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January 26, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



529 



The Entries for the Lowson Medols at the Chicogo Exhibition. 

 (Fiancee on the left, then Adonis, then Robert Cralir, then Cardinal, with My Maryland on the right.) 



For the committee on McKinley me- 

 morial fund H. M. Altick reported slow 

 progress until the Chicago Florists' Club 

 took the matter up two weeks ago. Up- 

 wards of fifty of its members have agreed 

 to give to the fund from five to twenty- 

 five per cent of their carnation sales on 

 January 28 or 29. C. W. Ward, E. G. 

 Gillett, E. H. Cushman, J. A. Valentine, 

 J. 0. Vaughan and others endorsed the 

 movement, and on motion of W. N. Sudd 

 the society voted to place an offering of 

 carnations on McKinley 's tomb on Jan- 

 uary 29. 



The nomenclature committee reported 

 the registration of fifteen varieties with 

 the society in the past year. 



Prof. H. Hasselbring was introduced 

 to read his paper on "Carnation Dis- 

 eases," which appears elsewhere in this 

 issue. It provoked a warm discussion 

 and one of the most interesting ever held 

 before the society. W. N. Rudd said he 

 took issue with the speaker on the ques- 

 tion of varieties running out and cited 

 Lawson. C. W. "Ward said he had re- 

 duced disease to a minimum by rational 

 culture. He uses healthy cuttings, 

 sterilizes sand and soil, does not. plant 

 in the field, grows cool and feeds lightly. 

 Eugene Dailledouze said he had seen the 

 tops taken from young stock and 

 rooted die of stem-rot while the original 

 plants thrived. Peter Fisher said much 

 stem-rot is due to a check, to leaving the 

 cuttings too long in the sand, letting 

 them get too dry, etc. Wm. Weber said 

 to avoid stem-rot by ventilation and the 

 avoidance of extremes of moisture. J. A. 

 Valentine, H. A. Bunyaru, A. F. J. Baur 

 and others participated in the discus- 

 sion. 



It took three-quarters of an hour of 

 hard work to decide between Boston and 

 Toronto for next year's convention. It 

 took all of President Hartshome's par- 

 liamentary skill to get the matter finally 

 settled according to the constitution. Bos- 

 ton won, but had J. H. Dunlop not with- 

 drawn Toronto's invitation for the year 

 just as he did, she would have won. 



Officers were nominated as follows: 

 President, Peter Fisher, Ellis, Mass.; 

 vice-president, J. H. Dunlop, Toronto; 

 secretary, Albert M. Herr; treasurer, 

 Fred Domer, Jr.; director, Wm. Weber; 

 judge, Wm. Nicholson. 



Thursdays Morning Sersion. 



On convening Thursday morning the 



first act was the appointment of G. A. 

 Rackham, M. A. Patten and C. W. 

 Johnson as a committee on final resolu- 

 tions. 



C. W. Ward, as chairman for the com- 

 mittee on (President's address, recom- 

 mended that the president's suggestions 

 as to the registration of sports be re- 

 ferred to the nomenclature committee, 

 and that instead of a great all-American 

 flower show, a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed to arrange for the society's co- 

 operation in exhibits of seedlings at 

 several of the large autumn shows. Both 

 recommendations were adopted, the lat- 

 ter subject being pretty well threshed 

 out. 



C. L. Washburn was then introduced 

 to describe the handling of carnation 

 blooms for long and short distance ship- 

 ments. His paper will be found in an- 

 other column. E. G. Gillett, in discuss- 

 ing the paper, offered some suggestions 

 to growers on shipping stock to their 

 wholesaler. 



Thursday's Afternoon Session. 



Fred H. Lemon was introduced at the 

 afternoon session to read his paper on 

 exhibition carnations which appears in 

 full in another column. In the discus- 

 sion Eugene Dailledouze said he handles 

 the blooms as little as possible; if the 

 ends of the stems are swabbed in soaked 

 tissue paper they wUl not need re-cut- 

 ting; the staging of exhibition blooms, 

 however, begins with propagating the 

 plant, E. Witterstaetter said a few 

 drops of ammonia in the water aids in 

 developing the blooms. 



President Hartshorne announced C. W. 

 Ward, Fred Lemon and R. Witterstaetter 

 as the .committee to recommend to the 

 directors a plan for showing seedlings 

 at the fall exhibitions. 



This year's date of meeting was com- 

 mended. Officers were elected as nom- 

 inated and each made a brief pledge of 

 earnest effort. On motion of J. A. Val- 

 entine the secretary was instructed to 

 express to Wm. Scott, of Buffalo, the 

 sympathy of the society and the hope 

 for speedy recovery from his illness. 

 Mr. Valentine also proposed a resolu- 

 tion expressive of the society's sense of 

 loss in the death of E. N, Peirce, of 

 Waltham. A resolution was adopted 

 commending the work for floriculture 

 done at the Indiana Experiment Station 



at Purdue. The convention then ad- 

 journed. 



Thursday Evening. 



The Chicago Florists' Club was the 

 host at a banquet at the Auditorium, 

 Thursday evening. At the same time the 

 lady visitors were entertained at supper 

 and the theater. 



CARNATION DISEASES. 



BV PROF. H. nASSELBBING^ OF CHICAGO. 



[A paper read before the American Carna- 

 tion Society at the Chicago meeting, January 

 25.] 



With the extended cultivation and 

 amelioration of the carnation, new dis- 

 eases and disorders have made their ap- 

 pearance. Are these troubles the result 

 of cultivation! Has the continued high 

 culture predisposed the plants to certain 

 forms of disease? What are the diseases 

 that threaten the carnation today and 

 how can they be prevented? 



These are questions of ever increasing 

 importance to the florist. Their impor- 

 tance will increase with every extension 

 of carnation culture. In no other branch 

 of horticulture is the investment and risk 

 so great as in floriculture ; no o|;her , 

 branch of agriculture and all the related 

 pursuits, expends so large a proportion 

 of ■ the returns for labor. A faikite 

 means a corresponding loss. Every fac- 

 tor that is likely to cause failure should 

 be thoroughly understood. 



The who'e subject has received far 

 from sufficient attention. Our experi- 

 ment stations, while they have vastly 

 furthered the interests of other branches 

 of agriculture and horticulture, have left 

 the whole field of florists' problems al- 

 most untouched. In this state (Illinois), 

 containing the largest greenhouse in- 

 dustry in the world, our experiment sta- 

 tion cannot legally 'take up any ques- 

 tion relating to the culture of plants 

 under glass. The florist must stand on 

 his own feet. 



In the absence of enfiScient experi- 

 mental investigation it will be possible 

 to touch only the main features of the 

 question of diseases and point out the 

 possible future of the carnation in rela- 

 tion to them. 



In the main the troubles with which 

 the florist has to deal may be classed 

 under three categories, insect enemies, 

 physiological disorders, and fungous dis- 

 eases. Fortunately, the carnation has but 

 few insect enemies and those are so well 



