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The Florists^ Review 



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QUESTIONS ON POMPONS. 



I wish to ask you a few questions 

 about pompon chrysanthemums. What 

 do you consider ,the best planting dis- 

 tance in the bench? "What is the cause 

 of a branch failing to "break" after 

 being -pinched back in July? I have 

 one variety which acts this way. What 

 are the best red pompons? State sea- 

 sons and types. 



Would Seven Oaks produce a second 

 crop of flowers if the clumps were left 

 in the bench and fertilizer applied? I 

 have had fine pots of it in bloom at 

 Easter, with twenty-five to thirty 

 blooms to a 5-inch pot. 



As pompons are sold by the bunch 

 wholesale, how many individual flowers 

 constitute a bunch? A. H. S.— N. Y. 



We plant our pompons 10x12, as early 

 in May as we can get them in. When 

 they begin to grow nicely they are 

 benched and the resulting shoots, 

 whether three, five or seven, are all al- 

 lowed to grow. At the present time our 

 pompons are from two to four feet high, 

 according to the varieties, and are a 

 beautiful sight. We have for some 

 years considered these more profitable 

 to grow than the large-flowering chrys- 

 anthemums. 



As to what is the cause of the 

 branches failing to break after being 

 pinched back, I really could not say un- 

 less I had more definite information. I 

 have never heard of such a thing, un- 

 less the plant was kept too dry and got 

 hard, when naturally there would not 

 be so much growth, but, as I understand 

 it, the plants did not grow at all after 

 being pinched. Such a condition as 

 this I have never heard of before; there 

 may be some conditions you have not 

 explained to me. 



Seven Oaks will produce a second and 

 third crop of flowers if the clumps are 

 left in the bench and fed and watered. 

 Whether the bench room could not be 

 more profitably used for some other 

 purpose, you would know better than I 

 do, but personally I think it could. 



How many individual flowers of pom- 

 pons constitute a bunch is a question 

 that cannot be answered definitely. 

 Some growers put six stems, some eight 

 and some twelve stems in a bunch. 

 There seems to be no fixed number in 

 the New York market. Growers arrange 

 their flowers more or less by the appear- 

 ance of the bunches. Individual shoots 

 may run from three to twenty flowers, 

 according to how much or how little 

 they have been disbudded, so that, as 

 previously stated, it is hard to say just 

 how many should be put in a bunch. 



Our own pompons are grown in such 

 a way as to make the first natural break 

 in July. ^A single shoot breaks out into / 

 four or five shoots and these are per- ( 

 mitted to stay, so that a spray with 

 four shoots will contain anywhere from 

 thirty to fifty individual flowers. 



As to the best red pompon, there is 

 nothing better than Julia Lagravere, 

 one of the earliest introduced, in its 



color, which is a brilliant crimson. 

 Lelia, a scarlet bronze, is quite hand- 

 some and one of the tallest in this sec- 

 tion. There are several other good 

 bronzes of the bronze-red type, such as 

 Urith, Tiber and Mrs. Frank Wilcox, 

 sometimes known as Mrs. Beu. This lat- 

 ter is the reddish-orange variety so 

 largely grown for Thanksgiving work. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



between these leaves." It is suggested 

 that Black-Leaf 40, s])rayed as directed 

 over the jdants, will make it so un- 

 ])U'iiHaut for the insect that it will not 

 deposit its eggs tliere. Once the pest 

 starts growing there is no method ex- 

 cei)t hand-picking that will destroy it, 

 as anything that is strong enough to 

 kill tiie i)est will also kill the plant. 

 Some seasons it is much worse than 

 others and is more liable to be where 

 celery is grown than in any other sec- 

 tion. D. F. C. will possibly know 

 whether or not celery was the cause of 

 it in his section. C. H. Totty. 



LEAF-MINER ON MUMS. 



We are having considerable trouble 

 on our 'chrysanthemums with a black 

 spot. These spots are caused by a small 

 worm, which works on the inside of the 

 leaf. This is nothing new' to us, as we 

 have always had this trouble more or 

 less on certain varieties, but before 

 carefully picking them off a couple 

 times seemed to end the trouble. Can 

 you give us an idea as to where these 

 worms come from and as to the best 

 method of getting rid of them? 



D. F. C— la. 



GETTING LATE MtJMS. 



I have just planted some chrysanthe- 

 mums, Turner, Sedgwick, Mistletoe, 

 Garnet Gem and Josephine Foley. They 

 are six inches high and some are throw- 

 ing buds. Cap I take the tops out at 

 this time? I want them late; I also 

 want some stem on them. 



J. T. T.— 111. 



The small worm working inside the 

 leaf I have always considered to be the 

 same thing as the leaf-miner in the 

 celery, Tephritis onopordinis. Hand- 

 picking is, of course, the best method of 

 eradicating these pests. This is the 

 l,arva of the dirty-colored butterfly that 

 comes out in the spring. If the butter- 

 fly can be killed before it lays the eggs 

 it will be much easier to kill it than 

 to kill the larva; later. This larva 

 works between the two skins or upper 

 and lower layers of the leaf and eats 

 the chlorophyl or coloring matter out 



If the buds that are now showing are 

 terminal buds, it is not much use to cut 

 them off, as the terminal is the "termi- 

 nus" or finish of growth and if these 

 are removed the plant will not make , 

 any further growth. 



Plants set out six inches high were 

 most probably allowed to get too dry 

 and pot-bound; theii the wood hardened 

 and the plants ran into bud in conse- 

 quence. To )get late flowers success- 

 fully, cuttings must be struck late in 

 July if possible, and then should be 

 kept soft-growing as long as possible. 

 If the central bud has growth shoots 

 around it, pinch the central bud out 

 and carry up one or more of the growth 

 shoots until they in turn produce other 

 buds. As- the season will then be far 

 advanced, they will naturally be the 

 terminal buds. 



However, I am inclined to think that 

 J. T. T. 's plants have reached their 

 limit of growth for this season. 



C. H. Tottv. 



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CEMETERY MEN MEET 



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CEMETERY SUPERINTENDENTS. 



Convene at Cincinnati. 



The thirty-tiiird annual convention of 

 the Association of American Cemetery 

 Superintemlents, held at Cincinnati 

 September 24 to 26, drew a large and 

 enthusiastic gathering. The association 

 lias a membership of 278. Twenty-nine 

 new members were enrolled at this 

 meeting. 



Thirty-three years ago William Sal- 

 way, superintendent of Spring Grove 

 cemetery, Cincinnati, and the late Chas. 

 NichoUs, of Newark, N. J., conceived 

 the idea of getting up a national as- 

 sociation of cemetery superintendents, 

 with the view of promoting mutual and 

 progressive improvement in cemetery 

 management and affairs, especially in 

 the matter of getting away from the 

 old graveyard style and into the more 

 modern and approved system now 

 adopted throughout the country. Their 

 efforts met with quick response. The 



present association was immediately 

 formed, and its first meeting was held 

 in Cincinnati in 1887. The tenth meet- 

 ing was held in Cincinnati, and this 

 year the association held the third 

 meeting in the place of its birth, with 

 the veteran William Salway still at 

 Spring Grove cemetery and the most 

 active and interested member in the 

 promotion and management of the 

 gathering. 



From the first the Canadian ceme- 

 teries have joined heartily with the 

 American ones in the association, but 

 so far none of the conventions has been 

 held in a Canadian city. Next year, 

 however, the convention is to b'e held at 

 Hamilton, Ont., with one day at To- 

 ronto. 



Officers Elected. 



The officers for the ensuing year are: 

 President, Henry S. Adams, superin- 

 tendent Forest Hills cemetery, Boston; 

 vice-president. Major F. H. Kutherford, 

 superintendent Hamilton cemeteries, 

 Hamilton, Ont., and secretary-treasurer. 



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