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JDLY 20, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



457 



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Establishment of 'William Sim, at Cliftondale, Mass. 



illuminations, is sufficient amusement for 

 any idle, spiritless day, but should the 

 visitor be so inclined he will find the 

 vast resources of the reac^ng* room freely 

 placed at his disposal and the treasures 

 of the print division equally within his 

 reach. In the latter he will find not only 

 art books, periodicals and pictures, but. 

 also stereoscopes and 40,000 photo- 

 graphic views with descriptions, by 

 means of which, in the pleasant environ- 

 ments, he can become familiar with many 

 foreign scenes and travel gratuitously 

 through almost every known country. 

 This is, perhaps, not the most interest- 

 ing way of traveling, but without doubt 

 it has its advantages. 



For ike music lover there are the band 

 eoneerts, given at regular intervals in 

 the public parks, and for the art stu- 

 dent fairly representative exhibitions 

 of paintings are to be found in the 

 dealers ' art galleries. The public library 

 also hospitably opens its doors to the 

 summer sojourner and for the botanist 

 the Botanical Gardens are not with- 

 out potent interest. There is tennis and 

 croquet, horseback riding and driving, 

 golf and automobile and what more, for 

 poor and rich alike, can any summer re- 

 sort offer than these? F. H. K. 



HOT. 



Washington, D. C, Jnly 18.— There will be 

 no material relief from the present high tem- 

 peratures throughout the country for three or 

 four days. — Weather Bureau. 



The whole country, from the Eocky 

 mountains to the Atlantic, has suffered 

 this week the hottest weather of the 

 season; indeed, in the east new heat 

 records have been made. Following 

 are the weather bureiau temperatures 

 for Tuesday, July 18: 



New York 106 Detroit 98 



Philadelphia 106 Milwaukee 98 



Baltimore 100 St. Louis 97 



Washington 99 Cincinnati 96 



Boston 98 Chicago 95 



Pittsburg 98 Buffalo 83 



BROWN SCALE. 



Enclosed by this mail is a box contain- 

 ing leaves which are covered with a 

 brown bug. "What will destroy themf 

 Also the small brown scale which appears 

 on palm leaves and other plants! C. G. 



The insects on the leaves sent are the 

 common brown scale, although there are 

 many species of these creatures look- 

 i^Jg much alike. Syringe with kerosene 

 emulsion. With the palms, if large and 

 valuable, it would be best to syringe 

 them with the emulsion. For these scale 



insects many are now using the hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas, the formula of which has 

 often appeared in the pages of this 

 paper, and I am glad to notice that the 

 advocates of its use are much more nu- 

 merous than they were. W. S. 



PARCELS POST. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Association of Nurserymen a committee 

 consisting of G. L. Watrous, Des Moines, 

 la.; H. P. Kelsey, Boston, and J. C. 

 Hale, Winchester, Tenn., was appointed 

 to secure the co-operation of the Society 

 of American Florists and the American 

 Seed Trade Association in an endeavor 

 to secure a parcels post law. The S. A. 

 F. will doubtless hear from the commit- 

 tee at the Washington convention. Num- 

 erous postal reforms are being agitated 

 and a rational proposition will receive 

 wide endorsement, at the same time en- 

 countering the opposition of powerful in- 

 terests. But postal reform is bound to 

 come. 



HEAVY HAIL. 



In May we had a very severe hail 

 storm which did a great deal of damage 

 in the neighborhood of Tiffin, Ohio. A 

 photograph taken of a lot of hailstones an 

 hour after they had fallen, with a yard- 

 stick lying beside them, gfives an idea of 

 their size. We had some hailstones that 

 measured two and one-half inches in 

 diameter and seven inches in circumfer- 

 ence. They were flat with a jagged edge, 

 very .much resembling a cogwheel. This 

 was the severest hailstorm ever known 

 in this region, and of course I had to 

 have a piece of it. If the hail had con- 

 tinued thirty seconds longer, as they fell 

 when the storm ceased, it would have 

 broken every pane of glass I had on the 

 place. 



There was no wind, the hail came 

 straight down and every one of the big 

 fellows went right through. We have 

 rubber felt roofing on our workshop, 

 and wherever the big hailstones struck, 

 it broke the felt so that the roof has 

 leaked very badly ever since. 



No, thank you, I don't care for any 

 more of this kind; once is enough for 

 me. Most of my glass was insured and 

 the loss was very promptly adjusted by 

 Mr. Esler and in a few days I received 

 a check in payment for loss from the 

 treasurer of the Florists' Hail Associa- 

 tion. 



I had only part of my glass insured. 

 I was negligent and did not notify the 



association of houses recently built and 

 failed to take out more insurance, there- 

 fore I got only a prorata payment on 

 what was broken. I would advise all 

 florists to insure, for they have no guar- 

 antee when they will have to take their 

 dose of hail. I assure you it is quite a 

 comfortable feeling to know that when 

 the hail is knocking daylight out ,of 

 your glass that you have an antidote in 

 the Hail Association for the dose of hail 

 you are taking. IaEwis Ulleich. 



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THE RICHMOND ROSE. 



It must be a pleasure to the E. G. 

 Hill Co. to hear from so many sources 

 that the young stock of the Richmond 

 rose is doing so well with everyone. 

 The growers north of Chicago, who 

 bought the new red rose so heavily, all 

 have fine stock of it, the plants having 

 made remaikably good growth, and the 

 same report comes from the United 

 States Cut Flower Co., of Elmira, N. Y., 

 and many other growers in the east. 



THE BLACK ROSE. 



The following information, gleaned 

 from our esteemed contemporary, the 

 New Orleans Democrat, might well be 

 published under Horace Greeley's head- 

 ing, "Interesting if True." 



Fred W. Bacho, a young practicing attorney 

 of this city, who claims to have discovered 

 the secret of growing a black rose, and for 

 which the North American Nursery Associa- 

 tion has a standing reward of )10,000 to the 

 person discovering the secret, will leave Mo- 

 bile for Detroit, Mich., on July 22, to arrange 

 for demonstrations of growing the black rose 

 the coming fall. There will be two competi- 

 tors besides Mr. Bacho for the reward. One 

 Is J. Lapsley, of Liondon, England, and the 

 other a Savannah, Oa., man. 



Lapsley has named bis rose the "Rose of 

 Sorrow," while Bacho has selected the name 

 of "Good Friday Rose" for his flower. In re- 

 ferring to his discovery Mr. Bacho stated to- 

 day that he has demonstrated beyond doubt 

 that he has discovered the secret of growins 

 the flower and is confident that be will win 

 the prize money offered by the nursery as- 

 sociation. "I am willing to wager a thousand 

 dollars that I win the prize," said he, by way 

 of emphasizing his claim of possessing the 

 secret. To conduct the demonstrations he has 

 purchased an acre of land in Jackson county, 

 Mich., 100 miles from Detroit. The soil is 

 said to be ideal for the purpose for which It 

 is intended. At the demonstrations will be 

 several northern men who have taken an in- 

 terest in the rlaims of Mr. Bacho and who 

 have agreed to give him all necessary finan- 

 cial backing If the demonstrations prove suc- 

 cessful. 



Mr. Bacho has made a number of private 

 demonstrations in this city, and claims that 

 he has solved the problem, not by chemically 

 treating the bush or flower, as some have 

 done, but by treating the soil with chemicals. 

 He claims that his black rose will live longer 

 after plucked than the ordinary rose, and 

 that he finds that life is prolonged by pluck- 

 ing a small piece of the stem off every few 

 hours and submerging in salt water. 



