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The Florists' Review 



October 30, 1913. 



STIGMONOSE AND LEAF-SPOT. 



What is the disease on the inclosed 

 carnation leaves and what is the cure, 

 if any? I have tried Fungine and Bor- 

 deaux mixture as remedies, but neither 

 seems to do any good. M. B. C. 



Your carnations are affected with two 

 distinct diseases. One is the common 

 stigmonose, for which you can do little 

 else but select your cuttings when 

 propagating next year's stock. The 

 other is what we call leaf -spot, which 

 you should be able to control with Bor- 

 deaux mixture. Pick off all the af- 

 fected leaves and burn them. Then 

 spray with the Bordeaux two or three 

 times at weekly intervals, keeping the 

 water away from the foliage when wa- 

 tering. If you are running fire heat 

 at night, drop a pinch of sulphur here 

 and there on the pipes. Sulphur fumes 

 are deadly to all forms of fungous 

 growth. A. F. J. B. 



TOBACCO STEMS FOB ]!ifUI.CH. 



Will you inform me whether tobacco 

 stems which have been out in a pile 

 until rotten would do for mulching car- 

 nations which have just started well! 

 M. E. H. 



I am inclined to the opinion that 

 the thoroughly rotted tobacco stems 

 would not injure your carnation plants, 

 if used as a light mulch, but I would 

 suggest that you try them on a lim- 

 ited space before risking your whole 

 crop. But why use them at all! If 

 you can get stable manure, you will 

 find it of much greater value for this 

 purpose, as the manure will not only 

 prevent drying out, but contains plant 

 food as well, while the tobacco stems 

 are good only to prevent evaporation. 

 There would have to be a great differ- 

 ence between the cost of the two, to 

 cause me to substitute the rotted to- 

 bacco stems for the manure. 



A. F. J. B. 



LOSING THEIB FOLIAGE. 



I inclose a few sample leaves from 

 some of my carnations and should like 

 to get your opinion as to what is the 

 matter. Can you suggest a remedy? 

 The stalks look green and healthy, but 

 the leaves turn yellow and die clear 

 up to the tops of the stems. J. S. 



You do not give enough data on which 

 to base a really definite opinion. There 

 is considerable stigmonose present on 

 the specimens forwarded and that may 

 be at the bottom of your troubles. If 

 the plants were benched recently, and 

 if the treatment was not good, they 

 might act in the manner described, if 

 the stock is badly affected with stig- 

 monose. If the plants started off 

 nicely and then contracted this trouble, 

 then your treatment must be altogether 

 wrong. Perhaps you gave too much 

 water before the roots had a good hold. J 



You can do nothing now except to 

 take off the bad leaves and then spray 

 the plants well with Bordeaux mixture. 



A. F. J. B. 



LEAF-SPOT. 



I am inclosing some carnation foli- 

 age and wish you would tell me how 

 to treat the plants for the disease with 

 which they are affected. I am just 

 starting in the greenhouse business. 



Mrs. T. A. J, 



The specimens forwarded disclose the 

 fact that your carnations are affected 

 by the common leaf -spot. I would sug- 

 gest that you pick off these diseased 

 leaves and then spray the plants with 

 Bordeaux mixture once each week un- 

 til you have the disease under control. 

 Wash the plants with the hose before 

 each application and be sure to do it 

 on a bright day. Also drop a pinch 

 of sulphur on one of the steam pipes 

 about every six feet. If any more 

 spots appear, pick them Off every few 

 days. A. F. J. B. 



MIXTUBES AMONG MAY DAY. 



We are sending you under separate 

 cover some carnation blooms taken from 

 plants in a bench of May Day. They 

 are like May Day in color, but have 

 the habit of Enchantress. Flowers off 

 the same plants have kept extra well 

 for ten days. What can you tell me 

 about these flowers? L. S. C. 



The specimens forwarded were badly 

 wilted, so that it was impossible to 

 determine the exact color of the blooms. 

 I think, however, from what I could 

 see, that there is no question about 

 these plants being simply mixtures 

 among the May Day. One appeared 

 to be Rose-pink Enchantress and the 

 others Enchantress. The Enchantress 

 may have a deeper color than usual, for 

 some reason; hence the similarity to 

 May Day in color. A. F. J. B. 



NOT BECAUSE THEY 'BE UNUSUAL. 



The following letters are not printed 

 because we get such things only once 

 in a while — in that case we would of 

 course print them in display type — but 

 just to remind the trade that Classified 

 ads in The Review bring really big re- 

 sults, not once but almost always — all 

 the time. Note one in Texas, the next 

 Ohio; it's all the same, no matter where 

 the advertiser lives. 



All sold on first Isbup; for quick and sure 

 sales on surplus stock, use The Review. — H. O. 

 Hannah & Son. Sherman, Tex., October 20, 1913. 



It is the old story when w6 advertise In The 

 Review; all sold out.— Scharff Bros.. Van Wert, 

 O., October 20. 1913. 



Once a florist tries using the Classi- 

 fied ads in The Review he always comes 

 back. 



New Concord, O. — J. C. McCutchen 

 has sold his greenhouses to H. H. Gier, 

 who has already taken up the work of 

 conducting the business. 



PALMS, PLEASUEE AND PBOFIT. 



One recent afternoon I climbed 

 aboard a suburban train at the Reading 

 terminal in Philadelphia and told the 

 conductor to ' ' put me off at Wyncote. ' ' 



"The station is Jenkintown, Mister. 

 Going to see Heacock's place?" 



I allowed I was, and then Brass But- 

 tons smiled and said, "You'll go back 

 on the night train, I reckon. ' ' 



I didn't quite understand what he 

 meant, but when I saw the greenhouses, 

 and tried to figure out how many square 

 feet of ground they covered, and how 

 many miles I would walk if I tried to 

 see them all in one afternoon, I too 

 "reckoned" it would be a night train. 



The quaint office building is in keep- 

 ing with the general appearance of the 

 place, quiet and restful, yet the minute 

 you step in the door you realize you are 

 in a business office where things are 

 done, not "tomorrow," but now, right 

 now, when they should be done. 



Twenty years ago Mr. Heacock began 

 to grow palms — in a small way, of 

 course, but all really big things are only 

 the development of an idea born in an 

 enthusiastic man's mind. Year after 

 year the idea and the business grew. 

 The first greenhouse was torn down to 

 make room for a larger one. Then an- 

 other was needed, and it wasn't long 

 before the old houses were replaced by 

 thoroughly modern structures. 



I tried to find the reason why the 

 business had increased so marvelously 

 in the two decades, and why in the last 

 two or three years it has almost doubled 

 itself. Nine words tell the story: 

 "Give the customer a little more than 

 he expects. ' ' The business has been 

 built on this. 



After Mr. Heacock had told me some 

 things about the business, he said, 

 "Let's take a walk through the 

 houses." Now, I thought I had seen 

 greenhouses, and some few palms, but 

 I soon concluded that greenhouses 

 didn't grow in my country. And palms! 

 I didn't know there were so many in 

 the world. I asked how man^ plants 

 were in the place and was told consid- 

 erably over half a million. Hanging 

 from the roof supports were baskets of 

 ferns, and here and there were orchids 

 in bloom, giving a touch of color to an 

 otherwise solid, shimmering mass of 

 green. 



The palms are grown here from the 

 start. In fact, they are born at Wyn- 

 cote, for in one house you will find 

 benches covered with three or four 

 inches of Jersey peat, and on digging 

 down with your fingers you find the 

 seeds that look like small pecan nuts, 

 some of them just opening and showing 

 the tiny roots and the light green 

 fronds. This seed comes from Austra- 

 lia and is imported direct by Mr. Hea- 

 cock. As soon as the seed germinates 

 it is lifted into flats; later the seedlings 

 are transplanted to thumb pots, and 

 finally repotted as the plants need 

 room for the roots to develop. 



I was told that the demand for palms 

 has made the business of palm growing 

 one of the established industries. The 

 florist who is looking for decorations 

 finds that palms are indispensable. They 

 play an important part in artistic ar- 

 rangements for weddings, parties, recep- 

 tions and special church occasions. By 

 tasteful grouping of palms in the store 

 the florist is able to help his customers 

 when they come to him for ideas about 

 home decorations. In summer palms are 

 eminently suitable for porch plants. 



