ao 



The Florists' Review 



Septembbb 6, 1917. 



THE CHRYSANTHEMUM MIDQE. 



I am sending you a chrysanthemum 

 plant that either is diseased or infested 

 with some sort of insect. What is the 

 trouble, and what is a remedy for it? 



J. E. K.— Mich. 



MUM BUDDING DATeS. 



I am appending a list of names of 

 chrysanthemums and would like to have 

 you write after each name the bud to 

 bo taken on that variety and the date 

 it should be taken. E. N. S. — 111.. 



The table asked for is as follows: 



Variety. Bud. Date. 



White BonnafEon .Late crown Sept. 10 



Major Bonnaffou. Lute crown or 



terminal Sept. 10 



Robert Halliday . .Crown August 20 



€hief tain Late crown Sept. 10 



Early Snow Crown August 15 



Early Frost Crown August 15 



Harvard Terminal Last bud 



Tints of Gold Crown August 10 



Charles Eager Terminal Sept;. 20 



Nagoya Terminal .... Late as possible 



Dr. Bnguehard., .Terminal, Late as possible 



Yellow Chadwick.Terminal Late as possible 



Glenvlew Terminal ,. . .Late as possible 



Chadwiek Terminal Late as possible 



Hlrondelle Terminal Late as possible 



There is no arbitrary date at which 

 buds can be taken. In the first place, 

 the buds may not appear at a given 

 date, and in the second, by some manipu- 

 lation the plants can be made to pro- 

 duce later buds than they normally 

 would. The list shows a selection of 

 early to late varieties. Thus Early 

 Frost can be taken early in August and 

 have the blooms in shape to cut bv 

 September 20. Also Tints of Gold. 

 Major Bonnaffon by being grown well, 

 planted early, and a crown bud taken, 

 say, the last days of August, will give 

 fine flowers by the end of October. But, 

 as generally grown, the terminal buds 

 are taken late in September, or later 

 if they will hold back, and the flowers 

 -are marketed for Thanksgiving or later. 

 Some growers do not plant Chadwicks 

 or Nagoyas until late in July, and when 

 so treated the terminal buds are pro- 

 duced late, which is what the cultiva- 

 tor aims at when he plants late. 



All of which shows the fallacy of 

 trying to set an absolute day as the 

 proper date for taking buds. In the list 

 submitted the approximate time is 

 given after which the best results 

 can be looked for, generally speaking. 

 Sometimes if the plants are growing 

 strongly tliey may be in full growth 

 with no indication of a bud showing, 

 and then the grower, by drying the 

 plant a little, can check the exuberant 

 growth and throw it into bud. This is 

 often necessary in the case of Marigold, 

 which does much the best on a crown 

 bud in August, but it is a job sometimes 

 to get it. And the same thing obtains 

 with October Frost. 



Charles 11. Totty. 



TAKING BUDS ON GOLDEN GLOW. 



Will you please tell mo whether it is 

 too early to take the buds from Golden 

 Glow chrysanthemums? They have 

 three or four buds, but no side shoots. 

 Is it too late to cut down such mums as 

 Golden Glow, BonnafPon, Eoman Gold, 

 Chadwiek, Enguehard and Chrysolora? 

 The mums have been in the benches too 

 weeks. K. E. — 111. 



on Golden Glow mums. Eub off all 

 but one bud on a shoot if you want 

 good flowers. It is too late to cut down 

 any varieties of mums now. Your 

 plants, undoubtedly, are getting nicely 

 established in the benches and it would 

 be suicidal to cut them down. C. W. 



MUMS LOOK RUSTY. 



Can you tell me what is on our chrys- 

 anthemums? They look like tiny worms 

 about one-thirty-second of an inch long, 

 yellow in color, and are lively in the 

 fuzz on the under side of the leaves. 

 In time they make the leaves look 

 rusty. There are a great many of them. 

 I syringe them with water every day, 

 but that does not seem to do any good. 



L. W.— 0. 



The plant submitted was badly in- 

 fested with what is known as the 

 chrysanthemum midge, one of the worst 

 pests to be found. The eggs are laid 

 in the tissues of the leaf by a fly, and 

 the resulting insects work their way 

 out of ^e leaf. The insects multiply 

 rapidly. 



When plants are as badly affected 

 as the one submitted, one may as well 

 pull them up and burn them, as the 

 flowers will be too crippled to be of 

 any use. Fumigation, unless carried on 

 every night, will not avail much. The 

 midge ns a real menace that will be 

 heard of a good deal until it hasrun its 

 course, like rust and other trotibles to 

 which the mum has been subject. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



The trouble is with the mum midge, 

 which has been distributed widely over 

 the country during the last two years. 

 It has been mentioned several times in 

 The Eeview and is a serious pest. It 

 can be controlled by persistent fumiga- 

 tion with tobacco dust. Some growers 

 claim that fumigating every night for 

 several weeks will catch the flies as 

 they hatch out from the yellow worm. 

 The fly is the final stage of the insect 

 and immediately begins reproducing its 

 kind. Chas. H. Totty. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MISTLETOE. 



Of what type is Chrysanthemum 

 Mistletoe, and what is the color of the 

 flower? When is the proper time to 

 take the bud and what is the date of 

 blooming? H. G. B.— Tenn. 



Mistletoe is an incurved white, oc- 

 casionally flushed with light pink. It 

 is classed as a good commercial Thanks- 

 giving variety, blooming after Novem- 

 ber 15, when late buds are taken. It is 

 not so large as Chadwiek or Autocrat, 

 but it enjoys a certain measure of popu- 

 larity, as it has a good, dwarf habit. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



Mews from 



roQ 



As early as ready you can take buds 



Paris, France. — Flowers sell at high 

 prices, but there is so small a supply 

 that the industry of flower growing and 

 selling may be described as over- 

 whelmed in the war. 



London, England. — Many British gar- 

 deners now in the trade in the United 

 States know H. B. May, of Edmonton, 

 and have worked for or with him. 

 They will regret to learn that he is 

 able to speak only with the greatest 

 difficulty in spite of a recent operation 

 on his throat. 



London, England. — Last year the 

 government allowed the importation of 

 one-lialf the previous year's quantity of 

 Japanese lily bulbs and this season the 

 trade had lioped to get in a quarter of 

 the normal number, but thus far the 

 trade petition has been unanswered and 

 the ban is absolute. 



London, England. — The trade has not 

 given up liope of obtaining French bulbs 

 this year. Although the government 

 has stated that no importations will be 

 allowed, it is reported that steamers 

 from Marseilles are not full and the 

 Horticultural Trades' Association has 

 decided to make another effort to ob- 

 tain permissioil! to import bulbs. 



Spalding, England. — Not content with 

 prohibiting the importation of all bulbs, 

 the agricultural committee for Lincoln- 

 shire is bringing pressure to bear on 

 narcissus bulb growers here to reduce 

 their acreage. There is strong protest 

 against a ruling that no fresh land be 

 put under bulbs, as it has been the 

 custom to put each planting on fresh 

 land as a precaution against disease. 



London, England. — Anent the pro- 

 posal of the government to prohibit the 

 use of lumber for making packing cases, 

 a nurseryman says: "Some of the 

 wholesale growers of flowers already 

 are refusing customers who are unable 

 to return empties. What will become 

 of the plant trade if no boxes are avail- 

 able in which to pack them? The export 

 trade to America cannot be carried on 

 without the wood to make the cases. 

 People talk glibly about the necessity 

 of fostering the American trade, but 

 this will be the last drop in the ocean 

 of difficulties and tiresome formalities 

 which already hedge about this trade. 

 Eaffia commandeered by the govern- 

 ment, packing paper five times its for- 

 mer price, labor scarce and dear, fuel 

 threatened by prohibition for horticul- 

 tural purposes, by no means exhaust 

 the list of a nurseryman's troubles." 



