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The Florists^ Review 



Septbmbeb 25, 1919. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Examining Committees. 



President William W. Vert has an- 

 nounced the committees to examine new 

 chrysanthemums for the ensuing year 

 as follows: 



Boston — William Nicholson, chair- 

 man; James Wheeler, Alexander Mont- 

 gomery. Ship flowers to the chairman, 

 care of W. J. Thurston, manager, Bos- 

 ton Flower Exchange, 1 Winthrop 

 square and Otis street, Boston, Mass. 



New York — Eugene Dailledouze, 

 chairman; William H. Duckham, A. Her- 

 rington. Ship flowers to the New York 

 Cut Flower Co., 55 Twenty-second 

 street, New York, care of the chairman. 



Philadelphia — A. B. Cartledge, chair- 

 man; John Westcott, S. S. Pennock. 

 Ship flowers to A. B. Cartledge, 1514 

 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Cincinnati — R. Witterstaetter, chair- 

 man; James Allen, J. C. Murphy. Ship 

 flowers to the chairman, Jabez Elliott 

 Flower Market, care of the janitor. 



Chicago — N. J. Wietor, chairman; E. 

 A. Kanst, Thomas W. Head. Ship flow- 

 ers to the chairman, 162 North Wabash 

 avenue, Chicago, 111. 



Shipments should be made to arrive 

 by 2 p. m. on examination days to re- 

 ceive attention from the committee. 

 They must be prepaid to their destina- 

 tion, and an entry fee of $2 should be 

 forwarded to the secretary, Charles W. 

 Johnson, 2242 West One Hundred and 

 Ninth street, Chicago, not later than 

 Tuesday of the week in which they are 

 to be examined, or it may accompany 

 the blooms. 



Both seedlings and sports are eligible 

 to be shown before these committees, 

 provided the raiser lias given tliem two 

 years' trial to determine their true 

 character; not less than six blooms of 

 each variety are to be shown. Special 

 attention is called to tlie rule that sports 

 to receive a certificate must pass at 

 least three of the five committees. 



The committees will be in session to 

 examine such exhibits as may be sub- 

 mitted on each Saturday during Octo- 

 ber and November, the dates of which 

 will be October 4, 11, 18, 25, and No- 

 vember ], 8, 15, 22, 29. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



MUM BORERS AND ARMY WORMS. 



We are liaving trouble with our chrys- 

 anthemums. They are being grown in 

 rich loam; this is the third year in this 

 soil. The first year they did exceeding- 

 ly well. Last year a good deal of wood 

 ashes was dug into the soil, and a few 

 plants wilted. This year no more ashes 

 wore added; once during the summer 

 the plants were mulched with cow ma- 

 nure, but they have received no other 

 feeding. They have made a vigorous 

 growth and I never saw finer-looking 

 plants, but now for several weeks a 

 plant here and there has wilted and 



died, including some of the finest plants. 

 One plant will die and the one next to 

 it will not be affected. No insects can 

 be found. The roots when cut open 

 seem to be decaying. We have had a 

 dry summer, and no water has been 

 given to the plants. J. B. A. — N. C. 



you can probably, by looking careful v 

 up and down the stem," find the hole nr 

 point of entrance. Nothing can be do <■ 

 this year, but another year the plans 

 should be moved to new soil. Anoth. v 

 trouble which Itauses mum plants to d .■ 

 comes from the army worm, whi( ii 

 "rings" the plant just below the grouii I 

 line, but the army worm as a rule stays 

 in the plot and works from one plant to 

 another and is therefore comparatively 

 easy to detect. Plants will occasion 

 ly die off when badly infected with 

 leaf-spot or septoria, but since these 

 plants are all fine-looking stock, it is 

 hardly probable that they are thus af- 

 fected. • C. H. Totty. 



While it is not advisable to plant 

 chrysanthemums or any other crop of 

 similar character in the same soil year 

 after year, still the treatment has ap- 

 parently in all respects been correct. 



I am inclined to think the trouble is 

 due to one of the borers. Some years 

 ago we received letters from all parts 

 of the country relative to an insect 

 which ptinctured the stem of the chrys- 

 anthemums; the resulting larvae ate 

 their way up the stem to the top, caus- 

 ing the flower to fall over, and then ate 

 down the stem into the principal roots, 

 ultimately killing the plant entirely. 

 I am inclined to think this is the trouble 

 with your plants. If this is the case. 



OLEVEI.AND CHEBBY. 



Will you please tell me what the 

 Cleveland cherry needs in the way of 

 cutting back or pinching, to make nice 

 plants? J. T. T. — Ind. 



Cleveland cherry, or Orange Queen, 

 needs no pinching whatever if not plant- 

 ed too closely, if you have the true va- 

 riety. To keep the true strain from seed, 

 one must be careful in selection, as 

 cherries pollenize easily and freely. 

 Therefore it is hard to keep true. We 

 have as yet been unable to get it to 

 come over seventy-five per cent true 

 ourselves. This is the reason we offer 

 no seed. Carl Hagenburger. 



C»>CN LCTTEEa^^ READEaB 



MOBILE IN THE VAN. 



The many interesting articles appear- 

 ing in The Review recently, and espe- 

 cially the article in the issue for Sep- 

 tember 11 regarding the Sunday closing 

 of all florists' establishments, shoubl 

 meet with a national response, as there 

 can be no argument to the contrary. 



In line with that subject we wish to 

 state that all the florists of Mobile, 

 Ala., decided to close their places of 

 business on Sundays beginning .Tune 1, 

 1919, and through a petition to the com- 

 missioners of our good city by the un- 

 dertakers and cemetery attendants a 

 law goes into effect October 1 prohibit- 

 ing laurials on Sunday with the excep- 

 tion of those whose religious belief does 

 not permit Saturday burials. So we 

 feel that we have established a prece- 

 dent in this part of the country and 

 with the proper cooperation we hope to 

 see the cause growing in popularity 

 more and more each day. 



Goodbrad Floral Co. " 



it be possible to secure sufficient help 

 with experience, there will be more 

 grown of everything. 



Profits have not been of the same 

 percentage as last year in my own busi- 

 ness, as we did not increase our prices 

 enough to balance the increase in labor 

 and overhead. We considered prices 

 high enough, but it will not go for an- 

 other year. 



However, we should be satisfied on the 

 whole and consider ourselves fortunate 

 under existing conditions, since many 

 other lines of business are worse off 

 than we are. J. L. Schiller. 



LABOR AND PRODUCTION. 



Business lias been good tliis season, 

 but would have been much better had 

 it been possible to secure suflRcient ex- 

 perienced help. There has been de- 

 mand for all that could be produced and 

 many orders could not be accepted. 



Preparations for next year have been 

 made, but whether we go ahead with 

 them depends entirely on the labor 

 question. If this is the same as this 

 year, production will not be increased, 

 hut rather reduced. However, should 



BEa YOUR PARDON. 



I appreciate the honor of appearing 

 under "Who's Who in the Trade and 

 Wliy, " but wish to make one or two 

 corrections in the information wliicli 

 The Review received. The main one is 

 in regard to my being wounded. In 

 honor to those who suffered and never 

 will come back, I must deny that dis 

 tinction. I did spend eight weeks in the 

 hospital, on account of an operation, 

 due to work in the line of duty, but I 

 never received any wounds in action 

 against the enemy. And my connection 

 with Mr. Hoover, in food relief work, 

 did not commence until May of this 

 year, when I received my discharge in 

 France. I helped in food relief in the 

 devastated countries in Europe through 

 the American relief administration 

 until that work was nearing completion, 

 returning home in August, on the Patria 

 from Marseilles. William Usinger. 



