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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Grotsp of Nephrolepis 'Whitmani Exhibited at the Recent Boston Show. 



and Culture of Grafted Koses for Forc- 

 ing in America, by Alex. Montgomery, 

 Jr., published in the Review at this 

 time last year. As one well-known 

 grower said, it is "the most important 

 modern contribution to the literature of 

 the rose." For sake of convenience it 

 was reprinted in neat pamphlet form 

 and a copy will be mailed to any one 

 who sends 25 cents with his request. 



RED SPIDER. 



I have some trouble with my roses, 

 the leaves turn the color of the sample 

 inclosed and drop off and one here and 

 there is dead. Can you tell me the 

 trouble and also the remedy? 



W. F. D. 



The preliminary trouble with these 

 roses is that they are suffering from a 

 bad dose of red spider. The leaves 

 were withered and dry when they 

 reached me, which precluded a more 

 searching investigation, but stock so- 

 badly infested with these pests will, by 

 reason of lack of vitality, be very sus- 

 ceptible to any trouble that comes 

 along. 



Keep the syringe going every bright 

 day and use sufficient force, which 

 should be directed to the under side of 

 the leaves, to break up the webs and dis- 

 lodge the spiders. 



Keep a night temperature of 56 

 degrees and a small crack of air on 

 whenever the weather will permit. In 

 the daytime during bright weather the 

 temperature can run as high as 75 de- 

 grees with ventilation on. 



Be careful and do not overfeed, as the 

 plants are very weak and feeding will 

 only aggravate the trouble until the 

 plants regain their health. Eibes. 



SWEET PEAS. 



The Review is in receipt of a box of 

 sweet peas from A. C. Zvolanek, Bound 

 Brook, N. J., of very fine quality. The 

 named varieties are Zvolanek 's Christ- 

 mas, pink, and Miss Helen Gould, white 

 tinged pink. Sorts under number arc 

 No. 52, a fine dark blue; No. 64, light 

 pink; No. 73, pink tinged purple. A 

 bunch containing a dozen mixed varie- 

 ties is also included. All are on stems 

 more than a foot long and are a credit 

 to Mr. Zvolanek 's reputation as a grow- 

 er of Christmas sweet peas. The num- 



bered sorts are to be named and sent 

 out to the trade. 



NEPHROLEPIS WHITMANL 



This fine new nephrolepis has at 

 tracted much favorable notice wherever 

 shown this season. At the fall show 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety in September it received a first- 

 class certificate of merit. It is a sport 

 from N. Barrowsii, introduced by H. H. 

 Barrows & Son, of Whitman, Mass., last 

 spring and which jumped into instan- 

 taneous favor. It is the dwarfest and 

 most compact growing of any of the 

 nephrolepis family. The fronds are 

 broad, with very fine pinnae, giving them 

 a beautiful lace-like appearance. 



An individual plant gives one tht 

 impression that there are several in a 

 pot so compact growing are they. 

 Messrs. Barrows state that in their large 

 stock of N. Whitmani they have never 

 seen a single frond revert. It is cer- 

 tainly a most beautiful fern and one 

 which when introduced, in the spring of 

 1906, will be in big demand. Already 

 many advance orders have been received. 



W. N. Craig. 



WEAK-STEMMED MUMS. 



My chrysanthemums grow too tall and 

 slender. The flowers are fair, but the 

 stems do not support them. Some are 

 five to six feet tall. I start them in 

 February. I pot the sprouts and keep 

 them in the greenhouse until the weather 

 permits me to set them in the open 

 ground. I plant them fifteen inches 

 apart in rows three feet apart, cultivate 

 well until about the first of September 

 and have had them three feet tall be- 

 fore they showed a bud. The soil I use 

 contains about one-fourth cow manure, 

 two years old and worked over two or 

 three times before I use it. I always 

 give plenty of sun. I have taken off all 

 the buds but the top one, and I have 

 left two or three; I don't see that it 

 makes any difference. This is in Mis- 

 souri. A. W. 



1 see no reason why plants grown as 

 indicated should not produce good flow- 

 ers if given a sufficient supply of water 

 and fertilizer. A copious watering once 

 a week, with liquid manure after the 

 buds are set and swelling, is a great 

 help, as is also a good mulch of partly 



decayed cow manure in August or Sep- 

 tember. I assume that the plants are 

 flowered in the open ground, where they 

 are grown. Such conditions are different 

 to what we encounter in the east, but it 

 should be easier to get a good stem on 

 plants grown outside than under glass, 

 as we grow them. 



Next year take your buds the last 

 week in August, if you can get them, 

 and you will do away with two or three 

 feet of stem and be much more liable 

 to get strong stems. Buds taken late 

 in September do not give best results by 

 any means and those are evidently what 

 you have been taking, if your plants get 

 up three feet more after September 1. 



C. H. T. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



Chicago, November 18, No. 76, white, 

 of Mrs. H. W. Buckbee, exhibited by 

 Guardian Angel Florist, Chicago, scored 

 eighty-four points commercial scale. 



Boston, November 25, No. 49, bright 

 yellow, sport of Yellow Eaton, Japanese- 

 incurved, exhibited by Jno. A. Macrae^ 

 Providence, E. I., scored ninety points 

 commercial scale. Differs from Yellow 

 Eaton in being of a symmetrically in- 

 curved Japanese, and of a deeper yellow. 



Chicago, November 25, No. 24-03, 

 light yellow. Omega, exhibited by F. 

 Dorner & Sons Co., Lafayette, Ind., 

 scored ninety-one points commercial 

 scale. 



The varieties recently exhibited before 

 the committees by Nathan Smith & Son, 

 Adrian, Mich., under number, have been 

 named as follows: No. 34-13-03, shown 

 at Cincinnati, has been named Adrea, 

 and No. 36-1-03, shown at Cincinnati, has 

 been named Vennetta. 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec 'y. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



The Proceedings of the Twenty-first 

 Annual Convention have been mailed to 

 members. It is the usual stenographic 

 record of the convention at Washington, 

 D. C, last August, with list of names of 

 members for 1905. The latter includes 

 114 life members and 783 annual mem- 

 bers. 



The Review will send Saltford's Vio- 

 let Book on receipt of 25 cents. 



