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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBH 9, 1919. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Aunual Meeting November 5. 



The annual business meeting of the 

 Chrysantheniuni Society of America will 

 be held in the Engineering building, 

 New York, November 5 at 8 p. m. 



This date is the opening day of the 

 annual exhiV)ition, to be held in conjunc- 

 tion with the American Institute of the 

 City of New York November 5 to 7. 

 Two special prizes have just been added 

 to the list of premiums, one for the best 

 ten crimson, one variety on long stems, 

 and the other for the best ten yellow. 

 Complete list of prizes may be obtained 

 from W. A. Eagleson, 324 West Twenty- 

 third street, New York. 



Examining Committees. 



The address of the New York examin- 

 ing committee of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America is, care of New 

 York Cut Flower Co., 55 West Twenty- 

 sixth street. New York. 



Chas. W. .Johnson, Sec'y. 



NEW MUMS AT DENVER. 



Contestants from all over the country 

 are invited to enter the chrysanthemum, 

 exhibition October 29 to 31 of the Den- 

 ver Society of Ornamental Horticulture. 

 This society is offering a first prize of 

 $50 and a second prize of $25 for the 

 best twenty-five blooms of chrysanthe- 

 mums introduced since 1917, including 

 five or more varieties. Those jdanning 

 to exhibit should declare their intention 

 as soon as possible. No entrance fee is 

 required. The exhibits should be sent, 

 charges ])repaid, to the secretary of the 

 society, A R. Dc Boer 208 Tramway 

 building, Denver, ('"In. The manager of 

 the exhibition is Adam Kohankie, su- 

 perintendent of Washington ])ark. 



GALL-FLY ON MUMS. 



I am sending some foliage from mums 

 and feverfew which are affected with a 

 pest with which I am not familiar. Just 

 beneath the upper epidermis there is a 

 small gray worm at work destroying the 

 leaf. It can easily be located by hold- 

 ing the leaf up to the light. We first 

 noticed this on aster leaves and later 

 on mums and feverfew. This pest is de- 

 stroying the foliage on all the plants 

 mentioned. Can you tell me what it is 

 and how to get rid of it? 



G. C. S.— Ind. 



These leaves are badly infested with 

 jfall-fly. Now that the plants have ar- 

 rived at the stage when many of them 

 are well along in bud and bloom, it will 

 be a difficult matter to combat the 

 pest. The most effective means of get- 

 ting rid of gall-fly, especially after the 

 plants have become as badly infested as 

 these must be, is to fumigate with 

 hydrocyanic acid gas nbout every other 

 night for a period of fifteen days. But 

 before attempting to use the gas I 

 should advise G. C. S. to write to the 

 Department of Agriculture, Washingto«, 



D. C, to obtain a circular giving full 

 information concerning its use. 



Unless strenuous measures are taken 

 to rid the plants of the gall-fly, there 

 will be troublesome times ahead for the 

 grower and the best policy is to com- 

 mence to fight them thoroughly from the 

 start. All infested leaves should be re- 

 moved and destroyed. When a plant is 

 badly infested, the wisest thing to do 

 would be to pull it up and burn it. Then, 

 when the chrysanthemum crop is out of 

 the way, every effort should be put forth 

 to clean up the stock plants. When a 

 bloom is cut do not leave a stub of the 

 stem standing on the stock plant, but 

 remove it clear to the ground and, in 

 reserving the stock plants for future 

 use, select only those that do not show 

 any signs of the gall-fly. If this can- 



not be done, then it will be cheaper in 

 the end to destroy them and purchase 

 new stock. Another important point is 

 to keep the sjtock plants which have been 

 saved f rooi infested areas away from 

 those that are clean until you are satis- 

 fied that the gall-fly has been entirely 

 exterminated. 



Give the stock plants space where 

 they can be kept under close observa- 

 tion and treated accordingly. Also give 

 them close attention during the season 

 in order to keep them free from insects 

 by regular spraying or fumigation with 

 an insecticide about once every ten days. 



M. P. 



ALSO GALL-FLY ON MUMS. 



I have grown chrysanthemums for a 

 good many years and every year I have 

 had a few leaves with worms on them. 

 This year they are so bad I don't know 

 what to do. I am sending a leaf to 

 show you the trouble. 



L. R.— Ohio. 



The answer given for G. C. S. also 

 applies to this inquiry, the trouble be- 

 ing the same. M. P. 



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"When in New York," recently ob- 

 served Walter Lawrence, of the Law- 

 rence Floral Co., Atlanta, Ga., "I paid 

 a visit to the Twenty-eighth street flow- 

 er market and was struck by the dif- 

 ferent methods pursued by the whole- 

 saler or commission man, in contrast 

 with all other eastern markets and our 

 western depot, Chicago. The seeming 

 objection to packing for out of town can 

 only be explained in the demand for 

 goods ready on the spot and wrapped 

 only. Immense quantities of stock go 

 out in this manner and it would not sur- 

 j)rise me if someone rented a packing 

 house for the sole purpose of shipping." 



Alex Scott, 'of the Dahl Greenhouses, 

 Atlanta, Ga., said, "A big factor is this 

 red clay soil, in which any plant will 

 grow. Take carnations, for example. 

 This soil has not been renewed for five 

 years and has been fertilized only with 

 rotted horse manure and bone meal. 

 \vhile we should prefer sheep manure 

 and tankage, the plants certainly look 

 equal to the finest northern grown. Cot- 

 tonseed meal has been tried as a fer- 

 tilizer. It is excellent for foliage 

 plants, but not for anything blooming 

 or of an excitable nature. Carnations 

 are never planted outdoors and, when 

 stock is purchased from the north, it 

 is preferred as late as possible, for, fol- 

 lowing a brief check, the plants seem 

 to spring up in this red soil." 



A. J. Koenig, Birmingham, Ala., de- 

 lights to recall the time when, as a 

 grower for Ernest Asmus, of Hoboken, 

 N. J., he with others went among the 

 residents and purchased their lilac 

 bushes by the wagonload and forced 

 them for the New York market. 



Hugh Scales, of the Scales Floral Co., 

 Biniiingliam, Ala., holding a letter with 

 returned check in his hand, observed 

 that he never saw the time when snap- 

 dragons were snapped up as they are 

 just now, so popular is the flower as a 

 substitute for carnations. There are 

 more planters then raisers. "Immedi- 

 ately upon receiving The Review, we 

 mailed orders to those advertising, but 

 ne'er a 'snap' could we get." 



Parker's Drug Store, Birmingham, 

 Ala., has an electric transparent sign, 

 "Say It with Flowers," that is seen 

 from afar. 



' ' Watch your step" is now the slogan 

 of Thomas Joy, Jr., of the Joy Floral 

 Co., Nashville, Tenn., which is made 

 defendant in a damage suit for $17,500 

 as compensation for injuries claimed to 

 have been sustained by a lady customer 

 who in June last slipped upon the oiled 

 floor and fell. It is counterclaimed 

 that no complaint of injury was made 

 at the time, and this published infor- 

 mation comes as a surprise. September 

 27 nearly 100 designs went to the fu- 

 neral of a prominent local citizen, and, 

 taking into consideration the scarcity 

 of flowers, the fact that no two pieces 

 were alike spoke well for the designers. 

 The simplest and prettiest piece was a 

 cross made with Dahlia Delice and 

 adiantum. At the greenhouses stock 

 is in its usually fine shape, which is 

 especially notable considering the set- 

 back of the hail storm in June; 800 

 boxes of glass were used in repairing, 

 and the end is not yet, as a new Mon- 

 inger house takes th» plate of two 6f 

 the old ones. 



