Deckmbbb 1, 1921 



The Rorists^ Review 



39 



Specific Medicine, Echinacea." Apply 

 externally. W. E. King. 



BIG STOEM HITS BOSTON. 



Sunday, November 27, rain fell 

 steadily all day in greater Boston. 

 North of that city it came in the form 

 of snow. The temperature from 5 a. m., 

 November 27, until 10 a. m. on the 

 following day was several degrees below 

 freezing, and with rain falling steadily 

 all this time and turning to ice as it 

 fell, trees and shrubs were soon covered 

 with a heavy coating of ice, the heaviest 

 known in the memory of the oldest 

 horticulturist. 



The damage to trees in the Arnold 

 Arboretum, on Bostom Common, in the 

 public gardens, in parkways and streets, 

 on private estates and in woodlands is 

 so tremendous as to be almost beyond 

 belief. Many thousands of splendid 

 trees, both deciduous and evergreen, 

 are ruined and a great number of 

 others badly disfigured. The damage 

 is so serious that it will take nearly an 

 entire month on the larger estates and 

 in the parks just partly to clean up and 

 repair the damage. 



Telephone and electric light wires and 

 poles were down in all directions. A 

 large part of the city was without light 

 November 28 and many streets all but 

 impassable. Great snow storms have in 

 some years done considerable damage, 

 but not one a small fractional part of 

 what has been done on this occasion. 

 Florists have escaped quite well, but 

 business at the wholesale markets 

 November 28 was exceedingly light, and 

 with transportation facilities badly dis- 

 organized, many growers and buyers did 

 not come to the market at all. This 

 storm amounts to a real public calamity. 



W. N. C. 



GERANIUMS DAMPING OFF. 



I have been in business twenty-two 

 years and have never had trouble with 

 geranium cuttings until last year, when 

 I began losing plants by the hundreds. 

 I never had better stock to start with, 

 using 500 Eicard and 600 Poitevine, 

 and inside of four days they turned 

 black and soon I had hardly one left. 

 I whitewashed the bench, sifted the 

 sand and placed the plants in firmly. I 

 then watered them and gave them 

 plenty of eun and air. I put some S. A. 

 Nutt in a box 12x24, placing the box 

 outdoors, but even they acted the same 

 way. I even left them twenty-four 

 hours after taking them off before put- 

 ting them in the box. Can you tell me 

 the cause and remedy for this? 



A. & S.— Mass. 



It is probable you took your cut- 

 tings rather too early. The chances of 

 damping off are always far greater 

 while the weather is hot and September 

 was exceptionally clear and warm in 

 your state this year. It would be ad- 

 visable always to delay putting in the 

 cuttings until about October 1. The 

 cooler nights usual at that date make 

 the geranium wood firmer and reduce 

 the chances of damping off. You may 

 have noticed that cuttings taken from 

 under glass root without any trouble 

 and with a small loss from damping off. 

 This is because the wood is harder and 

 more short-jointed and because these 

 cuttings are usually put in during the 

 coolest months of the year and not the 

 warmest. 



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HOWARD EVARTS WEED. 



WHEN an Oregon paper referred to the "florists' Christopher Columbus," it 

 meant Howard Evarts Weed, of the Weed Landscape Nursery, at Beaverton, 

 Ore., called the peony and iris wizard of the northwest, who discovered the won- 

 derful conditions for growing peonies and irises afforded by the territory about 

 Portland. Mr. Weed located at his present place in 1911. Before that year he 

 had been a landscape gardener in Chicago, later had been connected with Cornell 

 University and then with the Mississippi experiment station and for a time had 

 been the agricultural agent for the Central of Georgia railway. He has three 

 children, Wilbur, who is associated with him at the nursery; Edith and Thurlow. 

 Mr. Weed has traveled all over the country giving his famous lectures on civic 

 improvement and beautification. He is also an author of note, having written 

 "Modern Park Cemeteries" and "Spraying for Profit." In July he was elected 

 president of the Pacific Coast Association of Nurserymen. 



A good plan is to put the flats on a 

 shelf in full sun. A flat, 12x24, will 

 easily hold 100 or more cuttings. Never 

 shade them, and any cuttings which are 

 soft and sappy should be allowed to 

 dry off for a few hours on the potting 

 bench before putting them in sand. If 

 there is anything wrong with your 

 ])ropagating sand, it would be well to 

 use either fine coal ashes oi fine char- 

 coal. Geraniums will root readily in 

 cither. Personally, I have discontinued 

 putting in geranium cuttings early; it 

 does not pay. On and after October 1 

 the loss is small. C. W. 



Madison, N. J. — The Louis M. Noe es- 

 tablishment has been incorporated. The 

 capitalization is $100,000 and the incor- 

 porators are Louis A. Noe, Emily E. 

 Noe and Lillian N. Doremus, of Mad- 

 ison, N. J. 



Ottawa, Kan. — The Lester Green- 

 houses, purchased a number of years ago 

 by Charles Jacobus, are now known 

 under the name of Jacobus the Florist. 

 Mr. Jacobus has also opened a quaint 

 and well decorated store on Main street. 

 He recently suffered losses from hail, 

 but he lias about recovered from the 

 losses. 



