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The Florists^ Review 



XOVEMBKIt ;;0, 1916. 



FUEL FAMINE EASING UP. 



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PINCH IS LESS SEVERE. 



Cars Are Being Supplied. 



Although there are hundrcils of llo- 

 rists who will not aj^ree witli tlie state- 

 ment, tiie coal situation is easier than 

 it ^\■as. Tlie great outcry has resulted 

 in speeding up the nioviMiient, and espe- 

 cially the unloading and return, of cars, 

 as the laiiroads have found themselves 

 the goat and have been making great 

 ell'orts to lelieve the conditions for 

 which they are resi>onsible. 



Deliveries have become more regular 

 for the growers wlio are dealing with 

 responsible ]ic(ipl(' and who have estab- 

 lished rt'putations for meeting their 

 own obligations promptly. 



Contracts and Credits. 



The situation is one that brings the 

 business methoiis of sellers and buyers 

 into the bright light and shows them 

 up iov what they are. Beyoud ques- 

 tion, the best of coal producers have 

 been ]ire\ented Ironi living up to their 

 schedule of deliveries by the shortage 

 of cars, but they all have had some 

 cars, equal 1u at least fifty per cent of 

 their mining ca[iacity, and they h:\\e 

 been able to make at least that jht 

 centage of delivei'i(>s on cnut lai-ts, jonb 

 ably more. ln>rause mines dn not iisu 

 ally contiact up to full cap.acity. 'Vhv 

 dcjiendable concerns have iteen gi\'ing 

 the ciiiitia't riistnmers e\ei'y jMiund 



sliij'ped. selliliu .-iliSiibltely n(J mal nli 

 the (ipeii niaikel. The unt I'ust w ort hy 

 piddut-ei ha^ been ' " stalling ' ' the 

 lidlder ni' a ci.ntiiict %\ilh the stioy <ii 

 the ;illi>L;ed i ni | M)S-ibil it y ef getting cai> 

 and X lliMu iiis iiutput at tlie high prices 

 iHiw ]iie\ a iliiiL;' in the epen market. 



y.:\i-\\ llmivt will kudW t lom his exi'e- 

 lieii.e whicli rla^- i>f ])i(>dui-ei' he has 

 eon1ra<-tid with this seasnn and will 

 knnw what In d(i next year. 



I'.ut (iMiuatidiis never aie all on one 

 side and llii~ i- a time when the llorist 

 linds a leniid df tlH> jinmii't payment 

 i>\' bill- i- a de.ided adxantage. If the 

 tl(iii~-1 has tailed tn iiuiki' ]iayinent a 

 agT'eed. he has breken thi> (MJiitia't au' 

 ha^ nn cl.-rnn undiM- it the othiM party 



d(ie< lint i-liiHi-e til liM-dgn i /e. 



Many Florists in Bad Place. 



liaeh da\ biings new reports of 

 greenhouse establishments that are on 

 the \erge et' closing up or fi'ee/ing up. 

 Nothing that has hajipened in years 

 lias so vividly illuminated the average 

 Ibirist 's lark of jueparedness. the want 

 of forehandedness that for years has 

 been a hamlicap on the development 

 of the trade. There are hundreds, even 

 thousands, of greenhouses in which the 

 fuel su]i]ily has been permitted to be- 

 come a han<l-to-m(iuth affair. Kepcat- 

 eil warnings that the arrival of cold 

 weather would bring trouble failed to 

 stir them and today for every grower 

 who has his bunkers full there is an- 

 other who is dependent on tomorrow's 

 deliveries for the next night's fire. 



The florist who has been buying regu- 

 larly in one place and paying bills 

 promptly is in a position -where, even 



if his suiqdy is low, he will be taken 

 care of up to th(> limit of tht> ability 

 of the coal concern with whiidi he deals, 

 but the man who still owes for last 

 spring's fuel is in a ]irt>c;uious position. 



Prices a Little Easier. 



The number of florists who have con- 

 tracts for coal is small in comparison 

 to those who must i)ay wliatever price 

 is asked. The larger places nearly all 

 have contracts, for they would not have 

 become large had not the Tiianagers 

 been men who could look ahead, but 

 some ranges in which the fuel bill al- 

 ways has run to quite a figure find it 

 necessary to ]>ay the market price, 

 which is anything the seller asks, up to 

 three times the summer rate. 



As to how and why the nuirket eased 

 the Coal Trade .lournal says: 



"The anthr.acite situation has quiet- 

 ed noticeably within the week. It is 

 not that the supj)ly has increased or 



tliat the demand for coal at the regular 

 ])rice lias subsided, but the panicky 

 feeling on the part of consumers has 

 disappeared for the time being. With 

 the public less clamorous, retail dealers 

 arc not so much inclined to offer ex- 

 travagant prices for immediate deliv- 

 ery, and as a result smaller premiums 

 are being obtained by intlependent 

 operators and middlemen. 



"A sudden let-up in the demand for 

 bituminous developed right after elec- 

 tion and the market has weakened 

 slightly since then. Various theories 

 are advanced to account for the change 

 of heart on the part of consumers. 

 None is entirely convincing in itself, 

 but each has probably played its part. 

 About the most logical deduction is 

 that many steam users who were short 

 of coal have managed to secure enough 

 on their contracts and outside orders 

 to carry them along for a while and 

 have decided not to buy any more in 

 the open market until their stocks are 

 again nearing exhaustion or until prices 

 recede. 



"Looking to the future, it must be 

 said, however, that there is every indi- 

 cation of a strong and steady market 

 for bituminous coal and the movement 

 from the producer to consumer is reg- 

 ulated largely by the car supply." 



CRYSTAL WHITE NEXT YEAR. 



l>avid y. Ward, nl' ttii> eai'iiation de 

 partinent el' the t'ottage (iardens Co.. 

 .-i-ks the i;e\ lew to juint the following 

 pai'agraph "'to niiifcl a wrung impres 

 sion ' ': 



•'The iinjiressiiin sivmhs to be widely 

 ]iie\;ilent in trade circles that the Cot- 

 tage Cardens ( 'o. "s new carnation. 

 Crystal White, is to be disseminated 

 this season. The company is ;it a los-^ 

 to know where this imjiression origi- 

 nated, as it ha'^ never been their in 

 teiition to send (Hit Crystal White until 

 iH'xt season and they iie\"er made any 

 statement that could be construed other 

 wise. The only carnation they arc send- 

 ing out this year is Cottage Maid and 

 they wish to assure the trade that 

 • rystal White will not be on the mar- 

 ket until the season of II'KIS." 



cidal projierties Avhatever and should 

 lie used only in combating insects, such 

 as aphis, tlirips, etc. For the rust you 

 need to us^ such remedies as Bordeaux 

 mixture, Grape Dust, sulphur on the 

 steam pipes, etc. First pick off as many 

 of the affected leaves as jtractical and 

 then either sjiray the plants tlioroughly 

 with the Bordeaux mixture or dust them 

 with the Grape Dust. ^\\x some sul- 

 jihur and lime in equal proportions with 

 enough water to make a thick paint, 

 .and p:iiitt one of the steam pipes with 

 it. Keduce your syringing to a mini- 

 mum, always keeping a sharp lookout 

 ler signs of red spider. Give all the 

 \tMitilation possible and keep the plants 

 growing \'igorouslv. A. V. .T. B. 



TO CHECK CARNATION RUST. 



r am senilini,r you some ]ea\('s of my 

 carnations, whiidi show signs of some 

 sort of disease. The symjitoms of the 

 trotibl(> ha\e ap[H^ared only on a new 

 lot of jdants which were sln]>j>ed to me 

 from another state. The disease was on 

 them when 1 received them, but has be 

 come worse, though it lias not yet 

 spread to my other plants. What shall 

 1 do to check the disease? T have used 

 a nicotine spray. A. G. — Okla. 



WORMS ON CARNATIONS. 



We are sending you some worms, 

 which we think are wireworms, though 

 we are not quite sure. They are spoil- 

 ing our carnations. They work up the 

 stem, eat out tlie heart, and spoil the 

 leaves. The soil seems to contain quan- 

 tities of the worms and lime has no 

 effect on them. Can you tell us the 

 most economical wav to rid the soil of 

 them? ' M. F. C— Colo. 



The disease you complain of is the 

 well known carnation rust. This is not 

 affected in the least by nicotine spray 

 ing. In fact, the nicotine has no fungi- 



The specimens appeared to be of the 

 wireworm type. Lime will have no 

 effect on them, but if you procure some 

 carbon bisulphide, obtainable at all 

 drug stores in 1-pound cans and selling 

 at about 2:" cents per pound, you can 

 clean out these and all other soil pests. 

 Bore holes twelve to eighteen inches 

 apart each way in the benches with a 

 sharply pointed stick, pour a scant tea- 

 spoonful of the carbon in each hole 



