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Ihc Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBEB 19, 1014. 



line in this triade is indicated in the 

 illustration on page 15. This bouquet 

 was the handiwork of Mrs. O. B. Hil- 

 zem, of Yazoo City, Miss. Other bou- 

 quets of her making have figured pub- 

 licly already — one was presented to Sec- 

 retary Bryan when he spoke in Mem- 

 phis, another was worn by the daugh- 

 ter of Champ Clark at the cotton demon- 

 stration in Washington, and still an- 

 other was carried by Mayor Behrman^ 

 of New Orleans, in the parade at the 

 opening of the state fair at Jackson. 

 Miss. Kecently Mrs. Hilzem has had 

 many orders for cotton bouquets, colo- 

 nial and corsage. 



The bouquet shown on page 15 was 

 sent as a souvenir to the E. C. Amling 

 Co., Chicago. It is made of cotton bolls 

 in various stages of maturityj-tied with 

 cotton tape. Asparagus and magnolia 

 leaves were the only components of the 

 bouquet, aside from the foil used to 

 wrap the stems, which did not come 

 from the cotton plant. The cotton used 

 in the bouquet is known as long staple, 

 and came from one of the plantations 

 of Yazoo county. 



Awarded the Hitchings Cup as Most Meritorious Exhibit at the Indianapolis Show. 



Clyde; F. E. Whitney, for Winthrop 

 Sargent; Harry Allen, for F. W. Vander- 

 bilt; Wm. McBean, for the Stuyvesant 

 Fish estate; James Mills, for the Ogden 

 Mills estate; K. Abernathy, for Isaac 

 Untermyer, and W. Tait, for A. C. 

 Zabriskie. 



The judges were Wm. C. Russell, of 

 Millbrook; B. W. Allen, of Hudson, and 

 Wm. Scott, of Elmsford. 



VINCENT ENLISTS STATE AID. 



Apropos of the fact that we had re- 

 ceived many inquiries from different 

 sections of the country and every fall 

 and spring there is considerable discus- 

 sion of an affliction or a geranium leaf 

 spot which is supposed to be caused 

 by a fungus, we have had our state 

 horticultural department take the mat- 

 ter up and they have taken it to the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, in regard to which Prof. 

 F. H. Chittenden, in charge of truck, 

 crop and stored product insect investi- 

 gations of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 writes to Prof. Temple, of the Maryland 

 Horticultural Department, as follows: 



"I am in receipt of your additional 

 specimens of geranium leaves and beg 

 to state, as before mentioned, thOT* the 

 injury is apparently entirely that 

 known as stigmonose. This was for 

 some time believed to be a specific 

 fungous trouble, but by experiments has 

 been determined to be the result of 

 injury either by thrips or aphides. 

 Under certain conditions plants attacked 

 by these insects seem to develop this 

 peculiar adventitious cell growth, which 

 much resembles the attack of certain 

 species of fungi. Fumigation or the 

 application of proper insecticides for 

 thrips and aphides would undoubtedly 

 lessen the injury. The attack of these 

 insects may be responsibly fd> the yel- 

 lowing of the leaves, but i. am unable 

 to state this definitely." 



Prof. C. E. Temple, writing further 

 on the subject, says: "I may add that 

 Mr. Anspon and I are planning some 

 experiments to determine the cause of 

 this trouble. It will take some time, 

 but I am sure that we will be able to 



get some results. I am ^i^^^, to see 

 how the trouble can b«.;eoDsSfM<Bd espe- 

 cially serious, and personally I do not 

 believe the spot which • we have had 

 most to say about is caused by a 

 fungus. " 



Prof. Temple would be pleased to 

 receive any information or datff relat- 

 ing to the disease from any florist who 

 has the trouble, so that he m^ come to 

 some definite conclusion as to what the 

 real cauFe is and thereby the remedy. 



R. A. Vincent. 



COTTON BOLLS FORM BOUQUETS. 



While the cotton problem remains so 

 prominently in front of the eyes of the 

 south, florists, as well as silk weavers, 

 etc., may find their trade cut into by the 

 substitution of cotton for their wares. 

 What has already been done along this 



R. H. S. REPLIES TO GARDENERS. 



The following communication has just 

 been received by the committee -ap« 

 pointed at the meeting of the National 

 Association of Gardeners held in Boston 

 last August, to draft suitable resdlu- 

 tions conveying the sympathies of the 

 organization to the European horticul- 

 turists : 



ROYAL HOBTICULTnBAL SOCIETY. 



WestmkiBter, tiondon, England. 



Noyember 3, 1914. 

 Dear Sirs: The council of our society are very 

 grateful to you and to the National Associatloo 

 of Gardeners for the kind and brotherly sympa- 

 thies which yon extend to us and the other gar- 

 deners of Great Britain and elnewhere In the 

 present time of Intense strain and distress. 



May we hope that when the time comes for 

 the reinstatement of the Belgium horticulturists 

 we may receive your active cooperation ami finan- 

 cial support? Our society will start a fund vf 

 help when the right time comes; bat that time, 

 wp grieve to say, is not yet. 



With brotherly greetings to our fellow garden- 

 ers In the States, I am. 



Yours very truly, 



W. WlIkB, 

 Sec'y B. H. 8. 

 By order of the Prertdent and Conncil of the 

 R. H. S. 



Display of C H. Bookedis, the Claypool Hotel Florikt, at the Indianapolis Show. 



