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OCTOBEE 5, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



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The Florists' Suppllos. Cut F.ower Department. 



Views in the New Building of the St. Louis W^holesale Cut Flower G>., St. Louist Mo. 



of all in' bringing on the trouble. The 

 cold, wet spring made the plants soft; 

 that was followed by extreme heat and 

 red spider, which seriously impaired the 

 vitality of the plants. When they 

 were housed and subjected to the close, 

 humid atmosphere produced by the fre- 

 quent syringing necessary to keep them 

 fresh while getting a new roothold, 

 they fell an easy prey to the fairy 

 ring. While the red spider may be con- 

 sidered the real beginning of your 

 trouble, because it made it necessary 

 to house the plants during the extreme 

 heat, the immediate cause of your pres- 

 ent troubles is the fairy ring. Could 

 you have kept clear of this, you could 

 have cleaned out the spider in due time 

 and induced the plants to make a fair 

 growth. Perhaps the fairy ring was 

 started even before you lifted the 

 plants from the field, in which case the 

 close atmosphere of the houses merely 

 hastened its development and it could 

 not have been avoided. A. F. J. B. 



TIMINa CBOPS FOB CHBISTMAS. 



When should the last pinching of car- 

 nations be done to get a full crop for 

 Christmast I do not care if I cut no 

 flowers till December 15. The carna- 

 tions are in fine shape and well 

 branched. The varieties are Enchant- 

 ress, White Enchantress, Eose-pink En- 

 chantress, Philadelphia and Beacon. 

 What would be a good cut from 2,000 

 plants, from December 20 to 25 1 The 

 latitude is southern Kansas. 



H. P. M.— Kan. 



Allow from six to eight weeks from 

 the time your buds show at the tip of 

 the flower stem until the bloom is ready 

 to cut. Varieties vary somewhat in the 

 length of time required, but seven 

 weeks is about an average. Whether 

 you should top any more will depend 

 largely on the stage at which you re- 

 move the tips. You will be able to 

 gauge yourself, however, by the fore- 

 going suggestions. 



If you cut an average of two blooms 

 from each of your carnation plants dur- 

 ing December, you will have no cause 

 for complaint. You will be likely to 

 cut less rather than more than that 

 number, unless your plants are in ex- 

 traordinarily good condition. You can 

 perhaps manage to cut half of your De- 

 cember crop between the dates you 

 name, by letting the blooms hang for 

 several days previous to December 20 

 and giving a little extra heat after the 



first cut is made. Be careful, however, 

 in applying extra heat, as any careless- 

 ness in this respect will invariably be 

 paid for later in inferior quality. 



A. F. J. B. 



FAIBY EINO. 



sending, under 



We are sending, under separate 

 cover, a few leaves from some of our 

 carnation plants. These plants were 

 benched August 18. They were good, 

 healthy field plants, and, judging from 

 the new growth they are making, they 

 have taken hold well. Thi^ leaf-spot, 

 however, is causing a good deal of the 

 foliage to turn brown and die. The 

 disease has appeared on the new growth 



St. Louis Wholesale Cut Flower Co. 



since the plants were housed. We 

 have applied Bordeaux mixture both 

 in the field and in the house. 



E. G. R. & S. C— Ky. 



You seem to have a well developed 

 case of fairy ring on your plants and 

 you should lose no time in adopting 

 heroic measures. This disease spreads 

 rapidly and, unless checked, will soon 

 render valueless your entire house of 

 carnations. It is brought on by exces- 

 sive moisture in the atmosphere, espe- 

 cially if the atmosphere is foul. 



This summer has been extremely 

 hard on carnations brought in from 

 the field. The extreme heat right -at 

 benching time made it necessary to 

 syringe more freely than usual to hold 

 the plants up. Consequently leaf-spot 

 diseases have been more prevalent than 

 usual. Especially is this true where a 

 heavy shade was put on the glass and 

 allowed to remain long enough to cause 

 the plants to become soft. 



Continue spraying with Bordeaux 

 mixture, as there is no better remedy. 

 Also pick off all the spotted leaves and 

 burn them. The latter operation will 

 take considerable time, but will pay 

 you well. A. F. . J. B. 



A BUILDING FOR WHOLESAIilNQ. 



The new building of the St. Louis 

 Wholesale Cut Flower Co., 1410 Pine 

 street, was opened for business Septem- 

 ber 25. It is a 2-8tory structure, 25x109, 

 built specially for the wholesale cut 

 flower and supplies business. The first 

 floor is devoted to the sale of cut flow- 

 ers and has two big Brecht refrigera- 

 tors, each 14x8x10. In the rear is a 

 garage. The finish of all the woodwork 

 is forest green, which includes the 

 furniture in the oflBce, which is seen 

 at the right as one enters. The second 

 floor is used as a display room for sup- 

 plies. The basement is used for bulky 

 supplies. Every detail of equipment 

 was carefully worked out. 



The company was incorporated June 

 22, with a capital stock of $20,000. The 

 officers of the company are: David Scott 

 Geddis, president; J. J. Beneke, vice- 

 president, and Frank P. Maid, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



EASTER LILIES. 



Would you advise setting Easter lily 

 bulbs halfway down in a 5-inch or 6- 

 inch pot and filling the pot with soil 

 as the plant grows f J. C. — N. Y. 



It is an excellent plan to place the 

 lily bulbs halfway down in the poll 

 and fill in with loam as they grow. All 

 the best roots produced by the Easter 

 lilies come from above and not below 

 the bulbs. High potting, therefore, is 

 not to be recommended. C. W. 



Langhorne, Pa.— A florists' business 

 will be launched here next spring by 

 William J. Hamilton, who now is resid- 

 ing at West Philadelphia. 



