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NOTXMBEB 30. 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



settias and the bracts will 

 them. 



In regard to your later poinsettias in 

 pans, I think they will come along in 

 good season. They are better without 

 bottom heat, but may have a top heat 

 of 62 to 65 degrees at night, to advance 

 them. Drop this gradually as the bracts 

 become well developed. Careful water- 

 ing is necessary from now on, to hold 

 good foliage on the plants. C. W. 



BEST OUTDOOR SWEET PEAS. 



Please name three or four of the best 

 varieties of sweet peas for fall plant- 

 ing outdoors in southeastern Iowa. 



S. K.— la. 



White, Nora tjnwin; rosy pink, Her- 

 cules; orange pink, improved Helen 

 Lewis; orange scarlet, Thomas Steven- 

 son; lavender, Florence Nightingale; 

 cream pink, Mrs. Hugh Dickson. Usu- 

 ally white, pink and lavender are the 

 best sellers. C. W. 



SOWING SWEET PEAS OUTSIDE. 



When must sweet peas be sown out- 

 doors in fall and how should they be 

 handled during the winter? 



A. R. G.— O. 



Fall sowings outdoors of sweet peas 

 should be done a week or two before 

 the ground freezes. The rows should 

 have a winter mulch of coal ashes, over 

 which coarse litter or leaves can be 

 placed. C. W. 



POISONING OF THE HANDS. 



Not Rose Thorns, but Bad Water. 



A recent issue of the English publica- 

 tion, the Horticultural Advertiser, con- 

 tained a communication from a promi- 

 nent firm of growers with reference to 

 the irritation and poisoning of the 

 hands from continual contact with cer- 

 tain flowers, or from contact with fer- 

 tilizers and insecticides. The substance 

 of the firm's remarks is aa follows: 



"Up to some six or eight years ago, 

 we were continually having men and 

 boys with bad hands, in our packing 

 shed. The trouble in these cases was 

 always most painful and sometimes ac- 

 tually dangerous. The direct cause of 

 the injury was, undoubtedly, punctures 

 from rose thorns, but in our opinion 

 this was not the only cause. We be- 

 lieve the greater part of the mischief 

 was due to the fact that the water in 

 which the flowers were stood up, while 

 waiting to be packed, got into the hands 

 through the punctures made by the rose 

 thorns. 



"The water at that time was only 

 changed at intervals of, say, two or 

 three days, and this water, and the in- 

 side of the tins, naturally, on some oc- 

 casions, must have been more or less 

 foul. As soon as we arrived at this 

 conclusion, we started changing the 

 water every day, and we boiled the 

 tins at frequent intervals in strong aoda 

 and water, and scoured them out with 

 sand. Besides this, we kept a number 

 of vessels about the packing shed, in 

 which was a disinfecting solution in 

 which the people could rinse their hands 

 as often as they had occasion to. We 

 also kept some of the same disinfectant, 

 not diluted, which they could dab on 

 any puncture as soon as they felt one 

 made. Since we have taken these pre- 

 cautions, we have had practically no 

 bad hands from this particular cause. 



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WALTER W. COLES. 



PIONEER is the designation of Walter W. Coles in the membership list of the 

 S. A. F., and he also was a charter member of the Florists ' Club of Philadelphia, 

 for he started in business in that city in 1882 and did not remove to his present 

 home at Kokomo, Ind., until 1891. Coles was born in England in 1857. He has 

 become widely known in America because of his membership in practically all the 

 trade societies and active participation in their affairs. He was the head of his 

 state organization for four years. He is a Mason of high degree. As a grower his 

 principal fame rests on his success with Kaiserin, a rose he grew with splendid 

 results without replanting for many years at a time others replaced their stock 

 annually. The portrait is his latest, made August 11, 1916. « 



"There is another way of dealing 

 with water and tins or other recep- 

 tacles in which flowers are kept, viz., 

 to add always to the water, when first 

 put in, enough of some strong disin- 

 fectant to keep the water, and the in- 

 side of the tins, constantly sterilized. 

 This, if always kept up, would no doubt 

 be the better plan, but we are afraid 

 that it is one which, in busy times, 

 would often be neglected. 



In Handling Bulbous Stock. 



"The foregoing is all about one as- 

 pect of this poisoning, but there are 

 other forms of it. Some years ago, 

 when we grew daffodils for cut blooms, 

 a good many of our people found they 

 could not keep on picking these blooms 

 without a sort of breaking-out on their 

 hands. We consulted the R. H. S. on 

 this, and were advised to see that the 

 people washed their hands frequently 

 and thoroughly in warm soap and water, 

 and then, before going on with the 



picking, to see that they rubbed them 

 over with some good oil or grease. We 

 provided conveniences for this, saw 

 that it was done, and afterward had but 

 little trouble in this crop. 



"Then we found that many of our 

 people, who had to handle tulip bulbs, 

 had painful gatherings under, and 

 around the quick of, their finger nails. 

 We are able to keep clear of this evil 

 now, to a large extent, by constantly 

 rubbing and working into the parts 

 affected, or likely to be affected, an 

 ointment which we procure for the pur- 

 pose. 



' ' Another form of bad hands which 

 we think it only common sense to guard 

 against, is that caused through the use 

 of certain artificial manures and insecti- 

 cides. Considering what some of these 

 things are made of, there seems only 

 one way of avoiding injury through 

 them, and that is, not to allow any 

 person to touch them who has the skin 

 of his hands cut or broken." 



