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The Horists' Review 



NOVEUBKB 19, 1014. 



conditions the linaria, growing wild, 

 would furnish an excellent medium for 

 the transportation of the infection to 

 the extreme limits of its habitat. 



The recent discovery of the teleuto- 

 spore or winter stage of the rust on 

 the material from Indiana permits of 

 the conclusion that the disease is car- 

 ried over from year to year in the field 

 by these spores which establish them- 

 selves during the early fall on the 

 stalks of the snapdragon. (See Fig. 3.) 



A Warning. 



It is hoped that this article will serve 

 to place every grower of antirrhinum 

 on his guard against the ravages of the 

 rust, which gives every indication of 

 causing alarming loss if allowed to go 

 unchecked. 



Owing to the fact that experimental 

 work on the disease is just being com- 

 menced, the writer is unable at this 

 time to advance any definite methods 

 of control. However, after studying 

 this problem for the last six weeks and 

 after having observed the infection in 

 a number of localities, it would seem 

 advisable to observe the following pre- 

 cautions: 



(1) Cover with straw and burn all 

 dead plants that were left in the field. 

 Even though these plants show no signs 

 of the disease, this precaution should 

 be taken. 



(2) Examine carefully the cuttings 

 and plants growing in the house. Pay 

 particular attention to the lower leaves 

 of the older plants, as the heavy mois- 

 ture on these leaves makes conditions 

 ideal for the germination of rust spores. 

 Remove at once and burn all plants 

 showing the slightest signs of infection, 

 keeping well in mind the description 

 of the rust as given in this article. 

 Diseased plants should be removed, 

 roots and all, and burned with great 

 care, as the spores will "fly" upon 

 the sligl^test provocation, and in this 

 way neighboring plants are infected. 



(3) As heavy moisture on the leaves 

 makes germination easy for all rust 

 spores, it would seem advisable to dis- 

 continue all overhead watering. Water 

 only from below, and should the soil 

 dry out too rapidly, mulch the bench 

 well. 



(4) Do not propagate from a plant 

 showing the slightest signs of the rust 

 or from a plant that has in any way 

 been exposed to the disease. The selec- 

 tion of cuttings from diseased plants 

 has already played too active a part 

 in the spread of the infection. 



If every grower of antirrhinum will 

 take these precautions the chances of 

 artificial as well as natural infection 

 will be greatly reduced. By so doing, 

 the spread of the disease can at least 

 be checked until definite control meas- 

 ures can be advanced. 



A Bequest. 



In order that the writer may be 

 apprised of the location of this rust 

 wherever it is present, it is asked that 

 any information regarding the location 

 of any infection not mentioned in this 

 article, as well as specimens of the 

 same, be sent to him at once at the 

 Agriculture Experiment Station, Ur- 

 bana. 111. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



Lonlsyllle, Ky. — Immanuel J. Diehl 

 has filed voluntary bankruptcy proceed- 

 ings in the United States District Court, 

 listing liabilities of $923.15 and assets 

 of $100. 



NEW TOBK. 



The Market. 



The cold snap is still on its way, 

 and from this long stretch of Indian 

 summer the cut flower market does 

 not gain prosperity. Even the clean-up 

 of Saturday and the effect of the Yale- 

 Princeton football game produced no 

 satisfactory uplift, though the latter 

 event did draw heavily on violets and 

 yellow mums. 



The chrysanthemum supply has been 

 enormous. It was impossible to move 

 them. For the finest stock the large 

 receivers were fortunate to obtain even 

 $2 per dozen for what I have seen sell 

 in other years at $5. It now looks as 

 if the bulk of the supply would not be 

 lessened much before Thanksgiving. 



The rose shipments are still in excess 

 of the market's requirements and the 

 quality of the arrivals continually im- 

 proves. American Beauties are espe- 

 cially fine now, but even the selected 

 stock seldom rises above $12 per hun- 

 dred. The short-stemmed stock of all 

 kinds can hardly be given away. The 

 high-class stores readily absorb all the 

 novelties. All the medium stock of all 

 kinds goes by vanloads, every after- 

 noon, to the department stores. 



Carnations have not advanced in 

 price or quality. Only the newest and 

 best rise above $1 per hundred. Longi- 

 florum lilies are steady, at a slight ad- 

 vance, and valley has weakened, from 

 an oversupply, seldom rising above $2 

 per hundred. There are too many pom- 

 pon and single mums. Violets had an 

 encouraging week, the price advancing 

 daily until Saturday. The reaction this 

 week will doubtless reduce them again 

 to 50 cents and lower, until the demand 

 materializes for the Yale-Harvard foot- 

 ball contest. Gardenias are improving 

 rapidly, and the supply is growing. 

 Prices, however, continue low. A slight 

 advance is noted for the best orchids. 

 Their October slump was abnormal. 



Bowling. 



The scores of the members of the 



New York Florists' Bowling Club at 



the last gathering, Thursday, November 



12. wore as follows: 



Player. Ist 2d T'l. 



J. Fenrlch laS 170 333 



C. W. Scott 141 154 295 



W. H. Slebrecht 157 164 .321 



P. Jacobson 162 162 324 



F. Nlquet 159 164 323 



J.. Mlesem 200 190 390 



A. Kaknda 144 158 302 



A. J. Guttman 145 168 313 



P. Meconl 206 162 868 



Various Notes. 



J. K. Allen has had a large sale of 

 mums and pansies in pots, quite up to 

 the average of other years. 



At the auctions of the MacNiff Hor- 

 ticultural Co. Mr. MacNiff has been 

 averaging six hours at each session. 

 Prices have been satisfactory and the 

 volume of sales is far ahead of any 

 former season at this date. 



W. E. Maynard, the nurseryman, has 

 opened a store at 1985 Clinton avenue, 

 calling his enterprise the Garden & 

 Farm Supply Co. 



The many friends of C. H. Totty, of 

 Madison, N. J., will be glad to know 

 that all reports from the hospital where 

 he is convalescing have been encourag- 

 ing and a complete recovery is now 

 assured. 



Wm. Plumb has been appointed man- 

 ager of a large estate in Cuba and has 

 resigned his position as superintendent 



of horticulture at the San Francisco ex- 

 position. 



Patrick Welch, of Boston, L. J. Keu- 

 ter, of Westerly, R. I., and E. Allan 

 Peirce, of Waltham, Mass., were recent 

 visitors in New York. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CLEVEIJLND. 



The Market. 



Market conditions are improving. A 

 large call for stock for funeral work 

 last week helped to clean up an over- 

 crowded market. Excellent mums are 

 obtainable now, including Golden Wed- 

 ding, Enguehard, Chadwick, etc., be- 

 sides pompon and single chrysanthe- 

 mums of all kinds and colors. Soleil 

 d'Or and Paper White narcissi have 

 arrived, but are not received with 

 open arms as yet. Roses are off crop, 

 as is usual at this time of the year. 

 Everyone is figuring on a heavy crop 

 for Christmas. Carnations never were 

 finer and seldom as cheap as they are 

 now. Lilies are a trifle too plentiful. 

 Valley is equal to a fair demand. 



Club Outing. 



The second industrial trip of the 

 Florists' Club was as interesting and 

 as well attended as the first. A crowd 

 of forty visited the greenhouse estab- 

 lishments of the J. M. Gasser Co., W. 

 J. Kramer and Lars Anderson, all of 

 Rocky River, and Chas. Reep, Claude 

 Tyler and A. M. Coe, all of North Olm- 

 sted. They also stopped at the vege- 

 table houses of the Western Reserve 

 Greenhouse Co. while en route. 



The carnations at the range of the 

 J. M. Gasser Co. were top-notchers, the 

 best seen at this place for years. The 

 roses, chrysanthemums and other stock 

 also received favorable comments. W. 

 J. Kramer makes a specialty of carna- 

 tions and the stock looked it; a heavier 

 showing of buds for a midwinter crop 

 would be hard to find. Lars Anderson 

 grows carnations, poinsettias, stevias, 

 Romans, Paper Whites and other bulb- 

 ous stock. His carnations were found 

 in fine shape, with excellent crops com- 

 ing on. Several new varieties, particu- 

 larly Champion and Matchless, showed 

 up well. Mr. Anderson's poinsettias, 

 both in bench and pans, were just 

 right. Claude Tyler is another carna- 

 tion specialist. While not in as heavy 

 crop at present as the other places 

 visited, his prospects for a heavy 

 Christmas cut are first-rate. Two houses 

 of calendulas are grown here and they 

 are the best this market has seen at 

 any time, bar none. Chas. Reep was 

 found busy rebuilding his shed and 

 workroom. He evidently is getting 

 ready to handle large cuts of early 

 Golden Spur and tulips, for which he 

 is famous. A. M. Coe grows a miscel- 

 laneous crop for the wholesale market — 

 carnations, snapdragons and chrysan- 

 themums principally. All was found 

 in good condition. The stop at the 

 vegetable houses of the \vestern Re- 

 serve Greenhouse Co. was interesting 

 to the flower growers. Nearly three 

 acres of lettuce in various stages of 

 growth were unaer one roof, and as 

 clean as could be grown. 



The trip was made in ten automo- 

 biles belonging to our more prosperous 

 brothers and, barring the attempts of 

 John Kirchner to operate on two cylin- 

 ders and a blow-out experienced by 



