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The Florists' Review 



JuNS 5, 1919. 



the daisies, fuchsias, heliotropes, Ian- 

 tanas and pelargoniums, I would allow 

 twelve to twenty cuttings from each 

 stock plant. By figuring on that basis, 

 the number of stock plants required 

 can be determined. 



It is easier to keep the stock plants 

 in active growing condition when they 

 are grown in benches than when they 

 are pot-grown. All of the flowering be- 



gonias of the gracilis or luminosa va- 

 rieties make better plants when grown 

 from seed than when gt65rn from cut- 

 tings. The seed is slow to germinate 

 an(^ produce plants during cold, dark 

 weather, and I would not delay the sow- 

 ing of it beyond September 15 if strong 

 2-inch plants are wanted by Decem- 

 ber 1. M. P. 



ers? Also, can I save my own pansy 

 seed from the plants now seeding and 

 expect good results? H. A. C. — Ala. 



Unless there are other petunias near 

 enough so that bees will carry pollen 

 from them to the fringed flowers, a 

 majority of the seeds should produce 

 plants with fringed flowers, but the only 

 sure way to keep any flower true to type 

 from seed* is by hand-fertilization under 

 glass or protecting the seed-bearing 

 flowers by enclosing them, in thin cloth 

 bags. 



There is not any reason why good re- 

 sults should not be obtained with seeds 

 saved from the pansy plants at this time. 

 Gather the seeds as soon as ripe and 

 keep them in a dry place until the time 

 comes for sowing. M. P. 



BADLY INFESTED WITH MIDGE. 



I am sending, under separate cover, a 

 sample of chrysanthemum plants of late 

 propagation. The stock was thrifty and 

 clean-looking and was rooted in a cool 

 temperature. What is the trouble? Is 

 it midge? We had no such annoyance 

 last year. Last summer we bought 

 some stock that proved to be of poor 

 quality, but it did not show any symp- 

 toms of the present trouble. 



J. R. J.— O. 



The chrysanthemum plants are badly 

 infested with the chrysanthemum midge. 

 Indeed, if the plants sent for examina- 

 tion are a fair sample of the stock on 

 hand, I would advise the inquirer not 

 to plant them under any consideration, 

 but to procure clean plants elsewhere. 

 The midge has so firm a control of the 

 plants submitted that it would be use- 

 less to try to clean them up. M. P. 



OUTDOOR CHEYSANTHEMXJMS. 



I have a piece of sod land which was 

 plowed last fall and which I now wish 

 to plant to outdoor chrysanthemums and 

 asters for the market. Please give me 

 the names of chrysanthemums suitable 

 for my purpose. How close together 

 should the plants be placed? I have a 

 Skinner" irrigation system for installa- 

 tion on the land. I. H. J. — W. Va. 



A list , of chrysanthemums which 

 would do well outdoors includes the fol- 

 lowing: Smith's Advance, October 

 Frost, October Queen and Oconto, white; 

 Belle Mauve, Unaka, Pacific Supreme 

 and Charles Jolly, pink; Yellow Ad- 

 vance, Cranfordia, Chrysolora and Viv- 

 ian Cook, yellow; Firelight, Mrs. Har- 

 rison Craig, Nellie Blake and Bronze 

 Unaka, bronze. 



The rows should be about three feet 

 apart, in order to give the cultivator 

 room to work between them, and allow 

 the plants to grow. The Skinner irri- 

 gation system will work splendidiv in 

 this place. C. H. T. 



THE MIDGE AGAIN. 



I am sending you a sample of my 

 chrysanthemum plants. Will you please 

 tell me how to get rid of this disease? 

 A spot appears on a leaf, and when the 

 leaf is split open a small worm is found. 

 Would like to hear of a remedy. 



J. A. M.— 111. 



which has been blighting mum crops and 

 rapidly spreading the last three years 

 in this country. 



As before stated in these columns, the 

 only means of exterminating mis in- 

 sect is fumigation with tobacco dust 

 for five or six weeks, about every second 

 night. This is an expensive remedy, but 

 absolutely the only way to get rid of 

 midge. If J. A. M. does not have a large 

 stock of mums, it would be cheaper to 

 burn his entire lot of plants and fumi- 

 gate the house, then start in with !aew, 

 clean stock and watch all future stock 

 that he purchases, to see that it is not 

 affected, before placing it in the house 

 with his other stock. C. H. T. 



WOULDN'T IT PAY? 



Would it pay florists and nurserymen 

 to boost landscape gardening in the 

 country, where there are many homes 

 that would be beautiful if the owners 

 only could be made to take interest in 

 plants and flowers, shrubs and trees? 

 How could such work be started? 



W. H. J.— O. 



TRUE TO TYPE FROM SEED. 



I have about 100 plants of fringed 

 single petunias, which I selected from a 

 stock of 2,000 plants. I should like to 

 grow my own seed from these selected 

 plants, if there is a good prospect that 

 the resultant flowers will be fringed. 

 Will seed saved from deeply fringed 

 pink petunias yield pink fringed flow- 



Of course it would pay and it has 

 paid. Many a florist and nurseryman 

 has been boosting home planting in his 

 local town these many years. And re- 

 cently both the Society of American 

 Florists and the American Association 

 of Nurserymen, not to mention nu- 

 merous florists' clubs, have taken up the 

 work, in a national way, of stimulating 

 public interest in our wares. Any mem- 

 ber of the trade can start the work in 

 his neighborhood by making his own 

 home place a reason for envy. Make 

 your own place a model and do not be 

 backward about telling what you can do 

 for others. 



isfetion and 



1^5^ Decision! 



MUST PAY FOR DELAY. 



The chrysanthemum plant submitted 

 was infested with the midge, a pest 



Express Companies Liable. 



In no other line of business are 

 prompt deliveries of express shipments 

 so important as in the florists' trade. 

 Flowers sent with the expectation of 

 delivery for a wedding, a holiday or a 

 funeral, if delayed by the express com- 

 pany and delivered after the time they 

 are wanted, lose all their value. This 

 fact, however, has not been recognized 

 by the government-controlled express 

 companies and the florists have been 

 forced to accept such losses without 

 hope of regaining them. It is a long 

 lane that has no turning, however, and 

 a recent court decision will be cheering 

 news to the trade. 



G. M. Rittenhouse & Co., commission 

 merchants, of New York, recently ob- 

 tained a judgment of $1,977.65 against 

 the Adams Express Co., in a New York 

 court. Legal authorities declare this 

 establishes beyond question the liability 

 of the carrier for loss caused by avoid- 



able delay in delivery beyond a speci- 

 fied schedule, when such loss is due to 

 shrinkage of market value because of 

 delayed delivery, or to other results of 

 the delay. 



Trial Over Eggs. 



The case arose from the delay in de- 

 livery of three express shipments of 

 eggs in February, 1917. Samuel Binga- 

 man, of G. M. Eittenhouse & Co., about 

 February 18 purchased two cars of eggs 

 in Tennessee, upon assurance of the 

 Southern Express Ca of a sixty-hour 

 delivery at New York. The cars were 

 shipped from Nashville February 19 

 and 20. A third purchase was made at 

 an Illinois point and shipped in the reg- 

 ular express car under assurance of the 

 agent that delivery would be made by 

 February 23 at latest. 



The egg market was at that time in 

 a sensitive condition under prospects of 

 increasing supplies; a near future de- 

 cline was expected and Mr. Bingaman 

 made the purchases and shipments only 

 under the reasonable expectation that 



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