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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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White Seedling Carnation No, 49, Raised by H. A. Jahn, New Bedford, Mass. 



of pieces of wire of the same size on 

 each end of the roll to prevent the soil 

 from falling out was another thing I 

 noticed C. H. G. spoke of. This we did, 

 also. If I had a bed of the same sort 

 to plant, I could do it and then would 

 probably not forget anything, but writ- 

 ing a few lines in a hurry one does not 

 really think until after how prone we 

 are to forget. Hamilton Scott. 



Price Cutting. 



I was much pleased with the article 

 and comments about price cutting in 

 last week's Keview. I have a case of 

 the kind. Three or four years ago, 

 when I got competition, everything was 

 cut to pieces and, of course, it hurt 

 the first year very much. 



In a small place of 1,500 inhabitants 

 everyone knows everybody else's busi- 

 ness and with few exceptions the price 

 counts moro than anything else. In a 

 large city quality will always find its 

 purchaser, but not so in a small place. 

 Naturally I had to drop some in price 

 and it is very hard to raise again. 1 

 have always contended for a good price 

 for a good article; every man is worthy 

 of his hire, and rather than give stock 

 away to those that can afford to buy it, 

 I prefer to put it in the boiler or rub- 

 bish leap. 



There is surely no sense in this price 

 cutting, because trade will find its level, 

 and after one has been in business for 

 a number of years he will hold his 

 share of that trade in spite of most 

 everything. Of course, the fellow that 

 cuts on a certain article may draw a 

 little for a day or two until his com- 

 petitor finds out what he is doing, when 

 he will naturally drop, also, and there 

 you have it; in the end no trade gained, 

 but prices are lost and hard to regain 

 again. I wish every "cutter" could 

 read those articles and profit by them. 



J. B. 



An lowan's Method. 



I have a small house, a 6-foot bench 

 in the center for carnations, side 

 benches for pot-plants, ferns, lilies. 



begonias and primroses. I have had 

 splendid success with Primula Obconica 

 and it is a good seller here and makes 

 up so nicely in small designs for poor 

 people who cannot afford carnations. I 

 am afraid I will have to discard it, for 

 1 have to handle it with gloves, as it 

 j)oisons my hands. What can I use in 

 its place? How is Primula stellata? 



I would like to tell how I am growing 

 carnations. I put two inches of well rot- 

 ted manure in the bottom of my bench, 

 then three or four inches of good garden 

 soil, well mixed, with sand on top of 

 tliat. About the first of September 1 

 j>ut in nice stocky plants that had not 

 bloomed and they have made fine plants, 

 with from eight to fifteen buds on a 

 I)lant and my Lawsons have 18-inch to 

 L'O-inch stems. My white is fine, Queen 

 LouLse; red very good, Eoosevelt. I 

 shall cover the bench with about one inch 

 of good rich soil as a mulch as soon as 

 the frost is out and I can handle it. 

 I have used a very little Bowker's 

 plant food and that is all. I will carry 

 them in the bench until after Decoration 

 day, then put them in my garden, where 

 they will give me a few blooms to help 

 with my roses. 



I grow roses in summer and winter 

 them in a pit four feet deep with glass 

 and straw over them. The best bloomers 

 for Iowa are Clothilde Soupert, Kaiserin, 

 Helen Gould and the pink and white 

 C'ochet. Haven 't found a red that suits 

 me yet. R. E. W. 



GROWTH ON PETUNIAS. 



1 am sending you a sample of a 

 growth at the base of a petunia plant 

 and wish to know the cause of it and 

 vvliether it is a disease that renders the 

 plant unfit to make cuttings from. Some 

 plants have knots of this growth two 

 inches in diameter. W. N. T. 



unless it be some variety of petunias of 

 great excellence. Why do you bother 

 witi: cuttings when they are so easily 

 raised from seed? Procure the best 

 strain and buy only seed that is sold 

 f<ir double. You will get about forty per- 

 iciit double, and they will be healthy, 

 vigorous, free from rust and all other 

 troubles and will have cost you one-half 

 the trouble and expense of the plants 

 raised by cuttings, W. S. 



BEST EUROPEAN PLACES. 



I propose spending a part of the com- 

 ing summer in southern England, Ger- 

 many, northern France, Holland, Bel- 

 gium and Switzerland. Being interested 

 in the nursery business, especially the 

 landscape department, it will be a great 

 iielp in making up my itinerary if those 

 of the trade who have recently visited 

 Europe will tell through the Review the 

 names, locations and principal features 

 of notable landscape work in the several 

 countries mentioned. It will, of course, 

 be impossible . to see all of Europe in 

 one trip, but I wish to see the best 

 l)laces and probably there are many 

 others who are going to Europe this 

 year who may be glad to be told briefly 

 which of the many things of trade in- 

 terest they should not fail to see. 



Tourist. 



This growth on petunias is very com- 

 mon. I don't know that it should be 

 called a disease; it is more an excre- 

 scence and quite local. The remainder 

 of the plant may be healthy and vigor- 

 ous, yet I would consider it unwise to 

 propagate from the plants thus affected 



DISEASED GERANIUMS. 



We have always been told geraniums 

 were free from disease. I am sending 

 a leaf of Trego and one of an ivy- 

 leaved that are affected with a disease 

 that killed a number of our plants last 

 season. We did not bring in any dis- 

 eased ones, but bought new stock of 

 Trego. Can you give us the cause anil 

 the remedy? 



When should moon-vine seed be planted 

 to make salable plants for spring? 



What are the best remedies for wliitc 

 fly and mealy bug? ^\. C. 



It is true that the zonal geranium is 

 free from any specific disease that is 

 peculiar to the genus, such as the spot 

 on violets or the fungus on the holly- 



