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The Rorists' Review 



Januaby 28. 1915. 



the disease first known as bacteriosis, 

 but later known as stigmonose and still 

 more recently called yellows. If your 

 plants are all in a similar condition, I 

 would advise you^ against propagating 

 from them for your next year's stock. 

 It would be better to buy new stock 

 from some reliable source. 



These plants may give you a fair lot 

 of blooms during the rest of this sea- 

 son if you handle them carefully; in 

 fact, they should improve somewhat in 

 condition as the season advances and 

 the sun gains strength. Water care- 

 fully, giving them plenty, but not too 

 much. Befrain from what is commonly 

 termed feeding, confining your opera- 

 tions to an occasional light mulch of 

 well rotted cattle or steble manure. 

 Run the temperature evenly, about 52 

 degrees at night, giving all the venti- 

 lation possible. A. F. J. B. 



OAKNATIONS FOB OUTDOORS. 



Please tell me when is the best time 

 to buy summer-blooming carnations for 

 outdoors. Also state which varieties 

 are the best. E. D. 



William A. Adams. 



(Chairman Banquet C!omniltteo for the Buffalo Carnatton Convention.) 



good. On pulling up some of the plants 

 and examining the stems close to the 

 gpround, we found brown stripes below 

 the outer skin. All plants pulled up 

 80 far have shown the same marks. Is 

 it a fungpoS; disease, or stem-rot, or tH<> 

 so-called dry rot? The plants in two 

 other benches, filled wifh fresh soil, are 

 all right. The vjarteties affected are 

 Enchantress and Bei^on. 



,\l{. & S. F. S. 



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The plants submitted are undoubt- 

 edly affected by the disease commonly 

 known as dry rot, which in all prob- 

 ability was caused by planting in the 

 old soil. You can do little more to 

 check it than you have already done, 

 except to spray thoroughly with Bor- 

 deaux mixture. Running them dry 

 would not help matters any; in fact, 

 it might work harm if carried to ex- 

 cess. Under such conditions, a plant 

 needs all the encouragement possible 

 to make growth, ana a fair amount of 

 moisture is essential to this. Do not 

 propagate from the plants in these 

 benches, as you would be likely to carry 

 the disease over to next season by doing 

 80. Use only new soil in the future. 



A. F. J. B. 



hear from you. I have put on a dress- 

 ing of wood ashes and rotted cow ma- 

 nure; the manure was about two years 

 old. The temperature in the house has 

 been 50 to 55 degrees at night. A. G. 



The specimen forwarded is full of 



If you want the perpetual flowering 

 carnations, such as are grown under 

 glass, purchase rooted cuttings at once. 

 Pot them off and later shift into 3^^- 

 inch pots. Give only one pinching. 

 Plant outdoors early in May. Good 

 varieties to plant are Enchantress, 

 White Enchantress, White Wonder, 

 Beacon, Winsor and Mrs. Ward. 



If you refer to the hardy carnations, 

 good varieties are CoUntess Knut, yel- 

 low, shaded orange; Snow, pure white; 

 Her Majesty, pure white; Grenadin, 

 scarlet, and the various forms of Dian- 

 thus plumarius. Purchase plants of 

 these as soon as the frost has left the 

 ground. The improved marguerite car- 

 nations are also useful. These are eas- 

 ily raised from seed, which can be sown 

 in February or March. C. W. 



STIGMONOSE ON ENCHAl^BESS. 



I am sending you, under separate 

 cover, one of my carnation plants. I 

 should like to know what is the t^'ouble 

 with tbem and what t can do for them. 

 I notice the disease on my Enchant- 

 ress plants. They look vigorous and 

 thrifty otherwise and seem to be doing 

 well in spite of the di^ase. They are 

 planted on behches,~in"about five inches 

 of soil. I have not used liquid manure 

 ae yet, but wish to do so as soon as I 



La Crosse, Kan. — Mrs. Mary Crock, 

 in business here for several years, has 

 sold out to Mrs. Andress, of Lamed, 

 Kan. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — The framework is 

 up for the new greenhouse for N. : T. 

 P.arrett which is being erected on First 

 avenue, east. 



Waterloo, la. — Frank Billings, an em- 

 ployee at the greenhouses of Charles 

 Sherwood, wjw badly burned about the 

 hands and arms recently, when a lantern 

 ho was filling exploded. Gasoline had 

 been placed by mistake in a kerosene 

 can. I 



Hastings, Neb.— C. B. Tanner has 

 filed suit against the Union Pacific 

 Railroad Co. and the Hastings & North- 

 western Railroad Co. for $10,000 and ac- 

 crued interest from September 1, 1914. 

 The amount represents the damage done 

 his greenhouse property as a result of 

 the new road and the switching done 

 at the forks of the road near by. C. 

 W. Sidles has filed a similar suit. 



Minot, N. D.— H. H. Valker, son of 

 George E. Valker, has just completed a 

 fine residence, eight rooms in the En- 

 glish style of architecture, everything 

 modern. 



Independence, Mo. — S. Bryson Ayres 

 Co., like most others, was unfortunate 

 in missing the Christmas crop of sweet 

 peas; the buds dropped because of the 

 dark weather. Recently conditions 

 have bQen more favorable and a good 

 pick h«B been sent to market, mostly 

 in Kansas City. 



Muskogee, Okla. — In spite of business 

 depression in other lines Robert Bebb, 

 proprietor of the Muskogee Carnation 

 Co., has had the best holiday trade in 

 his experience this season. As he at- 

 tributes this to the good quality of the 

 stock, some credit belongs to J. O. 

 Smith, his grower. M. R. Bebb, one of 

 the proprietor's sons, is manager at 

 the greenhouses. Another, Forrest 

 Bebb, is in his third year of floricul- 

 tural work at the University of Illinois. 



