NOVKMBEH 30, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



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First Prize Group of Harry J. Quick at the Baltimore Flower Show November 14 to 21. 



and immediately cover it with soil. 

 The carbon forms a gas which will kill 

 all soil pests and is not injurious to 

 plant life. As you cannot reach the 

 worms inside the stems or on the foli- 

 age with the carbon bisulphide, it 

 would be advisable to spray the foliage 

 with arsenate of lead, at the rate of 

 three pouivds to fifty gallons of water. 

 This will not burn the foliage, but will 

 somewhat whiten it. 



When working with the carbon bi- 

 sulphide do not use any naked lights, 

 as the carbon is somewhat explosive. 

 I think if you use the carbon and 

 arsenate of lead you will clean out the 

 bulk of vour foes. C. W. 



GAS IN COOLING ROOM. 



Last year and the year before that 

 we had trouble with our carnation 

 blooms. They would go to sleep the 

 day after they were cut. The stems 

 were long and stiff and the blooms 

 large, seemingly showing good sub- 

 stance, but no matter whether they 

 were cut in the morning or at night, 

 in one day they would be sleepy looking 

 and unfit for first-class sale. What was 

 the trouble! N. F. C— Iowa. 



I am inclined to think that your 

 trouble is not in your houses but in 

 your cooling room. Could there possi- 

 bly be any gas there, from a gas main 

 or a stove? There is perhaps nothing 

 that will put carnations to sleep so 

 quickly as gas, and it does not take 

 much of it to do the trick. 



A. F. J. B. 



REMEDY FOR STEM-ROT. 



Will you please tell me what is the 

 best remedy for stem-rot of carnations? 

 I have a house of plants that are badly 

 affected with the disease. As I have 

 not had much experience with this 

 trouble, my best course seems to be to 

 call on you for advice. 



G. W. B.— N. Y. 



edies at the proper time, there would 

 be less diflSculty in controlling this de- 

 structive disease. By the time a plant 

 shows that it is affected it is beyond 

 saving, as it does not begin to wilt until 

 the disease has destroyed the bark near- 

 ly all the way around the stem. So the 

 only practical method is to treat every 

 plant in the house, with the hope of 

 reaching those that may be in the early 

 stages of the disease. 



VVe suggest that you procure some 

 Bordeaux mixture and apply it with a 



compressed air sprayer, shooting the 

 liquid in among the lower branches and 

 stems of the plants in such a manner 

 as to reach every portion. This is the 

 best remedy known at this time. Water 

 carefully, but do not run the soil too 

 dry. Syringe only often enough to 

 keep down red spider. Do everything 

 you can to promote a steady, luxuriant 

 growth, as that will assist the plants in 

 resisting the attacks of the fungus. 

 Give liberal ventilation at every oppor- 

 tunity. A. F.'.T. B. 



If it were possible to apply the rem- 



Houston, Tex. — The new sales man- 

 ager for Kerr, the Florist, K. W. 

 Kichling, comes from New Orleans, 

 where he saw years of service with one 

 of the leading establishments. 



Greenville, Miss. — L. A. Waas reports 

 business good and Christmas prospects 

 excellent. He says one of the chief 

 pests the growers in this locality have 

 is the little black ant, which tends to 

 overrun the greenhouses. 



New Orleans, La. — F. C. Couret has 

 been a successful grower of chrysanthe- 

 mums for the last four years. Each 

 season a percentage of the flowers are 

 lost because of rot that develops after 

 the blooms are a few inches in diam- 

 eter, due no doubt to the wettings the 

 flowers have received. This year there 

 were more chrysanthemums grown for 

 All Saints' day than ever before, most 

 of the growers having unusually good 

 success. 



DaUas, Tex.— While T. J. Wolfe, pres- 

 ident of the Texas State Florists' Asso- 

 ciation, was here attending the state 

 flower show, November 15 to 17, he de- 

 voted considerable time to investigat- 

 ing trade conditions. At the close of 

 the show he said: "Every florist seems 

 to be busy. Flowers are in good de- 

 mand throughout the state at better 

 prices than I ever have known to be 

 obtained in previous years." 



New Orleans, La.— In the flower di- 

 vision of the live stock show, Novem- 

 ber 18, the Avenue Floral Co. won a 

 prize of $25 for a group of mums. The 

 Metairie Ridge Nursery Co. captured 

 two prizes of $25 each for crotons and 

 a group of foliage plants; also first 

 prize for table decorations, thirty-three 

 other prizes and the sweepstake prize. 

 The Flower Shop won first on a wed- 

 ding decoration. 



