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The Florists' Review 



NOVEMBBB 4, 1915.' 



with your carnations. The blasting of 

 those buds, earlier in the season, might 

 have been caused by the check in trans- 

 planting, coupled with the summer heat. 

 The fact that it is disappearing indi- 

 cates that it was probably of a tempo- 

 rary nature and was caused in the man- 

 ner suggested. I notice that only a 

 ftortion of the buds submitted are hol- 

 ow, about half of them seeming to be 



normal. Those few light spots are 

 caused by the disease called stigmonose, 

 which is especially prevalent among 

 the Enchantress varieties. Selection of 

 the cuttings is the only sure remedy 

 for this. Moderate, common-sense cul- 

 ture will help, of course, to curb it. 

 Do not overfeed or overwater while 

 the weather is dark and cloudy, during 

 the winter months. A. F. J. B. 



H008IEBS HOLD OUTING. 



STOBINQ BOSE PLANTS. 



We read with interest, in The Re- 

 view of September 16, page 18, C. W.'s 

 reply to an inquiry with reference to 

 the storing of rose plants, and we no- 

 ticed there the statement that "field- 

 grown hybrid perpetuals and hybrid 

 teas should be lifted and pricked in 

 damp soil, not in sand." In our storage 

 house we have a fine sand that is used 

 by molders, and in this we heel roses. 

 Will C. W. inform us whether it would 

 be advisable to take this sand out and 

 replace it with soilf 



W. J. G. S.— Ont. 



While the roses would keep fairly 

 well in this sand, I would prefer soil. 

 Molders' sand, if damp, would keep 

 the roots of roses and other plants in 

 much better condition than sand of a 

 coarser nature. You could use this sand 

 in which to pack many partially tender 

 perennials, such as Anemone Japonica, 

 t r i 1 m a s , mbntbretias, incarvilleas, 

 rehmannias, etc. It would also be good 

 for the packing of lily bulbs. In a dry 

 condition, tuberous begonias and glox- 

 inias would keep well in it. C. W. 



BEING BUINED BT MILDEW. 



Please tell me how to keep mildew 

 off Killarney and Richmond roses, here 

 in northern Tennessee. When the tem- 

 perature in the houses is 75 degrees at 

 night, would you turn steam on, and 

 how much? How should the ventilators 

 be arranged! Please state just how to 

 run the houses at night. Our roses 

 were formerly in fine condition, but the 

 mildew is now ruining them. We have 

 a great deal of' this sort of trouble each 

 spring and fall. J. 8. — ^Tenn. 



It is not advisable to turn steam into 

 the rose houses when the temperature 

 is 75 degrees at night, unless the air 

 in the houses is too damp. The venti- 

 lators under such conditions should be 

 wide open, unless it is raining, and 

 «veo in that case they should be as far 

 open as possible. 



Mildew is probably the hardest of all 

 troubles to fight, especially in such a 

 year as the present one. The best way 

 to prevent it is to keep the plants in 

 good growing condition all the time. 

 Give them plenty of air from the ridge 

 of the house. If there are side ventila- 

 tors on the house, use them only in hot 

 days. Keep the temperature as near 

 60 degrees as possible at night and have 

 some tmlphur on the heating pipes at 

 all times. In clear weather, dust some 

 dry sulphur on the foliage while the 

 sun is shining; this will help to dry up 

 the mildew. W. J. K. 



THBIPS ON BEAUTY BOSES. 



Under separate cover we are mailing 

 you a number of blighted American 

 Beauty rose buds. Please tell us what 

 is the matter with them and the rem- 

 edy. Our Sunbursts are affected the 

 same way, but no other varieties grown 

 in the same field. Many blooms are 

 perfect and come on at the same time 

 as those that are affected. Gould it 

 be possible that our bushes are trying 

 to produce too many blooms at one 

 timet We have not been disbudding. 



T. S. C— Ariz. 



The rose buds were badly withered 

 by the time they reached me, but 1 

 feel confident in stating that the trou- 

 ble was caused by thrips. If you will 

 take one of the. buds and submit it to 

 a microscopical examination, you will 

 find it contains several tiny white 

 thrips. These thrips seem to prefer 

 Beauties to almost any other kind of 

 rose. The best remedy is a light mix- 

 ture of Paris green and sugar, with wa- 

 ter, sprayed on the plants every eve- 

 ning. The idea of the sugar is to at- 

 tract the insects by its sweetness and 

 the Paris green will poison them. 

 These tiny thrips can be observed out- 

 side by the million on such plants as 

 daisies and rudbeckias, and from these 

 plants they are carried into the green- 

 house by the wind. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



Lima, O. — The school board has ac- 

 cepted the proposal of the Zetlitz Floral 

 Co. for planting shrubs, privets and 

 perennials on the grounds surrounding 

 the high school and Franklin buildings. 



Meet at Bichmond. 



Of all the visits around the common- 

 wealth, there is perhaps none that is 

 looked forward to with greater antici- 

 pation than the annuar outing of the 

 State Florists' Association of Indiana 

 at Richmond. There is always so much 

 of interest and there is always waiting 

 such a whole-souled welcome, that one 

 always feels repaid in large measure. 

 The visit November 2 was no exception 

 and the largest crowd that has been 

 seen on one of these excursions made a 

 full day of it. They came from all 

 directions by train, trolley and auto- 

 mobile. Everybody arrived in good 

 time and practically, everyone stayed 

 the full day. 



The crowd assembled at the estab- 

 lishment of the E. G. Hill Co., our 

 Indianapolis party of some twenty-five 

 alighting at the station just alongside 

 the place. Quite a time was spent in- 

 specting the many houses of roses, car- 

 nations and mums, with the mums in 

 the ascendency just at this time. Note- 

 books were in evidence everywhere and 

 I imagine there will be a lively call in 

 the spring for some of the varieties. 

 Most of the exhibition blooms were cut 

 and in cold storage, being held for the 

 Cleveland and Chicago shows. Judging 

 by those still left on the plants, there 

 will be some tall competition going on 

 at these places next week. 



Hills' Mums. 



We noticed fine specimens of Odessa, 

 Mrs. J. C. Neill, H. E. Converse, Meu- 

 don, Mrs. G. Drabble, Wm. Turner and 

 Glenview in exhibition varieties, be- 

 sides bench after bench of Nagoya, 

 Bonnaffon, Chieftain, Eaton and Yellow 

 Eaton. There are few growers who do 

 the Eatons as well as they are done 

 here, so it is no wonder they grow them 

 in such quantity, some 10,000 being 

 benched. White Chieftain, which is 

 proclaimed a worthy successor to Mrs. 

 Rager, also is grown in immense quan- 

 tity and fine quality. There is a yellow 

 seedling which is being touted to dis- 

 place Bonnaffon, a deep golden yellow 

 flower the size of a good Bonnaffon and 

 a true incurved. 



There is a fine array of pompon varie- 

 ties, such as Golden Climax, Souv. de 

 Melaine, Helen Newberry, Fairy Queen^ 

 Pink Beauty, Croesus and Qolden Plume. 

 Here again a white seedling is in evi- 

 dence, a pure white, round bloom, borne 

 in great profusion. The name on. the 

 label was Mary Anna. In singles we 

 noticed Dorothy Duggan, which is an 

 early and improved Mensa. Mensa and 

 Golden Mensa, Buckingham and other 

 singles are grown in quantity. We note 

 a tendency toward selecting a few of 

 the Ifest varieties, to be grown in quan- 

 tity, rather than a long list of varieties 

 in small blocks. This is a step in the 

 right direction, as many of the varieties 

 offered to the trade have been entirely 

 too flimsy to be of commercial value. 



The Boses and Carnations. 



In the rose houses we noticed many 

 beds of Hoosier Beauty, of which some 

 10,000 plants are benched. So firm is 

 the confidence in this sort that all other 

 red roses have been practically dis- 

 carded. One needs only to look over 

 these beds to cease wondering why. 

 Ophelia, which was distributed two 

 years ago, is doing as well as ever and 



