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provided to absorb this increased stock 

 at paying prices. We will, no doubt, 

 experience other heavy gluts of stock 

 in the market when the weather again 

 turns warm and these large surpluses 

 of stock will have to be moved. 



The selling of roses and carnations 

 to the department stores at from $5 to 

 $7 per thousand cannot be considered 

 profitable to either the grower or the 

 store man. This method of doing busi- 

 ness at such low prices is, in my esti- 

 mation, harmful to the trade. To sell 

 these flowers at $5 per thousand does 

 not pay the cost of handling them, let 

 alone anything for the growing end of 

 the line. 



One method of coping with these se- 

 vere gluts of flowers during hot 

 weather is for the growers to carefully 

 sort their roses and carnations when 

 being cut, discarding all stock that is 

 weak or short-stemmed, only sending to 

 market the better grades of what is 

 being cut. This will cut off at least 

 twenty-five per cent and will help some 

 to reduce the surplus. Our own firm 

 tried this plan last month and was sur- 

 prised to find our sales averaged a little 

 better on the whole when the cut of 

 stock averaged a higher grade, though 

 less in quantity. It also was easier 

 handling the stock. 



The writer thinks that an expression 

 of opinion from others in the trade 

 might result in general benefit to us all. 



C. L. Washburn. 



CHICAGOAN3 AT CHBISTENING. 



How Peter Reinberg, with his gilded 

 shovel, removed the last dirt from the 

 concrete road at Niles, and how Miss 

 Virginia Poehlmann splashed the bottle 

 of champagne on the road, on her Rus- 

 sian boots and on the surrounding spec- 

 tators, is graphically shown in the ac- 

 companying illustrations. The occasion 

 was the dedication of the new concrete 

 road at Niles, which Miss Poehlmann 

 christened Milwaukee avenue, April 22. 

 Mr. Reinberg performed his task as 

 part of the pleasures of the president 

 of the county board; Miss Poehlmann 

 acted as daughter of the president of 

 the village board of Morton Grove. 

 George Harrer, who is president of the 

 Niles Improvement Association, made 

 the address of welcome, and a number 

 of other florists participated as inter- 

 ested spectators. 



The faces of both August and Adolph 

 Poehlmann may be seen over the shoul- 

 ders of those in front, much interested 

 in the labors of their fellow-tradesman. 

 In the other illustration, the father, 

 mother and sister of the christener, as 

 well as the president of the county 

 board, are in the front row. 



FLY ON ROSES AND LEMONS. 



There are some small insects on our 

 rose bushes and Ponderosa lemons. The 

 roses have been covered with this in- 

 sect, but a hard rain washed them off. 

 The lemons, however, still are full of 

 them. They seem to be small white 

 flies, and the under side of the leaves 

 is covered with scales or eggs. We 

 shall appreciate it if you will tell us 

 what to do with the pest. 



M. A. & T. E.— Miss. 



Your plants are undoubtedly infested 

 with white fly, which is not by any 

 means easy to control. Under glass 

 it can easily be kept in check by the 

 use of hydrocyanic acid gas. This same 

 remedy is often used in orange growing 



Peter Relnberg> WHh Berlbboned ShoveI> Completes a New Public Highway. 



sections of Florida and California to 

 kill San Jose scale and white fly. Close 

 canvas covers are placed over the trees 

 and the gas is generated inside. You 

 cannot, of cowrse, apply this to your 

 rose bushes. The best course of treat- 

 ment is to spray frequently with a 

 soapy solution, such as whale oil soap, 

 Ivory soap or Aphine; or you can use 

 kerosene emulsion or nicotine. Use a 

 fine, misty spray nozzle and a force 

 pump. Direct it well below the leaves. 

 Keep this up and you will soou clean 

 out most of the white fly. C. W. 



MALCHOW MAKES A FIND. 



At his establishment at 3743-45 

 North Clark street, Chicago, Adolph 

 Malchow has a greenhouse on top of 

 a brick shed. This shed contains a 

 potting room, and underneath is a 



boiler in the basement. The water run- 

 ning down the glass side-walls of the 

 greenhouse onto the brick walls of the 

 shed caused a great deal of trouble by 

 freezing there and consequently loosen- 

 ing the mortar. This crumbled away or 

 cracked off, giving Mr. Malchow some 

 anxiety. In looking about for some- 

 thing to prevent this damage, he hit 

 upon Federal Elastic Cement, origi- 

 nally a roofing material, but now put 

 to a number <of other uses, a product 

 of the Federal Process Co., Cleveland. 

 He put the cement on the top of the 

 brick walls without the help of a con- 

 tractor, and found it served the pur- 

 pose admirably. What little crumbling 

 occurred after the application he at- 

 tributes to the fact that he did not 

 put on enough of the cement. A little 

 more put on this summer will, he 

 thinks, prevent any damage whatever. 



Miss Virginia Poehlmann Christens the Concrete Causeway. 



