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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



AuarsT 81, 1905. 



but there was still abundant evidence as 

 to the cause of the trouble. It is a 

 severe attack of a certain scale insect, a 

 chionaspis, I think, and one that does 

 much injury to any fern upon which it 

 spreads. The full-grown insect is a 

 small, dull-brown scale, some of which 

 were found upon the specimens sent, 

 and the tiny white objects are the 

 young insects^ 



If the plants are as badly infested as 

 the specimens would indicate, some 

 rather heroic treatment will be required, 

 and I would suggest cutting off the 

 worst leaves and burning them, and then 

 giving the plants a dipping in solution 



of tobacco extract, using one part of 

 Rose Leaf Extract of Tobacco to forty 

 parts of water. 



It is quite possible that this solution 

 may injure the young tips of the fern 

 leaves somewhat, but without such treat- 

 ment it is most likely that the ferns 

 will be spoiled by the insects, so it 

 becomes a matter of choosing the lesser 

 evil. But if the ferns are laid.4»ver on 

 their sides on the bench after dipping, 

 and are protected from the light by 

 covering with newspapers for twenty- 

 four hours, it is probable that the 

 foliage will not suffer badly. 



W. H. Taplin. 





THE RETAIL 



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BLUE AND WHITE. 



White snapdragons, Asparagus plum- 

 08U8 and blue and white Canterbury bells 

 fill the white willow basket shown in the 

 accompanying illustration. It has a flat 

 bottom and square handle. Owing to 

 the unusual height of the handle, there 

 is space for the display of the tall stalks 

 of the Canterbury bells, the grouping 

 of which shows two prominent points, one 

 at a greater height on the right and the 

 other more than half way up on the left. 

 A shorter cluster of white snapdragons 

 with a heavy fringe of the asparagus 

 fills the lower left and front of the bas- 

 ket. Toward the right the asparagus 

 border lightens and leugthpns, ending in 

 several delicate strands far out from the 

 base of the handle. The flat top of the 

 handle is also draped with a heavy 

 strand of asparagus, which falls back 

 from the handle on the left and forward 

 from the right corner. 



Slightly to the left of the top of the 

 handle, at the point where the asparagus 

 is attached to it, the most prominent of 

 the upper group of doves is perched, the 

 heavy wire with which it was attached 

 to its original mounting serving to fasten 

 it on the handle of the basket. The two 

 other doves of this group are set on 

 close to the corner, and the two remain- 

 ing ones are mounted as shown, one on 

 the inside edge of the left handle and 

 the last hestlrng among the flowers on 

 the lower edge of the basket. 



While in this case blue and white was 

 the pleasing color combination, lavender 

 and white or pink and white could be 

 properly employed with the doves, Chate- 

 nay or Ideal roses are good color ma- 

 terial for this scheme. Whatever the 

 color employed, there should be less white 

 than color used in order to strengthen 

 the contrast made by the sharp white of 

 the doves. 



Gladioli, asters, hollyhocks or phlox 

 would all make good material for a bas- 

 ket study like this. The design may be 

 used for a display or funeral basket. 



Gertrude Blair. 



THOMAS F. GALVIN. 



One of the oldest and most successful 

 of the business houses in the city of Bos- 

 ton is the retail floral establishment of 

 Thomas F. Galvin, located at the promi- 

 nent and busy corner of Tremont street 

 and Hamilton place, directly opposite the 



Park street church and the Park street 

 station on the electric subway, and also 

 the more recently erected and handsome 

 branch establishment for Back Bay cus- 

 tomers at the corner of Boylston and 

 Fairfield streets. 



The Galvin floral history extends over 

 a. period of more than a half century, 

 being started by John Galvin, father of 

 the present well known proprietor, whose 

 name in Boston and over a large part of 

 New England stands for everything that 

 is good in the retail flower business. The 

 well known Public Gardens were laid out 

 by John Galvin, who was for many years 

 city forester of Boston. 



John Galvin in the early days culti- 

 vated the growing taste for flowers and 

 supplied the way for gratification by es; 

 tablishing order boxes at Harris & Chap- 

 man 's, well known druggists at the 

 corner of Tremont and Winter streets; 

 at Curtis & Cobb's store, on Washington 

 street, and at Gibbon 's, the leading gro- 

 cery house of those days. A constant in- 

 crease in business led him to open the 

 well known flower mart in the Albion 

 building, now occupied by Houghton & 

 Dutton. Here for many years Boston 

 and many of the eastern states sent for 

 choice flowers and the firm secured a na- 

 tional reputation. The business now so 

 successfully managed by Thomas F. 

 Galvin can boast of two of the hand- 

 somest flower stores in America. 



Peter Fisher's epoch marking Lawson 

 carnation was introduced and named by 

 Mr. Galvin. No floral novelty ever caused 



Waukesha, Wis. — Robert Leadley, the 

 landscape gardener, who had done so 

 much for the added beauty of this vi- 

 cinity, died August 12, aged 80 years. 



Basket ot Saapdragons and Canterbury Be//s. 



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