August 11. 1804. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



5U 



inverted V between the rows to prevent 

 the lower branches touching the soil. 



None of these can be called the ideal, 

 in that one does not meet the require- 

 ments of all varieties, so each grower 

 must select means of support to suit the 

 varieties grown or as circumstances per- 

 mit, the main points to be kept in mind 

 being not to cramp the plants or pre- 

 vent easy access to soil for the purpose 

 of weeding or cultivation and the appli- 

 cation of mulch, fertilizers in dry or in 

 liquid form. 



Personally I favor adjustable individ- 

 ual supports on account of the advantage 

 their name would imply, of being adjust- 

 able to varieties of different habit. Be- 

 ing independent of «ach other, any num- 

 ber can be put up or taken down at 

 any time without affecting others. 



Whatever style is adopted, get the 

 material in readiness, as they will soon 

 be needed in some varieties and much 

 labor will be saved if put up as needed 

 by the several varieties. 



Geo. S. Osborn. 



THE BUFFALO SHOW. 



The H. A. Meldrum department store 

 at Buffalo announces its third flower 

 show, to be given November 9 to 12, 

 under the auspices of the Buffalo Flor- 

 ists' Club, with Charles H. Keitsch su- 

 perintendent. 



The premium list was prepared by a 

 committee of the FloriBts' Club and is 

 very liberal. In many respects it is a 

 model for shows of its scope. An effort 

 has been made to avoid too many classes 

 and so distribute the funds at command 

 as to bring out the strongest competi- 

 tion. The premiums for fifty cut mums 

 are $25, $15 and $10 in each color; for 

 ftwenty-fiv© blooms the premiums aare 

 $10, $8 and $6. These classes are open 

 to local growers only, but the same sums 

 are offered for vases of fifty open to all. 

 For 100 blooms in twenty-five varieties 

 $50, $30 and $20 is offered and the same 

 sums for 100 blooms arranged for effect. 

 For twentv-five blooms Wm. Duckham 

 $15 and $10 is offered, $25 for fifty 

 blooms of a variety not yet disseminated, 

 and $25 for the best display of pompons. 



Emil Schray» Secretary St. Louis Florists' Qub. 



The two best vases of 100 carnations 

 will divide $25. For 100 Beauties $50, 

 $35 and $25 is offered. For 100 roses, 

 white, pink and red, $15, $10 and $5 is 

 offered for each color. 



Intending exhibitors should address 

 Chas. H. Keitsch, 810 Main street, Buf- 

 falo, for a copy of the list. 



Calceolaria and Cineraria. 



There are not many seeds to sow just 

 now, except perhaps some calceolaria and 

 cineraria, both beautiful plants when 

 well grown and poor things when poorly 

 grown. Hundreds of men who are mas- 

 ters, or think they are, of the rose and 

 carnation would make a botch with either 

 of these soft, cheap plants. They are 

 both plants which delight in a cool tem- 

 perature, so choose the coolest place you 

 have for sowing the seeds, which are 

 best sown in a pan. The seeds of cin- 

 eraria can be very slightly covered with 

 finely sifted leaf-mold. The calceolaria 

 seed is so small that no covering is 

 needed, just pressed into the smooth sur- 

 face of the soil is enough. Keep the 

 soil uniformly moist until the little seed- 



lings are up. With these minute seeds 

 you are always in danger of sowing too 

 thickly. Avoid it, if you can. After 

 they are up they should have full light, 

 but as cool and airy a situation as pos- 

 sible. 



Ferns for EMshes. 



There does not seem to be any^decline 

 in the fern-dish business. I am glad 

 to say that all who can afford it now 

 have a bunch of fresh flowers or a pretty 

 dish of growing ferns on the dinner 

 table. Now is the time to buy your 

 stock. Flats of seedling ferns are a good 

 investment, for there is plenty of time to 

 grow them on. If not, buy the smallest 

 plants you can. The ferns we use for 

 this purpose are from various climes and 

 nearly all will endure and like the full- 



est light and many thrive in a high tem- 

 perature, but nearly or quite all these 

 ferns want moisture, both in atmosphere 

 and soil, and they dislike anything like 

 fire-heat influence at the roots. I have 

 seen many a nice lot of small 2-inch ferns 

 ruined by warm sand or ashes from hot 

 pipes beneath the bench. Keep their 

 roots cool. 



Spraying With Tobacco. 



Without wishing to intrude on the 

 specialists in the rose, carnation, chry- 

 santhemum or violet departments, it 

 seems to me that some observations on 

 the use of Nikoteen will not be out of 

 place. It may seem expensive, and for 

 the quantity, about a pint at $1.50 per 

 bottle, it is a costly extract, but a little 

 goes a long ways and what consideration 

 is first cost if $1.50 worth of prevention 

 will produce $50 worth' of healthy, good 

 flowers? It kills all aphides, black, 

 green, brown or variegated. It leaves 

 no stain on flowers or foliage, is easily 

 applied, and while it rids you of aphides, 

 it incidentally destroys red spider and 

 thrips. 



Smoking Not Obsolete. 



Fumigating with tobacco is not likely 

 to be ever entirely obsolete, for in a 

 house of mixed plants, while there may 

 be a few injured by the smoke, it per- 

 vades all corners and is a cheap destroyer 

 of aphides, but is of little use against 

 spider and thrips. It is with the spe- 

 cialist, or, rather, with the house of one 

 kind of plant that Nikoteen is most val- 

 uable. The strength to which it should 



