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The Weekly Florfsts^ Review* 



.Tri.Y lit, I'.mk;. 



fiiimlilos uir without toariug the roots, 

 no i)arti('ular harm is done, but you waut 

 to ;j;ct such )ihiiits in Iho oartli as quickly 

 as jxissililc. 11' your carnafioii Held is 

 close 1<) the houses, do not dip tiie r(H)ts 

 in watei', liut <xi'{ them planted just as 

 Slum as viiu can. it', li()\\e\er, they 

 will liaxe to lie out ol' the soil a couple 

 ot Imurs, you had better dip them, (u-t 

 them undi'r eo\t'r as soon as jtossible 

 after ili,^^injj;, and cover with burlap to 

 keep oif sun ami wind, one as bad as 

 the other. Divide \i|i your force so that 

 each part (the plant inji and the dij,'ging) 

 will progress at about the sanu' speed. 

 Then the plants \\'i\\ not need to lie 

 around ami wilt. When diiiging, select 

 all good, healthy plants. They need not 

 necessarily be ol large size, just so they 

 are healthy and of good form. An iU- 

 shai)cn, straggly, or diseased ])lant means 

 only trouble later on. Let nie rejieat that 

 you should lie sure that conditions are 

 favorable when y(ui jtlant. Early jdant- 

 ing pays if conditinns are right, but 1 

 \\t(uld rather jdant the middle of August 

 under favorable cDuditions thau in July 

 iimh'r unfavorable comlitions, such as 

 sdft i^lants, ete. So don't lose your head 

 in wanting to i:ct jilanted before your 

 neighbor. A. F. .T. I^aii;. 



RED SPIDER ON CARNATIONS. 



.My cainations winch are in the lield 

 are badly infested with red spider. I 

 think the hot and dry weather which we 

 have had is the cause of it. 1 am get- 

 ting the jdants into the benches as fast 

 ;is jmssible. Js that the thing to do.' 



C. A. .\1. 



One f)f the worst things that can hap- 

 pen to ^(lur caination jdants iu tiie field 

 is to become infested with red spiilei'. 

 1 fining a dry. hot spell they will sap 

 the life out ol the jdants in a very short 

 time, a cmidition from which it will 

 t.'ike tlicni a long time to recover, if they 



consider f;ir jneferabie. Lay the water 

 and put in enmigh faucets so you ean 

 work with a oil foot length of hose and 

 reach every ]ilanl easily. Theu take a 

 r)-ceiit bar of any pure soa|). shave it into 

 small bits and dissolve in a gallon of 

 hot water. AVhen dissolved, dilute in ten 

 gallons of clear water. !^pray your 

 plants with this early in the morning, 

 and two or three hours afterward wash 

 it oil" with a sliai|) s[iiay from the hose. 

 A couple of applications ot' this kind 

 ought to clear them out. 



This treatment outside is to lie pre- 

 ferred to taking the plants inside for 

 several reasons. When you take up a 

 plant and rej)lant inside it is ;i rather 

 severe ordeal in itself, and the |ilaiit is 

 not in condition to stand niiich in the 

 way of insect extermination without 

 causing extreme sulVeriug. So outside of 

 syringing with i dear water, you would 

 hardly dare to do much until the plants 

 had resumed growth. The jilants would 

 be much slower to take hold than usual 

 on account of the weakened comlitioii. 

 and all this time the spider would be 

 enjoying a respite. 'J'he extra syringing 

 wt)uld uot do the new soil any go<id 

 oitlier, and besides all the aliove reasons 

 it is bad jHilicy to bring spider into 

 your houses if you can possibly prevent 

 it. IJy d(>stroying the spider outside 

 you can have the ]dants recuperate be- 

 fore taking them up. and they will not 

 be niiuh worse for their ex|ierience. 

 They will take hold as well nnd d(« as 

 well as if there had been no spiiler on 

 them, if left out until they j;et to j^niw 

 iiit: st'oni; ayain. A. 1\ .1. 1'ai i;. 



i FERTILIZERS. 



What is the cib.jection to using horse 

 manure in pre|>nring li(|uid t'ertilizer for 

 ros(^s and cai'iiat ions .' S. S. l-l. 



There is iKi iibjeclioii ;iiiil it is ofleli 



iisecl. A few vcnrs neo Ml'. Iioiner, ol' 



Calks in the Shelter of Windbreak in ihe Azores Islands. 



ever do. The liest thing you can do 

 is to arrange to combat them in about 

 the same manner as you woulil in the 

 house, if such a tiling is {)0ssible. If 

 yoii can iKd lay the water to the carna- 

 tion tield and get a fair pressure, then 

 you are doing quite right to rush the 

 plants inside where you can get at them. 

 The following jilan, however, I would 



I.afayette, Ind.. wrote carnation nolo 

 for this journal, and in one article en- 

 larged on the benefits of a ch.-in^e dC 

 food for jdaiits, leferriiiL:, ot' course, to 

 liquid fertilizer. Horse manure is, I 

 believe, stronger than that from a dairy 

 farm and should lie more diluted with 

 water. If a clianc;e of diet is good for 

 plants, then stable manure is one nl' the 



best, lis careless or injudicious use may 

 have spre.-id the fallacy that it is tlan 

 gerous. i say if it is good, for 1 am not 

 suro that it has been deuionstratetl that 

 it is of great advantage. 



Two or three years ago there was a 

 sketch of the life and achievements of 

 the wizard, Edison, and he was quoted 

 as saying that a braiu worker shouhl 

 feed on a large variety of food. He 

 himself ate the greatest possible variety. 

 Vou may think this has little to do with 

 the subject, but the .animal and vege- 

 table kingdoms .are nuudi more closely 

 .allied and ridate<l than the superficial 

 thinker believes or umlerstands. Now 

 it would not take a very keen observer 

 to refute the aigunent of Mr. Ivlison. 

 There is little douiit but what the con- 

 stant food of the parents of a Murns. a 

 ('■•irlyle or Lord t lyde was oatmeal. 



Hut iiiiw ilic -iiiiiiicr cTuuiis Uii'ir sitiijdc JHi.inl 

 The iKilcs.iine iMrriOli, chief ef Si-olia's fciud. 



And so it was the chief food, and in 

 many cases the only food, of many an 

 illiistrioiis Scoichnian; how about tin' 

 Ihmisands of brigiit Irishmen whose ilii't 

 for monllis at a time was only the 

 humble jiotalo and salt, v.aried only by 

 the ilianye of jiotatoes witluuit salt.' 

 Have not giiiins and brains more often 

 emerged from these classes than from the 

 pampered .and luxurious (dasses of anv 

 nation .' \\\ S. 



AZORES ISLANDS LILIES. 



A New Source of Supply. 



The lily-bulb industry in the Azores 

 Isl.amis is still iu its iufaucy, although 

 growers there have been experimenting 

 with lilies for the hist eight years, 

 laliuni longillorum is the crop with which 

 the most imi»ortant results are in pros- 

 pect, but I'reesias arc already grown 

 there in considerable quantity, ;il.so 

 lallas, candidums. .agapanthus .and camel 

 lias, and the culture of azaleas has been 

 taken up in a limiteil way. The freesias 

 are es])ecially fine, iitl'ording a high per- 

 centage of pure white flowers. 



So little is known of the Azores 

 Islands that when a bulb man sjieaks of 

 lilies from tli(> Aztues he is almost inva- 

 liably asked where the isl.ands arc. The 

 Azores belong to Portugal, from which 

 country tiny are some S(\0 miles distant, 

 or rather more than the distance from 

 • ape llalteras to Mermuda. The labor 

 in the Azores is I'ortuguese. The lati- 

 lucie is ;',7 degrees north. The latitude 

 of the Mermiidas is 3l' degre<'.s north. 

 < limatic.illy the islands are much the 

 same and topu^raphically there is also a 

 similarity. Tiie Azores are volcanic and 

 mount.aiiioii^. with extremely fertile val- 

 leys. They are ]ierha)is best known to 

 liiiiope a- a health resort, and as a mat- 

 ter of f.iri the Bermudas .are .also best 

 known lor ihe saaie tiling;. One name 

 for the liennudas is the Summer Islands, 

 ;ind most people suppose the name refers 

 to the idimate. but it is an Knglish name, 

 the island- having been originally chris- 

 tened after Sir Oemge Somers. Tiie 

 Azores are about l.ono sipiare miles in 

 area and in l'^!»(l had a pojmlation of 

 about lTiO.ikk). 



The Lilium longillorum bulbs are 

 grown in the usu.al manner .and mature 

 at about thi' same time .as llarrisii. Thus 

 far thev are practically free from dis- 

 ease and their habit is notabh* for its 

 unif<irmity. They ]irodui'e blooms very 

 freely. Tiie illustr.ations show plants 

 cut in the field and another in a pot 

 which carried seventeen blooms. Num- 

 bers carry twelve blooms per plant. 



