Mabcii 1, 1917. 



The Florists' Review 



21 



United States and the countryside looks 

 beautiful when it is ablaze with the yel- 

 low hue of the goldenrods. But the 

 goldenrod is not so strikingly beautiful 

 as the iris, the gladiolus, the rhododen- 

 dron or the peony. And, worst of all, 

 goldenrods give many people hay fever. 



An Objection to Asters. 



But perhaps we can find another flow- 

 er, possessing the virtues but not the ob- 

 jectionable features of the goldenrod. 

 Asters grow everywhere in the country 

 and most of them are beautiful. One 

 fact is against them; the wild-growing 

 species differ too much and people would 

 hardly regard the fifty or more different 

 species of asters, growing wild in the 

 northeastern United States, as one 

 flower. 



Some florists seem to think that our 

 national flower should be a florists ' flow- 

 er or at least a garden flower. Of course, 

 it could be a garden or greenhouse flow- 

 er, but most likely it will not be. It 

 looks selfish when a florist uses so much 

 rhetoric to push a florists' flower as the 

 national flower. Florists have Mothers' 

 dayland many other days on which to 

 sell ^lowers. They should not go to ex- 

 tremes. But no doubt the voice of flo- 

 rists and gardeners ought to be heard in 

 selecting a national flower for the 

 United States. Paul Winkler. 



GERANIUM FOLIAGE AFFECTED. 



Can you tell me what is the matter 

 with my geraniums? The leaves seem 

 to be diseased. I am sending some of 

 the leaves under separate cover. 



M. C. M.— Mich. 



This is not a disease. The leaves 

 have turned red and this may be due 

 either to excessively dry root conditions, 

 or to the fact that they are standing 

 on a layer of coal ashes, or to a de- 

 ficiency of food in the pots. If they 

 are in need of potting, shift them. Use 

 a little old, well rotted manure and a 

 4-inch potful of fine bone to each bushel 

 of soil. Maintain a temperature of 45 

 to 50 degrees at night and a dry at- 

 mosphere. If you have coal ashes be- 

 low the pota, remove them. Proper 

 watering and a little feeding should 

 soon put vour plants in good shape. 



C. W. 



GERANIUMS DISEASED. 



I am enclosing two geranium leaves, 

 the stems of which are diseased. The 

 white streak seems to eat the substance 

 out of the stem and cause it to turn 

 yellow and die. We have about 4,000 

 plants, about half of which are affected, 

 principally of the S. A. Nutt variety. 



.1. F. L.— Pa.' 



Loaves affocti'd in this way usually in- 

 dicate that the plants have been kept 

 crowded in the cutting benches too long 

 and have become more or less debili- 

 tated. I- would pick off all the leaves 

 with stalks thus affected. Endeavor to 

 get a lietter growth on the plants by 

 giving them a nice, sunny house, with 

 plenty of fresh air on every favorable 

 occasion and a temperature of 48 to 50 

 degrees at night. Also, give them a 

 spraying with a good fungicide, such as 

 Bordeaux mixture or Fungine. I doubt 

 if your plants will ever have the vigor 

 of stock which has had proper care in 

 the early stages of growth. Excessive 

 propagation and too long a period in 

 the cutting bench are usually respon- 

 sible for these and other ailments. 



C. W. 



OBITUARY 



Gustav Enoch. 



Failing to renew his health in Flor- 

 ida, where he had spent six weeks, 

 Gustav Knoch, of Detroit, hanged him- 

 self among the flowers in his store, 

 February 27. He had suffered from a 

 nervous breakdown due to overwork. 



Besides his widow, five sons and three 

 daughters survive him. Mr. Knoch was 

 born in Detroit fifty-one years ago. He 

 had been in the florists' business more 

 than thirty years, having built up the 

 large establishment on Fort street west 

 by his own efforts. 



George F. Kingsley. 



George Kingsley, of Wooster, O., died 

 February 14, following an illness from a 

 complication of diseases. Mr. Kingsley 

 was a native of Ashtabula county, O. 

 In early life he learned the trade of a 

 cabinetmaker and followed that occupa- 

 tion for a number of years. About thirty 

 years ago the family located at Wooster 

 and the first Kingsley greenhouse was 

 erected. The business was conducted 

 by the decedent and his wife with suc- 

 cess during all these years. Mr. Kings- 

 ley was 82 years of age and is surviAcd 

 by his wife, one son, Charles, and a 

 daughter. 



Samuel L. Wintemltz. 



Samuel L. Winternitz was not in the 

 trade, but he was known to nearly every 



florist, nurseryman or seedsman who 

 ever came in touch, as buyer or seller, 

 with Chicago's auction machinery, for 

 Winternitz conducted most of the forced 

 sales of horticultural goods that have 

 occurred in his city in the last twenty 

 years. He was born in Austria March 

 '(), 3862, and died at Chicago February 

 2;{, 1917, a man whose word was good. 



B. Terrell Hoyt. 



B. T. Hoyt, well known landscape ar- 

 chitect and proprietor of the Hoyt Nurs- 

 ery Co., of St. Paul, Minn., died Febru- 

 ary 12 of nephritis, following an illness 

 of four months' duration. Mr. Hoyt Avas 

 born at St. Paul, February 11, 187(5. He 

 is survived by his wife, a daughter, two 

 sisters and two brothers. 

 D. R. Mayo. 



D. R. Mayo, proprietor of a large seed 

 business at Knoxville, Tenn., passed 

 away February 16, death resulting from 

 a stroke of apoplexy, Mr. Mayo was 

 at his place of business on the morning 

 l)revious to his death and apparently was 

 in the best of health, but later in the 

 day, while attending to some legal busi 

 ncss at a magistrate's, he suddenly fell 

 unconscious to the floor. 



Mr. Mayo was born in Monroe county, 

 Ark., September 20, 1854, and removed 

 to Knoxville in 1880. He was first en- 

 gaged in the grocery business, but later 

 took up the seerl business, in which he 

 jjrospered so well that he soon ranked 

 as one of Knoxville 's foremost business 

 men. Although not rated as a good 

 ''mixer," the iloceilent had a host of 

 friends. - H. E. M. 



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\V. .T. & M. S. Vescy, of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., are rapidly bringing into 

 shape the latest addition to their collec- 

 tion of orchids. Just now there is a 

 fine showing of Cattleya Trianie. I 

 learned from W. J. Vesey that a recent 

 report relative to a range of houses es- 

 pecially built for orchids, was an error; 

 l)ut it is intended to tear donii a range 

 of six houses and to build the new 

 houses each 100 feet longer for roses. 

 Ophelia is a perpetual bloomer. Whether 

 grown on own-root or grafted stock, the 

 yield is the same. Shnwyor is doing 

 well. Planted six weeks later than 

 usual/ the plants are not so strong as 

 they otherwise would be; yet there was 

 a heavy crop at Christmas that sold at 

 $20 per hundred wholesale. Speaking 

 of the loss in holiday shipments of or- 

 chids, Mr. Vesey remarked that his con- 

 cern was doubly unfortunate, as the 

 duplicated sliipments also were frozen. 

 The total comprised 6,800 blooms, in 

 addition to sprays. Vandas, phahTuop- 

 sis and Oncidium splendidum are much 

 sought after as sprays. Carnations are 

 cro])ping heavily and arc in good de- 

 maud. 



"Every hybridizer," observed Theo 

 (lore Dorner, of the F. Dorner & Sons 

 Co., of La Fayette, Ind., "has some 

 special color as well as character of 

 the plant in view. Father paid less at- 

 tention to white than any other color, 

 but in White Wonder we have a carna- 

 tion that stands today without a peer 

 in its class. We are trying out some 



liromising whites, as you will see." 

 There is no dearth in pinks, with Good 

 (Jheer and Sensation going strongly. 

 Laddie, the latest introduction, will be 

 a strong favorite. It is a lovely shade 

 of salmon and has a strong clove scent. 

 It is a sure winner. ' ' Look at this 

 bunch of Rosalie," said Mr. Dorner. 

 "Here wo have a distinct color, red or 

 pink, according to the light. The rich- 

 est of all our introductions, Rosalie, 

 cannot but become a general favorite 

 for color, growth and free<lom of flower- 

 ing." From four benches of seedling 

 reds there were selected just four that 

 were considered worthy of further trial. 

 While the carnation may be said to be 

 preeminent at the Dorner establish- 

 ment, it is interesting to note some- 

 thing highly promising in a seedling 

 rose, Sunl)urst x Hoosier Beaut}', which 

 jiossesses all the excellent points of the 

 jiarents. It has the fragrance of a hybrid 

 tea, a long shapely bud, and is a pleas- 

 ing shade of pink. "We think highly 

 of Mrs, Shawyer, " commented Mr. 

 Dorner, "but believe to do it justice 

 it must be grown alone. Killarney is 

 not so particular — you will notice how 

 well the old favorite does here." A 

 house of Violet Princess of Wales was 

 noteworthy, as well as a general assort- 

 ment of stock grown for the retail trdde. 

 F. K. Smith's Sons, of Danville, HI., 

 are rushed with funeral work. "It is 

 either a feast or famine," remarked 

 Fred Smith as he was putting the fin- 

 ishing touch to a handsome casket 

 cover. W. M 



