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The Florists^ Review 



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-that may produce improvements in the 

 post office service. The Merchants' As- 

 sociation of New York has won its long 

 fight for a thorough investigation of the 

 ■causes of the breakdown of the mail 

 service, provided Congress adopts the 

 recommendations of the committee, 

 v/hich it is almost certain to do. 



The Senate committee on post offices 

 and post roads has voted to grant the 

 request made by the association for an 

 investigation of the post office system 

 in order to determine the defects which 

 liave brought about the breakdown of 

 the service, and the remedies that 

 should be applied. 



In accordance with this request, the 

 committee has voted to insert in the 

 post office appropriation bill a pro- 

 vision for an investigation by a joint 

 commission of Congress, composed of 

 members of the committees on post 

 offices and post roads of the Senate 

 and the House, together with a postal 

 expert to be designated by the post- 

 master-general. 



These appointees shall select seven 

 associate members from representative 

 business men or representatives of busi- 

 ness organizations who are large users 

 of the mails. They may engage the 

 services of engineers and such other 

 expert and clerical assistants as they 

 may deem necessary. 



This committee is authorized by the 

 bill, as approved by the Senate commit- 

 tee, to study, investigate and report 

 upon the question of improving existing 

 methods of transporting the mails into, 

 through and from the largest cities of 

 the United States, and to investigate 

 and report upon the value of the postal 

 service of different proposed methods 

 of underground and aerial mail trans- 

 portation. 



The commission is directed to report 

 upon the cost and efficiency of existing 

 methods of relative transportation in 

 the proposed methods for their improve- 

 ment, including the handling of mails 

 at the railway terminals and on rail- 

 way ix)st office cars. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBIOAN FLORISTS. 



Committee Meetings Called. 



The national flower show committee 

 will meet at the administration offices, 

 1170 Broadway, New York, Tuesday, 

 March 16, at 3 p. m. At this meeting 

 the most important business will be the 

 selection of a place for holding the next 

 national flower show. The committee 

 will be pleased to receive suggestions 

 from anyone interested in the project. 



The committee on tariff and legisla- 

 tion will meet at the same address 

 "Wednesday, March 17, at 2 p. m., when 

 some important business will be taken 

 up for action. 



The publicity committee w^ill meet at 

 the offices Thursday, March 18, practi- 

 cally all of its members being in at- 

 tendance at the international flower 

 show on that day. At this meeting va- 

 rious details in connection with the 

 national publicity campaign will be dis- 

 cussed, looking to a vigorous continu- 

 ance of the campaign. Edwin J. Fan- 

 court, Philadelphia, who has given 

 splendid service on this comdittee since 

 its inception, believing that someone 

 who can give more time to the duties 

 of the position than he can could better 

 serve the committee and the campaign, 

 has tendered his resignation, and Presi- 



C. C. PoIIworth. 



Newly Appointed Membar of National Publicity Oommittfce. 



(lent Miller has appointed C. C. Poll- 

 worth, Milwaukee, Wis., to fill the va- 

 cancy thus occurring. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



CINERA^kxA HAS 8TEM-B0T. 



Can you enlighten me as to the 

 trouble with the cineraria plant I am 

 sending you? The plants seem to be 

 healthy, but in the course of a day 

 they will wilt. They are in a tempera- 

 ture of 60 degrees during the day and 

 50 degrees during the night. I have 

 sprayed them overhead to water them 

 and have always done this without any 

 trouble. This trouble is affecting my 

 best plants. P. F. S.— Mich. 



The roots of the cineraria plant were 

 badly rotted and the lower part of the 

 stem of the plant was in the same con- 

 dition. This is the cause of the trouble 

 with your plants. They are affected by 

 wilt, or stem-rot. 



Cinerarias are among the most com- 

 mon of greenhouse flowering plants and, 

 if given a cool temperature and care- 

 ful watering, are of easy culture, but, 

 if treated to a high temperature and 

 excessive moisture, they quickly go 

 wrong. The temperatures best suited 

 for them are 45 degrees at night and 

 54 to 56 degrees on cloudy days, when 

 artificial heat has to be used and little, 

 if any, ventilation can be given. On 

 bright days, when it is not necessary 

 to use the artificial heat and the ven- 

 tilators can be opened, it is all right 

 for the temperature to run up to 60 

 degrees, or a little above. lender such 

 conditions, the plants will not dry out 

 quickly and will need watering only 



about two or three times a week during 

 the dark weather. If the regular fu- 

 migation is given to keep the insects 

 in check, there will not be any need 

 of overhead sprinklings. By treating 

 the plants in this manner, the soil in 

 the pots is kept fresh and sweet and 

 does not become stagnant. 



As you state in the letter, the trouble 

 affects your best plants first. This is 

 generally the rule when they have been 

 subjected to high-pressure culture. 

 When a plant has become affected like 

 the sample sent, it is impossible to 

 save it. The first sign of the trouble 

 is when the plant begins to wilt with 

 the sun, which shows that there is 

 something wrong with the roots, and 

 when the disease gets to the main stem 

 the plant is beyond recovery. 



It would be advisable to lower the 

 temperature gradually on the plants 

 and reduce the moisture by cutting out 

 the overhead spraying and watering the 

 plants at the roots only as they are in 

 need of it. M. P. 



CINERARIAS SEEDING. 



What is necessary to get cineraria 

 seed to develop? Must it be pollenized? 



J. D.— Pa. 



Cinerarias seed with great freedom 

 even if not pollenized. C. grandiflora 

 is helped by pollination, but C. stellata 

 does not need it. C. W. 



Carlton Station. N. Y.— M. .T. Scar- 

 borough has recently purchased the two 

 g-reenhousea formerly owned by A. R. 

 Halcomb. He intends to g^ow tomato 

 plants besides flowers. 



