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JUN« 16, 1004. 



The Weekly Horists' Review. 



J57 



too but you must pick the blooms close 

 be/ore applying it. When you replant 

 the house be sure you give all the wood- 

 work a good coating of hot lime wash 

 and throw plenty of slaked lime around 

 under the benches and in the dark cor- 

 ners; that's where they hide mostly. If 

 you can do it, let the house dry out 

 thoroughly before refilling it. Snails 

 like darkness and moisture, as is shown 

 by their habit of spending most of their 

 time under boards and in cellars, etc. 

 If you can empty the house entirely 

 when refilling a good sulphur fumigating 

 will also help materially. 



A. F. J. Baub. 



BUG EATS BLOOM. 



My carnations are greatly troubled by 

 an insect in the form of a green lady 

 bug. From this time until after the 

 chrysanthemums are through blooming 

 this pest gives me much trouble, eating 

 thef petals from the flower. Advice 

 as to a remedy would be very accepta- 

 ble. G. A. D, 



I am not sure that I know just how 

 you are situated nor am I familiar with 

 the bug you are troubled with. If your 

 plants are growing in the open it will 

 naturally be much harder to combat the 

 pest than if the plants are growing in 

 the greenhouse. Since the bug is a 

 chewer I would naturally suppose that 

 the most effective remedy would be to 

 poison them. Either spray them in the 

 evening with Paris green, about a good 

 teaspoonful to three gallons of water, or 

 dust them with slugshot or hellebore. If 

 you are cutting and selling the blooms 

 the spraying would be the best, as it 

 does not show so much on the growth. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



SPLIT STEMS. 



I send some carnation plants from cut- 

 tings made in November, taken from the 

 bench as soon as rooted and planted in 

 good sandy loam. They seem to split. 

 I am also troubled with dry rot or stem 

 rot. The rose cuttings suffer the sanie 

 way. N. J. M. 



I am sure I could not tell you what 

 could have caused the base of the stem 

 on your carnation cuttings to split. I 

 have never seen anything like it before. 

 They looked to me as though they had 

 been split with a knife when the cut- 

 tings were made, but I presume such 

 was not the case, else you would not 

 complain of it. There was also a plain 

 case of stem rot on all the cuttings and 

 if the cuttings were mine I would be 

 tempted to fire the whole batch into the 

 boiler. They will give you trouble all 

 through the season and will never 

 amount to anything. There is plenty 

 of good, healthy stock offered at rea- 

 sonable prices and it will pay you well 

 to buy new, healthy stock of the varie- 

 ties which are affected. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



Westboro, Mass.— The firm of G. W. 

 * W. A. Temple has been dissolved, the 

 business being continued by Walter A. 

 Temple. 



New Bedford, Mass.— Wm. G. Kroe- 

 ber will shortly erect a greenhouse 20x90 

 on ten-foot posts. He will also put up a 

 Doiler house 12x40. 



[Peach Thomas' Rivers, Grown by Wm. Turner at the Borden PIace« Oceanic, N. J, 



SOME JERSEY^ESTATES. 



Calling on William Turner, at Oceanic, 

 we found him with two houses of peaches 

 and nectarines sprayed with the salt, 

 lime, sulphur solution, fifteen pounds 

 salt, twenty pounds sulphur and forty 

 pounds of lime to sixty gallons of water. 

 Most of the wood smaller than a lead 

 pencil was killed. The stronger wood and 

 flower buds were not affected at all. It 

 is rather curious, as the writer of this 

 had the same experience, but mine were 

 much more damaged as they were 

 sprayed twice. His early peaches are 

 Dutches of York, a new seedling of 

 Thomas Rivers, and Hale's Early, ten 

 days later. For a late peach Thomas 

 Eivers beats any peach grown under 

 glass. They are about twelve inches in 

 circumference and of the finest flavor, 

 shape and color. Some of them weigh 

 fifteen ounces. 



There are three graperies here. The 

 early varieties are Black Hamburg, 

 Buckland Sweetwater and Boynton Mus- 

 cat. His main crop varieties are Madres- 

 field Court and Muscat of Alexandria. 

 About fourteen varieties in all are 

 grown here. Pineapple fruit, which is 

 seldom grown in houses in this country, 

 can, in season, be seen here grown to 

 perifection. Mr. Turner has had fruit 

 which weighed from nine to twelve 

 pounds. He has three houses vrith mel- 

 ons and has melons the whole year 

 around, even through the dark days of 

 December and January. Cucumbers, 

 beans, tomatoes, cauliflower and lettuce 

 are also grown under glass. 



Boses, violets and carnations are 

 grown extensively. Mr. Turner is noted 

 for his fine carnations. He plants Pros- 



perity in boxes four feet long, the depth 

 seven inches, the width six. We never 

 saw such a crop of bloom on Prosperity. 

 Not so much grass as in benches, the 

 growth goes right to flowering stem. 

 Orchids are grown in large quantities for 

 cut flowers, mostly cattleyas, Iselias and 

 cypripediums. About 200 Odontoglossum 

 grande are grown in a house on the north 

 side of a rose house and a finer lot 

 cannot be found in this country; some 

 of the flowers last fall measured seveu 

 inches across. They are grown in Bel- 

 gian leaf-mold. 



The collection of palms is one of the 

 finest in this country, including Kentia 

 Alberta, K. Duckhamii, K. Sanderiana, 

 K. Macarthuri, K. Kirsteniana, which 

 looks more like a caryota than a ken- 

 tia; Phoenix Boebelenii, P. rupicola 

 with twenty feet spread, the finest 

 Chamserops humilis in this country, about 

 thirty-six feet in circumference, and 

 many more. There are twenty-eight 

 houses in all and everything raised on the 

 place is used by the owner, M. C. D. 

 Borden. This is one of the finest ranges 

 of houses in any private place in the 

 country, with all the latest improvements, 

 700 incandescent lamps lighting the 

 greenhouses. Mr. Turner has charge of 

 the whole place, also of an extensive 

 farm. 



G. H. Hale is superintendent of the 

 E. D. Adams' estate. This is one of the 

 most beautifully laid out places in this 

 vicinity. Some of the finest evergreens 

 and conifers can be seen there. Six 

 houses are in this place, one house with 

 cypripediums and a few other orchids, a 

 plant house in which are some fine novel- 

 ties, two graperies, one just started, and 

 ,a house of cut flowers. We saw there 



