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The Florists' Review 



67 



houses, operated by John Beckett, and 

 is building a private conservatory for 

 W. S. Creech. 



Martin & Forbes Co. recently showed 

 some beautiful hybrid orchids with 

 dark, velvety tints. The plants were 

 imported last year from Sander & 

 Sons, St. Albans, England. 



This week's obituary column con- 

 tains a report of the death of Eugene 

 W. O'Hara, who recently had been em- 

 ployed by Howard & Smith, of Los 

 Angeles, but who also owned a home 

 in this city. S. W. W. 



Vegetable Forcing 



FUNGUS ON TOMATOES. 



Please let me know what to do tor 

 keep the blight or fungus -away from 

 tomatoes in a rose house, as for the 

 last two years I have not been able to 

 grow tomatoes satisfactorily on account 

 of this fungus. I grow them on side 

 benches, planting them eighteen inches 

 apart, one row to a 3-foot bench. The 

 varieties are Best of All and Michell's 

 Forcing, Last year I restricted the root 

 surface, with no better result, so this 

 year I will give them the whole bench. 

 I always use good rose soil. 



C. T. M.— Pa. 



I do not know what blight you re- 

 fer to, unless it is mildew. Tomatoes 

 are subject to this, unless grown in a 

 dry atmosphere and not exposed to cold 

 drafts. They do much better in mid- 

 winter in a restricted border,^aap IM^ 

 checks the rampant growth and the 

 flowers set more freely. You cannot 

 grow them successfully unless you bave 

 a fairly dry atmosphere. The plants 

 must not be sprayed over. A winter 

 minimum of as near 60 degrees as pos- 

 sible is about right. (Let the plants dry 

 out well between waterings. Blow some 

 powdered sulphur on the foliage at th'e 

 first appearance of nijldew. A,,^order 

 eighteen inches wide is better m mid- 

 winter than one double the width. Try 

 Comet and Lister's Prolific as winter 

 forcers.^ -' 1 C. W. 



PESTS ON MELONS. 



Under separate cover I am sending 

 you a box of live bugs and some leaves 

 of my cantaloupes. These bugs are de- 

 stroying my cantaloupe vines rapidly, 

 eating them up in a few days. I 

 should like to know what they are and 

 how to destroy them. They also get 

 onto my cucumber vines. Also, please 

 tell me what the cotton-like insect is 

 on the enclosed plant. E. T. 0. — 111. 



The contents of the bottle had turned 

 practically to jelly and had an offen- 

 sive odor. I could not see what the 

 pests were. If this is an insect eating 

 the foliage, spray with arsenate of lead, 

 four pounds to fifty gallons of water. 

 This destroys any leaf-eating pests. If 

 green or black fly troubles you, it is 

 necessary to lay the shoots over and 

 spray with a nicotine solution, as these 

 affect the lower sides of the leaves. 



The white, woolly insect is mealy 

 bug. Use a strong pressure of cold 

 ■water directed through a spray nozzle 

 on your colens and other plants at- 

 tacked, in order to clean them. On 

 coleus you cannot use any strong in- 

 secticide for mealy bug T^ithout injur- 



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Great Falls, Mont. — Archie Burrell, 

 of the Electric City Conservatory, ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Burrell, left Sep- 

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