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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Septkmbeb 21, 1905. 



might take your bellows and blow the 

 house full of lime and sulphur mixed. 

 Grape-dust is also excellent to use this 

 way. Don 't dust it heavily on the plants 

 but blow it up over them. What you 

 want is to dry the atmosphere. 



When you begin firing mix the lime 

 and sulphur, and paint a steam pipe with 

 it, not too heavily but just enough so 

 you can notice a difference in the smell 

 of the atmosphere. In fact if the dis- 

 ease seems at all stubborn I would not 

 put off the firing until it just has to be 

 done but would use that means to keep 

 the house dry as well as warm at night 

 and keep the ventilators up a few 

 inches. Like all fungous diseases this 

 one must have moisture to be active and 

 you can do as much by keeping the at- 

 mosphere dry and sweet as you can any 

 other way. 



Don't carry the roots extremely dry, 

 but give enough water to keep the plants 

 growing vigorously. If you keep the 

 walks and under the benches dry not 

 enough dampness will rise from the soil 

 to hurt. I would dispense with the syr- 

 inging altogether for a time, unless you 

 see some red spider, and then be sure the 

 day will be bright, so the plants will dry 

 off well before evening. 



These fungous diseases are frequently 

 started during the first few weeks after 

 the plants are housed on account of the 

 weakened condition of the plants and the 

 excessive moisture carried in the house 

 to prevent wilting. This excessive mois- 

 ture and the high temperature which 

 usually prevails during that time just 

 suit these diseases, and that is one 

 reason why it is wise to remove the shade 

 on the glass, stop syringing and let the 

 sunshine and fresh, sweet air sweeten 

 up the house and check whatever dis- 

 ease may have started, just as soon as 

 the plants will stand it. 



A. r. J. Baur. 



strong grower and easy doer it is, and 

 that you must only give it half a chance 

 and it will show its worth. Outside of the 

 two faults mentioned it is all one could 

 ask for and the faults are not serious 

 in this variety. I can imagine what a 

 wry face our good friend Peter Fisher, 

 the originator, must have made if his 

 eye happened to fall upon that line. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



A BIG LITTLE WORD. 



Last week in my answer to "W. L. 

 K." regarding Enchantress, a lagging 

 pen made me say that this variety is a 

 hard one to handle. I did not mean to 

 say that. What a difference it will make 

 when you insert the word "not," as I 

 intended. The balance of the article 

 will bear this out. Those who have 

 grown this grand variety know what a 



VIOLETS IN FLORIDA. 



I would like to know the method of 

 culti^ating single violets here in Florida. 

 I suppose California's methods would be 

 best here. The soil is sandy. H. S. P. 



I have had no personal experience in 

 growing violets in Florida, but from 

 what I have observed at different times 

 I should try several different methods 

 all the same season, giving each the 

 same care and thereby arriving at the 

 best method by experience for the par- 

 ticular locality where I was attempting 

 to grow them. Of course, one thing is 

 an absolute necessity; that is, a good 

 supply of water. Lacking this I do 

 not think I should even attempt to grow 

 them in your state. One is safe in a 

 general way in observing natural condi- 

 tions and I have found that through the 

 center of the state the wild violets are 

 very plentiful in all colors, yellow, blue 

 and white; but while I thought at first 

 that I would find them in the hummock 

 land, I did not find them in the pine 

 woods, on the slopes just above the hum- 

 mocks, which shows that they like the 

 richer ground found near the hummocks, 

 but wanting more air and drainage than 

 they would find in them and yet want- 

 ing some shading. 



Taking these facts into consideration, 

 and what I have been told by those grow- 



ing them in a limited way, I should tt} 

 a bed in the open, under pines. Follov, 

 nature as closely as possible, only helj 

 her where you can by cultivation, water- 

 ing, etc. And again, I should try a be( 

 under a lath shed, or sheds somewha 

 like those used for growing pineapples, 

 but they would never want sides, as vio 

 lots do not want to be kept close. L 

 should find as cool a situation as possi- 

 ble for all of these experiments. 



Again, I should try them in boxes and 

 benches, where I could shade them, and 

 while I\)ersonally do not have an idea 

 that I could grow them in this way as 

 well as the other ways, still I know of 

 persons who say that it is the only way 

 they can grow violets there, and they 

 certainly succeed in that way, for I have 

 seen them have the violets. 



I hope that the correspondent will be 

 successful and that I may have made 

 some suggestions that will help him, but 

 violets are so capricious that my advice 

 would be to give every method a trial • 

 for a season before going at it in a 

 very extensive manner. 



If he will give me an idea of his sur- 

 roundings, etc., if he thinks of anything 

 that looks especially favorable for their 

 culture, I will be glad to make any other 

 suggestions that may come to mind. I 

 would also try all the different kinds in 

 the different trial beds, as nearly always 

 some one variety will take naturally to 

 your locality and the others would only 

 be partially satisfied with the soil, etc. 

 I should be glad if the correspondent 

 would keep us posted as to his success 

 and failure this season. 



K. E. Shuphelt. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



[School Gardens, by B. T. Galloway, Bulle- 

 tin No. 180, OtBce of Experiment Stations, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C] 



The sub-title of this pamphlet is **A 

 report upon some co-operative work with 

 the normal schools of Washington, with 

 notes on the school-garden methods fol- 

 lowed in other American cities." The 

 ground covered is the same as that trav- 

 ersed by Miss Susan B. Sipe in her lec- 

 ture before the S. A. F. at Washington 

 August 16 and, indeed, the illustratious 

 used to supplement the text are chosen 

 from among those which Miss Sipe em- 

 ployed in the stereopticon. The pam- 



The Ladies of the St. Louis Florists' Qob at the Meeting September 14. 



