. 



This liquid will not evaporate in the 

 barrel, as it forms a scum over the top. 

 After using the first mixture, fill the 

 barrel again with water and stir thor- 

 oughly. After it has settled, use the 



CATEEPILLAES ON CINEEAEIAS. 



I am sending some small gray moths 

 which fly around my greenhouse at 

 night; also, small green worms which 

 are found on the under side of the 

 leaves of my cinerarias and other 

 plants. Last fall these worms de- 

 stroyed foliage and some blooms on 

 chrysanthemums. The worms are ex- 

 tremely small at first, growing to one- 

 half inch in length and forming a cob- 

 web-like nest on the under side of the 

 leaves. I have tried strong nicotine, 

 also Slug Shot, with no apparent effect. 

 Can you tell me what they are and how 

 to get rid of them? 



E. S. H.— N. T. 



These moths can be caught in con- 

 siderable numbers if you will hang 

 sticky fly papers here and there in your 

 house. Fumigation has no effect on the 

 caterpillars which commonly attack 

 chrysanthemums, cinerarias and some 

 other plants. Nicotine juice sprayed 

 on the foliage will often kill these, but 

 the safest remedy is to go over the af- 

 fected leaves and squeeze the worms 

 between the finger and thumb. The 

 worm is probably the same one which 

 often attacks lettuce. Pyrethrum pow- 

 der mixed with flour has been found 

 efficacious as a remedy if dusted on the 

 foliage. C. W. 



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Allamandas. 



Plants of A. Williamsi or A. Hender- 

 soni which have been resting for some 

 time should be pruned back now and 

 sprayed freely, but watered moderately 

 until they start to break, at which time 

 necessary top-dressing or potting can 

 be done. A. Hendersoni is a splendid 

 climber. A. Williamsi, with smaller 

 flowers, makes either a climber or bush 

 plant. For the latter purpose it is 

 most valuable, flowering profusely in 

 the hot summer months when flowering 

 pot plants are scarce. 



Heliotropes. 



Heliotropes can be propagated eas- 

 ily from either cuttings or seed. Ee- 

 Cently there has been an increased call 

 for standard heliotropes. These are ex- 

 cellent, either for pot and tub culture 

 or bedding out, using low. growing 

 plants beneath them. Seedling helio- 

 tropes make the best standards, pos- 

 sessing, as they do, more vigor than 

 cuttings. Keep the seedlings potted on, 

 selecting the most vigorous for stand- 

 ards. Keep them staked and run them 

 up without pinching until they have a 

 sufficient length of stem, which may be 



anywhere from eighteen to thirty-six 

 inches long. Bub off all side shoots 

 as they appear and, after pinching out 

 the top, as the shoots break away pinch 

 them before they come into flower. It 

 takes a year or more to develop good 

 standards, but they can be kept for sev- 

 eral years and always command a good 

 figure. 



Eambler Boses. 



It is now about three months to 

 Easter and if the rambler roses wanted 

 in bloom at that time are housed now 

 and started fairly cool, 45 to 50 de- 

 grees at night, and later given 55 de- 

 grees at night, they will be on time. 

 Cut out all dead and weak wood and 

 bend around the strong leaves so that 

 they will 4)reak more evenly. Each 

 grower has his own favorite varieties, 

 but half a dozen good sorts are 

 Tausendschon, Hiawatha, Lady Gay, 

 Dorothy Perkins, Excelsa and American 

 Pillar. If a white is wanted, try 

 White Dorothy, but colored varieties 

 sell much better for Easter. 



Buddleia Asiatic a. 



Anyone who has not yet grown Bud- 

 dleia Asiatica should do so. To have 



