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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JUNB 30. 1004. 



TROUBLE WITH CUCUMBERS. 



Enqlosed you will find a diseased leal' 

 of a Icucumbei' plant. I . still have the 

 sash dn. The same brown spots and burnt 

 edge first appeared after the glass had 

 been ', removed last year. If possible 

 pleasei tell me whether the green lice 

 usually found on cucumbers have anything 

 to do! with it, or is it probable that there 

 is something wrong with the soil? 



! G. H. S. 



From the appearance of the leaf sent, 

 I should judge that the trouble is caused 

 by inactivity of the roots, probably due 

 either to unsuitable soil, an over supply 

 of water or insuflBicient drainage. Cu- 

 cumbers require plenty of water but suf- 

 ficient drainage must hid provided so that 

 it does not leave the soil soggy. I can 

 find np trace of fungus or other disease; 

 it is ; 'a scald pure m»d simple caused 

 through the faili^re of the roots to supply 

 the nec«|8ary aitttriment ta support the^ 

 foliagd wliiie subjected to the stro% tm*^ 

 of the suni The green licei'WfitiO"^'' 

 would not in themselves cause the trouble 

 unless the plants were badly infested, but 

 they certainly assist in weakening the 

 plants and some means should be ein- 

 ployed to get them cleared out. A few 

 small bundles of tobacco stems laid 

 around the plants in the frame from the 

 time they are planted and renewed occa- 

 sionally when the strength is spent will 

 be found a good preventive. 



W. S. Croydon. 



MADISON, N. J. 



The Thrips Scare. 



This town has been coming in for con- 

 riderable attention of late, on the part 

 of the newspapers, owing to the thrips 

 scare among the rose growers. While it 

 was largely I'.x: ygerated, some of ihe 

 papers even claiming that the indus- 

 try was ruinc-l. the fnct remains i'.\at 

 it was bad enough. No one ever remem- 

 bers seeing anything like it before and 

 we hope never to again. The thrips ap- 

 peared to find everyone at once and ap- 

 peared by the millions on the vegetation 

 outside. From there to the inside of the 

 greenhouses was a short step jmd the 

 thrips soon took it. Most rose men are 

 familiar with this tiny little fellow, so 

 small as to be almost invisible, but vhe 

 damage a host of them can do to the 

 buds in a rose house is beyond belief. 



At this writing the pest is under con- 

 trol again everywhere so far as 1 he.ir, 

 and peace once more reigns. A heavy 

 rain or two washed them away outsitle 

 and a vigorous use of the hose supple- 

 mented by fumigation evenings, has 

 pretty well cleared them, off inside. The 

 thrips did not by any^ means confine 

 themselves to Madison. Many other sec- 

 tions report a more or less severe visita- 

 tion, one correspondent in Massachusetts 

 writing me that he had them around his 

 houses by the million. 



Various Notes. 



Beplanting is now proceeding rapidly 

 in thi8 section. Many growers kept in 

 their roses later than usual in the hope 

 that June, which usually is a good 

 month, would help to make up their 

 losses of the winter. So far this hope 

 has not been realized and it is not to 

 be expected that any but midsummer 

 prices will rule the market from now on. 

 Very few of the new La Detroit are seen. 



One or two are trying a few KiUarney, 

 but the rose growers here prefer to wait 

 until someone else demonstrates the value 

 of a rose before they will take it up, 

 and practically the only roses grown are 

 Beauty, Bride and Maid. 



A. H. Folger, representing the James 

 L. Beynolds Fertilizer Company, has 

 been spending a week here gathering 

 up his orders. He reports business as 

 excellent in his line with a great increase 

 over his trade last year. < 



James Hart has disposed of the re- 

 mainder of his greenhouse plant to Bob- 

 ert M. Schultz and will in future devote 

 his whole time to his wholesale business 

 in New York. Mr. Hart claims to be the 

 father of the wholesale business ani 

 practically all the successful wholesalers 

 in New York had their first tutelage un- 

 der him. He -still retains his residence 

 here.* "Bob%V Schultz is one of the 

 best known rose growers in town and n 

 now hustling to get his new place planted 

 and in ^Mp«' He i is v'ftn expert in his 

 own particular tine ■etu^^ will be heard 

 from this winter. 



Chrysanthemum: stock is looking fine 

 in this section. Charles H. Totty re- 

 ports that he is about cleaned out of 

 young stock of his novelties. He has 

 made shipments to every ^tate in the 

 union. The plants with A. Herxington 

 and W. Duckham are in splendid shape 

 and the usual number of prizes in the 

 mum classes will doubtless come to 

 Madison this fall, B. B. 



BUFFALO. 



The month just closing will long be 

 remembered as an ideal and lovely June 

 and local florists will remember it as 

 being a prosperous time. There have 

 been any number of weddings of the 

 most intense interest to the contracting 

 parties, but few that called for a \ecy 

 elaborate display of the florists' art 

 aod materials, still all doing something. 

 It seems to me that we have not had 

 the school commencement business so good 

 for many years, or ever, as this year. 

 Last week was the great time and every 

 day all hands were kept on the jump 

 making up bunches of roses and carna- 

 tions; still there were flowers enough. 

 At the graduation of the high schools 

 flowers are not allowed to be presented 

 to the lads and lassies. If they were 

 I doubt if there would have been enough 

 to go around. 



Outdoor roses have been very useful 

 the past week. Baroness Bothschild, , UI- 

 rich Brunner and Magna Cbarta are 

 lovely if kept watered and disbudded 

 and you get up at 5 a. m. to cut them. 

 The two best carnations we have for this 

 time of year are Ethel Crocker and Pros- 

 perity. The benches of these are truly 

 wonderful. There are any amount of 

 poor, mildewed roses coming in and there 

 are also some very good and clean Brides 

 and Bridesmaids. W. J. Palmer, Charles 

 Guenther and Corfu are cutting fine 

 Kaiserin and Carnot. I am glad to say 

 that prices, both wholesale and retail, 

 have not descended to quite as low a 

 mark as that quoted from some cities. 

 The season of the fire cracker is close 

 upon us and then comes the dull two 

 months. 



There will be some building this year. 

 W. Legg, who sold his Delaware avenue 

 place last March, has erected two houses 

 eact 20x75 on Delevan avenue close to 

 the entrance to beautiful Forest Lawn. 

 F. L. Poore has just completed a house 



20x75 at his Delaware avenue place, also 

 catering to cemetery trade. W. J. Palm- 

 er is building a house 30x300 at Lancas- 

 ter, I think destined for carnations. 



C. F. Christensen was so delighted with 

 his spring business, selling out early and 

 clean, that be proposed spending a month 

 on the Aleutian Islands, shooting sea 

 otter, but has finally made up his mind 

 to put the money into two new houses 

 each 19x125. 



Very few visitors of late, or they have 

 escaped me. S. S. Skidelsky was here. 

 He tells me has the distribution of John 

 Murchie's splendid white carnation, Fred 

 Burki. This looked to us as fine a white 

 as the Detroit convention could show. As 

 Lawson is one of its parents, it can't 

 be far wrong. 



Our most able superintendent of For- 

 est Lawn, George Troup, sailed last week 

 for the "Land of brown heath and shag- 

 gy wood, land of the mountain and the 

 flood," land of Bums, and Scott, of 

 Carlyle and a hundred other philosophers, 

 besides warriors and statesmen by • the 

 carload. Their blood has furnished the 

 majority of the presidents of the United 

 States. Shakespeare was not a Scotch- 

 man, although his ability would warrant 

 the assumption that he did belong to the 

 land of Cakes. Mr. Troup has gone 

 abroad as a single man. Let us pray 

 that he will come back double. 



The committee to arrange premiums 

 for the H. A. Meldrum annual fall ex- 

 hibition (Prof. Cowell, Charles Keitsch 

 and W. S.) met recently and the schedule 

 will soon be mailed to all likely exhibit- 

 ors. As last year, the amount given in 

 premiums is $1,000 to be paid the night 

 the exhibition closes. We struck out 

 plant classes entirely, as they brought 

 scarcely any competition and little at- 

 traction. In classes for cut mums that 

 must be grown and exhibited by the 

 grower only and whose place is within 

 fifty miles of Buffalo, $300 is given. By 

 cutting out the plants this leaves just 

 as much for Adrian and Bichmond and 

 I hope this year some others. The classes 

 are few but juicy. 



A wedding of exceptional gaiety will 

 take place on East Balcom street, 

 Wednesday, June 29, at 2 p. m. The 

 bride is the beautiful daughter of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Wm. Warring and the lucky 

 man is Frank Miller. The decoration, 

 mostly field flowers, will be under th<? 

 direction of Roland Cloudsley, inside dec- 

 orator for the William Scott Co.; break- 

 fast by Cummings, music by Marcus. 

 Mr. Warring is very familiarly known 

 among the boys as * ' Old Hoss. ' ' Wo 

 shall be there because we know that 

 Billy will have something up in the 

 comer cool and refreshing with a piece 

 of ice on top. W. S. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Johs. Telkamp, Hillegom, Holland, 

 bulbs; Raynbird & Co., London, Eng- 

 land, agricultural seeds; M. Herb, N.^- 

 ples, Italy, bulbs; Hobbies, Ltd., Dere- 

 ham, England, garden guide. 



RocKFORD, III. — Edwin Dempsey & Co. 

 are planning to increase their glass dur- 

 ing the summer. A new boiler will be in- 

 stalled. Mr. Dempsey lives in Chicago. 



Albany, N. Y. — Newman & Gatz an? 

 starting in business with a new range of 

 three houses, one 14x100, one 16x100 and 

 one 20x100 with a show house and office, 

 the material having been bought of the 

 A. Dietsch Co., Chicago. 



