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August 5, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



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From left to right. Top row— B. Meyer, M. Po8«, F. Bertrand. Middle row— Wm. Kettlewell, J. A. Axell, Angrelo J. Hossl, D. RaymoDd, V. Podeata. 



Bottom row— J. U. Fotherlngham, W. A. Hoflnghofl, H. Plath, T. F. Taylor. 



S. A. F. Convention Ways and Means Committee of the Pacific Coast Horticultural Society, San Francisco. 



strawberries badly. In addition, it 

 will attack a variety of flowering 

 plants, both outdoors and under glass. 

 I have seen benches of roses and 

 chrysanthemums almost entirely de- 

 stroyed by this grub. A favorite place 

 for the beetles to deposit their eggs 

 is in clods of cow manure, and, if 

 you find your manure alive with these 

 grubs, either sterilize it with steam or 

 use carbon bisulphide to suffocate them. 



It will not be an easy matter to 

 clean out the grubs from a large area 

 of asters. I would suggest, however, 

 that you try £ome carbon bisulphide, 

 the cost of which averages 25 cents a 

 pound at retail. Bore holes five to six 

 inches deep and twelve to eighteen 

 inches apart, pour a teaspoonful of 

 carbon in each hole and at once fill 

 it up. Any ground thus treated will 

 be cleared of grubs, the carbon form- 

 ing a suffocating gas. I would also 

 keep the cultivator at work constantly 

 among the plants. 



In the fall plow up the land af- 

 fected as soon as the asters have 

 passed. If you have one or two hogs, 

 they will devour an astonishing num- 

 ber of the pests. Poultry and birds also 

 are fond of them. Give the soil a 

 dressing of kainit, lime or gas lime 

 and harrow it in. This will destroy 

 many of the grubs. C. W. 



GRAPES UITD^I^GLASS. 



Will you kindly give me your opinion 

 of the possibilities of growing grapes 

 under glass, as a paying proposition! 

 I have one house that I should like to 

 try if you think it would pay, with the 

 right care. J. T. W.— N. Y. 



I doubt if you can make grape grow- 



ing under glass a profitable proposition 

 unless you are located in a section 

 where you could dispose of all your 

 fruit at retail. A considerable number 

 of growers have tried grape culture on 

 a commercial basis. They had no 

 trouble in getting splendid fruit, but 

 when it came to disposing of the fruit 

 at wholesale, the returns were not 

 profitable. I am acquainted with sev- 

 eral grape growers who made some 

 money a number of years ago, but they 

 find the profits small now. Some have 

 dropped them entirely. It is true that 

 there are still a few growers of grapes 



under glass, but their number has a 

 tendency to decrease rather than in- 

 crease. 



If you decide to go into grape grow- 

 ing you will find Black Hambro, Muscat 

 of Alexandria and Gros Colmaa the 

 three varieties of greatest value. At 

 present the bulk of fruit of the last 

 named is imported from Europe. I cer- 

 tainly think that if you could sell your 

 fruit locally at retail there would be a 

 fair profit, just as there would be in 

 growing nectarines or melons under 

 glass. C. W. 



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I SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS I 

 I FOR SOUTHERN FLORISTS i 



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MUMS IN THE SOUTH. 



This is the time when various pests, 

 such as cutworms, caterpillars, aphis 

 and mealy bug, are likely to appear, 

 and close watch must be kept to pre- 

 vent damage. The cutworms will be 

 found in the surface of the soil, near 

 the base of the plant on which they 

 have been working. Caterpillars are 

 best disposed of by hand-picking. Regu- 

 lar use of some tobacco extract will 

 eliminate aphis. Mealy bug is not a 

 common southern pest, but occasionally 

 it is found and is hard to eradicate 

 when once it gets a foothold. Hard 

 syringing, using a spray nozzle, and 

 biweekly spraying with kerosene emul- 

 sion, are the best remedies. Another 



pest which sometimes appears, espe- 

 cially in the gulf states, is corythucha, 

 a sucking insect which hangs on the 

 under side of the foliage. Spraying 

 with kerosene emulsion will get rid of 

 it. Frequent spraying every day from 

 all sides of the beds is an important 

 point of the culture for the next two 

 months. L. 



CARNATIONS IN THE SOUTH. 



Housing the Plants. 



The time for housing carnation 

 plants in the south is at hand. It is a 

 good plan, wherever possible, io have 

 all the houses cleaned and the beds 

 filled with soil, ready to receive the 



