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The Florists' Review 



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with the American Bose Society with 

 its over 300 members, the president of 

 the Syracuse Eose Society, Eev. Dr. E. 

 A. Mills, be chosen an honorary vice- 

 president of the American Bose So- 

 ciety. 



The annual bulletin has been started 

 and the intention is to get out the best 

 annual report that has yet been issued. 

 The secretary reported this work well 

 under way. 



The number of members of the 

 American Rose Society who belong to 

 the Society of American Florists is 

 104, and this number entitles the 

 American Rose Society to be repre- 

 sented by its president, Wallace B. 

 Pierson, on the board of directors of 

 the S. A. F. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



NETSCH GETS DECISION. 



A jury at Buffalo last week returned 

 a verdict of no cause of action in the 

 suit of the William F. Kasting Co., 

 wholesale florist, against Charles H. 

 Netsch, florist. The Kasting concern 

 sued to recover $2,000, the value of 

 flowers which Mr. Netsch was alleged 

 to have received over the quantities 

 called for by the sales tickets by means 

 of an alleged conspiracy with one of 



the Kasting former employees. Mr. 

 Netsch denied any conspiracy and 

 stated that any extra flowers or plants 

 he received were in the nature of lib- 

 eral count to stimulate his patronage of 

 the house. He said that he never asked 

 for more flowers than he ordered and 

 paid for. 



PHYTOMYZA CHRYSANTHL 



Perhaps the average grower does not 

 feel acquainted with Phytomyza Chry- 

 santhi, but he will remember the chry- 

 santhemum leaf-mine^.,a^jnarguerite 

 fly. It may be of hI«^^, then, to 

 know that the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Amherst 

 has just printed a 60-page, illustrated 

 bulletin on the subject — twenty-five 

 pages devoted to introduction, distri- 

 bution, life history, etc., and two pages 

 to reporting that the first florist asked 

 said those who spray with nicotine in- 

 secticides have no further trouble with 

 the pest; with half a dozen pages of 

 summary, recommendations, index, etc. 

 It is stated the document is a contri- 

 bution from the entomological labora- 

 tory of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, part of a thesis for Ph.D. de- 

 gree. It is to be hoped the writer got 

 it. 



Hoopeston, HL — E. A. Raasch has 

 purchased a new automobile delivery 

 car. 



Crawfordsville, Ind. — A, S. Pett has 

 a new delivery truck, which he expects 

 to be a valuable addition to his equip- 

 ment. 



Home, lU. — John Trimmer has built 

 a greenhouse at his residence, on West 

 A street, and expects to do a good busi- 

 ness in flowers and plants. 



Marshfleld, Wis.— Theo. D. Hefko has 

 purchased a Buick roadster. He has 

 installed a new heating plant, consist- 

 ing of two 30-horse-power boilers,. which 

 were made at a local boiler works. 



• Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Gottlieb Baumann 

 has opened a large, new store at 168 

 South Main street, next door to the 

 NesbJtt theater. He will use this store 

 to dispose of the stock grown at his 

 greenhouses on South Grant street. 



Loudonvllle, O.— R. H. Workman is 

 considering installing a boiler with 

 burner for heating his establishment 

 with gas. He has 13,000 feet of ground 

 covered and needs 50 degrees when it 

 is 20 degrees below zero outside. 



Phoebus, Va.— Mrs. Carrie M. Terry, 

 who entitles herself the "Phoebus Pro- 

 gressive Florist," has Iseen granted a 

 divorce from Wm. Terry, of New 

 Albany, Ind., and will in future con- 

 duct, Jk^businegs under her. maiden 

 namey. Carrie Monroe. In a large dis- 

 play, advertisement in the Newport 

 News Daily Press bearing this notice 

 she says, "The declaration of inde- 

 pendence was signed by Judge Clarence 

 Robinson, casting aside the name Terry. 

 Now will you be good!" 



Hartford City, Ind.— Robert M. and 

 Henry B. Henley, of Carthage, Ind., 

 have purchased the greenhouses of John 

 S. Leach, for which they paid $11,000. 



Louisiana, Mo. — Mrs. Susie Foreman 

 has purchased the stock and business of 

 the Elmwood Floral Co. and will com- 

 bine it with her own establishment on 

 Ninth street. 



Houston, Tex.— The Gulf Florists ^ill 

 soon open their third store, in the 

 Foster building. They have a shop in 

 the Westheimer building and operate 

 the flower department of the W. C. 

 Munn Co. 



Burlington, la. — A downtown store is 

 being opened by Mrs. Jos. Bock at 317 

 North Third street. This will handle 

 the greater part of the business for- 

 merly transacted at the greenhouses 

 and, it is hoped, add to it to a large 

 extent. 



Marion, HL — Mrs. M. L. Copeland, 

 who has been conducting the business 

 of her husband, J. P. Copeland, since 

 his death, has had her houses remodeled 

 during the last few weeks. The work 

 has been carried on under the super- 

 vision of George Beal, of Creal Springs. 



Hartford, Wis.- F. Rhodes has 

 changed the site of his greenhouses from 

 within the city to a 20-acre tract which 

 he recently purchased, on its western 

 limits. During the last summer he built 

 two houses, each 21x130 feet, one for 

 carnations and one for general stock. 

 The Kroeschell heating system is in- 

 stalled. Although some of the stock 

 was given a slight setback, owing to 

 the lateness of the completion of the 

 houses, it is now exceptionally fine, 

 says Mr. Rhodes. 



BEMOVINO SCALE FBOM PALMS. 



Will you please tell me of a quick 

 and effective way of cleaning palins 

 that are infested with a small black 

 scale? When a boy, forty years ago, 

 I used to wash the plants with soap, 

 water and a sponge, and scrape off the 

 scale with a wooden label. We do the 

 same now, in the year of grace 1914. 

 Is there no improvement on this tedious 

 process? W. F. 



The old method of sponging the scale 

 from palm leaves was a tedious process 

 indeed, and most commercial growers 

 have taken up the dipping method in- 

 stead. Various soapy solutions are 

 used as a dip. Some still use what is 

 known as whale oil soap, while others 

 use sulpho-tobacco soap. 



No single application will remove all 

 scale insects from the plants without 

 injury to the latter, and it is better 

 to repeat the dipping several times at 

 intervals of a week or ten days, using 

 a solution of moderate strength, in ac- 

 cordance with directions that come with 

 these soaps. Protect the plants from 

 sunshine after the dipping and lay 

 them down on the bench until they 

 drain off; then, unless the mixture is 

 too strong or the foliage is extremely 

 tender, no injury will be done to the 

 plants. W. H. T. 



KENTIAS FBOM SEED. 



Please give-' me some instructions 

 about ^he raising of kentia palms from 

 sef^^. How should the soil be prepared 

 for the seeds? What temperature is 

 required? K. N. 



Kentia seeds may be sown in shallow 

 boxes containing about three inches of 

 light soil, or on a bench in the green- 

 house. The seeds should be covered 

 with about half an inch of the soil, and 

 should at all times be" kept moist. The 

 temperature should be maintained at 

 60 to 65 decrees at night, and if it runs 

 up to 75 or 80 degrees in the daytime 

 it will do no harm. The boxes or bench 

 should have a good coat of whitewash 

 before the soil is put in, as the seeds, 

 or some of them, may lie in the ground 

 several months before germinating. As 

 soon as the seedlings have made their 

 first leaf, they should be potted, well 

 watered and placed in a shaded house, 

 where the night temperature should be 

 kept at 60 degrees as before. 



The seeds germinate irregularly, some 

 showing in a few weeks, while others 

 may not grow for many months; so it is 

 best to resow the seeds that are dis- 

 turbed by lifting the first seedlings, 

 allowing the doubtful ones at least a 

 year before discarding t^hem. 



.,...,.^' ' " - W . H. T. 



BULBS FOB EASTEB. 



Will you kindly tell me what time 

 to take tulips and Von Sion daffodils 

 into a carnation house held at 50 de- 

 grees at night and 55 degrees in the 

 daytime? I want them for Easter. 



G. H. 



Much, of course, depends on the Ba>- 

 ture of the weather preceding Easter. 

 As a rule three weeks in an average 

 night temperature of 50 degrees will 

 sufSce. If extremely warm weather 

 prevails you may need to retard them 

 a day or two. If extremely cold a lit- 

 tle more heat might be necessary. 



C. W. 



