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The Florists' Review 



May 12, 1921 



tony mycelium on a jelly-like substance, 

 called agar, in a sterile glass dish and 

 under sterile conditions. Meanwhile I 

 had procured four healthy snapdragon 

 plants and three lettuce plants. After 

 they had a good start I inoculated three 

 of the snapdragon and two of the lettuce 

 plants with this pure culture of the 

 fungus, leaving one of each variety of 

 plant as a check. In five days both let- 



tuce plants were dead. One snapdragon 

 plant was wilted and the next day was 

 plainly dead. One of the other plants 

 had one infected and wilted branch. 

 .\t the end of fifteen days the third plant 

 showed infection and one branch wilted. 

 So far, twenty days after these branches 

 wilted, these two plants seem to have 

 resisted the further advances of the 

 disease. 



LEAF SPOT ON QEEANIUMS. 



We are mailing you five geraniums, 

 which seem to be diseased. We have 

 about 500 which are in like condition. 

 We are anxious to find out what the 

 trouble is. Last year we noticed a few 

 like this and promptly disposed of 

 them. We thought that if it was a dis- 

 ease we would have killed it that way, 

 but this year it is here stronger than 

 ever. We wish you would examine 

 these specimens and tell us what it may 

 be and the cure for it. Do you think 

 there is any use growing these on for 

 blooming, or would it be better to give 

 them to the trash pile? 



W. F. C— la. 



These plants have the appearance of 

 being troubled with leaf spot, due to a 

 sour condition at the plants' roots, low 

 temperature and excessive moisture, 

 which are generally the causes of leaf 

 spot on geraniums. 



They may outgrow the trouble as they 

 become stronger plants and the weather 

 becomes warm enough to allow more 

 ventilation. M. P. 



GEBANIUM LEAVES DYING. 



Some of my geraniums, not potbound, 

 are troubled with their leaves dying, 

 first about the edge and then all over. 

 They are fine, strong plants, but a little 

 bench-crowded. Could this be the 

 trouble f S. M.— Kan. 



It is quite probable that the cause of 

 the trouble with your geraniums is that 

 you are giving them too much water 

 and keeping the house too cool. Give 

 less water and increase the temperature 

 a few degrees. Geraniums do well in a 

 moderately dry temperature, but will 

 quickly suffer when their quarters are 

 kept cool and damp. M. P. 



TO POT GEEANITJMS. 



How much bone meal per bushel 

 should be used for potting geraniums 

 in 2-inch and 4-inch pots? 



J. C. C— Ont. 



It is not advisable to use any bone 

 meal in the soil for potting geraniums. 

 I have found out by experience that 

 they do much better without it. No 

 other plants will assimilate the organic 

 substance of the soil more quickly than 

 the geraniums. Consequently, when 

 grown in rich material, they quickly 



grow out of bounds and become sus- 

 ceptible to disease. This is often the 

 reason so many growers have trouble 

 with their geraniums. 



Provide them with a fresh soil that 

 has not been used for growing any 

 other greenhouse crop, and then give 

 them a reasonable treatment, which 

 should be along the lines of moderate 

 temperature with free ventilation, care- 

 ful watering and space enough between 

 the plants for their proper develop- 

 ment. M. P. 



MISTAKEN FOR INSECTS. 



I am enclosing a geranium leaf that 

 seems to be infested with tiny insects. 

 What causes this and how can I get rid 

 of the insects? W. & S. — 0. 



There are no insects on the geranium 

 leaf; doubtless the trouble is caused by 

 overwatering the plants and growing 

 them in a low temperature. M. P. 



AFFECTED GERANIUM LEAVES. 



I am mailing you a geranium out of a 

 2% -inch pot. The leaves are affected 

 in some way and, although no plants 

 have died, it takes too much time to 

 pick off the affected leaves. What is 

 a remedv for this? W. D. T. — 0. 



It would be advisable to give the ge- 

 raniums a little higher temperature, 

 both day and night. Hold them drier 

 at the roots. M. P. 



GERANIUMS AND ASHES. 



I am sending you three sick gera- 

 nium leaves. I wonder if you could 

 tell me what is ailing them. This has 

 been bothering my S. A. Nutt plants 

 for the last two years, but does not 

 spread to any other variety. I have 

 grown geraniums for fifteen years, but 

 have never seen this nuisance before. 

 The plants have the proper care and are 

 growing stronglj', but, of course, when 

 the leaves have to be picked off fre- 

 queiitlv. the growth is retarded. 



B. G. C— Minn. 



Tliis may be a soil trouble or it may 

 be caused by an overabundance of mois- 

 ture and a low temperature. It seems 

 strange that the variety S. A. Nutt is 

 the only one affected. I suggest that 

 you examine carefully the surroundings 

 of the plants to find out if the trouble 

 is caused by funies from the ashpit of 



the boiler. It has come to my notice 

 that, when geraniums were set on fresh 

 ashes from the boiler pits, they devel- 

 oped the same troilble that appears to 

 affect these leaves. M. P. 



FOUR WITH SAME TROUBLE. 



I am enclosing some geranium leaves I 



that have some sort of infection on j 



them. Can you tell me what it is and j 



what i can do to get rid of it? i 



C. B. S.— O. i 



I am sending some diseased geranium 1 

 leaves. Will you advise as to what is 

 the trouble and suggest a remedy? 



M. J. A. — Minn. 



Enclosed are a number of geranium 

 leaves with which there is something 

 wrong. The leaves turn brown, and I 

 am inclined to think they are infested 

 with a tiny insect. Will you tell me 

 what is wrong and name a remedy? 



J. W. M.— Colo. 



I am sending some geranium leaves 

 that are dying. This trouble seems to 

 be spreading among my geraniums. 

 Will you tell me the cause and give a 

 remedy? S. M. — Kan. 



The trouble with these geraniums is 

 that they were overpotted and the roots 

 became decayed before they were suf- 

 ficiently recovered from the check of 

 repotting to assimilate properly the nour- 

 ishment from the soil. Consequently, 

 the soil became sour and stopped the 

 root action of the plants. M. P. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Lorain, 0.— The greenhouse business 

 operated by Louis Hody since the disso- 

 lution of the firm of Hody & Tulea last 

 September is in the receiver's hands. 

 L. J. Henes, a florist of Amherst, O., has 

 been appointed receiver to sell the stock 

 and personal property and pay the cred- 

 itors, to whom approximately $6,000 is 

 due. Mr. Hody, it was reported in these 

 columns two weeks ago, cleaned up 

 some ready money and departed for 

 parts unknown. The receivership has 

 no connection with J. E. Tulea, who 

 since the dissolution has operated the 

 three stores, two in Lorain and one in 

 Elyria. Mr. Hody took over the 30,000 

 feet of glass at Eleventh street and 

 Oberlin avenue, Lorain. 



Cleveland, O. — George Bate has been 

 appointed receiver of the Smith & Fet- 

 ters Co. at the instance of C. Merkel & 

 Sons Co., because the liabilities of the 

 company are in excess of its assets and 

 it has been losing money for some time 

 past. Appraisal shows assets of $10,000 

 and liabilities of approximately $13,000. 

 The receiver is operating the business 

 so that it may be sold as a going con- 

 cern and more money be thus realized 

 for the creditors. 



NO, NOT SO BAD. 



When an advertiser tells in his adver- 

 tising the results he has had from pre- 

 vious ads it is fair to assume he is pretty 

 well pleased. Like this: In last week's 

 issue of The Eeview S. C. Templin & 

 Son, of Garrettsville, O., started their 

 offer of pelargoniums with these words: 



The last two advertisements selling 13,000 

 plants in the three sizes isn't so bad, Is it? 

 There's a reason. 



If you hear a man complain of the 

 cost of advertising you can be pretty 

 certain he spends a good bit of money 

 elsewhere than in The Review. 



