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The Florists^ Review 



17 



sies, double daisies and polyanthus can 

 be planted and all will succeed well if 

 kept at 38 to 40 degrees at night in 

 winter-. An even lower temperature 

 will do no harm on severe nights. 



HOUSING BAY TREES. 



While bay trees are tolerably hardy, 

 I do not care to subject them to a lower 

 temperature than 20 degrees before 

 housing, them. They will withstand a 

 good deal of frost. In fact, on one oc- 

 casion our plants were left out late and 

 exposed to a temperature of zero. They 

 were then removed to a storage house 

 and allowed to thaw out in the dark 

 and they suffered no damage. It is not 

 safe, however, to risk these plants in 

 such a temperature and they are better 

 placed under cover by the middle of 

 November. Other subjects in tubs, 

 boxes or large pots, such as aucubas, 

 hollies, boxwoods, English and Irish 

 yews, bay laurels, etc., should be placed 

 under cover at the same time as the 

 bay trees. 



PLANTINO HABDY BOSES. 



A comparatively small number of 

 hardy roses are planted in the fall. 

 Many more might well be set out now. 

 An experience of nearly thirty years 

 has shown me that both hybrid per- 

 petuals and hybrid teas, if planted care- 

 fully in November and well protected 

 with loam, will winter splencUdly and 

 give vastly better results than spring- 

 planted stock. This applies to grafted 

 or budded plants, which are the only 

 roses suitable for planting in the colder 

 states. Firm the roots well, be sure 

 they are moist, cover the grafts not 

 less than four inches, tie up the tops 

 and, before the ground freezes, bank 

 up well with soil, later giving the 

 ground a mulch of leaves, strawy ma- 

 nure or meadow hay. Try this fall 

 planting and be convinced of its value. 



UFTINO GLADIOLI. 



If the gladioli are still in the ground, 

 lift them without delay. We cannot tell 

 how much longer the ground will re- 

 main open, with last winter's record 

 still vividly before our eyes. Cut the 

 growths back to within four or five 

 inches of the bulbs. Quantities of tiny 

 bulblets will be found attached to many 

 of the bulbs. Save them and sow them 

 in drills like peas next spring. Sowings 

 of the primulinus hybrids made in this 

 way will yield good-sized cuttings late 

 in the season, some being stiU fresh the 

 first week in November. Shelves in a 

 frostproof but dry cellar are suitable 

 for the storage of gladioli. They are 

 better kept where little fire heat is 

 used. Matthiolas should be lifted and 

 stored away at the same time as 

 gladioli. 



FIGHTING THE COBN BORER. 



The United States Department of 

 Agriculture has issued an appeal to gar- 

 deners in the New England states to 

 clean up their plots and burn all the 

 aead vegetation as soon as possible after 

 killing frost this fall. Destruction by 

 ^re of infested stock, stubble, garden 

 plants and weeds after killing frost is 

 Ihl ^^ ^"'^^'^ method of combating 

 irl^f'"''?^*? "'''''' ^o'""* a dangerous 

 ZlTl T'V^ ^°'" "^^ to this country, 

 which has been found living in the corn 

 holds of eastern Massachusetts. 



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CHABLES H. GBAEELOW. 



THE florists' business is so comparatively new that practically all of the men who 

 have made notable successes in it have done so from a small beginning. This is 

 the case with Charles H. Grakelow, Philadelphia. It was sixteen years ago that 

 Mr. Grakelow decided to invest his small capital in the business. He rented a house, 

 established his store in what had been the parlor and started in. Sales at first were 

 slow, but his pleasant personality won him many customers and today his place at 

 Broad and Cumberland streets is one of the finest in the country. Mr. Grakelow 

 is notable for other things than being a florist. He belongs to forty different or- 

 ganizations, is a gifted speaker, and is fond of visiting far-off places. His descrip- 

 tions of these places have delighted many an audience. A minimum overhead ex- 

 pense, extensive and continuous advertising and a gracious treatment of customers 

 are Mr. Grakelow 's rules for success in the florists' business. 



If strenuous methods are not made to 

 check this insect, according to the 

 Bureau of Entomology of the depart- 

 ment, it will spread to the great field 

 corn producing regions of the country, 

 do incalculable injury to the corn crop 

 and materially reduce the prosperity as 

 well as the food stocks of the nation. 



The pest is not definitely known to 

 occur outside of Massachusetts, but it 

 is possible that it may be present in 

 other New England states. The insect 

 came from Europe and is especially in- 

 jurious to corn in Austria-Hungary, 

 where it has been known to destroy at 

 least one-fourth of the entire crop in a 

 single year. During the cold months it 

 lives within the dead and dried stalks 

 and roots of corn, the larger grasses, 

 weeds and garden plants. Therefore 



the ease of destroying it at this time 

 by burning garden trash of the kind 

 mentioned. 



Discovery of the insect should be re- 

 ported immediately to the State Agri- 

 cultural College or to the Bureau of 

 Entomology, United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Waterbury, Conn.— Saxe & Floto, 

 speaking of the great run in funeral 

 work, state there were eighty-seven 

 burials in one day in this city, and 

 floral remembrances at each. They 

 were fortunate in having the first crop 

 of chrysanthemums in at the time. The 

 new store, though somewhat smaller, is 

 more favorably located than the for- 

 mer one. 



