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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Februaky 8, 1906. 



soil and watered in will help matters 

 some; then -water rather sparingly for 

 a time, but do not let the plants suffer 

 for water. 



I would advise you to use hydrocyanic 

 acid gas only as a very last resort on 

 account of its dangerous nature. You can 

 rid your plants of red spider without it 

 by spraying them sharply with the hose. 

 Select a bright day and in the morning 

 •spray them first with a nicotine solutipn 

 and in the middle of the morijing 

 syringe them from both sides as sharply 

 as you can. Two or three doses like this 

 ,a few days apart will do the work ef- 

 fectively. There is- too much about 

 hydrocyanic acid gas, to use it effectivo- 

 }y and with safpt^-, to tell you here. It 

 has been publisl\ed many times in the 

 Review. If you have not preserved your 

 laack copies and are determined to use it, 

 •^vrite to the U. 8. Department of Agrj-^ 

 <?ulture, Division of Entomology, for bul-*" 

 iletin No. 27 ; new series, revised edition. 

 It explains fully the method of using the 

 gas and the necessary precautions to be 

 taken. No* doubt this is a good thing 

 to use on plants that are not easy to 

 reach with a spray of water, such as 

 violets, but you can reach every part of 

 a carnation so easily that we have never 

 found it necessary to use anything but a 

 strong spray of water. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



CARNATION MY MARYLAND. 



The white carnation, My Maryland as 

 exhibited last season by the H, Weber & 

 Sons Co., Oakland, Md., won encomiums 

 everywhere, but this season it did not 

 do well in one or two of the several 

 places at which it was on trial. This 



h)wing letter from A. J. Tormey, dated 

 January 26: 



You will likely call to mlud that last full, 

 about September,' my brother-in-law, Mr. J. O. 

 Devrles, while on a' visit to your pla/^, bought 

 of you six plant^' of My Maryland carnation, 

 and a little later placed^' with you an order for 

 rooted cuttings for delivery this spring', of the 

 same variety. This order' was placed in my 

 name, and you were requested to adTiBe me 

 before making the shipment. *I)have reftif In the 

 Florists' Review reports which were not, favor- 

 able to My Maryland In' 8%eral localities, li 

 la with satisfaction that I cam say that |jie few 

 pla,ijit8 we. bought of you have all along ghown 

 uj)' strong and hardy, and today h^xe-on them 

 about two dozen blpoms and buds, w^' strong 

 stems fully, two fdtt In length and stand with- 

 out supports; thcjUowers are of great size, and 

 average from three to four Inches. 



Our florist, Mr. Chas. Rhodes, has put the 

 plants to ' several severe tests and now Says in 

 ills oplnlon/they are the strongest of aif^' vari- 

 ety he ba«(.j In the houses. Knowing that you 

 have had Some unfavorable reports on My Mary- 

 land, I feel' that It Is due yoiu to let you know 

 how well we, are pleased with it, and the strong 

 hardy grpwth the plants have made with us. I 

 will further state ' that If it would be of any 

 benefit to you, to have your friends and cus- 

 tomers see th^e plants a^.they now stand in 

 our house, it 'will be a pleasure to have them 

 visit Qur place, corner of Garrison and Oakford 

 avenues, Arlington, Md. Our Mr. Rhodes will 

 show them the plants and give them his opinion 

 of the same. I will state that we have not up 

 to this time let It be known that we have this 

 variety in our house. 



Quite naturally this was very welcome 

 to the Weber Co., for they have every 

 faith in My Maryland and believe that 

 it will succeed in the majority of places. 

 As a constant and prolific yielder of high 

 grade blooms, they declare it to be abso- 

 lutely without a rival in its color at their 

 place. 



CARNATION WHITE CLOUD. 



A great many growers have deemed it 

 expedient to discontinue the growing of 

 White Cloud, giving its place to one or 

 another of the numerous good white 

 varieties which have come upon the mar- 

 ket in the past two or three years. But 



Carnation My Maryland. 



announcement was first made by the 

 Weber Co. itself, at the same time offer- 

 ing those who had placed orders for cut- 

 tings an opportunity to cancel. Quite 

 naturally this novel procedure on the 

 part of the disseminators created much 

 interest and was responsible for the fol- 



at the establishment of Wietor Bros., 

 Chicago, while the new sorts are grown 

 and with excellent success, still nothing 

 has developed of sufficient merit to cause 

 them to discard their old stand-by. White 

 Cloud seems perfectly at home in the 

 Wietor soil and under the Wietor cul- 



ture. It is among the freest bloomers on 

 fho place, the flowers are of excellent 

 form and substance and the stem is loilg 

 and sufficiently strong to carry the flower 

 gracefully. The illustration on page 779 

 gives a view of the variety in one of 

 their older houses. Lieut. Peary is liked 

 by them better than any other new 

 white. 



WORMS IN SOIL. 



We have one house of carnations. Law- 

 son and Enchantress. We gave them a 

 top dressing of fresh cow manure and 

 the manure is now well rotted. Testing 

 the soil the other day we found many 

 little white worms about one-fourth of 

 an inch long, looking like little maggots. 

 Please give me some way to get rid of 

 them; we have tried lime to some extent. 

 What they are called? The plantg are 

 not yet affected, although we fear they 

 will be. E. W. 



I doubt whether the worms you com- 

 plain of would bother your carnations, 

 though of course it will do no harm to 

 get rid of them. Try a good sprinkling 

 of tobacco dust over the soil and water 

 it in. Use about a. 2% -inch pot to each 

 row across a 5-foot bench. I think that 

 will clean them out. A. F. J. Baur. 



CARNATION RUTH MORGAN. 



J. W. Adams & Co., Springfield, Mass., 

 have for five years or more grown Car- 

 nation Euth Morgan for cut flowers. It 

 is a variety of local origin and has never 

 been disseminated generally in the trade. 

 The illustration on page 776 gives an 

 idea of the shape of the flower and the 

 length and strength of stem. The color 

 is about the same as that of Lawson, 

 but the flower is only of moderate size 

 although of excellent form. The princi- 

 pal merit of the sort is its floriferous- 

 ness. Adams & Co. say they have never 

 grown anything which could equal it and 

 stock has always been free from disease. 

 The calyx does not split. 



Adams & Co. are among the oldest 

 firms in the trade, the business having 

 been established in 1849. The present 

 partners are J. W. Adams, Charles 

 Adams, Walter Adams and E. J. Oatman. 



NEATNESS. 



There are very few growers who do 

 not feel a sense of pride in the neat- 

 ness of their establishments, but there 

 are a very large number of growers who 

 do not have the faculty of keeping their 

 houses in the condition they would like 

 to have them. And this includes a num- 

 ber whose places are visited by the pub- 

 lic. The illustration on page 777 is 

 from a photograph taken early in De- 

 cember at Mount Greenwood, 111. Mr. 

 Rudd is a firm believer in system and 

 order and the houses are kept as clean 

 as the office. It entails little additional 

 expense, and very little work after the 

 habit has been acquired of seeing that 

 the little things are attended to. 



The variety occupying most of the 

 space in the house is Lady Margaret, 

 planted early in August and certainly 

 showing up very well as seen in the pic- 

 ture, but the plan of disseminating the 

 variety has been abandoned. On the 

 further bench there are miscellaneous 

 seedlings. Nothing is to be said of 

 these at the present except that there 

 are several which give excellent prom- 

 ises. 



