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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



November 23, 1905. 



Show Notes. 



Director Goodman has proved himself 

 the right man in the right place. Under 

 his direction the shov? has been brought 

 to a successful conclusion without any 

 of the hard feelings that are sometimes 

 caused. 



Thursday and Friday were the big 

 days in point of attendance. 



Special credit is due to W. L. Rock, 

 W. J. Barnes and Samuel Murray for 

 the success of the show. These gentle- 

 men have done all in their power to help 

 the show along, and have shown a public 

 spirit that is commendable. 



W. J. Barnes received two special 

 prizes, one for a collection of fern dishes 

 and another for six plants of Nephro- 

 lepis pectinata. 



No record was kept of the visitors, 

 who were many. Chicago was well rep- 

 resented. Otto G. Koenig brought a 

 party of eight from St. Louis Wednes- 

 day. Denver also sent quite a delega- 

 tion, including, J. A. Valentine, A. E. 

 Mauff and Emil Glauber. H. A. Muel- 

 ler, of Wichita, Kan.; E. G. Eue, of St. 

 Joseph, and W. E. Chapin, of Des 

 Moines, also visited the show. 



The photographs reproduced in this 

 issue, and many others made for exhib- 

 itors, were taken by J. E. Davison, the 

 Kansas City photographer. The large 

 oval showing the crowd on Thursday 

 night is a flashlight. Kay-See. 



THE SOLANUM. 



Will you kindly tell me when Solanum 

 sapsicastrum, or Jerusalem cherry, should 

 be sown to have good plants for Christ- 

 mas 1907, also regarding the growing 

 of it? E. S. F. 



Seeds should be sown in February or 

 March and placed in a temperature of 60 

 degrees, with bottom heat if possible. 

 As soon as they are large enough ; that is, 

 after they get the first pair of character 

 leaves, they should be put into 2-inch pots 

 and kept growing till after the danger of 

 frost is past. They should then be 

 planted out on rather poor soil, which 

 will give a more compact plant than if 

 the soil is rich. Lift and pot before 

 frost and shade lightly for a few days 

 until root action commences. A tempera- 

 ture of 55 degrees at night is usually 

 sufficient to bring them into good condi- 

 tion for the holidays. R. 



FORGET-ME-NOTS. 



Will you please tell us if forget-me- 

 nots will come into bloom satisfactorily 

 if small plants are potted off now and 

 when should they be in flower? What is 

 the proper treatment? S. B. 



When we grew this plant, which we 

 did largely once, we planted the small 

 plants on the edge of a carnation bench 

 in September and they began to flower 

 about Christmas, but flowered much more 

 profusely as the season advanced. I 

 am sorry I cannot give the specific name 

 of the one we grew, but it was a good 

 one and gave us long sprays in abund- 

 ance. They propagated very easily from 

 cuttings and almost any soil suits and a 

 carnation house temperature is about 

 right. W. S. 



CYANIDE FOR THRIPS. 



Will you kindly inform me what is the 

 trouble with my violets? I send you a 

 sample of the blooms. A great many 

 of them go the same way. The plants 

 are in good condition. Is it for want of 

 feeding? If so, what would you ad- 

 vise giving them? F. P. B. 



In reply to this query, 1 am sorry to 

 say that the sample blooms that were 

 sent were so dry and shriveled when they 

 reached me that it was very hard to tell 

 very much about them, but by the num- 

 ber of black aphis that survived the 

 journey, the probabilities are that they 

 are your principal trouble, if not the 

 only one, as you say the plants are in 

 good condition. This is a very unpleas- 

 ant state of affairs for any grower to 



find things in ; however, the old saying 

 is that "misery loves company" and by 

 the number of inquiries this fall along 

 the same line you are evidently not alone 

 in having to take strong measures for 

 their immediate destruction. 



The formula for fumigating with hy- 

 drocyanic acid gas has been given so 

 many times in these columns that I do 

 not need to repeat it; but, of course, this 

 is what you will have to use, at once 

 and thoroughly, if you are situated so 

 that you can without danger to your help 

 or neighbors. In all probability one 

 fumigation will not be sufficient to en- 

 tirely eradicate them, and for that rea- 

 son you will want to follow it up at a 

 few days' interval by one, two or, per- 

 haps, three more fumigations, all de- 

 pending on how well the aphis have estab- 

 lished themselves. 



You will find that some growers who 

 use this gas for fumigating will advise 

 setting off small charges the last thing at 

 night and leaving the house closed until 

 morning; while others will say to do the 

 work in the daytime, using heavier 

 charges and leaving the houses closed 

 only twenty or thirty minutes, but as ki 

 everything else, I would try both ways 

 thoroughly and follow up the plan that 

 observation told me worked the best for 

 me. Personally, as I said in answer to 

 a querj^ a short time ago, we prefer, 

 after having given both ways trials, to 

 use the gas in the daytime. 



The eft'ectiveness of the fumigation de- 

 pends a great deal on taking a good time 

 for it. You want a day when you have 

 a nice, clear, dry air, and not so cold 

 that you cannot open the houses to their 

 fullest extent when the time is up. It 

 is also better that the plants should not 

 have been watered or sprayed that day,, 

 or the day previously, as the plants 

 should be dry, although by this I do not 

 mean that they should be wilted or over- 

 dry, only that they should not have any 

 moisture standing on them. It is also 

 well, if it comes so you can, to have 

 a cloudy day, so as not to have the tem- 

 perature run up too high while the 

 house is closed. 



As the gas is very light and rises rap- 

 idly, you will want to see to it that your 

 house is tight, as it takes only a few 

 cracks here and there, a corner broken out 

 of a light in one place and a hole of 



General View of the Exhibition at Poughkcepsie, N. Y., November 1 and 2, 



