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The Fbristsr Review 



Sbptkmbuk 26, 1918. 



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NAMES TO BE DBOPPED. 



We are sending The Eeview a list of 

 aames which we propose to drop from 

 the tarnation register, unless we suc- 

 ceed in securing data which we now 

 lack. 



Will you kindly publish this list, with 

 the request that anyone who can supply 

 the-- color, parentage, originator, dis- 

 seminator and date of dissemiiilttion 

 of any variety in the large section of 

 the list, will kindly communicate the 

 same to the office of the secretary at 

 Indianapolis, Ind.f 



We have been working on this regis- 

 ter through a period of several years 

 and have complete data on most of the 

 varieties listed. As soon as it becomes 

 apparent that the register is as com- 

 plect as it is possible to make it, the 

 American Carnation Society proposes 

 to publish it in pamphlet form and dis- 

 tribute it among its members. 



It is calculated that this register will 

 be of great benefit to those who secure 

 copies, as it will contain full data on 

 practically every carnation introduced 

 within the last forty years. It will 

 stand as the highest authority on carna- 

 tion nomenclature. 



A. F. J. Baur, Sec'y. 



Names for which we have neither 

 description nor disseminator: 



Amo«do 



Baltimore 



Bride of Brlescoart 



Bonnlbell 



Cleopatra 



Constancy 



Darda 



Defender 



Diana 



Dora White 



DoaorlB 



B. G. Clarke 



'Bmma I.owry 



Elsie Ferguson 



Bmma M. Tbompsoo 



Bncante 



Bthel 



BTenlng; Star 



Pillow's New Red 



riamme 



Qenl. Rnmslde 



Oenl. Sherman 



Gladys Ray 



Golden State 



Gtolden Gem 



Grace Rollinger 



OnidlnK Star 



Harriett Rradford 



Helen Dean 



Hilda 



Hon. T. B. Reed 



H<Mi. Wm. McKinley 



Immaculate 



Inrincible 



Intenslre 



Iris Miller 



Jmbn'a White 



Jas. Dean 



lohn Carbon 



John Hlnkle 



Jupiter 



I>aura Vlck 



Lettie Coles 



L' Excellent 



Lyone 



Lyons White 



Manhattan 



Marina 



Marg. Rath 



Mrs. Carnegie 



Mrs. Mallander 



Mrs. S. M. Inman 



Mrs. T. B. Reed 



Mrs. V. R. Hoxle 



.Mrs. Wm. McKlnley 



Nits Berrlnger 



Xortliern Ugbt 



P. O'Mara 



I'ilgrlm 



Queen of the West 



Rebecca 



Robin Hood 



Scarlet Wave 



Scrlbner 



Seneca Chief 



'SenRational 



Senator Crane 



.Sliver Ball 



Thorley 



Tb. H. SpauldlnK 



Twilight 



Uncle Walter 



tJtlca 



Yorktown 



Young America 



Anna H. Shaw 



Annie Plxley 



Azalea 



Varieties registered but not dissemi- 

 nated: 



Genevieve 



Marie Raphael Thompson 



Mrs. Robt. Hartshorn 



Mrs. Mary S. Fleming 



Oregon 



The Empire State 



Winsome 



Allspice 



Badger State 



Climax 



Daybreak Perfection 



Barlham 



Ft. Wayne 



OllMon Beauty 



Kames which are synonyms of older 

 sorts: 



A-merican Wonder, 

 Aathony'B PinK, 

 B. A. Elliott, 

 Glowing Coal, 



synonym of I.a Favorite 

 " " Clias. Sumner 

 " Secy. Hunt 

 " Portia 



Lyon's Whil», 

 Peerless, 

 Queen Scarlet. 

 Robt. Craig, 

 Scarlet Queen, 

 Sport, 



Mynonym of Edwat<teii 

 " KdwardMl 

 . " " Portia ■ 



" Prea. Qarflehf.^, 

 " Portia ^-^ 

 '^ " Bmp. of Mo- 

 rocco 



STEM-BORING LAEViE. 



Enclosed you will find a stem of a 

 carnation plant which seems to have 

 been diseased in some way. I am not 

 familiar with stem-rot, but think, from 

 what I have read of it, that this trou- 

 ble is of another character. I will also 

 enclose some small worms which I 

 found on the stems. Can it be possi- 

 ble that these worms have' been the 

 cause? You will notice that the stem 

 seems to be eaten, in somewhat the 

 same way as fruit trees are eaten by 

 borers. If you can suggest any remedy 

 for this, I shall be thankful, as it has 

 caused the loss of a great many of my 

 plants in the field. W. C. K. 



The specimen submitted was not af- 

 fected by the common stem-rot, as, 

 you inferred, but was attacked by one 

 of the stem-boring larva). You will 

 find these extremely difficult to control. 

 In fact, I can offer no remedy which 

 has proved successful to my knowledge. 

 About the only thing I could suggest 

 would be to sterilize the soil. I would 

 strongly urge you to do this, if you 

 have not already benched your carna- 

 tions. A. F. J. B. 



DISEASES OF THE VIOLET. 



The Boot Bot Disease. 



In the earlier parts of this discus- 

 sion, by Dr. Donald Keddick, of Ithaca, 

 N. Y., the character and extent of the 

 root rot disease, thielavia, were de- 

 scribed. At Cornell a nuipber of ex- 

 periments have been conducted to as- 

 certain the conditions which lead to 

 the disease and to find, if possible, 

 means of holding it in control. 



Besults of an Experiment. 



June 16, 1912, perfectly healthy 

 plants grown from carefully selected 

 cuttings were placed in four of the 

 plats, while in the other four were 

 placed plants each one of which had 

 been grown from a cutting bearing a 

 definite lesion. Cuttings with large 

 lesions died in the sand and the dis- 



eases' plants used in this experiment 

 had grown from cuttings with small 

 lesions. In general appearance these 

 plants were about as good as those 

 grown from healthy cuttings. The other 

 half of the plants were furnished nie 

 by a grower. All of them had well- 

 developed roots, every one of which was 

 infected. These plants made an at- 

 teiqpt to grow, pushing out new leaves 

 f roin, time ^io time. Nearly all died a 

 lingering-death, leaf by leaf curling up 

 and , ^itheking. The few that survived 

 ntfver bdre ^.ny^ flowers and do not fig- 

 ctirein ^he yield. August 26 the fol 

 lowing' condlilon was noted: Of the 

 heklthy plattfr-'those grown in stable 

 manure <ll^eared the best, but those in 

 the phospTiate plat were a close second. 

 Those in the lime and wood-ash plats 

 were'd«c^^ly inferior. 



Of th^' jdiscrase'd plants those in the 

 stable-manure plat were much the best. 

 The plat in general appearance resem- 

 bled much the healthy plants in the 

 limed plat. Plants in the wood-ash plat 

 were extrenaft Ly poor, while those in the 

 phosphate ]^|Brwere little better. Those 

 in the lini^i plat showed yellowish 

 crimped lesuiilis, but not so pronounced 

 as in the plMsphate or wood-ash plats. 



Sti^e Manure Best. 



During it^ust and September dead 

 plants were removed from time to time. 

 October 27 the condition was as before. 

 Of the healthy lot the manured plat 

 . was best. The phosphated plat was 

 second, but not a close second, owing 

 to the loss of many leaves from mar- 

 ginal leaf burning, apparently due to 

 the acid phosphate. The wood-ash plat 

 lagged behind, many of the plants hav- 

 ing few runners even at this date. 



Of the diseased lot the order was as 

 formerly; in the manured plat four of 

 the black-rooted plants were still alive, 

 though they never bore any flowers. 

 Some of the other plants had made an 

 excellent growth. The runners were 

 too numerous, too fine and wiry, and 

 the foliage had a slightly yellowish 

 color. The wood-ash plat was the poor- 

 est. At this date all of the plants 

 were small, with little prospect of living 

 long. A few plants in each of the other 

 plats seemed vigorous, but the majority 

 were either dead or sickly. 



During the course of the experiment, 

 of the healthy stock, six plants in the 

 limed plat died, one of them with the 

 thielavia disease; four plants in the 

 phosphated plat died, all from other 

 causes than thielavia; none died in the 

 manured or wood-ash plats. Of the 

 diseased lot, eight died in the limed 

 plat, fifteen in the phosphated, five in 

 the manured, and thirteen in the plat 

 treated with wood ashes, all with the 

 thielavia disease. Many others were 

 nearly dead when the experiment ■was 

 terminated, December 9, 1912. 



Violets Tenacious of Life. 



When the plants were removed many 

 were in bad condition, as seen in the 

 illustrations in last week 's Review. The 

 fact that so many diseased plants had 

 persisted is explained by examining 

 the two many-rooted plants shown in 

 one of the pictures. The repeated de- 

 velopment of new roots above the point 

 of infection, with the development ot 

 roots from the runners, carried the plant 

 along long after most other kinds oi 

 plants would have succumbed. 



The average number of flowers pe'' 

 plant, counting only those plants aliv^ 



