JUMB 10, 1815. 



The Florists' Review 



15 



thickly with haulm as if the plants 

 were left crowded. 



If wireworms, cutworms or other 

 soil pests are really at fault, lime your 

 ground well in the fall. Meantime you 

 can get rid of them best by getting 

 some liquid, such as carbon bisulphide, 

 boring holes four to five inches deep 

 and twelve to fifteen inches apart, pour- 

 ing a small teaspoonful of the liquid 

 into each hole and immediately filling 

 the hole. Or you can use Vaporite, 

 working it into the soil, or water with 

 Vermine, one part to 200 parts of wa- 

 ter. This destroys grubs, worms, ants 

 and other soil pests. C. W. 



BUDS TURNING YELLOW. 



Enclosed please find some of my 

 sweet pea blossoms. You will see that 

 they turn yellow while in bud and drop 

 off. They are planted out in sandy 

 soil, well fertilized with cow manure. 

 If you can tell me what is causing 

 this I shall appreciate it, as I expect 

 to have a large crop this season if all 

 goes well. W. J. — Tex. 



It is not at all unusual for some of 

 the earliest buds to act in this way. 

 Occasionally this will continue for two 

 or three weeks, but eventually your 

 plants will grow out of it. The plants 

 will be helped much if you can give 

 them an occasional watering, while a 

 mulch of old manure, grass, partly de- 

 cayed leaves or any similar material 

 will help to keep the roots cool and 

 moist. C. W. 



WEDDING WORK FROM DETROIT. 



At a time when they are most busily 

 engaged in making wedding bouquets 

 florists will be interested in samples of 

 the handiwork of one of the leading 

 firms of the trade, the L. Bemb Floral 

 Co., Detroit, which Albert Pochelon 

 runs in the time that he can spare from 

 his duties as secretary of the F, T. D. 

 The bouquets shown in the illustration 

 were the bride's and bridesmaid's in 

 one of Detroit's smartest weddings of 

 the present season. 



TULIPS FLOWER UNEVENLY. 



I have a tulip bed on the east side 

 of the house, containing about 250 

 bulbs. The whole outer border has 

 just come up, while the second last row 

 of the same variety is all in bloom. 

 Three-fourths of two rows on the north 

 side of the bed are up and just begin- 

 ning to show buds, while there are parts 

 of the rest of the bed that have been 

 in bloom for ten days. They were all 

 good bulbs and I can see no reason for 

 so great a diflPerence in the time of 

 flowering. They were all planted the 

 same depth and at the same time. 

 What car be done to have them come 

 in more evenly? The soil is a good 

 loam, mixed with a little cow manure. 

 F. & F.— Wis. 



This is not an unusual occurrence. 

 The frost will stay in certain parts of 

 the bed longer than in others. I should 

 judge that the bed has a certain amount 

 of shade from a building or trees. If 

 fully in the open, the bulbs would 

 flower practically all together. C. W. 



Bride's and Bridesmaid's Bouquet by the L. Bemb Floral G}., E>etroit. 



ILLINOIS BOILER BILL BEATEN. 



The bill for licensing engineers oper- 

 ating boilers carrying more than ten 

 pounds pressure or heating plants of 



more than 5,000 feet of radiation in the 

 state of Illinois was lost in the lower 

 house of the legislature June 8, obtain- 

 ing only sixty votes. Lee O'Neil 

 Browne, who introduced the bill, there- 

 upon secured postponement of consider- 

 ation pending the announcement of the 

 vote, a parliamentary ' * stall, ' ' which is 

 not likely to affect the greenhousemen 's 

 victory. 



Since the bill was brought to the at- 

 tention of Illinois growers in The Re- 

 view of May 13, florists throughout the 

 state have been bending their efforts 

 toward its defeat, and their victory is 

 a matter for congratulation, since it re- 

 moves the threatened danger of an add- 

 ed expense that could not have well 

 been borne by numbers of small green- 

 housemen. 



ANOTHER BAD BILL. 



There is pending in the legislature in 

 Illinois a bill which, if it becomes a 

 law, will throw the insecticide business 

 of the state into the hands of the drug 

 trade, taking it away from seedsmen, 

 supply houses and florists. It is a 

 lengthy document, and much of the 

 meaning is obscured in the mass of text, 

 but Section 39 provides that "it shall 

 be unlawful for any person not a reg- 

 istered pharmacist to conduct a shop 



or store for the purpose of retailing, 

 compounding or dispensing drugs, medi- 

 cines and poisons. ' ' The principal in- 

 secticides, nicotine and Pans green, are 

 poisons. 



Section 48 provides that "no person 

 shall sell at retail any drug, medicine 

 or poison without affixing to the box, 

 bottle, vessel or package containing 

 same a label bearing the name of the 

 article distinctly shown, with the name 

 and place of business of the registered 

 pharmacist through whom the article 

 was obtained." 



It may be true that the bill was not 

 drawn with the idea of interfering with 

 the present channels of trade in the in- 

 secticide line, but if it becomes a law 

 it^is only a question of time when the 

 restrictions thereby placed on the sale 

 of "poisons" will be interpreted to ap- 

 ply to insecticides; one or two accidents 

 with nicotine extracts will call atten- 

 tion to the trade, with the result of 

 handing the business over to outsiders 

 without in any way adding to the safe- 

 guards. 



Springfield, O. — As vice-president of 

 the Commercial Club, Allen McGregor 

 was one of the party that escorted the 

 trainload of Cleveland boosters from 

 Dayton to this city on their recent ex- 

 pedition. 



