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The Florists' Review 



Skftembeu 15, 1921 



GALL-INFECTED BOSES. 



I am mailing a sample of a new rose 

 that we received from the east. This 

 is one of a number of plants that do 

 not seem to grow. Is the trouble club 

 root or is it something else? The 

 stock must surely be infected. We 

 have also a batch of 500 grafted Mi- 

 lady from another firm and some of 

 them are showing the same defect above 

 the graft. Is there any treatment that 

 can cure these roses? 



J. B. & S.— la. 



is being sent a sample of soil and ma- 

 nure mixed, which we took out of the 

 benches. Will you advise as to how 

 the grubs may be killed without affect- 

 ing the roses? We should like to know 

 also about the little insects; are they 

 harmful or not? T. L. M. — Ky. 



low on ammonia and potash and the 

 phosphate contained in the soil is not 

 immediately available, without some 

 agent which will make it so. The 

 best feed in this case is a good top- 

 dressing of fresh or partly decayed cat- 

 tle manure and plenty of water to dis- 

 solve it. There were no insects found 

 on the plants or in the soil on arrival, 

 but, as a rule, grubworms do not at- 

 tack rose plants as long as there is 

 plenty of manure in the soil for them 

 to feed on and, as they, in feeding on 

 the manure, digest it and, in turn, 

 make it more available to the plants, 

 the worms do not do a great deal of 

 harm. The soil sent with the rose 

 plants was a medium, heavy yellow 

 clay loam, which, with an addition of 

 about one-third manure, should prove 

 to be a good soil for roses. W. J. K. 



The rose plant received was suffer- 

 ing I'rom a bad case of root gall. The 

 plant was probably iiifectc(i at the 

 time the cutting was made, the knife 

 not liavjng been disinfected after cut- 

 ting into a gall on one of the ])lants 

 and so spreading the disease. This is 

 a bad disease when it gets into a rose 

 house and the sooner all plants affected 

 are discarded the better, for it spreads 

 easily. If the plants are infected at 

 the root, the gall will prevent the saj) 

 from flowing up the stem and the plant 

 will make little growth. If the gall is 

 above the ground on the plants, it 

 will have a tendency to draw all the 

 sap to tliat spot and usually the plant 

 will throw out a strong shoot from that 

 place, while the rest of the plant 

 will suffer. 



When the g.alls are on top of the 

 plants above the ground, it is a good 

 policy to cut off all stems below the gall 

 and burn them to ])revent the gall 

 from spreading. When the galls are 

 on the root, little can be done to save 

 the ]ilant. On old plants it has been 

 found that by keeping the plants con- 

 tinually wet the gall will rot and the 

 plants will outgrow the disease. To 

 prevent the spreading of this disease, 

 never cut into the galls, as the knife 

 will spread the germs to other plants 

 and, before cutting, if there is the 

 slightest danger of the knife's being in- 

 fected, dip it in a solution of corrosive 

 sublimate. This will kill the germs and 

 l)rovent their spreading. W. J. K. 



UNDER^FED ROSE PLANTS. 



Three rose plants with soil on them 

 are being mailed to you. We are hav- 

 ing many roses this year that turn 

 pale and die. I found that there were 

 grubworms in the soil and I also found 

 little white insects, like ski]ipers, that 

 got about fast. Likewise I found some 

 little black bugs, which are being 

 mailed under separate cover. Also there 



The i)lants received showed that they 

 had made little top growth and had 

 made no new roots to speak of, since 

 they were planted. The foliage was 

 yellow and small, which I am inclined to 

 believe is caused from lack of feed. It 

 is hard to tell how much plant food is 

 contained in the soil without an anal- 

 ysis, but, from its appearance, it is 



CHERRIES FOR CHRISTMAS. 



Will you tell us the proper time to 

 stop pinching back Jerusalem cherries 

 so as to have them bloom at Christmas? 



W. A. L.— Va. 



Jerusalem cherries need no pinching 

 at any time and any efforts of this kind 

 will only spoil the plants. The berries 

 should naturally ripen in ample time 

 for Christmas in a cool greenhouse. 



C. W. 



PraJrie Pick-ups^ 



Lyons, Ean. — John Piercy is conduct- 

 ing a greenhouse on South Pioneer 

 street. 



Lawrence, Kan. — Clyde V. Bell has 

 placed an order with Buchbinder Bros., 

 Chicago, for a large display refrigera- 

 tor. 



Fort Scott, Kan.^Mark W. Weeks 

 and R. C. Granger are starting a green- 

 house business, which will be conducted 

 under the name of the Fort Scott Green- 

 houses. 



Tulsa, Okla. — Mrs. Ellen Cummings, 

 who operates the Tulsa Garment Co.. 

 will build a greenhouse and a flower 

 shop, to be run in connection with the 

 dry goods store. Her daughter will take 

 charge of the flower store and green- 

 house. 



Okmulgee, Okla. — H. D. Ellis, who 

 built up the business of Ellis & Co. 

 from one hotbed in 1917 to a greenhouse 

 of 7,000 feet and is planning to double 

 it, has leased the property of the Okmul- 

 gee Mushroom Co., consisting of a cave, 

 12x130 feet, for the culture of mush- 

 rooms. This expansion was the occa- 

 sion of a lengthy encomium of ^Ir. Ellis 

 in the local paper. 



Sedalia, Mo. — Leon IL Archias, Jr., 

 of the Archias Floral Co., has returned 

 from a several weeks' trip through 

 southern Missouri and the Ozarks. He 

 made the trip overland and covered 

 about 1,.')00 miles en route, stopping at 

 Ilahatonka, Springfield, Jnplin and 

 Carthage, Mo.; Bella Vista, Ark.; Pitts- 

 burg, Kan., and other places of interest. 

 Mr. Archias called on members of the 

 trade and visited several greenhouses 

 while away. 



Norton, Kan. — H. B. Burdett has 

 moved his greenhouse from Osage, la., 

 to this city and has begun business 

 here. 



Franklin, Neb. — The Burton Flower 

 Shop has moved into the cement block 

 building, just north of the Pastime 



theater. 



Independence, Mo. — F. M. Hands, 

 who is just starting in the trade, has a 

 greenhouse 29 x 108 feet. He will grow 

 mums, Christmas plants and bedding 



plants. 



Omaha, Neb. — Charles L. Lowe, who 

 has been growing flowers and shrubs in 

 a limited way, non-commercially, has 

 now purchased about fifteen acres of 

 land, which he will plant to perennials, 

 shrubs, etc. 



Marysville, Kan. — When the balmy 

 days of summer come down upon us 

 and the lure of the gun and the rod 

 beckons insistently from the woods and 

 waters, most of us get down the guide 

 books and begin to figure out where 

 we shall spend the anticipated vaca- 

 tion. But H. E. Fisher, of Marysville, 

 Kan., has his own bit of the big" woods 

 and he spends no time worrying about 

 where he will go, because he knows his 

 destination will be Fisher's Point. This 

 resort, which Mr. Fisher owns, is lo- 

 cated on the southwest corner ef Leech 

 lake, near Walker, Minn. Round about 

 there is not a sign of civilization, but, 

 if you look long and hard enough to the 

 north, you can see the smoke of an In- 

 dian reservation through the trees or. 

 if you walk two miles around the near- 

 est point, you can see Walker in the 

 distance. Mr. Fisher has entertained 

 several florists there this summer. 



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