Dbcbmbbr 8, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



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greenhouses, but use oil stoves only in 

 freezing weather. We spray with 

 Aphine about once a week. We have 

 fumigated with To-bak-ine papers once 

 since the plants were put in the 

 benches. They have been housed about 

 a month. The carnations were field- 

 grown plants, some from Chicago and 

 some from Colorado Springs. S. F. C. 



Store of A. W. Smith G>.t Pittsburgh, as it Appeared During a Recent Reception. 



The pest that is chewing up your 

 carnation crop is undoubtedly one of 

 the several varieties of cutworms or 

 larvae common in greenhouses. Some- 

 times they are hard to get rid of, and, 

 handpicking must be resorted to. 



You will seldom find them exposed 

 to view during the daytime, as they 

 keep out of sight from daylight till 

 dusk. By the aid of a strong light, 

 however, you can catch them feeding 

 at the buds or tips any time after 

 dark, especially after midnight. 



The most common remedy is poisoned 

 mash, made as follows: Take bran or 

 shortening and mix with it enough 

 molasses to make a mash. Then add to 

 the mixture enough Paris green to 

 make it deadly. Lay this around where 

 the worms have been working. In most 

 cases this remedy is found effective. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



■manner. I do know, however, that 

 the vitality shown in a seedling plant 

 ■can be preserved only through the most 

 careful selection of the cuttings. I 

 know, also, that after a variety has 

 lost more or less of its original vitality, 

 it can be built up again by selection 

 •of the cuttings. Whether the vitality 

 may be made to exceed that shown in 

 the original seedling plant, I am not 

 3)repared to say, but I doubt it seri- 

 ously. 



I feel certain that the improvement 

 in the present-day carnation, as com- 

 pared with the carnation of ten or 

 twenty years ago, is mainly due to 

 breeding, accompanied, of course, by 

 improved cultural methods. There is 

 HO question in my mind that our best 

 growers of today would grow better 

 lalooms of Daybreak and show the 

 variety in its best form earlier in the 

 season than the growers of twenty 

 years ago, notwithstanding the occa- 

 •sional statement from some old-timer 

 of having cut forty-eight blooms per 

 plant from Daybreak, etc. I would not 

 expect, however, that anyone could 

 grow as good blooms on Daybreak as 

 he would cut from Enchantress under 

 identical cultural conditions; nor could 

 I imagine anyone showing blooms of 

 Silver Spray that would be equal to 

 the . blooms we see every day from 

 White Wonder, and so on through the 

 "whole list of colors. 



Enchantress Supreme is a sport from 

 Enchantress. It was disseminated by 

 Dallledouze Bros, in 1912. ' 



A. F. J. 7^. 



CUTWORMS ON CAENATIONS. 



We are enclosing some tops and buds 

 of carnation plants that have been 

 eaten by some insect. We should like 

 to have your advice as to what is the 

 best way to get rid of these insects. 

 They have eaten the tops or young 

 green shoots of about half of our car- 

 nation plants. We pick up the broken 

 tops, but cannot find the insect which 

 "has done the damage. We notice in 

 the tops of some of the blooms a brown- 

 ish looking worm, which is also inside 

 the calyx and eats the blooms. There 



are also some insects that bore holes 

 inside the buds and then disappear. 

 We notice a good many brown moths 

 and white and yellow butterflies flying 

 around the carnations and lighting on 

 the plants. We think these lay the 

 eggs that produce the worms which 

 desti'oy our plants. Please tell us at 

 once of a remedy for these insects. 

 We do not use steam pipes in our 



Iia Fayette, 111. — The heating appa- 

 ratus has been installed in the propa- 

 gating house erected this summer at 

 the Home Nursery. Irvin Ingels has 

 had some fine carnations and chrysan- 

 themums in the greenhouses. His second 

 son. Gar Ingels, is in charge of this 

 department of the concern. 



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Window of A. W. Smith Co., Pittsburgh, During a Recent Reception. 



