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The Florists^ Review 



Mab< 



Cb. 18, 1916. 



it is coupled with carefulness, it is 

 more apt to spell deficiency instead. If 

 speed is everything, why not handle 

 your carnations with pitchforks! 



Here, again, we must discriminate be- 

 tween the guilty and the innocent. 

 There is a good proportion of growers 

 who have enough gray matter to see 

 the folly of such methods. They grow 

 high-grade stock; then they handle it 

 carefully, and put it into the hands 

 of their customers in good condition. 

 These are the men who are making 

 progress, and they are not complaining. 

 They are the ones who will eventually 

 save the carnation's reputation as the 

 flower for the people. The careless 

 packer will gradually be eliminated, 

 just as the poor, inefficient grower is 

 now being eliminated, and the grower 

 who puts his product into the retailers' 

 hands in the best condition will come 

 into his own. More and more, store- 

 men will see that this is of greater im- 

 portance than price. 



There is no need for any ingenious 

 plan of cooperation, as some seem to 

 think. All that is needed is that each 

 one do what he knows is right and 

 best for his blooms, instead of abusing 

 them to save work. 



THBIPS ON ENCHANTRESS. 



My Enchantress carnations seem to 

 be infested with thrips. I have tried 

 spraying with nicotine extract, etc., 

 and have also smoked them several 

 times. The spraying does absolutely 

 no good; the smoking shows some re- 

 sults, but after a smoking the pink 

 looks absolutely washed out. As thrips 

 can be gotten out only with repeated 

 smoking, it means that I shall have 

 several cuts spoiled before the thrips 

 can be gotten rid of. Do you know of 

 any other remedy for this pestf If 

 you or any of the readers could help 

 me out, I ami sure the information 

 would also be appreciated by other 

 growers who are having the same 

 trouble. G^ F. & C— N. Y. 



Smoking with tobacco stems is an 

 obsolete method of destroying green- 

 house pests and is far less effective 

 than spraying. If your spraying did 

 not destroy the thrips, there must be 

 something wrong with your formula or 

 your manner of application. We use a 

 2-inch potful of the forty per cent nico- 

 tine to four gallons of water. By using 

 this once each week, we are able to 

 keep our plants clean. If you will use 

 it this way, you should, with two or 

 three fipplications each week, be able 

 to clean them out in two or three 

 weeks. The sooner you begin, the bet- 

 ter results you will have, as it is a 

 hard, uphill fight to get control of 

 thrips after warm weather sets in. 



A. F. J. B. 



FLYSPECKS NOT A DISEASE! 



Please tell me the name and cause of 

 the disease on the carnation leaves 

 which are enclosed. This disease seems 

 to be all over the carnations and also 

 on the woodwork of the benches. The 

 soil in which the plants are growing 

 is on raised benches. It is new soil and 

 has good drainage. Two or three weeks 

 ago I gave these carnations a top-dress- 

 ing of cow manure. I am now running 

 my carnations on the dry side, but the 

 disease is still holding on. We run our 

 houses at a temperature of 50 degrees 

 at night, with a rise of 10 to 15 degrees 

 in the daytime. 



I should also like to know the name 

 and cause of the disease on my 

 cyclamen blooms, some of which are 

 enclosed. E. E. L. 



It is not a disease that is causing 

 these tiny specks on your carnation 

 leavos. They are flyspecks. When you 

 put on that mulch a short time ago, you 

 brought in with the manure some eggs, 

 which hatched out after getting into 

 the warm greenhouse temperature. They 

 will gradually disappear. 



Your cyclamen are being attacked by 

 what is called the mite. It is a tiny 

 insect which attacks the blooms of this 

 and other plants, producing the effect 

 you see on your plants. Frequent 

 spraying with a solution of nicotine will 

 exterminate them. A. F. J. B. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



The Miami Floral Co., Dayton, O., 

 is well satisfied with its investment in 

 Kose Ophelia. The returns are ahead 

 of those from any predecessor. 



Bolf Zetlitz, Lima, O., intends using 

 his present houses for roses, entirely 

 grafted stock. He has secured another 

 range for carnations. 



E. N. Zetlitz, Lima, has opened a 

 stand in a leading department store, 

 not far from his present location, 

 where he handles a lucrative patron- 

 age. 



Mrs. E. Sudor, Toledo, O., may be 

 found as busy as when the writer first 

 met her. She owns up to 72 years. 

 "Eeverse the figures," she says, and 

 her remarkable activity backs her up. 

 Her recreation is, first, her German 

 paper, then The Review. 



John Boehner, Dayton, expects to re- 

 build _part of his present range at the 

 close of the spring business. The show 

 room has been made most attractive. 



The E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., 

 was in the height of shipping. While 

 carnations and chrysanthemums are 

 well represented, the queen of fiowers 

 is receiving much attention just now. 

 Hoosier Beauty is behaving well, in ap- 

 pearance and fragrance reminding one 

 of that grand old hybrid perpetual, 

 Xavier Olibo, which Mr. Hill tells me 

 is still a favorite across the pond. A 



yellow seedling from Mrs. Aaron Ward, 

 said to be an improvement in every 

 respect, looks like the coming leader in 

 this class. Ophelia fairly revels at 

 home, but as nothing but flowering 

 wood is taken for grafts and about 

 200,000 are in process of finishing off 

 to be shipped, there are few blooms. 

 Lady Alice Stanley, Mrs. Russell and 

 Killarney Brilliant are doing well. A 

 batch of seedlings, all more or less re- 

 lated to Ophelia, .will be interesting 

 later. Joe Hill remarked on the strong 

 preference for grafted stock. 



John A. Evans, Richmond, said his 

 ventilating machinery would have stood 

 the strain upon it had it been used at 

 Billy Sunday's Tabernacle, when the 

 Philadelphia craftsmen attended there 

 recently. 



P. J. Lynch, of Heller Bros. Co., 

 Newcastle, says the catalogues are out, 

 stock was never finer and prospects are 

 promising, so that in all probability 

 the proposed addition to the plant will 

 go up. 



Baur & Steinkamp, Indianapolis, Ind., 

 as usual at this time, are shipping 

 rooted cuttings of carnations as fast 

 as the stock is ready. Brother Baur 

 wields the propagating knife like the 

 veteran he is at the job. On noting 

 that he slit some of them, I was told 

 that the fiery scarlets absorbed more 

 water than others — a new one to me. 

 Anyhow, the stock is in the pink of 

 condition. Passing the older varieties, 

 such as Pocahontas, Enchantress Su- 

 preme, Matchless and Benora, I ob- 

 served a lovely salmon seedling, clove- 

 scented; a truly noble flower, numbered 

 100. Another, on the order of Gor- 

 geous, will be heard of later. By the 

 way, Gorgeous is giving big satisfac- 

 tion grown as single plants. Pink De- 

 light and Champion are doing well. A 

 bed of pink and yellow antirrhinums 

 promises an enormous crop for Easter. 

 Geraniums are going out by the thou- 

 sands. A bed of Carnation Pink De- 

 light, carried over the second year, is 

 yielding far heavier cuts than newly 

 planted stock. The main thing is car- 

 rying the plants through the summer, 

 but Mr. Baur says it certainly has paid 

 to do it. W. M. 



Field of Dahlias Grown for the Milwaukee Cut Flower Market by H. W. Koerner. 



