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August 17, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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^LUGS OR SNAILS. 



T am fighting a small, dark snail. I 

 think I got them into my greenhouses 

 through plants bought with soil. Oc- 

 casionally I find from one to two dozen 

 small eggs the size of rape or cabbage 

 seed in a pot under some dead leaves. 

 What will kill them and clean the place 

 of this pest? 



Please give your best remedy for the 

 small white fly in the greenhouse. They 

 do up my asters. Tobacco or nicotine 

 does not seem to bother them. 



M. M. G. 



There seems no distinction with many 

 here between the two. In Europe slugs 

 are the thing so troublesome to ferns. 

 They have no shell or house to which to 

 retire. Snails carry their shell on their 

 back. Both eat what they are fond of in 

 the vegetable kingdom, therefore, lettuce 

 or cabbage leaves that have been dipped 

 in water containing a teaspoonful of 

 Paris green to a gallon of water and 

 laid around on the benches will settle 

 them. Air-slaked lime dusted over the 

 benches and plants is the usual and ef- 

 fective remedy for slugs on ferns. . 



The sure, safe and effectual destroyer 

 for the white fly in the houses is the hy- 

 drocyanic-acid gas. W. S. 



ASTERS. 



Is it better to leave cut asters in 

 water a while as you do mums before 

 shipping, or can you cut them and ship 

 immediately? Which is the better way? 

 How long is the average stem of the 

 aster and how short acceptable at the 

 wholesale houses? F. A. K. 



Asters are by no means a flower that 

 wilts quickly and there is no need of keep- 

 ing them long in water before shipping. 

 Out late in the day and shipped the next 

 morning is plenty long enough to keep 

 in water. If circumstances do not allow 

 of that then they can be cut and 

 shipped at once, but the former plan is 

 preferred. 



The length of stem will depend on the 

 season and scarcity of the flowers. When 

 asters are plentiful an average of 

 .eighteen inches would be considered a 

 fair stem and from eighteen inches to 

 two feet a fine stem. When they first 

 come in, thousands of flowers are sold 

 with stems nine inches to one foot. In 

 September we have seen Semple's 

 branching variety with three-foot 

 stems. About eighteen inches is the 

 average. W. S. 



WINTERING CANNAS. 



I wish you would tell me how to win- 

 ter canna and caladium bulbs. 



L. W. B. 



We have never failed to winter canna 

 roots with scarcely any loss by putting 

 them on boards beneath a carnation 

 bench. If the ground is damp and you 

 do not put down the boards they will 

 start to grow. From the time you put 

 the cannas under the bench until time 

 to take them up to start them, there 

 should be no need of watering the car- 

 nations so copiously that there is any 

 drip. Drip is very injurious to the 

 canna roots. That is why beneath a 

 plant bench will not do. Caladiums we 

 prefer to put under a rose bench, as the 

 temperature is a little higher. They 

 keep well there. W. S. 



PEONIES! PEONIES! 



Strong Roots^ averagfingf three eyes or more to each root. 



Choicest named varieties, pink and red. . .$10.00 per 100 



white 16.00 



Double choice varieties, mixed 6.00 ** 



Singfle, named varieties 16.00 ** 



Singfle varieties, mixed 10.00 ** 



100,000 HOLLYHOCKS, eleeant plants, free from rust 

 and other diseases. In addition to the Double varieties in separate 

 colors and in mixture, I have a ^reat many sing;les; also Henderson's 

 Everbloominsf and Allegfheny. I make a specialty of Hollyhocks, 

 Phlox, German and Japanese Iris, and Peonies. Prices and details 

 cheerfully furnished upon request* 



I have thirty acres solidly planted with HARDY HERBA- 

 CEOUS PLANTS and invite inquiry for same. My Japanese 

 Anemones, Veronica Longfifolia Subsessilis, En2:lish Hybrid Delphin- 

 iums, Foxsfloves and Oriental Poppies are especially fine; to say 

 nothing; of my superb assortment of Hardy Asters, Hardy Chrysan- 

 themums, Hardy Pinks, Gaillardias, Funkias, Hardy Sunflowers, 

 Moss Pinks, Platycodons, Pyrethrums, Rudbeckias, Hardy Grasses, etc. 



DON'T FORGET LOYETT'S DWARF BOLTONIA, 



the best Hardy Perennial of modern times. 



J. T. LOVETT, Little Silver. N. J. 



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Queen Vlotwrla. Fbotu. taken alter cuttlnc 80 000 bloomB for cold Btorage. 



Peonies 



WKZTB, generally called Queen Victoria has been 

 known to keep 6 weeks in cold Btorase. 19.00 per 100: 

 $80 00 per 1000. 



FSaOBAVB the tall ^ower and bloom-prodnoer, 

 S6.00 per 100; S60.00 per 1000. For pricea on other 

 varieiies. includinK Festlva Maxima, write 



GILBERT H. WILD, SARCOXIE, MO. 



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American Arbor-Vitae 



Broad and bushy trees, well branched on all sides. In grades from S to 6 feet hlKh. Have 

 been transplanted three times and are supplied with such an abundance of flbrous roots 

 that there is scarcely a possibility of loss from movinfr. Can be shipped either with or 

 without ball. ■PI.BVDXO TMMBB FOS SOSSBVB AVO KSOOB8. 



Compact, Globe, Pyramidal and Vervaene's 



ABBOB-VZTAB8 in •xtansive ^nantltles. 



Ornamental Nursery Stock 



Of all kinds AT WaO&BBALB PRXOB8 to those who buy 

 for commercial purposes, TSAS8 ]jZ8T 7SBB. 



The William H. Moon Co., Mill St., Morrisville, Pa. 



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 REVIEW'S CLASSIFIED ADVS. 



OFFERS 



PEONIES 



AND OTHER HARDY PLANTS. 



WROI.ESAI.E OBI.T. 

 JLOWEST PBZCB8. Bend for Uat. 



S. J. GALLOWAY, - EATON, 0. 



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