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The Florists' Review 



39 



Specific ^rcdiciiH', 

 extLTiially. 



Kcliiiiacoa. " Ai>[il\- 

 W. K. Kill.'. " 



BIG STORM HITS BOSTON. 



Siiiiday, Xovciiihci' 127, rain t'cli 

 steadily all day in jjircatcr Jioston. 

 Nortli of tliat city it came in the form 

 of snow. The temperature from ."> ;i. m., 

 November 21, until 10 a. m. on the 

 followinjr (lay was several degrees helow 

 free/ini^-, aiul with rain fallinjj steadily 

 all this time and turning' to ice ;is it 

 fell, trees and shrubs were soon covered 

 with a heavy eoating of iee, the hc'ivicst 

 known in the memory of the oldist 

 horticulturist. 



The damage to trees in tlu; Arnold 

 Arboretum, on Bostom Common, in the 

 public gardens, in parkways aud streets, 

 on private estates and in woodlands is 

 so tremendous as to be almost beyond 

 belief. Many thousands of sjilendid 

 trees, both deciduous and evergr(>en, 

 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 uj) and 

 repair the damage. 



Teleiihone and electric light wires and 

 poles were down in all directions. A 

 large jiart of the city was without light 

 November 2S and many streets all but 

 inii]assabl(\ Great snow storms have in 

 some years done considerable damage, 

 but not one a small fractional part of 

 what lias been done on this occasion. 

 Florists have escaped quite well, but 

 business at the wholesale markets 

 November 28 was (>xceedingly 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 calamitv. 



w. N. r. ' 



OERANIUMS DAMPING OFF. 



I have been in business twenty-two 

 years ;ind have never had trouble" with 

 geranium cuttings until last year, when 

 I began losing jdants by the' hundreds. 

 I never h.ad better stock to start with, 

 using 500 Eicard and (iOU Poitevine. 

 and inside of four days they turned 

 black and soon I had hardly one left. 

 I whitewashed the bencii, sifted the 

 sand and jjlaced the plants in firmlv. I 

 then wat(>red them an<l gave them 

 plenty of sun and air. 1 put some iS. \. 

 Nutt in a box ]2x2J, placing the Ik.x 

 outdoors, but even they acted the same 

 way. I even left them tweMtv-four 

 hours after taking them off before jnit 

 ting them in the box. Can you ttdl nu' 

 the cause and rented v for this.' 



" A. & S.--Mass. 



It IS probable you took vour cut- 

 tings r/ither too earlv. The chances af 

 damping off are al'wavs far greater 

 while the weather is hot" and S,.i)t(>mber 

 was excejitionally clear and warm in 

 your state this year. Jt would be ad- 

 vis.able alway.s to delav putting in the 

 cuttings until about ()<t(.ber 1. Th.' 

 cooler nights usual at that date niak(> 

 the ger.anium wood firmer and reduce 

 the chances of damjdng off. You mav 

 liave noticed that cuttings taken from 

 under glass root without auv trouble 

 and with ;i small loss from dainidng off. 

 This IS because the wood is hanler and 

 more short Jointed and l)ecause these 

 cuttings are usually put in during the 

 coolest months of the year and not the 

 warmest. 



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WHO'S WHO I'l.IS^ AND WHY 



HOWARD EVARTS WEED. 



WIIKN an Oregon paper referred to the "tlorists' Christopher Columbus,'' it 

 me.ant Howard Kvarts Weed, of the Weed Landscaiie Nursery, at Heaverton, 

 Ore., called the jieony 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 lie 

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

 Cniversity and then with the Mississippi experiment station and for .a time had 

 lieen the .-igriciilt iir.al agent for the Central of (ieorgia railway, lie has three 

 children, Wilbur, who is associated with him at the nursery; Kditli and Tliurlow. 

 -Mr. Wt'cd has tra\(leil all ovi-r the country giving his famous lectures on civic 

 improvement and beautitication. lie is also an author of note, having written 

 •'Modern Park Cemeteries" and "Spraying for Profit. " In .luly he w;is ele.ted 

 liresideiit of the I'acilic Coast Association of Nurserymen. 



A good plan is to imt the tlats on a 

 shelf in full sun. A Hat, 12x21, will 

 easily liiiM pill or mort^ cuttings. Never 

 -■hade them, .and any cuttings wliicdi are 

 Milt and sappy should be allowed to 

 dry off for a few hours on the ]iotting 

 bench before putting them in sand, if 

 there is anything wrong with your 

 j'ldpagating s.aiid, it would be well to 

 iiNe either tine coal ;islies or tine char- 

 co.il. Geraniums will root readily in 

 either. Person.ally, I have discontinueil 

 jMitting in ger.aiiium cuttings early; it 

 does not pay. On .-ind .after October 1 

 the loss is small. C. W. 



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

 t.ablishmeiit has been incorporated. The 

 cajpit.alization is $lOti,000 and the incor- 

 jiorators are Louis A. Noe, Lniily K. 

 Noe and Lillian N. I>orenius, of M.id 

 iM,n, N. .1. 



Ottawa, Kail. -- The Lester Crimen 

 houses, purchased a number of years ago 

 by Cli.arles Jacobus, are now known 

 under the name of J.acobus the Florist. 

 Mr. .lacfdius has also opened a fjiiaiiit 

 and widl decorated store on Main sti-eet. 

 lie recently suffered losses from h.ail, 

 but he has .about recovered from th« 

 losses. 



