May 24, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



19 



VEGETABLES AND 

 FRUITS DEPARTMENT 



GREEN APHIS ON LETTUCE. 



Please tell me how to control green 

 aphis on lettuce. The lettuce is grown 

 in a house also containing sweet peas. 

 J. A. G.— N. Y. 



Try one of the tobacco papers. You 

 cannot use any spray which you can 

 depend upon to kill the aphides that 

 will not, whether you use one of a soapy 

 or nicotine nature, flavor the lettuce 

 more or less. If the aphides are nu- 

 merous, give the house a moderate fu- 

 migation on two successive nights, then 

 wait three or four days and fumigate 

 again. C. W. 



THEY ABE MUSHBOOMS, MAN! 



Kindly inform me whether the box I 

 am sending you contains mushrooris or 

 toadstools. They came up through the 

 manure on my carnation beds in great 

 numbers, but before eating any of them 

 I want to be sure that they are mush- 

 rooms. E. T. 0.— 111. 



You can eat these with perfect safety. 

 They are genuine mushrooms, Agaricus 

 campestris, and if you have not acquired 

 the taste for them, lose no time in doing 

 so. If your beds produce more than you 

 can dispose of at home, you will find 

 them salable if picked at the right 

 stage. C. W. 



ROSE SOCIETY MEETING. 



The annual outdoor meeting of the 

 American Eose Society, which was 

 to be held at the National Eose 

 Test Garden, Arlington Farms, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, June 1, has been post- 

 poned until Monday, June 4. Notices 

 to this effect have been sent out by 

 Robert Pyle, chairman of the Washing- 

 ton Rose Test Garden Committee. 



The program, so far as it has been 

 completed, is as follows: 



10 a. m. — Inspection of the L'-acre National 

 Rose Garden. 



U a. m. — Public meeting. Chairman, S. S. 

 Pennock, president of the American Rose 

 Society. 



Welcome, William F. Gude, national repre- 

 sentative of the S. A. r. 



"The Significance of the National Rose Test 

 Garden," J. Horace McFarland, president of the 

 American Civic Association. 



Response, Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary. 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



Other speakers expected at the meet- 

 ing are Dr. E. M. Mills, president of the 

 Syracuse Eose Society; David Fairchild, 

 of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture; Benjamin Hammond, sec- 

 retary of the American Rose Society; 

 Dr. D. W. Shoemaker, representing the 

 Federation of Citizens' Associations, of 

 Washington, D. C, and Thomas S. But- 

 ler, congressman from Pennsylvania. 



Secretary Pyle announces that the 

 program as given is subject to change. 

 He also asks that those intending to 

 be at the meeting notify either William 

 F. Gude, 1214 F street, N. W., Washing- 

 ton, D. C, or Robert Pyle, chairman of 

 the Washington Rose Test Garden Com- 

 mittee, West Grove, Pa. 



AT BUSY RIVEBTON. 



"This has been a season of hope and 

 fear," observed J. D. Eisele, of Henry 

 A. Dreer, Inc., Riverton, N. J.; "hope 

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GUSTAV LUDWIG. 



THERE are few men better known to the trade in western Pennsylvania than 

 Gustav Ludwig, president of the Ludwig Floral Co., Pittsburgh. Mr. Ludwig 

 has served three terms as vice-president of the S. A. F. for western Pennsylvania 

 and is a charter member of the Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club. Born 

 in Pittsburgh in 1858, Mr. Ludwig in his youth helped his father, M. F. Ludwig, 

 a flower grower and market gardener. At 25 years of age he went to New York 

 city and served three years under Peter Henderson, Returning to his home city, 

 Mr. Ludwig formed a partnership with his father. In 1894 he and his brother 

 established the firm of G. & J. W. Ludwig in the Allegheny market. Later the 

 firm opened the retail store, whicli, with a range of greenhouses at Castle Shannon, 

 near Pittsburgh, is now owned by the Ludwig Floral Co. 



sit would reach us in good shape and 

 fear that we would disappoint many 

 patrons because of such conditions. But 

 we have been fortunate. We have been 

 able, for the first time in several years, 

 to keep up with our orders. Could we 

 have what was purchased and not de- 

 livered, our sales would exceed our an- 

 ticipations. 



"No, we cannot predict the futuro, 

 either as to bulbs or plants from abroad, 

 but we are making every effort to sup- 

 ply the deficit so far as possible. ' ' 



A choice stock of kentias, perfectly 

 grown, was noticed at the Dreer estab- 

 lishment. While passing through a 

 house of Adiantum gloriosum, Mr. 

 Eisele related his experience in bring- 

 ing the first lot of these plants from 

 England. It added to its value. This, 

 with Cibotium Schiedei as a companion, 

 is seen in large numbers and is the pic- 

 ture of health. 



Areca lutescens is yet popular. G. A. 

 Strohlein mentioned that the demand 



from Cuba is larger every year and 

 that Mexico is calling for kentias. "In 

 fact," observed Mr. Strohlein, "his- 

 tory is, in the popular line, repeating 

 itself. ' ' 



Among the hosts of hardy perennials, 

 Viola cornuta atropurpurea, or G. Wer- 

 ing, in full bloom, attracted notice. Mr. 

 Eisele mentioned that in Covent Gar- 

 den market, London, England, the flow- 

 ers often are bunched with violet leaves 

 and sell freely as the real thing, itself. 



A general tour of Riverton, River- 

 view and Locust farms may be summed 

 up thus: 



Surely 



You 



See every 



Thing perfectly 



Equipped and thoroughly 



Modern at Dreer 's. W. M. 



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 sent by The Review for 75 cents. 



