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The Florists' Review 



NOTBMBBE 1, 1917. 



I VECETABLES AND 



I FRUITS DEPARTMENT 



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 FERTILIZER FOR CUCUMBERS. 



What is a good commercial fertilizer 

 to use on cucumbers under glass? What 

 is the best way to apply it? I have 

 been using cow manure, but it does not 

 hold out. L. F. K. — Miss. 



root generally attacks plants in stiff, 

 sour land. The cabbage maggot is an- 

 other pest responsible for many sick 

 batches of cabbage. It attacks the 

 roots. If neither of these pests is 

 responsible for your yellowed foliage, 

 you may have had a fungoid attack, due 

 l)rimarily to peculiar climatic condi- 

 tions. For such an attack, spraying 

 with Bordeaux mixture as soon as the 

 trouble appears is recommended. Apply 

 this spray once a week until you are 

 reasonably sure the plants are clear of 

 the trouble. C. W. 



OBITUARY 



No commercial fertilizer is equal to 

 good cow manure for cucumbers. As a 

 stimulant, nitrate of soda or sulphate of 

 ammonia, one pound to fifty gallons of 

 water, can be used, watering with 

 clear water before applying. These 

 chemicals should be used with extreme 

 care, and at best do not equal cow man- 

 ure. A mulch of three to four inches 

 of strawy cow manure, once the plants 

 are bearing, is excellent for them. 



C. W. 



CABBAGE LEAVES YELLOW. 



I am enclosing some diseased cabbage 

 leaves. The outside leaves of the 

 plants first begin to turn yellow or 

 brownish, and finally drop off. I had 

 400 in one bed that were ruined. They 

 were planted in new soil. What is the 

 disease and what is a remedy? 



C. A. P.— Me. 



' The leaves were badly decayed when 

 received and had a pronounced odor. I 

 assume that you know what club root 

 is. This causes plants to wilt and the 

 foliage to gradually turn yellow. Club 



TOMATO FLOWERS FALLING OFF. 



We have a large patch of tomatoes 

 planted in the field and all the plants 

 have produced well except one. This 

 one is the largest plant of the lot and is 

 perfectly healthy; so we expected some 

 extra fine fruit from it. It blooms 

 freely, but as soon as the flowers are 

 fully developed they drop oflf, with a 

 little piece of the flower stem. There 

 are no insects on the plant and none of 

 the other plants is affected. Can you 

 tell us the cause and the remedy for it I 



E. A. E.— 111. 



This particular plant is probably 

 growing in soil which is richer in nitro- 

 gen than the soil where the other to- 

 matoes are. This promotes a strong 

 growth, but not infrequently such plants 

 drop their flowers as your plant has 

 done. You could check the abnormal 

 growth and make the plant set its fruit 

 by giving it a root pruning with a 

 sharp spade. It will be too late, how- 

 ever, to try this during the present sea- 

 son. C. W. 



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George Schulz, of the Jacob Schulz 

 Co., Louisville, Ky., was featuring the 

 F. T. D. idea at Camp Zachary Taylor 

 during the meeting of the F. T. D. at 

 Detroit. This plan, which is believed 

 to have originated with Mr. Schulz, un- 

 doubtedly will be adopted by those who 

 are located near camps. As Mr. Schulz 

 says, the soldier boys will send and re- 

 ceive flowers. The company has leased 

 an ofiice close to the main entrance of 

 the camp, and every car passes the 

 building. Some 25,000 people are ex- 

 pected to visit the 60,000 to 70,000 

 soldiers. The F. T. D. "stunt" depicts 

 a Kentucky beauty telegraphing flowers 

 ordered by one of our gallaht sons, said 

 flowers to be sent to the gallant son's 

 dear one. At tlie home end of the wire 

 the recipient is pictured receiving the 

 gift with the usual expression of delight. 

 Summer business was all the company 

 could wish, and naturally the manage- 

 ment anticipates a good winter season. 

 The veteran Jacob Schulz is constantly 

 on the job at the greenhouses, from sun- 

 rise to sunset, and considers himself 

 still in tlie prime of life. 



Manager A. Adams, of Anderson's 

 store, Buffalo, while overlooking the 

 trimming of the fine window said: 

 * * When wrestling with such a problem 

 as is now before us, this matter of 

 publicity, take the bull by the horns, 

 and by persistency, depend upon it. 



we will have the business where we 

 want it." S. A. Anderson had not yet 

 returned from his summer home. 



The Guthrie-Lorenz Co., of Des 

 Moines, la., is experiencing excellent 

 business in all departments, seed, flower 

 and poultry supply. 



A. H. Huniniert, of the St. Louis Seed 

 Co., St. Louis, observed that while the 

 company did not place all its eggs in 

 one basket, it took care to place the 

 bulk of them in the strongest basket, 

 and he attributed much of the com- 

 pany's success to that fact. 



"I am an advocate of liberal adver- 

 tising," said D. C. Horgan, of the Idle 

 Hour Nurseries, Macoji, Ga. ' ' We spend 

 from $3,000 to $4,000 per year in this 

 southern zone. Our society folks are 

 not buying flowers today as in previous 

 years. Our best trade is coming from 

 tlie middle class and calls for increased 

 funeral work. The disrupted condition 

 of the express and parcel post systems 

 makes it the more essential for mem- 

 bers to rely on one another. As an in- 

 stance of delay: We have just received 

 a shipment of valley from New York, 

 which was nine days in transit, and this 

 is not an isolated case by any means. 

 Our Dutch bulbs have not yet arrived, 

 but we are not much put out, for our 

 order file is empty. In other years we 

 have had a stack of good retail orders 

 to fill." W. M. 



Edward H. Schmidt. 



Edward H. Schmidt, of Indianapolis, 

 passed away Monday, October 22, at 

 the age of 45. As a boy he worked for 

 Charles Eieman, under whom he learned 

 the business. For many years he was 

 employed in different cities, but later he 

 returned to Indianapolis. At one time 

 he was employed by the city to look 

 after the greenhouses, parkways, etc., 

 and later was associated with John 

 Bieman, the son of the man under whom 

 he had learned the business. 



E. E. T. 



James D. Balfour. 



James D. Balfour, of Seabright, Cal., 

 died at his home, October 18, after an 

 illness of almost a year, leaving a 

 widow and one son. Mr. Balfour had 

 made many friends during the fifteen 

 years of his residence in Seabright. He 

 was a cousin of Lord James D. Balfour. 



Harry F. Read. 



Harry F. Bead, of Eoyal Oak, Md., 

 member of the Florists' Union of Bal- 

 timore County, died suddenly of apo- 

 plexy the evening of October 18, while 

 visiting at the home of Mr.' and Mrs. 

 Kirk Bennett, at Middleborough, Mid- 

 dle River. Mr. Bead was well known 

 throughout Talbot county. He was a 

 widower and leaves two sons, who live 

 in Virginia, also a sister, a resident of 

 Baltimore, all of whom Coroner James 

 Green, who was called to make an ex- 

 amination, is trying to locate. 



E. A. Beaven. 



One of the leading green goods men of 

 the south, E. A. Beaven, died October 

 22 at his home in Evergreen, Ala. The 

 decedent had been in failing health for 

 a year or more, and recently returned 

 to his home from Chicago, where he 

 had gone with the hope of improving 

 his health. 



Although Mr. Beaven was distributor 

 of all kinds of southern greens, he prob- 

 ably was best known for his wild smi- 

 lax. The introducer of this almost in- 

 dispensable decorative green, George 

 W. Caldwell, who died six years after 

 his retirement in 1905, was succeeded 

 by Mr. Beaven. Mr. Beaven continued 

 the business under the old name, Cald- 

 well The Woodsman Co., as separate 

 from the similar establishment under 

 his own name. Mr. Beaven became a 

 member of the S. A. F. in 1906. He is 

 survived by his wife, a daughter and 

 four sons. 



Fred Stielow. 



Frederick Stielow, Sr., of Niles Cen- 

 ter, 111., one of the oldest growers for 

 the Chicago market, died October 25. 

 He had been taken to a hospital a few 

 days previously for an operation on the 

 bladder, which was performed October 

 18. A second operation became neces- 

 sary and was performed the morning of 

 the day of his death. His illness had 

 not been considered serious until the 

 second operation became necessary. 



Frederick Stielow was born in Prussia 

 in 1844 and came to the United States 

 in 1869, locating first at Boston, where 

 he remained for nearly six years, the 

 last two of which were at the establish- 



