Sbptbmdeb 8, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



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as well as the leaves. Hand-picking is 

 the best and about the only remedy. 



W. J. K. 



A BABE POSSESSION. 



Specimens of Evonymus japonica 

 aurea are rarely seen as beautiful as the 

 two shown in the illustration on this 

 page. Indeed, these are described as the 

 most handsome and perfect specimens 

 he has seen in either this country or 

 Europe by Henry A. Siebrecht, Jr., of 

 Pasadena, Cal., who is shown in the pic- 

 ture standing beside them. 



For a number of years the two speci- 

 mens have been show pieces of Pasadena, 

 and quite noted landmarks. Since they 

 had to be removed to make room for the 

 building of new shops on Colorado ave- 

 nue, Mr. Siebrecht was able to purchase 

 them. To remove them was a consider- 

 able task, necessitating a box five feet 

 wide and four feet deep for each plant. 

 Each plant weighs 2,800 pounds and 

 measures eight feet in diameter. The 

 height of each can be judged by com- 

 parison with that of Mr. Siebrecht. 

 When they were planted twenty-five 

 years ago the plants were only two feet 

 high. A striking feature about the 

 specimens is that they resemble two 

 large globes and the aurea parts of them 

 have grown in such a way as to repre- 

 sent North and South America. 



WIBEWOBM ON ASTEBS. 



Under separate cover I am sending 

 you some aster roots that are infested 

 with some kind of worm and, while you 

 may not be able to see the worm, there 

 are often as many as fifty in one plant 

 and they are destroying hundreds of 

 plants. Will you suggest a remedy f 

 M. L. B.— Okia. 



Your aster field is infested with one 

 of the varieties of wireworm. There 

 is probably nothing you can do to de- 

 stroy them without seriously damaging 

 your asters. On account of the hard, 

 shell-like covering of the worms, ordi- 

 nary remedies do not affect them. 

 Heavy applications of salt or salty fer- 

 tilizers are recommended, but you can- 

 not apply these in sufiicient quantity to 

 destroy the worms without destroying 

 the asters. After the crop-is off you can 

 follow these suggestions and, in addi- 

 tion, it would be well to plow the field 

 just as late in the fall as possible, thus 

 exposing the worms to the frosts to 

 some extent. A. F. J. B. 



BLIGHTED ASTEBS. 



I am sending you an aster plant. I 

 wish that you would inspect it and see 

 what the trouble is. Will you advise 

 me as to what I can do to remedy the 

 defect? What is the best soil to plant 

 int Through this trouble I have lost 

 more than 1,000 plants this year and I 

 desire to know what to do next vear. 



T. A. J.— Kan. 



The aster plant submitted is plainly 

 affected by the common aster blight. It 

 would be worth a good deal to be able 

 to tell you how to control this disease, 

 which is one of the most baffling dis- 

 eases known to commercial growers. 

 Many theories have been advanced and 

 exploded as to its origin and control, 

 so that no one seems able to do more 

 than suggest careful culture all along 

 the line, from the seed pan to the plant- 



ing in the field, and then to trust to luck 

 to keep the blight away. A few things 

 that seem to have been proven out are: 

 See that your soil for the seed pan is 

 sterilized. Do not allow the young 

 plants to become potbound or starved. 

 Be sure the soil in the field is not acid. 

 Add what manure or fertilizer is needed 

 early enough so as to allow it to become 

 thoroughly incorporated with the soil 

 before setting out the aster plants. 

 These suggestions will assist you, but 

 they will not guarantee you immunity 

 from this disease. Purdue University 

 has taken up the study of this disease 

 and, considering the thoroughness with 

 which things are done at this institu- 

 tion, some definite results are expected 

 in due time. It has been suggested that 

 a blight-resisting strain may be the so- 

 lution. A. F. J. B. 



TUBEBOSES NOT BLOOMING. 



We have Mexican and Double Pearl 

 tuberoses in the field and we have 

 watered them whenever it was dry. It 

 has been a quite dry season here. We 

 get a bloom only now and then. What 

 would you recommend in this case? 



F. C. P.— la. 



the tops are pretty well dried, they had 

 better be pulled up and laid in 

 windrows to dry in the sun for a few 

 days. Give them a turning over with a 

 wooden rake after a couple of days and, 

 if possible, house them before a soaking 

 rain comes. This rain will not harm 

 them nearly so much when they are out 

 of the soil. If they are left in the 

 ground, heavy rains will often start 

 the bulbs into a second growth, in 

 which case they keep poorly after be- 

 ing housed. C. W. 



DAHLIA TUBEBS. 



I grow dahlias and never knew until 

 this year why some of the large tubers 

 did not send up sprouts. Will you tell 

 me how to separate them so that they 

 will all sprout? M. W. H. — Miss. 



In making dahlia divisions use a 

 sharp knife on the tubers and leave oni- 

 eye or bud in each division. A little 

 practice will teach you how to divide 

 them. These divisions are far better 

 than large clumps which send up a 

 thicket of growth. C. W. 



The dry season is responsible for the 

 paucity of flower spikes on your tube- 

 roses. If rain comes, you will, no doubt, 

 get a good many stalks yet. If frost 

 threatens to intervene, dig such as arc 

 not developed fully, carefully plant them 

 in boxes and flower them in the green- 

 house. C. W. 



ONIONS IN A DBY TIME. 



When the tops turn down on onions 

 in a dry time and there is a limp place 

 just above the bulb, does the onion 

 grow any more? If the onion is left in 

 the ground and becomes wet, will it not 

 start to grow again, throw up new tops 

 and become soft and worthless? 



A. F. E. W.— Minn. 



When the stems on the onions wilt 

 in the manner described, the bulbs will 

 make little more growth and, provided 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



Cheyenne, Wyo. — The first meeting of 

 the creditors of Mary E. Conrad, of 

 Thermopolis, Wyo., adjudged bankrupt 

 July 23, was called for September 8, at 

 502 Hynds building, in this city, before 

 Clarence A. Swainson, referee in bank- 

 ruptcy. Mary E. Conrad operated Le 

 ('liapeau Shop, at Thermopolis, and until 

 June 1 of this year did business as the 

 Thermopolis Floral Co. Three months 

 ago a mortgage was foreclosed on the 

 latter property and the Thermopolis 

 Floral Co. was sold to Miss Claudia 

 Leach July 1, who now conducts the 

 business. 



New York, N. Y. — Judge Mayer ap- 

 pointed Benjamin Bernstein receiver 

 for Arthur T. Boddington & Co., in re- 

 sponse to the petition in bankruptcy 

 filed by H. Langeler. The receiver's 

 bonds were set at $1,000. 



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Two Splendid Specimens of Evonymus Japonica Aurea. 



