October 23, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



The examining committees of the C. 

 S. A. have submitted reports on a new 

 variety as follows: 



At Chicago, Ootober 11, Smith's Sublime, liiiht 

 jiiiik, Japanese Incurved, submitted by Elmer I). 

 Smitli & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows 

 on tlie commercial scale: Color, 18; form, l.S; 

 fullness, 9; stem, l.'i; foliage, 15; substance, 13; 

 size. H; total, 91. 



At (Uncinnatl, October 11. Smith's Sublime, 

 liglit pink, Japanese incurved, submitted b.v El- 

 mer I>. Smith & Co., Adrian, Midi., scored as 

 follows on the commercial scale: Color, 17; form, 

 12; fullness, 8; stem, 1,'); foliage, 15; substance, 

 14; size, 8; total, 89. 



Special Examining Committees. 



At North Shore Horticultural Society 

 show, to be held at Durand Institute, 

 Lake Poorest, 111., November 5: Thomas 

 W. Head, chairman; Frank Kuohne, G. 

 Wilson. Ship flowers to chairman, 

 Durand Institute, Lake Forest, 111., to 

 arrive morning of November o. 



At State Florists' Association of In- 

 diana show, to be held at Claypool hotel, 

 Indianapolis, Ind., November 13 and 14: 

 A. F. J. Baur, chairman; John Hartje, 

 H. W. Eieman. Ship flowers to chair- 

 man, Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 to arrive morning of November 13. 



At Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety show, to be held at Philadelphia, 

 Pa., November 5 to 8, the regular Phila- 

 delphia committee will meet to examine 

 any new chrysanthemums submitted for 

 examination. Ship flowers to A. B. 

 Cartledge, chairman. First Regiment 

 Armory, 606 Finance building, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



At annual exhibition of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America, to be helil 

 in conjunction with the American Insti- 

 tute show November .1 to 7 at the En- 

 gineering building, 33 West Thirty- 

 ninth street, New York: Ship flowers 

 , to Eugene Dailledouze, chairman, Fa\- 

 gineering building, 33 West Tliirty- 

 ninth street, New York. 



Shipments must be prepaid to desti- 

 nation and the entry foe of $2 for eacli 

 variety submitted forwarded to the sec- 

 retary, or it may accompany the blooms. 

 Chas. W.. Johnson, Sec 'y. 



green rightly applied should be effica- 

 cious in destroying these caterpillars. 



C. H. T. 



Scatter the bait thinly over the soil in 

 the early part of the day somewhat in 

 the same manner as grass is sown. 



M. P. 



CATERPILLARS ON MUMS. 



I am sending two chrysantliemum 

 leaves, which have worms beneath 

 them destroying the leaves fast. Is it 

 the gall-fly? How can I get rid of it? 

 I have tried Paris green. This pest is 

 thick on my pompon mums. I am anx- 

 ious to save the late mums if possible. 



C. J. H.— 111. 



The samples submitted showed, not 

 gall-fly, but simply caterpillars. Gall- 

 fly does not skeletonize the leaf as was 

 done in this case, but simply punctures 

 the leaf and lays its egg and then does 

 not move until it hatches out. Paris 



TO COMBAT GRASSHOPPERS. 



I am having a great deal of trouble 

 with grasshoppers eating my chrysan- 

 themums. Can you give me a remedy? 

 I have tried Paris green, but it burns 

 the foliage. I have never had this 

 trouble before. R. H. L. — Md. 



The most effective way of fighting 

 this pest in a greenhouse is hand-pick- 



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iug. Go over the plants early in the 

 morning before the grasshoppers be- 

 come lively. By attending to this regu- 

 larly for a week or ten days, picking 

 off the pests and destroying them, you 

 will soon be rid of them. The grass- 

 hoppers come into the greenhouses from 

 the outside, and the best hiding place 

 for them is tall weeds or grass around 

 the greenhouses. A good plan is to 

 keep these cut short and the surround- 

 ings of the houses clean. 



The Department of Agriculture gives 

 the so-called Kansas bait as a means of 

 getting rid of grasshoppers. This bait 

 is composed of twenty pounds of bran, 

 one pound of Paris green, two quarts 

 of cheap syrup, two oranges or lemons 

 and three and one-half gallons of water. 

 The bran and Paris green are mixed 

 dry. When one is doing this he should 

 have a cloth over his mouth to prevent 

 his inhaling the poison. The fruit, 

 syrup and water should be mixed to- 

 gether, the fruit cut up in small pieces. 

 The whole should then be mixed to form 

 a mealy mash. This quantity of bait is 

 sufficient to treat five acres of land. 



BUDS TAKEN TOO EARLY. 



I am having trouble with my Wm. 

 Turner mums, white and yellow alike. 

 Last year I had the same trouble, but 

 this year it is much worse. 



1 grow about thirty-five varieties and 

 they are all planted about June 1, in 

 the same soil, fresh each year of course, 

 and treated with cow manure only. This 

 soil has given us good mums, with no 

 trouble whatever. The Turners are the 

 only ones that have given us trouble so 

 far. After they were planted a few 

 weeks I gave them a top-dressing of 

 well decayed cow manure, only to keep 

 the sun from baking my soil hard and 

 drying it out too fast, as it is quite 

 sandy. 



They grew well until this stage, 

 when the stems seemed to break or 

 crack about one inch from the bottom 

 of the bud. Some crack or break in two 

 or three places. In some instances the 

 buds curl over and break directly off. 

 Some curl over and seem to heal there 

 and the flower opens and is disfigured 

 to such an extent that it cannot be sold 

 as a cut flower. These cracks are ex- 

 actly as if one had cut it with a sharp 

 knife, all of them being a horizontal 

 break. All that crack seem to swell 

 below the break. It seems as though 

 the nutriment is held back from the 

 bud. 



As I have found that a good water- 

 ing and then a slight drying out caused 

 my mums to grow quite well, I treated 

 all alike. 



The fact that this year and last were 

 quite dry years in our section may ac- 

 count for such action of these mums. 

 I might add that they may have en- 

 dured a too dry atmosphere. Would 

 that have had anv effect? 



H. J. F.— Mont. 



The specimen plant arrived in good 

 condition and I think the principal cause 

 of the trouble is that for your siection 

 of the country, with its dry atmosphere, 

 you are taking the buds on Wm. Turner 

 too early. The bud on the plant re- 

 ceived is an early crown, well advanced 

 in color at this date, October 4. Should 

 we take the buds of Wm. Turner or 

 Yellow Turner before August 30, we 

 should have a great deal of the same 

 trouble as you are having. 



The foliage also shows signs of the 

 plants having been liberally fed, which 

 is also a cause of the necks cracking. 

 If you will examine the rest of your 

 Wm. Turner plants you will notice that 

 the upper part of the stem of the plant 

 has swollen to a much greater circum- 

 ference than below. This shows that 



